Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-31
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

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IN of fever at Hampton, Va.
Rev. Charles Kingsley, the English au-
thor. Is now en- route 10 this country.
News from Venezuela states that Minister
Wilson died at Caracas on the oth.
A new board Of School Directors, partly
composed Of negroes, has been appointed
in New Orleans.
Some Trenton negroes have nominated
Chase and Sheridan for the Presidential
ticket.
Immense herds of buffalo are seen near
Fort Kearhey, going south, Indians are
following them, and trouble IS expected.
The latest advices from Mexico report,
Lopez still alive Marquee not yet captured,
and the trial Of O'Horan progressing.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton left New York on the 18th inst.
for Kansas TO advocate woman suffrage
until the November election.
II is stated that there have been about
thirty suicides IN st. Louis during the
urezent wear. The number throughout the
country has been unprecedeniedly large.
reported that Secretary McCnlloch
hss accepted an offer Of Jay Cooke q Co.
TO manage a new banking house they are
about to open in London.
lions Herald advertises two colored
nreacbers. "of superior parts" who want
white congregations 1t says: Now
brethren, let us practice as We preach"
Eighty cigar manufactures in Havana
closed. being unable 10 pay the new gov
eminent imposition. Hundreds Of work
men have thus been thrown out Of employ
ment.
The President has directed the reserva-
ton for military purposes, OF the Peninsular
Islands ia San Francisco Bay, and plat
of thirty-siX square miles at Camp Good
win, Arizona.
DIR. James Jackson, the Oldest member
Of the medical profession in Boston, and
one Of the most eminent physicians Of the
country, died in Boston on the 18th inst.
in his ninetieth year.
GOV. Helm, who has been quite sick
since the election, and is unable 20 go TO
Frankfort, is TO be inaugurated at Eliza
bethtown, has residence, on Tuesday, Sep-
TENDER g. Gov. Bramlette and stall wall
attend the Inauguration.
Sergeants Sullivan, Morgan and Sim
mons. who were engaged in the destruc-
ton of Cofee's ranch, near our Western
forts. some time since, were sentenced by
court-martial to fifteen years impTison-
ment in the Iowa penitentiary.
Wade Hampton, Of South Carolina, has
written a long letter against the reconstruc'
ton plan proposed by Congress. He adj
yises the people 10 register, and then vote
agains, a convention. lie prefers military
rule TO a government established under the
Congressional acts.
The Concord Statesman, leading Radi
cal journal in New Hampshire, is in favor
of taxing all government bonds. IL insists
that Congress would be sustained, il, at its
next session, it should provide for snch
taxation.
Among those recommended by North
Carolina papers for the Presidency of the
University ofNorth Carolina, made vacant
by the resignation Of Gov. Swain, are
Hon. Wm. A. Graham, General Joseph L.
Johnston, Jefferson Davis, Rev. DIR. Deem,
and Rev. DR.. Poindexter.
A few days ago twenty seven women Of
Redfeld, Iowa, decided 10 abate the whisky
shops of that place, and did so. They
we're arrested, tried and acquitted. Sub
seouently they were re-arresled and taken
before another Justice of the Peace,
twenty. five miles distant, where they were
again acquitted after a three days trial.
A prominent Bavarian journal, which is
known az an active advocate Of the South
German Confederation, asserts that Bava-
ria, and the other States Of South Ger
many, will not unite with either Prussia
or Austria, but maintaining independence
Of both TO preserve the balance of power
between them in Germany.
The government has taken an active in
terest in saving the life Of Santa Anna,
and has sent dispatches to our Acting Min
lister in Mexico to urge President Juarez to
deal with him literally. In addition to
this a special convoy has been sent to Mex
ico with instructions TO secure, if possible,
the lenient treatment Of Santa Anna while
he is in prison.
A man ia Webster, Massachusetts,, on
the 22d inst, while drunk, wanted his wife
TO 90 for more liquor, and upon her refp-
sal, threw a kerosene lamp at her. IL
failed to hit her, but was broken and its
contents spilled on his step-daughter a
little girl, whose clothing was set on fire,
causing her death.
The reports Of the ravages Of cholera on
the plains are truly serious. Three hun
bred and thirty deaths from this disease
have occurred in the Indian territory south
Of Kansas. Thirty seven per cent. OF the
population Of Fort Gibson are reported to
have died At Fort Arbuckle sixty sol
diers and seventy-hve Indians have fallen
victims to the same sc0urge.
A plea in abatement was filed IN the
United States Court, at Richmond, on the
10th inst, by the counsel for the defense,
in certain cases of the violation Of the IN
ternal revenue laws, on the ground that
the law having provided for the same num-
Der Of Collectors in each State as 1t had
Representatives in Congress, there could
be no legal Inspectors in the State Of Var
ginia, that State having no Representatives.
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