Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-16
largest Circulation In City ana Stat,
NEw- OF TIE DAY.

- T. W. OF I'll T. DAY.
OF the four hundred and iwenly-three
deaths in New York, last week, exactly
one-half occurred in tenement houses
The remains Of s. A. Douglas are to be
exhumed, on the 30 Of June, and TO be de-
posted in the sarcophagus under the mon
ument.
The best estimates make the wheat crop
Of California for the present year twenty
million bushels; barley, ten millions; oats,
two and half millions.
According 10 an official report the re-
oeipis Of the Atlantic cable for the month
Of March were el2l3 per day, against 1904
per day in March, 1867.
Pierre DesmoulinF, an old French soldier,
who il said 10 have fought at Wagram,
Jena, Ansterliiz and Waterloo, under Ma
poleoD, died in New York on"the 18Th.
The temperance men Of Massachusetts,,
in convention at Boston, have adopted
resolution 10 separate from the Republican
party Of the State unless that party puts a
temperance plank in its platform.
A committee Of the New York Board Of
Trade have adopted resolutions in favor Of
the redemption Of the national debt in gold
and funding greenbacks with five per cent.
bonds, and an early resumption Of specie
payments.
10 the United States Grcuit Court at st.
Louis, on Tie 18th inst, Edward N erar,
Mary Sewell end Mary Miller, were SEN
fenced TO the penitentiary one year, and
Edward Sewell three years, for altering
and passing counterfeit money.
The annual report read at the anniver-
Eary Of the American Colonization Society
in New York, on the 18th inst, states that
one thousand three hundred emigrants have
been conveyed 20 the coast Of Africa during
the past year.
A. A. Kelly, publisher Of Kelleg8 Weekly,
was arrested at the Metropolitan Hotel,
New York, by a Buffalo detective, on the
18th inst. and goes TO that city on a charge
Of being proprietor Of the swindling en-
terprise Of Clark, Webster Il Go.
The boiler Of Van Wrinkles Raw-mill,
near Anderson, Indiana, exploded on the
18th inst, instantly killing two men, named
Moore and Wolf. The latter was post
master at Florida, Indiana. Three others
are supposed 10 be fatally wounded.
1t is said that General Curtiss, Special
Agent Of the Treasury Department, has
detected frauds in the importation Of lum-
her from Canada, amounting nearly to
100000 in gold, which amount will pro-
badly yet be collected. His authority has
been extended so as 20 include the frontier
from Burlington to Chicago.
Five boys were arrested near Dayton,
Ohio on the oh inst, for throwing stones
at passenger cars on the G. III. q ID. rail
road. They were released upon applica-
ton Of their father, who promised, on their
behal., better behavior ia future. A lady
IN the cars had been seriously cut in the
face by one Of the stones thrown.
A terrible tornado passed through Ionia.
Illinois, on the 10Th, and almost destroyed
the whole town. Three persons were
killed, aud iorty-six wounded. Sixteen
buildings, including two churches, were
torn TO atoms Services were in progress in
one the churches at the time Of the tornado,
and most Of the wounded we're Of the con
gregation.
la Coldwater, Michigan, on the Slh inst.
a man named Dixon was found guilty of
assault with intent 10 commit murder, and
sentenced TO State prison dnring life. He
was arrested in February, after coroner's
jury had been held on the body Of his boy,
who came TO his death by the cruelties
praCticed on him by his inhuman father.
The Judge added, in concluding the SEN
fence, may God forgive you; man can
not"
The friends Of free trade had an impor-
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inst. Representatives from many Of the
large cities were present, and resolutions
were adopted advocating free trade as a
polite economic measure, and moral OBJ
legation; calling for the payment Of the
national debt in specie, and protesting
against any attempt to burden the people
with any portion of the Confederate
debt.
English papers Of the 29th ult., publish
a telegram from the Colonial office, that
intelligence had been received from Aus
tralia that the assassination Of the Duke of
Edinburgh was attempted by 0Farrell ia
pursuance Of messages sent from conspira-
tors in Great Britain, which ordered the
Princes death. lt is understood that
OFarrell was selected by lot 20 perpetrate
the crime, and that the attempt would have
been made when the Prince landed in state.
but that an opportunity Of doing SO, with
out risk of injury 10 others, did not occur.
English papers Of the LIST instant state
that by the Clerkenwell explosion six per
sons were killed outright, six more died
from its effects, five more owe their deaths
indirectly to II, one young man il in a
mad house, forty mothers prematurely con
fined, and twenty Of their children died. |
others of the children are dwarfed and |
one mother is now raving
maniac, one hundred and twenty persons
were wounded, fifty went into hospitals,
fifteen are permanently injured besides
$50, worth Of damage to person and
property.