Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-25
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should the coroner render verdict Of
killed by his own hands. ...
Judge Green, an old and highly es
teemed citizen of Augusta, died IN that
city on Monday, the 10th.
A respectable gentleman don't like 10
have heavy charge leveled against him
especially if it is in gun.
Why are our fingers particularly reli-
able in Gaze of breakage? Because they
are always on hand with nails. ..n o
Two hundred persons are announced to
be anxious TO obtain the nomination /of
Governor of New Hampshire.
Henry Gowing went insane because he
discovered quartz lode in Montana and
his partner cheated him out of it.
Already several enterpristng Democratic
| papers have nominated the Hon. John i.
Hoffman for the Presidency in 1872
A thief in Indianapolis was las! week
caught in the rather heavy business Of
stealing five thousand pounds of iron.
John M. Langston, the colored lawyer Of
Ohio, will deliver law lectures before the
Howard University of Washington, d. c.
McIutire ia to try to walk from New
York to Philadelphis, 10 miles, in %
hours, for $4,000, some time extmonth,
josh Billings says: "Whcn mans dog
deserts him on account of his poverty. he
can't get any lower in this world-not by
land
General Grant will net Strike" for
higher wages. He says that S25, zoo is
enough for any President But how about
Mrs. G.?
The champion drinker Of lager beer in
Cleveland has accomplished one hundred
and six glasses in one day, and invited any
one 10 beat it.
Mrs. Warren, formerly Mrs. GrOendycke,
previously Mrs. French, and antecedently
Mrs. Corners. is again in a Chicago court
asking for divorce.
DR.. Alexander, formerly of Uniontowr,
KY, killed himself with pistol, at Enter
prise, Spencer county, Indiana, on Tuesday.
No cause is assigned.
Getting drunk once a week has been
decided to be "habilual intoIication" in
Chicago. What then, asks contemporary,
is getting drunk every day.
F.S. T. Funt killed his stepfa;her, Ma
polecn Jones, in Dewitt county, Illinois,
last week, and was acquitted on the ground
that the homicide was justifable.
= The New York Evening Mail says that
hundreds of mice young men" in that
city, many of them Society fellows" live
entirely upon borrowed money.
An old negro near Augusta, Ca, who
voted the Conservative ticket at the late
election, has since lost bis horse and three
cowa-by poison. Who did it?
Jenkins" who was there, tells in a
New York paper, at great length, how
Gen. Grant bought $50 overcoat, and how
he afterward put it on and wore it.
H.K. White, Of Milwaukee, killed HIM
self Friday with poison in consequence of
pecuniary troubles. He was a son-in-law
of Soloman Juneau, founder of Cream City.
A wrestling match took place in New
York city, on Monnay last, between ayoung
man 90 years old and a woman of 81. The
female contestant obtained an easy victory.
The latest Fifth Avenue novelty in New
York is a female barber shop; )" that is,
4 gentlemen's hair dressing establishment
conducted by lady with feminine assist
ants.
A land buying party OF forty-ive Penn
sylvanias and Marylarders ha4 arrived at
Richmond, Va. They go to Southwestern
Virginia, and thence As far south as
Columbia.
Three old cilizsns OF Petersburg died on
I. NJ. 7 auir1n naIEnN
aged ca years Mrs. NJ. ". Goodwill, aged
S. years, and Mr.. jesse. P. Smith, aged 70
years.
la suil before JUSTICES Court at
Chicago last week, the plaintiff was not
allowed to testify, because he had ac-
knowledged himself an atheist, and the
case was dismissed.
Jacob Frank has brought suit agains.
John o. Cadding, one Of the Police Com
missioners at st. Loui-, for assault and
temporary confinement, in August last. He
asks fer $4,000 damages.
An internal water tumor, it was found,
had formed on the breast Of Mrs. Seeley,
who died at Troy, New York, last Satur-
day, weighing one hundred and twenty
hounds. 1t had to be removed before the
deceased could be buried.
The championship of impudSnt rascality
should be awarded to that New York hack
driver, who, Saturday night, put pistol
to the head of passenger as he was drlv-
him through the street, aud made him dis
gorge all the money in his pockets.
The Dayton Journal says: David Coo
yer. aged about thirty years, and measur-
ing only twenty eight inches in height, died
in Butler township the other day. He
was an estimable gentleman, of more than
average intelligence, and Of very active
| habits.
A Schenectady New York; saloon
keeper, being annoyed by loafers remain
ing too late, has trained rats to run acros-
| the floor, which arrests the attention OF
the drowsy drunkards, who, being told that
no rats are there, rush from the room
thinking they have got the delirium ire
mems.