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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-20


The whole number of pupils taught
in the public schools of New York city
during the past year amounted to 237 1895
The aggregate annual expenses of sup
porting the schools amount to little less
than $3,OO00O0 The number of children
of suitable school age in the city not at
tending school any portion of the year is
variously estimated at from $4,000 to 30
900. The colored schools have total Of
about 1900 pupils. The Superintendent
says no absolute necessity exists for con-
tinuance of the practice of infiicting cor.
poral punishment upor pupils, and recon-
mends it, adjustment.
THE NuRsERY.-The thirty-two pages
of the number for January, 1870, is brmfu Of the
very best Of reading matter and beautiful illustra-
tions for the little ones Published by JOHN l..
SHoRKY, 10 Washington street, Boston, Mass.
$3.50 per year, with extra inducements to clubs.
Single number, Is cents. Specimen copies free.
- 49,
AGRICULTURAL. - THE NEW YORK
WEEKLY TRIBUNE is great Farmers Paper. Its
Agricultural Department, valuable always, con.
tanning as 1t does Ftak Reports OF The American
Institute Farmers Club and articles written for it's
columns by the most eminent Agrculturists of
America is about to be enriched by other attractive
features In Horticultural Department, which will
comprise Management Of Small Farms, Fruit and
Vegetable Culture, and how to make them pay.
Also, Veterinary Department. for which Prof
James Law, Veterinary Surgeon in CORNELL
UNIVERSITY, has been engaged to answer questions
concerning diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep and
othpr dor,asfic anirnas and pypsrriha remedies
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
AL ABOUT AN EYERROw

Madame X is the anonymous title given
a fashionable lady who has recently left
Roman society for curious cause. This
is the story: She was at a concert; she
had gone through the entire first part with
the constancy of martyr, par paren-
these, she hates music, and, if her life
were at stake, could not turn tune. But
she was as handsome as-paint, to use a
vulgar comparison; all the world had adj
mired her forest of fine hair artistically
grouped in curls upon the top of head; a
necklace of priceless pearls surrounded
her swan-like neck: a brilliant diamond
aigrettc was proudly glitterng over her
left ear, and her deliCately arched eye
brows gave an ineXpressible charm to her
classically shaped face. There was
slight intermission in the performance, for
refreshments, during which Madame X.
left her seat to say few words to her
hostess, Princess G =, and then, as the
second par. of the concert was about TO
begin, size hastened to resume her place,
opened her fan, and Immediately obtained
what the French call I,lSncceS dc sur
prise so universal that for five minutes
the voice of the artist was lost in the
general litter. There is no knowing how
long this sort of thing would have gone
on, had not Madame X, who began to
feel little embarrassed by this excess of
admiration, dropped her eyes mOdestly
and seen-alas it was a beautifully
shaped eyebrow-ono of the great Au-
guste's triumphs-which lay upon her
lap. There was but one of two things to
do, faint or leave the room. Madame X.
did both.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
GREAT SOCIAL QUESTION.

''What to have for breakfast 2" even
above "What to have for dinners" is the
great social question of the hour, impera
tive above all tariff and currency and wo-
man rights questions. Those we can
settle once for all, when we come to them.
But, what to have for breakfast is an
everlasting question. We have not the
statistics of any insane asylum at hand;
but we doubt not if the. truth were known
the majority of lunatic women are made
so by the incessant repetition of this
query. We Americans insist on begin
ming the day with a meal as substantial
as Queen Elizabeth used to eat in the
morning, and we want it to have nearly
the variety of a dinner. The simple
people of the earth make light of their
early meal, and do some work before
they take a full load into the stomach.
Well, if it is true that we eat more than any
people in the world, it is also true that we
have more to eat. But as for this worry
about breakfast, there is needed a patent
bill of fare, adjustable to all the seasons,
which can be hung up in all kitchens, and
relieve the mistress of the house of one of
her greatest perplexities. One of the
"greatest "wrengsn of woman in this
age, which men would find intolerable, is
the knowing every meal what is on the
table before they come to it. No sur
prises for them. Breakfast can never
come TO the housekeeper as pleasant
novelty. A resolution" is needed on the
subject, but we are at loss what to re-
solve -Ty1rffOr,L IOlLTnnf
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
BEAUTY OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
Tr,v, Nfauo-{,o


Nature has endowed the American lady
with a profusiOn of rich gifts far beyond
her less favored sisters abroad. If really
great beauties are comparatively rare
and even on this point the diversity of
taste may lead to difference of opinion
the majority of women are more than
merely fair. They are, almost without
exception, delicately made, and in this
respect very different from the robust
type OF the English girl of the period,
with her ruddy color, her full form, and
her deep, masculine voice, and still more
different from the heavy, angular Ger
man girl, who combines so mysteriously
an immense amount of sentimental
ity with an unlimited appetite.
The neck and the extremities
are uniformly so small that European es-
Establishments have to make collars, gloves
and shoes especially for the American
market, certain sizes of these three arti-
cles being utterly unstable in Europe.
Hence, when the American girl reaches
her natural heaven, Paris, and has been a
few weeks in the hands of French art
lists, she is simply perfection. She out
shines the Partisan on her own privileged
ground. Elderly men will remember a
fair New York beauty, who visited Paris
when the Emperor was still president,
and the furore her exquisite tOilettes Gre
ated whenever she appeared at the opera,
at the Elysee, or at the Bots. Younger
men need not be reminded of the recent
rivalry between one of their beautiful
country-women and the brilliant Mettern-
ich, and the desperate but futile effcit
made by the great arbiter of fashion TO
wrest the crown of victory from her
hands. Combining great natural advan
tages in beauty and grace with admirable
taste and an almost instructive perception
of the becoming, American women abroad
very easily Outstrip all competitors in the
art of dressing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15

Mrs. Mary Chase Barney, daughter of
Judge Samuel Chase, one Of the sgners
of the Declaration of Independence, Gel
ebrated her eighty-fitth birthday at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Fanny
Steele, in Washington, on the LIST of May,
A large number Of her children and
friends gathered to do her honor Mrs.
Barney was in her former years distin-
guished for her force of character and
literary ability. When her husband,
Maj. Barney, was dismissed from the Ma
rine corps by President Jackson, she
wrote long and vigorous letter protest
ing against the DISMISSAL letter which
was copied in the newspapers all over the
country, and extensively circulated as q
campaign document. So highly was this
production esteemed that 1t was printed
on satin by Baltimore firm, and present
cd to the authoress for framing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
PERSONALITY OF AUCTIONEERS'
CUSTOMERS.

Observing people who attend auctions
pretty regularly have noticed certain
class of frequenters at those marts of
trade. The dealer in secondhand house
hold goods is omnipresent. He is an adept
at bidding, and so practiced has he become
10 this respect that the knight of the ham
mer can almost detect the highest figure
which revolves in his inner consciousness
without waiting for the dealer TO articu-
late Another class of people who at
tend auctions come in for a notice. It
consists of the inevitables who will not
buy what they want unless they can get it
at the price they have fixed in their mind.
Weeks and weeks, yea, months, are thus
spent in arriving at an objective figure.
The genial auctioneer knows these people
by sight-and he wonders at their stu
pidity. Then there are people who are
forever bidding but never buy. These
are called dummies, and are neither or
namental nor useful, although they help
to augment a crowd Last, but not least,
is the immaculate Mrs. John /. Smith,
who for these fifteen years past has been
unsuccessful in her efforts to find door
pAdtC WIN lHC udl1COl uCI HuSDdIlu ullOul II.
The initial 81. y it is that has put her to so
much trouble, the veritable John Smith
seldom having capital in his not unfre
quent Orthography of nomenclature. The
usual crowds in an auction room furnish
food for study and contemplation. Here,
all classes meet on a common level, and
the auctioneer is the leveller, because he
does his '9evel best" to satisfy his friends
and reap an ample commission. And
then the goods often disposed of attract
special attention. A fabulous price is Cb-
tanned for an old armchair that some in
distinct scion of the revolutionary war
once sat in when he smoked pipe, or an
enormous price is paid for set of wine
glasses that touched the lips of a distin-
guished scholar or statesman, Just as
though they-the wine glasses-were the
fountain from which the original owner
slipped his inspiration that gained for him
worldly praise and admiration. Some
times we see heirlooms sacrificed on the
altar of auctiondom that have been handed
down, it may be from the deluge, until at
last the pangs of impecuniosity demand
they be "knocked down" and perchance
they are then exposed to the vulgar gaze
of sacrilegeous bipeds at '9ess than cost.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
DAVIDSON COUNTY.


' For Register. ~
, To the Editors OF the Union and American:
] The very complimentary vote receiYet
|, in the late election, on canvass of SD
days, encourages me to 'try, try again,
and l hereby authorize you to announce
that am candidate for Register of David
son county, at the ensuing August election,
subject to the action of a convention.
Respectfully, b. +. BISKBRY
NASHVILLE, April s, 1870. APPS te
In compliance with the wishes of nuner-
GUS friends / hereby announce myself p
candidate for the office of Register of Da
wilson county at the coming August elec
ton, subject to the viii of county con
vention. BENZ. L. WOODWARD.
apr26 tide
WE are authorized to announce John
MeCleIland as candidate for Register OF
Davidson county q. the August election.
apr23 tide T
We are authorized TO announce GHosGE
s. HoBsoN candidate for Rsgister of Ds-
wilson county, at the ensuing August cleo
ton, subject to convention ap20tde
We are authorized to announce ARrHUR
nj. FULGHUM, as candidate for Register of
Davidson county, at the ensuing August
election, subject to the decision of con-
vention. apr19-td
We are authorized to announce E. w.
HICKMAN, JR., as q candidate for County
Register, at the ensuing August election.
april tide @
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
NASHVILLE UNION AID AMERAAN sUNDA s. MAY rs $50
SOME EpIGRAms.


WHAT AN EfIGRaM SHOULD b.
; The qualities three that in bee we meet,
In an epigram never should fail;
The body should always be little and sweet,
And sting should be left In its tail '
ON MARRIED co UPLE.
So like yourselves, so like your lives,
As bad as bad can be;
The worst Of husbands the worst of wives
lis strange you can't agree.
TO A cAPaIcIoUs FRIEND.
In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow,
Thou'u such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow
Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
To-AoRRow.
Tomorrow you will live, you always cry:
In what far country does THIS morrow lie,
That Ills SO mighty long ere it arrive?
Beyond the Indies does this morrow live?
IT'S 90 far fetched, this morrow, that fear
twill be both very old and very dear.
Tomorrow will live, the fool does say;
To-day itself's too late-the wise lived yesterday.
REASON FOR IT.
Gemullus wants TO marry MaronjlA;
Signs, ogles, prays, and VIII nOe be pus off.
Is she so lovely? Hideous ~ Scylla!
What makes him ogle, sigh and praya Her
cough!
TO An ILL%FAvoEzD LADY.
While in the dark On thy soel Aaad hung,
And heard the tempted siren In thy tongue,
What flames, what darts, what anguish endnrsd
But when the candle entered was oured.
MARTIAL
ArESDaR MADH.
Garrow, forbearl THAI tough old Jade
Will never prove tender made.
~. r.rA Nm
When Edwards traAds the stseess, tAs ps<Axs cry
God bless you sir aud lay their ranAers BY.
THE TRAVELLER NNS THE oLHBGYnAr.
Give lost my portmanteau,
TT pity your grief,
C.-Au my sermons are In 1t.
TT pity the thief.
ON PuRcHAsABLE LEGISLATOR
The best speculation the market holds forth
To any enlightened lover Of pslf,
Is to buy-up at the price he is worth,
And sell at that he puts on himself
-TTom Moore
.E DocToR's SIGN.
II anybody comes 10 /,
physis, bleeds and sWea6 'em;
If, after that they nhe 70 die,
Why, what care Ill. LRTsoS,
ON aRsAr rALKER.
Ward has no heart, they say ibut deny 1t;
He has heart, snd gets his speeches BY It.
byron.
ON LADY POET. |
Unfortunate lady, how sad Is yosr lott
Your ringlets are red-yosr poesss ars not.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
FASHIONS.
Fancy Understanding We shoaid
Laugh at IN Seen in Africa.

i tSAACtCA2--34AAACtAAt AtA W q SAAO - itt
Laugh at IL Seen in Africa.
We might have thought it absurd if DR..
Livingston had written three years ago
that he had found in Africa tribe, the
women of which dress as follows: 1.-THE
Dayous are beautiful women, with exqui-
site complexion and fine forms, and they
dress in the most perfect TASTE They wear
short dresses reaching the ankles Upon
the forehead is perched small hat, the
front of which rests upon the nose.
They take large bags of hair and wool,
saturate them with butter and hang them
on the be ok of the head, covering the
neck. Upon the small of the back they
tie bunch of cotton cloth, colored and
cut into strips. Their shoes are beauties,
coming TO point st the toe and having
the long and sharp pointed heel placed
under the middle of the foot. This
makes the foot very small in appearance,
but the wearer would tip over forward
but for the bags on the head and back.
Each woman, when she goes out, carries
a large plaintain leaf to keep off the sun,
which she holds by the stem
between the thumb and forefnger,
crooking her elbow up from her
body at an angle of ninety. The effect
is more beautiful than you can imagine!
The gait of the women is particularly ad-
mired. The heavy ones have difficulty
in keeping their balance, but the light
ones pick thier way along as prettily as
hens walk over hot ashes. Young girls
go barefooted. For some years after they
are of age to put on their shoes, they |
suffer with laIneness and sore feet-after |
that their feet become permanently de- |
formed, and they have no more pain. |
Walking is, however, not a favorite |
practice with them and running is impos- |
sible. The government of the Dayous is |
really democratic, the ruler being chosen |
annually by vote of all the people; yet it |
is said the women, do not want to vote. All |
they care for is plenty of hair and little |
shoes. The men are satisfied with this di- |
vision, and the State is quite prosperous,
though the society is rather vulgar and |
unintellectuaI"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
For AttorneY General.

WE are authorized to announce G. j.
SPURLocK, ESQ, Of Warren county, as q
candidate for Attorney General for the
Eighth Judicisl Circuit-Judga W. P.
Hickerson's. mAy15-tde
WE are authorized to announce John s.
C. Davidson, Esq, as candidate for At
torney General OF the Criminal Court Of
Davidson county at the ensuing August
election, subject to a convention.
apr26 tide"
We are authorized to announce Andrew
J. Caldwell as a candidate for Attorney
General for the county Of Davidson at the
August election. apr10td
We are authorized TO announce I. W.
Haley as a candidate for Attorney General
for the Criminal District Of Davidson
county. apr10td
We are authorized to announce Terry Fl.
Cahal as candidate for Attorney General
of the Davidson County Judicial Circuit at
the ensuing August election. apr7 If
We are authorized to announce Maj.
WILLIAM CLARE as a candidate for Attorney
General for the county Of Davidson, at the
next election. apr5 tide
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15

THE APPRoACH OF AGE.

THE APPROACH OF AGE,
t By soKx T. BRYANT
Gone are tho friends my boyhood knew,
Gone three-score years since childhood
lonely stalk stand where grew
And proudly waved the Summer corn
Scanning the record Of my years,
How blank, how meagre seems the page;
How smallt sun Of good appears
Wrought by these hands from youth TO az
a. Yet midst the tolls ana cares of life.
I've tried 70 keep cheerful heart;
To curb my iercer passions strife
And as a man to act my part
And repine not at my lot
Glad to have lived in times like these,
When mystic cords Of human thought
Bind realm to realm across the sens
When this dear land, Times latest birth,
Strikes every chain from human hands,
And midst the nations OF the earth
The greatest, freest, nOblesi stands
When progress in material things
Leads up ward ilnrnaterizi mind
Z Ana into nearer prospect brings
The perfect life of al mankind.
Kindly, as yet, LIES autumn sun
0ilds the green precincts Of my home;
Softly. though fast, the moments run,
And heeting seasons go and come.
Yet nearer means the wintry blast
The chilling wind of Age that blows,
Through darkening skies with cloud o'ercast,
With binding sleet and drifting SHOWS.
Hoi cleaner on hfe's wintry lea,
hear thy steps mid russling leaves,
And soon this withered stalk viii be
Close garnered with the autumn sheaves.
~. And then viii He, beneath whose eye
Each act OF right and wrong appears
Aught Of untarnished grain descry
Among these husks Of wasted years?
Happy these mastering clouds that lower
On the low sky in seeming wrath
May vanish, and LIES sunset hour
Shed a calm radiance Ger my path
Then may .he clear horizon bring
Those glorious SUBMITS tc the eye
Where, thanked by fields Of endless Spring,
The Cities Of the Blessed lie.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15

Unfortunate lady, how sad Is yoaY lott
Your ringlets are sed-yosr poesss srs not.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15

We are authorized to announce I. B.
MCDOWELL. OF Bolivar, as candidate for
Treasurer Of the State. my10 te
We are authorized to announce John
HEREFORD Of Davidson county, as q can
diate for State Treasurer before the present
General Assembly.
We are authorized to announce r. s.
Woodland Of lincoln county, candidate
for State Treasurer. sep7 tide.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15

PUNCHNELLo says: Somebody ought
to say of Lady Macbeth that she was
made childless that no one might call her
mother-in-law. Neat thing that ! By
Jovel what a mother-in-law that woman
would have made; or what landlady,
with the Wierd Sisters TO prepare the
morning hash !"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
For Magistrate.

We are authorized to announce p. K.
Albert fuT the Office Of Justice of the
Peace for the firs. ctvl district Of Davidson
county, at the approaching August cleo
don. aTr5Otd
We are authorized TO announce J. NJ.
TARDfYY a candidate for re- election as
Magistrate IN the LIST (NashHlle) District
of Davidson county, n the August election.
sp417-Sle
We are authoftred to announce W. A.
MATHEWS, a candidate fn reelection as
Justice Of the Peace for The 1st cNashville)
District Of Davidson county, at The ensu-
ing August election. april tde+
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
"Obit, "a Kat Dekenbris, I247."

MIR. PARTON is said to be engaged in
preparing three articles for the Atlantic
Comic Monthly, the first to be entitled
''Wil the Coming President do anything
but Smoke 2" the second, 'Will the
Coming Secretary of the Navy know any,
inlas about ships 2n the third, evil the
Coming Secretary of State know anything
about anything?" Three pretty serious
conundrums.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
ROBIN HOOPS EPITAPH.

The true name of this parsonage was
Robin FitzoOth or Fitzhugh. The add.
ton of F'itz, common to many Norman
names, was afterward dropped. The til
being turned into d, he was called God or
Hood. The veritable Robin Hood, whose
exploits every school boy has read, was
man of quality, grandson to Lord
Ralph Frzooth, Earl of Kyme, a Nor
man whose name is on the roll of Battle
Abbey. He came into England with
William Rufus. On the maternal side
Robin was equally well connected. His
maternal grandfather was Gilbert de
Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln; his grandmother
was the Lady de ROisia de Bere, sister 10
the Earl of Oxford, and Countess OF
Essex, from whom the borough of ROys-
ton, where she was buried, takes its name.
His own mother was the Lady Roberta de
Bere, third daughter of the preceding,
who was married to Ormsnd, Earl of Ok.
ford. At Kirklees, in Yorkshire, form.
erly Benedictine nunnery, Robin Hood
lies buried. From the ancient stone the
following has been preserved:
'sHear undernead this laith stearn
Iaiz Robert, Earl of Huntington;
No archer was like him so good,
And people called him Robin Hood.
Such outlaws as he and his men
England will never see agen."
"Obit "a Kat DekentbriS, l247."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
For COsnPtrolIer.

We are authorized to announce W. P.
Morris Of Camden, candidate fof Comp
troIler Of the Treasury Of the State, at the
insuing Legislature, pledgfng himself to
satisfy ali the members of his financial
skill and qualifications for the position.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
For County Judge.

We are Authorized to announce ". A.
G1.r,y as candidate for County Judge, at
the ensuing August election. ap2l tide
We are authorized to announces Judge
W. X. TUENHB as a candidate for Judge OF
the County Court Of Davidson county
Election IN August next. apr2O tide
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15

A LADY excused her extreme love of
diamonds and other precious stones by
saying, "that they were the only bright
things on earth that never fade"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15
TRAVELLER.

This fine Saddle Stallion will make the season at
my stables near Brentwood q 5000 for the sea-
son, an1 ela 20 b insure. One of his colts took
the 400 pseuaszn u tts B<fhvills Ear In 1850
the nneA 1nd6e Rorse n Feaneense or Kentucky.
mas I'm ROBT. I. MOORE.