Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-05
I.argesi circulation in city and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Friday, at the age Of forty years.
ST. Louis returns l26 incomes exceeding
$4,000. The corresponding number in
Cincinnati is 300 and in Chicago 302.
William Mathena, steamboat pilot,
committed suicide, in Evansville, Indiana,
on the 29th ult. by taking morphine.
la Leavenworih, on the 29th ultt a ne
gro woman was burned 10 death by coal
oil explosion.
Asst Louis negro has just recovered one
cent damages for having had 10 endure the
deprivation Of has right" to ride on the
street cars with white people.
In Meridian, Mississippi, on the 29th
ult, Mr.. Jones, Of the Jones House, was
shot in the knee by his clerk, whom he ac-
cused Of using twenty-five cents ont Of the
till.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee has
granted a writ of supercedas in the Mem
phis Avalanche contempt case, and has or
dered Judge Hunter 10 send up the papers
in the case.
The resignation Of Mr.. Barrett, Com
missioner Of Pensions, took effect on the lst
inst, and the Office was taken charge Of by
James A. Morgan, Chief Clerk. Mr..
Morgan is from Chillicothe, Ohio.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company, few days
ago, supplied their employees with hand
some suits, uniform in style and color, with
gilt buttons bearing the company's initials,
At Waukegan, Illinois, on the lst inst,
team was struck by lightning, during a
violent storm. The driver, George Pat
ridge, was instantly killed, and another
man seriously shocked, but it is thought
he will recover Both horses were killed.
Near Denver City, on the Dist ult., c. b.
Scott, formerly of ST. Louis shot himself
through the temple. The bullet destroyed
his evesight, and after lying for a time on
the ground insensible, he arose and wan
dered about until he was found by some
emigrants.
In the United States Circuit Court at st.
Louis, on the LIST inst, Judgment was rem
dered for $4,000 and costs against VIM. b.
Mann, for aflixing false brands on tobacco.
In the same court, Gerhard Albers was
held to bail in $1,000 for the same ofiense.
The case Of lambert, a negro Alderman
Of New Orleans, suing the Convent Of the
Sacred Heart for $4,000 damages for the
rejection of his daughter as pupil, has
been dismissed on the ground that the
school is not an incorporated body, and
hence cannot be sned. The merits Of the
case were not touched upon.
Dr. Jas. III. Bsrrien, formerly Surgeon
United States army, and late Medical Di-
rector for Texas, Confederate States army,
upon Gen. Magruder's staff, died at San
Louis Potosi on the 25Th ult., from the ef-
fleets of an overdose OF chlorofoTm, which
was administered on account Of an aching
toeth. DIR. Berrien was a son Of Hon. J.
Mcpherson Berrien, Of Georgia.
Washington special Of the 81 inst. TO
the Louisville Courier says: II the Presi-
dent il convicted, a committee from all the
principal cities will invite him TO visit
them and he will accept, and will com
mence speaking first in Boston, and make
the tour Of the country. But he is hope
fdl of acquittaL
The propeller Governor Cushman eXplO-
ded her boilers at Buffalo, New York, on
the lst instant Eleven lives were lost.
One Of the deck hands was thrown over
an elevator one hundred and fifty feet high.
The catastrophe seems horrible enough,
but in these days Of wholesale railroad and
steamboat slaughters, We pause at such a
disaster ~ rather common place, aud con-
graduate ourselves that it was no worse.
An officer Of the Pennsylvania railroad
says that on the Doth nit. took place, per
haps, the largest freight movement in the
history Of the road. There were 1887
freight cars eight wheel passing Mitllin
for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 P. NJ,
Of which lS9 were loaded. This account
does not include passenger, baggage and
express cars, nor cars coming in at Marys-
vile for the East.
Some nights since a countryman was
waylaid in South Memphis by a party of
negroes and killed. The police have been
working at the case for several days, aud
Sunday afternoon il was asoertained that
his body had been thrown into privy
vault. Four negro men and a negro wo.
man have been arrested for committing the
deed. Two others who are known TO have
been connected with il are at large
A very heavy rain storm occurred at St.
Louis early on the ID inst, after which the
weather cleared up and became very warm,
the mercury rising TO eighty-fve degrees
IN the shade. The storm was also very Sc
we're east Of that place The Kaskaskia
river at Shelbyville rose twelve feet and
carried away part Of the railroad track at
and near that place, compelling the Terre
Haute and Alton Railroad Company to
transfer passengers.
The official returns Of the Louisiana
election have not yet been published The
New Orleans Republican gives returns from
all the parishes in the State, making the
majority for the Constitution Il S03 They
also claim twenty-five Republican Senators
against fourteen Democrats, and sixty Re
publican members Of the House against
foFty-one Democrats. Warmouth's major
ity for Governor is slightly in excess of the
constitutional majority.
The number of emigrants who have
landed at Castle Garden, New York, during
the first four months of the present year,
was 81 ,579, against 49, 06l during the same
period last year-a decrease of Il, 4S3. The
falling of IS attributable TO the dizziness of
business and the unsettled state of the coun-
try. IL is supposed, however, that during
the latter months Of this year emigration
will be very heavy, and that the aggregate
will be equal 20 last year. Ii is said that
during the summer from twelve 20 ffieen
thousand Mormons will arrive.
great sale OF real estate took place in
New y FORK city on the 29th ult., embracing
number Of lots situated on Broadway,
Fifth avenue, University Place, aud Elev.
enth street A lot on the corner Of Broad
way and Eleventh street, opposite the 81.
Denis Hotel, of a wedge shape, 81 feet
front, 80 feet in the rear, and lis feet in
depth, sold for Sl7l, eco; an adjoining lot
on Broadway, % by l0S feet sold for S97, =
600. A lot on the oppOsite--the east--side
of Broadway, geo by us feet, sold for
$50 500. The lots on University Place and
Eleventh street averaged about one-third
Of the above prices.
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is a difficult business. Ia savannah, Ga,
a few day since, while the Constitution
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