Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-19
NEWS OF THE DAx.

Ben. Perley Poore is soon to publish his |
"Observations about Congress" extending |
through twenty years.
Its stated that the President will make
no more important appointments before the
adjournment Of Congress.
Mrs. Tyler, the widow Of ex-President,
is in Wellington On AWAIT; the. first since
she presided at the White House.
There is a great scarcity Of buffalo and
antelopes on the plains this season. Badgers,
rabbits and prsirie dogs are the only game
10 be seen.
Among the deaths By sunstroke IL New
York on the 18th inst, was DR.. Morton, the
Well-knoWn discoYerer OF the anssthetic
properties Of ether. sEIttT gEE aEt,F
The Texas Convention disclaims suthori
ty 70 divide the State under the Feeonslruc-
ton acts, and refuses 10 consider the mat
ter nnles8 By direct authority from Con-
gress. W. RI llFIl II VI alNa
There are approximations for the safety oil
Isaac Lash, member Of Congress elect, who
left North Carolina several weeks since Tor
Washington, and has not been heard from
since. HaHt HEMNtl
John F. McDonough, Of Black Crook
fame, has sued Fornegs Press, Claiming
SlOO 900 damages for libel. The alleged
libel consists Of an article copied from a.
Chicago paper, rejecting on McDohough's
honesty . "-"-t -a 81
A cOroner's jury in Dayton has found
new synonym for drunkenness. They find
that deceased "died Of alcoholism, together
with the effects Of sunstrOke received yes
terday, from which a vitiated and debili-
tated syAtem was unable TO rally" "A ID d.. a
Mr.. Benjamin Warren, the oldest resi-
dent Of Wellington, LOrsin county, o., and
relative Of Gen. Joseph Warren, who was
killed at Bunker Hill, died on the Sd inst,
aged ninely-six. He YVES born ia Tyring-
ham, Mass, April 10, 1872, and ID religion
and politics was Of the old Puritan sype.
The song Of the locusts ON some parts Of
Long Island, especially along by North
lslip Station, is 30 loud as to drown the
sound Of ordinary conversation. The land
Is covered with millions Of them. They
infect the shrub oaks. Many limbs oftrees
are seen TO have been killed by them; but
il is said that they have done no other
damage to vegetation. .....
The foolish talk Of the last few DAYS
about the organization of third party has
played out. The ticket nominated by the
New York Convention is daily growing in
popular favor in Washington, az well as
elsewhere, and nobody could be found TO
head The movement, and il very jndici0usly
went TO the dogs. Ali lis late friends now
accept the situation" and are for Seymour
and Blair. F..r
At the second meeting Of the creditors
Of Jacob Barker, the New Orleans bank
rupt banker, the assignee reports that
claims have been proved against the estate
by some 275 different creditors, represent
ing an aggregate Indebtedness Of about
1855, 600 He reports for present distribu-
lion among creditors, $4,000, or three and
one-tenth per cent, and the whole amount
likely to accrue to creditors, from first TO
last, will be from thirty-ive TO lhirty-eight
per cent. 'srh ... '-
One day last week little child fell into
a cistern at Rochester, while its mothers
attention was temporarily called from il.
On missing it, the mother commenced
search, and in the course Of five or six
minutes drew from the bottom of the cis-
tern her little one, to all appearance dead.
A physician was sent for, and be, after
three hours unremitting labor over the
child, had the satisfaction of restoring
vitality 10 the chilled frame. Commissions
followed the restoration of vitality, bat
they we're soon checked, and the child has
since fully recovered. The plan pursued
was wrapping the body in warm lannels
and initiating and COMPRISING the lungs.
A Washington dispatch Of the 18th
inst. to the Louisville Journal says: To
day the carpet.bag Senators" Harris snd
Kellogg, Of Louisiana, and Abbot and
Pool, OF North Carolina, were sworn in
Pool Is a native OF the State he is1ntended
10 represent. The others are natives of
the Lord knows where. A Radical MEM
Der Of the House, of the West, WAS among
the spectators who witnessed this "swear-
ing il" and when the thing was done, he
turned away with the remark to your
special that 'fhs Senate Of the United
States used to be a body of genllemanly
giants, but just now it looks as If it would
soon dwindle into body Of shirtless pig
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