Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-02
I~nws OF THIE DAY


They haa National Horse Fair away
out at Denver City, the 30th Ult.
Nearly one hundred thousand immi-
grar:s arrived at New York during the
past Elk months.
--. The Board Of New York Aldermen have
appropriated thirty thousand dollars for
celebrating The Fourth Of July.
A Troy woman was discovered the other
n day IN the act Of hanging her adopted
daughier with clothes line. ga.
VIZ Mrs. lincoln is fulfilling her threat Of
leaving the country if Grant is put up for
President She can come back safely 10
the fall.
Al old lady named Baird committed
suicide on Saturday, near Pittsburg, by
taking arsenic, on account OF bad treatment
by her daughter-iu-law.
A wealthy young Connecticut girl is
working 10 a Meriden factory in the hope
that some young man will fall in love with
her "for herself alone"
In Evansville, on Friday morning. a
furniture Establishment was set on fire by
the spontaneous combustion Of 4 box Of
rags, saturated with benzine, oil and
varnish.
At Alexandria, Virginia, a young lady
was burnt 10 death by the explosion Of
kerosene lamp. She wac engaged to be
married this week The lover heard Of il,
and blew out his brains With pistol
Al Plymouth, Indiana, few days ago,
little child named Sullivan, while play
ing beside the railroad track, was struck on
the head and instantly killed by the pro-
jecting steps Of passing train.
A Fenian picnic took place, on the Goth
ult, AT Belleview Hospital, New York, at
which upwards Of two Thousand people
were present Col. Nagle made an address,
in which be denounced The contemplated
raid 10 Canada.
The visit of Mr.. Burlingame, with the
Chinese Embassy, has bad a wonderful ef
feet. Already a number Of Americans
talk Of going TO the Orient to embark in
business, aud particularly IN railroads, Of
which there Is now not one 10 eKistence ia
that country.
Two very respectable gentlemen Of Au-
burn, N. Y , recently eloped, each with the
others wife, on the same train and the
came dark night A recognition ensued 10
the waiting room at Syracuse, an exchange
vas effected, and there is no more division
in those households.
The bulkhead of the driving cylinder in
the cotton batting factory of Thomas H.
Durham, on Harrison avenue, Boston, ex-
ploded the 10Th ult., badly damaging
the roof and other portions Of the binding
Two girIs, named Sarah Whalley and Mary
Robinson, were badly injured-the former
Cd. fatally. ......... .....
An Illinois farmer, whose crops were de-
stToyed by the storm early in the month,
tried TO cut bis throat by way Of consola-
ton. He succeeded in severing his wind
pipe and R'ophagus, aud il now taking his
food through a tube inserted in the wound,
and dying slowly and uncomiortably.
Secretary McCullooh has put large force
Of clerks at work upon the books Of Second
Auditors office TO discover the extent Of the
frauds committed by the clerks there. The
detective force has also been employed TO
ferret out all the matter Startling devel-
opments are expected.
John Cole, at Wauensville, Cuyahoga
county, on Saturday, murdered two step
sons. named Qaayle, with butcher knife,
and assaulted other persons in the neigh
borhoOd. He dtaed arrest by the local au-
thoriues but was finally arrested by the
police from the city He was formerly
lake sailor, and was a violent, quarreisome
man, much feared and disiked.
James j. HEREFORD has been in PhiIadeI.
phia Jail thirteen months for deirauding
the governmentby cOuDteTfeiting the bonds,
when, on Monday, be plead guilty and
was sentenced 10 a fine Of $50 and costs.
He had no money to pay the bill, but his
fees as a witness against his colleague
amounted TO $3.50, and with this he paid
bis fne and had tribe left.
A man named Fitzpatrick, alias Fergu- |
son, was arrested by the st. Louis police on |
the 29th ult, on the charge Of numbering /
United States soldier, last Christmas year |
ago, at Helena, Arkansas. A reward Of |
$500 Vas offered for his apprehension by |
the Governor Of Arkansas, and similar |
amount by Phillips county in that State /
The murdered soldier was named Max /
Lindsay.