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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Cincinnati startles. us by summing up
sixty-six deaths from smallpox the past
week.
st. Louis will have a tobacco fair next
year with $4,000 in premiums.
Alexis went to the negro minstrels
Thanksgiving night. Yesterday Gen. Dix
presented him with a portrait of Admiral
Farragut.
Little Rock reports a sickening case of
outrage on a child of four years, in which
the miscreants, attempting to escape, were
shot dead by their guards.
The European telegraph companies are
in congress at Rome.
"Agrarian Outrages" are reported in Don
egal, Ireland.
The first day of the Metairie races has
been postponed to Tuesday.
A couple of sharpers have been "taking
in Louisville merchants by getting pay for
advertisements in an imaginary "South-
western Directory" Better stick to the
newspapers.
LATEST Alexis dined at DelmonicO's
last night.
Prince Metternich wants to be relieved Of
the Paris mission.
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SENSATION AT "THE Ma
TIONAL."
A Trapeze Performer in a PeriIOul
Fov,HEfiov,


Condition.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
During the performance at the National
Theater last night an occurrence took place
which sent a thrill of terror through the
entire audience, and caused the cheeks of
MANY a strong man TO blanch at the pros
pect of a fearful accident to one of the lady
performers. Fortunately, however, and
owing to the presence of mind of the lady
herself, it ended in nothing more than a
scare, and not in a tragedy.
Among the greatest Of the many attrac-
tions Manager Sargent's establishment Of
fers, are the trapeze performances of Mons.
and Nh Romelli, two French aItistes, who
are now here for the first time, and who, by
their daring feats, have won the admiration
of all who have seen them. Beginning
with a variety of gymnastic feats,
on the trapeZe, suspended some thirty feet
from the stage, they make their final per-
formance, the flying leap, or swing, from
one end of the auditorium to the other.
To render them perfectly safe, in the first
part they have a rope network stretched
under them, a precaution which never
proved necessary until last night.
They had gone through with their per-
formance up to the last daring act satisfaC-
torily and brilliantly, and were ready to
commence it. Mons. Romelli suspended
by his feet from the first trapeze, swinging
the frail form of his companion, threw her
to the second, while she with swift swoop,
set out TO catch the third with her feet. She
had miscalculated her impetus however,
and falling catch the bar with her feet
went clear through it, making loop of the
two swings. Here she swung clinging by
one hand a minute or more over the heads
of those sitting in the orchestra chairs. Ap-
preciating her danger in a moment, her
romnanion called out in hoarse whisper,
aSwing into the network" She did so,
aud was safe, and was received with storm
! of applause.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03
A Mixture Of weather.

During the past few days the weather
has embraced every quality and kind
usually known to people in this latitude, at
this unsteady season of the year. Il has
been by sudden turns clear and cloudy,
warm and cold, dry and wet, and now and
then such mixture of these several degrees
as to render an accurate description impOs-
sible. We might feel some uneasiness on
account Of these almost unoccountable
changes in the temperature of the elements
about us, but for our firm reliance in the
assurance Of good and wise men, that in
this latitude we always have more or less
weather in the period of time intervening
between the 1st Of November and Christ
mas. At ten o'clock last night it was rain
ing and showing, with strong probabilities
Of continuation until to-day Of inclement
indications.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

A STRANGE and extremely unpleasant
mistake occurred in Boston few DAYS ago.
A lady had occasion to use an application of
crotOn oil, and had left the bottle of it in
the kitchen of her residence. A new SER
want girl supposed it to be hair oil and
thought an application would benefit her
hair. So she poured on good quantity of
it-they seldom do anything of the kind by
halves-and went to bed. The effect was
not only very surprising but very painful.
When she arose in the morning her head
was as bald as the traditional billiard ball.
and the oil which had trickled down her
face had run into her eyes, burning her face
and seriously endangering her eyesight. She
was removed to the city hospital fer treat
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HOME News.
New Book bv a NASHVILLE Ia,,x

The Washington Chronicle has the fol-
lowing announcement touching a lady
formerly of this city
Laura c. Holloway, the author Of ''The
Ladies Of the White House," and one of
the editors of the Brooklyn Union, is writ
ing a new book to be called aThe Homes
of Famous Americans" Mrs. Holloway is
a woman of unaeniable ability, a rapid.
nervous writer, and a journalist deserving
the high place she is rapidly acquiring and
which she is destined to fill
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A CURIOUS ADVENTURES S.

There is a lady of an unusally adven-
turous spirit providing amusement for the
public in Germany. She has gone through
a variety of characters in male costume
with eminent success, acting successfully as
groom, coachman, valet, etc, to various
employers, giving perfect satisfaction and
obtaining excellent characters, her master
never suspecting her sex. The late war
reused nObler ambitions within her. Pre-
fixing the title ''von" to her name, and dom
ming the blue coat with an iron cross upon
it, Miss Bertha Weiss made her debut as a
wounded Prussian officer. Passing through
various towns she enlisted everywhere the
sympathy of the inhabitants, who received
her as an honored guest, and is said even
to have made some havoc among young
ladies' hearts. Unfortunately, she was
found out Just when her success was at its
highest, and, placed before a tribunal, she
was sentenced to several months imprisOn-
ment as a punishment for her masculine
aspirations. So perfectly had she acted her
role, however, that up to the moment when
the verdict was pronounced she found ad-
vocates in the press to defend her manhood.
The Imprisonment has not moderated
the lady's ambition, for, though only shortly
released, she has turned up once more in
manly guise in the very last place where a
female would be looked for, viz, in monas-
terry near Breslau. The prior declares that
she came to him with so truly penitential an
air, Disgusting her sex 80 admirably, that he
could not find it in his heart to refuse her.
She has lived among the monks Undiscov-
cred, her noviciate being severe one; yet
she underwent all the rules of the order
with the fortitude of an ascetic up to the last
moment. Tired, however, at last Of the
mOnotony of conventual life, she gave the
monks the slip after a tour months visit,
disclosing her sex only after her departure.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

DIRECTING TO BE "INTERvIEwED."-
"Here's yer nice roast chick'nr' cried an
aged colored man, as the cars stopped at a
Virginia railroad station. "Here's yer nice
roast chick'n n taters, all nice and hot"
holding his plate aloft, and walking the
platform. "Where did you get that chicken,
uncle?" asks passenger. Uncle looks at
the intruder sharply, and then turns away,
crying, "Here's yer nice hot chiek'n, gentP
men, all hot; needn't go into the house for
dat" "Where did you get that chicken?''
repeated the inquisitive passenger. "Look-
a-yer!" says uncle, speaking privately, sis
you from the nort?" "Yes.' SIS You
friend of cullud manP" 81 hope l am. .
'Den don't you nebber ask me whar l got
dat chick'n. Here's yer nice roast chick n,
all hot"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03
GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.
He Visits the Legislature and Makes n
Enaaes,

The illustriOus Geo. Francis Train turned
up in the city yesterday rather suddenly
and accidentally. He visited the capitol,
and the use Of the Hall of the House Of
Representatives was allowed him at his
request. Immediately after the adjourn
ment Of the House, he assembled the clerks
desk, and called upon the members of the
Legislature to draw their chairs near him,
for he said it was more sociable. He opened
his address by saying that he was obliged to
lie over in Nashville till the afternoon, and
having been requested by some members Of
the Legislature to deliver an address this
afternoon before leaving the city, he will
ingly complied. His address was on the
same subjects and in almost the identical
language as the three addresses which he
delivered here short time ago in Masonic
Hall, reports Of which have appeared in
these columns.
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NEW YORK.
Tweed Threatens to Sue the Committee
Of Seventy.
The Russian Fleet.

The Russian Fleet.
New YORK, Dec. 1.-The Russian feet
leaves in few days for New Orleans,
where the Prince will join it at the end OF
his tour of the States, and proceed to
China.
Connolly
denies having made confession. Applica-
ton viii be made on Monday to Judge
Leonard at Albany 10 have his bailIreduced.
1he Tables Turned.
II is rumored that Hall and Tweed have
commenced suits in the Supreme Court
against the Committee of Seventy.
The Nelrs says Tweed allowed note for
$4,000 to 60 to protest Wednesday, and
will be sued to recover the amount.
A rumor says that after Monday Tweed
will never be seen in New York City again.
There is no doubt that some men who
know Tweed best now begin to expect hiIa
to flee the country soon.
Marching On"
The colored people will celebrate The
18th anniversary of the execution of John
Brown this evening.
Subsistence of the Cholera FurOre.
There are no vessels detained at quaran-
tine, and the excitement in regard to the
cholera has wholly subsidized.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03
The Close Of Navigation

ALBANY, Dec. 2.-Navigation or the
Hudson is closed as far South as TiyoIi.
Numerous boats, steamers and barges, all
heavy laden, are frozen in.
QUEBEC, Dec. 2.-Advices from below
report that the river is choked with ice, and
that great damage has been done shipping.
Many vessels have been abandoned and
crews rescued in a frozen condition.
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LOUISVILLE.
Later of Lendrum.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. 2.-J. W. Lendrum,
postoffice clerk, caught yesterday morning
robbing the mail in this city, was before
United States Commissioner Merriweather
this evening, waived examination and bail
was fixed at $4,000, in default of which
be was remanded to jail. He cannot deny
taking the letters found on him, which were
addressed to gift and agency concerns i'll the
North, but will say nothing of other robber-
les supposed he has committed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

AT Lewiston, Me-, factory girl suffering
from diphtheria, was attacked bY a severe
fit of strangling aid coughing, when the
nurse, ventUring to put her fingers down
the patients throat, seized the end of some
thing which appeared loose there, and pull
ed out the false membrane. This presence
of mind saved the sufferer. DIR. Hill now
has the membrane in his possession. 1t is
three inches in length, comparatively pre-
served, and retains the shape of the air pas
sage from which it was withdrawn. The
film is thick, white, leathery substance.
1t has been before thought that diphtheria
and its kindred diseases might be successful
" treated by mechanical operations, and
Group has been sometimes conquered by the
surgeon.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

EWhat's your business?1 said the magis-
trate at police court, the other morning,
to prisoner. 'I'm an ObservatiOnist, your
worship" can observationist. What is
that ?" "OnS who looks around In the day
time TO see what be can steal at night, if it
pleases your worship" 1t did not please
bis worship, and so he sent the observation
ist to the penitentiary for sixty days.
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CUBA.
Arrival on Monitor.

HAVANA, Dec. 2.-The United States
monitor Terror has arrived in this harbor
from Key West. The newspaper ConStGn-
cid deprecates the recent scenes of violence
and seeks to tranquilize the public mind.
Its tone gives offense to the volunteer ele-
ments, but moderate men of all classes ap-
plaud the articles as opportune.
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BALTIMORE.


BALTIMORE. Dec. 2.-Mrs. Z. q. Whar-
ton, the alleged 'poisoner of Gen. ketcham
and others, was to-day removed from the
Baltimore city jail to Annapolis, where the
trial commences on Menday next.
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Happy bridegroom: "MOre money, mad
ann more money! Have you forgotten that
my money has bought everything you
possess-the very dress you stand mp
Fair bride: "No sir. Nor have forgotten
that your money has bought what stands
in itf''
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Bigamist Bowen Admitted to the
Legislature.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. 2.-In the
House of Representatives at Columbia to-
day, c. G. Bowen presented his credentials
as a member from Charleston. Objection
was made that be had been convicted of
infamous crime. He was finally admitted
by vote of 73 to %.
KU-KIux Indictments.
In the United States Court the Grand
and Petit juries have been completed and
indictments found against several parties as
Ku-Klux.
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GREAT BRITAIN.
Wales Recovering.

LONDON, Dec. 2-An official bulletin
dated Sandringham, 8 o'clock this morning,
says the Prince had quiet night. The fe-
yer is severe but the case is progressing sat
;of, ,o4O
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Atheistic Missionaries.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. s2.-At a meeting of
Free Thinkers and Infidels last night res
olution was passed TO establish agencies
throughout the country for the circulation
oftracts, to provide for lectures and for the
equipment of missionaries to propagate free
thinking ideas.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

An exchange tells that ''twenty years ago
Leland Stanford arrived in California with
only one shirt to his back. Since then by
close attention to business, he has accumu-
lated over ten millions" What the deuce
can man want with ten million shirts
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

Mrs. Sarah Norton thinks a woman with
the right Of suffrage would be as miserable
as man liable to bear children. She also
believes that all the women who advocate
woman's rights have failed in finding a wo-
mans place in life.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

GEN. ScHENcK seems TO have made
other things pay as well as the Emma Mine.
The New York Herald reports that the
Generals house in Washington, was given
to him by Mr.. John a. GriswoId and other
tariff lobbyists
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ON TO THE SEA,
The Louisville Road Leasing its Way to
Savannah.

The Montgomery and EufauIa, and
Brunswick and Albany Roads Cob
bled.
ATLANTA, Dec. 2.-The Louisville and
Nashville andN Nashville and Decatur Railroad
Company consolidated some time back with
the South and North Alabama, forming line
from Louisville to Montgomery, are now in
treaty to lease the Montgomery and Eufau-
la, and Brunswick and Albany Railroads,
which viii give them an unbroken line to
Savannah and Brunswick.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

Mrs. SARAH NORTON thinks a woman
with the right Of suffrage would be as mis-
erable as a man liable to bear children. She
also believes that all the women who advO-
cate "woman's rights" have failed TO find q
woman place in life.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

THE Cincinnati Common Council are
taking measures to secure the meeting ofthe
National Convention in that city. "IFirst
.- catch your hare" etc.--N. L. Herald.
First build respectable hotel.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

A Irish gentleman having pair Of new
boots sent home to him, proceeded to try
them on; but, after great deal OF labor,
aud pulling and straining, till from the
blisters on his hands, he could no longer
continue the violent exertion, he desiSted,
declaring that he perceived very clearly he
should never get those boots on till he had
worn them day or two.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

TENNESSEE BoNDs closed in New York
last evening at 65R for the old issue and
,654 for the new.
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A MiIIiouaire,s VIII Set Aside,

The jury in the Horace Howe's contested
will case this evening rendered a verdict
that the testator was insane and the will
void. Under this decision the Mount Eagle
University fails and the immense estate goes
TO the widow and children.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

any DEAR" said young lady to her
country cousin, 'when you've been a little
longer in London you won't be so green
'Better green than withered,' . was the re.
tort.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

sac THR National Agricultural Congress
commences its session in Selma, Ala, on
TUESDAY, the 9TH inst. Eaa
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Thirty.Eight Men Killed.

CALCUTTA via LONDON, Dec. "A ter
rible explosion in powder and cartridge
factory in fort Agra, killed thirty-six men
and two commissioned officers.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03

COTTON was in fair demand in New
York yesterday and firm at l9c for mid
ding.
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GERMANY.
Protecting her Citizens Abrot

BERLIN, Dec. 2.-The Brazilian difficulty
is still pending. The Gazette declares that
nothing but an apology from the authori-
ties of Brazil and indemnifcation of the in.
jured parties will be satisfactory to the Ger
man GnvnrnmAnt
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Breach of Promise.

Miss Lotta K. Turner, daughter of the
late Admiral Turner, U. S. N, who sued
Don. Caledonia Artistic, of Sonora, for
100000 damages for breach of promise,
obtained verdict for $500 this A. NJ.
The defendant is old enough to be her
father.
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TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.


SATURDAY, Dec. 2.-The Senate met at
o'clock, Speaker Vaughn in the chair.
PETITIONS.
Mr.. DuBose presented petitions from the
merchants of MorristSwn, Newport and
Blount county asking reduction Of the
merchants tax.
NEW RESOLUTION.
By Mr.. Hughes: To amend section
art. I of the Constitution 80 as to abolish
the Office of Trustee and create an Office of
Collector and Disburser of public revenue
to be awarded by the Justices of the Peace
to the lowest or best bidder. Lies over.
NEW BILLS.
The following were introduced and
passed: By Mr.. Hawes: To change the
line between the counties of Putnam and
Cumberland. By Mr.. Brandon: To reduce
the expenses and delay in criminal cases,
and for other purposes. By Mr.. Young:
To amend the road laws. By Mr.. McCOn-
nell: To provide each court of this State
with the reprinted reports Of the Supreme
Court of the State, and to increase libraries
at Knoxville, Nashville and Jackson. By
Mr.. Windle: To change the time of holding
courts in the fifth judicial circuit. By
Speaker Vaughn: For the relief of Elisha
Talent, of Monroe county. By Mr.. Merritt !:
To amend the conventional interest law Of
Feb. %, 1870.
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING.
A number of Senate bills were passed on
second reading, and that to amend the laws
in relation to the trial in all civil cases in
the Circuit Court was rejected.
HOUSE BILL ON THIRD READING.
To provide for the sale of lands which
have been sold for taxes due the State and
bought in by the Collectors of Revenue.
Passed.
SENATE BILLS or THIRD READING.
To repeal section II chapter III Of an act
passed March 2, 1870. Passed.
To create the office Of Geologist and Min
eralogist. Passed.
To enable old counties to collect debts
from fractions taken off. Passed.
To require clerks and other officers to
keep a more perfect index of their record
books. Passed.
To make obligations operative TO require
persons to appear and acts to be done at the
changed. Passed.
To afix the amount of appeal bonds in
certain cases. Rejected.
Ol ulOLlOn the leu0eSSct anu dClllC
Railroad bill was taken up, but was post
pOned indefinitely. -......
Toamend an act making the rules Of evil
dence in the Federal and State courts uni
form. Passed.
To provide for the collection Of taxes in
irregular and void assessments. Passed.
To change the line between Lewis and
Hickman counties. Passed.
To provide for the change Of venue in
certain cases. Passed.
To regulate the compensation of Revenue
Collectors. Passed.
To repeal the act exempting from execu-
tien and attachment the property Of mu-
nfGpal corporations. By consent Mr.. Mer-
ritt offered an amendment making all prop
erty, personal and real, of municipal
corporations subject to execution, which
was adopted and the bill passed.
Adjourned till Monday at 10 A.. N.
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u p-udert man. says witty French
-. - .il.a 4 pin-his head prevents him
fom going 90 fsr
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DRESDEN, Dec. 2.-The Saxon Diet was
opened yesterday by the King, who, in the
speech from the throne, congratulated the
House on the prosperous condition of the
kingdom, and declared in unequivocal terms
his adhesion to the German empire.
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UNION AND AMERICAN.

GOLD is dun but steady in New York
at llO1Nllos.