Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-07
argest Circulation in City and State
>yr.wa OF THE DAY.

Il is proposed to erect monument to
the late Bishop Hopkins.
Two hundred and nine divorces were
granted in Chicago last year.
# has cost nearly three millions OF dol
lars 10 supply the national banks with
notes.
Twelve convicts in the Maine State
nrisnn are under sentence Of death.
The receipts Of internal revenue continue
light and are not sufficient 70 pay the eX-
penses Of the government.
81. Joseph, Missouri, contains %, GOO in
habiianis, and Is rapidly increasing in
population.
There are more than two hundred and
twelve Thousand Odd Fellows in the United
States.
California, instead of 4 prohibitory or
license Law, proposes 10 enact stringent
rules Cor the inspection Of liquors.
John Develin, Of New York, wac, on
The "a Inst. found guilty ofdefrauding the
government Of 500, 0OOin whisky distilling.
Rev. DIR. Humphrey, pastor of the First
presbyierian Church Of Chicago, has re-
signed, and will accept the pastorship Of
Calvary Church, Philadelphia.
Henry Tornleen, wealthy citizen Of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, fell under his wagon
a few days since, and the wheels crushed
his skull and killed him.
On the night Of the 4th inst. a dersnged
man named George killings, jumped from
the steamer Morning Star into the Ohio
river at Rock Haven and was drowned.
Jane Z. Caldwell has recovered $ll 900
from the Catawissa railroad for injuries
sustained while travelling upon IL, in con-
sequence Of broken rail and rotten ties.
One of the stills Of Siminia & Co.'s oil
refinery, at Worcester Massachusetts,, ex-
ploded Sixty barrels Of oil and a num-
her Of sheds were destroyed. No one in
jured
A newly welded pair arrived on the La
fayette train AT Indianapolis the other
night, Of which the husband had, az Judge,
sentenced former husband Of HE wife to
the penilentiary.
Work on the Central Pacific railroad, on
the east side of the Sierra Nevada noun.
taiua, ia progressing rapidly. Two sec
n
now ready for the rails.
During the year 1867, the receipts for
customs collected at the port of New York
we're $ll4, 1885, 984. Seven-eighths of the
entire tariff revenue Of the country are col
lected at the New York custom house.
A statement Of -four and grain in store
ia Chicago on the Sd inst, gives the fol
lowing iootings Flour, S2,S05 bbls
wheat, 923,975 bushels; oats 81 ,209
bushels; corn, 1855 AL bushels rye, &c.
834 bushels; barley, l06,O4l bushels.
The United States Consul at Tunis writes
to the Secretary of State, asking some re-
lief for the starving population Of that
country. The daily average Of deaths by
hunger ia one hundred, and unburied
corpses meet the eye on every side.
The Chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee has written a letter 10 some Of
the leading men in the manufacturing in
terest, saying that thecommittee has agreed
to take all taxation from the leading arii-
cles Of internal industry.
A party Of Navajo Indians attacked
some herders near Cnbero, New Mexico, on
the 9Th ult., and killed one and wounded
Two Nl tutIlt anu Idll bh uNtNNcu bilAtt
and four thousand sheep, about fifteen
hundred Of which were subsequently cap
tnred.
Washington specials say that Mr.. Dick
ens has resolved 10 afford Western people
when he comes among them, an opportu-
nifty 10 pay for admission 10 his readings at
gold rates. The fluctuations Of the gold
market have induced him 10 make the
change.
Information has been received in Wash
ington that Senator Guthrie refuses to re-
sign his seat in the United States Senate,
Notwithstanding his health is such "a 10
preclude the probability Of his presence in
the Capitol hereafter. The Democrats are
much dissatisfied with the determination
Of Mr.. Guthrie, who, they think, should
resign, and enable a successor 10 be sent 10
Washington 10 represent the interests Of
Kentucky.
Some time during the night of the 4th
inst, a man who appears 10 have been an
entire stranger in Louisville, fell from the
port:co of the courthouse in that city, upon
the brick pavement in the yard below, and
it is supposed was instantly killed. His
dead body was first seen early in the morn
ing Of the 9th, lying in q pool Of his own
blood, with his skull bSdly broken in on
the left side, his nose and face mashed, and
his body generally mutilated.
Three German boys, named Karl VIE.
ner, Michael Roth and Charles Mantner,
we're skating on the river Il the foot Of
Clay street. Louisville, on the 9Th inst,
when all at once, moved by the waves of
the ferrybost, the field Of ice on which the
three BOYS were standing broke from the
shore and 6oated down the river The
boys screamed Justify for help, when Mr..
Joseph Binder, who saw their perilous sit
uation, Jumped into little boat and res
cued the frightened skaters from watery
grave, or az least a very disagreeably cold
bath.
The official denial of the cable telegram
that Carl SchuTz was not accredited by this
government to Prussia in any special ca
pscity, needs this explanation. Before
leaving Cor Europe, Mr.. Schurz obtained,
through Minister Bancroft, an assurance
from NJ. BismRrk that he (Schurz) would
not be molested on account Of the sentence
Of death passed upon him in ls49, but
would be treated IA an American citizen.
Mr.. SchurE also claims, in q letter, that be
has been rendered, and declined, a seat in
the North German Parliament.
Baron Stoeokel, the Russian Minister,
had an interview with the Secretary Of
State on the 4th inst, and urged the neces-
sity Of an immediate appropriation for
payment for Alaska. He was informed
that owing 20 the fact that claims were
made by American citizens on Russia, the
matter of the appropriation was in great
doubt. The Russian Minister says his
government don't appreciate the delay.
The Foreign Affairs Committee had the
subject before them on the 4th inst, but
owing 70 the illness Of the chairman, moths
ing was done
The United States Senstors whose terms
expire in 1869, and whose Successors are
yet 10 be elected, are DIXON, Of Connect
cut Hendricks, of Indiana; Morrill,, of
Maine; Sumner, Of Massachusetts Chand-
Ter Of Michigan; Ramsey, Of Minnesota;
Henderson, Of Missouri Stewart, of Ne
yada Frelinehuysen, of New Jersey Nor
gan, Of New York; Buckalew, Of Pennsyl-
yRnis; Sprsgue, Of Rhode Island Ed
munds, Of Vermont; Van Wrinkle, of West
Virginia and Doolittle, of Wisconsin.
Of the eighteen in all, thus retiring, Eve
are Dov acting with the Democracy, aud
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