Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-26
SUNDAY. APRIL ae. 1855.
Largest circulation in city and State


als.
The building being erected in Washing
ton for the Department Of Agriculture will
be completed in June
Whelan, the alleged assassin Of MCGEE,
has been positively identified by a man
who saw him fire the fatal shot
Robert Toombs is about 10 leave for
Europe. 10 attend 10 an important law suit
in which he lie interested.
Massachusetts,, has borrowed S3,OOO,OOO
for twenty years, at four per cent. Barring
Brothers, Of London, negotiated the loan.
Mrs. Harriet Sheppard, aged about
thirty-Gve years residing 10 Townsend,
Mass, committed snicide at Salem on the
Odd.
Volney Winchell, a broker Of Spring
field, Mass, is supposed 10 have sbsconded
with a large amount Of United States stocks
and other securities.
George Benson died recently in Somer-
get county, Maryland, from eatinti chicken
which had died Of the disease known as
chicken cholera"
Governor Bullock, Of Massachusetts, in
q message to the Legislature, declines
signing the liquor license law recently
passed, but does not veto il. Hence IL be-
comes a law.
A fond mother in Boston, the other
day, determined TO whip her unruly son,
bat tempered Justice with mercy by giving
him ehloroform before administering the
rod.
10 Gozfeld, Essex county, Michigan, on
he 22d inst, while Spencer Daniels was at
work in a we'll, a-iarge stone was accident
ally dropped from the surface upon his
head, and killed him.
A society has BEEN organized ia Boston
TO encourage the science and art of cook
cry. 1t is called the Rumford Food Labo-
ratoTy, and Prof Blot has been invited TO
take charge Of the practical part OF it,
Mr.. Nelson's argument made decided
impression on the Senate, Radical law
yers Of the Senate gave il close attention,
and even Howard admitted il presented
imposing matter.
At the Convention Of Wisconsin Wool
Manufacturer recently held at Appleton,
an official report showed that there are
forty wooden mills in the State, capable Of
manufacturing 500, 600 yards Of cloth an
nually.
Advices from Laguayra, Venezuela, to
March %, state that the rebels were in en-
tire possession Of the provinces Of BARGE
Iona, Araquiga, Bolivar and Caribobo the
national resistance being mainly confined
to paper blockade Of the sea coast
The British bark Thalia was burned at
Mobile, on the 10Th inst. IL was first sup
4 l.orl,A v,sF
an investigation led to the arrest Of her
crew on the charge Of setting Ere to the
vessel They are held for trial
In Marion, Ala, on the 10th, Bob White,
a negro, called his wife out Of church. She
did not obey his summons a. promptly as he
desired, and when che left the building he
shot her dead Bob had chad got tired Of
her any how" he said, and wanted TO
marry another. lie ia Ia jail.
Thad. Stevens counts on thirty-eight
Senators Tor conviction. On the 23d inst.
he was visited by a Southern lady, and st
the close Of a rather piqusnt conversation
he hoped lac would at least meet her IN
heaven. She replied: "Mr Stevens, |
hope 10 be there myself, bat ! am afraid !,
won't meet you."
ne lAib AItth DtAAHtr ibhA hlAAtH hNNA
of Summit. one hundred aud twenty-five
feet high, and the most importantupon the
line OF the Union Pacific railroad, was
completed on the 2lst inst, Twenty adj
ditional miles Of track are laid, making
FIVE hundred and sixty miles. Work is
being pushed forward more rapidly than
ever.
At Garreitsburg, in Christian county,
XIV. near the Tennessee line, on the 18th
inst. two clerks named Spears and Small,
employed ia different stores, got into an
ARRAY about woman. Spears inflicted a
friphtfnl cash upon the back Of SmslPs
head with an Ak The latter drew pistol
and instantly killed his antagonist. Small
will probably die.
On Sunday week the Episcopal Church
at Springfield, Greene county, Missouri,
was struck by lightning while the congre-
cation was in il at worship. The fluid
struck the top Of the rsof neSr the rear Of
the building, and passing down the tim
hers. tore OF the weather boarding without
and the plastering within, nearly destroy
ing one end Of the building. No one was
hurt.
An into1icsied timer named Rhinehsrt,
In Helena, Arkansas, contrived 10 set fire
90 the shop of his employer, G. W. Holt
baugh one day last week, and was himself
30 badly burned that he died next day.
The store was consumed. loss $500. BY
the same fire. Fritzon q Sparrow lost
$4,000. John Allen $4,000, and various
others suffered 10 an amount which swelled
the aggregate loss 20 nearly $50 600
Col. Isaac w. Hayne has published
second card, in which he bids farewell 10
the people OF South Carolina M their At
torney General, which Office he has held
for nearly twenty years. lie saws he con-
siders himself the last Of the Attorney
Generals Of South Carolina by which. he
explains, he means the old white mans
South Carolina, one Of the original thir-
teen.
The total amount OF insurance on the
lives Of the killed and wounded by the late
sccident on the Erie railroad, near Port
Jervis is STA O00 OF this amount the
Railway Passenger Assurance Company, Of
Hartford, has SCI, GOO, the Travellers In
surance Company, $4,000, the knicker-
booker Life Insurance Company $50. 000,
and the Guardian Mutual $4,000.
A squad Of sneaking hypocrites from
AiahNllltt a. iNihaiil GONG tdthlalttl s'iaAl-
ton on the 9th inst on has patriotic con-
duct in thwarting the Presidents designs
by holding his office in defiance Of him.
The War Office hsrnacle returned thanks
and assured them all difficulties would be
adjusted soon, aud the afairs Of the gov
eminent would 60 on smoothly Stanton
evidently has faith Ia his fellow-conspira-
tors.
On the 10Th inst, Edmund Curd sen. Of
Galloway county, near injury, Kentucky.
Took = shotgun from the rack ia the house.
TemsrkIng 81 the time that he intended 20
'rhoot hawk, approached the ~ God pile
where his step-m0lher Was standing, aud
discharged the contents OF The gun in her
body, causing instant death. Alter the
act he went TO has brothers residence, some
half or three-quarers of a mile on. told
what he had done, and then left for par,s
unknown.
just before the close OF the Senate pro-
oeedings on the 24ih inst, a message vas
announced from The President. bus the
Ssnaie adjourned without taxing any sc-
uon thereon. IL II understood. however