Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-16
TUESDAY. APRIL Is. 1897.
Largest Circulation In City and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
There we're 4O7 deaths in New York last week.
bsing twelve less than the week previous.
The Upper Mississippi from Lake Pepin. north,
Is still firmly ice-bOund.
The corner stone Of the new Jewish temple at
Louisville will be laid on the oath inst.
An the western streams are reported rising
more or less rapidly,
The Michigan Constitutional Convention will
contain seventy-6ve Republican and twenty-five
Democratic members.
A negro school teacher has been appointed
register OF voters under the military bill in
Alabama, on the recommendation Of prominent
white citizens.
A report prevailed in Washington Sunday that
Macmillan had been captured by the Liberals.
ut QueretarO. but no official information has
been received TO confirm it.
COW stable in the western suburbs. of ST.
Louis was burned Saturday night. FOrty-fOur
COWS persisted in the flames. The Ere was the
work of an incendiBry.
An inohensiye organ grinder was stoned to
death near New York few days ago. By party
Of ten or twelve boys. Ten of the young barba-
rians are now in Jail. Their victim fingered
three or four days.
Mr. A. sanborn. Of Sterling Illinois. has lost
his suit In New York. against Slac c. Herring.
the safe manufacturer. The suit was instituted
10 recover a sum of money abstracted. BY burg
lars. from the formers Herring safe.
The Southern Relief Commission Of San Fran
cisco on Saturday telegraphed through the Bank
Of California thirty thousand dollars TO the New
York Relief Commission for the benefit Of the
destitute people Ofthe Southern States.
The stockholders Of the Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad Company have unanimously rati-
led the sale Of that road TO the Memphis FL
P0sO and Pacific Railroad Company.
Wendell Phillips has written a letter 10 a Mus
catine. Iowa paper. in which he likens President
johnson to a Tennessee mule, and opposes
Grant rs "a candidate for the Presidency because
he has no political ideas Of his own.
The remains Of two thousand one hundred
aud elghty-OnO Union soldiers, who fell during
McClellGns memorable struggle on the PENN
sula. have recently been inferred in a beautiful
national eemetry erected in the vicinity Of York
town.
The Chicago Jews have condemned the action
Of the New York prescribing insurance coinpa-
mics. Resolutions were passed not 10 patronize
nor give any business 10 agents who have the
obnoxious companies on their lists.
The general agent Of the Southern Relief
Commission in New York states that cash re
ceipts up to the present time are Sl65,OO. OF
this sum. California sends 81. 900 in gold. or in
creased 10 currency. $4,000. New York 81, 900.
and the country Vest and East $4,000.
About 10000 pounds of good quality Of SUI
gar, made from the beet root, have just been re-
ceived at Springfield, Illinois. from a manufac-
tory recently established in Livingston county,
Illinois. The experiment is pronounced a sue
cess. and great results are anticipated.
The $4,000 stolen from the Adams Express
Company messenger on the steamboat Elisha
Bennett between Pittsburg and Greensboro. on
the night of the 5th Of April. has been recovered
through the detective agency Of Allen Pinker-
ton, Of Chicago. The guilty parties will be
speedily brought 10 Justice.
In the United States Senate on the 10Th inst
Messrs. Dixon and Terry had a severe tilt over
the Connecticut election. The latter declared
HkuufN al.
while the former said that Summers bill to force
negro suffrage on all the Northern States was
the main cause If thedeteat Of the Republican
party.
Three men, named Bucklin, Walker and
Weber, are examination in jackson county,
Iowa, for the murder Of Cronk. which occurred
several months since. a dispatch says that four
OF five hundred citizens are gathered at Andrew,
where the examination Is taking place, ready TO
lynch tie prisoners, should they be found guilty.
Wendell Phillips lectured in ST. Louis on the
18th inst, on The Times" The lecturer was
loudly and repeatedly cheered. particularly
when enGnciating his most radical sentiments.
n took strong grounds against the nomination
Of General Grant for President and favored the
impeachment Of Andy johnson. Ex-Governor
FOOte, Of Mississippi. who present, will lee
ture on the same subject, mt the same place.
A difpatch from Fort Mcpherson, Nebraska,
states that che mail party from Fort Phil Kear-
ney TO Fort Laramie. in charge of Mr.. Van Val
sey, government scout, and asergeant and twelve
mutilated by the lndipns eighteen miles east Of
Fort Reno, on the 9th. None escaped. Ii is |
feared the Crows viii Join the Sioux, in which
event Fort Smith will be in great danger.
Late Saturday night, by a preconcerted move.
ment, the police made descent on the prOmi- |
nsnt gambling houses on Pennsylvania avenue |
and elsewhere in Washington. As these estab- |
lishmepts have heretofore euioyed almost min |
terrupted immunity, this was to their pruprie- |
tors a startling event. All the materials and /
mechanical contrivHnces for playing faro and /
other games were captured, and the occupants /
Of the houses arrested.
George w. Trotter. a cotton factor Of Memphis,
failed Friday-liabilities SS010O. MIR. Trotter /
has always been regarded ~ an energetic and /
plumber one business man. His integrity and /
honorable course in business has made him
many friends. and had it not been for the heavy /
decline in cotton, he could have weRthered the /
financial storm which is now sweeping over our
desolated country.
Texas letters say that the Indians are assemb-
ling In large bodies on the frontier, and hume
rOus outERges are committed daily. Not long
since Governor ThrOckmOrtOn issued a request to
the Chief Justices Of the frontier counties of
Texas that they report the number killed in |
their respective counties by Indians. Since that |
time the Chief Justices have reported for five |
counties, that seventeen persons have been
Killed. twelve taken eaptives, and sl57.7S5 worth
u property destroyed.
Parties representing the State Of Arkansas
have nearly completed the bill which they will
ask 10 file in the Supreme Court for an in
junction. ukhilhl tue enforcement OF the recon |
ltructton law IN that State Should they fail, IL |
L contemplated TO test the constitutionality Of
The act by making up case which will come up
10 the supreme Court on a regular appeal from
the United States Circuit Court or District Court
At Junction City, Kansas, the sth inst,
man named Vim. Moore while seated at the
breakfast table with his wife and children drew
} revolver and shot his wife dead. An attempt
vas made by his neighboTs 10 arrest him, but
ais threatening demonstrations prevented II. In /
ibout two hours after shooting his wife he
Drained pillow, laid his wifes head "a pom IT, /
AID down on the hOOr beside her deliberately |
hot himself through the head with the revolver
and died in few minutes Moore had fnrseverui |
ears threatened this terrible tragedy.
In the debate in the Senate on the 18th inst,
N the question Of adjournment, il was main |
aimed by some Of the Senators that the Presi-
lent had delayed sending In nominations for Of
Ices long vacant, and several Of them said II the
'enate should adjourn and the Offices should re
nain untitled. the responsibility would rest with
he President. Messrs. Dixon and D0oitte de |
ended him from this charge. Senators Williams |
Jerry and Howe took the ground that they |
lould favor the confirmation of able and honest |
while those who opposed adjourn |
aent declared they would sit through the sum
ler before they would consent To- confirm y 1
Iuglp Dprnaeraf far any aff.aa |