Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-26

Rebecca Bradford has brought snit
against II. S. Cady for breach Of promise,
in St. Louis. She claims Sl0, 600 damages.
The Muscatine Iowa Journal states that
many farmers 10 that vicinity are adopting
the plan of working at night and resting in
daytime, in. order TO save their men and
horses.
Theprinters in The Toronto Lender Office
are on a strike because they were offered
American silver in payment for their
wages. They demand that ten per cent.
discount be allowed.
The wife Of Abel Fulsorl, of Zimbrota.
Minnesota, was bitten by rattlesnake,
few days ago, and died in few hours The
snake attacked her at the door Of her
house.
On the train between Washington and
Nineenhes, On the Ohio and Mississippi
road, vote for President was taken on the
I'D insi., which resulted az follows Sey-
nom, 63; Grant 50; veteran soldiers ier
Seymour, II Tor Grant, 3.
A Richmond dispatch says Lieutenant
VIM. s. Mackey, Of the twenty ninth ia
fantry, fed from Lynchburg on Wednes-
dag, with a considefable amount Of money
obtaiued by lTand. Dispatches have been
sent 10 the military departments TO effect
his arrest
The army worm has appeared IA the cot
ton fields in Alabama, and will reduce the
cotton crop very considerably. The cotton
crop Of Texas the present year will amount
10 rs, eco bales If the worm does not make
its APPEARANCE IN two weeks.
Private information received from per
fectiy reliable source leaves no doubt that
the Democratic ticket will sweep New
York, Pennsylvania and Indians. In Ohio
and Illinois parties say that the contest
will be very close, but The electoral votes
will be certain for Seymour and Blair.
Bids for engraving and printing postage
stamps for the next four years were opened
BY the Postmaster General on the 23d inst.
The amount of stamps average between four
aud five hundred millions per year. The
lowest bidder was G.. w. Jones, Of Wash
iuglon, whose figures, for the three classes
Of stamps, were respectively eighteen,
twenty-One and twenty-five cents per thou
sand. Three other bids ranged from TWEEN
ty-one to thirty cents for the same classes.
The bill introduced on the 23d inst by
Senator Howe, ifever reported from tie
Judiciary Committee will alarm the cOun-
try. It repeats 40 much Of the act Of 1895
"a authorizes the President to call out the
militia 10 suppress insurrection, then makes
il duty to do 70 whenever called on by
the Governor or Legislature elected under
the Teconslrucii0n acts. Ia the event Of
civil war, the President is net to interfere
unless the carpet baggers call for assistance.
Some days ago a young man named Ed
wards was killed by two brothers named
Bush, in James City county, Virginia. IL
appears that abont two years ago Edwards
seduced a sister Of the Bushes, and left the
country. After long absence, it was
agreed that he should return aud marry
the girl He went back accordingly, but
refusing to fulfill the agreement, was way
laid and shot by the brothers. They gave
themselves up, and were released on $4,000
A man IN Wabash, Indiana, On the 10Th
inst, whose wife had left him on account
Of ill-treatment, and procured situation
IA family servant, under an assumed
name, went in drunken state TO the house
where she was living, and triedto persuade
her 10 90 with him-erying, begging and
implOTiug her-but she refused, whereupOn
he seized her around the waist with his left
arm, and with one stroke of a large knife
he had provided, he almost severed her
head from her body. He then laid down
cut his own throat from ear 10 ear.