Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-03-02
Personal AND GENERAL.


lion towards our centennial dis
play.
Spelling for the drinks is the
proper pastime in Virginia City
saloons.
Mrs. President Grant receives
in pink brocade and ostrich leath-
ers and point lace.
Carl Gchurz is to deliver a
centennial Grafton at Council Blutfs
on the 4th Of July next.
Senator Fenton, who is now in
Florida, has written a letter declar-
ing himself Republican.
The no7r otco,n street car lins
in Paris is pronounced to be a very
great success and comfort.
Paul Butler, son of Gen. B. F.
Butler, is said to be one OF the
prominent beaux in Washington
this winter.
The Howitts, bale, hearty aud
industrious, are at Rome engaged
in literary work, though Mr.. Hewitt
Is eighty.tour, and his wife but a
few years younger.
A Greenland, N, H., man, has
recovered 81, 400 from the town be-
cause his horse SHE'D at an old log
by the road and threw him of the
wagon, breaking his ankle.
Among the victims of the
Northampton bank robbery was an
aged woman, Miss Theedosia Wool
lev, of Bellows Falls, who lost 3d.
600, the accumulation of years OF
hard work.
A Washington physician ar
CUES that love proceeds from the
stomach, and that heart has moth
ing to do with it, He says that
corn, beef and mealy potatoes be-
get love.
Most Of the willow used in
this country is imported. 1t
Gourishes in low, swampy lands OF
Holland. A willow plantation is
regarded by a Hollander as a CAPT
tai Investment.
A Mr.. Cooper, of California,
has a orchard, near Santa Barbara,
of 10000 almond trees; 1000 Eng
lish walnut trees; 5000 olive trees;
5000 eucalyptus; and vineyard
of 5000 grape vines.
Tho ,augurun is snid to have
been introduced Into several large
estates in France, and is now hunt
ed there like other game. The
flesh is sold in the market, and is
considered a great dainty.
Benjamin Franklin introduc-
ed into this country broom corn.
While examining an imported corn
whisl, he found a single seed which
he planted in his garden. From
that seed the corn was propagated.
Ezra Baker, Of Boston, made
no will for relatives and lawyers to
fight over; but, just before daah,
he gave his million dollars " rth
of property to his only s'n, the
legal heir, and instructed HIM now
to distribute it. Sensible,
Rochester Democrat: No, my
dear, the first spring bonnet has
not yes appeared. These days are
deluslve. We shall have three
months of winter yet. We are as
sured, by the way, that the fall
bonnet will be something rather
meer than gorgeous.
The unique library of Frauz
Hardinger, the great Vienna book
collector who died recently, is to-
be sold. it consists of q 900 vol
ums and is rich IN German plays
of the sixteenth century, and in
the German classics, every edition
of which it contains.
M. Guillaume Guizot, in a lee
ture at the College de France, dis
cussed the fertile subject, "Who
wrote Shakespeare" and traced
the origin of the theory that Bacon
was the man to an American wo-
man named Bacon, who was anxi-
GUS to glorify her namesake.
"A young American lady who
has enjoyed the rare privilege Of
| taking a stroll with the poet Ten
Inyson, incidentally mentions in a
| letter to Il friend that "it seriously
affected the romance of the situa-
ton when he paused during the
walk to scratch his back against
q gate post.
The colorcd Christians Of Au-
gusta, Ca, have a religious cerc-
mony which they call "harching
out Of Egypt" The woshippers
meet about niuo in the evening
and, amid solemn chanting, march
around in circle hour after hour.
Those who hold out until daybreak
are considered the chosen ones,
destined for heaven; but those
who fall 10y the wayside are not in
a state Of grace.
The pretty kind Of presents
| distributed by the Prince OF Wales
lin India is exciting nstonishment
/ aud dissatisfaction in that land Of
maqniicence and pomp. Among
the articles given in return for pre-
scnts which Impoverished princes
were clasp knives, drinking horns
opera glasses, and pencil eases. Al
Indian newspaper thinks that "th'
lpuryeyor Of this extraordinary
3 cargo has apparently been guide'
, in deciding what the Indians wonlt
I probably like by the works Of Fen
t more Cooper and "reminiscences q
,Catlin's exhiL.tioat".
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