Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The old banks in South Carolina are
slowly resuming business.
Connecticut has produced one divorce
to every ten marriages.
Miss Elizabeth PEBBLES has been elected
Clerk of the House of the Territorial
Legislature of Washington.
Four bachelors at Westford, Va, have
bought pew together, the one first mar
Tied to become sole owner.
II is proposed to erect a monument over
the grave of President Lincoln's mother
in Spencer county, Ind.
A young woman of Paterson, n. j.,
has gone out to India to marry a young
missionary whom she has never seen.
The debt of South Carolina is 81, 900,
900 and the taxable property of the State
is worth $3.50, OO0,O
The Jews have three hundred syna-
gogues in this country, thirty-nine of
which are in New York and Brooklyn.
There are seven million young men in
our country; about two hundred and
fifty thousand OF them profess TO be
Christians.
A French doctor having asserted that
the asparagus plant affects the kidneys,
all Paris has thrown the weed into tho
gutter.
The English Presbyterians talk of al
lowing instrumental music in churches
where two-thirds of the congregation ia
vor it.
A man in Chester county, Pa, has
been fined for allowing obnoxious weeds
to grow on his farm, to the damage of his
neighbors.
The girl who blacks boots in the City
Hall Park, New York, does a rushing
business She is ''sweet SIXTEEN and
quite pretty. All the dime novelists are
after her.
\ son of DR.. McWilliams, keeper of the
lighthouse at BlackstOne's Island, in the
Potomac, day or two since, killed at
one shot one swan, eight geese and ten
ducks.
The Quebec Mercury tells its Legisla-
ture that the arrest of the tide of emigra-
ton to the United States Is a subject
which can nottOo soon or too fully occu-
by its attention.
Miss Rankin, a Presbyterian missionary
in Mexico, writes that the whole country
is open to Protestant Christianity. Many
of the Catholics are inquiring earnestly
after the Protestant faith.
4 breach of promise case in Detroit
turns upon the question whether the de
PENDANT intended, by enclosing AZ leaf of
rose geranium to the lady, to use the
language of flowers, in which case the
innocent leaf would have said, Chou art
my choice"
Clay Miller, lad of IA, and son of
widow living in Harrison county, Ky,
was instantly killed on Friday last, while
cleaning a gun. He put a muzzle to his
mouth and held back the hammer with his
foot to blow, when his foot slipped, and
the whole load was discharged into his
mouth.
The force of the waves striking against
the soft sandy shore of Alameda county,
south of San Antonio, California, washes
away every year strip of the coast, vary
ing from three to seven feet in width. As
land in the district is worth several thou
sand dollars per acre, the loss entailed is
most serious.
At Tiflin, Ohio, about ten days ago, a
little boy named Dore, in the absence of
bis mother, went to the stove, on which
was a tea-kettle of boiling water, and
placing his mouth over the spout, tipped
i up, filling his mouth with the hot water,
4 portion of which he swallowed, dying
n consequence, several days afterward.
The officers of the Philadelphia mint
nave prepared a medal commemorative
IF the opening of the Pacific Railroad.
One side bears the head of the President,
md the reverse exhibits the most strik-
NC characteristics of the road. 1t is ap-
inscribed, and number have
yeen struck in silver and bronze, and one
n gold to be presented to President
Grant.
Great excitement prevails in Wabash,
nd, over the enforcement of the Sunday
aw. Men, women and children are in
licted for fishing, sewing, knitting and
backing boots on that day. About one
hundred indictments were lately returned
nto court against the best citizens of the
own, including several ladies. Three
legro BARRIERS were in the list.
Two Partisan ladies, who lately re-
eived an invitation to visit Compiegne,
Implied themselves before starting with
Orty dresses. As the boxes necessary TO |
onvey the amount of female adornment
would occupy too much space in their
partments, fresh ones are to be sent
own every morning, and those which have
,een worn on the preceding day will be
emoved. 1t is the etiquette of Com
,iegne that a dress shall not be worn a