Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-27
WEDNESDAY,. NOVEMBER ~. 1897.
largest Circulation In City and Stat,
NEWS OF TuE DAY.

1t Is reported Garribaldi Is lying Sc
riously III IN prison at Narignano.
Davenport, Iowa, erected 462 new
buildings this year, at a cost Of 81 2O6,95O
The New York Tribune says that $780,
600 in election bets have been paid over
in New York.
Ten men, four white and six colored,
we're publicly dashed in New Castle, Della
ware, Saturday.
General Kirby Smith will remove to
Shelbyville, Kentucky, to become Presi-
dent Of Shelbyville College.
When the Pacific railroad and the Snez
canal are completed we can steam it around
the world an ninety days.
The people in the vicinity Of Chicago
were blessed with heavy shower Of rain
Saturday-the first in long while.
The merchants in New York propose to
reduce the salaries of their clerks, on ac-
count Of the excessive dullness Of business.
A man named Franz Molz has been ar
rested in St. Louis on a charge of poisoning
the wells in the lower part Of that city.
Dispatches from Rome announce that
the Holy See has ordered the release of all
Garibaldians taken prisoners during the
recent campaign.
A couple Of female practical jokers
frightened young married woman into in
sanity, at Milwaukee, the other day, by
telling ner that her husband was dead.
A man in Chicago attempted to cut his
wife's throat because she refused TO keep a
house Of ill-fame, and give him the pro,
ceeds accruing therefrom.
The Oregon papers relate that over 100,-
900 sheep have been driven to California
the present season, and they say the Ore
gonians have got the gold for them.
The Democratic Club of Lexington,
Kentucky, have unanimously declared
Hon. George II. Pendleton to be their
choice for ne Presidency in the ensuing
campaign.
The Dubuque Iowa. Times tells of the
discovery there Of FIVE immense lead
caves, all Of which are "chock full" Of the
mineral. Mr.. Kelly, their owner, refuses
$l50,00G for his windfall.
The rinderpest, or some similar cattle
disease, is prevailing 10 a deplorable ex-
tent in Maryland and Virginia, many
hundreds Of the best kind of COWS having
died from TINS cause.
A steady, drenching rain set in at Chi
cago about noon Sunday, with a prospect
that it will not cease for a day or two.
This il the first rain that has fallen here
for long time, and much needed.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
is said TO have ordered the release of a
quantity of whisky owned by the Ken
lucky Bourbon Company, Of New York,
upon which advances were made by the
Louisville banks.
More than sixty thousand people have
emigra;ed, during the last ten years from
the small Grand Duchy Of MeckIenburg,
Germany, containing FIVE hundred thou
sand inhabitants, to the United States.
Gen. Grant mas decided that after the
elections and conventions now pending in
the Southern States have been held, the
number of military posts shall be dimin-
ished and the troops concentrated at CEN
trail points, with a view 10 economy in
transportation and subsistence
The Pacific railroad is now completed TO
the base of the mountains, FIVE hundred
and twenty miles from Omaha. The sec
ton TO the summit will have a grade of
only eighty feet to the mile, tits said, which
is materially less than some of the grades
on the Pennsylvania roads.
The latest news from Abyssinia shows
that Emperor Theodore is still very bloody.
One Of his latest amusements was to put
1900 peasants together in FIVE large houses,
and burn them alive. Hearing that 1000
of his troops wished TO desert, he had their
Threats cut like cattle.
On Thursday afternoon, party of rob
bers walked into the house of Mr.. Joseph
Cadley, who lives about mile and half
west of Germantown, Montgomery county,
Ohio. Finding the proprietor at home,
they knocked him down, searched the
house, obtained fifty dollars in money and
some clothing, and left. They were un-
known, and have not been heard of since.
The cholera some weeks ago broke out
among the negroes on the Buckhorn plan
tation, in Louisiana, near Miliken's Bend.
The overseeT, the only white person on the
place, becoming alarmed, went Off DR..
Danley was sent for, and on arriving, found
fifteen dead and buried. Those who had
not been taken with the disease paid no at
tention 10 either the dead or the dying re-
fusing 10 assist in burying the dead. The
Doctor went TO General Peck's plantation,
a few miles of, for the purpose of procur-
ing help. The negroes there at first re-
fused 10 go. but after being stimulated |
with whisky, finally consented. In the
meantime twenty more had died-and in
a day or two forty-eight. making in all |
eighty-three This dreadful mortality is
supposed TO have been occasioned by the |
eating of fish, which were caught in large |
quantities in some lakes in the neighbor- |
hood, which had been nearly dry, the
water remaining being very muddy, stag
nant and offensive. There were about a
hundred negroes on the place.