Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-03
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Russia warns passenger coaches by the
heat of the locomotive.
There are twenty ''mad stones in Ken
lucky. s
Egyptian women have asked permission
to appear unveiled in public.
Renting houses by auction has been in
troduced into Boston.
A Schenectady, N X, firm wants 10
exchange 500 velocipedes for Confederate
bonds. ..0 ~ g.,
The Boston Post thinks it very impru-
dent in man TO, promise his doctor &
legacy. ,hta9 q lil
Two hundred of the gentlemen at a
recent Tuileries court ball wore hired court
suits. .aoo1G ai1 rrG
Carefully prepared statistics, presented
to- the California Legislature, place the
number of Chinese on the Pacific coast at
SO, 500.
Mr.. Jesse Wentworth, of Vasser, Mich
igan, has flock of nine tame elk. They
are kept in timbered Enclosure by means
of fence ten feet high. G si io a,
During the present year no less than
five murders, or attempts to murder, have
been the average daily record in the city
Of New York. & g - y '-i =
The present Freshman class in Dart
mouth College numbers ninety be-
ing the largest since the foundation of the
institution hundred years ago.
A paper in Virginia, New, few DAYS
ago said that late wind storm blew away
all the dust so there was little suitable
material left to make mud when the rain
came sd. u
The total number of species of butter
flies found in the British Islands does not
exceed sixty-six, and the whole of Europe
supports only three hundred and ninety.
To Paris, South America, seven hundred
species are natives, and to Ezs, five hun
bred and fifty. +--.
A man by the name Of Walbridge fell
dead at Bangor, Me-, on Saturday, from
actual bursting of the heart. A post
b10r6eDs examination disclosed a rent in
the heart two inches long, caused by en-
gOrgement Of blood. .5....,. .....-'-. -
The title of Lord Lytton's new comedy
is, ~Walpole, or Every Man has His
Price" This sentiment has often been
attributed to Walpole, but the actual re-
mark which he made was in reference 10
certain quack patriots of the day, San
those men have their price,
The Waverly Gova) Nesos saws
''Therc was cobweb wedding down at
Waterloo the other day. Mr.. Josephus
Cobb was married to Miss Kate Webb.
wag at our elbow suggests that little
spiders viii be sprawling about after a
while. - r
The Boston Common Council proposes
to have the city purchase and pay for the
school books of the 1000 school chill
dren of that city, at a cost of ST., 900 an
nually. $50
Asiatic cholera is raging at Moscow in
its worst form. People are suddenly at
tackled by the epidemic while walking in
the streets, and there have been several
cases in which death was instantaneous.
The estimated cost of the new Roman
Catholic Cathedral now in the process of
erection on Fifty-third street, near Fifth
avenue, New York. is $4,000, 900, of
which 100000 have already been ex-
pended, and the whole work will be COM
pleted in 1872.
The average level of Iowa above the
ocean is 800 feet. Keoknk southeast
coner) is IA feet; northeast corner, $50
feet; southwest comar, 1,O6O feet; north
west corner, 1850 feet. The highest
point is at Spirit Lake, in Dickinson
county, which is l 700 feet above the sea
level s