Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-20
NEWS OLE Tie pAx.

NEWS OF THE OAK.
Saturday night Or Sunday incoming the
Peoples Bank, q Baltimore, vas robbed
4 $4,000.
The deaths IN Brooklyn, New York, last
peek were 260, including eighty from chol-
IRA iufantum.
The colony Of Barbados is uneasy be-
cause many members Of the British gArri- /
sons there are FeBiaus.
Its reported that Gen. Rosecrans will
confer with Gen. Lee upon the political I
situation Of the country.
Mrs. james Bell, in Canton, Ohio, poured
some coal oil from can upon fire she was
kiDdling, theother day. The can exploded,
and she was 70 badly burned that chs will
probably die. s..stwaI. anna l
A report comes By the last steamer from
japan, that one hundred and fifty Christian
Japan natives had been taken out from
hagasah in a steamer and drowned, the
Gonsul's remonstranee notwithstanding
A letter received at the Republican
headquarters in Washington shows that the
organization of that party for the Presiden-
lial campaign throughout the country is
upprecedenfedly small fRWnFTEW
Mr.. Trfmble, brakeman On the Rutland
and Washington, Vermont, railroad, told a
friend last Tuesday morning, that he
dreamed the night before of being killed
by falling from the cars. And that day he
was 80 killed. aiI 80 81
Milton White poisoned himself with
slrychnine, in Fabrius, New York, the
other dag. His father had ordered HIN
away from home on account Of lazy shift
iessness, and rather than go to work, the
youth concluded 20 die.
While the construction train on the
Union Pacific railroad was backing to-
ward Fremont Station, Saturday, il ran
over a COW, throwing the caboose car off
the track, killing Eve men, and Eounding
twelve. Two Of the latter died sunday
All were employees Of the road. .,@t5.. +
Not long ago a man in Austin, Texas,
made come remarks derogatOry to the
ladies, for which Sergeant George Byrne,
Of The Sixth United States Cavalry,
knocked him down. For this the ladies Of
the city have presented the Sergeant with
B silver cur. ataf e-g &C. raa@sisHf
NEllnGI lht uOA TIC i AA,1lAAt
Minister at Washington has received any
adyices Of any serious Misunderstanding
between the two countries which they rep
resent aud, although it is well-known that
there IRE grave questions unsettled, the an
nouncement that a war is imminent is re-
garded as premature. ~
The sentence Of John s. Allen, impli-l
Gated in the Callicott whisky frauds, it is.
understood, has been committed by the
President. He was sentenced to the
Kings county penitentiary for one year,
and TO pay a fine of $1,000. The impris- \
onEDeni has been Telnitted, boa the 6ne \
still remains TO be paid.
General Aug. Kautz, of cavalry fame, it \
is understood, has been commissioned by
the government 10 proceed 10 Mexico,
either before OF with General Rosecrans,
our new Minister 10 that republic. His
duties are probably similar TO those de-
volved on Lieutenant General Sherman,
when he was detailed TO accompany ex-
Minister Campbell .aaI4 ID
The fax is raging in the most malignant
form in portions Of Washington county,
Indiana. Adults and children are attacked
with the disease, and in almost every in
stance il has proved fatal In one neigh
borhood, near Farabee Station, nearly
every person ia sick with the disease, and
many are dying. The skill of the hest
physicians has been, - far, battied to find
a remedy for Che malady.
The Oxford (Ohio) Citizen says, one day
last week, during thunder storm, Mrs.
Creycrait, daughter OF Mr.. John Wright,
was struck by lightning. Mr.. Creycraft
was sitting on the porch in front of his
house, and Mrs. Creycrafi, not feeling well,
was lying oh'the bed in the house, fronting
the door. A large tree standing in the |
yard was shivered TO splinters, Mr.. Grey
craft was stunned for a time, and the whole |
side of Mrs. CreycrafI's body was marked |
by the electric fluid. She was completely |
paralyzed for some days, and indeed for a
time her life was considered in peril.
A Washington dispatch OF the 18th inst,
10 the Cincinnati Gazette, says; mo |
definite reasons have been furnished TO the |
Congressional committees by those new
Southern members OF Congress who write |
that they desire session in September. |
The movement, thus far, appears 10 be in /
the hands of those who favored starting a
new Impeachment Just at the close of the /
session. Part of the pressure comes from /
Mississippians, who want Congress to meet /
and legislate regarding that Stale. Ii IL /
known that the War Department is work /
ing most earnestly 10 insure peace in all \
parts Of the South, and as yet no reasons
for a September session can be discovered /
by such Republicans as are on the ground /
here"
Adispatch from Soloman civ, Kansas,
dated Saturday, says The Indians are re-
ported TO be within tWenty-eight miles Of
This place at daylight this morning. Their
strength is variously estimated at from GOO
10 1900. They are reported TO have de-
slared that they were going TO clear out
he settlements on ali these streams.
Women and children are coming in very
ast, and the town is nearly full of refugees.
It is credibly reported that a detachment
If soldiers had an engagement with the
Indians yesterday, between the solomon
md Saline rivers, in which the soldiers
we're whipped Nearly all the settlers
north OF Ashar creek are surrounded. We
Know Of eight persons being killed. Rx
,epting those that are surrounded, all the
eltlers for thirty miles along the Solomon
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