Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-04
NEW or TIE DAY

y @WS OFf a ih1~ IA n.
The reports from the grain crops Of Gal.
iforaia are remarkably favorable.
The German Turner's Ssengerbund eele-
brated Pfngest in New York on the lst
inst, with unusual eclat. .F ..t
A despairing shoemaker cut his throat on
Sunday night, in Chicago, because he failed
to fit customer.
A severe earthquake occurred on the
Pacific coast % tbs 29sh Ole The shocks
were mod powerful "a Nevada. No damage
re ported.
The guards which have been stationed
around the War Department for some time
10 enable Stanton TO stick" have been re-
moved by Gen. Seho6eld. t5tf
The Republican papers Of San Francisco
mostly speak Of the acquittal Of President
johnson as proof Of The high character Of
republican institutions. Democratic pa
uers say il will be the death Of the Repnb-
lcan party.
The Senate rejected the appointment Of
Hon. Henry Stanbery a. Attorney General
on The ID inst II is understood that his
reappointment 10 that Office was opposed
by Senators principally on the ground Of
his hostility 10 the Reconstruction acts.
The Steamer Ben. Mccullough took Gre
on the 26lh ulL, while lying mp Tor the
night in OuaChita river, between Trenton
and Camden, and burned to the waters
edge. Three lives were lost, viz William
Scott of Arkansas, and Mrs. Ryan and
daughter, Of Alabama. e
The persevering attempt 10 raise cotton
in India from American seed has proved a
total failure. The government Secretary
officially reports that the experiment has
been costly, and attended with no adj
vantage whatever. He recommends that
the attempt be abandoned. Hf.az-1 {
A negro girl in South Memphis at
tempted TO poison her fathers family Sun
day, by putting powdered glass in a pot Of
vegetables while they we're at church.
Being detected, she acknowledged the
crime, and gives az a reason her fathers re-
fusal 10 allow her 10 Join the Methodist
Church, he being Baptist.
A gay and festive female who has been
masquerading in Pantaloons, high'top boots,
and other masculine paraphernala, for
four years past, and melting the jealousy
Of all the beaux in her particular circle,
has just been discovered in New York,
where she was engaged to be married to .
young lady in Madison avenue.
A convention Of the Fenian Brother
hood, Of Michigan, was held at Detroit, on
the lst inst, with closed doors. An adj
dress was adopted, pledging support 20,
and confidence in Gen. ONeill and the Sen
ate party. Large amounts of money and
men we're pledged. In the evening, an inn
mense mass meeting was held at She City
Hall.
Henry King, a real estate broker, has
been arrested IN New York and committed
for trial, on the charge Of swindling Henry
c. Decides out of twelve hundred dollars 10
gold. The latter had sent that amount 10
that city from Louisville, 10 a firm of a
similar name as Eing's. King received
the money by mistake, and appropriated
it, a.. rs.s ssr aer
During the rain storm on the Doth ult. a
water spout swept down MoOdy's MouR4
tain, in Hope township, Knox county,
Maryland, cutting three raviBes down the
mountain, one Of them four rode wide aad
eight feet deep also uprooting in is course
trees ten inches in diameter, and raising
Lincoln pond in one night three feet higher
than ever before known.
Gen. Buchanan has finally issued bis
order announcing the Stste, parish and iu-
dicial officers elected in Louisiana. The
General Assembly will not convene until
the acceptance Of the new Constitution by
Congress. The civil government is de-
clared provisional until after the adoption
of the fourteenth amendment The above
mentioned officers will pot take their seats
until November. The order does not al
Jude to the municipal elections. s.
The army worm, so fatal 10 the cotton
crops, has appeared already in different
and widely separated parts of Louisiana I;
in the Felicianas, some distance 10 the east
Of the Mississippi river, in 81. Landry, far
west Of il, and in Rapides, on Red river.
IL has also made its appearance on many
plantations in Fort Bend county, Texas,
and is rapidly destroying the young cotton
TO such an extent that many persons, it is
stated, are blowing up their cotton and
planting corn. There are similar reports
from Brazoria, Wharton aud Polk conn
ties, Texas.
Fifty-iwo students have inst graduated
at the Michigan University. OF this nun
Der, thirteen expect 10 practice law, four
medicine three will enter the ministry,
five expect 70 teach, and two will enter the
profession of journalism. Engineering. in
its various branches of mining, bridge
building, railroading and architecture.
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10 90 into business, and four will live a life
Of retirement on their farms, aud stir the
soil for their daily bread. Two OF the
class are already married, and twenty
others are engaged.
A CINCINNATI dispatch Of the ID inst.
saws: The storm Of Yesterday afternoon
did considerable aamage IN the snrr0nnd-
ing country AZ kirkwOod fifteen miles
from here, n large brick hotel in course Of
construction, was blown down and almost
completely demolished. Other localities
also suffered, and much damage was done
20 the early fruit by hail. Another heavy
wind storm passed ever this region early
this evening, and thunder and lightning,
and considerable rain prevailed since eight
O'clock, and tae wiad IS very strong again.
The following is the text Of the resolu-
ton offered in the Senate on the ID inst BY
MIR. Edmunds, Of Vermont, 90 exclude
from the Electoral College the votes Of GER
tain Southern States: That the States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Corolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas respect
lively, shall not be admitted 10 representa-
ton in the Electoral College Cor the Office
Of President and Vice President OF the
United States, aud no electoral votes shall
be served or counted from any such re-
speCtiye StStes unless Sc the time pre-
scribed by Law Cor tho choice Of electors
the people Of such States shall, pursuant 10
acts Of Congress in thRi behalf, have, since
the 4th day Of March, 1857, adopted a
Constitution Cor State government, under
which State government shall be organ
lied, and shall he in peaceful operation,
and such State shah also have become en-
titled 70 representation in Congress pursll-
ant 10 the acts Of Congress in that behalf
NOTICE no DEIEGArES.
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