The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-07
THE NEWS.

Miss MCGOWAN lost her life at Al
tica, Indiana, few days ago, by pour
ing coal oil on fire to make it burn.
President johnson has accepted the
| invitation 10 deliver the address at the
laying Of the corner stone of the Doug
las monument, and the ceremonies
have been postponed until after the
adjournment Of Congress, when he and
the cabinet may 20 to Chicago.
The Treasury Department has or
dered a circular to be sent TO every
! postmaster receiving over 5000 from
/ his Office, requiring him to show that
he has paid his income tax.
Trial by jury has been introduced
into Austria
The first volume of Hindostanee
/ translation of Shakespeare has been
issued at Bombay.
The Secretary Of the Treasury is now
sending notices to the officers in the
/ South, who have been unable or I'M
willing to take the test oath, that they
will be required Immediately to vacate
their several offices Mr.. McCulloch
/ has determined to enforce the law to
the letter, and trust TO the action of
Congress to remedy any evil that may
! result from the vacation Of important
! revenue offices.
There is a great oil excitement at
/ Boutwell,, Canada The Rock River
well is flowing at the rate OF one hun
bred barrels a day, and the Went
worth well twenty FIVE barrels. Other
companies have made large strikes.
| During the week ending May Doth,
1918 barrels Of oil were shipped.
Public lands are now disposed of in a
| lively manner at the Ionia land office,
in Michigan. Last month II, $50 acres
were taken up for actual settlement
under the homestead law, and cash
sales were made amounting to $500
We have again later news from Eu-
rope. 3 he political situation is without
material change, save that France IS
arming, and is about to place corps of
observation on the German and Italian
| frontiers. Some additional failures
are reported in England
According to report of DR.. Hayes,
State Assayer Of Massachusetts,, the
gold mines Of New Hampshire are
found to yield, per ton, 1857 in gold =,
/ the mixed quartz, talc0se slate, gozzan,
pyrites, &c yields upon analysis, $50
II per ton.
An eighthour ordinance has been
] J nrev-rF
ell. The scale of prices for labor is as
follows. Street laborers working ten
hours a day get 81 80 per day, while
those working eight hours get only
81 s. Man and team working ten
hours get s. &c; eight hours, 50.
Trains on the Union Pacific Railroad
now run beyond LOupe Fork, a hun
dred miles west Of the Missouri
river.
The Emperor Napoleon has sub
scribed $4,000 from his private purse
toward The prizes to he distributed on
lic ist Of J0ly, 1867, to the exhibitors
at the Paris Exhibition.
Prof Greene, of the Maine Medical
School, recently performed a rare but
| effective operation for the cure Of that
distressing complaint, neuralgia A
| lady fifty-three years Of age, who had
/ tried every form OF medical treatment,
! without relief, applied 10 Prof Greene,
when he etherzed the patient. ire
pinned the Jaw, and cut out piece Of
| the dental nerve when the lady was
at once relieved from the most eXcru-
cistinR pain, which she had suffered
continually for years.
The New York Association for the
! Advancement of Science and Art are
considering the subject Of establishing
an Astronomical as well as n Magnetic
Observatory. The plan is 10 be at
once brought before the public.
The New York State Military Agency
at Washington, during May, collected
and paid claimants Sl9S95 81, beside
accomplishing a great amount Of other
customary work.
Mrs. Bryant, wife of William Cullen
Bryant the poet and veteran editor of
The Evening Post, lies dangerously
sick at her residence at ROslyn with
but little hope Of recovery.
The two Peruvian ironclads, Huesca
and Independence, II is rumoredr are
on their way to lombard Havana.
The court martial which has been
trying Mai Gee, who was commandant
| of the rebel prison at Salisbury, has
adjourned for short period. Up to
this time the expenses of the trial have
been $4,000, and no evidence crimi-
mating the prisoner has been addueed
yet
There is 9 project on foot among the
Israelites of the United States to build
! a magnificent college, for the purpose
of educating tho young men protesting
that faith, in all the scientific and
classical branches, but particularly in
Jewish theology. Hitherto the Jews
have had to send their children de-
signed for the ministry to the CONT
nent for education.
The President has approved the bill
providing that hereafter passports shall
be issued only 10 citizens OF the United
States.
The redemption division of the Trca-
sury Department last week detected,
among the notes presented for redemp-
ton, counterfeit currency amounting
TO over three hundred dollars
Among the passengers who left New
York for Europe, Saturday, were the
Count and Countess iii Castiglione,
who recently came here on visit,
exnectinc to remain several months
me Count being member Of the mil
itary family OF King Victor Emmanuel,
is summoned home on account of the
threatening aspect Of affairs in Eu-
rope.
The ST. Paul MINI Pioneer says
that all the reports coming into that
city from the agriS;I tural districts Of
the State are Of the most favorable ma
ture. A very large amount of wheat in
excess Of last year has been sOWn this
spriBg. and good weather Is all that Is
necessary 10 make the coming crop the
largest ever gathered in Minnesota
The high figures which wheat has
maintained during the spring has led
10 It's cultivation rather 10 the neglect
of other crops, and the proportion Of
corn and potatoes will be less than
usual