Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-22
NEWS or TIE DAY.

There are about three and halfmiIliOns
Of dollars in seyenty-thirty bonds still
outstanding.
The Council at Atlanta, Ga, have bar
gained for the Opera building for State
House, at yearly rent of 81 900.
Owing to the delay in getting appoint-
ments made and instructions issued under
the new tax laE, the business Of disabling
whisky. il is reported, is nearly stopped.
Immense tracts Of peat and marshy
lands are on fire 10 various parts Of Rus
STA, and fears are entertained for the safety
Of 81 Petersburg, as it Is built on de-
posit Of old peat.
The troiting horse, Red Rover, Won the
sweepstakes, for which five horses were
entered, on the Fashion Course, Long
Island, on Tuesday. Three strni ght beats
we're irolied in 2:zi 25lf; 249k
The report that Thaddeus Stevens was
baptized Just before he died, by the Sisters
Of Charity. is contradicted by the New
York Freenan's Journal, on the ground that
adb baptism would be contrary 10 The
rules and usages AZ The Catholic Chufcb. I
Near Lima, Ohio, on the 18th inst,
while Mr.. ID. l.. Chapman and wife were
on their way to that place, a storm over
took them, and as Mrs. Chapman was in
the act OF raising an umbrella, the horses
took fright, throwing her from the buggy
and killing her instantly. Mr.. Chapman
wac also thrown out and seriously if not
fatally injured.
The Fenian scare in Canada continues,
The Globe processes to have positive infor.
nation that extensive preparations are
being made on the other side for FeniaH
raid. 1t also states that Burroughs have
been Withdrawn from the regular officers,
and the forces in the garrison have been
ordered to bold themselves in readiness at
a moments notice. le 7asH
Mr.. Greeley publishes an article in the
| New York Independent saying there il
danger Of Grants defeat unless the Ikepub-
licans do better than they have. He states
that unless Ohio works harder for The Re-
publiean ticket she will give ten thensand
| Tor ihe u, inbcrat4 The Republieansana~i
| carry two at these Stale1 t'onIeoiIcu'
! NV j. - P-rrs, 8 mia 'lsl Nrv York,
! II n- 3d. lrc5'"
Gr..l x.sl,m ~ h,r i',ri' u,s.,-I'',d Il
/ 10, HItr.. dirh'gah, by tie dlSfmea 1
! ance uf brother, Angus iaeaaa HAIRY
| Il WEIGH, who were last see9 10 that
meighbor hood in cJmpany with one Wiz
| liam Borgrrs, who accompanied them os-
1 tensibly 10 aid in the selection OF pine
lands, which they designed TO purchase.
Subsequently Borgess. returned, driving
their team, and gave out that they had
taken another course, and in a few days
himself disappeared with the team. A
double murder and robbery had probably
been committed.
The lnlest adyiees frOm the scene OF the
! Indian oulrages in the Western Kansas re-
port two hundred families having left that
| vicinity; but one man remains within a
distance ofthiriy miles. The Indians were
not known 10 attack any one armed. They
| appeared simultaneously along the valley
fo1 twenty miles in small parties, rubbing
settlers Of everything; what stock they
could not carry of was killed or mutilatest.
The Indians were all armed with revolvers
iust issued TO them by the government. Il
il not known that single Indian was hurt.
| Forty families were at one time in a stone
pen, nearly naked, and resisted the Indian
| attack for FIVE hours. The Indians are
stealing provisions now to supply them
selves during the coming winter, and de-
clare that they will drive away the settlers
from all the streams in Western Kansas.