Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-28
INVOICE EXTRAORDINARY.
Unclaimed Articles at the Station
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We saw in the rooms of the stationhouse
the day previous an extraordinary invoice
of articles sold yesterday, on Cedar street, |
by action of the Commissioner under legal |
provision. The invoice consisted of articles |
unclaimed by culprits and offenders who |
had been arrested by the police during |
many months past, and embraced every
variety of weapon, trick boxes, tme-pleces,
etc, with any number of small articles
stolen from various places and from divers
persons. There was the watch, untlmed
and silent, the finger hand of which mad
pointed to the criminal the hour Tor MS
dark deed, or which had been some I'M
| known family heirloom and had been stolen
from the mantel when the household was
wrapped in sleep. There was the rusted
pistol. the trigger-click of which had, per-
| haps, halted the traveller ON the road or
made the unwary pedestrian stand and
| deliver" in some hidden alley or untre-
quented outskirt. There was the cleaning
dagger, whose air-drawn blade had probably
flashed in the moonlight as it pierced the
heart of some unsuspecting victim, and left
a dead man in the dark. Among the lot
was the unsightly slung-shOt, with Its long
string and leaden weight, that had, may
hap, with its deadly thug crashed III the
skull of more than one man, as the life
fountain oozed out upon the frozen eaItn OF
dyed with crimson the green grass. Phlals
| of strange decoctions were part and parcel
Of the same. Wallling-canes, with long
! sword-caues concealed within them, were of
fine lot. Chuck-a-luck boxes, that had been
the means of cheating many an unsophisti-
Gated individual out of his earnings, were
, also there. Trick boxes, with strange
and curious openings and apertures, en-
larped the list, and deceptive contrlyances,
with compartments adapted to various
metamorphoses were there. Shoes will
| light soles were in this pack of perfidy
= | There. too. were parts Of the paraphernalli
, of the yillainous and insidious faro deale
syho has infatuated into ruin more indlyld
= uals than any other species Of pest tina
a | curses and affiicts society.
f Among the articles stolen was medic.
l and variety. There were towels, napkins
b and hoiserv; there were boots and brogan
: and brocades; there were hats, and caps
s and furs and trinkets and coats and linen
and innumerable articles, too numerous t
mention. The articles for the most part
/, were of little or really scarcely any CON
= parative value.
!, The accumulation was interesting, 6
}; showing the various appliances Of the cr1n
:, | inal, the thief, the house-breaker, and Oh
l. highway-robber, and that their aspiration
d for unholy gain are not confined to an
le one class of articles, but that they tai
v whatever of value they can lay their hanC
on. The articles referred to, from Ion
t disuse becoming almost valuless, there WI
l. little demand for them, and really most
r. them were originally of an inferior quallt
"a Grand DiVisiOn--SOnS of Temper
N anCe.
a The Grand Division, Sons of Tempe
as perance, State Of Tennessee, met IN tn
ne | city Yesterday, a large number Of Repr
ID | sentatives being in attendance.
he Among other important business tran
ed | acted were the initiatory steps towards Il
lie erection of an Inebriate Asylum in Il
d. State and the appointment of commit
er to apply to the Legislature for charter
this direction.
4. The grand body continued in session d
.Ss ring the entire day, and at night elect
lie the following officers:
he G. w. P.-Wm. F. Doherty, of No. $
II. Camden, Tenn.
he G. W. -A.-Elbert F. Sewer, of No.
to | Chattanooga, Tenn.
It. Grand Scribe-Dr. J. II. Curry, Of n
d. so, Nashville, Tenn.
M Grand Treasurer. W. Adams, of n
%, Nashville, Tenn.
rs Grand Chaplain-Rev f. E. Collision,
as No. 139, Stewart county, Tenn.
at Grand Conductor-J. ". Hendricks,
los No. 3l5, Sumner county, Tenn.
It's Grand Sentinel-E S. Butler of n
he 12s, Spring Hill, Tenn.
at, P. G. W. P-Thomas H. Cooke, of n
he | GO, Memphis, Tenn.