Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-26
NEWS OF The Day.

A Democratic nail, az OalroS WAo puFheu
DO Saturday night.
A case Of death by cholera on Saturday,
near Boston, is reported.
1t is said that Gen. Grant proposes to re-
main st Galena until October.
Chicago papers estimate that eight thou
sand new buildings will be completed in
that town before the close Of the season, at
3 cost Of from ten to twelve million dollars.
A Pennsylvania assessor, lately dis
missed from Office, thinks his character has
been damaged by the operation, and has
sued Commissioner Rollins and others for
defamation.
It is not yet generally understood that,
under the new revenue bill, all tavern
keepers selling cigars and tobacco are re-
uuired 10 take out a special license, as
though regularly in the tobacco trade.
Dr.L. f. Hoyne, a dentist in Brighton,
Iowa. shot DIR. J. T. Sales, a merchant in
that place, on the 18th inst, because the
latter asked pay for suit Of clothes Hoyne
WAS wearing. The wound is dangerous
one.
Several persons who attended the Metho-
dist camp meeting at Sing Sing, N. Y. a:e
said 10 have died since arriving at home,
from eating meat Of diseased cattle sold
them II that place. .f.
Miles, one Of the Pitlsburg pedestrians,
drew off at the seventy-third hour. His
competition, Isaac Keier, accomplished the
feat Of one hundred miles in one hundred
hours, without sleep or rest. s.t .f a..
Miss Anna Lee, of Lawrence, Massachu-
sets, lay fiat on the bank Of the river the
other day end held her face in the water
until she drowned, her clothing not having
been wet all. it was the dryest suicide by
drowning on record.
In Hanover county, Virginia, the other
day, DIR. AlOnzo Smith and man named
Beal, were mounted on one horse. In
jumping a ditch the horse fell and caught
Beal under him, killing him instantly.
DIR. Smith escaped unhurt.
The Marysville (Ohio) Tribune an
nounces that Charles Fullington, of Union
! township, Union county, started to Europe
| last week rs agent Of company recently
| organized, for the selection and importation
| ofsome fine stations and mares from Eng
land and France.
The Secretary of war has concluded q
! purchase of 430 acres of land lying jacentad
TO Fortress Monroe. The property be-
longed 10 the Hon. Joseph Segar, and IL
designed for the use of the artillery school
established at that point. 1t cost 500 an
acre.
The Blair knights Of St. Louis, are having
made magnificent Blair banner and a
large American flag, for presentation to
the Blair Knights of New Orleans. They
will cost about nine hundred dollars, and
will be taken 10 New Orleans by COM
mittee Of twenty-five gentlemen, who will
make the presentation.
The hux is prevailing to an alarming
extent at Delta, Ohio. 1t first appears in
the form of diarrhea, and then soon turns
to flax. 1t is principally confined to the
younger class of persons. Ten deaths are
reported for the past week, and the physi-
clans had over one hundred cases under
treatment.
A man named Hettricks and his wife are
in prison in York, Penn, charged with
numbering Hettrick's first wife by poison.
Hettrick's wife died short time ago, I'M
der suspicious circumstances, and IN thIr-
teen or fourteen days after he remarked.
Poison has been found in the stomach oil
the deceased wife
A little boy, son of Mr.. John B. Daniel,
of ST. Louis, was sitting on the curb-stone
the other day eating a piece OF bread and
butter, when a negro woman came along
and stepped upon his hand, MASKING 1t ter
ribly, from the effects Of which the poor
little fellow suffered day or two, when he
died of lock-iaw.
The Chicago Board Of Trade reports re-
ceipts during the year ending March IS
1868, of twenty-five and quarter million
bushels of corn, over twelve and hall
million bushels Of oats, nearly thirteen and
half million bushels OF wheat, and nearly
sixteen hundred and fifty thousand bar
rels of -four.
Hon. James Il. Campbell started for
Washington on the 18th inst, TO present TO
President johnson an address from the
people Of Charleston, s. c., setting forth the
dangerous condition Of that city, the ina
bility of the civil authorities 10 preserve
the peace If riots should arise, and an
nouncing the determination Of the white
people to be moderate and avoid as far rs
possible all collision, and asking the Presi-
dent TO proude for the protection of their
city.
The friends Of DIR. Mudd, one Of the con-
spirators, are making vigorous efforts in
Maryland, TO bring influence enough TO
bear upon Mr.. johnson TO secure pardon.
The paper containing the request speaks Of
DIR. Mudd "a a highly respected member
Of the medical profession of Maryland,
who has been confined on a barren and
unhealthy island known IA "Dry Tortlgas,"
for period of three years for alleged, but
improved, completely in the assassination
OF President Lincoln.