Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-01
PERSONALITIES

The Hanlon Brothers have taken pas
sage for Europe.
Some anonymous party nOminates \.
I. Stewart for Governor Of New York.
Gen. Mcclellan has been elected First
Director of the Highland Suspension
Bridge Company.
The church of the Rev. Miss Olympia
Brown, of Bridgeport, Conn, was robbed
of its communion service last week.
Attorney General Hoar will deliver the
Grafton at the laying of the cornerstone
of the Memorial Hall at Harvard College.
The reported shooting of Red-Handed
Mike, Minnesota desperate, was ca
nard. He is alive and well at Rochester,
MINI.
Fanny Fern intimates that when she
was at school at Hartford, Henry Ward
Beecher used to call on her and take her
out to tide.
Hon. John L. Davis, of Davenport,
turns out to be an heir to a large Eng
lish legacy advertised in. the New York
Herald.
Professor King, the aeronaut, who re-
Gently made an ascension at Augusta, Ca,
was up in his balloon three hours and a
half In this time be travelled a distance
of $50 miles.
The Green Bay (Wis.) Gazette places
at the head of its columns the NAME of
Gen. U. S. Grant for President Of the
United States for 1872.
The Washington octoroon, Miss Worm
ley, who recently married Paul Gerard,
of the French diplomatic squad, has en-
braced the ROmish faith of her hus-
band.
Miss Dawson, of Louisville, is en-
dorsed by Richard Grant White and fash
ionable New York society as q soprano
equal to Jenny Lind.
The Crown Princess Louisa, Of Den
mark, is described as the most lovely
heiress of crown in Europe, and yet she
is brutally treated by her husband. Her
father is the King of Sweden.
Esquire Shelton, who has been elected
Justice of Huntington Township, Ind,
for many years, that he might marry run
away couples from Kentucky-a business
for which he had wide nOtOriety, died
last Tuesday, aged ninety-nine.
The wife of Postmaster General Ores
| well is described as being an elegant wO-
man, slender almost to fragility, whose
dress and profile makes the behOlder
think that one of the proud beauties of
the days of Louis XIV has stepped out
of her picture frame, and come to life
| again.
The father of the late Commodore Ste
| phen Champlin was a soldier of the
| Revolution his mother was the daugh-
| ter OF Freeman Perry and sister TO the
father of Oliver H. Perry, the hero Of the
battle of lake Erie.
GOdbe, the seeding Mormon elder, is
| the husband of four wives and the father
of seventeen children. Upon being ex-
communicated. he told his plural wives
they could have divorces if they choose,
and he would divide his property pre-
rata between them. They preferred to
remain.
Madame Olivier, wife of the new Min
lister of France, dresses in such simplicity
rs to attract attention at the Imperial
1 OOQTl, anu HIS lltOdOlJ DtNOilC tut lCduti
of a new fashion of dressing so as to
clothe the body. AT the last ball, her
white muslin dress reached her neck, and
it was thought she had sore throat, until
it was ascertained that decency was all
that allied her.
| A man at Davenport, who sails under
the name of John Smith, feigned single
blessedness in order to get sworn into
Uncle Sans service for five years. His
devoted spouse heard of it, and al once
instituted legal proceedings to have her
John sworn out as rapidly as he was
sworn in. The court hasn't decided
whether the thing can be did or not.
Mrs. Bradford FoOte, of Sheffield,
Mass, died from the effects of chlOro-
form, in the office of DR.. w. w. Rice,
in Great Darlington, on Saturday, Feb
I19. Mrs. Foote called at the office to
have several teeth extracted, and reques-
ted DR.. Rice to administer chlOrofOrm.
He reluctantly consented to do so, as
Mrs. FOote did not appear in perfect
health. The chlorOfOrm was given by
DIR. Parke, who was called in for that
purpose. Twelve teeth were extracted,
and Mrs. FOote partly recovered conscious
ness, when she suddenly seemed to choke,
| and died in a few moments