Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
IRgITIEs AND BREyITIEs.

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The latest thing in the way of speculation
| is a "corner" for filtration. 0kg2ls
The fastest and slowest of our English
authors were Swift and Crabbe.
| ETwenty-fye South Side soldiers will
march on to. Gettysburg on the Fourth. ~
q Some foreign gentlemen propose going to
Niagara Falls on a buffalo hunt.
American cutlery, chilly in the shape of
bavonets, is readily sold in Cuba. y ~,
| a reflective reporter described a hearse
as "a splendid though sad vehiele."3
An old horse named 9Snip" died in Yer
sailles the other day, aged tiiirty-6ye years.
Bedford is frightened over the smallpox,
having a case within mile of that town.
@SmaIlpox here" and .'rooms to rent" are
two announcements on one door of De-
troit house. k& a&E-
Railways are aristocraHc. They teach
every man to know his station and to stop
there. sr-. -~srssrs fAnow &c
The hen-pecked husbands of Lawrence,
Ks, have organized mutual sympathetic
society. 4.
The latest exploit of the potato in Geor-
gia is to grow inside stout iron ring and
burst it asuilder. HkfkFERg u
Delaware has sent north this year 434
AOdQ5 vi obTdM oS3dALSb az AtsoS
year and 81 In 1870, sfgs
Courage, the commonest Of the virtues,
obtains more applause than discretion, the
rarest of them.
A little dog was the cause of three jury
trials, forty witnesses swearing, and SloO
costs, in Trempeleau, last week.
Grabbing parties are the rage at Long
Branch, and are very entertaining when the
EuI Il fon Co. ho;E
The Middleburg Post reports locusts
alarmingly plenty IN Snyder county, al
most every tree and shrub being laden with
them. 80 tAsstlt'
A law substituting Imprisonment for fine
in the punishment of drunkenness has
been presented to the Connecticut Legisla-
ture. =. ..-. .e, ert a 7 t.s5g. -"
DR.. Loring says if be should be candi-
date for office he doesn't know why his
wife should not vote for him. She does,
probably. III ~. n s....frr,. ..s.i a %
:. A chap in Butler, Missouri, is informed
by the commissioner of internal revenue, in
reply to an inquiry, that there is no tax on
''fy-traps.n cl ssDorlG as-tE =
A young man in New Jersey, just out of
his teens, went crazy because his father
forbade his marrying fascinating talioreSs
forty years OF age. IA. > Ec7g1r. .- ~
Wendell Phillips says: "Put an Ameri-
can baby, six months old, on his feet, and
he will Immediately say .Mr. Chairman
and call the next cradle to order"
1t is stated that the State of Texas would
contain the entire population of the United
States, without making it any more thickly
settled than Massachusetts,. u. -
It is estimated that in Richmond, Va,
each full grown white man belongs to from
two to six lodges or societies, and that the
celored men each belong to from eight to
twelve.
The California Legislature thinks it has
stopped betting on elections by making the
act punishable by a fine not exceeding
5000 and term of Imprisonment not ex
ceeding five years.
Jennie Bronson, Mrs. Holbrook's assail-
ant, at New Orleans, now wants public
opinion suspended. What With Stokes and
Mrs. Fair and all the rest public opinion is
getting too much elevated. -Ela a. q
A Los ANGELES, CAL, horse, when he is
thirsty, pulls the bung out of water barrel
and helps himself. He learned the process
watching the treatment of other barrels by
the human animal. -t. 81
THERE is considerable excitement in St.
Louis over the determination of Judge
Cullen to bring gamblers to the auction
block and knock them down under state
law providing that gamblers shall be treated
as Migrants. .. - .# sit E.#a -
Sheffield ware was formerly regarded as
the standard, both here and in England.
Now not only is the home trade supplied
by domestic manufacture, but a large sale
for American ware is found in the princi-
pal foreign markets.
Not few people there are who fancy
that Macready is dead. The death of the
great actor was reported, and ais obituary
was written a few years ago; but he still
lives, and is said to be hale and hearty.
His age is 70, and his residence Chelten-
ham, England.
The dog census of the United States is
put down at 100000. At a moderate
computation each animal costs 50 a year,
making a total of $16S,000,000. OF the
number upward of 100000 90 mad annual
", and bite about 10000 people. On the
whole, the crop cannot be said TO pay.
The Burmese Embassy, which recently
landed in England, brought costly presents,
among which was magnificent bracelet
for Queen Victoria, the gold of which
weighs seven pounds. She can't wear it on
all occasions, but it will do when she wants
to lay heavy hand on somebody.
A story is going the rounds Of the press
of young Kentucky physician, who, in
consequence of the death of his first pa
tent, was frightened from the practice of
his profession. The account goes on to say,
however, that he at once turned his atten-
ton to law, so that his fright didn't do him
much good after all.
A strange fatality seems to attach itself
to all connected with Laura ID. Fair.
Since sentence of death was passed upon
her, Elisha Cooke, one of her counsel;
Harry Byrne, who prosecuted the case;
Judge Sprague, of the Supreme Court, who
was instrumental in granting her new
trial, and the son of A. p. Crittenden, her
victim. have died, and now her mother is
reported to be dangerously Ill with fever,
in San Francisco.
Every scheme of systematic benevolence
designed to transform drones into work
men, finds its worst foe in the criminal care
lessness which pays premiums on idleness
by encouraging beggars. One of these ras-
Gals, recently arrested at Newburyport,
Mass, had on his person letter to his wife,
from which it appeared he had cleared,
above all expenses, $3.50 by single day s
"work.n This is but one of ten thousand
like examples. .-
William Parker, colored, at whose house
the Christiana Lancaster county, riot oc-
CURED in September, 1851, where Gorsuch,
of Maryland, while attempting to recspture
escaped slaves, was killed, with his family
made safe his escape, and was never seen
since until a few weeks ago, when he visit
ed his old neighborhood in Sudbury town
ship, among some of his acquaintance.
He has for nearly twenty-one years lived in
Canada, and declares that he never will
again live in the States. rl
A number of large employers of labor in
Belgium, fully alive to the difficulty work
ingmen find in securing cheap and comfort
able accommodations in great cities, have
lately organized, as an experiment, home
for their employees, where, for thirty-fye
cents day, each will have room, four
meals-one of meat-and their washing
done free. 1t would be well, especially for
unmarried men, if some such institution
could be started here. -s ''
The Springfield, Massachusetts,, Republi-
can, having written to the Holly company