Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-08
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 5. lsOs.
argesi Circulation in City and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.

kiileu AZ DdbfOls 1fAdfs on Tue Aotu li.
by posse who attempted TO arrest him.
OF the immigrants who passed through
Columbus, Ohio, last week, thirty-iwo in
tend settling in Tennessee.
A general snow storm prevailed over
Wisconsin aBd Minnesota, with q strong
northeast wind, on the 4fh.
The cold Of Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights damaged the fruit buds IN
the vicinity of ST. Louis.
L. Il reported that the butterfly of the
army worm has appeared in Baton Rouge
parish, Louisiana
Butler and Eyarts we're in the Senate
Monday, and courieously exchanged salu-
fations, a. boxers shake hands prior to
fight.
Reports from Southern Illinois state that
the fruit is not materially injured by the
frosts Of Friday and Saturday nights.
Eight inches of snow fell in Chicago, on
the 4th inst, and the weather was quite
cold. 1t is expected the fruit crop has been
seriously damaged.
The orator on the occasion Of the in-
auguration in May of the statue Of Thomas
II. Benton at St. Louis, will be Major Gen
eral Frank Blair.
The death of PhineAs II. Young, son Of
Brigham Young is announced by Salt
Lake papers. lie was an excellent painter,
it is reported, and aged only twenty.
A grand base ball tournament will be
played at Niagara Falls ia May, TO last
probably two or three weeks. Among the
clubs present will be many from Canada.
Mai Mason, of San Antonio, Texas, has
promised to turn over TO the civil autbori-
ties the soldiers who murdered DR. Cum
ninghsm recently, as soon as the grand
jury finds a true bill.
A maiden lady named Reno, died at
Fort WAYNE, Indiana, recently, at the age
Of one hundred and hTo years and five
months. For many years she has firmly
believed that she was immortal.
Petitions are being circulated among the
clerks in the department at Washington,
praying Congress TO confer the ballot on
the gentler sex in the District Of Column
bia.
During March there were received at
the Union Stock Yards at Chicago, 2O,9S6
head Of cattle, and 69,567 hogs. There
were shipped during the same time 1928
head Of cattle, and 65, 4S3 hogs.
Reverdy johnson charges that his letter,
which Mr. Butler read in his opening ar
gument on Monday, was garbled by the
omission Of ten lines in the body Of the
letter.
The war between St. Louis saioon-keep-
ers and brewers is ended. The attempt on
FL l.. q Il. I'll
lager TO SIC failed, and the old price of
Sl4 is resumed.
Information from Rhode Island is to the
effect that the return Of Senator Sprague 10
the Senate is certain by the newly elected
Legislature, and by a nearly, il not quite,
unanimous Republican vote.
Among the visitors who inflicted them
selves upon the President on Saturday were
the very voluminous Mrs. Ann S. Stephens,
the author, and the distinguished clown,
Dan Rice.
Bannister Morrow and John Denton
boys Of eighteen, had shooting and cut
ting afiray at a minstrel exhibition in
Jonesboro, Tennessee, few days ago, and
both were dangerously injured.
The process Of reducing the clerical
force of the Treasury Department, is now
going on. About a dozen female clerks
and copyists were discharged day or two
ago, and many more have been notified
they will be discharged
The strike Of the workmen in the rail
road shops in Cleveland appears to have
ended in failure. On Saturday but few
men attended the meeting, and it was re.
ported that almost all had resumed work
at prices agreed upon by the railroad COM
panies.
A curious poisoning case IL under inves-
tigation in lafayette, Indiana. A mali
cious woman fed strychnine 10 a neigh
boris hens, and an egg produced by one Of
them alterward, badly poisoned n little
daughter of the owner Of the poultry.
At Houston, Texas, recently, a lady |
cowhided Foley, proprietor of the Sazarac |
saloon, till the blood came, and made him
beg her pardon on his knees, for making |
insulting inquiries Of a negro concerning |
her character.
Ned 0Baldwin, the "lrish GIANT got |
on a bender at indianapolis, Friday, and /
among other eccentricities, broke into frag- |
meRts a valuable gold watch belonging to |
a frsil woman, for which he was locked |
up. Il took six men TO effect the arrest.
A number Of citizens Of Gonzales. Texas,
have been summoned to San Antonio as /
witnesses against Major Smith, who is to
be tried by court martial for levying black |
mail upon some of the people Of Gonzales,
while acting a. Bureau Agent.
Rockdale, England, was the theater of
an anti-Catholic mob on the 18th ult. /
A chapel was stoned, all the windows were
broken, and much other damage done. The
same night an attack was made upon Irish
houses at Mount Pleasant The mob had
been excited by the hsrangues OF a man
named Murphy, lecturer.
Mrs. Samantha Greer, a wealthy widow,
was arrested on Saturday in Chicago. on /
charge Of ASSEMBLING Miss Josephine Com
stock, young school teacher. with deadly /
intent and serious effect. She entertained |
passion for a young gentleman named /
Moss, TO whom Miss Comstock was soon 10
be married. Miss Conistock is in pre-
carious condition, and her recovery is re-
garded rs very doubtful.
The Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. will
soon be traversed by an extension Of the
Winchester railroad TO Salem. The valley
produced before the war a larger corn crop
than the entire New England States. and
Delaware, Kansas, Florida and Louisiana.
Only one-third Of the region was under
cultivation.
The idea that General Hancock will
make general changes of his subordinates
IN his department is erroneous. This is
the special prerogative of the President
who, IL il understood, will at the fitting
time remove Gen. Emory who commands
this city, not for what he has done. bnt for
what be aimed TO do, acting in party inter
est against the President.
The long and exciting debate in the
English Parliament on Mr.. Gladstone's
resolutions Tor abolishing the irish Church
establishment terminated late Friday night
by division, in which the Ministry was
defeated sixty votes in poll of six hun.
dred. The Cabinet ministers held a meet
ing Saturday, al which it was determined
IN case the opposition majority after The r.,
cess continued as large, to resign
The steam man. from Newark. whoa
advent IN New York, some time AGO. wss
described in the Ledger, is TO walk Tor
wager from New York "a Az