Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-04-21


window and scraped together a variety Of clothing
pertaining to her wardrobe. and good many valua-
BILE articles beside and made his escape.
A terrible tornado passed over Falmouth Pen
dleton county Ky. on the 10th inst, unroofing
eral dwellinghouses, together with the Catholic
Church. A stable belonging TO J. L. CHHEs was
blown down, ard two valuable horses killed by the
falling roof All the timbers on the southern bank
Of Licking river in the neighborhood Of Falmouth,
were leyelled to the earth, and numerous fences
were completely demolished,
A CASE or DEsERrroN-The Memphis Bulletin says
two little children boy and grl-the former about
four and the latter six years Of age-were found on
Beal street. in that city, on Tuesday evening, the
18th inst by Mr. T B. FoLGEE, who kindly took them
to his home. The little wanderers gave their names
as JOHN and MARY LEE and stated that their father
was absent in Arkansas, and that their mother had
recently deserted them and left the city.
MomEREy SPORT KILLS HER Cm1D.-The Hamil-
ton (O) Iacuupb saws:
Last Tuesday a little child Of Mrs Shatcr SISTER
of Mr.. Campbell, who resides in the First Ward)
who lives in Germantown, got possession of an old
pistol and snapped it several times. after which she
handed il 10 her mother, and said, in playful man
Her. shoot me mOther!' Mrs. Shailer took the
pistol and pointed the muZZle toward her child and
pulled the trigger, exploding the cap and sending
ball through the childs head killing il instantly.
The pistol had not been fired for more than year,
and was supposed not 20 be loaded.
MuEpEE-On the right Of the 10th difficulty oc-
CURED in the vicinity of Horn Lake, Miss, between
PATRICK CoYIE a levee contractor Of Memphis. and
a foreman in hisl employ named THos. NooSAN in
the course Of which the latter seized duube-bar-
rel shot gun and discharged its contents at the for
mer The gun was loaded with large buclshot,
four or five of which took effect in the right side
Of CoyE below the ribs, and several others in his
arm, innicting wounds from the effect of which he
died next day. NooNAN fled and at last accounts
still AT large
Two YEARS IN JAIr.-NearIy two wears ago man
named TuouAs DAVIS was arrested in Memphis and
lodged in Jail. on a charge of larceny. DAVIS has
time and again appeared before the criminal Court
at its different sttngs during the long period Of his
incarceration but through delays Of the law he has
never had a final hearing until the 18th, when he
was brought ont for trial and there being no one
10 appear against him, he was discharged The En-
glirsr says that the general opinion Of the commu-
nifty is that DAVIS is guilty man. though that fact
has not been legally established.
BroomR Wou,N wANrs A HusnAxn-MAEY E.
HAYNES writes from Carolina, TomPkins county,
New York to Mrs. DR.. LYDIA SAVER HlsBRoUcE's
SyJH:
am almost alone in wearing the reform dress.
People oppose me, and think l am very foolish to
dress so very uutashionably. suppose they think
Tlldie an old maid if don't take of my bloom
er = but felt somewhat encouraged on reading
"Lunas' remarks in the SyJa, of October. She
speaks of a friend who wants a wife; you will
please inform her would like to learn his address
| often feel discouraged and lonely.
Poor girl Can't some mice young man. en-
courage her a little
.REronu DHEss'-Niss HARRIET n AUSTIN editor
Of reform paper in Dansyille New York. devotes
long article to the subject of hc- making up. Here
is important ITEM M, pantaloons all cut at
the bottom ike gentlemens / like them better than
straight ones; and those which some ladies have
worn full and gathered at the bottom, 'unmen-
tonable My pattern was cut by a tailor his lcite Ia
kHy measure The spinisters precaution "a stated
in the last sentence was doubtless intended to show
that what she after at the tailor's shop was
measure, not men," Nice girl is HARRIET; not
young enough to be gidiy, certainly; but rather
lunar on p&utalouns.
GEN. JACKSON BEFORE JuDGE UAII--Therc is now
on exhibition in Philadelphia. a painting by C.
ScHussELE. Of that city, representing memorable
incident in the life of Gen. JACKSON his appearance
before Judge HAIL, of New Orleans in 1915. to an
sycr for an alleged contempt of Court The picture
is quite large one and contains forty or fifty fig
ures. nearly all Of which are actual portraits Of
persons present at the scene. The grouping is re-
markedly easy and natural The figure Of Ole
Hickory is of course, the principal and central
object The picture is well painted and should be
visited bv all interested in art or IN American his
tory The Bulletin learns it is to be engraved
Toru EuusE or the SJN.-On the 18th of Jul~.
a total eclipse Of the sun will give an opportunity
of determining the longitude of the Coast of North
America, such as will not occur again for many
wears The determination Of longitude by means
Of this observation is second only in accuracy to
the Geographic method. from which much was
expected in case the Atlantic Cable had been sue
cessful. The path of the Total Eclipse viii be east
ward from the mouh of the Columbia river, across
Hudson's Bay. leaving this continental Cape Child
lev tlEe northeastern point of Labrador. IL then
crosses the Atlantic spain. and Algeria and pass
inc to the mouth of TripNi. leaves the earth at
Massowa on the Red Sea. The Astronomer Royal
of England the Bavarian Astronomer and several
corps of French Observers win watch the Eclipse
in Spain and Algeria. Nearly hundred Observers
will be stationed along the path of the Eclipse
there.
WHISKY INsrEEErrIoy rN MINNESOTA. The people
of Minneapolis and st, Anthony, Minnesota. have
bsen under great state of excitement for week
The origin of it was the death of young man
IN, 5aIiril.m tremcus. sunday. the 9Th lust. Rev.
Mr. Nichols preached strong sermon. in which
he advised. as we are informed. the citizens to
,akc the 30 higher law" into their own hands for
clearing cut the liquor sellers On Wednesday
nipbt. the Congregational Church, in which Mr.
NICHOLS preached, was entirely destroyed by fire.
ON Thursday. meeting Of the citizens was held
and dcputation of about fifty gentlemen were in
structcd to wait on all the saloon keegers. and
-, +t, ,,+;,., that uuless they closed up their