Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-02-24
Personal AND GENERAL.

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14l books in 1873.
Seeing is not believing. There
are many men you can see and yet
cannot believe.
Mr.. Moody's Chicago church
has been sued for $4,000 by one
of the contractors.
Senator Christiancy is worth
several millions. She married him
for his beauty though.
Senator Christiancy's grown
up daughters say they 'shant call
her ma; that's all there is about
that
Parton is the last illustration
of the old adage, "Marry in haste
and repent at leisure" That is, if
he is obliged to repent.
The Cincinnati Commercial
says that Ben DeBar, when he isn't
playing Falstaf, packs his bowels
of compassion in a trunk.
Katie King has sued the Phil
adelphia Times for libel, and the
Boston Post thinks she doesn't
stand ghost of a chance.
Caleb Cushing becomes by the
death of Reverdy johnson the old
est Cabinet Minister living in point
of years and appointment.
Alexandra Dumas, pere, has
his rival in fecundity in Signor Sa-
vini, an Italian novelist, who pro-
duces every month fresh novel.
Philip Kaufman, aged thirteen
has officiatad rs rabbi in a syna-
gogue at Indianapolis. He has q
wonderful voice, speaks three Ian
-se2ages, and is altogether pre.emi-
nehtly precocious.
Ia --Parton's first wife would be
his mother-in-law now. There are
some queer things about this: hut
stay, no more of them; they scorch
into the distracted brain.
Pilgrim names are dying ont,
and Massachusetts is sad. New
England parents wont call their
boys "Aloses" and "Joh," nor their
girls 'Prudence" and Charity" to
please anybody, and wickcdness
stalks through the land.
Miss Thackeray is said to bo
one Of the most charming and
"soughtaftcr" women in London,
engaged at least twenty dinners
deep all through the season, and
still fresh and natural and unspoilt
by it all. emo .. a.
r DR.. Edwards, of West Virginia
who was member Of Congress III
1S4S. and received John Quincy
Adams in his arms when the old
statesman fell in his place in the
House Of Representatives, died at
Wheeling last week.
"A magnificent cameo, suppos-
ed to be q portrait of Octavio, the
second wife Of Mark Antony, and
sister Of Augustus, has been bro't
to the notice of the Paris Acadr-
mie DIES Inscriptions. The stone
is a sardonyx, with milky surface.
Senator Bogy, of Missouri uses
some funny expressions in his
speeches. In his eulogy of Vice
President Wilson, he said: "Iicre
was q man who never struck his
colors till he had, secured a victo-
ryp 1t is not SO reported in the
Record, ... ..fH.
A petition has been received
and presented to Congress that is a
in the matter of auto
1t asks removal of
duty on foreign works printed IN
the dead languages. Among the
signatures are the names of Henry
w. Longfellow, Ralph Waldo En-
erson, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
James Russell Lowell, and other
famous litterateurs.
THE late Anthony RothschiId's
son-in law, a brother of the Earl OF
Hardwlcke, is said to be the first
Christian who has married into
that famous family Of bankers.
The other daughter of the Hebrew
is still single, and as four
pounds sterling are to he
divided between the two sisters,
perhaps some other Christian gen.
Jleman may be found willing 10
sacrifice his prejudices on the mat
rimonial altar.
The official statistics OF Egvrt
show that $4,000 boys now receive
what is called public instruction,
against 10000 in 1868, and
much, smaller number some
time previous to that. Outside Of
the large towns, however, the Ko-
ran is all that is taught. On ac-
count of public prejudice, only
5000 girls are educated by the
state, and few Of these are Moham.
medans. A public school for Mo
has been started
in Caro-.
Washington letter: For the
first time in all the years l have
been in Washington l have heard
DR.. Newman. He is not new