Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Philadelphia proposes to bridge the
Delaware with an arch 400 feet long.
Twenty-Five fires in New York last
month involved a loss Of Sj26, OOO-nearly
double that of the previous month.
The American Board of Commissions for
Foreign Missions received this wear $685.
SIS, the largest sum ever reported. The
expenditures were S53O,SS5.
In Augusta, Georgia, theatrical managers
induce audiences by promising wedding
ring to the handsomest lady present, and
tin cup to the homliest man.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is announced
as a candidate for the United States Senate
in case the Radicals have majority 10 the
next New York Legislature.
Mary Cinnon and daughter, and Jobe
Egan, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, we're
burned TO death Thursday by the explosion
of kerosene.
Isaac Armour was thrown from his wagon
near Ottawa, Illinois, on Tuesday, and his
feet catching in the "hound7,' he was
dragged with his back on the ground three
miles. When the horses were stopped he
was dead.
The Henderson lky.) Nsrs Of The 18th
saws: "The second locomotive has been
put upon our end Of the railroad. The con
tractors are hurrying on the track towards
jacksonville. A passenger car is now run
ming eighteen miles ont
There is fair prospect of modification or
temporary suspension Of the present OPP
pressiye operation of the whisky law in
small distilleries. Schenck and COlilX are
aiding Beck to secure decisive result.
Rollins lately had Solicitor Buckley be
fore the Secretary Of The Treasury for an
an alleged violation Of the law in not re-
porting the frauds 10 the superior officer.
MCCulloch decided no case was made ont
against him.
Judge Noyea, Of the Probate Cont, Gin
cinnati, on Wednesday last, committed w.
| r. Paddock, the once popular publisher Of
| PaddocPs Counterfeit Deiect0r, IN that city,
to the Longview Asylum, on the charge OF
insanity.
On Friday night, the 9th inst, about
| twelve men, either negroes, or white men
| disguised as such, entered the dwelling
house of Mr.. Adam Carnahan, four miles
below Cloutierville, in Natihitoches
/ Parish, Louisiana, and killed him, by
shooting him not less than five or six times.
| During the last year the Massachusetts
| folks have spent $50, 600 for the support
and education of idiot children, for whose
especial benefit they have established a
| hourishing institution. 1t is said that a
great many grown persons there are en-
| titled TO a similar provision for their pro,
lection and enlightenment
Some negroes attacked and stoned i
Democratic procession at Gallipolis, Ohio
on Thursday last, which was resented
when Wash Niney, a negro who keeps d
livery stable, shot and killed a worthy gen
tleman named Albert Almond, who wa
endeIyoring to suppress the difficulty.
The South Carolina State Central EEecu
| tive Club Yesterday unanimously adOpteC
the resolution presented by Wade Hamp
ton. indorsing the letter 10 ROseCGanz. TIN
sense of the Club Is decidedly in favor @
| qualified negro suffrage. An address I,
| the people will doubtless be issued in ieV
day7.
The amendment 10 the State ConsIi;u
ton Of Maine, authorizing the assumption
by the state Of a certain portion OF I'll
war debts Of the municipalities, has beef
adopted 10y a vote of 81, 1872 yeas to A. AS
,, nays. The cities voted against the amend
: ment, but the towns in its favor.
Putnam Brown, All Express Messenger
who had 10, 600 belonging to the Mel
chants Union Express Company, take
from him on the Hudson River railroad
on the morning of May lst, has been ar
rested for perjury. 1t is alleged lha
Brown was a party 10 the robbery, an
that he received $40 $50 of the stole
5 money. He il confined at White Plains
A Memphis dispatch to the LouisVilI
3 Courier says of the destruction of the arm
r sart 10 Arkansas: "Much excitement an
4 speculation prevails here. 1t is allrge
: mat certain officials procured this forPOlil
Q cal effect. Northern carpet-baggers al
e wrotby and threatening. The whole thin
is looked on as a Radical cuncOCtiou
. furnish a Ku-Klux horror to he in Il
n election. More arms are reported comm
S down from the Grand Army of the Repu
= lie for negroes. Some'ammnnition was sci
Y ahead 10 Arkansas"
1t is reported that bark which left Ca
Is lao with sixty Coolies, $4,000, owner al