Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-05
BREv1T1Es AND LEy1TIEs.

daily.
| The sense of the Massachusetts, House
License
cally.
Politicians who have sold cadctships arc
trembling.
| Maritime commerce sale Of cadet
ships.
There are women BARRIERS in a shop on
Michigan street, Chicago.
Fisk proposes a new underground rail-
road-under the North River.
Each vessel in the Danish navy is 10 be
supplied with an American life boat.
'EWrite me as one who loves his fellow
men" as the cannibal said to the mission
airy.
Congressman are only equaIled by milk
men in the matter of spout.
Jack Reynolds thinks the rope is moth
ing but nOos-ance.
Philadelphia has a $4,000 breach Of
promise case in high life.
A memorial concert, is Gottschalk's
honor win be given in New York,
March O..
Newport, II. J., has mere clubs than
any other place of It's size in the country.
Camilla Urso's So, 900 violin is making
a sensation in San Francisco.
Adolphe Belat, a Partisan writer. Is
making Thrilling romance" out of the
Byron Scandal.
1t is thought that before the Spaniards
conquer the Cuban patriots, they will
have to travel over Jordan-General
Jordan.
The correct costume for a beau of the
period: Lavender kid gloves, Lord Stan
ley scarf, English frock coat, and trousers
of some ribbed material.
Miss Julia Cofffnbury has been an
pointed Commissioner of Deeds for Wis
consin. With such a name she ought to
be capable of grave undertakings.
At Nice, recently, boquet was ten
dered to an actress having concealed within
it jewelled nightingale, enclosed in
golden cage.
Rose Hersee's father is wine faster in
London. But he never finds ''boquet''
with so fair flower as Rose.
Milwaukee is trying to get-the- capital.
and jealous Chicago says capital is whs.
Milwaukee needs most, with the excep-
ton Of-busincss.
Nasty has taken 40 writing for his pa
per as ''Jehial Slab. He 'bored" peo-
pie to death with petroleum; he now
wants to put slab over their graves.
On the lSih inst, man in Illinois ac-
complished the feat of walking one hun
dred miles in twenty-four hours for
purse of $3.50, and had nearly an hour TO
spare.
4 novelist says this is the way day
dawns: ''Dawn is just beginning stealth
lily to unlatch the eastern gate; her torch,
new lit, makes but puny opponent for
the nights one great and myriad lesser
lamps.
The st. Johns bOatmen, better known
as the Paris crew, have accepted the
challenge Of the English champion TINE
crew To row on the Hudson or Connect
cut rivers for s., 900 a side, in July.
A new fog signal has just been com
pleted at the New Haven light station.
The bell is struck by powerful hammer,
weighing fifty-three pounds, four times
per minute, being regulated by clock |
work and pendulum.
The ancestors of Arson Burlingame
settled originally in Rhode Island, whence
they removed to the interior of New York /
State. His mother was born in Proyi- |
dence. She was a Miss Angel, de |
scendant of Col Israel Angel, who won
fame in the revolutionary army under /
Gen. Greene.
Mr.. Barry Sullivan has met with a ire !
mendous reception in Liverpool The |
local papers describe it as being ''such a I
scene of prolonged enthusiasm and ex- |
citement as cannot be parallelled within
recollection"
The least Butler can do TO reIaunerate
WhittemOre for his laundering defense is
to stump that gentleman's district for his
reelection, and then buy what vacant |
appointments he may have on his hands. |
A lady of rank and fashion has writ
ten to the inspector of Traupmann's cell to |
ask for notes, as she proposes to write |
his memoirs: ''wOuld like details of his |
private life, his tastes, religious princi- !
Piles, and morals in general
Logan is foremost in moving the ex-
pulsion of Whittemorc for selling cadet |
ships. This is right. Now, let some
body move to expel Logan for having
sold himself TO Lincoln, after having !
made a contract with jeff. Davis.