Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-22
Personal ITEMS.

Scott Siddons as leading lady.
The Marchioness of Hastings is twenty
six, solvent, and consolable.
Cheyenne offered Parepa $1,000 t
Switch off there and sing a song"
A Philadelphia paper announces tn
death of Mrs. Linen Sheets, a widow.
An Ohio woman dreamed she wa
blind, and awoke to find herself reall,
and totally SO.
Jarlet& Palmer pay So, 600 a year 70
the use of the hall in the new Tamman,
building
Society is now discussing how long /;
widow must abstain from parties aftel
the death Of her husband.
McDevitt, champion billiardist o
America" is introuble for alleged swind
ling at faro.
General Grant says no one will know
who his Cabinet officers are to be unit
after his inauguration.
Dan. Rice has purchased the Girard
(Pa.,) Crisis, and proposes to make a
large paper oft
A New York paper says of famous
singer, that "she sings few airs and puts
on great many"
Anna Cora Mowatt Richie lives in
London and writes letters to the San
Francisco Chronicle.
General Mcclellan is about to take up
his residence permanently at HobOken,
New Jersey.
Thad. Stevens ghost says it is glad i'm
parchment didn't succeed. Repentance
comes "a Their late in this case.
The New York Board of Aldermen have
named John I. Hoffman as the Demo $
cratic nominee for President in 1872
A nephew OF Count Bismark" recently
at New Orleans, and depart ed
thence neglecting to pay his board bill.
John W. Mills, a railroad conductor,
who was killed at New Haven on Satur.
day, was to be married on Thanksgiving
Day.
John Russell Young, of the New York
Tribune; is writing a book, and Manton
Marble, of the World, is erecting a house
on $50, 600 lot.
Lucy Stone, and other wouldsbe
breaches wearers, are to have a conveno
ton at Vineland, New Jersey, on the I'd
prox.
Congressman Schenck has taken UNI
bragg at the Dayton Journal aad is to
new paper there with capi-
tai of 100000.
The New Orleans Crescent says that
Henry Ward Beecher was a teacher in
that city in 1912, and was distinguished
for his vigorous use Of the birch.
A number of Japanese officials are in
San Francisco waiting until they can 90
home and take their heads with them in
safety.
Brigham Young suggests Mormon
elders for engineers on the Pacific rail-
way. 1t would-be inhuman, for if there
should be a collision how many widows
there would be.
Aurora o. Ticknor, whose divorce snit
in Chicago, last winter, created such an
odOr in that comm unity, had his late
wiz before the court again, on Saturday,
and petitiOned for the care Of his children,
as they were under improper influence
with her, and the petition was granted.
Miss Lizzie Ballantyne, of Richmond,
Va, was required to give 800 surety, on
last, that she would not again
don male attire, though she did look o
handsome boy, as she mOdestly expressed
herself
San Antonio is the paradise of carpet
baggers. The Herald says that when a
carpet-bagger is freshly imported into
the city, Mayor Thielepape at once puts
him on the police until he can get some
thing else to do.
Mr.. Gladstone, in reply to an appeal
from lady of Liverpool, England on
the subject of female suffrage, says that
lit deserves consideration in what way
property in female hands can advantages
Ously be represented in the cOnstituen-
cies, but beyond that he asks leave to
reserve his full discretion
One more Cabinet candidate has turned
up-a gentleman by the name of Bidwell
a California Cr1sus. As he comes from
the Pacific coast, he is pressed as a
suitable man for the Interior ;" and, be,
ing "of vast wealth, it is said he would
frOwn on Indian jobs. Mr.. Bidwelr shame,
at least, is suspicious.
Young gentlemen who are interested
in the fashions may care to know that in
France-the fountain whence all inspira-
ton of that kind is drawn-the tight pans
taloon leg is not the thing; a sort of gen.
eral fullness being observable throughout
Also that the iaunty hats, with broad
ribbon, medium brim, and high crown,
slightly squeezed in, generally designated
"the tourist" won't do any longer They
are now left entirely to positions and
couriers, where they started, in point of
fact So say late advices
After charging President johnson with
about all the sins enumerated in the dec
alogue for the past three years, the New
York Tribune has now come out in his
defense on one important point "Venal-
ity, it says, SIS not among his faults.
We knew him in Congress, where men
are pretty accurately weighed and meas.
ured; he has since filed almost every
important station, made many bitter ene-
mics, and waged deadly war against me n
ADLER and stronger than himself; yet he
has never been charged with filling his
own pockets at the public cost.