Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Father J. M. Veillers, Catholic Priest Of
Richmond, Indiana, hanged himse.f 70 his
bed post, on the night Of the 5lh inst.
The celebrated Hsnlon brothers are per
forming at the Louisville Theater this
week.
The Mayors office at Belleville, Illinois,
was robbed, on Friday night Of twenty
Sax hundred dollars.
Stephen Ashley, Of Davies county, KY,
committed suidede Saturday night by blow
ing his brains out with pistol.
Wm. Kriel Of Louisville, shot his wife
dead Oh Saturday, shot twice at his sister
in-law. and then attempted TO blow his own
brains out.
Hon. Richard H. Bayard, formerly
United States Senator from Delaware, and
Minister to Belgium, died in Philadelphia,
ON the 9Th inst, aged seventy-fve years.
Mrs. Caiharine Lindsay leaped from the
Fort Hamilton ferry, in New y ork, Friday
morning, and was drowned. She had been
out Of employment was a widow, and had
four small children.
The impeachment managers on the part
Of the House Of Representatives have been
examining the reporters Of some OF Presi-
dent Johnson's speeches, and others have
been sent for to testify before them.
Grant has been lost sight Of during the
Impeachment excitement, but he meets his
friendF sIyly and receives suggestions from
them, aud acts on them, as illustrated in
restoring 10 places the negro councilmen
and delaulting Street Commissioner in
New Orleans.
The Secretary OF State says our Consul
at Rome denies that he fought on behalf of
the Pope. He went out to see the fight,
and while assisting a wounded man was
shot at, and took up gun in self defense.
Secretary Seward has reprimanded him
for the course he pursued.
In Selma, Alabama, on the Sd instant,
Emma Aiken and Lizzie Hardin, women
of the EAST variety, quarreled while riding
together, and the former fired two shots
from a revolver at her friend, one Of them
causing Lizzle's death, and the other slight
ly wounding the driver of the carriage.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
night TO the New York Times states that
General Hancock, in dispatch to General
Grant, asks 60 be relieved from the COM
mand Of the fifth military district, in view
OF the non concurrence Of the latter in his
administration Of affairs. The request will
be forwarded to the President.
Major s. II. Hillyer, formerly of the
Confederate army, committed suicide
about two weeks since, near Beckley's
Landing, Marengo county, Alabama. He
rode from his residence to store near BY,
purchased phial of morphine, and took
about half Of it before leaving. He then
mounted his horse, but had not proceeded
far before he fell off he died in few
hours.
Omaha dispatches state that severe snow
storm occurred at Denver and Cheyenne,
and along the Pacific railroad as far east
as Fort Kearney, Thursday and Friday
nights last. The railroad is blocked, and
snow drifted four feet deep in some places.
No trains have reached Omaha since Fri
day. Reports from Fort Laramie say that
several thousand Indians have gathered in
that neighborhood, who expect to hold
council with the Peace Commissioners in
the spring They still insist upon the,
abandonment of the Powder river country
by the government, but they manifest more
friendliness than they did last fall.
The report Of the President of the Board
of Managers Of national asylums for dis
sbled volunteers, for the year ending De-
cember last, states that there is central
branch asylum at Dayton, Ohio, an eastern
branch near Augusta, Maine, and a north
western branch at Milwaukee. Wisconsin.
The institution, during the last year, sup
ported or aided 1867 partly or totally dis
sbled soldiers, and the average expense
for the subsistence of those in the asylums
a Of oaA q Ia ,f-- -
The outdoor reliefamounted TO near ten
thousand dollars.
Gen. Van Wyck will in a few days sub
NIT 10 the House Of Representatives his
report in regard to whisky frauds His
report will detail the nature and extent of
the frauds, the manner in which they are
perpetrated, the loss to the government,
and 10 what extent the Federal officials are
connected with them. He will recon-
mend a reduction of the tax on whisky TO
fifty cents per gallon, TO be collected at the
still, and the quantity produced and the
amount Of tax 10 be estimated by the ca
pscity Of the still.
The election in Shelby county, Saturday,
resulted Ia the success Of the entire Re
publican ticket by 1900 10 1000 majority.
The election was comparatively quiet in |
Memphis. Troops were called out in the |
seventh ward, snd soon quelled disturb
sDce. Mayor Leftwich, in the morning, |
addressed a note TO Maj. Davis, command |
ing the post, requesting troops TO prevent |
the negroes from the country from coming |
in to vote. Major Davis declined granting
the request, saying he had been notified by /
the Superintendent of Police that he had /
taken all the precsution necessary 10 carry
out the plan suggested by the Mayor. In
one ward, the negroes stripped the Demo
cratic cards off the horses attached TO
hacks, and st one time it was feared Sc
rious affair would result from il, bat the
police soon quelled it,
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