Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-17
GLEANINGs

Clubs are rapidly increasing IN New
| York.
New England talks of selling eggs by
weight.
Charleston, s. c., contains population
of A, 923.
Kansas City has man in Jail who has
married six females since last August.
The real estate business is more active
in Memphis than at any time since 1865.
One or more business firms in every
large city have resumed specie payments.
In Massachusetts it is proposed to collect
tax-bills at the polls.
Norwich, Conn, is so plagued with
pigeons that grand coup is proposed to
get rid of them.
The New York plasterers have agreed
among themselves never to agitate the
eight-hOur subject again.
Ten members of the Ecumenical Coun-
ell have died since the opening of that
body.
The coopcrs' strike, for higher wages,
in Detroit, has terminated in favor of the
strikers.
The Oberlin (Ohio) Ne,cs announces
that practical wedding" viii shortly
come off there.
The Dessert Nesos, at Salt Lake, re-
commends the sending of Mormon mis-
sionaries to San Francisco.
The Chief of Police, of Detroit, has
four hundred photographs of rogues, and
is having gallery made
A Massachusetts farm has lust been
sold on mortgage, after being in the
family seven generations.
In France a convict is not notified of
the time of his execution until they come
to lead him to the gullotine.
The New York press is advocating a
reduction in the prices of admission to the
theaters and concert rooms.
The Jacksonville en- Journal reports
that winter wheat in that vicinity is
badly damaged if not entirely killed.
A New York doctor will give $1,000
for authentic records of a case where any
person ever died of broken heart
The Cambridge 0nd) Tribune speaks
of anattempted homicide at the depot, in
that place, as ''quite an amusing incl
dent
Thomas Moore's 'IaIla Rookh" has
been converted into ballad for the en-
tertainment of the patrons of Calcutta
theater.
In some places the sea is five and
quarter miles in depth, as indicated by
soundings. In other places no bottom can
be reached
The peach prospect in the Lake Shore
region are good. No buds have been in
jured on ripened wood by any cold snap
this winter.
The New Orleans papers say that there
is large cotton reserve up Red river, the
planters having held back their crop in
hope of better prices.
A man in Racine recently drew needle
from his arm where it was imbedded its
whole length. He has no knowledge of
how it came there.
''Perley," writing of Washington social
doings, explains some of them by the by
pothesis that ''the recording angel has no
jurisdiction in the District of Columbia. -"
The curious discovery has been made
by an English surgeon that monkeys can
not be poisoned with strychnine. They
seem to eat all kinds of poison with i'm
punity.
The California wine growers are finding
that expensive underground wine cellars
of brick or stone are unnecessary, that
the wine keeps better in barns above
ground.
According to the latest statistics, Eng
lishmen are about two inches taller and
more than seven pounds lighter than
Americans of the same age and similar
pursuits.
An alarmed Philadelphian warns his
fellOw-citizens that speculative New York
ers, having demOralized real estate opera
tons in their own city, are going to try
the same game in Philadelphia.