Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-29
Largest Circulation in city and State
NEWS OF rIIIs DAY.

NEWS OF I'll u DAY
The family Of the British Minister has
arrived m this country.
Several heavy robberies have lately taken
place 10 the vicinity Of Jacksonville, In
diana.
The capture Of Msgdala did not cost the
English single life. All the wounded
are recovering.
The German scientific expedition TO the
North pole has sailed on its voyage Of ex-
ploration.
John Shay has been sentenced for eight
years TO the Massachusetts State prison for
killing his mother last winter.
Competition il 30 sharp on the steamboat
routes between Boston and New York, that
fare is down 10 So
A servant girl in Chicago was garroted
last Saturday, and died next day from the
effects Of the terrible fright she endured.
Commodore Goldsborough reports that
there has not been q single case Of piracy
IA the Chinese seas during the past year.
George Francis Train has commenced
suit for false Imprisonment, against the
Marquis Abercorn, Lieutenant General OF
Ireland, laying damages at 100000.
II il proposed 10 establish "homes" for
the resident working population in Chicago,
where board and lodging can be had at 50
per week.
The AN England Eleven" crickeiers are
coming 20 THIS country in the fall, and will
play a series Of matches in New York,
Philadelphia aud Boston.
-Four hundred and fifty colored emigrants
sailed from Savannah for Liberia on May
a. Most Of them are farmers, and we'll
supplied with agricultural implements and
tools
Chief Justice Chase having assented 20
June 3 as the day for the trial of JET. Da-
Wis, IL the impeachment trial was finished
by that time, il is understood that the trial
will certainly take place then.
The National Temperance Convention
Of the Grand Lodge Of Good Templars OF
North America commenced its session at
Richmond, Indiana, on the 2Glh inst, and
will continue in session three days.
A young man named j. Y. Little, shot
himself fatally in a pawn-brok er's shop in
Pittsburg on the 2Gth inst. He had just
been released from arrest, for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Farmers in northeastern Ohio complain
Of a singular throat disease which has ap-
peared among horses, and IL spreading rap
idly, always proving fatal in a short time.
Whole neighborhoods are infected, and no
remedy has been discovered.
Two Young fremen in Savannah, Ga,
named Griffin and Russell, quarreled IN de-
bate, last week, the upshol Of which was a
formal duel with Colts revolvers. The first
fire resulted in a reciprocal miss and re
Cancellation.
b. A dispatch from Virginia City, Mob
tana, reports the coach robbed two miles
south Of Pleasant Valley Station, by
masked robbers, who took possession Of a
treasure box containing $500 in gold, and
relieved the passengers of about 5000, with
out hurting any one.
A suit was commenced IN the Chicago
court. on the 2jih inst to foreclose the
mortgage given by Stephen A. Douglas in
1871, on valuable tract Of land, in the
city limits, now held by Fernando Wood.
The debt amounts TO 81, 600, and was
formerly borrowed 90 carry on the Douglas
Senatorial campaign against Lincoln.
The witness Turner, who gave evidence
against Whelan was, while attending ball
at Ottawa, on the 18th, inveigled outside
and hrutally beaten by three men, two of
whom were subsequently arrested. Ora
ham, another witness, has received threat
ening letters, with drawings Of collins and
pistols, and with remarks that he was not
forgotten, aud the Fenians never did things
by halves.
AZ a meeting Of the American Baptist
Publication Society, in New York, on the
both inst, the annual report Ct the Treas
urer was submitted, showing the receipts
TO be S234Gl2, a large increase on last year.
Branch houses are TO be established in ST.
Louis and New York the present summer
The work Of the Society is large aud highly
productive. over two hundred million
pages Of tracts were distributed, two hun
bred aud tifty-seven Sabbath Schools Or
ganized, tity-nine churches constituted,
and ifiy-nine new publications issued.