Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-11

cramps.
Onl Y three revolutionary soldiers are now
living.
Stanton was firm at last accounts.
Plantation Bitters-Freedmen' strikes.
A band of Chippewa Indians are seeing
New York
An American hotel is called for in Paris.
Grant as General will receive Sl7, $40 per
annum.
A free translation of Triching SpiruIis-
Diet of worms.
A policeman in Cincinnati was shot dead
for attempting an injury to a young lady.
A negro girl in Cooper, Mo, killed her
sister for not getting dinner.
Gov. Andrew, the Washington cores
pondents say, inclines to the Presidents pol
icy.
An old gentleman was chloroformed out
of s., 800 in New York last week.
There is perfect stampede for Europe
among the high-binders.
Master Grant, an embryo General, was
last week baptised in Washington.
The negro soldiers have been carousing,
drinking and firing pistols indiscriminately
in Louisville.
Young Mr.. Schnapp, of Indianapolis,
killed himself from unrequitted love.
Baby shows are popular in Iowa. Each
mother votes her child a prize.
The Rev. John p. Gulliver calls the
President the "prince of traitors" That
Gulliver is a "prince of darkness" is per
fectly evident.
The Sanitary Committee of the Board of
Health have reported favorably upon the
request made by the homeopathic physicians
to be assigned 10 hospitals in case of visi-
tation of the cholera.
Friday, in Washington, it is understood, a
sort of Radical subcommittee waited
upon Mr. Stanton, to ask, eff it was posi-
bleY - and imagine their CONSERVATION
when they found" Alas, it was :"
After all, says an exchange, the Southern
States are better off in regard to Congress
sional representation than the Northern
ones, for misrepresentation Is better than
misrepresentation.
The gold crop of the world will probably
reach Sl5O,O00,000 this year. Previous to
1880 the average annual yield was less than
S34, 100000.
A colorcd man in Philadelphia devotes
$4,000 to the circulation of Congressional
speeches in favor of negro suffrage.
Why is a foolish young lady like care
ful housekeeper? Because her waist is as
little as she can make it.
Stewed babies are a fav0rite dish with
some of the natives of San Domingo.
A man named Fleming died LockpOrt,
Will county, Illinois, recently, aged one
hundred and two years. having been born in
l764 He was never sick in his life, even
to the extent of headache or toothache, and
was never a sufferer from anything in the
wav of accident.
j. w. Seaman, of North Hampstead, on
Long Island, is the owner of a COW which on
the 9th of March last produced four calves
at birth. They were all full grown and
regularly formed, but still born, and two of
each sex Mr.. Seaman went to his stable
about l. o'clock and there were two more.
| lie afterwards kept on the look out to see If
| there were two others to come, but none
made their appearance.
"Cut my straps and let me go TO glory y
as Sam Slick exclaimed when he took the
! first kiss No doubt about it. A fat, ripe
| kiss-not more than twenty years old-is
what you may really call, Tip top" be ii
| the first or last.
Slavery is rapidly extending in Egypt to
meet the demands for increased labor in the
cotton fields The slaves are brought from
the upper Nile. The average life of these
slaves does not exceed foury years, and IT Is es'
timated that three persons are killed toi
| every slave taken.
q" believe" declares General Sheridan
d" that the best thing that Congress or States
can DO is to legIslate as little as possible II
reference to the colored man, beyond giving
him security in his person and property.
The following is an advertisement which
we clip from the Rutland Herald:
4 4 81 ,.,FA' A's.R.frl non
from marrying Joseph Trumbly, of Critten
den, Vermont to Miss Sophia Pelky, q
Brandon, Vermont, for being engaged T.
some one else the second time.
JULIA GoosON.
Brandon, March 80, 1866.
Quite telegraphic feat has been accom-
plished 10y the American Telegraph Com
panv, in transmitting messages over clrcul
p Of one thousand miles without the usua
method of employing "repeaters." Thi
was performed by the application OF ne,
telegraphic invention called the " Letiert
open circuit instrument, which, by II
successful operation on this occasion, prove
that a desideratum long wished for by III
telegraphic fraternity has been FULLY a
l tained.
{, 1t is not usual that a ship goes into Hon
:. ] hOnH with Il tdTHO ol opium "NA'ii " -
lion dollars There are frequent invoice
| of 100000 worth of silk.
a Thirty thousand London tailors were el
I, gagged in the recent strike
l Mrs. James Keith Taylor, the sister
!, Chief Justice Marshall, at a very advance
Il age. beloved and venerated by all around,
a still living, and resides in Fauquier count
n There is on exhibition at Baltimore
d model, some twelve feet in diameter, OF
y revolving vessel, the invention of MIR. lie
2 r. Snyder, of Lancaster, Penn. The gre
e novelty embraced in the construction OF tn
e vessel consists in a very simple apphcauC
W of the motive power, by which this yess
y is made to roll over the water instead OF ru
l. ming through it, and so completely arrang
o, that passengers and freight remain static
le arv, while the hull of the vessel Is rapid
revolving. -.
C DR. Reed, of Baltimore, says the eatl
he of pork has nothing whatever 10 do with t
le disease known as trichin@. They do I
" | inhabit the muscle of the hog more tn
l that of anv other animal, or of man himse
is defy any one 20 prove by the record OF I
~ last thirty-five years that solitary dea
N has been caused beyond doubt by the pr
ence of trichinae. | assert that the chars
Ill made against these innocent worms Is WI
lg ont the shadow of foundation in fact, a
e. would advise the community, if they des