Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-06-24

to his home on the prairie.
IMMIGRANT NE-GRowERs-CrOwds of industri-
Gus German vine-growers and farmers are en-
grating from Germany to Missouri some three hun
dred have already reached St. Louis. They are re
garded as the very best immigrants that could en-
ter a State, and the branch of agriculture which
they pursue is deeply important one for the country
Coon Patron OF TIE UNryERsTY.-In the SC
count of the late Commencement, written for the
Raleigh Standard we see it stated that the Hon.
JOIN H. BRYAN was there to greet his seventh son
as graduate of the University. The first gradu-
ated in 1872 and four of the with the highest
honors of the Institution.
DUrrox, who swindlsd the Muscatine, Iowa, Bank,
of which he was Cashier out of thirty thousand dol
lars, has been acquitted by jury the ground
that be was demented by the use of Intoxicating
drinks.
A party of Indic.s attacked a Mexican train from
e PasO, at Eagle Springs on the list of this month
Forty mules were stolen by the Indians, and three
men belonging to the train seriously wounded.
A Convention representing the odd Thirteen
States" is in session in Philadelphia, to arrange
for the erection of the monument to the signers of
the Declaration of Independence.
The drouth in Kansas continues to be most Sc
vere For fifteen years, the Indians say, nothing
like it was ever known before. Crops of all kinds
are in serious risk of utter failure.
Many farmers In the vicinity of Syracuse, n. Y,
are making arrangements to raise tobacco this sea
son. If the crop does well it is the most profitable
that can be raised
The coolest inhabitgut' of Jasper county, Texas,
has been married recently. The young ladys age
is not stated but the old gentleman Judge BEylI is
seventy-ive years old.
10. GOWN of Cincinnatus y. Y. has invented
machine for milking cows. He gays the cows stard
Quieter and like to be MIXED by the machine better
than by hand.
The corpse of JULIA PARTIANA, the bearded woman,
who died, as we have stated in Moscow, will be pre-
served in the anatomical museum of the ancient
capital of Russia.
A newsboy, FOSTER JONES, twelve years old was
run over and killed, on Sunday, near REEDS Ferry.
n B., by a train of cars on the Nashua and Lowell
Railroad.
The statement that HESET WARD BEEcHER was
about to start new religious dally IN New 1ork,
is now authoritativey denied cause, lack of pious
editors.
Mrs. REpEcoA NEsHIve, a German woman, threw
herself into the Harlem River, New York on Non
day, and was drowned, because her husband chewed
tobacco.
Placards were posted in Broadway, New York
offering to let eligible front windows to parties wish
ing to see the Japanese procession at FIVE dollars per
seat
The Jefferson PENN Star says that the losses by
the late storm in Winslow Township, ten miles east
Of BrOOkyiIe, in timber, &C.. is not less than $780,
OOe
In Petersburg, Fa.,a man poured bottle Of lager
beer upon fOwer-pot containing fuschia, one
niget and the next day the plant was in full bloom.
A glass-engrayer, in New York fell down and in
stanty expired the othei, afternoon from the effects
Of drinking quantity Of ice water.