Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-21
NEWS OF THE DAY

NEWS OF THE DAY.
at Au Sauble, Michigan, 1000 barrels
of white fish and trout were caught this
year.
Jason and Sarah Wing celebrated their
golden wedding at Clarksfeld, Ohio, on
the Sth inst
During a recent religious revival, at
Equality, Illinois, two whisky dealers
emptied their whisky into the street.
A car for the use of the President of
the Pacific Central and st. Louis Railroad
has just been completed at Steubenville at
a cost of $4,000.
The cranberry crop of Harwich, Mass,
amounted, during the past year, to three
thousand seven hundred and siXty-one
barrels, which were sold for 500, $50.
The average daily attendance in the
public schools of Ohio, during the year
ending August 81, 1869, was AL, S85.
The total number enrolled was 739, 1911,
showing that 305,0S6 did not attend
school at all.
The grand old style of things is coming
round again in Berkshire, Mass. A
farmer takes a load of wood to market
and it pays for barrel of flour, which
has not been the case before in nearly ten
years.
A lady passenger, terrified by the re-
cent collision on the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad, threw her child out of the
window after the danger was entirely over.
Some one caught the child, and saved il
from injury.
The American Emigrant Company, dur
ing the present year, have brought 5000
emigrants to Iowa, and located them upon
their lands. They have some 400, 900, 900
acres of the best land in that State.
A man named Nicholas Kane, insane on
the subject of religion, was found on the
streets of Cleveland, after midnight Fri
day night, clad only in his night clothes,
and having in hishands a couple of prayer,
books and candle.
Two brothers namad Phillis were
hunting on Navy Island, near Buffalo, last
| Friday, when the gun in the hands of the
elder was accidentally discharged, the
shot taking effect in the head of the
| lOuuSGl, hlIllIlt5 mn Instantly
While the Sheriff of Geauga county,
Ohio, was carrying an armful of wood in
to the jail, few days ago, not taking the
| precautiOn to fasten the door after him,
one of the prisoners quietly slipped out
locked the Sheriff in, and escaped.
At Niles, Ohio, a few nights ago, {
workman, going home with Sl75, de
posted the money for safe-keeping oyel
night in a scuttle containing coal. During
the night his wife arose to rcplenish thu
fire, when the grcenbacks were destroyed
The Kansas City Journal Of Commerce
SAYS that arrangements are fast being
made, whereby some twenty thousand
acres of land in Western Kansas, on tn,
Kansas Pacific Railway, will be settled
upon by thousands of people from Eng
land.
At Mingo, Ohio, a few evenings ago,
Mrs. Taylor, while returning to the hous
after milking, fell across an armlOad 0
wood left in her path, and, after gettin;
up and finishing her evening work, drop
ped dead upon her bed, in consequence
it was thought, of the fall.
A Mrs. King, at Adrian, Michigan, ha
baptismal robe, composed of linen an
laos, and richly embroidered, which
over two hundred years old, and has bee
used by five generations, first at the bap
tism of her grandmother, and last at tina
of an infant, about two years ago.
A iourneyman shoemaker in COrrinna
Maine, recently made pair of boots 70
an urgent customer in one hour and twc1
ty minutes, the sides having been alread
scanned up-doing all the work by hand
They were made with tap and sole, an
finished in a neat and durable manner.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesda
of last week, George Gush, after drinkin
largely, went to a meat shop, and pre-
ceeded to make a meal out of raw beef
when he got piece into his mouth to
large for his throat, and was Choked
death.
At Mitchell, Ind, last Monday, while
{ little boy named Roscoe Foster was stanC
ing on the track near boX-Car left on
{ switch, another boy let off the brakt
+ when the car, starting, ran over and IL
= iured him, so that he died in a few hour
A dead man was found in an untenante
, house about two miles from Quincy, Ill
| on the 10th inst He had evidently bee
, dead for some ten days, as his body W;
inan advanced state of decomposition. n
: | clue to his identity was obtained.
At Avoca, New York, few days ag,
q little boy was thrown into a pond /
. some larger boys, in play, and beir
greatly frightened, he ran home aft
getting out. Next morning he was dea
: and he has since become completely de'
and dumb.
During the year ending Dec. l, the ia!
able manufactures of jefferson count
. Indiana, amounted to IS, 354, 900. Du
: ing the same time there were man
featured and sold 100, 900 barrels beer al
4 ale; 1,S0O,OO cigars, and $500 gallon
E of whisky.
{ The foreign imports of Boston fro
s Jan. |, 1869, to Jan. /, 1870, will amOu
f to over $50, 900, 600, thus making it u
Q second commercial city in the Union, e
ceeding in amount the cities of PhiladC
q phia, Baltimore, and San Francis
d united.
Kansas, by law, offers to any one plan
). ing and successfully growing for thr
3 wears an acre or more of forest trees, OF
n half mile or more of forest trees alol
i any highway, a bounty annually f
Y twenty five years of 81 per acre or hs
&c mile.
The Roper shot gun, manufactured
e Hartford, Conn, is already 1ntroduc
st into Europe, large Orders from perso
II living there have been received. Amo
/ them, Prince Napoleon takes two guI
lie with primes and shells, and Prince Metc
If ersky, of Brussels, one.
X A German named Henry Slime, an {
N man who has been confined in the Trul
n bull county Jail at Warren, Ohio, sin
:, last July, charged with a pretty often
u and awaiting trial, is said to be losing
mind from his long confinement. I
\. Jail has been pronounced by physical
: unfit for human tenants.