Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-23
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wagons at one time on the Square yes
terday.
The Adams and Southern Express Com
panies both seem to be transacting a heavy
business at this time.
A number of vagabond beggars have re-
Gently come to town. We warn our people
TO beware Of impostors.
The driver of an express wagon was ar
rested on Friday, for running his shaft
through the rear end of hack.
Travel 10 and through our city is on the
increase. The various hotels show up
good lists almost every day.
We saw a dray yesterday loaded with
forty-twO boxes of boots and shoes.
Some Of our farmers are complaining of
too much rain lately.
Another one of our citizens was up yes.
terday before the Police Commissioner, for
failing to repair his sidewalks.
Summer goods can now be bought at
greatly reduced prices. Our merchants are
selling low TO make room for their fall
stocks.
The game Of croquet is becoming i'm
mensely popular in this city. Our book
and variety merchants are making a good
thing Of it.
There is a strict prohibition against
throwing water melon rinds on the side
walk. The police should put a stop to the
practice. Several persons have recently
suffered severe falls occasioned thereby.
A negro driver vented his spleen on an
unruly mule yesterday On the Square, by
beating him over the head with a huge
hickory pole. The act was brutal, and the
offender should have been arrested and
severely punished
The Street Sprinkling Company have re-
Gently brought out the "Flying Scud," an
improved water cart with fore-wheels mar
rover than those behind to enable the con-
Germ to turn easily.
The Merchants Exchange, on Cherry
street, yesterday had two immense water
melons on exhibition, weighing fifty and
fifty-fve pounds each. This is only a
specimen Of the innumerable good things
they offer daily.
A fiery, untamed steed attached to a
milk cart, got frightened and dashed down
Church street yesterday morning, hauling
up near the corner with the harness pretty
badly smashed up and other damage sue
tanned.
The sulphur water trade seems not so
buoyant a. when the summer months
were nigh" Many Of the ebon-hued ven
doris are turning their attention to the 'wa-
ter milyon" business.
Yesterday market was kept up till a
late hour An immense amount of vege-
tables aud fruit are sold in Nashville. The
WELD this year is said to be, both in vege-
tables, melons ard fruit, larger than it has
been for years.
We saw a little fellow on Church street
yesterday who had bought peck or no Of
peaches and not having bag or basket with
him, improvised a way of getting them home
by fastening his shirt around HE waist and
filling in until he had stored all the fruit
away That boy is a genius, and will be
man-if he continues living.
The ladies Of London are guilty of queer
vagaries if We may believe a correspond
ent, who says he saw lady n Rotten Row,
the other day, with a mound of hair on
her head full two feet high, and not hair
of it natural. He says the ladies generally
are dressing their heads in that way.
A story is going the rounds of the press
that lady in the far West died recently
from the effect of her blood turning sweet
faint So for If sweetness were fatal to
mortality, we know a little girl down on
- street that would have kicked the
bucket long since.
Our enterprising friends JAS II. O'Con-
nell q Co, green grocers, Church street,
have been for the past month, and are still
shipping per day, an average of fifty barrels
Of apples, peaches, pears, plums and other
fruits, TO Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago,
indianapolis aud other cities and towns
north of us.
On the second floor of very fine house
in the Rue de PaiX lives an old woman
who has made princely fortune by adver-
Using for pretty little girls, whom she edu-
Gates for the ballet, and Of whose salaries
she ailerward receives fifteen per cent.
Carl Dolton, greasy negro gambler, was
hauled in by the police seines yesterday,
on suspicion of stealing pistol from Chas.
Warren. BOLTON said that ne had won it
at Hook Patton's negro drinking saloon in
a game of cards, with whom he couldn't
or wouldn't tell. The weapon correspond
ed with the one lost by Mr.. Warren. The
supposed thief will have hearing in the
Police Court tomorrow.
Nashville hes long been noted for its fast
stock. The livery stables here, we reckon,
keep better horses and vehicles and more Of
them than any place Of its population that
we have ever seen. Every evening, Sun
day especially, the beautiful thoroughfares
| in and around the city are literally crowded
with sulkys, phaetons, brets, etc, with dri-
vers perched upon the seats, feet firmly
braoed, caps jauntily over the eyes,
EARNS akimbo" and a loud "hi ha g'lang
why don't you wake up, say" issuing from
numberless dusty, lusty Threats. Oh this
is feeting period We dwell in.
Marriage has decided effect upon the
duration Of human life, as a Scottish ply
stefan has Just proven by some very curious
researches. 1t appears that from twenty
wears upward to the end of life, the aver
age term Of existence Of married men il
| ffty-nine and half years, while bachelors
reach only forty. In other words, AFTER
the age Of forty, married men have the
chance Of living nineteen and half years
longer than bachelors. Among women,
the difference is less bat it is still quite
marked. "A word TO the wise is sufficient
We have no hesitation in saying il, and
we say it bodily, and feel confident thai
every lady in the town will side with us,
the the Nashville Street Sprinkling Com
panys carts are genuine nuisance. SOME
of the drivers have 80 little judgment thai
they let the middle Of the street go dusty
and drive up on the crossings, where they
| allow the water 10 run out in great pud
dies, creating disgusting slop-holes anC
making il impossible for ladies or gentle
men either, for that matter, to pass over
without soiliug their clothing.
The trains on the Nashville and Chstts
nooga road, "a will be seen by their adver
tisement elsewhere, have made change II
their schedule, to GO into effect on and aitel
this morning Instead Of 500 A NJ. th'
Southern train will leave at S:l5 A. NJ and
instead Of Goo P. N. they will hereatteI
leave at Cos p. NJ The Shelbyvilie nc
commodation will leave Wartrace at g A
NJ. instead Of 5:35 A. NJ, and arrive here =
1000 A. NJ, instead Of 1890 A. NJ. /
would be we'll for the travelling pablo e
note these changes.
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