Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1875-11-10

The convicts in the Nebraska
.~enitentiary edit and publish a
newspaper.
ENoLAsp has sent troops into
territory to punish them
for the murder of a resident En-
1 3tRSS
A TRUE bill has been found
against Hon. r. r. Butler for al
legged fraudulent practices in the
Sugg Fort matter.
THERE is a society of ladies known
as the Wide Awakes in q Rhode
Island city. Doubtless their motto
is, Well, you're home at last, are
you?
ST. LOUIS is to have a new hotel
containing two thousand rooms. 1t
will be the largest in the world
A company of Boston capitalists
are at the bottom of the project
YES, the lawyers must always
have their share and that of every
one else. A legal ring will get
three million of the four million
Geneva award.
You've man, stop smoking. II
costs you at least twenty dollars q
year, save that twenty dollars up
until you are sixty-fve or seventy
years of age and your son will have
$4,000 or 0 to spend.
They say Joaquin Miller's person
is literally besprinkled with dia
monds as a niger minstrel's fin
gers. 1t paid him to quit horse
stealing and take up with writing
poetry.
"PHnADELPHIANs stare worse thar
any other Americans" All owing
to that obituary poetry column o.
the Public Ledger. No one knows
how soon he may be a victim, anc
he just can't help looking that way
1'HE following statistics OF vital
~ in Prussia during 1874 are Gu
rious if not peculiar. Whole mum
Der of births 1,027,276; illegitimate
$3.50; chill born, 40, 329; marriages
pa, 772; deaths, 692, GOT; the males
by few thousands in excess O.
females.
We are informed that thirty
colored ladies of Detroit have /,
secret social and literary society
the meeting room for which bears
no less august a name than ''th'
Queen Of Sheba's royal council
chamber"
Poor, desolate, bleeding, grass
hopper-plagued Kansas can't grow
grass over nine feet high. So in
Inmates a tale in the Chicago Inter
Ocean, which has some how 90,
every thing up TO its Southern-out
rage key.
"a WOMAN starved to death il
Passaic county, n. J., where there il
a 500 Republican majority" Well
what's remarkable about that
We're surprised that any one should
take the trouble to mention JUS
one such case where there is room
for thousands.
Our navy only costs US twenty
three millions a year. But What
in the fire is the use of the navy
Abolish it, and get Sergeant Bates
to carry the American flag around
the world. The Sergeant might be
pretty badly used, get kicked an6
cuffed by every blasted foreigner
who chose to do it, but that's just
the fate of this great republic, fol
all her expensive navy.
HErERopHEMY is a new WORD
coined by Richard Grant White tc
show the world that he really did
know better when he declared in {
late number of the Galaxy that two
pints make a quart. Perhaps th,
compositor who recently made III
declare editorially, when speaking
of the hostile attitude Of the lower
classes of the Chinese people X
foreigners that they were .fanima
ted by an intense feeling of hospi
tality," &c. OF course it was onl,
heterophemy in him, and we'll lay
aside our shotgun and allow the
young man to return to the bosom
of his family.
AFTER reading this, what youne
man will not pack his traps fol-
Chicago : A girl Of that city says
81 am proud to say that, though J
am heiress of over $4,000, 900, !
understand housekeeping in all it.
departments thoroughly. I an
nineteen /; but have never been il
love or wen had Q fancy for any
one; but should q man that / loY,
ever offer himself to me, I woulc
say, yes though he had but 81.
hundred a year." But where hal
she been hiding herself away from
those Chicago fellows all this tins
Queen Victoria and Princess Bea
trice recently attended the funera.
of John Browns father, q Scotch
farmer, following the corpse from
the house to the hearse, which could
not be brought near the hous,
owing to the broken state of tn,
cOuDfrv A ftar Aha baa~zo 1900