Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-23
Personal ITEMS

Some one has erected a monument
over the remains of Aaron Burr.
A Louisville paper makes a grim pun
about the Indiana Reno vators.
Boucicault and wife are taking their
first final farewell Of the stage.
Matilda Heron has quit the stage to re-
appear in her role of lecturer.
A negro servant girl, of eighteen, in
Yicksburg is rivalIng Blind Tom.
Hester Vaughn confessed to Gov.
Geary's private secretary that she killed
her child. ~ -' ...-.
Alex. Gamble, a miser Of Limerick,
Me-, died last week. leaving $4,000 to
his "poor relations -
Mr.. M. s. Newton, one of the oldest
and ablest members Of the bar Of Roches>
ter, died day or two ago. --...
A merchant of Providence has given
all the policemen of that place their win
ter supply of stockings. -
Jules Simon, not the political econo-
mist, but well known writer on the
subject Of music, died lately in Paris.
A New York uptown" lady, opposed
to euchre playing, appended mo cards"
to her invitations for social party.
The London Telegraph, the Empe-
ror's English paper, says Louis Napoleon
is rheumatic, but otherwise in the best Of
health. ,-.r..a. ~ ~
A German who committed suicide in
st. Louis, wrote farewell letter covering
IA pages of brown tissue paper. P.
1t is calculated that ex Queen Isa~
bellas confessor, who received $500 q
year, only obtained eleven cents for each
sin absolved.
They have a thief up at Cleveland
who makes a business of helping old
ladies off the cars, and stealing their
money while he does it. -.....t
An aggrieTed wife in Allegheny, pin
toned her husband, as he lay in a
drunken doze, and then applied horse
whip to his helpless carcass with great
vigor.
They couldn't stand Parepa's low
neck dress in Salt Lake City. The
Mormons obliged her to change it for a
higher necked one. The morality of the
Mormons is remarkable eco a
There is a movement in England to
bring DR.. Colenso before the ordinary
courts, and relieve the church Of the
scandal now attaching to it in seeming
to support him in his heresy.
1 The following sentiment is attributed
| to Napoleon Bonaparte ga handsome
woman pleases the eye, but good wos
man pleases the heart. The one is a
iewel-the other is treasure"
The woman nominated for School
/ Committee, in Worcester, Mass, by the
Republicans, was chosen by handsome
majority. A woman was elected to the
same office in Grafton, Mass.
John n. Genin, who become celebra-
ted as the purchaser Of the first ticket
for the Jenny Lind concerts, and who
has made and lost half dozen fortunes
has recently, by the death of an uncle
come into possession of nearly $500, 1000
A contract for building railroad
bridge across the Mississippi river al
Keokuk has been closed with the Kew.
stone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg, for
ten million dollars The bridge is to be
of iron and like the one at Dubuque, and
is TO be commenced in the spring and
completed within the year.
Captain john Travis. the pistol shooter
challenges all the world to a match. He
will shoot his pistol upside down, back
wards between his legs, his opponent t.
shoot in the regular way, using only one
hand. This is to be..done for $1,000.
Mrs. Anderson, wife of the English
man lynched with the Reno brothers
has returned to her home in New York
She is said to be a woman of fine nerve
and spirit, and insists that on the nigh
Of the Seymour robbery, her HUSBAND
was in bed with her at Windsor, Canada
Money to pay her expenses home wa
contributed by citizens of New Albany