Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-28

the chances more IN fayor Of q wetspsll
than Otherwise.
The Louisville Commercial states thata
man named Bowman arrived at Bardstowa
Junction day before yesterday, and en-
gagged Prof Brown to assist him in getting
possession Of young lady lately sent from
Nashville to Nazareth, in order that she
raight become bis bride Tho Professor
succeeded in stealing Bowman's watch and
money. and the raid on Nazareth was
abandoned or deferred.
The removal of the Confederate dead
from the city cemetery to Mt Olivet,
which is being done by r.. II. Groomes 4
Co, viii be completed this week should
the weather continue favorable.
Circus bills enliven the dead walls about
the city, and lovers of sawdust sports are
full Of anxious expectation.
Horse talk is unusually lively, the Mem
phis races and prospective trotting matches
here constituting the main failures.
The Sengerfest Of the Northwestern
S@ngerbund, which takes place in Cincin-
natl IN June, will probably be the greatest
musical festival ever given IN this country.
Thirteen hundred singers and three hun
bred musicians have been engaged, and an
immense building is being erected. 1t will
be two hundred and fifty feet long, one
hundred and fifty feet wide, and will, it is
stated, accommodate an audience Of fifteen
thousand
The heathen emblem Of the snake hold
ing its tail in its mouth, has always been
explained to mean Eternity. A funny fell
low thinks the emblem typical of Life,
rather, as indicating continued effort to
make both ends meet
columbus, Ohio, IS excited over a stran-
ger who has been there a year paying his
hotel bills regularly and whose only busi.
ness is to walk sixteen miles every day" Il
may be that the unknown aallklsf nj 90.
lumbus is preparing himself % come this
way and Guido the endurance and wake
fulness lately manifested by Sheppard.
''why do you call me Birdie, my dear p
inquired wife of her husband. Because,
was the answer, ''you are always associ'
ated in my mind with bill" skF
1t is estimated that over.IOO young la
dies are at present studying law in this
country. Probably they viii all become
mothers-in-law one of these days.
The railways of Great Britain andIreIand
are 1854 miles in length, and for the
week ending April received, for freight
and passage money, So, 7SS, $50, or $229. 81
a mile. SO
The City Council meets again at oclocl
this afternoon. The new dog law and the
bill to regulate the tax for mercantile
drumming will probably receive decisive
| attention.
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| stantinopolitans. The Turks stroke theil
boards in admiration Of the can-can.
Preparations for the census are busily
| going on-a number of Government presses
being constantly employed printing blanks
Most of the salad oils brought into mar.
| ket, it is stated, are made of cotton seed OF
| refined
Somebody says that ladies wear wells OF
the principle that indistinctness lend en-
chantment to the view.
At late ratification jubilee, Barbour
Lewis, Radical ranter, at Memphis, posi-
| lively declared that Lincoln was ''the most
| kindly man he had ever met on earth or ex
| pected to meet in heaven" Can it be really
| possible that Barbour expects to make the
trip, indicated in his remark? If so, two
to one might be safely bet on his disap
poinment
The Memphis Appeal protests against
the Democratic candidates for judicial 20.
sitions ''taking the stump" Many things
much worse might be taken, but for the
universally acknowledged sobriety and
integrity of the profession to which the
aforesaid candidates belong.
DIR. George r. Grant, an old and noted
physician of Memphis, died of apopleKy
| last Sunday.
The Ladies Memorial Society of Phillip!
county, Ark, have sent to Columbia
Tenn, after the remains of Gen. Pat
Clebourne, for final interment neal
Helena on commemoration day.
The Memphis Sun noticing the fact that
one E. Carpenter, formerly of Nashville,
but now serving Ames, in the department
Of the Gulf, lately passed through tha
city en- route for Washington, warns hotels
and UnsUspeoting females who have saved
up small sums Of current funds to lool
sharp. The warning looks like Carpen'
ters regard for the rights of property Is not
up to the proper standard.
The Montgomery Mall asserts that there
are fewer negroes in Alabama now than
there were in 1850, and that two fftns o
the negroes have disappeared from Geor.
| gia during the last decade. South Caro-
lima is also said to show small decreas e.
A farmer reports that he tried kerosene
oil on some young garden plants that were
troubled with bugs. The kerosene killed
the bugs and killed the plants too.
The Supreme Court of Alabama has de
cided that the statute of limita tons" die
not run during the war. Many claims that
were considered lost by lapse of time are
| by this decision, renewed valid. All notes,
bonds, bills, checks, drafts and other writ
ten evidence Of Indebtedness, given since
| or during 1860, are now valid in that State
A club of Juvenile base ballists just or
| ganizing here have experienced some
trouble in the selection of name. DIRTY
Stockings" which had been partially
adopted, was finally voted down at meet.
of the club yesterday, for the reason that
a majority of the members go barefooted
in the summer time. "Peeled Heels" was
subsequently mentioned, aud is now I'M.
der consideration.
A little boy lost in the city last night
will reach his parents if sent to police
headquarters, at the Market House,
A person named Marshall, who does noi
reside in the city, yesterday narrowly es.
capped death by Observation-Disclosures by his
own act or by accident is not known.
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