Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-10
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ITEMS or GENERAL NEWS.
CON closed IN New York yesterday at ~
- Brost-bone fever is prevailing in the city Of
Mobile.
-"DRUID' &C FrrET. a noted war eorTespon-
dent and paymaster at Portsmouth Navy Yard
clipped the other day with another mans wife and
$4,000 Of pukic money.
- The Seer larry cf the Treasury has decided
70 make no chalEe in the boundaries Of the col.
lection districts. for the purpose Of facilitating
the collection ofthe cotton tax.
Judge REAyEs has decided that Raleigh and
not Memphis. is the shiretown Of Shelby county.
Tue case has been appealed to the Supreme
Court.
Tennessee had no representative in the Coun-
ell Of Roman Catholic prelates now in session at
Baltimore.
The New Orleans Picavoic reiierates It's adj
vocscy Of the constitutional amendment.
-Equinoctial storms both on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts have proved very destructive Ito
life and property.
-GEoRgE d. SIMPSON, lottery agent commit
tel suicide in Louisville. yesterday.
-AUGUsTUs n. DIcKENs. the youngest brother
Of CHks. DICKENS. the English novelist, died on
Friday. at Chicago. lie was ia the employ Of the
Illinois Central Railroad.
Il Is reported that THURLOw WEED has with
drawn from the New York Times. being unable to
harmonic with II. J. RAYMOND. II is rumored
that WEED will start a new paper.
There we're several serious political rows in
Cincinnati on Saturday night.
An impostor calling himself HoUDIx, who has
been giving magical entertainments at Memphis,
turns out 10 be preacher who had seduced one
Of his flock in Minnesota.
90 Gen. FRANK. p. BLAIR on attempting 10 make
political speech at Cape GirardeaH, Missouri. on
Saturday, was mobbed and driven from the stand.
- Rear Admiral JoHx L. DAHLGREN has been
ordered by the Secretary Of the Navy TO take pas
sage from New York on the lst Of December next.
to take command Of the South Pacific Squadron.
r. Kentucky planters say that the tobacco crop
Of the present season is the best ever known in
that State.
"A large factory is about to be erected in
Raleigh. n c.. for the manufacture Of stripes,
gingbams. etc.
1.-The Merchants Union Express Company is
an entirely new organization which commenced
business at No. l9l Broadway, New York, on Mon
day last. The capital stock Of the company is
s20000.OOO. which Is distributed among about nine
thousand merchants and shippers Of freight
throughout the country. In Chicago nearly four
hundred Of the largest business houses are inter
ested; In Cincinnati there are three hundred; in
St. Louis between three and four hundreds and so
10 proportion all over Western and Eastern cities
- One Of the editors Of the Selma Hesse1,ggr,'
writing from Tuscaloosa, says the series Of over
flows on the Warrior river almost destroyed the
prospect Of crops on those fine lands.
"A very large horse. recently imported from
Belgium was on exhibition at NOwtown. n. j.. a
few days ago. The snimsi is said to be twenty
hands high and weighed 235S pounds.
- The English Admiralty have issued notice
10 mariners, cautioning them about dropping
anchors on theAtlhntic Gable.
The Government has commenced to issue ra-
tions.to the freedmen again in Alexandria. Va.
Many Of them are without wood and in a starving
condition.
Savannah is outstrippins Charleston as a sea-
port city.
-REv. CHARLES TAYLoR d. d., Of the south
Carolina Conference and formerly missionary in
China. has accepted the Presidency Of Mllers-
burg College under the patronage Of the Ken
tgcl,y Conference.
-J.G. WILSON, Of the Female College, Hunts
vile. Alabama. is preparing a work entitled
prison Life at Camp Morton and Fort Della
wnre which viii soon be published
- The accomplished wife Of Gen. A. I. STEW
ART. has taken charge Of the department Of vocal
music in Greenwood Seminary, Lebanon. Tenn.
"A body-snatcher was shot in the Eastern
CayehilI Cemetery, at Louisyill, on Monday night.
"A negro instruction occurred on Saturday
night. at Cat Island. twenty-five miles below
McmRlis. The black ringleader was killed, and
the gang dispersed. One white man was wounded
in the head.
The population Of Texas is rapidly increasing
by immigration.
-0nc North Carolina corn6cld produces this
year 1000 bushels.
Mr.. WuEE Collins. who is reported to be
threatened with consumption. is travelling in the
south Of Europe for his health.