Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-02
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Houses can be built in New Orleans fif-
teen per cent. cheaper than before the war.
The tobacco crop of Virginia, besides
being unusually backward, Is suffering
greatly from the fly.
Conjecture is rife as 10 whether Grant
viii unbottle Butler to make speeches for
him.
Gen. S. B. Buckner assumed the chief
editorial control Of the Louisville Courier
on the lst inst.
II is thought Gen. Rousseau will be APP
pointed TO the command in Virginia in
place Of Gen. Schofeld.
Bishop Fehan, Of Nashville, administer
ed the rite Of confirmation to two hundred
candidates in Memphis Sunday.
Secretary Seward has decided that a
failure TO register does not, Of itself, de-
prive individuals Of the benefits Of amnesty.
Gen. Lawrence, Minister TO Costa Rica,
has been recalled for having fought a duel
recently at Bladensburgh, Maryland, with
Baron Kusserow.
IT is now probable that the trial OF JEFF
ferson Davis will be postponed until OctO-
Der, a. the counsel on both sides have
agreed TO that time.
The grand Te Deunl ordered by the Pope
throughout the Catholic world, commences
in the New York Diocese, June 9th, and
continues till the following Sunday.
The tobacco factory of C. A. Colt q Co.,
Of st. Louis, was seized, Friday, by Reve-
nue. officers, for non-payment Of tax, and a
large quantity Of tobacco taken posses
sion Of
The Confederate graves in Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va, were decorated
Friday. About ten thousand persons were
present, and the principal stores in the city
were closed
The Central Executive Committee Of
Georgia has called a convention at Atlanta,
on the ed Of July, TO consult on matters
Of general interest, and, if necessasy, nom
mate an electoral ticket.
The Sunday-school parade in Brooklyn,
on the Goth ult., was the grandest ever seen
on this continent. Nearly $4,000 children,
representing ll2 different schools, partici-
pated in the exercises.
General Grant and Speaker COlfaK will,
il il announced, start about the LIST Of July
for Colorado. They expect to be gone for
two months. The trip is solely for recu-
peration Of health.
S. S. Cox writes 10 the Tribune 10 deny
that his telegram producedin Butler'sreport,
had reference 10 impeachment, and says
that no scheme to influence any Senator was
ever preached TO him.
Memphis is excited over the consump-
ton Of two cows that had been bitten by
mad dogs. The beef had been traced into
the open market, and thence into the
stomachs Of consumers.
The cotton or army worm has appeared
already in different and widely separated
parts OF Louisiana; in the Felicanas, some
distance 10 the east Of the Mississippi river,
in st. Landry, far west OF il, and in Ra-
pides, on Red river.
Mr. Woolley alleges that his testimony
has been changed, altered and modified to
such an extent as 10 be almost unrecOg-
nizable by him, and states that his answers
were written "a Butler directed the clerk
TO write them.
Accounts from Southwestern Georgia
represent that the negroes are working
well. One.third less cotton has been
planted than last year. The plants are
looking vigorous and healthy. There is
plenty Of corn and wheat, and planters an
ticipate large yield.
S. NJ. Andrsws, Deacon of a Baptist
Church, and hitherto a highly respected
man, has been arrested for murder Of Cor
nelius House, near Plymouth, Mass, few
daysiago. The homicide was an exceed
ingly brutal one, and was undoubtedly |
prompted by avariciOus motives.
The postofice carriers in Philadelphia
will, after the LIST Of this month, have for |
sale 10 the public, IN amounts less than 81,
postage stamps Of the various denomina- !
tions. When parties desire stamps in |
amounts greater in value than 81, the car
rier will receive the order and deliver the |
stamps upon his next trip.
Ellsworth, Kansas, was in tumult on
the 26th ult A rough aamed Jack Cary,
dangerously shot a saloon-keeper named |
Herzog for refusing him liquor. Cary's |
friends rallied 10 get him out Of the Gala
bose. skirmish ensued with the citi-
zens, during which one of the latter, a
ireighter, was shot dead.
Reuben Wright, white man Of sixty,
was executed at Danbury, North Carolina /
on the 2lst ult, foz the murder of a negro |
named Silas Harstein. Wright and Har-
STEMS wife, mulatto woman Of twenty-one. /
were engaged in an Illicit amour 10 which /
Harstein was an obstruction, and, with the |
assistance Of two negroes, they murdered |
him The negro girl has been respited
until September.
Buffalo had a singular storm on the 9th |
ult., during which FIVE houses and three |
telegraph stations were struck by lightning. |
A woman had an earring knocked viO- |
lenily out by the electric fluid, and an
other woman was prostraied and shows
livid marks Of the visitation. In another
part of the city, blacksmith was Knocked /
senseless Balls Of fire flashed over the /
wires, and just outside of town traveller |
was struck and lost his senses for several
hours. The air seemed TO be foil Of light
ming in all directions.
The late storm in the West passed 81.
/ ,onis at 3 o'clock and Seymour, Indians,
at II o'clock in the evening of the 9th ult.,
reached as FAR south as Cairo, and as far 1
north as Springfield, Illinois, travelling at
the rate Of thirty-fhree miles per hour. IL
passed over Lexington, Kentucky, about .
o'clock in the morning of the 10Th alt,
over the Allegheny mountains at noon, and
reached Washington City and Richmond,
Virginia, at : O'clock in the evening Of the i
same day, going from St. Louis, Missouri,
to Washington, ID. C., a distance of thirteen
degrees, in twenty-eight hours.
Thursday night, the 2sth alt, Mr. Crab
tree, father of Lolita, the actress, had some
difficulty with his wife, in st. LOnis, which
resulted in HE taking from his wiie's trunk
SOS, 600 in government bonds and $4,000
in greenbaclSs, on the evening Of has
daughters benefit, and leaving the next
morning for New York. lie also struck
his daughter. and carried off all her Jew
elry, leaving her aud her mother without
any money, and an unpaid board bill
Crabtree announced his purpose TO Ieturn
10 England and live at ease OF has daugh-
ter's earnings The affair created a good
deal Of excitement 40 81. louis, where
Lolita Is a great favoTile.
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