Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-09
SATURDAY, MAY .. 1855.
Largest Circulation in City and State
NIaNya or TIE Day.


There are now about two thousand Uni
ted States soldiers stationed in Virginia.
There are one hundred and sixty-three
faro banks in New York and Brooklyn.
The growth Of Cheyenne-4000 in eight
months-is hurting Omaha.
Gen. Buchanan has ordered the assem-
bling Of the Texas Constitutional Conven-
ton June LIST, instead Of the 18th, as pre-
viOusly ordered.
Mrs Carter, the wife Of the Postmaster
at Nilwood, Macoupin county, Illinois,
committed euicide on the let instant, by
lifting her throat.
A widow, named Hutchinson, living in
Cairo has Just recovered verdict OF
1858 80 damages against the Illinois Cen
trail railroad for killing her husband in
November last.
The Hunnicut Republicans Of Virginia
are bitter against Governor Wells wing,
and a wide split in the party is apprehend-
ed in that State in consequence.
The Raleigh Standard gives returns
from seveEty-seven of the eighty-nine coun-
ties in North Carolina. The majority in
these counties for the Constitution is q ),
S45. and counties to come in will raise this
TO nearly 10000.
There was a very hard rain and hail
storm at indianapolis on the 9th inst. Con-
siderable damage was done TO railroads.
The depot at Greencastle junction was
blown across the track. All the streams
are very high.
In the bankruptcy case Of Robert c.
Rathbone, in New York, Judge Batch
ford, after severely animadverting upon
the bankrupfs conduct in soheming to
defraud his creditors by. false representa-
tons and returns, refused him discharge.
The body Of Anthony Freyvogel, a WELL
known citizen of Pittsburg, who disap-
peared last January, was found the other
day in the Ohio river, near Sewickly. A
bulet-hole in his temple leaves little doubt
but that he was murdered.
DIR. Clapp, an old citizen of Lansing,
Michigan, and a clerk in the Auditor Gen
erals Office, killed himself, by cutting his
throat, near Flint in that State, a few days
ago. lie had once before attempted his
life, some months ago.
II is estimated that eight thousand men
are now, OF lately have been, on a strike
in New York city for an advance Of fifty
cents per day in their wages. Carpenters,
masons, bricklayers, carvers, bakers, coop
ers and day laborers are connected with
the movement There is a force of police
stationed at the docks TO preserve order.
John Kayanangh, a school-teacher in ST.
Bridget's Catholic School, in Pittsburg
dropped dead in the school-room, on the
9th inst. He had Just chastsed one Of the
pupils, and was very much excited, and
was in the act Of seating himself in his
chair, when he Immediately fell down and
expired. His death was occasioned by
heart disease.
A negro named st. Clair, engaged in
stumping the interior Of Louisiana for the
Radical ticket, was killed by J. 4. Payne,
a white man, in Bastrop, Louisiana, two
weeks ago. Payne met St. CLAIR on the
road, and inquired his business, and where
he was from. st. Clair felt insulted by
the questioning, and, as Payne says, at
tempted 20 draw a pistol, but before he
could do 80 Payne shot him dead.
A report submitted to the biennial con-
vention of the German Turner'S, which met
in Boston, on the 9th inst, says thattwo and
a half years ago there were in the country
46associations, which 5000 members. There
are, nj the present time, eighteen districts,
which include one hundred and forty-eight
associations, with 10 200 members These
are in addition 10 the Pacific Turner Bund,
on the Pacific coast, which includes nine
associations, with 600 members, besides
three associations not regularly connected
with the national organization, with $50
members, thus making the whole number
Of Turner's nearly $1,000.
One Of the most interesting trots that
ever took place, came of on the Fashion
Course L. l., on the 5th inst Il was for
purse Of 800, mile heats, best three in five,
for horses that never beat 2:32 in harness.
The track was heavy, and cold wind ended
in rain after three heats were trotted. Six
horses started: Bradley, Breeze, Pence,
Amber, Billy Lewis and Atlanta-the
last two being distanced on the first heat,
and the first four stood as follows, in each
heat First heat-Breeze, Pence, Amber,
Bradley. Second heat-Bradley, Breeze,
Amber, Pence Third-Pence, Bradley,
Breeze, Amber. Fourth-Pence, Bradley,
Breeze, Amber. Fifth--dead heat between
Pence and Bradley, Breeze third, and Am
Der last. Sixth-Bradley, Breeze, Pence
third, and Amber ruled ont, when il was
postponed 20 the trst fair day. Time 1921
23l3; 2:3l; 2:324 232@; 2:S74. The
trot was resumed on the 9th inst, and after
another dead heat in 1904 between Brad
lev and Pence, il was won by Bradley in
$50.