Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Minnesota farmers are sowing maple
seeds. =
The Yosemite trees are full of little
snakes.
Savannah, Georgia, has theatre on Sun
day.
Batavia, Ohio, is to have new school
house.
No Canadian clergyman gets above ST.
500 a year.
An Iowan came near losing his life by
the sting OF bee.
The Importation of foreign books is in
creasing yearly.
Blasting bovine in its totality" means
roast OK in Iowa.
New York City contains 344 churches,
valued at S3s 100000. 49,
You ca n trust no man who unnecessarily
speaks against another. -s
Peddlers in Europe give servant girls mar
cotics and steal their hair. ..e.
George WashingtOn's wedding ring is
sill preserved. 1t is of gold, with topaz.
The most encouraging accounts are given
OF the cotton and corn crops in North Caro-
lima. ..
st. Louis is moving for a new Chamber
of Commerce building and social evil hos
pital. ~ 20.
1t is reckoned that sixty tons of steel are
consumed annually in the manufacture of
pens.
California, Nevada, Utah and Oregon
have 1890 miles of railroad, valued at
$169,322, 900.
st. Louis High school girls have discard
ed chignons, and on principle wear only
calico dresses.
Residents of Kansas City are boring for
a bag Of gold buried by a Mexican trader
years ago.
Ground was broken for TIE North Pacific
railroad at Saucelito, opposite San Francis
co, Monday, July s.
Sound red cedar is worth seventy-fve
cents per cubic foot in Florida, delivered at
shipping point.
Boston refuses to open her libraries on
Sunday because the City Solicitor says it
would be against the law.
An attraction at the fall exhibition of the
Norfolk Farmers Club will be full line of
paper clothing from Japan.
The Yosemite is already full, and some
of the fashionable trunks that have arrived
there are as big as the trees.
In consequence of the high price of cop
per, work will be resumed in several of the
leading copper mines of California, which
have been idle for large number Of years.
1t is asserted that since the street sale of
newspapers has been permitted in Paris,
the aggregate circulation of daily papers in
that city has increased one hundred thou
sand.
A reform school for boys is much need
ed institution in LeaVenworth. An organ
lied band of house-breakers, ranging from
eleven to seventeen years of age, were ar
rested there a few days since.
A Fort Warren, n. Y, man, who disap-
peared from his home twenty-seven years
ago, return med the other day; having in the
meantime wandered nearly over the inhab-
liable globe as tramp printer.
Railroads are being rapidly developed in
Texas. In the northern part of that
State alone eight lines of road are now I'M
der construction, which will open up to
railway communication nearly every county
in that State.
Scarcely mill or salt block in the Sagi.
nav Valley, Michigan, was running Satur-
day, by reason of the strike. The mill
owners are firm in their opposition to a re-
duction of the hours of work, and trouble
is apprehended.
The Fort Scott Monitor says the Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad is now complet-
ed to Puebla, and will soon make FL Paso.
1t is intended to extend it to the city of
Mexico, through the States of Durango,
Chihuahua, and Zacatecas.
The Summit House, on Mount Kearsar-
&c, North Conway, was opened for the sea-
son on the Fourth of July. On some days
last summer the number of visitors was
one hundred and fifty day, and this sea-
son there is prospect of large increase.
A Kansas paper says there is now no
longer any doubt of the existence of gold in
Greenwood county in that State. Lumps
have been found at the different points on
the Verdigris, the largest of which was val
ued by jeweler at twenty-one dollars.
A Chicago man offers to sell one thou
sand acres of land, houses and lots-in
short, everything he possesses-and wait
for his pay until Grant is elected President
of the United States. We will give his
name and location at regular advertis ing
rates.
The colored people of Mercer county,
KY will hold their second annual fair
Sept. 4, and 6, at the grounds of the Mer-
Ger County Agricultural and Mechanical
Association, two miles north of Harrods-
burg, on the Louisville pike.-PGriS Citi-
zen.