Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There were two fatal cases OF sunstroke |
in Philadelphia on the 9th inst.
1t is now stated that President johnson
cannot leave Washington for the short re-
spite from duty he contemplated.
A special from Virginia City, Montana,
to the New YORK World says that the State
has gone Democratic by largely increased
msjorities.
There were four hundred and twelve
deaths in Philadelphia last week, one
fourth Of whom were children affected
with diseases of the bowels.
Two million dollars was the amount of
the whisky tax collected in New York last
week, which exceeds any sum realized
when the tax was 81 per gallon, instead Of
fifty cents, as now.
Cable dispatches just received announce
another terrible colliery explosion at Jern-
mapes, in the province Of Haynault, Bel
GUM. kifty-one persons were killed, and
a great number injured.
Emma Ames, daughter Of Mrs. Sarah
+. Ames, the we'll known sculptor, will
make her debut soon under the name Of
Amy Girdlestone, at John Brougham's
Theater, New York
The attention of the President has been
called TO the organization Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, as an organization
reasonable IN Its character and dangerous
to the peace of the country.
Ike Refer and James Shields commence
a walking match in Pittsburg on the 18th,
against time and against each other, for a
purse of $1,000. One hundred miles in as
many hours, without sleep or rest, is the
feat TO be accomplished.
A case of matchmaking has just been
brought TO light at Chicago. Two men,
bers Of the Merchants Police force have
been arrested on a charge of having ex-
torted jewelry and money 10 the amount of
several hundred dollars from a woman
whom they had arrested.
A larger breadth of crops was planted in
| Colorado this year than ever before. Sea
sonable rains, and the early departure Of
grasshoppers, insure large yield. 1t is
estimated that sixty thousand acres are
under cultivation in Colorado, Of which
three-tenths are wheat, and three-tenths
corn. Corn is estimated to yield thirty
bushels per acre.
A few days ago, robbers cave was
found on the Sangamon river, near Deca-
tur, Illinois. Mr.. Halleck, City Marshal
Of Decatur, and a party Of citizens, made
thorough examination of the cave, and to
their horror they found the bodies Of four
men carefully concealed in a grave in the
rear Of the cave, with a heavy rock as a
covering. Scouts are out to catch the rob
bers
Mrs Daniels, strong-minded woman
from Boston, appeared before a Board of
Appeals in the Patent Office at Washing
ton on Saturday, and argued her own cause.
Her application in the hands of an attor-
ney had been twice rejected. She not only
won her cause and secured her patent, but
actually made a sale of her new invention
10 each member of the Appeal Board.
Patent attorneys should look to their lau-
rels.
Gen. Meade's order for the concentration
Of troops in Alabama, gave considerable
dissatisfaction 70 the Radicals there, and
the Governor, Senator Warner and others,
made a formal protest against il, insisting
that the stationing of all troops at two sta
lions, Huntsville and Mobile, would sepa-
rate them too widely. The matter was
finally settled by General Meade organizing
a third detachment to be stationed at Mont
gomery.
a package addressed to Mrs. Lucretia b.
Cushing, Lewiston, Maine, from Fort C. L.
Smith, Montana Territory, reached the st.
Louis PoBtoflice, on the 10th inst. Ii con-
tains the scalp Of Bear-that-grabs,
Sioux Indian chief,who was recently killed
=. l. 4. IL
that post, and is sent 10 Mrs. Cushing by
some relative in the army as present.
Fifteen cents postage is due on the scalp
and it is detained by the Postmaster there
for non-payment. lie wrote to the lady to
remit the postage, or the scalp would be
sent TO the Dead Letter Office.
A Terre Haute dispatch says: "The
Marshal Of Hutsonville, Illinois, on Fri
day night, went four miles into the coun-
try, with a formidable posse, to arrest a
gang Of desperate robbers, four in number.
He placed most of his men outside, on
guard, to prevent the escape of the rob.
bers, and entered the house with two OF
three men. lie began to read his warrant,
but had read only a few words when the
robbers fired on him and his men, killing
man named TapscOt. The whole force
then rushed in and shot the scoundrels,
killing three and fatally wounding the
other"
A letter in vindication Of Gen. Grants
order expelling Jews from his department,
published by Simon Wolf, Of Boston, late
of Washington, has caused great indigna-
ton among the Israelites Of the latter place.
The letter first appeared in the Boston
IfdnScrTpt, aud was written in reply to
letter published in the Boston Posi-, signed
Max" Mr.. Wolf says the order was is
sued in moment of just indignation,
never contemplating injury 10 honest, jew
lab American citizens; that the order !
never harmed any one, not in even thought, |
except those whom we, as Jews, despise
and hold in contempt. BY the publication |
Of this letter, Mr. Wolf has brought down
upon himself lasting execration. Less
han five months ago, Mr.. Wolf in an adj
iress made in that city, spoke Of this same
order Of Grants as an Infamous order,
worthy Of Hapsburg or Bombs, but
never an American.
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