Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-12
FOR GOVERNOR
EMERSON ETHERhDGE,
OF WEAKLEY.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

THEO. TRAUFRNrCHT, W. MATT. BROWN.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Cholera is reported TO have disappeared from
nearly all parts Of the world.
The Pennsylvnnla papers concur in the opin-
ion that the coming wheat crop Will probably
be the largest ever harvested in that State.
Ia Parke county, Missouri, on the 9th inst,
officer and posse, pursuing two horse thieves
shot and killed one Of them, named saunders,
who attempted TO resist arrest
Forty steamboats,. bound for Fort Benton,
Montana, laden with a hundred ana twenty
thousand tons Of freight. have passed Sioux
City, Iowa this season.
At the Monumental Fair, just closed in Pitts
burg a silver tea-set, intended for the most
popular preacher, was voted 10 Rev. Jesse
Divine, a colOred minister Ia Allegheny City.
Under the extension Of time for registration
In New Orleans, many white voters have been
entered upon the lists, and the majority in the
city is now reduced to about eighteen hundred.
Il is reported that Hon. A. II Stephens is
much more feeble than usual. A letter from
him says be is very unwcll and hardly able to be
up.
In the United States Circuit Court at Raleigh.
y. c.. on the 10th inst, Chief Justice Chase
ordered the summoninE Of Grand and Petit
Juries. No distinction In color to be made
The steamer Forrest City lying at Venus
Point. near Savannah, Ga. was burned on the
10th inst, and is total loss except the
machinery
Gen. Pope has forwarded to army headqUar-
tiers, the report Of his Judge, Advocate GENERAL,
Gen. Mckee Dunn, on the Mobile riot. IL IS
more detailed than the former official report, but
is said to contain no new facts of interest.
Gen Howard has applied to the War Depart
ment for a detail Of twenty officers for his Blu
reau. The application was not complied with,
as government finds it difficult TO muster enough
for registration boards in the South,
In Toledo, on Thursday night the 9th. inst,
Mrs. j. Gould left pail Of water standing by
her bedside. During the night her infant child
fell out of bed and was drowned in the water be-
fore the mother awakened.
Ii is not believed in Washington that General
Sheridan will be removed, no matter what
course may be taken by the Executive relative
20 the recent removals Of Louisiana officials by
that officer.
The ex-oficials from Mobile learn that the
President will do nothing with their Application
20 be restored 10 position until the Attorney
General decides on the power Of military com
manders TO remove civil officials.
The Pope's health. according TO a correspOn-
dent of the Pail Mall Gazette, has lately given
uneasiness TO Rome. The correspondent states
that he has again been suffering from his bad leg,
and the swoons caused by the pain, but at the
latest accounts he was better
j. NJ Langston. the Ohio negro orator, is not
going on n campaign in the South under the
auspices Of the Congressional Committee. lie
is about to make tour in the performance Of
his duties as general inspector Of freedmen
schools
A private letter from New Orleans states that
a large amount Of real estate will change hands
there rs soon as the BANKRUPT act goes into eff
feet IL is said that Jacob Barker will be one Of
the first citizens TO avail himself Of this law.
BM Runyan, an enterprisiEg citizen Of St.
Louis, and well known 60 the business men of
Nashville, committed suicide by hanging him
self in his own house sunday night, while his
family were at church. The firm in 81. Lous,
Of which be was IN member failed few weeks
ago.
Col. John Campbell formerly Of Baltimore,
butlate Of Mobile, Ala, died Saturday night at
Louisville. lie is universally known as the old
est turfman in the United States being about
seventy-six years old, and the owner Of great
many blooded horses, among which were Wag-
ner. Gen: Washington, Joe Stoner and NUN
Der of others.
The President and party arrived safely in
Washington Saturday afternoon. There were
many people gathered ut stations along the way,
and some endeavors made 20 draw speeches
from the travellers, but they were not in the
vein, and there was no public talking except the
brieiest acknowledgements by the President.
Horace Haines, who was convicted Of the muir
der Of Hiram Subtitle, in 1854, aud was returned
from the Ohio penitentiary where he had served
nearly thirteen years Of life term, on writ Of
error 10 Ashtabula county, Ohio, was discharged
under HoHc Drosegut, on the 9Th inst. 1t was
found that 40 would be impossible TO cOnvlct him
on new trial Of even manslaughtcr. Many Of |
the witnesses were beyond reach land some were |
dead.
A methodist minister named Slater. living /
near BrOOkheld, Missouri, Is under arrest on /
charge Of poisoning his wife Evidence on the /
inquest showed that the woman, who was IN /
feeble health, had been greatly abused by her |
husband, and the symptoms of her disease at the /
time of death, rendered u certain she had been Il
poisoned. Her sister was living in the family, /
and Skaters object is supposed TO have been 10
marry her alter getting rad OF his wife.
There is case now on trial in the Supreme
Court at New York by the heirs Of John ii. Nc |
Murtagh against the Internal Life Insurance /
Company Of London, 90 recover a policy OF IN
surance on McMurtagh s life premiums ON which i
were paid in Richmond during the war IN Con /
fcderate currency. The defense claim that the /
agency in Richmond was released by the act Of 4
war in 1851. and deny liability on the premiums /
since paid.
An awful tragedy occurred in New York on /
the night Of the 9th inst. Nj and Mrs. Alfred i
King, residing at No 30 East Nineteenth street, 1
retired 20 their sleeping apartment as usual /
but as they did not make their appearance in
the morning, the servants proceeded TO the |
room and beheld the husband and wife lying /
dead on the bed. which was covered with blood. |
A pistol was found on the bed, three chambers ]
of which had been discharged. The suppose
ton Is that King first shot his wife, having pre-
yiously given her chloroiorm, and then killed
himself
The Hartford Carpet Company's mills the
most extensive in the United States, were total
" destroyed by fire on the morning OF the 10th |
inst. Loss very heavy. The mills were situa-
ted AZ pRriffyille two miles from Hartford, Conn.
The loss by the destruction Of these work wall
amount 10 q million or ~ million ana a half Of
dollars; insured for Sl2O00O. About 1000 per
sons were thrown out Of employment. The
mills last month turned out 5000 yards OF
carpet, only part Of which was consumed. The |
works were ut rarihville Nothing remains in |
that village but one OF two storehouses and few
buildings.
A dispatch from Omaha says the telegraph is
still down west Of Fort kcarnev. The only In |
dian news gathered from travellers rs from pas |
seugeTs Just in from the West, who were at
tackled by thirty Indians near Moore's Rancho, |
one hundred miles this side of Denver. The In |
dians first fred into the coach, killing one horse,
aud compelling the passengers TO get out Of the
coach 60 light. One of the escort, an Cmpluye Of
Wells 4 Fargo. was killed. A Mr.. Davis. Of
Georgetown, u. c., was wounded in the groin, |
aud brought 20 Fort Sedgwick. The Indians met
with o warm reception. and lt is believed that |
they carried away two OF their number wound
"a or dead. Rev. Mn. Fuller the only passenger |
in the coach going 90 Denver in which kilbrum,
the driver was killed, has arrived. Aiter the
driver was killed the horses started of throwing
MIR. Fuller into the ditch. The Indians pursuing
he coach passed by him; caught the horses and
destroyed the coach and the United States mail |
Mr.. Fuller made bis way 10 the river. where be I
mot two soldiers. who aided him 60 escape