Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-15
largest Circulation in CITY and State
News OF THE DAY.

A marine named Dunn deserted from
the Mound City naval station a few days
ago. and was drowned in attempting TO
cross 10 the Kentucky shore in . skif.
Gen. John G.. Breckenridge and his
family we're in Rome on the lst of April.
Mrs. Breckenridge continues an invalid.
They are expected to arrive in Canada in
a few weeks.
The aggregate amount Of income and
special taxes assessed in Louisville il S293,-
267 As, against $685. OS last year--a
much smaller rate u decrease than Is shown
in most other places. 1900 r.. .-ht
Late advices from Helena, Montana, say
the Indians have driven from Gallaiin
Valley over two hundred head Of cattle,
and committed other depredatiOns. The
settlers are arming and organizing for self
protection.
Frank Kelley, wife and daughter, Of the
town Of Caledonia, Wisconsin, were struck
down senseless by lightning, in the storm,
on the 8th inst None we're killed. A
tree near the house was struck and shiV-
cred to fragments.
The bill requiring every person practic-
ing dentistry in Ohio 20 have diploma
from dental college OF from the Ohio
Dental Association, has become a law.
Persons now practicing dentistry have I'M
ill 1873 to comply with its provisions. -.
An old man named Willnore drowned
himself in the river at Cleveland, on the
18th inst He was sixty years old, had
been addicted 10 dissipation, ahd is sup
posed 10 have committed suicide under the
influence Of liquor. .,r
A man by the name Of Dale was instant
ly killed by lightning on the evening Of
the 9th, near Lebanon, Indiana. He was
chopping wood at the time and the light
ming struck the SIX and passed down the
right side of the body, badly mangling the
flesh on his right arm. ...-.
In reply 70 an inquiry from Gov. Orr,
Gen. Candy designates the tenth day after
the approval Of the new Constitution Of
South Carolina by Congress, for the inau-
guration Of the new State officers. On
that day, unless otherwise provided by
Congress, tbe functions of the present off,
GERS will terminate.
Official information has been received at
Washington, showing that one hundred
and twenty members of the South Carolina
State Convention collectively paid 500
taxes; Of this amount one Conservative
member paid $500; one hundred and ten
members paid only ore dollar each. The
entire carpet-bag Legislature Just elected
will pay, collectively, $1,000; one hundred
and ten members Of that body pay, in the
aggregate, $l6O taxes; suggestive facts.
Reports of damages by theterri6cstorm in
Illinois, on the Sth inst, come frem all parts
Of the State. At Bushnell hail-stones fell,
some Of them weighing nine ounces. At
Pana, J. II. Smith, a farmer, was killed by
lightning while standing in his door, and
his family was all prOstrated The Kas-
kaskia river, at Shelbyville, rose twelve
feet, and carried away the railroad track
at and near that place. The new long bridge
on the Bushnell and Warsaw railroad, over
Crooked creek, nine miles west of Bushnell,
was carried away.
The house Of Mrs. james Huntsberry, in
MI. Vernon, Ohio, was entered by burglars
on Monday night, the 1lth inst, and pretty
generally cleared Of wearing apparel, Jew
elry and watches. Miss Ella Chapman,
niece Of Mrs. Huntsberry, lost her ward
robe, with. the exception Of two calico
dresses. Her watch and ieweIry were also
taken, az well as the watch, iewelry and
wardrobe of Mrs. Abernethy, a daughter Of
Mrs. Huntsberry, and one or two other
watches. Rags saturated with chloroiorm
were found in the. rooms, The burglars
have not been discovered. .aa ~.
The papers Of Virginia City, Nevada,
detail the massacre of the household al Red
Rock ranch, east of Long VALLEY. fifty
miles from the tirst-named city. The In
disns took the party by surprise, the whites
not suspecting they were hostile, and
killed Mr.. w. II. Pierson, his wife,
daughter, "a young lady Of eighteen, John
Sutherland, aud another man whose name
our informant did not learn. A boy,
twelve or fourteen years Of age, made his
escape, but was hotly pursued by the red
devils for nine miles. The boy thinks the
murderers belong TO the ri Utes.