The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-14
THE NEWS.


Gen Tillson telegraphs Gen. Howard
that he has not suppressed the Loyal
Georgian" newspaper.
The Circuit Court of Knox county,
Judge E. T. Hall, convened at Knox
vile last Monday.
Truman Handy, of Cincinnati, pro
poses to construct an Opera House on
Vine street between Sixth and Seventh
streets.
Walter B. Seates has been confirmed
as Collector Of the Port of Chicago
The Michigan City Enterprise says
Tuesday morning three or four car
loads of emigrsnts passed through this
place en- route. we are informed, for Salt
Lake City-dupes of Brigham Young.
The "Saints" must be easily suited, if
they can fancy such looking things as
we saw sticking their dirty, uncombed
heads out of the Car windows.
A couple were married in Cairo, last
week, with ludicrous difference in
age, the bride being thirteen and the
groom ninetyAone. The girl WAS rich,
which makes the affair still more a
matter of wonder.
The richest church in Boston is the
Old South, which is taxed this year for
1876, 600 worth Of real estate.
At two o'clock yesterday morning, as
Mr.. ii. Heun, proprietor of the drug
store on the southwest corner Of Vine
and Fifth streets, was standing in front
of his store with some friends, hand
ling his pistol, he let it drop to the
pavement Unfortunately load was
thus discharged, in the calf of his
left leg, making painful, though not
serious, wound Cincinnati Gazette.
General H. P. Bee, writing from Ha-
vana to the Houston Telegraph,
makes an appeal to the people of Texas
in behalf Of General Msgruder, who,
with Commodore Maury, has been re-
moved from office in Mexico. "He is
poor-very p0or-without any means
of support, and with his family depend
ent upon him." says the writer, who
adds that it will be the privilege of
many in Texas to assist him. The let
ter does not say whether Gen. Magru-
der is now at Havana, or still in the
City of Mexico
The agricultural implement factory
of Stewart 81 Sons, at Martinsville,
Ohio, was burned on Friday night
There were twenty-three threshing ma
chimes, ten cleaners and thirteen TIRES
hers ready for shipment, which were
destroyed in the building The loss is
stated by the Wheeling Inteiligencer
at $4,000.
The number of dsaths in New York
City the past week was $685. of whom
n died from contagious diseases. In
Brooklyn there were 100 deaths during
the same time.
The bog-cholera, army-worm and 20
tato-bug are among the present Attic
tions Of agriculturists in Illinois and
Iowa.
A bill has passed both houses of
Congress, and will probably be signed
By the President, prohibiting the de
post of public money elsewhere than
with Sub-Treasurers, except under spe-
cial authority from the Secretary of the
Treasury.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
received from Decatur, Alabama, spe-
cimens of new counterfeit $50 and 500.
The lettering is somewhat blurred, tn g
paper poor, and color of note too light,
as compared with the genuine.
Rev Warren Burton, the well known
writer and lecturer on Home Educa-
ton, Cied last week az Salem, Mass,
after sn illness of nearly two years.
Lyman w. Potter was, Monday,
nominated by the President as Collect
or of Internal Revenue for the Seven
teenth District of Ohio.
The Coahoniian of the 9Th learns
from Austin, Tunica county, Miss, that
q bird was killed near that place last
week by Mr. Nibblett, which measured
six feet in height, with a bill six inches
in length, and a crest twenty four
inches long and six inches in diameter.
The birds mate few when it was
killed
The Holly Springs Reporter Of the
Sth says: Almost every day this week
large supplies of ice cream have been
made in our city from the hail that fell
on Sunday evening last.
Edward Palmer died in Memphis,
Monday, from an overdose Of NOR
phine.
Major James F. Milligan, the we'll
known chief OF the signal corps of Gen.
Lees army of Northern Virginia, has
been offered & similar position in the
Imperial army of Austria by the En-
peror Francis Joseph.
General Wigfall, ex-Confederate SEN
ator from Texas, is in London, and is
about starting out to lecture on the ne
gro, beginning in the jungles Of Africa
and concluding with a review of his
present position in America.
It is stated that the New Bedford
who suffered by the depre
dations of the Shenandoah, are especi-
ally jubilant in view Of the recent Fe-
MAN raid into Canada.
Collector Clspp's perquisites from the
revenue seizures at Burlington, Yer
mont, are estimated at $4,000 year,
which, with bis salary, pays his board
sud washing
General Mcclellan has given it as his
,ninion that, in 8 war between Prussia
md Austria, Prussia must go to the
wall, and, adds London writer, "he
knows what fighting is, and who look
ike fighters.
Mrs. Thomas Benton has 8 cat bird |
hat beats the world singing. IL imi- |
.ates the songs of al the birds OF the
air, and whistles very difficult pieces OF
music with the greatest accuracy. I0s-
terday morning he experienced a patti
,tic inspiration, ard went in on Yam
kee Doodle with a will. For the dis
-ance Of two squares his melodious
warnings are distinctly heard, and
,ften quite a crowd of passers by col.
ect in front of his cage to admire the
performance. We don't covet our
neighbors property, but we would like
o have that bird--RieiaoHd TslegrsaL