Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gen Tom Thumb, Commodore Mutt and Min
ME Warren have returned from Europe.
The taxation in the city Of New York for the
current year amounts 90 S3O.OO0OOb.
Five freedmen have been appointed ON the
police Of Mobile by the Mayor.
The remains Of A. ?. Hin were taken to Rich
mund on the lst inst, and inferred in Holly
wood Cemetery.
The New York Board eff Aldermen have ap.
propriated $50 900 toward celebrating the Fourth
81 July.
The Norfolk T,,giniau says it is currently re
ported that several negro women have regis
tered Ia the city In male attire.
A company At Providence. r. l., has contract
ed 10 furnish the swiss government with hfteen
thousand Peabody rides.
A fruit grower at Loveland, o., succeeded this
season IN raising one bushel. three pecks and
three quarts Of strawberries from a square rod
ui ground.
letter from ireland to the New York World
dated June 49, states that apprehensiOus Of an
other and more formidable Fenian outbreak
are entertained.
Neither NJ the headquarters Of the army nor
at the Indian Bureau has any news been re-
ceiveu which shows the truth Of the reports Of
disaster 10 Gen. Gustav by the Indians.
Alta meeting Of the creditors Of Frazier, Tren-
holm a Co.. nt Liverpool, on the 18th. IL was
stated that the gross liabilities were about
s60nO0O0. and the estimated assets about
sll00O0O.
In the fourth aud last match Saturday be-
tween Dexter and Lady Thorn, over the Fash
lon Course for 5000 two mile heats 20 wagons,
Dexter won ln 5.Ol aud 'u9.
Mr.. Nicolson has obtained Judgment against
the city of Chicago for $3.50 for an alleged in
tringementk,f his patent pavement. He offers
20 remit.the judgment If the government of
Chicago will use has pavement generally.
In the village Of 0neonta, 0tsego county, New
York, on the 25th alt, Samuel Beach, a cripple,
shot his mother in two places and killed her
4 80 T., kfIl hfmeolf hrf did M
ucceed Id Is thought he will recover.
The Fredericksburg Herald says that Radi-
cal agent in Louisa county, Virginia, writes to
has employers that be haa been engaged lin
forming Union Leagues" and that over one
thousand cal0red persons have been initiated
during the last two weeks.
A bridge one hundred feet long, ON the Pitts
burg. Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, at
Plymouth, Indiana, was knocked into the river
hy q train which got 0i the track on SATURDAY.
La twenty-four hours new bridge was built,
aud trains crossing uponit.
A deplorable account is given of the destitu-
ton in Wake county, North Carolina At least
three hundred families have not four days sup
plies-some have had no meat for weeks. no
bread for DAYS, and no Hour for months, and
sugar aud coffee far worse
The longest train Of cars that ever passed over
any railroad Is said by the Easton Pennsylvania
Arg.s, 60 have recently passed over the Lehigh
Valley railroad. 10 consisted of two hundred
and seventy-fve loaded cars, averaging six tuns
extended $3.50 ieet-over two-thirds Of mile.
Messrs Ames. Wizard and others, in the charges
against the Navy Department, which are now
undergoing investigation by the special commit
tee on ordnance. allege that the department has
spent millions Of dollars for cannon, without
complying with the conditions imposed BY law.
for the making and execution of contracts for
government supplies.
elatest official accounts received from Crete
are dated June 4th. They contain no confirmation
OF the reported victories of Omer Pasha, that
were said 10 have taken place June Sd. Accord
ins 90 the advices from Heraction Omar Pasha
attacked the Greeks with his whole army, on
the lst Of June but from the fact that the Turks
maintained an obstinate silence IN regard % the
issue Of the battle, u Is inferred that they were
beaten.
funuS case came before justice IN Milwau-
kee the other day. young woman who had
accepted the attentions and ciyiincs Of "a gen
tlernsu for some time, at length was married TO
somebody else. whercupon the deceived indi-
vidual sued for bill of S20i ., the amount he
mad pad in her behalf in taking her 20 concerts,
operas pic-nics. rides and ice-cream saloons. As
an offset he credited her with sundry kisses val
ued at SB 61I. several sQueezes OF the hand,
g S7ls: an unreturned photograph and ring,
MAKING in all total Of $50 Is. He recovered
the bin the Judge allowing the plaintiff the
kisses at mis- own valuation.