Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

Mrs. Minor, wife of the Clerk of the
Missouri Supreme Court, has broken out
again, demanding her right to the ballot.
The Chicago Workingmen's Association
have severed their connection with the In
tcrnatiOnalists of that city.
Near Lexington, Mo-, is magnificent
estate, known as Limerick Lawn" the
improvements alone getting Sl50,0O0. 4
strong effort is being made TO have the
State purchase this prCperty-Oflered at
$S0,O0O-as an asylum for the partially in
sane.
Notwithstanding the talk of railroad men
about hard times, etc, the balance sheets
Of some Of the leading roads leaving this
city for the year 1873, says the Chicago
Post, show an increase of earnings which
cannot but be gratifying to their officers.
4 bill has been introduced in the Mis-
souri, Legislature TO abolish the Criminal
Court Of St. Louis, and to transfer is juris-
dictiUn TO the Court Of Criminal COrrec-
ton.
The latest venerable couple who have
been arrested as the Bender fiendS" reside
il Cas- county, Michigan, and have hither-
TO passed by the maine Of Dayton.
Speaking Of cX-Alayor CECILIA, Of Mem
phis, the 81. Louis Times remarks: "Fortu-
nate would il be for the world If every man
who jevCurS widows Houses and the sub
stance Of orphans would find the diet
equally indigeStible." Is CECILIA such 4
Tayen0uS person that he goes about devour-
ing widows houses?
The veritable horse on which General
Felix X. Zoliicolser rode to his death at
Mill Spring is owned by citizen Of War
ren county, by. Though old in years, he
pTances with the fire of Bucephalus at the
tap Of the drum or the crack OF a rifle.
Seven thousand men have deserted from
the army during the last three yeaEs.
*SThe hGBSGS city Times published the
message Of the Governor Of Kansas before
il was delivered &c the Legislature, and
now that body proposes TO exclude the
Times reporter.
Holly tree inns are coming into vogue in
New England. Boston was first ia the
work, and other cities has followed until
these public houses are scattered over New
England. The name is taken from Dickens
Christmas tale.
\ COnstantinopOlitan cashier in the I'm
perial Ottoman Bank has confessed the
embezzlement Of a little idOre than S275,-
coo. It Is thus that American civilization
is moulding the customs of the old world.
Base bali clubs are already arranging for
the campaign of 1874. The 'BoSton club"
and the athletic" of Philadelphia, are
preparing to send joint club to England to
exhibit our national game there.
The Ne1r York Graphic having been
about to publish portrait of Mrs. Attorney
General Williams, and having been re
quested by her husband not to do SO, it an
nounceS that il has yielded in this instance
TO the Attorney Generals request, but in
future will, under similar circumstances,
refuse.
The st. Louis Democrat has filed an in
junction TO restrain the st. LeldS Globe
from receiving the Associated Press dis
patches, on the ground that rule of the
Association requires the unanimous consent
of the local board to admit a new member.
The Globe claims that il has simply pur-
chased a franchise which has heretofore
been recognized as salable and purchasable
property, like the good will or the types of
a newspaper establishment.