Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

New Jersey paid about $4,000 Iatsyear
for legislative printing.
California is the latest demander for a
Constitutional Convention.
The St. James Hotel, st. Louis, is to be
put through a course OF bankruptcy.
POttstOwn finds two policemen sufficient
to keep her seven thousand citizens in
order.
\ Richmond, Va, letter-carrier has been
arrested on the charge OF robbing the
mails.
The Ne,v York Nail states positively
that the Siamese Twins were "much at
tached to each other"
The Omaha printers having struck, have
started q paper Of their own, which they
call the Omaha Union.
s-The North Carolina Senate has passed a
oil fixing the legal rate of interest at eight
per cent, with a penalty Of forfeiture of
claim if exceeded.
When the jury returned a verdict that
John Jackson, of Green Bay, was guilty of
burglary, Mr.. Jackson rose up and said:
sIll het a hundred dollars l ain'3,.'
Josie Mansfield, according to Olive LO-
gan, with her face full of a beauty which
has been fatal to herself and others" has
left Paris and gone to ST. Petersburg
Mr.. Bogart, of Tayloryille, Ind, visited
Clifford recently. in search of a wife, and
within two days, UnSucceSsively popped
to seven widows, two old maids and four
young ladies.
Nine years ago a mai living in Jackson
vile. H.. lost $1,000. Recently 2 family
quarrel resulted in a ~divUlgement, and now
thr.e brothers named Myers are in custoiy.
H0rpeT'S BGzdr argues that the wonda
whose income or allowance is large, and
vho, secure from future want, reftsts to
spend it. is doing 4 miserlythino, injurious
to the whole fabric of society.
IF Ever ! Cease to Love" lydia will
withdraw from tie stage al the close of her
present engagement. Her agent states that
in April next he will be prepared to sell
the title, repertoire, wardrobe and entire
effects OF the company.
Now some sof the ladies want separate
Sleeping cars. There are Il or two diff
culties in the way, however: first, not
enough ladies travel to permit Of such an
addition; second, few ladies travel unac
companied by male e~scortywhO are most
frequently the husbands or some near rela-
tive. In securing sleeping beTths day seats
are also secured. How, i'll the event Of
separate cars, would these gentlemen be
disposed Of?
The st. Louis Democrat threw out this
gentle hint: 1t was a thief that was par
dOned on the cross at the eleventh hour.
He was probably as mean a man as those
who recently stole the Associated Press
dispatches WhereupOn the Globe re-
spOnded: sit is difficult to tell why the
editor OF the Democrat should have gone
back nineteen centuries for an illustration.
He must be about to publish his autObiOg-
raphy, and anxious to begin with his re-
mOteSt known ancestor.
Mr.. VIM Edward Nightingale, the father
Of Florence Nightingale, died a few days
since al his residence in Hampshire, Eng
land, in the S0th year of his age. His pa
ternal name was Shore, but on attaining
his majority he asSUmedth name of Night
incale, after his maternal ~crand-uncle,
whose estates he had inherited. He had
two daughters, Parthenope, the wife Of Sir
Henry Verney, n. p, and FlOrence-SO
called from the place Of her birth in Italy.
4 London letter says that during the re-
cent dark days an old gentleman completely
lost himself. He crept slowly IN and on
without the least idea of where he was
going until he found himself descending
some steps. On these steps he pumped
against a man who was coming up.
"Hallor' said the old gentleman. "HallOr'
said the man. "Can you tell me where l
am going to?' said the old gentleman.
Yes" said the man, IF you go straight
on YOU will walk into the river, for I've
Just come out of it,
a brute in human form, by the name of
Gardner, has been arrested in Cincinnati
for cruel treatment Of a horse. The horse
refused to pull and he then ordered the
driver to unhitch and take him to the river,
which was done, when Gardner deliberate
" drew his revolver and fred, the ball
passing through the poor animals nose.
He then ordered him hitched up again and
put TO work. Gardner was hauled up be-
fore Judge Straub last spring for cruelty
beating his horses, and the Judge told him
if lie ever appeared before him again, he
would send him to the workhOuse.