Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-16
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Henry Ward Beecher announces in
letter that he supports Grant for President.
He denies the Published statement that he
favored Chase.
Serious charges have been made by
DISCHARGED official against McPherson.
Clerk OrdKay, Sergeant-ai-Arms Lip
pincott, Door-keeper, and King, Postmas-
ter Of the House Of Representatives, which
are likely 10 lead to . sesfchihg inFestiga-
ton.
Mrs. Fry, OF Shelby, q Ohio, wounded
herself ia the right hand and wrist quite
dangerously, while ii The act OF loading
revolver to shoot q chicken, as che has
been frequently in the habit Of doing. A
premature explosion Of the charge caused
the injury. go AfF#F 7tsa
A planet, hitherto unknown, was dis
covered by Prof James C. WATSON, Of the
Detroit Observatory, at Ann AEt,OT, Mich
igan, on the night Of the llth inst, in the
eonslellation Casrioornus IL shines like
star Of the eleventh tnksaitIde, and is
situated in right ascension, 3l7 degrees and
AZ minutes, and in declinatioH, Is degrees
and As minutes south.
| Letters from Shanghai, Of May 20, state
| thai the frigafe Shenandoah had returned
from her mission in search Of heis rela-
| tive 10 the destruction Of the American
schooner, General Sherman. IL appears
that the Sherman had been attacked 90
the coast Of Corea and returned 9 IRE,
when she was assaulted and captured. She
was blown up and ell on board persisted.
A motion has been made in the District
/ at to
ment pending against SuTralt for murder
u rests on the ground that The grand Jury
was not properly selected. There is no
| probability that Surrstt will ever be tried
on the Indictment again, whether or not il
is quashed.
Az anchor dropped from the car Of a
balloon as il cut loose at New Bedford,
Mass, on the llih inst, and striking a
small boy fractured his skull. 1t then
caught ia the clothing Of two other boys
and carried them up about forty feet, when
the erouant cat The line. They fell in
some. trees, and though taken up insensi-
bic, will probably recover
A Berlin dispatch says that by virtue Of
the provisions Of the naturalization treaty,
recently concluded between North Ger
many and the United States, that govern
ment has stayed all prosecutions against
the adopted citizens Of America of German
birth. Those who have been sentenced or
imprisoned viii be released forthwith.
The overland communication between
San Francisco and the Atlantic seaboard is
nov 30 rapid that the steamer route Is left
a week behind in the race. Ii is stated
that in the course Of two months letters will
make the trip from sea 10 sea in fourteen
days. They only require sixteen days at
present, while the steamers seldom make
che thraugh Tua in less than tEenly.tw
DAYS
10 Iowa there is a bounty paid by the
counties Of fifty cents head for gophsrs.
Near Davenport some enterprising boys
have gone into the business OF breeding the
"Varmint," and last month the County
Treasurer, at Davenport WAS astOunded by
a call for the bounty on five thousand Of
them. The papers insist that that gopher
factory" must be broken up, or the county
will be bankrupt in a year.
The plat Of ground in Cypress Hill
Cemetery, Owned by the Williamsburg IN.
NJ Masonic Board Of Relief was cOnse-
Grated by the Order, Sunday afternoon.
Delegates from nine lodges attended the
ceremonies as well as a large number OF
Grand officers, but the heat was 80 OPP
pressiye that many were compelled Ia
Withdraw from the ground before the con-
cIusion OF the ceremonies. Rev. Robert
Morris opened the exercises with prayer
The ritual was recited by the Grand of
GERS and brethren, and John W. Simons
delivered an Grafton @ ta
Henry Meiggs, of San Francisco, has
made a contract with the Peruvian gov
ernment TO build a railroad from Islay to
Arequipa, a distance of one hundred miles,
for the large sum Of ST., 100000 or $120,-
600 per mile. The contract binds him TO
finish the road in three years, with a
penalty Of $40, 900 for every month exceed
ing that period, and bonus of the same
amount for every month under three yesrs.
The elevation he is compelled 10 cross in
the distance Of one hundred miles is seven
Thousand feet above the sea, and the route
| Is mountainous. .........r . -Vr