Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-25
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

~ r. WS Or Il Ia Il DAY.
Col. P. d. Franklin, an old aud honored
citizen Of Columbia, lena, Is dead.
A dispatch from Mobile says there is no
improvement to notice in crops Accounts
from the country continue bad.
The monument erected to the memory
Of Vermont soldiers killed in the late war,
was unvailed on the 20lh al st. Johnsbury.
Ithas lranspired that General Sehofeld,s
visit 10 Europe, soon after the war, was TO
secure the Withdrawal Of the French troops
from Mexico.
Frank Wills, of Boone county, Indiana,
blew the top Of his head off on the 18th
inst, with gun which he snatched from
the hands Of bis brother.
Seven hundred and thirty-one deaths
occurred ia New York last week, caused
( mainly by diseases brought about by eating
diseased beef M. - & =
The cattle plague has appeared at various
| places along the Dayton, Xenia and Column
bus railway, in Ohio, and large number
Of cattle have died with it,
Fifty bsFrels Of whisky from Memphis
! were seized at 81. Louis on the 2lst inst.
by the government, for an alleged inIor-
mality in connection with the revenue
laws.
A Washington dispatch Of the 23d inst.
70 the Louisville Journal says: Senator
Patterson will 90 TO Tennessee on Wednes-
day. 1t is thought his visit will have an
important bearing upon afiairs in that ar
ilictsd State"
The Democrats in Virginia are making
an active campaign in spite of the disabili-
ties under which Congress has placed their
electoral vote. They are confident they
will give Seymour and Blair very large
majority.
@-Dexter's irotting quarter Of a mile in
thirty seconds creates sensation in sport
ms circles. His trainer IL confident that
Dexter will do mile in 2l2 before the
end Of autumn. IL is reported that Bon
ner has just declined 100000 for the
horse.
The Paris Patrie in an editorial on Amer
lean AFFAIR." advises that the dispute be-
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain concerning the Alabama be referred TO
the arbitration Of one of the great powers,
az the only method Of arriving at definite
and final settlement.
The fall meeting Of the Laclede Racing
Association will commence at st. Louis,
September 2Sth. The purses and stakes
amount TO $4,000. The horses that will be
present will include Plantaganet, Malloy,
shutdown, Alta Yela, Banshee, Ruth, Frank
Woolford, Victory, Ontario, and several
other famous ones.
Two women and boy were thrown
from a carriage on the afternoon of the
goth, while driving from Fairyille to Ash
land Mass Katy Dyer, aged nineteen
years, was instantly killed, and the woman
seriously injured. The boy escaped I'M
hurt
The remains of Mrs. Senator Trumbull
we're buried at Oak Ridge, Springfield,
Ill, on the Doth. A large concourse of
people, embracing the oldest citizens OF
The place, accompanied the remains TO the
grave. Mrs. Trumbull was the frat child
born in Springfield.
Two women named POsey, mother and
daughter, are under arrest in New York,
charged with swindling Messerale & Libby,
paper collar manufacturers, in whose em-
ploy they were as loreWomen, out of from
$4,000 "a $4,000, by gifts which the
girls were compelled 10 present on pain Of
dismissal.
The California Pacific railroad has COM
menced running trains 90 Dayisville, con-
Meeting there with stages for Sacramento.
The morning papers of the latter place are
now delivered in San Francisco in the fore
noon Of the same day on which they are
published. The Central Pacific railroad ia
two hundred and sixty-eight
miles east Of Sacramento river. Six miles |
Of track were laid August 18th, and the |
company promises TO lay seven miles day |
if necessary to outstrip the Union Pacific,
and reach Salt Lake in,t.
letter from Toronto, Canada, an |
nOuHces the marriage there on the 18th |
inst. Of Rev. Mr.. Punshon, the eminent
Methodist divine, 10 the sister of his late /
wife, which marriage could not legally |
axe place in England. Ii is but few
'cars since a case was on trial I'm which an
tngllslIman had gone to Sweden for the
suppose of marrying his deceased wife's
lister; but the marriage was pronounced |
Invalid, and the children incapable of az
erting their rights Of property. Mr.. Pun
hon, It ia said intends returning to Eng
and.
A Washington dispatch Of the 2lst inst,
} the Cincinnati G1sctic says: "AdVices
ON Florida say that "A the Legislature
iiourned without making any provisions
" the interest on the old debt of the State,
lcurred before the war. Gov. Reed is
the propriety Of reconve0ing
lat body, both 60 provide for the interest
nd also TO repeal the law giving the
legislature authority to select Presidential
ectors. Prominent Republicans are urg-
x the propriety Of the repeal"