Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-01
.arrcsi circulation in City and Stat


Saturday, at jersey Niiitg AAAtnot7'
Gov. Throckmortons house in Texas,
was strnc y lightning the other day.
The Ellsworth Zouaves are To become a
benevolent association.
OF the ernigrants who passed through
Columbus, Ohio, last week, forty-ihree i'm
tend locating 10 Tennessee.
The Albany Argus, the Democratic organ
Of ihe capital Of New. York, has come out
for Chase. tsHHtt s4a-E aEsr
Ristori, Lagrange, Tostee aud Henry j.
Raymond, sailed from New York, for
Europe on Saturday.
Two car loads Of Fenian arms and equip
meuls. 10 store house in ST. Adams, have
been quietly removed by Fenians
Reports from the various portions Of the
State Of Indiana are not favorable TO the
wheat crop. The weavel and the nudge
are cutting it badly.
New Orleans Radicals are in Washing
ton, asking Congress &c set aside the cleo
ton 10 that city, 60 as to get rid OF the
present Conservative officers. FaN
The Young lady at Keokuk, Iowa, TO
whom Il il reported that Mr.. COlfax Is TO
be married, is Mics Perry, daughter Of a
prominent and wealthy citizen, r
Rumor says Senator Norton, Of Mime
sofa, will shortly wed one OF the most ac-
complished Of Baltimore ladies, daughter
Of wealthy citizen Of that place.
In Milburn township, near Wsukegan,
Illinois, on the Oath instant, Miss Marga-
ret Tucker upset a Kerosene lamp, while
preparing for bed, and was burned TO death.
Doe of the London clerical agents ad-
vertises that his private list contains the
unprecedented number of one hundred
church 'livings" for sale, at prices varying
from $l250 TO $4,000. ..-.......
The sew York Antidiambling Society
reports favorable progress. They have
closed several Of the vilest gambling dens
in the city by prosecuting the landlords for
letting the places for such a purpose, and
their system Of spies has frightened away
the patrons. .... AGA aust
Cambridge University, England, on the
2Slh Of May, conferred the degree OF
Ii. d. upon Matthew +. Maury, who sails
for this country ON tho Lat Of July, TO enter
upon his duties as one OF the faculty OF
Washington College, Virginia.
Virginia farmers are Just beginning 70
harvest their wheat crops. Papers from
all sections Of the State say il is the best
crop made since the end of the war. Corn
is reported very backward.
Trot, Superintendent ofthe Girls Lodg-
ing House, in Blocker street, New York,
was cowhided in Broadway by Captain ID.
w. Wright, who had been charged by
Trou with seducing girl Of the instilu-
lion. Trott was severely whipped, andfhe
scege caused great sensation.
recent decision 10 the New York Court
Of Appeals ia TO the effect that a coupon
bond, payable othe bearer, is in the nature
Of bank note, and when bought by parties
in the ordinary conrse Of business, can not
be recovered by those who carelessly lose
them. Il
Charles Y. Robinson, formerly an
eugineer on the Day too and Michigan rail-
road, while discharging his duties in that
capacity, some time ago, was severely 10
iured, through negligence or carelessnes5 of
another employee. lie sued the company
for damages, and, at Lima, on Friday,
obtained a verdict for $4,000. i
A correspondent Of the Hannibal Mis-
souri, Courier, says that a New York colony
at Osborne, De Kalk county, on the line of
the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad,
have put up one hundred and fifty houses
since March last, aud two or three hun
bred families are now registered, and will
ere long, be on their way 10 their Western
homes."
james Foy, lad about eighteen years
old, on the 2lst inst, fell from the top of
the new Capitol at Topeka, sixty-6ve feet,
into the dust and small stone that had col
lected on the inside Of the building.
Strange as il seems he was not fatally in
jured. He was a good deal bruised and
cut up around the head and shoulders, but
will be able 10 he around IN few days.
The latest gossip from New York takes
this shape AFTER a complimentary vote
10 Pendleton, the Hon. Horatio Seymour
will be chosen by handsome majority as
the candidate for the Presidency. II is
stated that his recent speech was evoked
with this view. The New York delegation
are all present, and unanimously in favor
Of Seymour's nomination"
A Zlnesyille paper describes mcnsirosi-
~ TO which woman give birth in that |
neighborhood lately. The body of the |
child is naturally formed and perfect in all |
respects bat the head, instead Of mouth, /
has a well formed trunk, like an elephants /
proboscia, through which il received all the /
nourishment that the child partakes. The
youngster il said TO be ~ intelligent as
children Of its age generally are, and en-
Joys good health.
Joseph Clemens, residing near Malta,
Morgan county, Ohio, was killed by light
ming on Friday evening. He was on his
way home when overtaken by a storm, and i
rode his horse into the barn Of Mr.. Viii 4
liam smith, a ueighboring farmer, The
building was IN a few minutes thereafter /
struck by lightning, instantly developed in
flames aud entirely consumed. Nothing is
known OF Mr. Clemens further than that be
was seen to ride into the building, and il is
supposed that he and bis horse were both
burned
GeGerGl Stoneman, commanding 10 NlT-
giuia, has recommended the passage Of
bin providing for an election in that State
within sixty days, upon the adoption OF the
new Constitution, at which the article es-
tsblishing the new test oath shall be voted
upon separately. General Grant Endorses
that he heartily concurs in this recommen-
dalton, and Secretary Scho6eld gives It bis
approval. The latter, il viii be remem-
bered spoke by invitation before the con-
vention, and took ground against this oath.
TIKI Press aud Times states that the
Radical negroes are forming Mercer
Clubs, and intimstes that Col Prosser
stands no chance among the American
ritiZeus of African descent The infIu