Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-17
PARAGRAPHS.
MANY poor devils are rich men

Many poor devils are rich men.
Not light drafts--Gas bills, nowadays.
The negro population Of New Orleans is
now three or four times larger than it was
before the war.
Cholera has attacked the New York law,
yers. One died on Monday. A bad case
Mr.. Kennedy, late of the Census Bureau
has been admitted to the Prussian GeOgraph-
ical Society
Minnesota expects the largest wheat crop
this season ever gathered there.
4 Freedmen's Bureau intelligence Office
has been opened in Louisville for supplying
colored ''help"
A family in Albany has been poisoned by
eating unwholesome veal; boy three years
old died.
Astonishing-the number of places Gen.
Grant is confidently expected to visit July
4th.
Congress is in its seventh month, and was
never so far behind in its business.
They are trying to heal the troubled
waters Of Canada with great oil excite
| ment"
The Jews are to build magnificent col
| lege In this country.
Twenty battalions of Italians are ready
for Garibaldi to command.
The New York circus people advertise
Robinson as the "effulgent centre of the
equestrian zodiac"
Steamboating on the Ohio must be rather
dull at present. number of steamers are
reported as having gone into Summer quar-
ters" at Cincinnati.
The officers Of an oil company-among
them two well known clergymen-have been
arrested in Philadelphia for conspiring to
defraud the stockholders.
The order for firing minute guns at Lou
isville, in memory of General Scott, could
not be complied with. No cannon.
Santa Anna is living like fighting cock
in Avenue ", says an exchange. Why
shouldn't he? He gets his living by fight
ing cocks at home.
There is considerable stir in the Massa-
chusetts 9th Congressional district. 1t is
hard work to keep the balls on the Alley.
Mr.. Greeley has written sharp criticism
upon the conduct of the public authorities
towards Mr.. Davis
At the Salt Lake theatre where Julia
Deane HaYne recently starred it." daugh-
ter of Brigham Young was member of the
stock" Brigham has the largest stock of
daughters in the country.
Some sagacious scribe says the newspaper
has become the log-book Of the age; it tells
at what rate the world is running; we can
not find our reckoning without it.
The following advertisement appeared in
a New York country paper recently:
The new excise law in New York makes
that city on Sundays like the interesting To-
cality of which Coleridge's Ancient Mariner
observed that there was "Water, water, ev-
srywhere; but nary drap' to drink"
Judge Barnard of Kings county, n. Y,
has granted an injunction against the Health
Commissioners, the Commissioners of Emil
grafton and the Quarantine Commissioners,
restraining them from using Seguine's Point
for quarantine purposes.
The work of rebuilding the New York
Academy of Music commenced Monday.
The old walls will be used for the new build
ing after being reduced in hight about fifteen
feet. The Academy is TO be ready by the
lst of November next, and is to cost about
S250,0OO, exclusive Of scenery.
Mr.. Moses Strauss, of 12l Even street,
Brooklyn, n. Y, on Monday morning for
got his pistol, which he usually keeps under
the head of his bed at night, and his wife on
making the bed tossed the pistol on the
floor, causing it to explode and instantly
killing their little child who was sitting
near at the time.