Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-28
largest Circulation in city and state
NEWS OF THE DAY.

lngton, Saturday, made the trip from Ore
gon across the plains in leas than four
weeks.
Smantha Grier, charged with a muir
derous assault on Miss Comsiock, in Chi
oago, has been held for trial on $4,000
bail.
Charles, son Of Levi Oily, while
blowing near Raritan, Illinois, was kicked
TO death by one Of bis horses, 2 few days
ago.
Adyices from Arkansas state that buffalo
gnats are very destructive 70 stock. The
Des Arc Citizen Gays fifty horses we're
killed in that vicinity last week.
The Frankfort Commonwealth of April
II contained no less than six proolams-
tions by Governor Stevenson, offering re-
wards for the arrest Of assassins.
The Secretary Of the Interior has sent a
communication to Congress, stating that
an appropriation ought to be made TO re-
lieve the destitution Of certain Indian
tribes
In Louisiana, sixteen Democratic and
sixteen Radicals are elected, with four to
hear from. The House stands forty. four
Democrats and forty-siT Radicals, with six
teen 10 hear from.
There are already three hundred appli-
cations for admission to the new Asylum
for Idiots, in Ohio, which will not be
ready for occupancy for six weeks. The
old asylum has forty-eight inmates.
At Mechanicsvile, near Albany, the
other day, Edward Flynn was fatally
wounded by ball from rife which his
brother-in-law, John Smith, was carelessly
handling.
In Portage. Wisconsin, few days ago,
Mary, daughter Of Martin Ingerbritsen,
attempted 10 kill her mother with an ak.
The girl is in Jail, and is supposed TO be
insane.
Our Consul at Port Mahon, under date
Of March 81, reports that Information has
been received there that the typhus fever
has appeared on the coast Of Africa in adj
dition to the famine.
The Massachusetts House Of Represen-
tatives promptly killed a proposition TO al
low the Governor TO issue brevet commits
sions 10 officers who had served during the
war.
On the night Of the 23d, during the pro-
gress Of Fenian meeting in Headley's
Hall, Chicago, the floor gave way, letting
about thousand persons into the cellar
below. One man was killed and twenty
or more dangerously wounded.
Paul Rath private Of company G, 9th
United States infantry, stationed at Fort
Wallace, Kansas, was brought 10 Topeka,
Kansaa, on the oath inst, charged with
robbing the United States Express Office
az that post Of $4,000.
The Democrats Of Massachusetts will
hold a convention at Worcester, May 20,
to choose delegates at large to the National
Convention. They propose to choose dis
trict delegates at the same time.
The steam saw-mill Of Green & Bro, Of |
Chicago, at Mainstee Michigan, was com
pletely destroyed, on the 22d inst, by
boiler explosion. Eight men we're instant
ly killed and four Others we're seriously To-
iured.
Some confident persons in New York
paid ninety cents on the dollar for MeEi- |
can bonds, three years ago, believing that
when the Republic should be re estab- |
lished, their Investment would be secured. |
Now, the same sort of paper commands on
ly twenty cents.
The telegraph informs us of the death Of |
n
and statesman of national reputation, who |
during his long public life was regarded as
one Of the sblest and purest men in all the |
land, and who enjoyed to a wonderful de- |
gree the confidence and esteem of his peo- |
pie.
Ii il understood the Arkansas Senators |
and Representatives will be admitted i'm
mediately after the conclusion of the inn |
peachmeGt trial. They are all in Wash |
ington, hungry for grab at mileage. The |
South Carolina and other Southern carpet |
baggers will follow.
A Memphis dispatch of the 25th inst.
says The buffalo gnats are killing all the |
stock through the country. The stock |
along the river counties suffer most. The |
late spell Of bad weather has increased the |
gnats, and planters in some cases have lost |
their entire stock.
Mrs. Mira Cane was burned TO death by |
the explosion Of an oil can, in Orangeville, |
Mshoning county, Ohio, a few evenings |
since. The can contained the Celebrated |
non-explosive mineral OIL" Gas had gen
Grated in the can, aud igniied from the |
fame Of candle which stood upon the |
table while Mrs. Cane was filling lamp. |
The Memphis Post Of the oath inst says:
Col. Tourielotie, who was sent to Little |
Rock 10 investigate the frauds at the late |
election in Arkansas, has passed this city |
on his way back 10 Nickshurg. IL IL un- |
derstood that his report viii not endanger |
she adoption OF the free Constitution.
Senator Yates has Just written a letter to |
the people Of Illinois. in which he admits |
that he has been drunk rather frequently |
Of late, but says he has reformed again. |
He SAYS, furthermore, that drunk or sober, |
he has always been a good Republican, |
which, of course, covers a multitude of |
sins
Mr.. O'Hara, the newly elected Demo |
cratic Clerk of the Recorders Court Of |
Chicago, has been sued for SIC, 900 damages !
for forcibly putting Simeon W. King, a
lawyer, cut Of the cout room while he |
(OHsra) was engaged in naturalizing
newly-arrived lrishmen, before election |
day.
1t appears that the number Of applica- |
tions TO the Treasury Department for Of |
fetal positions from February 20 to April |
20, were l166, ahd the appointments not |
over 100, of which fifty were in tine Second !
Auditors Office, by special law, and the !
remainder 20 ell vacancies caused by resig- |
nations or removals.
The Republican State Convention Of !
Delaware met at Dover on the 23d. Reso-
lutions were adopted indorsing the recon-
struction legislation Of Congress, impartial
suffrage, and impeachment, and iavoring
the payment Of the debt according to the
spirit Of the contract. Tue favorite oandi- |
dates for President and Vice President |
were Grant and Wade.
Michigan City, Indiana, is about to have
a big sensation in the way Of breach of
promise suit Mr.. Walter Leeds, the hero
Of the affair is a young man OF proposes
sing appearance and a Miss Monroe, a
youag lady Of lovely mold, is the heroine
The former has been trihing with the atiec-
tons Of Miss Monroe, who feels herself |
damaged about thirty thousand dollars, |
worth
A oolored veteran from Virginia was |
harsnguing Gen. Grant feu days ago, /
ana telling him what must be instantly |
done 81 lac expected any oolored votes in |
Virginia. When be had reached this |
point an his discourse, the General rang |