Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-18
NEWS OF THE DAY

San Francisco has had an arrival Of $40
Cinnamon women
In the north of Ireland the Catholics
and Orangemen are fraternizing.
The opponents of capital punishment
in Maine are unusually active just now.
Both Houses of the Missouri Legisla-
ture have passed bill prohibiting price
fighting in that State.
Queen Isabella closes all her letters
with the words, "No one loves thee more
thanithy Queen, Isabella"
The Michigan Medical School has sent
Professors to Massachusetts and New
Orleans to procure subjects for.dissection.
A Glasgow firm boasts that -four is i'm
ported there from America, made into
biscuits, and in that shape exported back
for sale.
The lace flounces worn by some Of the
ladies at the recent charity ball in New
York were valued at three hundred doll
lars a yard.
A pardon for John DeVlin, OF Brook
Ign, n. Y, who was convicted Of whisky
frauds about year ago, has been signed
by the President.
The amount of Australian gold shipped
to England last year was 1901 ,58l
ounces equal to about $46,0O0OO0 in
American currency.
L. Alvin Hunt, the editor of the New
York World, died at Unadilla, New
York, last Sunday, of consumption,
aged twenty eight.
A thoroughly reliable gentleman, who
breakfasted with Grant, the other day,
came away full of waffies and no cabinet
information to speak of.
The Lexington Statesman learns that
a subscription has been started in Madi,
son county to buy and present to Mrs.
John C. Breckenridge residence.
Paris, Kentucky, which manufactures
more whisky than any other place Of its
size in the country, is making prepare
tons to hold temperance meeting.
The New York Herald has saVagely
attacked the Romeo of Booth, and the
Juliet of Miss McVicker, while it says
the Mercutio of Edwin Adams is perfect.
American managers are now engaging
the dancing and singing girls OF London
by the hundred, and are paying salaries
which fairly startle the British profess
SIGNALS.
Three swindling bogus guides at
Niagara Falls were arrested last week by
Buffalo detective, who affected limos
cence. and allowed them to cheat him for
several hours.
AN oak tree was recently cut in Cans
dia, n. H., which was four feet in dame
ter, and yielded four tons of ship timber.
1t had hollow in which eighty pounds
of honey was found.
Richie, who killed the sheriff and
deputy sheriff of Pickens county, Georgia,
was pursued and overtaken by others, and
| in the effort to arrest him he killed two
others and was killed himself.
The corn crop of 1868, according to
the last report of the Agricultural Bu-
reau, will yield 905,l78,000 bushels
against 767, $1,000 bushels in 1867, an
aggregate increase OF 1877, 35S,O00 bush>
| els.
| After great number of ballotings, the
West Virginia House of Delegates, on
the 10th inst, voted that the new State
capitol shall be built at Parkersburg
The question now goes to the Senate for
concurrence.
One planter on the Mississippi offers
five hundred thousand ramie plants fol
sale, and it is reported that orders fol
ramie from all paris of Europe have
been transmitted to New Orleans and
Mobile, offering to purchase the rough
fibre at ten cents in gold.