Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

annual premium fdles.
Yankee thrift is turning an honest penny
in Boston by licensing" the newsboys and
boot blacks.
Lucus II. Teirney, the defaulting teller
Of the First National Bank, of Greenfield,
Mass, has been sentenced 10 five years in
the State prison.
The whipping post still fourishes in Bar
rem county, Kentucky. Jas. Bunch got the
benefit of il at Glasgow, the other day. He
had stolen 81 vest.
There is an unexampled run of shad in
the North Carolina sounds. Upward Of
sixteen thousand nets have been set, and
the fishermen are exceedingly jubilant.
The government is reducing the en-
ployes at the different navy yards thirty
three per cent. On Wednesday, at the
Charlestown yard, one hundred and thirty
mechanics were discharged.
General James S. Brisbin has been APP
pointed by the President and confirmed
by the Senate, to the vacancy occasioned
in the regular army by the resignation OF
Major General Pleasanton.
The body Of Isaac McCracken, aged six
ty-nine, who disappeared from his house in
Cleveland two months ago, has been found
in the lake near the Lake Shore railroad
shop. McCracken was married two months
before his disappearance.
Jennings county, Indiana, may claim the
"oldest inhabitant," il the story of Grigg
Harper, a colored resident of that county,
is true. He says he was born in Virginia
in l746, and was emancipated at the age Of
eighty.
The storm Of Friday night was terribly
severe in Virginia. II is reported that a
large portion Of the telegraph line between
Lynchburg and Washington was blown
down, and that il will require three or
four days to get the line in working order.
Horse stealing and marauding through
the country around Memphis is on the in
crease. Three negro horse-thieves were
found Wednesday morning, the 18th inst,
twelve miles below Memphis strung mp to
q tree.
The President signifed Friday that he
would grant a reprieve in the case of VIM.
Bell, tried under the civil rights bill at
Louisville, KY, for the murder of ne
gro, so that the constitutionality Of the bill
can be tested.
Mr.. Lawrence, Of Ohio, is moving TO
have the Judiciary Committee inquire as
TO the legality Of sales Of Indian lands.
Under the authority of treaties over a mil
lion acres have been thus sold in four years,
principally 10 corporations and specula-
tors.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Neus says the Emperor Napoleon.ha had Sc
we're attccl of asthma on the 9th Of Feb
ruary, and for some days aiterward suffered
frequently from short breathing. His medi-
cal advisers were obliged to be in constant
attendance.
Miss Laura Davis died in Pittsfeld,
Massachusetts, sixteen years ago. leaving
considerable property, which the heirs
could not agree in dividing, when last
week Roots Block, in which it was stored,
burned, with all it contained, and settled
the question of division forever.
Jerome Hewett and his wife, of Johns
burg, New York, were bathing a COW with
kerosene oil TO kill lice, in their barn the
other evening, when the oil took FIRE, and
the barn, with two oxen, the COW and hay,
was destroyed and Mrs. Hewett was fatal
~ burned in her endeavors 10 save the
poor brutes.
The Lower House Of the Missouri Lee
gislature on the 10th inst, passed a bill to
authorize the city government Of st. Louis
to guarantee $4,000, 600 of bridge company
bonds, but with an amendment requiring
an actual expenditure Of 100000 before
the bonds shall be issued. The Senate
will, no doubt, pass the same bill.
A large meeting was held Friday night
at Memphis 20 make arrangements TO in
duce foreign immigration South. Mr..
Everett, of London, addressed the meeting,
followed by several other prominent speak
ers. An immigration association was
formed for West Tennessee, with head
quarters at Memphis.
The election in Arkansas on the Con-
stitution is passing off quietly, negroes not
polling heavy votes. In several Of the
counties heard from one-half of the ne
groes registered did not vote. The whites
arevoting unanimously against the Consti-
tuition. The Conservatives are confident of
giving $4,000 majority against the Consti-
tuition.
The Knoxville Press and Herald learns
that Mr.. L. >. Lyons a United States de.
tectivs, was successful on the 18th inst, in
discovering the whereabouts OF a gang of
counterfeiters, who we're carrying on an
extensive business on Sand Mountain,
twenty miles from Chattanooga Only one
of the party was arrested, the balance were
successful in making their escape, and are
now in the mountains.
Gen. Hancock passed through Knoxville
on Thursday, en- route for Washington.
Quite a number of citizens met him al the
4 l.. - a.
upon various subjects Of interest Some
one said that he was spoken Of for the Presi-
dency, 20 which the General replied that
he was thankful for the compliment, but
had no great desire for the Office.
The storm on the 18th inst was very Sc
we're at Piqua. The steeple Of the Green
Street Methodist Episcopal Church-known
as Col. Moody's steeple-was blown down.
In Orange county, Indiana, il was ex-
tremely destructive between Orangeville
and Orleans. A large amount of timber,
and many orchards, were blown down,
fences destroyed, and one or twohouses and
barns demolished.
The Montgomery SeatiHd says that l..
V. b. Martin, who attempted TO assassinate
Judge Busted in the streets of Mobile,
last fall, has absconded, and Is nowhere TO
be found. A military commission had
been organized TO try Martin, but when an
officer, with squad of men, called for him
az Tuscaloosa, he was not 10 be found. IL
is thought that he has made his way 10
Jamaica OF Honduras.
Frank Frenzy, ten years old, undertook
10 ride a mule with a halter, in Evansville,
Ind, on the 10th inst He tied the halter
rope around his body; the mule threw
him, kicked his skull TO pieces, dragged
him a considerable distance, and then
jumped a fence, leaving the boy at the
other side, still tied TO the rope. The rope
was cut by a bystSnder, but the boy WAS
dead.
The resignation Of Cassius NJ. Clay as
Minister 20 Russia, has been formally ac-
cepied By the Administration. In letter
TO the State Department, dated January 10,
Mr.. Clay, in accordance with the request
Of Mr.. Seward made in December last,
tenders has resignation. There are various
causes alleged for this request from the
State Department, among them is charge
against CLAY Of unfair dealing ID the sale