Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-26
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gen. Wichman, of Virginia, who was
one Of Lees eblest Brigadiers, has allied !
himself with the Radical party.
Gen. REYNOLDS arrived in New Orleans
on the 23d inst, and assumed command OF
the 9th military district.
Two negro boys we're arrested in Mem
phis on the oath inst, for violating the
person Of little white girl eight years Old
The courthouse at Greensboro was hired
on Saturday, the 2lst inst, but no harm
done.
Gen. Banks denies that he has been Of
fered the position Of Minister TO Prussia u
Johuson should be voted out OF the Fresl-
Dental chair and Wade in.
The Courthouse at Euraw, Ala, one oil
the finest In the State, was burned on the
10Th inst. All the county books and
records we're Lost. Incendiary.
Messrs. Smith q Monroes store, in Her
nando. Miss, was burglariously entered
and robbed Of $500 worth of clothing ard
dryeoods on the night Of the 10Th inst
William Hilgenberger, steamboatman,
was found dead in his room in st. Louis, on
the Dist inst He had been drinking, and
by some means set Ire 10 some Woou III the
room and was sufocated.
Judge Moore, of the Dallas Circuit
Court. now in session at Selma, Ala, re-
oeiyed official notice on the oath inst, that
unless he registered voters, without regard
TO color, he viii be promptly removed from
Office.
i.rkausas election returns are incomplete,
vet returns from the major portion OF the
State. up 10 Monday evening, the Z3d inst,
give ten thousand majority against the
Constitution. The Conservatives are Jubi-
liant over the victory.
A Washington special Of the oath inst.
saws: II il manifest that public interest IN
impeachment is rapidly declining. The
galleries were by no means crowded, and
In a short time Senators will have more
tickets than applications for them.
Johnny Reagan, the notorious burglar
who assisted in robbing the Southern tx
press Company in jackson, Tenn, and LETT
his bail in the lurch, has recently been SEN
fenced to the Alabama penitentiary from
Montgomery. He appealed to the Su-
preme Court.
Sixty thousand Cinnamon live in Cali
fornia. OF these, about ten thousand are
employed on the Central Pacific railroad,
and four thousand manage to find work in
San Francisco. The mines give employ
ment to large number, and the rest are
scattered throughout the State.
The proposition to proceed with the trial
of the President on Monday was carried IN
the secret session of the Senate by only four
majority. Among those for a longer time
were these Republicans, viz: Anthony,
Corbett, Edmunds, Fessenden, Fowler,
Frelinghuysen, Grimes, Henderson, Sher-
man, Sprague, Trumbull and Van Wrinkle
The Radicals at Washington profess to
believe they will cause johnson to yacate
the Executive Office by the l4th of April
the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination
on which day they propose to inaugurat'
Wade and recall Lincoln's cabinet, but th'
Presidents friends seem TO have more con
fidence in the finale result.
The Charleston Courier says Report
from middle Carolina represent the frul
trees as universally backward this season
as up to the Sth Of March they were no
vet in blossom. Heretofore it has not beel
an uncommon thing for them to be in ful
bloom in February. Even the plum show
no signs of flower, and therefore it is gene
rally expected that this will be an abundan
fruit year.
The house of Captain Pattison, at Col
lege Hill, near Cincinnati, which was M
rooted by the late storm, was the thir
brick shouse built in Hamilton county
II was erected by Captain Ephraim Brow
in 1906, and was injured by the earthquake
in 1911. Captain Brown moved TO tn
place in 1896, aud it was then a denf
forest.
In New York during the eighteen month
ending with the month of September las
there were Ill suicides, Al homicldes,
executions, 800 deaths by drowning, 80 b
poison, 80 from accidents on the city RAJ
road cara, and AZ from other vehicles IN
whole number Of deaths by violence IN IN
period named were 1869, and there wei
4l3 cases of still birth reported.
The banking house of A. c. Kingslan
& Sons, No. IS Broad street, New Norl
was entered by burglars, on Sunday, Ii
22d inst, by means Of false keys, and sect
rites to the value of $4,000 carried OF
The thieves removed the bricks betwee
the vaults under the sidewalk. Twenty
two bonds of the Mariposa Mining Con
pany, of one thousand dollars each, 81
Tennessee bonds, Of one thousand dollar
each, and ten Southwest Pacific Railroa
bonds, of one thousand dollars each, wei
taken. They made an unsuccessful a
tempt TO drill large safe,
During the war squad of Rebels a
tackled Newburg, Indiana, and were drive
off, Mr.. Ira III. Duncan, of Warrick cour
ty, shot and killed citizen named Me
ford. on suspicion that the latter had II
duced the Rebels" TO make the attacl
Duncan was recently indicted and contne
in Jail for the killing-whereat the Rad
Gals became greatly excited and bailed hir
out, and seem 10 consider judicial inves
tgation of the matter great outrage.
is we'll known fact that during the wa
many an innocent man was killed like
dog for being Democrat.
VIM. NJ Estelle, prominent lawyer {
Jackson, Miss, and member of the Stat
Democratic Executive Committee, ws
brutality assassinated at his residence o
the night Of the 231 inst. Ii was genera
" believed that he was mistaken for Nj
Stricklin, the Conservative delegate froE
Tippah county 10 the Reconstruction Cor
veniion. Mr.. Strieklin resigned his SEES
in that body on the oath, and offered $40
for the assassins, which Gov. Humphrey
increased 10 $500. An internal revenu
officer named Miles Gibbons, from S
Louis, was subsequently arrested upon eli
cumsiantiRl evidence. Intense excitemer
prevails there.
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A. " PUOKErT ESQ, who was SUP
ported by the Democrats, has been elect
ed County Judge of Hamilton county.