Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-17
GLEANINGS.


patented inventions turn out worthless.
An effort is being made in the Ohio
Legislature to legalize ''body-snatching. F"
Five counties in Wisconsin have sixty
two breweries between them.
An indianapolis clergyman has preached
a sermon on frizzled hair.
Cornell University has established the
/ new degree of Bachelor of Letters.
Switzerland has 1914 newspapers, of
which As are dailies.
A printer in the Office of the Racine
| (Wis.) advocate has invented chair in
which to sit while at work at the case.
One-third of all the accessible timber
in California has been destroyed in the
last twenty years.
The East India Association in London
is trying to turn a part of the stream of
emigration to India.
The Buffalo Express says that the
liyeliest business in that city nova days
is the free lunch trade
Two men were recently arrested in the
Yosemite Valley for cutting down trees,
and were fined twenty dollars each.
Labor Reform Clubs are being organized
in all the counties of New Hampshire.
The new party claims eight thousand
votes in the State
Some Canadian papers object to the
proposed fractional currency on the
ground that it would be incOnyenient for
those who cannot read.
A merchants cooperative bureau has
been formed in New York as a mutual
protection against losses by sales of goods
on credit
There are 226, 900 children in Maine
between Che ages of four and twenty-one,
and only fifty per cent. of these attend
school.
The latest census taken in Vienna shows
that there are two thousand five hundred
and thirty-s persons in all attached to
the Imperial palace.
The Rhode Island House on Tuesday
defeated by five majority bill to author
lze the intermarriage of whites and ne
grOes. 1t had passed the Senate
Five persons in the Charleston Is. c.
Theater turned off the gas, just for
joke, and next day were sent to the
workhouse for five days.
The New York Seventh regiment has
paid the last installment of $23, 900 to
Ward, the sculptor, for the typical Ameri-
can soldier, to be placed in Central Park.
The Richmond Dispatch does not look
apprOyingly on the movement to organize
new political party in Virginia, saying,
better let well enough alone.
The Michigan State Bee Keepers Con
vention is to meet at Lansing, March %
and q, when papers of great interest will
be read by leading men engaged in that
business.
Mr.. Francis Williams, of Hartford, a
temperance refOrmer, stated sixteen years
ago that every fifth man in this country
died drunkard. He now revives his
record, and says the old average holds
good.
The Treasurer of the Lincoln MOnu-
ment Association of Springfield, H., re-
ceived, a few days since, five hundred
dollars in gold from the State Of Nevada,
to be used in aid of the Lincoln Monu-
ment.
Several thousand. persons were present
at the hanging of the two colOred men in
Newcastle, Delaware, the other day-and
five minutes after the execution every
grog shop in the place was filled to over
flowing. So much for the moral effect
of this act of justice.
A call is made for National C0nren-
yention to be held at Pittsburg on the 23d
of February, composed of all American
citizens who favor an amendment of the
Constitution of the United States, so that
God is acknowledged as the author of
national existence, and that this is Chris
tian land
The Philadelphia EUeaing Star says
that wealthy lady of that city has Of
fered young man $50, 900 to marry her
daughter. The strangest part of the story
is that the young man never saw the
young lady, and is required to abandon
her forever Immediately afterthe marriage
ceremony.
The Boston Board of Trade has recon-
mended the repeal of all State laws and
regulations discriminating against non
TeSlueut DuSlneSS ultu "a IuCAI d5CutS, COl-
demning these local restrictions as at
variance with the spiri. of our institutions,
and detrimental to the interests of the
country.
One of the convicts of the State Prison
at jackson, Mich, on the Sth, getting
tired of working, laid his fingers under
the trip hammer and had them mashed
to shreds. He had five months TO serve.
This is the second time that such an act
of self-mutilatiOn, for the same reason,
10, c,oor,r,.oI ~, tho Dopitopfiarv