Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

SLIGHT earthquakes were felt at Knox
Vile Tennessee, on the 25th and Doth inst.
General Mover has removed five New
Orleans officials since he has been in Of
ice.
The caterpillar has appeared on the
mainland in South Carolina, and is doing
great damage.
Spain has sent orders to the United
States for the purchase Of wheat for the
Spanish market.
Our Chicago correspondent says the city
is infested Just now with an unusual num-
Der Of pickpockets, swindlers, and conf
dence men.
A dispute has arisen between Leopold,
King of Belgium, and the Emperor Franz
Joseph, about MsKimilian's estate
The New York Evening Neus says that
large amount Of wearing apparel belonging
to Mrs Lincoln is on sale at No. COG in
that city.
Judge Blatchford, Of the United States
District Court in New York, has decided
that the Secretary Of War has power to
discharge minors enlisted as soldiers.
A party, consisting Of men, women and
children, 20 the number Of $50, will leave
Boston the coming month to settle near
Netawaka, on the Kickapoo reservation,
Kansas.
One hundred and forty eight bales of
new cotton were received in Memphis on
the 9th inst. Business is improving in
that city, and cotton coming in freely.
Judges Warner, Walker and Harris Of
the Supreme Court Of Georgia, are out in
letters favoring reconstruction under the
military bills, on the grounds Of necessity
and e1pediency.
A novel suit is before the Supreme Court
in Buffalo. Nicholas Hyman asks for
$1,000 damages from a woman named Ellen
Burk, who wilfully cut off two long curls
from the head Of his daughter Anna, aged
twelve years.
An experiment with the American Rod
man gun, at Shoeburyness, England, on the
18th inst, with a charge of one hundred
pounds of powder, resulted in sending a
ball clear through the eight-inch iron
plated target.
Jas. S. Murphy, a Metropolitan police
man, was stabbed in the heart by a street
car conductor in South Memphis, on the
10Th inst, and died a few moments after
ward. Owens, the conductor, was Tried the
next day and acquitted, as the deed was
committed in selfdefense.
Mrs. Mumford, the widow Of the unfor-
tGnate custom-house officer who was cruelty
murdered by Beast Butler at New Orleans
during the early part Of the war is now
living in great destituiion in the town Of
Wytheyille, Va.
A wealthy widow named Mary Nc
earthly drew $4,000 froma bank in Chicago,
on the 18th inst, for the purpose of buy
ing a house, and was proceeding home,
about 3 o'clock, when she was seized by
couple Of men just as she was getting ont
Of the street cars, opposite her residence,
and held by one while the other robbed her
Of her money and ran. The passengers at
once gave pursuit, and captured the man
who held the lady, but the thief with the
money escaped.
DIR. NJ. V. Gormon, Nat Kinney and Miss
Carolina Heron, were arrested at Philadel- |
phia, on the 26th inst, on the charge Of
manufacturing counterfeit bank notes. The |
officer also seized SO, 500 finished notes |
and $4,000 unfinished notes. They also |
captured the plates for printing notes on |
the Fourth National Bank Of New York |
city, and fifty cent fractional currency, to-
gether with presses, inks, etc. Since the /
arrest of German it is ascertained that he 4
had contract to supply notes on the First |
National Bank Of Philadelphia, to be exc
cuted next week. German is supposed to /
be the man who first issued fractional cur /
rency notes.