Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

near York, Pennsylvania.
Farmers clubs are being organizet
throughout Maine
At a recent fire in Gorhanl, Maine, thC
ladies assisted to work the hand engines
A manufacturer of spurious autographs
has been arrested at Paris.
Eighty-one trains daily pass between
New York and Newark, n. j.
There are 1877 inmates in the Kansas
Penitentiary, two of whom are women.
Those sedate Yale students are called
''howling dervishes in New" Haven.
Cincinnati and Hamilton county entire,
foot upa total real and personal valuation
of $166, $50, $50.
A drunken preacher was the sensation
of Macarthur, Yinton county, Ohio, on
Sunday week.
The last stages assembled on Thursday
last, at Fort Scott, Kan, to have their
photographs taken.
-Four bachelors at Westford, Vt, have
bought pew together, the one first mar
ried to become sole owner.
Eleven girls in Boston are being taught
the use of the razor, with a view to re-
form leadership.
The Havana papers predict that brown
sugar will be worth forty cents per pound
before another year.
There are on an average $50, 600
strangers in Paris who spend $1,000 900
per day.
The Boston and Albany Railroad Com
pany have provided their employees with
a library of over 1000 volumes.
A Vermont contractor, who took the
job of Ventilating a schoolhouse, cut sew
eral big holes in the floor.
A woman has been sent to Jail in Mas
sachusetts for two months, to save her
oppressed husband from daily beatings.
A couple in Buchanan county, Mo,
who were divorced one day recently, were
remarked the next day and started for
California.
At the last half-yearly payment of
dividends in the British public funds there
were 248, COZ persons entitled to receive
them.
An enthusiastic humanitarian has de-
vised and bequeathed 1920, 900 to the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty TO Ami
mails in New York.
The estimated expenses of Philadelphia
for 1870, including interest, are S., $685.
10l.97. The taxes now due and unpaid
amount to S., 76S,91I.
At q meeting of the University of
Michigan, it was resolved to adopt uni
versity cap. The faculty concur in it,
and will undoubtedly wear them.
A delegation from the New York Cuban
Junta has gone to Washington to urge the
propriety of the immediate recognition by
this government
1t is estimated that within five years
1920, 900, 900 will be invested in factories
in Maine, employing 200, 900 hands, and
producing 5000, 600, 900 annually.
A wood-sawing party has been organ
lied at WapakOneta, Ohio, numbering
about twenty vigorous young men, for the
purpose of saving wood for all the
widows there.
A 'pOssm hunt took place ncar Mill
town, Crawford county, Ind, a few
nights ago, in which a large number of
citizens joined, and two hundred 'possums
were caught.
Peter Tuffie, a well known stock dealer
Of Whitehall, ILL.,, has failed and suddenly
leaving an Indebtedness of
upward of $50, 600 behind him. His
creditors are in pursuit of the fugitive.
Mrs. Blackwell said in Detroit that
there are fifteen million women in
America who wanted their rights and
were going to have them, with the aid of
their fifteen million tongues.
An old man of eighty-two, who ped
dies on the railroad trains that arrive at
East Conneaugh, Pennsylvania, is the
father of thirty-two children by ono wife, .
who is now siXty-fom.
A witness in a Richmond, CVa) court,
last week, told the Judge to ito hush hts
mouth, as he couldn't talk to two men al
once He had an opportunity to reflect
upon his Tudeness in Jail.
A few weeks since amissionary preached
in Cheyenne on the street, with dry
goods box for a pulpit. The choir were
seated in a buggy, when The horse became
and run away.
The Central Pacific Railroad has com
pletcly rebuild the snOw-sheds burned uear
Cisco, and considerably extended the she'd
ding beyond the old limits. They now
aggregate about thirty-ive miles in length.
Judge Hokc, of the jefferson County
Court of Kentucky, decides that the act
taxing incomes arising from United States
bonds was constitutional, and that the act
of Congress forbidding the act was uncon-
A school teacher in Boston is preparing
a volume of Catalogues from Dickens"
1t consists of fifty amusing scenes taken
from the works of Dickens, and arranged
for parlor thcatricalS and school exhibit
tons.
A lighted clay pipe filed with powder,
but with light covering of tobacco, was
put to the face of little boy named Ka-
vannah, by another boy, at Indianapolis,
on Wednesday, when it exploded, and the
little fellows eye was put out
The High School at Warsaw, in Port
land, has been madGa Russian University.
Everything Polish has been swept away.
So far has the process of RussianizatiOn
been carried, that the students are forbidden
to wear boards or mustaChes.
A petition from many places will be
sent to the Massachusetts, Legislature,
asking for the passage of a law to pre-
vent pound-fshing or trap-fishing, drag
seining and other like destructive modes
of fishing in and about the waters of that
Commonwealth.
The lager beer in Boston must be as
weak as the moral sentiment of New
England free-thinker, if it will not intOx
icatc. 1t would not be at all difficult to
produce testimony to Cincinnati jury of
the Intoxicating qualities Of their lager
If taken in sufficient quantities.
1t scarcely pays to insult women in
Duluth, Mimi. 4 fellow tried it, was
fined fifty dollars by a Justice, and was
subsequently seized by a mob, who strung
him up to tree. The limb broke, which
saved his life, for the mob then let him
off with seventy terrible lashes on the
bare back.
THE STATE CREDIT.