Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-02
CONDENSED TELEGRANIS.

B. G. Binkley's refinery at Titusyill5 Pa
burned Saturday night. Loss $1,000.
An unknown female, aged about twenty,
was struck by lightning Sunday afternoon,
in Greenville, La, and instantly killed.
Chicago proposes to establish at the su-
burban town of Cornell permanent me
tropolitan fair for the exhibition of agri-
cultural, mechanical and industrial pro-
ducts.
The weather is again extremely no; in
New York. Sunday the thermometer
ranged from "a to 100 in the shade. There
were a number of cases Of sunstroke.
The street railroad, three feet gauge, cOn-
meeting East Walnut Hills With the city of
Cincinnati, opened Saturday. This Isl the
first narroW-gauge street railroad in the
country.
Three boys, two white, one colored, aged
about twelve, were found dead Sunday
night on Bayou st. Johu, La. 1t is sup5os-
ed that they had been killed on Sunday
afternoon by lightning.
The subscriptions in New York for the
monument to Gen. Thomas now reach
81 1854.
The annual police report shows an sPpa-
rent falling off in the number of crimes of
all sorts committed in New York in 1871
from the previous year
Three noted scoundrels in Newark got a
taste of Jersey justice Saturday TO the ex-
tent Of ten years each in State prison.
These were Michael Can, ex-prize fighter,
James Finnegan and Michael Farley, the
trio who brIIsaily beat and robbed a New
ark jewelry store keeper named Bannister
some four or five months ago.
During the performance of farce at the
Metropolitan Theatre in Washington Satur-
day night, Charles Brown, banjo PLAYER,
shot a man named Keegan, a song and
dance man. 1t was supposed that the
musket which Brown discharged at Keegan
contained only powder, but the ramrod bad
been carelessly left in the barrel. The rod
entered Keegan's head, inficting a danger
GUS wound. The shooting was purely ac-
cidental.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to purchase one million dollars bonds
each Wednesday and sell one million gold
! each Thursday during the month of July:
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
has called in Sl,500,000 three per cent TEN
porary loan certificates, dated from Aug. Il
To Sept. /, 1868, as follows: $1,000 each sL
outstanding numbers between 1858 and
3,949, inclusive, and $4,000 each all CT,
standing numbers between 4, ,15l and A, $50,
inclusive. Interest viii cease 31st August,
1872, on the above certificates.
VIM. Smith, editor of the Cincinnati
| Price Current, is dangerously i'll.
The East river bridge, connecting New
York and Brooklyn, will cost S9,500,000.t
The English Grenadier Band will, bef &c
sailing for home, give concert in N,sV
| York for the benefit of st. Georges Society,
Williamsport,. Pa, witnessed yesterday
procession of 2 2,080 Iumbermen on the strike
| The Mayor issued a proclamation closHe
/ all drinking saloons until after the 4th.
Yesterday Oakley Hall signed bill I
Mayor, appropriating s., 900 to pay counsa
! fees in the recent suits against himself.
It is believed in Washington that the RI
cent expedition for Cuba taken out on t 4
Fannie was successfully landed on tlk
| Island.
| Yesterday was the Canadian Fourth B
July, being anniversary of the New D
lninion. n
HollaIId LIS passed ministerial cr.t
without kottilG the world know until it "