Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-03
IaFEes. ClreulatlOD In CITY and state
NEWS OF THE DAY

NEWS OF THE DAY. ~
A Hong-Kong letter says that apples
from Tie United States, brought by steam,
paekedin ice, sell there at The rate of two
dollars dozen in gold. races
Mr.. Selah Plummer, Of BraltIeboroueh,
Vermont, few days since applied the oil
Of tobacco 10 corn on his foot, and came
near losing his life 10 consequence.
The Parkersburg West Virginia. ZINES
says many store doors in that place are
adorned with Sheriti's notices that the con-
dents will be sold at auction. t.tttt
Gen J. D. Frazer, Of the Confederate
army, is in California, 10 the interest of
the Southern Immigration Society. He
SAYS that thousands are anxious to come
there from the South.
"a A report comes from White county, Ar
kansas, that number Of persons have been
poisoned by eating mulberries in which the
locusts had deposited their eggs. Several
have died.
The RolhschiIds have Just concluded a
financial arrangement with the Italian
government, by which, on payment of
twelve millions OF francs, they receive the
tobacco monopoly Of lexington.
Christina Hunter, FIVE years old, was
killed 10 Mifilin township, near Pittsburg,
on Monday, by a stone detached from a
hillside quarry, which struck and crushed
Der sgainst her fathef's house. .
Ct A Mr. Cheney entered public balhing
house at Cambridge, Mass, On Tuesday.
Being in one Of the apartments longer than
usual, the keeper entered it, when be found
that he had drowned in about four feet
Of water
Mike MCCOole and Joe COburn have put
up $1,000 each for a grand shooting match,
10 take place July % The former backs
Jim shannon, champion shooter Of Mis-
souri,, and Coburn backs the Jersey boy,
Bill Seeds. The parties will shoot at fifty
pairs Of birda, twenfy-one yards rise.
To Consequence Of the reduction in the
civil appropriation bill, il has become ne
cesssry 70 reduce the force in the State De-
partment, and on the Goth nit. ab0ut twenty
temporary clerks employed there were no
ti6ed that hry could Dot be retained.
AT Notasulga, Alabama, on the oath ult,
while a number of people were gathered
10 celebrate 81, Johns Day, Seaborn Jones,
a railroad engineer, and Michel Farrell, a
farmer, engaged in wrestling. Farrell was
thrown several times, and finally got angry
and shot Jones through the head, killing
him instantly. rHa
George Seabry, from Scott county, hung
himself in the poorhouse at Lexington.
Kentucky, on Che 9th ult. He had been
fined aud imprisoned for some INSIDE
meanor. Papers found upon him indicate
that he belonged to gang Of horse thieves
who have been operating for some time in
the bluegrass region.
30 In tho case gust tried in Boston, of DR..
John Flint, Of Boston, against the New
York and Norwich Transportation Com
pany, TO recover for the loss Of one Of bis
legs, occHsiOned by the discharge of a mus
ket in the hands Of United States soldier
on board one Of the defendants STEAMBOATS,,
in June, 1864, the jury returned verdict
for the plaintiff for $4,000.
Mathis Kruck killed snake in Della
ware, Ohio, the other day. The reptile
was five and half feet long, and eight
inches in circumference. In the end ofihe
tail there was hard substance resembling
bone, perfectly white and clear IA crystal.
When he first discovered il, it ways lying
stretched out fill length upon striking it
with stick it rolled up like hoop.
Nothing like II has been hitherto seen in
that region.
Two women, living near Chaska, Min
nesota, died on the 29th nit from the effect
of poison received while killing potato |
bugs One ste her dinner without wash |
ing her hands after killing the vermin. |
aud died in the most terrible agony. The |
other received the venom through sores in |
her hand' and died Immediately. A num- |
her Of other cases Of poisoning from the |
same cause have occurred, but have re- |
suited simply in horrible awelling of the |
members affected.
In Newberg, Ohio, on the Doth ult John |
Berry followed Mrs. Mary Bolau 10 her |
house from a saloon, where she had taken |
a drink. She hastily entered her house |
and locked the door, Berry threw him 1
self against IL two or three times, snd finally |
forced the lock. Just as he entered the |
door, Mrs. Bolan struck him a tremendous |
blow upon the head with a table leg, and |
followed ii mp with some more Of the
same sort. Berry's skull was found to be
fractured in two places, and il is supposed
he will die. Mrs. Bolan is 10 Jail.
The Dubuque Tines Of the Doth, gives
an account Of a murderous riot at the little
town of Alma, on the Upper Mississippi.
II appears that party Of luEbermen, on
lhelr way down the river, stopped at Alma,
and being refused whisky at the stores. sci
themselvea about cleaning out" the town.
plunderlng houses, etc. The Sheriff and
his deputy attempted to arrest the desper.
adoes, and both were shot dead. The citi.
zens, mostly Germans, thereupon armed
themselves and after = vigorous fight
drove the murderers from the place. Full
particulars Of the affair have not been re.
ceived, bit il is supposed that several of
the lumbermen were killed.