Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The famous stallion. George Nj. Patchen, has
been sold for Sl7. 900.
Hiram Powers. the eminent sculptor, is on his
way home. lie has resided in Florence since 1887
The Democratic majority Cor Judge in the sec
oud Grand division Of Illinois, at the late cleo
ton, was about i've thonsanas
The army worm Is ravaging the orchards in
Maeara county, New York, and in places the
whole population Is engaged In fighting the pes
tiferous nuisance.
Mr. Boutwell, Of Massachusetts,. Il is reported.
will urge the impeachment OF the President ST
tbe Juiv session, and a speeial meeting Of the
senate 10 try hin an October.
General Sickles has provoked another storm
in Charleston, by issuing an order closing all the
bar-ro and revoking the licenses hitherto
issued for the sale OF liquor
Registration is proceeding quietly in all parts
of GeorTin. In some sections the whites appear
lukewarm, but the press Is urging registration
as an important duty.
A heavy rain storm, accompanied By thunder
and liehtning, occurred IN ne VICINITY lIa Of An-
moRshing trees, and. Il Is feared, seriously IN
iuring corn and cotton.
John Allen attacked and beat his divorced
wife in Decatur, Illinois, the other day. Patrick
Ryan endeavored 20 save the woman, when Al
len Knocked him down with anal, and then bit
his nose Of. The cannibai was brrested-
The Chir-go Tribune RADICAL says 1T is re
ported thai II the friends OF Wade and Chandler
are unable 90 carp strength enough IN the next
Nstional Convention 20 secure the Presidential
nomination for one OF the other Of those csndi-
dates, they viii concentrate on Irnnell' Of
Iowa"
The President received a telegram at New
Haven from the committee Of a public meeting
hsld i'm Philadelphia. inviting him 70 stop there
on his homeward trip. The invitation, however,
cannot be accepted, Tor no other reason than
that Il would Interfere with the schedule.
When the pilitery bill passed Congress there
we're fifteen Republican journals published an
the nen reconstructed States. only four " which
were dailies. There are now thirty Of which
fourteen are daihes, several tri-weeklies, and
the remainder are published weekly
A letter in the Portland Press, from Palestine.
saws that the JafiA colonists have bnilt eight or
Zen house Of wood. hut own not single rarm,
AS The land Is held too high for their means.
They have Yankee reaping and threshinE ma
chimes and some Of them are working for the
NATIVES on shares Fourteen Of the col9niSta
kave died nine Of whom were children; forty,
Sns seceders have already leIt Palestine. and
twenty four more viii soon follow.
The japanese Commissioner while q Nash,
iustou. purchased twenty thousand volumes Of
scbool-books for the instruction OF the Jap
anese Amonf the books are two thousand three
hundred school dictionaries. four thousand read
ers and speslers ten thousand COPY books, e,eh5
hundred English grammar, seven hundred
COPIES Of scientific textbooks. also botanies,
universal history, astronomy, anatomy, drawing
books. Biographies, etc.
Peter Wilson, a carpenter AZ work on the stee-
ple 81 the liernan Erangelic Church. IN Indian
spolis. Ind. slipped and fell distance OF over
one hundred and thirty feet on the soth. he
was al work on the middle platform q the spise,
wen he fell strikiug the root Of the church with
his read and shoulders breaking the inalinF Tor
about three feet square. He Tebiunaed rom
there e the roof Of twc-siory tfame house, anu
from there 20 the ground. his jass was broken
Ia thres places, his head badly cut and one OF
bic isEs broken. Re wss picked 40 insensible,
snd fingered on until the evening Of the aoth,
when be died.