Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-14
argest circulation In CITY and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY.

w. w. Thatcher has been nominated AS
sessor for the eighth district Of Tennessee.
Belle Plain, Iowa, has gone Democratic
for the first tine since It's organization.
Hon. o. II. Browning takes charge Of
the Attorney Generals Office temporarily.
The vacancy will not be filed at present.
Thenew tax bill proposes to raise $685.
100000, and about one third Of it from dis
titled spirits.
Two negro thieves at Memphis got to
ousrreling on the 18th inst. over their
spells. when one shot the other in the neck
wounding him fatally.
Mrs. Elizabeth Darragh has been APP
pointed Inspector Of tobacco, snuff aud
cigars in the fourth district Of Indiana
and successor 10 her late husband.
The Hooking and Clinton county, Ohio,
papers report that the fruit buds of their
respective neighborhoods are thus far IN
injured.
The Missouri Senate has passed a new
registry law, turning out all the registry
officers elected last year, and authorizing
the Governor 10 appoint others.
The death penalty, abolished twenty
years ago, by the Swiss Canton Of Fribnrg,
has Just been restored by large majority
Of the Grand Council Of that Canton.
A man named William Cole died in
Hartford, Conn, the other day, at the ex-
IRENE age Of one hundred and ten. His
fater was cut of at one hundred and
twelve.
The impeachment managers examined
two newspaper reporters on the llth inst !,
as 10 whether the President was drunk or
sober when he made the Cleveland and St.
Louis speeches in 1866.
The barn Of VIM. X Ransom, of Bed
ford county, Tenn, was totally destroyed
by FIRE on the night of the 10th inst, to-
getber with its contents, including eleven
horses. Ii was the work Of an incediary.
The amendatory reconstruction bill be-
came law, the time for its return by the
President having expired. Mr.. johnson
did not think il expedient 10 interpose
veto, az il would have been futile and re-
garded merely as factious opposition.
The indianapolis Herald learns that a
letter has been received in that city from
John A. Logan, the Commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic, in which he
expresses doubts as 10 the conviction of
the President upon the impeachment
articles.
A dispatch from Davenport, Iowa, says
the Chicago and Rock Island and Pacific
railroad bridge is 30 badly damaged that
trains will not be able 10 cross for some
time. One Of the solid stone piers was
carried twenty feet down the stream.
Bridget Cunningham and a wisky bottle
were found lying together on the grounds
Of the Buffalo poorhouse, on Monday morn
ing, the 9th inst, the one dead, the other
empty Bridget started 10 visit her chill
dren at the house, but fell over the fence,
was unable TO get up and froze to death.
Senators and members are besieged with
applications for tickets of admission TO the
impeachment trial. 1t ia said that parties
are trying to get them 10 offer them for
sale. They can readily be sold for $40
each. Il will require a pretty sharp look
out to keep them from being counterfeited.
AZ the close of last month one hundred
and twenty men were discharged from the
armory at Springfield, Massachusetts,, and
of the five hundred men still employed
many more will soon be discharged They
are receiving no orders from Washington
for new work. The force now employed
is engaged ID cleaning and repairing old
guns
Gen. r. X. Scott, Assistant Commits
sioner Of the Freedmen's Bureau, has been
nominated for Governor of South Carolina
by the Radical Convention of that State.
The General formerly lived in Henry
county, Ohio, and entered the service "a
Lieutenant Colonel Of the sixty-eighth
Ohio.
Col. Edmund Cooper, though rejected by
the Senate more than a month ago, il still
acting as Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury, and on the 18th inst. made great
stir in the Grand Army of the Republic
for the District of Columbia, by removing
its chief Offices from his position in the de-
psrtment.
The heirs Of Robert Evans, one of the
founders of Evansville, Ind, are making
arrangements for contesting the title 10 a
large tract of the land on which that city
now stands. A large portion of the city
south Of Main street stands upon lots which
formerly belonged 10 the Evans estate. 1t
is claimed that a fraudulent conveyance
was the cause of the defect in the title.
The Washington Chronicle Of the 18th
inst. admits that the Supreme Court will
decide the reconstruction acts unconstitu-
tional, and adds "The decree Of the
Supreme Court possesses no more value
than the resolution of a town meeting. |
propose TO offset il with the New Hamp-
shire election, which possesses the value of |
being a higher power, even than the |
Supreme Court with its political majority |
of one or two men," Speaker Colfax and |
other Radicals have declared repeatedly |
that Congress will not permit any court TO
override the laws passed by that body.
The Essex county IN. j. Court of Quar-
ter Sessions has Just affirmed the invalidity /
Of an Indiana divorce. George NJ. He'd |
den, Of Newark, was arrested for not sup
porting, and deserving his family. lie
pleaded that he had been divorced from
his wife in Whitley county, Indiana. Ii
was shown that pending the proceedings
for divorce, the defendants wife remained 1
a nonresident Of lndiana, and that the
only notice Of the suit was by publication
in n Whitley county paper. The court
was aso satisfied that the defendant went
10 Indiana and resided there temporarily
merely to obtain a divorce On this ac-
count il was held that the divorce was a
mockery and good for nothing
The Hebrew feast Of Purim, a commemo-
ration Of Queen Esther's deliyerance of the
Jews from the malice Of Haman, has lust
been celebrated. In New York, on Sun
day night, the Sth inst, in accordance with
the usages Of the Jews, the Israeltes Of
the city visited each other masked. The
day being Sunday, some Of them obtained
permits from the Mayor, 10 prevent inter
ference from the police. Notwithstanding
this several persons were arrested by order
Of Superintendent Of Police Kennedy. and
imprisoned in the Stationhouse for several
hours. The Jewish population are very
indignant on this matter, and il 10 said.
will seek TO obtain legal authorization of
the practice The Superintendent justi6es
his course on the ground that the day was
Sunday, and that a great deal Of disorder
snd many robberies had arisen from the
practice Of masking.
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We present on the first page this
the full report of the conversa-
ion Of the President a few days ago, a