Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-10
Personal ITEMS.


Susan, charge! On Stanton, onr'
Major General Hooker is now in De
trOit, and rapidly improving in health.
They hunt buffaloes on the American
desert in express trains with band O.
music.
The wife of Western candidate accom-
panies him on his canVassing tours and
sings to his constituents.
Three girls joined hands and jumped
off a London bridge recently, committing
suicide in company.
Mics Rose Hawthorne, the eldest daugh-
ter of the novelist, gives. promise, it is
said, of becoming distinguished as an
artist.
A woman in Vienna is realizing a for
tune by means of trained goldfnches that
draw numbers from small bowl.
William Cullen Bryant has been chosen
President of the National Copyright Asso-
citation.
An English acrobat, at a recent perform
ance, fell from slack rope and broke the
heads of several spectators.
It is reported that Josh Ward, the IA
nous oarsman, will train the Yale Univer-
sity crew the coming year.
At Fort Scott, Ark, the inhabitants pre-
cure their coal by grading the streets,
where it is found in CREST abundance.
Emma Ross drowned herself from Gin
cinnati ferry-boat, because her lover went
for soldier and wouldn't marry her.
There are $4,000 women in the city of
New York, who do literally nothing ex-
cept to dress, dwadle, eat and sleep.
The North Carolina Annual Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
meets in Statesville. on the Sd of Deem
Der.
A "well-known nobleman" is scandal
izing the aris.ocracy in London by fire.
quenting the theatres with girl dressed
in mems clothes.
A Mormon Elder was recently made
very much of parent. He was presented
with nine boys and FIVE girls the same
morning.
The latest news from Abyssinia announ-
ces that Theodore's eldest son has re-
belled against Gobszie, who was pro-
claimed Emperor.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
said: Fair weather and an honest ballot
box is all Republicans desire" It's about
all they got in New York.
The report that the Gar had banished
homeopathy from his dominions was a ca
nard. He encourages the infnitesimal-
ists.
Colonel Philip Gross, of Liberia, has
been learning dentistry in Springfield for
five years, and now he is going back TO
Africa TO practice it.
4 "tannery" was dedicated in Eliza
beth, n. j., the other day with prayer, fol-
lowed by an odorously broad speech
from Fitzpatrick.
"Ned Buntline" has appeared again in
the field of fiction. He wrote from Cali
fornia that the State would give 10000
majority for Grant
Wan-she-shan, of the MenOmonee tribe
of Indians, killed himself in Minnesota in
his grief at not having had white man to
scalp for six weeks.
Dumas, being asked by Lamartine what
he thought of his History of the Giron-
dina" replied, 81 think you have raised
history to the level of romance
The champion drinker Of lager beer in
Cleveland has accomplished one hundred
and six glasses in one day, and invites any
one to beat it.
The Indiana farmers are selling their
corn in the field at fifty cents bushel, to
be fed to hOgs, which sell for eight cents q
pound.
The last feature" of "a New York fashion
able wedding is for the organist to play
low accompaniment to the words which the
minister utters 10 performing the ceremony.
Samuel A. Townsend, of Kent, Connecti-
cut, raised on his farm the past season a
mammoth pumpkin which measured in
circumference seven feet, and weighed one
hundred and thirty-two and half pounds.
The Radical candidate for Governor of
New Jersey by way of electioneeripg
bought twenty-five tickets to a treman's
ball, and by way of economy neglected to
pay for them.
A Polish Jew of Wilda, who was 50 un-
fortunate as to have his house burned down,
was fined twenty-five roubles by the Rus
sian magistrates for crying fire in the Polish
language.
Bertha is the name of new Vienna
singer who is to eclipse Patti aud the rest,
if all accounts are true. She is a stately |
is another point of adyau-
tage ever the aforesaid Patti.
The following advertisement appeared |
in Texas paper: "If the person who
took lit is concluded by mistake) the white |
waterproof coat belonging to Captain
johnson will apply to the barracks, he can
have the peg it used 10 hang upon, as it is
of no further use to the owner"
At Baden, recently, Mile lima de
Murska and Wachtel had a quarrel and
the ungallant tenor took singular mode
of revenge. While they were singing to-
gether in Lucia" he cast her off in the
malediction scene with such force as to
upset her.