Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-02
Largest circulation in City and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY.

,otps on the Market National Bank OF New !
ork are IN circulation.
Mr.. Bonner denies in published card
hat Gen. Grant checked his father of 10
lis late contributions 70 the New York
Ledger.
A city census Of Detroit has Just been
taken, from which it appears that the pop
llation il 66.358. In 1854 the city con
tanned So 10 inhabitants.
Parties here are organizing a movement
to have Congress pass an act 20 try the e1-
pertinent Of female suffrage 10 the District
Of Columbia.
In Dinwiddie, Virginia, few days ago,
during a thunder storm, Mrs. Sarah A.
Boissesu. wife Of Or. A. W. Boisseau, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Three regiments Of militia are to be
raised in Vermont, 10 drill five days IN the
wear. and have annual eucampments aud
General trainings ia the old style.
George Kcssner. under arrest for horse
stealing in Galloway county, Missouri, was
taken from the custody Of Constable by
mob, and hanged, a few days ago.
Austin Henry, Of Pleasant Hill, ILL.,, IN
dertook to pull his son out Of bed on the
oath inst, when the young man fred a re-
volver Al his father and killed him.
On the 18th inst, a sldd containing four
boyp, engaged in fishing in the Wabash
river, at Mount Carmel, III, was drawn
under the dam by a Counter-curreut, and
all bat one Of the boys drowned.
1t is rumored IA Washington that the
Fifth Cavalry, 81 which Gen. Emory is
commander, H. 10 be transferred to other
duty, and that Gen. Rousseau will be com
mander Of the department Of Washington.
A copy Of Elliou's Indian Bible, a work
no living man can read, was sold at auction
in New York, on the 28th ult, for 81, 100,
the highest price eveS paid for a printed
book in this country.
A Pennsylvania paper feels authorized
10 say that Thad. Stevens health is now
better than it has been for two years, and
that be will be Premier in Wade's Cabinet
when it is formed.
The New York Newbboys' Home, within
the last fifteen years, has provided for
81, 507 boys, and restored 1000 to relatives
and friends, at q cost Of $4,000, Of which
the boys have paid $4,000.
Thomas Thomas, the engineer of steel
mandatory in Chicago, was caught in a
revolving Wheel and literally dashed to
to pieces. He leaves a wife and two chill
dren in dependent circumstances.
Henry Kissinger, of Circleville, Ohio,
took the train al Columbus Tuesday night
the 2Sth nit, for Harrisburg, Pa. The
next morning his body was found near the
track, about four miles from the town, hor-
ribly mangled.
Official returns from every county in
Wisconsin, except Shawan0, show the ma
iority Of Dixon (Republicau) for Chief
Justice to be 7l37. That county gave the
Democratic candidate for Governor, last
fall, three majority.
According 10 the Geona papers, twelve
vessels left that port for America an the
month OF March, taking out 1866 emigrants
nearly all Of them from Northern Italy
that is 10 say, from the best part Of The
population.
The prisoners in jail at Terre Haute
Indiana, piled all their bedding against on,
Of the doors on the 29ih ult., and set fire Il
it, hoping TO escape in the confusion. The
Sheriff, however, discovered the fire in tim,
to extinguish il without releasing any
prisoners.
The official vote of the Michigan consti
tutional election has been published. Tit
total vote for the Constitution was G9,974
against, 1O9, SIS for prohibition 72,22S
against, "a, 53S; for annual Legislative SEES
sons, % O69 for biennial sessions, 1872
The trial of Edwin Kelley, the Ethio
plan minstrel, for killing Thomas Sharp
ley, now progressing in the Court Of Ses
sions, at New York, indicates the sCquit
tai of Kelley, who seems to have acted II
selt-defense.
A Vermont paper says that some Dart
mouth College students were lately eX
PEELED for riotous conduct at West Lebanon
and that some Of the classmates of the eX
PEELED parties in revenge broke into tn
College chapel and destroyed the organ.
The Inman steamer City Of Paris, arrive,
at Queenstown on the 9th ult., making tn
passage in seven and a half days-th
quickest time on record. The Paris is tn
steamer with which it was supposed tn
Cuba, Of the Cunard line, was racing.
Thirty conductors have been discharge,
within a few days by the Third Avenu
Railroad Company, in New York on &C
count Of a discrepancy between their coun
Of the number of passengers and the emu
meration mad, by detectives employed 70
the purpose.
The misery in some parts of Russia
caused by famine is still more appalhn
than that in East Prussia In Finland
--r.,-.nlFv- 80 in, g
seven had haTvosts having followed eac
other. Ia the districts of Muhigaewi, on
Of 5000 or 5000 inhabitants, not lie,
no. have died Of hunger and typhus
A Hungarian, named Gahor Naphegy
has been arrested, in New York, charge
with having obtained $50 600 from the FRI
Of c Powell Green a Co, by forging th
signature Of Senator Reverdy johnson
The accused SAYS Pc is En author. He vs.
formally associated with Santa Anna. II
ia held in 100000 bail.
Idaho adviCes, Of April Is, state that Il
Indians are committing depredations
the Jordan Valley, and il is Thought ii
programme OF the past four years will !
re-enscted by the ssvages in robbing burr
ing and numbering. The Indians made
raid through FsTette Valley, capturir
and driving of stock. Troops were sent
pursuit from Fort Boise. Placer mimi
is commencing in the creeks and GuloN
near Silver CITY.
Arson Burlingame and his suite
Chinese diplomats were banqueted IN IA
Francisco on the 2Sth ult Gov. Haigl
presided. Many representatives Of foreig
governments attended. Gen. Halleck an
Admiral Thatcher made speeches. NJ
Burlingame said his mission was the legi
innate consequence Of events which had r
Gently occurred in China, caused by q
West being brought into proper relation
with that country. IL had come to him M
solicited had been accepted in the bros
interest Of civilization, and would not
conducted in any narrow or partizen sens
ELECTION SET ASIDE.
a few weeks ago the County Court ,
Lincoln declared the election for Count
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