Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-03-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Pans orders silver dust for ladies'
ST. PETERSBURG is to have bo-
tanical congress in May.
RUSSIA has 1900 miles of railway,
completed and building.
THE population of Philadelphia is
now estimated at 76s, $50 souls.
CHICAGO has nearly sixty miles of
Nicholson pavement
CORK TREES are being raised in
Florida from seeds procured from
Portugal.
MAzzoLENI has lately been singing
the part of "Mansaniello'' in Naples.
MATILDA HERON will soon appear
4 in the lecture room to discuss the
drama.
MADAME CoNNEAU, a new soprano,
is attracting much attention in Paris.
ST.. LOUIS progresses to purchase its
Gas works, now in the hands OF
company.
THERE are said to he sixty Nation
al Bank Directors in the House of
Representatives.
THE girls of Decatur, Ind, are
promising each other never to marry
a man who drinks, smokes or swears,
A YELLOW silk handkerchief made
of spiders webs has been exhibited at
u fair in Bermunda.
A BED of pure chalk has been found
near Omaha. Nebraska Is now eX-
pected to make its mark, srr.- |
MADAME SCHELLER is on her way
eastward, after a long professional Wis.,
it to the Mormons in Salt Lake City.
A CANADA correspondent says a
"mania" for pommelling newspaper
iiiIien appears to prevail in that Prov
ince.
A FAMILY in Gloucester, Mass,
We're violently poisoned from eating
cartridges, which it was supposed had
fed on poisonous berries.
A YOUNG couple got 500, 900 to set
up housekeeping from Rockport,
Mass, each having broken leg by
falling through hole In the sidewalk.
A JEALOUS wife in San Francisco
donned pantaloons the better to watch
gay husband, and brought up in the
stationhouse.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, q convention OF
grape growers sat down to repast
which was washed down by native
wine furnished from 225 samples.
A UNITED STATES soldier has
lanta 1t weighs two ounces, and is
said to be worth several thousand
dollars.
Lrszr, IL is rumorcd, has been re-
uuested by the Pope to improve the
present state of music In the Roman
Catholic Church.
La GRANGE learned the music OF
the role of Selika In "L'Africaine"
in two days. She Is one Of the most
accomplished readers of music in the
world.
TIE conductor of Vermont night
train noticed n house on fire lately,
whistled up the inmates, stopped the
train, and had the passengers eX-
tingush the flames.
Miss ADA WEBB, who was reported
married or engaged to be married is
not conjugally connected, nor does
she propose to beat least not just al
present. She is now occupied IL
making the necessary arrangement
for her appearance, after one years
absence, In the principal cities IL
the Atlantic States.
There are but two of the seven mem
bcrs of General Grants Cabinet WhC
have ever been in Congress, viz: MIR
Cresswell, of Maryland, and Mr.
Washburne, of Illinois. Genera
Grant seemed to consider the fac
that Congress was now in very ba'
odor with the people, and that tn
less of his appointecs had to do viii
It the better
THE st. Louis Post says: The tria
of Il. :. Lanham develops the fac
that the PasChall House Association
received from the sale of tickets, etc
Sii3s,909; the expenses were Sl33,
l4l, leaving profit ofS2S5, ,467, whicl
was divided as follows: Alex. Kel
sey, Sl92,3l7 20; Jno, King, 81, 800; w
T.. Billings, Sl2, l64 73; Bart and Da
Able, $74, S6S 40; bills receivable, 81,
587 02.
THE Boston Post, speaking of tn
pretended report in the New lor
Sun, of dinner To John G. Breckii
ridge by the Manhattan Club, say
CHAT dinner to Breckenridge was
hoaX-one of Dana's elephantin
iokes.n 1t is not waste of type
call by this long name what is bette
characterized by one word of thrt
letters?
THE Secretary Of the Interior, b
order of the President, has roturno
10 Mrs. Lee an old lookhis
glass and some broken china, left h
George Washington to MIR. Georg
Washington Parke Custus, father
Mrs. Lee, and removed from Arlinl
ton during the late war. At. thi
the Press goes Off in one of its trei
son spasms. Is this cheap patrio
ism, or II fear that restitution Is
become general?
TIIE heirs of Noah Webster rocei'
S25, 900 annually from the sale of h
dictionary, Harper h Brothers pa
Marcus Wilson an annual copyrigl
of $4,000: and the same house h
paid Anthony, Barnes, Robinso
Abbott, Motley and Prescott, or hei
upwards of $50 900 each, copyright {
their works. Chas. Scrbnor Il {
paid Headley S50,00O prior 10 lSi
and 10 DIR. Holland they have paid
larger amount. Hurd & Hought,
still copyright Of $4,000 on Cooper
works.
\ BET of twenty-five dollars, ma
at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee,
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