Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-06
l.srgest circulation in City and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY.

New York has 1Ol7 gambling and lot
terry Eells.
The grasshoppers have Matched out
thicker than ever on the prairies Of Iowa.
OF the emigrants who passed through Co
lumbus, Ohio, last week, fifly-three intend
locating in Tennessee.
The total amount Of the st. Louis Gus
tomhOuse receipts for the month Of April,
was $l60,l47.
The awful Ku-KluK holds nightly meet
ings in Chicago, according to the fright
ened Radicals.
Three notorious cOunterieiters, named
Gustavus Youth, George A. Julien and
Harry Schafier, whose headquarters were
at Newton, n. j., have been arrested.
General Negley is spoken Of as a candi-
date for Congress in the twenty-secOnd
Pennsylvania district, in the place Of Hon.
j. X. Moorehead, who declines.
widow in Virginia buried all her
family iewelry and gold during the war,
forgot the place, and was unable to find it
until terrier dog dag 1t up few days ago
Bids for for S50O,0OO Of the Maryland
defense loan" authorized by the late L0-
gislature were opened at Annapolis on the
18th ult The accepted bids were at par
and the bonds will bear six per cent. in
terest.
A party from Louisiana has arrived in
Washington, TO ask the passage Of a law
ordering a new election in that State, on
account Of frauds in New Orleans and a
Democratic majority ia the State Senate,
which will obstruct the ratification of the
fourteenth article
An affair of honor took place at Bladens-
burg, Md, on the 4lh inst. After an eK-
change OF shots, in which neither was hit,
the affair was amicably adjusted. The
parties were an attache Of a leading foreign
legation, and an American officer. A per-
sonal aflront provoked the challenge.
Mrs. Kennedy, widow of the late Capt.
Geo. Kennedy, United States army, has
commenced suit for the possession of pro-
perry on the northeast corner Of Market
and Fourth streets, st. Louis, valued at one
hundred thousand dollars, which was sold
by her husband some time ago without her
knowledge
A terrific hail storm passed over por-
ton Of Iowa, Friday evening Many Of
the stones were from one 10 two inches in
diameter At Mitchellville every window
light was broken. Trains on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad had their
glass broken, and we're obliged to halt I'M
oil the storm abated.
In Florence, Boone county, Kentucky,
on Thursday, a boy fifteen years of age,
son of G.. W. Grant, wen; to draw water
from a well, when the handle of the wind
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struck a pistol in his pocket, causing
the load TO be discharged, which entered
his aide, producing a very dangerous
wound.
The turn out in cOmmemoration Of the
Confederate dead, at Memphis, Saturday,
surpassed any previous occasion. The re-
mains of Gen. Preston Smith, who fell al
Chickamauga, and Col. jeff. Forrest, were
inferred, and flowers strewn on the graves
of all. Speeches were made by Hon. Lar
don C. HAYNES, Col Moses White, and an
original ode was read. II is estimated that
over ten thousand persons we're present.
Mr. Lewis, living near Warrensburg,
Missouri, undertook to mix some gunpow-
der and ashes as medicine for a COW. He
poured some powder from q twelve-pound
can into shovel of ashes, which proved
to be hot enough 30 ignite the powder. An
explosion followed, which took the roof
off the house, killing two children, and in
iuEed Mr.. Lewis no that his recovery is
doubtful.
The beligerents Washburne and Don
nelly, and their friends, had their case be-
fore the House of Representatives on the
4th inst, and il resulted in the appointment
of a committee of investigation. Window,
of Minnesota, who offered it, explained his
purpose TO be to expel the party at fault.
If the charges made by Washburne proved
untrue, TO move his expulsion, and if true,
Donnelly was not fit TO be a member.
General Candy has issued an order an
nouncing the result Of the election, the
names Of the State officers, members of the
Legislature and Congress, and providing
for a meeting Of the next Legislature of
South Carolina on the 18th inst. The
order also provides that laborers discharged
for voting contrary TO the wishes of en-
ployers, shall be maintained az objects of
public charity by.a levy of additional poor
houses.
Col. Wood, of the Treasury Department
detective service, on the 29th ulumo, cap
tured Jim. Burrows, alias Charles HOr-
wood james X. WrittenhOuse, alias James
Kincaid, the latter's wife, and the notori-
Gus Allie Boyd. The capture was made at
Sombra, Canada, opposite Marine city,
Michigan. The parties had rented a cOun.
try residence, representing themselves TO
be Southern refugees; and the officers sc
cured, with their capuves, press, dies,
paper, ink and other material for counter
feiting, and S25, 600 in counterfeit SO
greenbacks The plates had been hidden,
but the officers hoped TO find them. The
spurious money was in a package directed
10 Mrs. c. B. Edwards, Cincinnati, and had
been left at the express Office for shipment.
Ben. Boyd, the husband of Allie Boyd,
made his escape down the river in a skifi,
hnt a marty were Alter him.