Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-28
Local On DTS.


1 The thermometer in this Office yesterday
at 3 Pm, $50. r..
| Congregation az alIthe city churches
unusually large Sunday last, considering
the warm weather.
Bisop Quintard preached to crowded
houses at the Advent in the morning and
at Christ Church Sunday night 1880.
Sorry to learn that contemplated pleas
IRE party of young ladies and gentlemen to
Mammoth Cave next week has fallen
through. Nice place that-hOt place, Nash
vile.
Another delightful sprinkle Sunday after
noon, which cooled the atmosphere, laid
The dust and was quite refreshing withal.
The docket of the Police Commissioners
Court yestesday presented three plain and
fancy DRINKS, four belligerents, three noisy
females, and three thieves for disposal
neat old nlelange that. P. S.-They were
disposed Of -...l
A squad of seavengers commenced clean
ing Church street IN front of the UNION
AND DISPATCH Office yesterday, but they
only scOoped mp a few shoyeisfu of the
debris and quit, apparently disgusted.
Real estate transactions are not as lively
a. they were a few months ago, although
there is great deal Of building going on
in the city and suburbs and many are pro-
viding homes for winter
The morals of The city are not above par
at This particular time, az will be observed
BY the long and varied delinquent lists ar
raigned before the City Court from day to
day.
A Louisville local tells his woes in the
following way:
"Men die Of sunstr0ke every day;
The street car mules faint in their traces;
The roofs curl Mp and roll away;
The rouge Is streaked on ladies faces;
Beer gardens are now the only places
In which men 90 not run away.
Driver, Douglas & Co., on Saturday
last made sale of $50 barrels Of their excel
lent brand of -four, "Cream of the City,
The young people of GAINESVILLE had a
jolly pieniCing excursion 30 Dunbar's
cave, three miles from GAINESVILLE, on
the Louisville, Clarkville and Memphis
road, on Friday last. Dancing, Teasing
and love making was the programme, and
it was we'll carried ont. So say partiei-
pants.
There il, or at least there was when we
passed there last, dead dog laying in the
alley back of Summer street, beyond
Broad, and near the Decatur trestle. Re-
move it.
2 The Suspension bridge on Sunday after
noon would be fine field for the operations
of a missionary. A few tracts could, we
think, be distributed adyantageously among
the profane loafers who congregate there.
The Commercial Hotel had on its regis
ter yesterday over seventy-fye new ar
rivals. ltr
The new sidewalk in front Of the First
Presbyterian Church, on corner Of Church
and Summer streets, is nearly completed. |
Decided Improvement and long since
needed.
Why can't Nashville have FIRE alarm |
telegraph She will soon have park, and |
already has many other metropolitan fea- |
lures, (the police force, etc, and why, We |
ask, are we to be burnt up, and that too by |
our stinginess in a few posts and yards of |
wire Why?
Some one has said that the recent dog |
law has benefited our city materially in |
the reduction of its numerous curs. We
differ. Yesterday, coming on Front street,
near the Jail, yelling, yelping pack of all |
ages, nativities, sizes and colors "might |
have been seem immerging from their
holes in the neighborhood, in the pursuit of
poor country hound. Butchers, TO your
work once more