Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-21
II ni6n aud dispatch.
TUESDAY, July N. Isss.
I.argest Clreulation in CItE and STATE
NEWS or mar DAY.

I
/ Ben. Perley Poore Is soon to publish his
| NObservations about Congress" extending
through twenty years.
tits stated that the President will make
10 more important appointments before the
acjournmenS Of Congress.
Mrs. Tyler, the widow of ex-President,
Is in Washington on a visit; the first since
she presided at the White House.
There Is a great scarcity Of buffalo and
antelOpes on the plains this season. Badgers,
rabbits and prairie dogs are the only game
TO be seen.
Among the deaths by sunstroke in New
York on the 10th inst, was DIR. Morton, the
Well-known discOverer Of the anRsthetic
properties Of ether sa -, =
The Texas Convention discIaims authori-
y to divide the Stale under the reconstruc-
lion acts, aud refuses to consider the mat
ter unless BY direct authority from Con-
gress.
There are approximations for the safety Of
Isaac Lash, member Of Congress elect, who
left North Carolina several weeks since for
Washington, and has not been heard from
since. ..f ..t... VI
John F. M6Donough, of Black Crook
iame, has sued FOraejs Press, claiming
100000 damages for libel. TIE alleged
libel consists Of an article copied from q
Chicago paper, rejecting on McDonough's
honesty. .-..H .H IS.
A corOner's jury in Dayton has found A
new synonym for drunkenness. They find
that deceased "died of alcoholism, together
with the effects Of sunstroke received yes
terdsy, from which viIiated and debili-
lated system was unable to rally"
Mr.. Benjamin Warren, the Oldest resi-
dent of Wellington, Lorain county, O., and
q relative Of Gen. Joseph Warren, who vas |
killed at Bunker Hill, died on the Sd inst,
aged ninety-six. He was born in Tying |
ham, Mass, April 19, 1872, and 10 religion |
and politics was Of the old Puritan type.
The song of the locusts on some parts of |
Long Island, especially along by North /
lBlip Station, is 80 loud as to drown the
sound of ordinary conversation. The land
i covered with millions Of them, Thew
hfest the shrub oaks. Many limbs oftrees
IRE seen TO have been killed by them: but
I is said that they have done no other
iamage to vegetation.
The foolish talk Of the last few DAVIS
bout the organization Of third party has
llayed out The ticket nominated by the
New York Convention is daily growing in
popular favor in Washington, as well az
elsewhere, and nobody could be found to
lead the movement, and il very judiciously
vent TO the dogs. All It's late friends now
accept the situation" and are for Seymour
md Blair.
{ AT the second meeting of the creditors
4 Jacob Barker, the New Orleans bank
npt banker, the assignee reports that
laims have been proved against the estate
y some 275 different creditors, represent
OK an aggregate Indebtedness of about
800, 600. He reports for present distribu-
ION among creditors, $l3, 900, or three and
ne-tenth per cent, and the whole amount /
kelly TO accrue to creditors, from first to
lst, will be from thirty-fve to thirty-eight
er cent.
One day last week little child fell into
cistern at Rochester, while its mothers
.tenliOn was temporarily called from it.
IN missing it, the mother commenced a
sarch, and in the course of five or six
linutes drew from the bottom of the cis-
ern her little one, TO all appearance dead.
physician was sent for, and he, after !
lree hours unremitting labor over the
bid, had the satisfaction of restoring
itality to the chilled frame Commissions
,llowed the restoration of vitality, but 7
hey were soon checked, and the child has
nee fully recovered. The plan pursued
as wrapping the body in warm hannels
nd initiating and COMPRISING the lungs.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th I
lst. TO the Louisville Journal says: To-
ay the carpet-bag Senators" Harris and {
.ellogg, of Louisiana, and Abbot and {
Dol, Of North Carolina, were sworn in. $
DOL is a native of the State he is intended {
J represent. The Others are natives of
lie Lord knows where. A Radical mem
er of the House, of the West, was among
le spectators who witnessed this Swear {
ig IN" and when the thing was done, he
irned away with the remark to your (
iecial that 'the Senate of the United I
Eates used 10 be a body Of gentlemanly
Iants, but just now it looks as if it would ]
ION dwihdle into body of shirtless pig