The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-08
THE NEWS.

l AhntI ultttuf uAu uillbcu Oub IIOu
Oakville. Two of the girls were washed
overheard and lost
The Lafayette county (Wis) Union
reports that one firm have purchased,
within the last ten months, in that
county, 1900 fat hogs, for which they
have paid the sum of $4,000 During
the same period they have purchased
400 fat cattle, for which they have
paid $4,000 Several other merchants
have bought heavily, and the gross re-
suit must be very great
A correspondent of the Maine Farm.
er says that about sixteen years ago he
transferred eight trout to a small brook
which empties into a pond For seven
or eight years nothing was seen or
/ heard from them; but since that time
it is Judged by men that live near these
ponds, that not less than two hundred
pounds are taken yearly of the best
trout in that vicinity.
The order of the Secretary of the
Treasury, suspending the payment of
all prize money, has been resclnded,
and such payments will be commenced
after the lst of next month.
The Oroyille (CaL) Record hints that
certain persons have discover, d yeri-
/ table diamond mine somewhere in the
vicinity of the Table Mountains, to the
west of Mesilla valley. J he specimens
are said to have been pronounced gen
uine by those engaged in the diamond
! trade of San Francisco Diamonds
| have been found at Cherokee, and it is
not improbable that they have been
discovered elsewhere.
A church and school house in Henry
county, Indiana, have been burned by
incendisries because a negro preacher
lately held forth in them by invitation.
The amount of money left in trust
by will is yearly increasing in Massa-
chusetts. Several heavy fortunes left
by deceased persons have recently been
disposed Of in this way. The late H.
l.. Richardson, Of BroOkline, left an es-
tate Of the value of about $500, 900,
nearly all in trust
The President reports to Congress
that he has granted, in all, FIVE thou
sand and thirty-fve pardons to rebels
excepted in the amnesty proclamation.
The Fall River (Mass) News says:
Mr.. Isaac Barker, of TiVerton, r. l.,
was in town lately, wearing clothing
with silver buttons over two hundred
years old. In company with his broth
er, Peleg Barker, he owns a house in
Pembroke, twelve miles from Ply
mouth, which is two hundred and thir-
ty-nine years old. Il is still inhabited,
has always been in their family, and is
believed to be the oldest house in the
| United States.
VIM. Hutchings, the last revolution
ary soldier in Maine, and the last but
three in the Union, died at PenObscot
last Thursday, aged lO2.
The Boston Herald says that widow
Joanna Braley, of East Freetown,
Mass, performed her labor tax on the
highways this spring in person. She
carries on farming operations as well
as other farmers, occasionally hiring
male help in the busiest seasons, and
during the last winter, assisted only by
a boy fifteen years old, cut thirty cords
of box-board logs in the woods.
Miss Polly Brown, aged So years and
3 months, died in Warren, r. l., on
Saturday. She had always lived in
| the same house in which she was born;
never was in a steamboat; never saw a
railroad; and was never in Providence,
which is q remarkable thing for a
! Rhode Islander.
1t is reported from St Petersburg
that the project of marrying the
CzaTevitch to the Princess Dagmar Of
Denmark has been abandoned, and
that the young prince has conceived
violent attachment for the young Prin-
cess Afieszerska, the daughter of the
Russian poet-priest Elias.
The Gallatin Examiner says Duggan,
drunk or sober, is 8 better man than
many of his associates-Fleteher and
Mullins for instance.
A discharged negro soldier, who for
merly belonged to Richard Averitt, of
Hartsville, stole a horse on Thursday
from a man named Peyton, who was st
Ephraim Penn's, east of Gallatin, and
made of as fast as he could for HsTts-
vile. Pursuit was mlde about fifteen
minutes after the theft, and, after a
hard chase, he was overtaken about two
miles this side of Hartsville The thief,
on discovering his pursuers so close on
him, took to the woods, was shot at
and wounded, and brought back tOGal-
latin and put in jail-GallatiH E.rami-
HeT.
The Clarksville Chronicle says the
wheat crop in that section viii be well
nigh failure Many fields will not
replace the seed sown upon them.
Gen. Jas. Shields made q speech re-
Gently in Livingston county, No,
against the radicals and in favor of the
Presidents policy.
A Washington dispatch Of the Sd
saws Gen. Rosecrans Is in San Diego,
looking cut for mining properties and
interests. 1t is reported here to-day
that the President has sent for him,
and that ere long we shall see the great
Westerner in a political field, as origi-
nal as it viii be startling.
At the last soiree at the Tuileries
a romance by Nine. de Rothschild was
sung with great success. After the
concert Mile. Patti was presented by
the Emperor with a pair of diamond
earrings.
By laying a piece of charcoal on a
burn the pain subsidies Immediately.
By leaving the charcoal on one hour
the wound is healed, as has been de-
monststed on several occasions. The
remedy is cheap and simple, and GER
tainly deserves a trial