Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-16
VOLUME XXXIII.
ITEMS.

Andy JohnsOns veto Of the Frecdmen's
Bureau bill was a valuable document
worth just Sll ,6S4, $50 to the nation.
A Texas Journal, denouncing the Civil
Rights Bill, and the Texas papers that APP
prove it, says: "Weve buried the Ratchet
yes, and we've eaten dirt enough TO cover
ii forever; but as some emphatic writer
saws, id if we have much respect for
the man who pretends that he likes it, "
The number Of widows, orphans and dis
abled soldiers now drawing annual pen
sions from the Government is about 81 800,
without including those granted during the
present month.
1t has grown TO be quite common trick
as an advertising dodge, or to conceal the
losses of wanting business, for parties to
make bogus return Of business income to
the revenue department, deeming the few
dollars Of tax requisite judicious invest
ment
The Charleston Netcs says that party in
New York purchased, over a year ago, three
hundred and fifty bales of cotton, for which
he paid some 81 80 per pound. That cot
ton was kept until lately, when it was sold
at thirty-seven cents per pound, inflicting
upon the owner the terrible loss of two hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
The fashionable collar for gentlemen in
Paris is extremely large, with rundown
corners, on which appears dogs and horses
heads as large as crown pieces, and large
black horseshoes halfthe natural size. These
figures are repeated on the wristbands.
The editor of the Charlottesville Chronicle
SAYS the late style Of bonnet in that ancient
town consists Of a common white handker-
chief passed over the top of the head and tied
under The throat, with a wreath of roses in
the shape Of horseshoe on the top.
The Chattahoochee Manufacturing Com
pany are erecting, near West Point, build
ing in which can be run 10000 spindles.
They will start with 5000. The Alabama
and Georgia Manufacturing Company is
building seven miles below West Point, and
will go into operation with 5000 spindles
and l20 looms.
A young Prussian officer lately died whose
heart was on his right side, with the liver
on the left, and other internal organs cor
respondingly reversed. He had always en-
ioyed good health, and died of typhus fever.
Wendell Phillips, having sayagely de-
nounced Governor Bullock, of Massachu-
sets, as a murderer, because he permitted
the execution of Green, the Boston Daily
Aducdiser suggests that Wendell may per-
haps, consent to run for Governor on the
Green platform.
Sewing by machinery has become an old
story; but whenever it has been suggested
that button-holes would yet be made in the
the same manner, il has been pronounced
impossible of accomplishment. But certain
inventors and manufacturers have thought
differently and if we are to credit our SEN
ses, the object so long and so laboriously
sought has at last been accomplished. Ger
tain it is that the Union Button-Hole Ma
chine" now offered to the public by the
celebrated "Singer Manufacturing Com
pany," does its work with a precision and
rapidity truly marvellous The mechanism
IL wonderful, yet simple and durable, and is
clearly within the comprehension of an or
binary operator. The work performed on
this machine is superior to hand work, and
is being scattered broadcast over the coun-
try through some Of our largest clothing
establishments That handmade button
holes must give way to this machine is just
a certain as that hand-sewing is yielding,
the world over, to the far-famed Singer Sew
ing Machine.-N T. Home Journal.