Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-30
News Brevities.

eupied as Masonic and Temperance Halle, and va
rious Law Offices. Loss estimated at $4,000.
-. The Alabama and Tennessee River Rail-
road has been completed far as the east bank Of
oOosa river, and the first trip across the river wss
made on Friday. 10th instant by the President of
the road aud number Of others. cannon was
taken up from Selma, and eighty>6ve rounds fred,
1t being eigbty-fve miles from that city.
-. William A. Matthews, well known in West
srn Texas, died in Gonzales on the cath uh lie
came from Tennessee to Gonzales in 1889, mar.
ried daughter Of the Emprassrio Dewitt, acquir-
ed q large estate, and leaves behind him repu-
tatiOn Of which dis descendants may feel proud
80. The high price of cotton lie enhancing the
value of 6eld hands in Texas considerably At
recent snle at LaGrsnge one negro sold at 81 73O,
and another at 81 $50.
-. 10 Salem, ILL.,, a woman, nged about TWEEN
iy-sI years has been asleep for three days per-
fectly mOtonless and silent with very faint pulse
and dry skin. All efTorts to awaken her are IN
awaiting.
-. Mary Degler has obtained g., 900 damage
from George Bitter, a retail merchant n Cineinna.
ti for refusing to marry her after the Wedding day
had been fixed. A bitter judgment that.
-. The Louisville Journal of Tuesday says
''We deeply regret learning that last evening while
Miss Dora Shaw engaged in playing 10 the last
act of The Stranger, she fell upon the stage in q
state OF high nervous excitement, very seriously
Wounding her head There we're two or three ply
siciAn's present. who Immediately profered their
assistance. Miss Shaw suffered very greatly, and
was with difficulty restored to consciousness. An
other play had to be substituted for the last piece
in which Miss S. had to appear"
80. Messrs. L. johnson & Co., type founders
Of Philadelphia, offer q subscription OF g. 900 to-
ward the founding Of National Asylum for de-
csyed printers. If those printers who have retired
upon the profits Of pubc printing flor it is beleiv
ed no others have ever retired wealthy will each
add 81 900 to the fund, very respectable endoW-
ment will be made up.
-. The party who holds 81 years. lease on
the new and elegant iron store on she corner of
Broadway and Broom SITS, n. Y. has been offered
sbonus Of S., 600 year for the 81 years-equal to
clear profit of $3.50, 600 on bis contract.
-. The Mound City Emporium says that place
offers great advantages to persons wishing to pros
ecute the business of coopering.
The Emporium also tells the following tale
about an impertinent fox: "a gentleman residing
in Scott Co., NO., informs US that while he was
leisurely riding along the bank of the bank of the
Mississippi, last week. with half dozen faVorite
chickens throEn across bis saddle bow, large fox
H..
him. Thinking Reynard would lay himself liable
TO capture 10 making off with them, he tossed the
Shanghsis from his horse. They had scarcely
struck the ground before the fox had seired them.
Our friend threw himself from his horse, but before
be bad clevery aghted, the fox with all six of the
fowls was several feet out in the Mississippi padding
with an industry worthy of the occasion, for the
opposite bank Of the river After Offering his
kingdom for gun, about dozen times, our friend
bestrode his nag and pushed onward, feeling very
much Ike acknowledging that he had been abom-
inAbly 'sold.'"
The British Government is beginning to
appreciate American Institutions The London
Weekly Despatch of the 9th ult. gives the follow.
ing evidence Of the fact: "Some surprise is er
pressed at the announcement of plain private Amer
lean citizens destitute Of Official rank being invited
20 dine with the Queen. We are told that this ia
ths result Of the advice of the Ministry. America
10 first power in the world 1t is her policy-the
very principle OF her Constitution-to have no ar
ti6cial distinctions of rank. The Queen invites to
dinner the major domO or gold stick of any little
German principaIity eIcommunicate, from desire
to be on friendly terms with all powers. Now, as
the United States have gold sticks or hereditary
Washerwom their citizens have hitherto been by
etiquette excluded from the circle OF royal civiities
Seeing the mountain couldn't go to Mahomet, the
prophet has gone to the mountain; Palmerston has
"swallowed formulas" and Queen Victoria plays
the hostess to plain Uncle Sam"
go. One OF our New York exchanges says a
sensation recently created in William street in
city by the appearance of a man on the pave with
long floating beard and dressed in loose pants-
ioens, with turban on bis head. He carried 10 his
hand little manuscript Hebrew book out Of
which he read to the crowd that gathered around
him. He represented himself as the vertsble
Wandering Jew. Nobody knows who he is O.
where be came from. learned Jewish RAbb
vas sent for to converse with him, which they did
the Hebrew language, and the stranger was found
10 be perfect in bis knowledge Of that most Diff
cult tongue. The Rabbi tested him In Arabic, in
Fheneisn, and in the Sancrii, but soon found that
shs aged stranger far surpassed him in intimacy
with them all The Rabbi invited him TO bis house
but, said the stranger, may, cannot stop. The
erueihed One Of Calvary has pronounced the edict,
and may not resA must move on-eVor on J.
He was last seen on Thursday, but 10 where be
has departed no one can tell.
Capt. Leathers, of the steamer Matches having
offered to bet from $40, 600 to 10000 the Natchez
csn beat any boat that travels on the Mississippi
river, Capt Broadwe, ofthe Eclipse, writes to the
NalcheE Courier, of the l7Ih, declining the con.
,est, as the speed Of the Eclipse is quite Eatisfac.
tory TO bin.
A Cincinnati editor says 'there are great
many idls, sAitllsss women" in that city, Here is
fac Geld for the beaeVOlenee Of our sewing 80
cisties.
{. -. "A tatilisg correspondent Of the New York
Herald, writing from Lancaster, pretends 10 give
che gauge Of drink be bad Witnessed the Presi
dent elect take one frosty morning at.ths sdebOard
Of Wheatsnd, recently. lie Irreverently estimated
il at couple Of inches; and expresses The opinion
that the depth Of the Ssge pOts,iOus visibly have
increase With bis years. There Is nothing strange
ia this, for has il not passed into q proserb,
''rnE OLDER THE Beck rms sTiTEKH tHE HoRN ."
60. Mr.. william HiIi~a, father Of Hoa H. W
billiard, died Suddenly At biz residence 10 Mont.