Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-11
MEMS AND NOTES.

y nitro-glycerine factory in Port Henry
is very properly owned by Mr. Boost.
4 New York man died recently from The
effects OF a Ca. bite, inflicted SIX months
ago.
The Mar York Tribune alludes to the
Dead Beat, il .ieTms Of cold encourage
ment."
The ST. Louis Globe IS no longer under
he necessity Of 'apprOEriatinS' AssOcia-
| ted Press dispatches.
\ convention Of hOuicultUristS has Just
closed 4 very interesting and profitable SEES
sion at indianapolis.
In Louisville, they make a public eXhi-
bi.iOn OF dead persons who have been en-
banned BY = new process.
The brandy diStillers Of California desire
to have the United States tax removed from
brandies distilled from grapes.
An Alabama editor offers TO name his
baby after tie patron who viii pay his sub
scripsion the longest time in advance.
The Chicago EreHHg Post credits Sen
ator Morton with an intention Of making
q speech III favor Of the annexation Of Can
ada.
In several eastern cities rObberieS by
masked men are JccOmiH. quite frequent.
tAClN llAsl14lL- VI l.AG
are bound and GAGGED during the operation.
Philadelphia hOuseholders growI because
they are compelled TO "cUOSS the palm of
the man who removes their Stops and
ashes, for which work he IS paid by the
city.
An effort will be made this winter by
NebraskanS to have Congress grant aid to
them in building levees on the Missouri
D1rtr-- mi
Omaha, Nebraska.
Owen Hines, 4 notorious rough of st.
Louis, who has heretofore attempted sui
eide, seems 70 have made success OF Ii at
last. He shot himself last week and the
doctors say he's a gOner.
The IiJdRy argus remarks: ''Ihe an
nual message Of His EXcellency Gov. Dix,
is chiefly noticeable for what it does not
contain" Evidently the ArgaS is not
charmed with that message.
The Nety York san has discovered aman
worth plenty Of money and farm of the
best land in Orange county, who lives in
hole near Greenwood Lake with no COM
paniOn but a half-starved dog.
An article in FrGSeT,S Magazine argues
that hereafter large quantities Of land will
be titled by joint stock companies, the
shares being placed at from fifty to two
hundred and fifty dollars each.
The MGySrIle (hy.) Republican offers
this advice: If we were in the place OF the
uncOnfirmed Williams We would resign,
shake the dust of Pennsylvania avenue
from our feet, jump into our landaulet, and
light out for the mountains.
Washington City papers eagerly seize
upon clippings like the following from an
Arkansas paper: "a liberal spirit should
be shown by cur legislators, such rs Will
make Washington capital We can all point
to with laudable PRIDE
IL is reported that the number Of female
applicants for positions in the Treasury
Department is increasing 50 rapidly that
officials are growing alarmed. The appli-
cantS come from al parts Of the country,
some of them travelling thousands Of milss.
The Country Gentleman tells of an agri-
cultural chap who was experimenting in
order to learn the etfec5 Of tobacco on ami
mails, and we are pleased 20 learn thai in
forcing plug down the throat Of half
starved mule, she stove off his earwith her
teeth.
The st. Louis Globe makes this cOmpli-
nentary allusion TO Wrestling Joe, who
died recently: He had notOriety and some
TtlllL Ol q AlStbl AAE Nt-o "a t-ANsA- At~7NaAA
in his day. although latterly he has been
too old to bemuch of a scoundrel. He had
wives al various points in the West; he
once ran of with funds that had been in
trusted TO him by firm to buy tobacco.
In the course of an editorial in eXplana-
ton of .'Why New EnslandeTs are dying
out the PHILADELPHIA ige very properly
saws: It Is not necessary that our children
should learn all in ten years which it has
taken teachers a lifetime to acquire. Bet
ter let them know less and live longer, to
use what they may have studied without
injury to the body to crafty the mind.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: 'The OF
theory of keeping up full skeleton Of an
amy, by having the officers always Onhand,
SO that in case of war We have only to en-
list the rank and file, who will thus be
placed under trained officers, is both I'M
lust and has been proved a failure. Pro
motions to high rank shonld follow service
in the field