Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-23
National Democratic Ticket
FRANK P. BLAIR,
NEWS OF the DAY.

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Il il reported that twenty-five Englisl
pickpockets landed in New York last
month.
Maggie Mitchell the actress ia building
block OF seven houses in New York, near
Central Park.
About ten thousand balas Of hay have
been shipped from New York to Europe il
the last two weeks.
Passenger trains on the Central Pacific
railroad are now running 10 Browns Sta.
ton, 235 miles east Of Sacramento.
A colored man named Joshua Jones shot
HE wife on the 10Th inst. at Philadelphia
while walking with her on Central street
lie made his escape
Mrs. Kohl, poor, aged woman, and an
invalid, was burned to death in Chicago on
the 10Th inst, by Gre which destroyed the
tenement house in which che lived.
The Washington working-men have ap
pealed 10 the President 10 rescind Secretary
SchOfeld's order, allowing only eight hours
pay for eight hours work.
A trial Of speed between the steamers
X. N. Rice and Jay Cooke, between Nal.
den and Detroit, resulted in favor Of the
Jay Cooke. Time made 10y the jag Cooke
one hour aud thirteen minutes.
The bronze guns appropriated by Con-
gress 10 the sixth army corps, for a monu.
ment at West Point have been cast at the
Philadelphia bronze works into full
length figure Of Major General Sedgsick.
Secretary Browning has received an aft
davit from the Presideat Of the Union Pa
ciic railway, announcing that an addi-
tlonal section of twenty miles Of road, ex-
tending 10 700 miles west from Omaha has
been completed.
The examination Of Dr.. Chas. =. Pow
ers, on the charge Of causing the death Of
Mrs. Mary Abbie Bowen, by malpractice
At Boston, on the 9th inst, resulted in his
being committed for trial, in default Of bail
20 the amount Of $4,000.
The committee which has been man.
aging the affairs Of the Hon. 4. DARCY
McGee, has been met with great iberaIity
in etlecting settlement Of his debts on the
part Of his creditors, but the public sub
scriptions thus far received are not sulli-
cient TO cover the amount owed by him.
When Mr.. Evarts received notice from
General Butler that he would be expected
20 defend Butler in the suit OF the Kim
berly brothers, the Attorney General re-
marked that he supposed il Butler insisted
upon hIs advice "A counsel, that he would
follow IL, aud il would be Ia settle at once
ON the most favorable terms he could OBJ
tain.
VIM. Il. Holden, arrested on the oh
inst, at New York, on the fictitious charge
of stealing a carpel-bag from train on the
Erie road, il the robber Of the American
Express Office, at Cedar Springs, Michigan,
on the 23d Of March, of a gold watch and
fifteen hundred dollars Deputy United
States Marshal Cady, Of Michigan, has ar
rived in New York, and is waiting for a
requsitIon from the Governor Of that State
70 take Holden 10 Michigan.
A singular tidal phenomenon has oc-
Cured at San Pedro, South California. A
series of waves commenced flowing upon
the coas' causing the tide 20 rice three or
four feet above ordinary high water, fol-
lowed by falling tide the same distance
below low water mark The rise aud fall
occurred regularly every half hour for
several hours, creating considerable alarm
among the inhabitants Whereabouts. The
incident is attributed 10 some marine dis
turbance causing the bottom of the sea 10
rise and fall, thus impelling the waves to-
ward the coast
Information has been received At the PEN
sion office, that on the 10th inst. Edwin II.
Dantrich, Of Carroll City, Iowa was Ar
rested Tor fraud on the Pension office
brought before United States Commissioned
Woodward, of Des Moines CITY. Iowa. and
held 10 bail in the sum Of $4,000 for his
appearance ut the October term Of the
United States District Court. The accused
hAd prepared three claims Tor pensiona.
which, IN investigation, proved 20 be en-
hrely false aud fraudulent in their charac.
ter. the parties therein named having no
existence whatever.
The trot at Dexter Park, at Chicago, on
the 10Th inst, between the st. Louis mare
Jockey, the Cincinnati horse, Silas Rich.
and the two Chicago horses, jim Rockey
and bashaw, Jr., Cor purse of $1,000 for
the best 5000 30 the second, $500 TO the
third, and $500 TO tho fourth was one Of
the liveliest turf contests Of the season.
BashSw took the first, Rockey the second.
Silas Rich the third, Jockey. being di.-
tancod on the third heat, no purse WAS
awarded TO him. Time, 2:3lt, 2:27B, 2.27k,
2:294. SilAs Rich was sold by CavAaauVh.
the previous day, for $1,000, to parties 10
Chicago.