Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-18
NEWS oE TIE nAN.

with biganly, committed suicide by hang
ing, in the Jail at Laconia. n. H., Sunday
manning.
Canlell, Just appointed Criminal Judge
by Gov. Holden (Radical). Of North Caro-
lima. was the first mar in Raleigh TO wear
a secession badge.
A large party Of missionaries sailed in
the steamer Erin Saturday an rOlae Tor
Turkey, under the auspices Of the Amer
can Board of Foreign Missions.
About fifteen hundred miners, in the
Mahoning Valley, who have been for the
last four months on a strike, will resume
work on Monday, at former prices.
The case Of Mrs Steinway, Of New York,
who sued for the custody Of her three
children, now held by relatives OF her late
husband in Germany, was decided by the
Supreme Court in her favor.
A boy IN Summit county, Ohio, seven
teen years old, undertook to perform some
circus feats with rope, and hung himself
He was found dead, with show bali spread
on the floor before him.
Reverend Father Hagan, of St. LOuis,
has been appointed Bishop of 81. Joseph,
in accordance with an order from Rome di-
viding Missouri into two dioeeses. He will
he oonsecrated in about two weeks.
A young girl named Kate Conner, aged
| fifteen, imprisoned in New York Station
house on Wednesday the 18th inst, on
charge Of stealing gold watch, died the
same night, it il supposed from shame and
grief
a fire broke ont Friday morning in the
premises Of d Appleton a. Co. the cel,-
| brated book publishers at New York. In
less than fifteen minutes their whole build
ing, five stories high, was in flames Their
loss is estimated at $4,000
A Fenian meeting, numbering three
| Thousand persons, was held in Brooklyn on
Thursday. Two special envoys from Ire
land are said to have been present Opera
tons against Canada within four or five
weeks are predicted.
An lrishman in Akron, last Friday eve
ming, took il into his head that this world
would be better off without his presence,
and despising the vulgar method of vaca-
| ting his place so common among Amerl-
cam, he adopted the Japan style, and
ripped himself open in front, and then
jumped into the canal. Persons near by
rescued him, and he was taken TO a sur
geon and zewed mp, and will probably re-
cover.
A disaatrous hurricane passed over Ports.
mouth, New Hampshire, on Thursday eve
ming. boat, in which was Captain John
Fisher, veteran seaman, seventy!years Of
age, was capsizrd. and the Captain drowned.
A large tent at Frost's Point, ia which the
Portsmouth, Philharmonic Society were
holding a picnic, was lifted, poles, stakes
and all, and blown over, scattering dancers,
nusicisns and spectators. Four per4ons
were injured, none seriously.
At Niagara Falls. on Thursday, hack
man, while "playing Blondin," by walking
on an iron cable or stringer under one Of
the Three Sister bridges, fell off into one of
the cascades, aud was quickly carried
| down the river for considerable distance.
when fortunately he managed 30 touch the
bottom with his feet and reganed the shore,
nearly exhausted, and his hair standing on
md from fright at his perilous situation.
The escape was very narrow one. Only
one pcrson was near at The time, and he was
unable 10 render the mru any assistance
A wealthy lady died last week in Clarkes-
town, We-tchcster county, n. y and was
buried in Greenwood Cemetery, near New
York city, under suspicious circumstances
Her body has been exhunicd, and is being
analyz by a chemist. Ii il limited that
her husband was Interested pecuniarilv in
her death, aud hence the investigation
which is being made under the auspices 81
her relatives The property left by her il
valued at one hundred aud fifty thousand
dollars
IL has just leaked out that shortly after
the adjournment ef Congress The Cover
nor7 of several OF the reconstructed States,
who were londcsi IN their demands for the
passage cf the bill for the armiug Of the
neCroc-, endeavored To accomplish their
purpose, by requisitions upon the S,cr,-
tary Of War for arms TO equip the State
militia, they derming that the act Of 1896 |
could be tortured into authority for such
action. The Secretary, however, informed |
them thai he could not furnish them the |
coveted Radical arguments without further |
legislation. Thus their nice little game |
failed. |
A special 10 lac ST Louis Democrat, from |
Solomon CITY, Kansas, says: Capt. Moody /
has just arrived there and reports that on |
large body Of Sioux |
Cheyenne aud Arapahoe Indians attacked
4 settlement on Solomon river, fiilv-Gve
miles north Of there, killing David Beau
Cards and b. b. Bell. and MORALLY wound.
ny MIR. Bell The Indians also ravished
NO women ON Plum creek, aud carried OF
NO girls belongingtO A. A. Bell. living
m Mulberry creek, killed German and
wounded a boy on Brown creek There
IRE also many persons missing from the
'Iclnity f Brown creek Al stock has
'ern run of, aud the cavalry stripped of
provisions. IL il reported that fighting ia
low going On At Sail creek.
Minister Ro-,crans will not sail for Mex
co before October, and does not wish 10
and at Vera Cruz dnring the yellow fever
eHs'n. Ii is generally understood that
ZEN Ro>ecranS will represent an entirely
ew line uf policy with reference to Next
an aildlIs, and that every effort will now
e directed 10y our government toward Sc
uring controlling influence in that coun.
y. II n known that Mr.. Seward and the
resident have always disagreed about the
lexican question, but the influence Of the
'rmer has hitherto prevailed. Gen. Rose
rams will now be the exponent uf a more
Give policy; and his selection and in
rnctions are the result Of the ascendency
the military ideas about adjacent couu-
lies which are represented in the Cahinet
> General SChofeld
The ncalcst and bodies, piece Of scoun-
relism lately, happened in st. Louis Fri.
ay morning, 10y which the perpetrators
allied 5000 at the expense Of the Adj
us Express Company. Ii appears that
70 Iogues on the day before rented au
lice az "a Second street, aud hing out
he sign, 4 T. Goodrich Il Co Friday {
ornIrg ihe me sencer of the Express /
ompany called upon them TO deliver
sckage purporng 20 Conltin Sl47 20,
ld while waiting Tor receipt was seized q
, the throat by man in the ufice, whae =
,other applied chlorofurm 20 his nostrils. :,
his not being clitctual, they knocked him !.
,wn with an iron bar and then quietly l.
hbing his pouch Of its contents, made 9
rir escape. The package addressed 10 \
I'm vas undoubtedly bogus, gotten up for
e pufIoze OF facilitating the robbery
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