Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Camp Morton for fair ground
Springfield, Illinois, went Democratic on
the 14th inst by three hundred majority
large gain since last year.
The Democrats on the Attn mat. elected
their Mayor Of Albany, New York, by
about three thousand majority tremeu-
dous gain.
Chicago is pretty free Of thieves now.
They are all hunting the lake shore for
bodies of persons lost by the Sea Bird die
sster, in order TO rob them.
At Geneva, illinois, on the 18th inst,
while two brothers, eight and ten years old,
named 0'Brien, were playing with gun,
it went of, and the younger was killed.
A number Of prominent citizens of
Vicksburg who migrated in pure disgust
10 Balize, Honduras, after the war, have
thought better Of 10, and returned home.
A renniea Of officers Of the army Of the
the Potomac is proposed TO be held at Get
tysburg, abont the FIRST Of July, to celebrate
the anniversary of the battle Of Gettys-
burg.
horse thief named Frost was killed in
Barry county, Missouri, the other day, By
man whose horse he had stolen and was
riding away. Frost lived in Chillioothe,
Missouri.
The heads Of department represent that
at no time in the history Of the nation has
there been such stagnation Of official ope-
rations az at the present time. All the
business transacted in the departments is
Of the merest routine character.
Mrs. Harry Thomas, Of st Louis, walked
ninety-two miles in tWenty-three hours,
ending at half past two o'clock on the l4th
inst She started TO walk one hundred
miles In twenty-four hours, but failed az
above. She will make another trial.
Senator Wilson said on the 18th inst
81 will beat Wade two to one for the NOM
ination Of the Vice Presidency, provided
when he gets Johnson's place he don't use
the patronage corrupty." Wilson laughs
at ColfsK's pretensions TO the same place.
He knows the Speakers csliber.
Al the charter election in jersey City,
New jersey, on the 18th inst, O'Neil,
Democrat, was elected Mayor by eight
hundred majority; Democratic gain 8S5.
The Republicans gain three Aldermen.
The vote is the heaviest ever thrown-6544
being thrown, against 300 last year Hud-
son, Hoboken, Hudson City and Bergen
were also carried by the Democrats.
A Wisconsin farmer wanted TO kill him
self last week, and with that purpose
hacked off his nose with a drawing knife,
chopped of hand, and nearly amputated
an arm. He then cut his throat and stabbed
himself Ia twenty places, when, enraged
at the obstinacy of the vital spark, he
seized gun and blew a hole through his
body. Success then crowned his efforts.
Great distress still exists among the re-
spectacle working classes of New York.
An instance occurred on the 10th inst.
where a healthy decently dressed mechanic
applied 20 be committed "a a vagrant, say
ing that he was unable to get work, and
wished to be supported for fortnight in
the hope that times would then be better.
The rolling mill hands at indianapolis,
Indiana, are on a strike, the Superintend-
ent having given notice OF reduction Of
twenty-five per cent in wages, and the
workmen at first refusing TO concede more
than fifteen per cent. After consultation,
the men consented TO a reduction Of twenty
per cent, but the owners refused and thus
the matter now stands.
A terrible railroad slaughter occurred
the line Of the Erie railway, at Cars Point,
sixteen miles west of Port Jarvis The
train was the midnight train from Buffalo
and was due in New York at Z A. NJ. The
accident was caused by a broken rail-
Four cars we're thrown down an embank-
menl twenty feet. The company scknowl-
edge that thirteen men we're killed and
fffy-two wounded One Of the cars took
4 I'd 80.
have been burned up.
Joshua Grimsley has been arrested in
Page county, Virginia for the murder Of
his brother, Simeon Grimsley. Some years
ago they purchased a farm conformity, with
money left them by their father and ST.
neon, who made the bargain, procured the
deed in his own name. This caused bit
ter feud between the two brothers, and a
few evenings since Joshua loaded his gun,
and having waited for his brother Mt the
roadside, shot him through the heart az he
was returning home.
Senator Cameron is after Forney's Sec
retaryship of the Senate, aud among other
suggestions is that the Senate order an in
vestigation into the formers accounts and
the manner of keeping them. A forty
thousand dollar defalcation was committed
in his Office last year, which was charged
on a clerk, and which Forney made good,
but not only old Cameron, but many Others,
believe the clerk was made the victim OF
the rascality of some one else. Perhaps
the investigation may discover who is the
guilty party.
The Dayton Ohio Journal, of she 18th
inst, says a careful examination Of the
fruit buds in that region proves that bat
little damage has yet been done by the
frost. In one orchard, out Of 3 dozen sam
Piles each Of peach and plum buds, hut two
Of the latter, aad three Of the former, were
blghted but a similar examination Of
buds Of other fruits revealed no deficiency.
Similar information comes from Zanesvillo
and from points further north. Owing TO
the backwardnoss Of the season, il appears
the buds were generally not sufficiently de-
yeloped 60 suffer great injury from the late
severe frosis.
boy named Adams, thirteen wears old.
son Of Ralston Adams, hanged himself in
his fathers barn, six miles south Of Nslpa-
raise, Indians, few DAYS ago. The little
fellow, il appears was required to do the
work of a man, and something more; for
on returning 60 the house, in the evening,
after blowing all dav, he was made to split
wood, and then directed by his step-mother
10 20 20 a marsh at some distance, and drive
up the cows Heart-sick of the drudrerv.
probably, he went 10 the barn instead Of
after the cows, on the evening in question
tied rope 10 a beam, fastened siip-noose
round has neck, jumped from the manger,
and was ohoked 10 death.
Tar Senior Editor Of the Knoxville