Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-21
TUESDAY. JANUARY FL. Ises.
Largest circulation in City and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Of employment.
reported that the House Committee
on Appropriations will report in favor OF
paying the pdrchase money for Alaska.
The Memphis Post has hoisted the names
Of Grant for President, and Brownlow for
Vice President.
Rev. A. y. Miller, pastor Of the First
Baptist Church Of Shelby county, has re-
signed his charge, and intends returning 70
Kentucky.
The time for the meeting Of the Shelby
County Conservative Convention has been
postponed until February IA.
A delegation from Ohio is in Washing
ton urging the claims Of Cincinnati az the
place for holding the National Democratic
Convention.
Schuyler Colfax has published a letter
positively declining TO become a candidate
for Governor Of Indiana. This leaves the
track TO Governor Baker clear.
The New York HeralPs Washington
special says the defeat Of the Supreme
Court bill N the Senate, appears TO be a
foregone conclusion.
An order is looked for directing the tax
collectors in Georgia 10 proceed with the
collection Of the State taxes. Nine-ienths
of said taxes have been paid.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee
will report about Thursday, such a bill
concerning the rights of naturalized citizens
abroad as will give entire satisfaction 10
naturalized citizens of the United States.
An old woman named Fagin hired a bed
at New York lodging house the other
night, and in the morning was found dead
with bottle of whisky under her pillow.
She died "hsppy."
Bishop Hopkins is succeeded az Pre-
siding Bishop by Bishop Smith, of Ken
lucky. Bishops Hopkins, Smith and Nc
llvane were consecraied at the same service
in 1882, but in the order just named.
John Mitchell protests against the inter-
cession of the President in favor of the
condemned Fenians, on the ground that it
would be an acknowledgement of the right
Of the British government 10 punish.
Judge Austin Miller, Of Bolivar, Tenn,
died on the 18th inst, at his plantation
near Austin, Tunics county, Miss. His
body was brought TO Bolivar for inter-
ment.
In the United States District Court, at
Memphis, on the 10th instr thirty treason
cases were dismissed from the docket by the
District Attorney. Among them were
those against Gen. Sterling Price, Gen.
Rucker and Gen. NJ. JEFF. Thompson.
Senator Wilson has letters from Radical
sources claiming that that party will carry
Louisiana and Texas by large maiorities.
Wilson thinks they are certain Of CONTROLS
ing all the Southern States, except Nir-
ginia and Arkansas.
John H. Bray, in the act OF protecting
girl who was being assaulted 10y VIM. 5.
Reed, in Marblehead, Mass, on the 18th
inst, struck the latter on the head with a
Ratchet, inhicting a wound which may
prove fatal.
Ii seems that on the occasion Of Butler's
recent visit TO Richmond he was the re-
cipient of hostile challenge from Colonel
White, Radical member of the Recon-
struction Convention. The affair is still
pending.
A letter from Havana gives a fearful ac-
count of the ravages of cholera. There
had been as many as three hundred cases
day, nearly half Of which proved fatal.
On the 10th inst. there we're iifty.two eases
and twenty'one deaths.
A Florida committee petitioned General
Meade to postpone the Florida Conven>
ton for thirty days 20 correct registration
frauds. hut after telegraphing Gen. Grant
relative thereto, Meade decided not TO or
der its postponemenL
VIM. Granlis was arrested in Chicago on
the lYth inst. on a requisition from the
Governor Of Michigan, for the murder of
his sister at Detroit She encouraged the
addresses of man who was disiasteful 10
her brother, and he poisoned her 10 pre-
vent the marriage.
Miss Tobey, who has been giving skating
exhibitions at 81. Louis the past week, was
presented Saturday night with n beautiful
gold medal, valued at 500, by the officers
OF the Rink Association and afew personal
friends, as a token of their appreciation Of
her skill and grace as a skatist.
A circular has been issued from Gen.
Meades headquarters, explaining the gen
eral orders validating the Alabama Ordin
anee 10 stay the collection Of debts, TO
mean that there is TO be no stay of the pro-
oeedings in the judgments in favor Of the
mechanics and labOrers since July 81, 1865.
Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts, in the
course Of his remarks in the House of Rep
resentatives on Friday, said that he re-
GREETED the failure of the impeachment
question last month. He considered il
probable that President johnson would he
nominated by the Democratic party for re
election, and in that event he would be
formidable antagonist 10 the Republicans.
Property TO the value Of $500, 900 has
been destroyed by Ere in Chicago since
January /. The last conflagration was that
which broke out on Thursday night, at 1917
Lake street, and consuming the building
and doing great destruction Go the adjoining
structures, from No. 1873 90 1879. The loss
which exceeds 100000, Is in great part
covered by insurance.
The extreme cold weather Of last week
has formed an ice bridge below the Falls
Of Niagara. and hundreds Of visitors are
crossing. The ice is of great thickness and
solidiiy, ard bids fair 10 remain for some
time. Visitors now have an opportunity
20 walk safely over the madly raging cur
rent beneath, and at the same time get q
fine view of the Falls.
Isaac Keifer, the young pedestrian, who
undertook thealmost unaccomplishsble task
Of walking one hundred consecutive hours
without rest or sleep, on wager of six
hundred dollars, at Pittsburg, after walk
lng seyenty-eight hours and forty-eight
minutes, was compelled 20 succumb 10 the
strain upon his oyertaxed system at eleven
o'clock Friday night, al which hour he fell
10 the floor insensihle. He was immedi-
sicily placed under charge Of some physi-
clans and restored 10 consciousness. keifer
IL but nineteen years Of age, and had hut
little or no training for the task.
On the night Of the 9Th instant, negro
woman named Fanny Morgan was arrested
al Grenada, Miss, under the charge Of
numbering her two infant children, aged
respectively I've and seven years, by stab
bing them with knife One was stabbed
through the heart, and the other the knife
passed through the neck and down through
the breast, infiioting a fearful wound, lay
ing the whole body open. An inquest was
held, and the woman arrested She con.
fessed the crime and went aud showed the
iury where the knife was hid under the
corner Of fence. Her reason for com
hitting THE bloody and unnatural act Is
said 10 be that che Was engaged 30 be mar
ried 70 q colored man, who refused 10 take
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