Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-10
arecst circulation in CITY and stat
NEws or TIE DAY


Forty-6ve newly married couples were at
Niagara on the 4th inst. +
The Weevil is destroying a great deal 81
wheat in Indiana.
-Four deaths occurred in Montreal from
sunstroke on the 4lh inst ....s.
Gen. Mcdowell is 10 be sent TO the Plains.
He PisiHiively protests. .aF E.
The Washington Chronicle is for sale. So
has always been its owner.
Croquet umbrellas are made Of white
muslin. Pretty men use them.
A young Piitsburg merchant has raised
! himself 20 Distinction aud position by iorg-
ing $4,000,
The assessed value Of taxable property
IN 81. Louis, No, has Increased from Si',-
713.OO0i IN 1864 10 $l44, 260, 600 IN 1868.
The Nicolson pavement patent has been
extended seven years longer by the aching
Commissioner Of Patents
Human bones have been found sixty
eight feet below the surface Of the ground
in digging a well, one hundred and fifty
miles West Of Omaha. DO
Warrants were drawn upon the Treasn-
~ last month TO meet the requirements OF
the government, 90 the amount OF So
O20, 600. s.
Ex-senator Foster, Of Connecticut, who
il a favorite Of the President, IL still seek
ing the mission 10 Austria. The President
will send 10 has name if il can be confirmed.
Foster ia now working 10 this end. Old
Ben Wade, his successor ia the chair OF
<. hffF.
Thomas johnson, an old man living in
Wayne county, Georgia, was shot and
killed in bis own house, one day last week.
The house was alterward burnt over him
and his body nearly CONSUMED. 1t was
knogn that he had about two hundred dol
lara, aud il ia supposed that he was killed
for this amount.
Mrs Gains is now ia New Orleans, and
il ENJOYING an extended correspondence, a
large share Of which il contributed by specl-
mems Of that interesting vegetable pro-
duction, the " dead beat" One fellow in
California has written to the old lady, offer
ing 20 marry her She has not accepted
the offer yet. ..... aH
A Washington dispatch of the 9Th inst.
to the louisville journal says a party Of
gentlemen called on the President that day
In reply 10 question from one OF the
party. Mr.. johnson said: at is evident
from the halloling to-day that am not the
choice of the convention, aud l am not at
all disappointed. / do not desire 10 run II
il is not considered necessary. My aim has
been solely for the good Of the country, as
see il, and believe in the old fashioned
Democratic principle Of yielding gracefully
to the decision Of the majority"
The other day while Mr.. Matthew w
Revision, who resides near Berry's Ferry,
Fauquier county, Virginia, was doing
with his head reclining upon the side oil an
open window, a large hawk alighted upon
IL, and thinking he had "a soft thing,
plunged his talons into his head and at
tempted 20 dy away with il. The weight
of the body attached to the head frustrated
the endeavor, and the discounted hawl;
went elsewhere for his supper. The
owner Of the head was with difficulty dIsa-
bused of the idea that he had been attacked
by the Ku-Kiuxes.
A caucus of the Radical Senators was
held on the 7th inst, when an interchange
OF opinion on politics, the finances and the
adjournment, took place The caucus was
called at the instance of Mr.. Edmunds, to
consider the propriety and expediency OF
taking action on the two bills heretofore in'
troduoed by him in reference TO the votes
Of the Southern States in the ELECTORAL
College, and to provide for the meeting OF
Congress three WEEKS in advance Of the
usual time. The new bill was discussed
and the necessity of an earlier meeting IN
the fall than hitherto was argued at some
length by Mr. Edmunds and others, but
met with much opposition, and the prevail
ing sentiment seems TO be adverse 10 any
Resembling in advance of the usual time
in December. IL was decided to perfect
and pass the funding bin before adjourn
ment, and il was generally admitted that
the session could not close before the lst OF
August.