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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-03
NEW YORK.
The Transit of Venus-A Joke on the
Scientific Landlubbers.

The Transit of venus-A Joke on the
Scientific Landlubbers.
New YORK, June 2.-The United States
war vessel Gettysburg arrived at the navy
ward Yesterday with the instruments and
appliances for the scientific corps engaged
TO make observations of the transit of We
nus. Everything was speedily transferred
to the Swatara. The stores contain five
sets of houses and tents, besides the scien-
tific instruments, which include five SPLEEN
did clocks, each worth nearly 81, 400. The
value of the material is said to be about
5000. The officers of the Swatara laugh
at the scientific gentlemen who, among the
outfit for the expedition, have supplied sec
tional houses for HabariztOwn, : place OF
$4,000 inhabitants. A scientific party, num-
bering twenty-six in all, are ordered on
board the Swatara Wednesday.
The COmmunard.
Rochefort has declined banquet, and
consented to deliver a lecture Friday even
ing in the Academy of Music, taking as his
subject, France, from the overthrow of the
empire to the present time" The proceeds
will be applied to the relief of the exiles at
New Caledonia, their wives and children,
and the widows and children of COmmun-
lists killed during the war.
The Temperance Tempest.
The United States Brewers Association
to meet in Boston Thursday will endeayor
| to form a temperance party, the initial
work thus far planned being the Orsaniza-
ton Ofleagues of freedom throughout the
country. An address is promulgated in
which the necessity for opposition to the
temperance movement, especially that
which takes the form of the women's cru
SADIE, is vehemently urged.
A Quartette of WORTHLESS.
President Grant, accompanied by Secre-
taries Fish and Robson and Gen. BabcOck,
arrived this morning, for the purpose of at
| tending the ceremonies of laying the cor
ner-stone of the Museum of Natural His
| tory in Central Park.
President Grant this evening laid the
corner stone in the presence of 1000 people.
Addresses were made by Gov. Dix, Ii. G.
| Stebbins and others. The building is tC
be 25 feet longer than the National Capitol
at Washington, and will cost S6,OOO,OO0.
Election Frauds.
The trial of Police Commissioners Oliver
| Charlick and Hugh Gardner, indicted fol
violations of the election law, has beer
fixed for Monday, the 18th. They have
given $1,000 bail, each.
Jim Fisk's Widow.
In the case of Lucy ID. Fisk, executrix o
Jas Fisk, jr., to determine her right as ;
stakeholder in the Union Pacific Railroad
Company to the amount of 10000 shares
Judge Blatchford gave his decision to-day
overTuling demurrer, and stating the bill
was properly framed, and that all the partiei
are proper parties to the suit,
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SPAIN.

PARIS, June St is reported here on
good authority that Marshal Serano will
soon order a general election in Spain and
if the monarchists are IN majority he viii
propose the Environment of the Prince OF
Astanias under his own regency.
LONDON, June 3.-Dispatches from San
lander report that town has been AZ
tackled by the Carljsis in force and IS in a
critical condition. Men-Of-war have been
sent to protect foreign residents. Reinforce
ments for the garrison are fastening from
the interior.
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Condensed TeIegrams.

The Presiden. returned to Washington
last night.
The will Of J. Edgar Thompson provides
that after the death Of his widow the estate
shall go to support Home for the children
Of employees killed on the Pennsylvania
Central.
The American Medical Association, in
session at Detroit, call on Congress to es-
tablish Sanitary Bureau.
New York builders talk of bringing
Italians for bod carriers to supply the place
of strikers.
The Governing Committee Of the New
York Sock Exchange were to take action
yesterday in regard to the proposed tax on
sales of gold and stocks, but We have not
received the result.
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twelve unbiushing and miserable polyga-
mists. The question now came before Cor
gress whether it woald open the courts and
provide the machinery by which the law
could be set in motion, or whether IL would
suffer the disgrace Of having its own law
disobeyed by that people, openly and ayow-
edly. Congress should repeal that law, or
provide some kind Of legal machinery by
which it could be enforced.
,The-debate closed, aud the House pro
eeeded to vote on the bill and amendments.
Mr.. Ceesna's amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Barber offered an amendment pro-
viding that the salary and fees of District
Attorneys should not be more in the aggre-
gate than $500, and that any excess of
fees should be accounted for to the Treas
urer.
The bill was then passed-yeas, l59;
nays, So - 4 - ! a.. LtEs.Lgz
The remainder OF the days session was
given to the business of the Committee on
Public Buiidings and Grounds.
Mr.. Plat, chairman Of that committee,
reported bin authorizing the Secretary Of
the Treasury to suspend work on public
buildings i'm certain cases. Passed.
Also adversely ON a resolution offered by
Mr.. Cox sometime ago, as to the new State
Department Building, calling for board
Of architects to examine and report on 1t.
Ordered printed. e, van ~ -
The House took recess TIL 7:sQ the eve
ming session 10 be for business from the
Committee on Private Land Claims.
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THIS Utah business is such mix
ture of pagan practices and Radical
rascaIity that it is hardly safe for any
Christian to take sides in the present
csntest. The bill passed by the House
Yesterday has yet to run the gauntlet
of the Senate, but the conduct of the
members yesterday seems to indicate
that it is regarded as party measure.
OF course polygamy cannot be screened
under the cloak Of religion, be-
cause marriage is a matter that comes
under legislation in every State OF the
Union. On the other hand, Cannon S
protest that the pending bill is a
scheme of Radical carpet-baggers to
oct control of the territory, squander
the wealth accumulated by Mormon IN
dustry. and exhaust its credit as well
as resources, may be the warning OF
natriot as well as patriarch-of four
wives. The party of moral ideas have
an ugly habit of stealing the livery o.
heaven to serve the devil IN.
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HARTsvILLE has sold her calaboose
for s19, and proudly claims to be the
most ri shteous town In all Tennessee.
OF course, the fact that nobody had
ever been induced to stay in the con-
Germ longer than was required to dig
out with a jack-knife had nothing to
do with its abolition.
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KENTUCKY.
Two Murders and n Suicide at NiehO-
IasViIIe.

Two Murders and n Suicide at NichO-
IasVfIIe.
CINCINNATI, June Am Enquirer spe-
cial from Nicholasville, KY, reports two
horrible murders to-day. This morning,
Mr.. Harding Ii. Masters, a much respected
merchant of Nicholasville, went to all the
saloon keepers and requested them not to
sell whisky to his sisters husband. All
consented except J. II. Soper, who assault
ed Masters. n. ii. Soper, a brother, inter-
fered. A friend of Masters then interpOsed.
A melee ensued, in which W. ii. Soper, a
son of the proprietor of the saloon, shot
Harding Ii. Masters in the back, through
the right lung, killing him almost in
stantly.
About noon, only twelve miles south of
NicholaSville, another murder aud suicide
was perpetrated, among the cliffs on the
bank of Kentucky river, in which Granville
Smith, a man 80 years old, killed his
nephew, Vim. Hughes, and then shot him
self. Both were farmers, and lived in the
vicinity of Danyille. Hughes failed a
short time ago, involving Smith in loss
of $4,000, nearly all the money he had.
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ARKANSAS.
staked Their All ON the Turn Of n Die
and Lost IT

ssaked Their All ON the Turn Of n Die,
and Lost It.
LITTLE Rock, June 1.-The following
appointments have been made by Governor
Baxter: E. III. English, Chief Justice, vice
John Mcclure, impeached and suspended;
W. NJ. II. Trapen, Associate Justice, vice
NJ. L. Stephenson, resigned; John 7. Rear
den and X. w. Compton, Associate Justices,
vice SeaTle and Bennett, impeaehed and
suspended; John J, Clenden, Circuit Judge,
vice John Whyloek, resigned; J. c. Davis,
Circuit Judge, vice W. H. 5. Clayton, re
signed; r. S. Fuller, CircHit Judge, vice
Geo. \. Kingston, resigned; j. n. Smith
Commissioner Of immigration and safe
Lands, vice W. II. Gray, impeached and
suspended.
Shot by a Cannon.
MEMPHIS, June 2.-The Appeals Hell
ena, Arkansas, special says Robert Reid, 4
notorious desperate, formerly keeper of q
low GROCERY and latterly proprietor of the
hotel there, was shot and killed by hi:
partner. Elisha w. Cannon, yesterday
morning. Cannon escaped.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
DOnblY POilced.

Boston, June 2.-The Lieutenant Gov
ernor sent into the Senate, this afternoon
accompanied by his veto, the bill to abolish
the State eonstabulary. He says if the 10
cal and State police together cannot enforce
the laws. it shows the need for more in
stead of less force. He is unable to see any
justification for setting aside any instru-
mentality that has been efficient in exc.
cutting the laws.
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A Gypsy BOY
D,es I'm Defense of His Mother.

New YORK, June "A Gypsy fortune
teller, encamped with the tribe a few miles
from Brooklyn, quaTeled to-day with the
leader of the band. He struck her, and
her son, boy, knocked him down. The
leader fired several shots at the boy. The
latter. VINO vas bit, staggered toward the
leader and stabbed him In the arms. The
leader then shot the boy through the heart,
The body was thrown into one Of the
wagons and the band hastily left. An
armed party has gone in pursuit.
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MEMPHIS.
Last saturdays Dissertation.

H@l.E =
MEMPHIS, June 2.-Wm. Henry Taylor,
Superintendent of the National Cemetery,
publishes a card denying that he participa-
ted in the riots and robbery At the decor
alton Saturday. He had charge of the rail-
road grounds by permission, and ordered
the refreshmeDt stands Off them, and the
proprietors readily complied. He further
saws that Recorder Whitley, who is also a
Justice of the Peace, advised Pope Bios
TO paw the So demanded by Swami. The
grand jury are still investigating the case.
The Playful Pistol.
Harry, aged 10, a son Of Frank Mellersh-
of the firm Of Eader & Mellush, while try
ingto get loaded pistol from playmate
this evening, was accidentally shot through
the lungs, and probably fatally wounded.
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psnnsxIvan,a,s Rai,roa.i King.

PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-The Board Of
Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will hold a special meeting to-
morrow, at which the question Of the sue
cessiOn to the presidency will be settled.
1t is believed that Scott will be made the
head of the Board, Roberts, First Vice
President, and A. j. Casset, the present
General Manager, Second Vice President.
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Another Connection az Evansville.

EvANsvILLE,June2. -Engagemen were
to-day consummated between the officers
of the Lake Shore, Evansville and South
western Railroad and the trustees Of the
bonds of this city, whereby the completion
of the road is assured from this city to the
rich eoal-iield Of Dubois county. Work
will begin on this line beyond Bonneville
immediately.
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EIGHTY SEVEN miles In eleven hours
and twenty minutes is the record made
yesterday by a Washington pony.
Such heat was a severe test of the
endurance of blooded stock. The av-
erage is not min. 40 sec. per mile.
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NnfianaI Christians.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, June 2.-The Ma
tional Christian Association, opposed to Sc
cret societies, met tonight. Two hundred
and fifty delegates, representing fifteen
States, have already reported aud the ar
rivals are large by incoming trains. All
the Northwestern States are represented.
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Fraud and ,Iismanagemeut.
LOUISIANA.
The Ievee BONDS declared valid.

New ORLEANS, June 2.-The Supreme
Cont have decided the levee bonds issued
under act No. 81, of 1870, to be valid
obligations of the State, These had been
enioined and in consequence of that lniunc
tion Sturm Bios. of London, and Other
large foreign bond-holders, had commenced
suifs against the State funding. If these
suits should be discontinued, the Board
will commence funding in July, paying the
interest on all bonds to January l, and in
terest on new bonds to July /.
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steamer Sunk.

ST. LOUIS, June 2.-The steamer Geo.
p. Wolff sunk in the Missouri river to-day
twelve miles below Brunswick in inches
of water. She is badly broken ard proba-
bly, cannot be raised: She had about %
tons of freight owned here valued at
$4,000 and insured for $4,000,
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ESTABLISHED MARCH 80. 1885

BENJAMIN III. BRIsTow, the new
Secretary of the Treasury. has for
years been ON terms of warm personal
friendship with Grant, and, as is the
case of Borie, Fish, Williams, Robson
and the rest of the Cabinet, this seems
to have been the moving cause of his
nomination, rather than any special
fitness for the important Office to which
he is called. A Courier ourndlspesia
informs us that his financial views are
in accord with those of the President.
The latter, it will be remembered, were
so luminously set forth in the Annual
Message of last December that most
of people have concluded Grant has
no financial views, except such as he
takes at second hand from the money
and monopoly ring which bought his
last election.
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The KnozUille Press and Herald has
at last worried the Chronicle into say
ing that it regards the policy of forcing
mixed schools upon the country as ''un-
wise and inexpedient"
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THE RAILROADS.
The wisconsin Wharf.-The Intervention
of n Federal Court Invoked.

The wisconsin Wharf.-The Intervention
of a Federal Court Invoked.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, June Z.-Papers have
been served upon the Attorney General and
Railroad Commissioners, notifying them
that an injunction would be applied for in
the United States District Court for the
Western Division of Wisconsin, to restrain
them from instituting any proceedings or
taking any measures for the purpose of exc
cutting the act of the last Legislature. The
action is brought by creditors of the Chi
cago and Nevada Railroad Co., who claim
that their securities are weakened or de-
stroyed by the law of last winter.
Fraud and Hismanagemeut.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, June "A bill IN
chancery was filed in the United States
Court, to-day, asking for the foreclosure OF
the first and second mortgages Of the Cen
tral Railroad Company Of Iowa, and the
appointment of a receiver pending decis-
ion. Over two hundred bondholders are
tbe eouplainants. 1t is ayerred that false
representstiens we're made in securing the
funding Of past due eOuFOns; that the man
| agement of the road is in the hands OF a
| few creditors, who are solely interested IN
| securing their claims to the prejudice OF the
bondholders; that the road is grossly mis-
managed, etc,
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LONDON, May 2.-The EPSON summer
began to-day, and the race for the Derby
stakes takes place tomorrow. Lord Fall
mouths Atlantic, heretofore the fayOrite,
gave place to-day to Sir lotion Sykes
COuSine De Fer.
Disraeli will make a motion in the House
for the adjournment of Parliament over
Derby Day.
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GenfiIe IuhsIafiOn.

SALT LAKE, June 1.-The Tribune pub
lished an extract this afternoon with the
headings, "GlOry to God Our Liberties at
Last Achieved Utah Relieved from Po-
lygamy and Slavery Congress has Passed
the POLAND Bill"
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FOREIGN.
A New Atlantic Cable Laid.
SerranO Proposes that Spain Re
turn to Monarchy.
NOVA SCOTIA.

HALIFAX, June 1.-The steamer Fara,
day with the new Atlantic cable, arrived
at Berry Head Saturday, landed the shore
end of the cable Sunday morning and pro
ceeded TO Rye Beach, n H., the same at
ternOon.
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THE Banners statement that the
candidates for the various county offices
are in favor of the lock-box system does
not represent the views of the parties
interested. Not more than half a
dozen favor the plan, and it would GER
tainIy prove impracticable' in this
county.
Mai. Dick Mccain publishes prop
osition to have the claims of the aspi-
rants settled by a primary election, but
that method has been thoroughly test
ed. and found to offer peculiar facil-
ties for fraud, besides being unsatlsfac-
tory in almost every other respect.
We are convinced that if the Demo-
cratic and Conservative voters, as a
mass, are to have any voice in selecting
the candidates, it Will be done through
the medium of a convention, and in nc
other way.
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IT is proposed to hold a Congress at
Brussels next month, to consider the
subject Of international rights in time
of war. Belgium, Switzerland and
other little neutrels have a hard time
of it when their big brothers get to
fighting, and would like to know if
they have any rights that belligerents
are bound to respect.
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THE TURF.
A Heat of EIghty.seven MILES.

WASHINGTON, d. C., June 2.-H. Rays
pony trotted yesterday before a sulky, on
the Walford course, 81 miles in II hours
and 20 minutes, in one straight heat. u
large amount of money changed hands in
hating
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Ex-PREsIDENT JOHNSON partici-
pated In the decoration ceremonies at
Knoxville, last Saturday, and made a
speech, of which the Chronicle gives
the substance" in sixteen lines, while
the Grafton delivered by the editor of
that paper, on the same occasion, mo-
nopolizes the modest space, something
over two columns.
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NORTHERN PRESBYTERIAN.
Exclusive.

ST. LOUIS. June 2.-The Assembly has
decided to adjourn Wednesday evening,
when about 100 members of the body will
start on AN excursion to Colorado, special
trains having been rendered them by the
ST. Louis and Kansas City and Northern
and Kansas Pacific Railways for that pur-
pose. The narrow guage road extending
from Denver to Pueblo will also extend
courtesies to the party TO visit the Colorado
Springs and other notableplaces in that sec
ton of the Territory.
Temperate.
This morning the temperance question
came up on a motion to adopt the resOlu-
ton offered by DR.. Lyman Atwater, for
series of resolutions submitted by Rev.
Mr.. White. The latter held that the ext
gency of the times demanded strict and
positive action on the part Of the Church
on this matter. DR.. Atwater said what was
wanted, was something practical and con-
duCive to unity of action. The Assembly
refused to extend debate. A vote being
taken DR.. AtYater's substitute was adopt-
| ed. 1t regrets the great evil Of intemper-
| ance. and urges all to unite against 1t
but is not dogmatic, nor does it pretend TO
express the opinion of the Assembly.
Feminine.
| The woman question then came up as
the special order of business. DIR. Richard
son presented the report OF the special COM
| mittee, to which the matter bad been re-
ferred. which declares that a literal inter
probation of the previous deliverance of the
General Assembly denied the right OF
women to teach, pray and eXhort IN public
or promiscuous assemblages. Fash Assem-
bly. however. had the right to order its OWL
proceedings, and might therefore decide in
reference to this subject, whether it would
or would not permit deviation from the
action of former assemblies in this matter.
DR. Crosby explained that the question
came I'D on an overture, and the question
was. Are we 20 understand the deliver
ance Of the General Assembly as fOrhiddins
women to speak or pray at regular weekly
PRAYER meeting" The answer OF com
mittee, was: Yes, except in special emer-
gencies, to be decided by the Pastor or the
Session.
DIR. Poor and DR.. Nelson opposed the
idea that the Assembly in its deliverance'
was doing anything more than eXpreSsln;
an opinion for the approval or diSapprova
of the Presbyteries.
DIR. Robt. Aikman offered as a substitute
I a resolution that the Assembly express IL
opinion as to the scriptural view o
womar's right TO speak or pray in socia
prayer-meeting and commit the whole sub
r iect to the discretion of the Pastor an
Elders of the Church.
The previous question being called, tn
motion to recommit was lost by lare
S majority, and DIR. Aikman's substitute We
adopted by a vote of 2l1 to 81.
SOutheru Relations.
DR.. Breckenridge, of the committee az
pointed to consider the expediency Of
committee from this Assembly cOnferTin
2 with the Southern Assembly, reported tina
: owing to the action of that Assembly notf
inc remained to be done. The committe
was discharged.
S Pan-PresbyterfaD
4 The Moderator announced several specif
committees. the most important being thu
of the Pan-Presbyterian Council.
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THE colored pastor Of Methodist
Church in Richmond lately said to his
congregation before the passage by the
Senate of the civil rights bill: THE
moment such an enactment appears on
the statute books the public school sys-
tenn in the South viii receive a blow
that viii cause its death, and no power
this side Of heaven can infuse life into
its dead carcass. Then who Will De
the losers, the blacks or the whitesT
In Virginia there are $4,000
eolered children attending the public
schools. What viii become of them:
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TENNESSEE BONDS closed in New
York last evening at 81 for both is
sues.
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In response to discontinued Briton
who reopened the Alabama agony in
the House of Commons last night, I'm
der Secretary Burke said the Joint
High Commission had decided that the
United States Government was not re-
sponsible for the losses Of British sub
jects on board of vessels captured by
Rebel cruisers, but that Government
had agreed to appoint commission to
examine all claims for losses subse.
duent to Lees surrender.
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Cincinnati ..Burns'' 100000 Pounds of

CINCINNATI, o., June 2.-The extensive
ice house of BrannOn x Hawkins, Rich
mond, was burned late last night, with 400
tons Of ice. Loss about $4,000.
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COTTON is dull in New York at 1910
for middlinp.
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THE following were the leading can
didates in the triangular Oregon con-
test: Governor-Thomas F. Campbell,
Independent; Lafayette F. Grover,
Democrat; j. c. Tolman, Republican.
Congress-Timothy W. Davenport, In
dependent; George A. La Dow, Dem
ocrat; Richard Williams, Republican.