Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-16
PARAGRAPHS.

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Upwards of 800 divorces in Ohio last
year.
The mad-dog season has commenced in
| Connecticut.
A resolution complimenting Senator Fos-
ter stuck in the Connecticut House of Rep
rcsentatives.
/ The testimony in case of land claim in
California covered four thousand pages.
Judge Underwood is great on buying and
confscating-conf and buying.
New Haven has 900 children for whom
there is no room in the public schools.
From India, we are sorry to learn that
! Mr. Rustomjee Jamsetee Jeejeebhoy has
resigned his seat in the Council through ILL
| health.
A circus in Austria has been obliged to
close up. Government wants the horses.
A grand object is on foot for improving
the environs Of New Orleans, on the lake
side
Five hundred dollars were paid for
! single ticket Of admission to witness For
rests performance of Richelieu at San Fran
cisco.
Count Walewski, the illegitimate son of
| the first Napoleon by the Polish Countess
Walewski, formerly Minister of Foreign AT
fairs, and now President of the Imperial
Senate, has been, by the favor of his impe-
rial cousin, created Duke of the Empire
with the title of Colonna-W Walewski.
A soldier whose upper jaw, right arm and
right leg had been shot away in battle, was
recently put off railroad train in Ohio.
No money.
Some surgeons in Baltimore recently per-
formed what is known rs iiJrdncs operation
upon soldier whose feet it had been badly
frost-bitten
n. II. Taft has been indicted by the grand
jury for attempting to call meeting of con-
servatives in Upshur county, West Virginia.
A new Orleans lady recently had the crys-
tai Of her watch shattered by stroke of
lightning without injury to herself
horse lately discharged living frog
from his stomach, after being i'll for some
time.
The old Jesuit prophesy of the destruc-
ton of San Fransisco by great earthquake
during the year 1866, has cansed immense
CONSERVATION among divers old women of
both sexes in that city.
House flies may he efectually destroyed
without the use of poison. Take half a
spoonful Of black pepper in powder, one
teaspOOnfu of cream; mix them well to-
gether and place them in a room on a plate
where :he flies are troublesome, and they
will soon disappear
Mrs. Maj. DIR. Walker insists upon wear
ing the Bloomer costume in New York, and
the BOYS follow her so closely the police are
obliged to lock her up for protection.
A plan has been suggested by which the
Hudson river can he tnneled from New
York to Hoboken by laying an iron tube
five feet in diameter across the bed of the
stream. This tunnel, intended to be worked
by the pneumatic method, is designed to
transport the freight of the Erie railroad be-
tween Hoboken and the company's depots
in New York.
Over three hundred persons have been
poisoned, Of whom a number have died, in
Orange county, n. Y, by using flour and
meal containing lead. 1t appears that lead
being used by a miller to fill cavities worn
in the millstones it was distributed through |
the meal and -four and dispensed to custo-
mers of the mill. In this form the lead |
was harmless, but when fermented and |
baked in bread, it was transformed into
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poisons.
Three arrests were made in New York on |
Sunday Tor violation of the excise law;
one Of them, a barber, was arrested for |
sponging his customers faces with bay rum; |
but the Justice let him off with an admoni-
ton.
Mrs Sarah A. Dorsey, Of Tensas parish,
La, thorough scholar and very accom-
plshed writer, is engaged in writing n life |
of o. Governor Henry w. Allen. The |
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Jf great interest, and a copy will find |
its way into the library of every family |
in his loved Louisiana.
The Radicals say they can pass the Con-
stitutioual amendment and get it approved |
by enough Legislatures at regular and
special sessions, to make il part of the
fundamental law in season TO admit South
ern Representatives and Senators at the
next session of the present Congress.
Mr. Dickens tells an American story of
young lady, ,,wEo, being intensely loved by
five young men, was advised to "iump oveT'
board and marry the man who jumped in
after her. Accordingly, next morning, the
five lovers being on deck, and looking very
devotional At the young lady, she plunged
into the sea head foremost. Four of the
lovers immediatly jumped in after her.
When the young lady and her four lovers
were ont again, she says to the Captain,
" What am | % do with them now; they
are SO wet2 Take the dry one" And the
Young lady did, and married him.