Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-06
PERSONALITIES.

In wabash, Indiana, women who bake
biscuits on Sunday are placed under ar
rest.
Mrs Henrietta Baker Chanfrau's stage
toilets are all imported from Paris.
A New York lawyer compelled his lady
client to sell her underclOthes to pay his
fees.
Philadelphia doctors are unusually busy
with the victims of Christmas gluttony.
Grants autograph sold for fifty cents,
and LincOln's for 50, at New York, Tues
day.
The New York Herald calls Lingard's
matrimonial troubles "HistriOnic Inf
licities.n
One Of the standing orders ON the re-
pOrters' slate of a New York daily is
write up Jim Fisk"
A woman in Kentucky, eighty years of
age, is cutting her third set of teeth. She
uses soothing sirup, and is as cross as a
baby on washing-day.
A jealous husband in Memphis broke
his wife's nose because he thought her
beauty attracted too much attention.
The Philadelphia Post pronounces John
Russell Young "the ablest journalist in
America, but denies that the Post is 10
indulge in such luxury.
Hearing it mentioned that architecture
is frozen music, some inductive reasoner
has discovered that the Greeks were
blessed with the bagpipe.
The five Chicago doctors who attended
Farragut have been presented with tokens
of regard. The Admiral's sense of graft
tude is only equaled by his vitality.
Mrs Emma Waller, Western actress
of early New York training, is playing
Meg Merrilies at Booths, and winning
warm praise from the New York papers.
Max Klinger, the boy-murderer in st.
Louis, when he thought he was speedily
to be executed, begged that the surgeons
would try to resuscitate him by means of
electricity.
Miss AlCOtt received ON Christmas day
81, 500 from Roberts Bros, of Boston, for
her publications, a portion of the profits
on six months sales of her 'Little
Women
Gath calls Ex-Governor Ashley, of Mon
tana, ga coincidence of wind, belly and
bair oil, who never Intentionally injured
anybody, but whose life has been an
abuse of existence
George William Curtis, in his lecture on
The Civil Service, speaks of ''grecdy and
dishonest officials" but a Providence
paper made him say "Greeley and dis
honest officials.
4 lady's apron, made of cream colored
morocco leather, beautifully embellished
in border of gold and colors, has been
sent to Miss Ida Lewis, of Newport, as a
testimonial, from the employees of a
Providence tannery.
A lady in Baltimore dry goods store
rebuked boy of thirteen for rudely
pushing between her and another lady.
The lad disappeared, and shortly after a
pOCket-bOOk was missing.
A course of MONDAY Monday lectures
on Christianity and Skepticism, with
President WOolsey, DR.. Peabody, Prcsi-
dent Harris, and host of Professors and
ClerGymen as lecturers, will commence in
Boston, this month.
At Ada, Mich, a saloon keeper actu-
ally got rid of his rival across the way by
inserting his nose in the rivals mouth and
having an inch of it bitten off during q
street fight, in which their long feud
eliminated. The bitter fed from town.
The reason why that young man at
Hartford spoiled a wedding al which he
was to appear as groom, the other day,
by half killing himself with a dose of
laudanum, was because his tailor went
back on him, and wouldn't let him have
Lis wedding suit on credit.
AT the First Presbyterian Church ii
Knoxville, Illinois, on the 10th ult., the
Rev, G. w. johnson united in marriage
three couples with the same ceremony.
Three Of the party were members of the
same family, and two of them twin sis
tCTs.
Nh. Il. Crockett, who was reported as
having died suddenly in Wytheville, Va,
from the effects of incompetence, writes
to the Richmond Wing: 81 have not yet
died, nor have l drank a glass of intoxi-
eating beverage of any kind for fOrty-ive
years.
A headstOne Of red frcestone has been
erected by Messrs A. & c. Black, the
Edinburgh publishers, in the CarlaverOck
church yard, which bears this inscription:
Erected to the memory of Robert Pat
tersou, the Old Mortality of Sir Walter
Scott, who was buried here February,
1901.
A newly married couple at Manton,
Rhode Island, who refused to treat q par
| ty of serenadcrs the other night, were
| CannOnaded from 10 o'clock until mid
night The bOmbarding was heard il
Providence, two miles away, and created
| considerable excitement. The couple did
not give in, and peacefully resumed their
siumber after the cnemy's powder was OK
| hausted.