Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-27

( recovering from his late illness.
Two ex-Mayors, Booth and Wood ar
Republican candidates for Congress il
: Brooklyn.
The election. is to be contested in Phil
adelphia Legal proceedings have beer
instituted.
AT Cincinnati, on Thursday evenin!
next, Mr.. James E. Murdoch will deliver
his lecture on The personal Recollec
tons of Abraham Lincoln"
The Bryan (Texas) NeVs Letter says
the cotton has not been greatly injured
by the worms in Brazos county. A fair
average crop will be made.
Hon. James Brooks has received the
unanimous nomination Of the Democratic
organization in the eighth district OF
New York.
Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher is an
nouncei as candidate for the United
States Senate in case the Radicals have a
majority in the New York Legislature
At Biarritz last summer, the Russian
Princess Gallitzin was one of the boldest
swimmers She would go out mile or
more, attended only by a big black dog.
Two hundred factory girls, thrown out
of employment at Roubiax, France, will
sail from Havre for New Orleans, in Mo-
vember, to seek situations as house sers
wants
The largest shipment of shoes ever
made from Boston at this season of the
year was that of last week, amounting to
thirty thousand cases --...
The wood of the California laurel is
coming into general use for cabinet and
ornamental manufacture. 1t is very
handsome and takes very beautiful
polish.
Watson Freeman, United States Mar
shall of the Boston District under Pierce
and Buchanan, died at Sandwich, Mas
sachusetts, on the 18th instant, aged sew
enty years.
C. l.. Tucker, St Louis miller, sus~
pended Thursday, with liabilities of $60,~
000 Alexander Smith d Co. went with
him, with liabilities amounting to $470,-
00G.
At Newark, New Jersey, on the 23d,
the Presbyterian Synod of New York and
New Jersey (N. S. adopted resolutions
in favor of speedy reunion of the two
branches of the Church.
The recent vote of the leading cities in
Indiana is as follows: indianapolis, 1879;
Evansville, 4503; Lafayette, $685. New
Albany, 1868; Terre Haute, 2S44 Mad
isOn, 2202
Registration in St Louis county, Mis-
souri,, has closed, and the Boards of Re-
view adjourned The number of quail
fed voters in the lists is 81 1898, and the
number rejected .697.
A. D. Patchin, Iof Troy, New York, |
has identified the body found in the lake
at gainesville, Ohio, last Tuesday, IS that |
of his sister, Miss Minnie Patchin, who
was lost on the Morning Star, in June
last.
An American student in Berlin un-
m ercifully cowhided Prussian officer |
who had first insulted and then chal- |
lenged him. The American was not ar.
rested, but the officer resigned his COM
mission.
Mayor Hoffman says in his speech at
Watkins, that the Worlds proposition to
change nominees, was made without the |
knowledge of leading Democrats in New /
York, and without consulting the State
Committee.
Mr. Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch, |
is doing Falstaff The entertainment
consists of readings from different plays
in which Falstsff is introduced, and Mr.. |
Mark Lemon is assisted by a professional
company, tapestry being used Oh the
stage instead of scenery
There is a story of man who got mar.
ried because he inherited four posted |
bedstead, and of another man who got |
married because he had bought piece of |
silk cheap at sale, and wanted wife to |
give it to-
The Princess Kozlosky, beautiful Rus
sian lady, has opened a cigar store in
Moscow Her father having lost her for
tune, the mobiles of Moscow offered her |
1000 rOubles year, but she prefers to |
make her own living.
Henry W. Comstock, against whom
twenty>three indictments for obtaining
money under false pretenses are pending |
in Illinois, was arrested in Jacksonville, |
Kentucky, on the Goth The amount of |
his frauds is $4,000 He has been taken |
to Peoria, Illinois.
The Lexington (Ky) Observer and |
Reporter says: "Of sixty-seven distiller>
les in operation last year in the Lexing-
ton district, but four are now running.
The amount deposited in this district to |
the credit of the treasury of the
United States, for the quarter end |
ing September 80, 1868, was $2Ol ,G5S 50. |
OF this amount Sl63, 482 was derived from |
tax on whisky" |
Dispatches received in Louisville on |
the oath instant state that the authorities |
Ct Sydney have positive proof that the |
shooting of Prince Alfred was the result |
of deeply laid plot, the details of |
which will be given to the public in a few |
days.
A letter from Laramie, Wyoming Ters
ritOry, says that on the night of the 18th |
and morning of the 10Th, four notorious
thieves and desperadoes were killed in
that place by vigilance committee, and
several others of less nOtOriety ordered |
to leave town.
The statement published in several East.
ern papers and the dispatches from
Washington and New York, that Hon.
GeOrgr H. PendletOn advised or desired |
change of candidates on the Democratic |
ticket, or that ne ever wrote or tele- |
graphed on the subject, is authoritatively |
denied
The St Louis Democrat having an
nOunced that J. p. Kreiger, prominent
German citizen, had announced his de- |
termination to support Grant, that gen
tleman publishes card Indignantly des I
nying the assertion, and stating that he |
supports no negro equality party
A grand rally of the Boys in Blue was
held at Utica, New York, Saturday night,
and torchlight procession took place
While on the march the Boys in Blue
were assaulted by some rowdies with 4
stones Six men in the procession were
more or less injured. As some delega-
tons were about to take the cars on
their return, they were set upon with
clubs.
Advices from Cooper county, Missouri,
say on the night of the 18th an o Id and
respectable citizen named Mapes, living
nine miles northwest from Otterville, was
dragged from his bed and murdered On
the following day Mrs Mapes and her