Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-22
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

in Massachusetts is set down al 1910.
Brev. Brig. Cen o. L. Shepherd has
been assigned to command Of the Military
Sub-District Of Alabama.
The Shelbyville Tenn Union is out for
johnson for President and Hancock for
Vice President COCA. Va.
1t Is reported that the Fenian organiza-
tion on the Pacific coast is being placed on
a war footing, probably with the intention
Of raid on the British Possessions.
The California Senate has unanimously
passed resolutions asking the President
and Congress TO hsnorably acquire OF an
mex British Columbia to the United States.
Gen. Gillem, commanding the Missis-
sippi Department writes that he is turning
over the administration of justice to the
civil courts as rapidly as possible.
The United States Supreme Court, to
which an appeal was made, sustained the
will Of Mrs Abigail LOring, Of Boston, who
donated Sl7l 900 10 various charitable in
situations.
The Presbyterians are moving TO have a
Northwestern Convention held in Chicago,
with the purpose of endeavoring TO effect
union Of the various branches Of their or
ganization.
The report of a woman giving birth TO
Eve children at once In st. Louis, at first
thought TO be a hoax, turns out TO be an
actual fact. Hundreds Of ladies have visited
the mother.
Seven aspirants are said TO be already
struggling Cor the honor OF receiving Mr..
Summers Senatorial position, which ex-
pires on the 4th Of March, 1869. IOf these
seven competitors, three are mentioned a.
most conspicuous-M essrs. Butler, Banks
aud Bullock.
Mrs. Sarah Schofeld died ia Port
Huron, Michigan, on the 18th, at the age
OF one hundred and three years. She bore
her hundred years with more apparent
ease than woinen usually do their sixty,
and managed her business up to the time Of
her death.
American commercial agents, in cOnse-
quence of the dull trade in the United
States, are said to be swarming in Canada.
The Toronto Globe says: "The number Of
commercial travellers from the other side
Of The lines who have visited Canada this
year already exceeds any previous year
since 1861"
Ii il something of a novelty 10 hear OF
ene being frozen TO death in Louisiana
The Courier Of The 1'eche says that Mr.
Pierre Berges left So. MartinVille-on eve
ming, lately, 10 return to his residence, and
was found the next morning frozen TO death.
His horse was also found dead near him.
The Radicals declare il John Young
Brown, of Kentucky, is returned, the
House will treat the vote cast for him as a
nullity, having already declared him in
eligible and that the candidate receiving
the next highest number Of votes shall have
the seat. Democratic members of the
House think Brown should be promptly
returned.
The Fenian scare in England has caused
great increase ia the police authorities Of
the various cities and towns. According
20 official returns, the number Of special
constables enrolled in England under the
Fenian alarms, reaches one hundred and
thirteen thousand six hundred and seventy
four, of which number 6ny-tWo thousand
were in London.
Several of the Southern railroad and
steamship lines, in order 20 facilitate i'm
migration, have made arrangements TO is
sue regular emigrants' ticket from New
York 10 all points in the South. A special
agent is 10 be stationed at Castle Garden,
New York, 10 accost emigrants on their
arrival there from Europe, and prevail
upon them to proceed South Immediately.
The question whether or no lager win
intoxicate, has been again judicially deter
mined. The trial was had at Poughkeep-
sic. Several witnesses were sworn. Five
Of them testified that they were in the
habit of drinking from forty TO eighty
glasses a day, and were never drunk. One
stated that a few days ago he and thirteen
other "church members drank at one sit
ling twenty-sight glasses, and gave no
sign" of being drunk. But despite all this
strong testimony, the jury found a verdict
legally establishing the fact that lager will
intoxicate.
The Zanesvlle COsa-ier says az the recent
term of the Common Pleas Court of Mus
kingum county, Ohio, Joseph Tate recoy-
cred 500 damages'of Isaac Clark and VIM.
Inlay, Trustees of Meigs township, Mus
kingum county, for rejecting has vote at the
October election. Tate's mother was a
white woman, and his father had pre-
ponderance OF white blood. II the cleo
lion, one of the Trustees, VIM. Dunlap, was
in favor of allowing Tate to vote, but was
overruled by his colleagues. There are
four or five similar suits pending against
the came Trustees.