Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-21
BREyITIEs AND LEvrTIEs.
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1 Fast and I0OSe-a runaway horse.
/ Bronze boots are no longer fashionable
| Emile. Glliyier'ssalary is 300. COO francs
| A haunted ice barge is a st. Louis at
| traction.
| An Indiana base ball club is called the
! Plug Uglies.
The witnesses called in the Mcfarland
| trial number 1IS.
Albany will unveil its soldiers mOnu-
ment on Decoration Day.
j. w. Wallack has risen from $25 TO
$500 week in twenty years.
A TarTytown undertaken announces an
Topening of spring styles in coffiHs. p"
The Erie-pressible Fisk, Jr., has secured
Strauss and his orchestra for the Grand
Opera House.
Wild-cat-and-dog fights are Kentucky
Barnum's source of emolument--tenc cents
admission.
Vermont brags of hen that laid every
day of the winter, and wound up by two
eggs in one day.
Philadelphia is an earthly paradise.
They arrest people there for singing
s'Shoo, Fly
A Western gill has eyinced her preju-
dice against doctor by twenty-five at
tempts to burn his house.
The Fat Men are giving the, ,eaner part
OF the world little peace nowadays.
What has become of theml
John Browns gun-that with which he
defended himself at Harper's Feuy-is
now in possession of j i. Adams, in
Boston.
A Long Island darby is called the black
Mcfarland for his jealous slashing of
fellow amendment with razor, at a re-
cent black ball.
A Cincinnati arrest, to excuse the slung
shot he carried, described it as "a small
leather strap with piece of lead attach
ed to it. y
Adelina Patti has earned since last year
million francs, and her Marquis con-
tributed 1900 of it to help adopt the pie
bisciIum.
Mr.. Greeley thinks another year of in
come tax will make us "a nation of liars.
1t has made us a nation of tall swearers
already.
AWestern man has died, after proyingt to
the world ''that honesty and efficiency are
compatible with itinerancy in cleaning
and repairing clocks"
A thief IN Kentucky utilized the Rich
mond disaster by exclaiming during his
trial, that the Courthouse was falling and
escaping in the confusion.
-Four men are under arrest in Clinton,
Pa, charged with stealing church or
gan. The four say the church owes them
$50, and they have the organ as security.
A Jersey tanner was so displeased at
comrades accusing him of fondness for
gin and milk, that he asphyxiated the I'M
lucky joker in sleeping vat.
4 lady on the Hudson left pot of tar
boiling while she went TO make call.
The tar boiled over, and when she re-
turned she had not any house or baby.
Colored street vendors in Savannah cry
their wares after this fashion "Oysters
gwine by!" ''Shrimps gwine byl" 'Noos-
papers gwine by!n ..
A schoolboy, on learning that bonnie
bOuche is a French delicacy, declared his
desire to have bun bush in his fathers
garden-and wouldn't he 90 it for the
fruit.
Miss Van Lew, of Richmond, seems to
object to being called "postmistress, " for
she signs her official communications,
Postmaster of Richmond. .-.
'Just think, says the New York Tij-
Gwae, show refreshing TO Dives wouli
have been full stream from fire en-
CINE" A fellow feeling, etc.
A Chinese prince, who, as Arlemus
Ward would say, "has seen better days"
presents his rags and pitiable story to
The generous people of San Francisco.
They doubt his integrity.
Anna Dickinson says that 'therc is no
work man can do but that will be better |
lone by having a woman at his side.
How about making love to her rlyal
Rattlesnakcs abound so in Texas county, |
Mo-, that despairing editor wants TO
know if tooth or toe nail of St. Patrick |
cannot be found somewhere. Lynxes also |
nfest Texas county.
ellis soul instantaneously dropped its |
says Western paper of the
victim of a shooting match. Whether it
killed him or not is not stated.
IT appears that Gen. Grant has not
purchased nor proposed to purpose a farm
n Prince Georges county, Nd, as has
been published. 1t is alleged that the |
published statements were advertising
lodges of owners of town lots in that |