Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-19
VENGEANCE.
An Injured Lady Asserts Her
ssRightss',
cowhide and Cold Lead.

In Texas, cowhides in business and COM
mercial transactions are illegal tender. p
| Whether in a financial sense such be the
case in this State or not that they often
fall on slender, places, is a fact clearly
demonstrated, and that those tender places
are the backs of the sterner sex and that they
are applied by the fairer sex, is also clearly
| shown. Nashville has lacked but one thing
for some time past of being metropolitan
city, and that was a firstclass cowhidinp
sensation. This she has at length achieved.
and wears her laurels to-day, pluminQ her.
| self in the glories of Chicago, and knock
ing our sister city of Murfreesboro clear
into the shade. As usual, the cowhidist
was lady and the victim of her fury a
man. The grievances out of which the
affair grew have been for some time de-
veloping, and yesterday, in rather an aris-
tocratlc portion of the city, the crisis came.
The parties to the tragedy, comedy, farce.
| or whatever it might be termed, are a dis
| ciple to the trowel and mortar and the wife
of worthy son Of st. Crispin in the city.
1t came about in this wise Some
time since the former boarded with
the latter. After boarding for
a number of weeks he left, for some cause.
and took up his quarters in another part of
the city. After his change of location, a
number of messages passed between the
parties. At length, as is alleged, the gem
tleman sent her some message, or made
some allusiOn, which she did not like. All
the furies of injured woman were at once
| aroused. Yesterday she went to the place
of business of his employer and learned
where the object of her anger was at work
upon a new building in the upper part of
the city. She at once purchased a new
rawhide and, in company with her husband,
repaired to the locality indicated. On
reaching the place she sent word to the
gentleman to come forth He sent her
reply that he could not come forth lust
then and there.
''Tell him that if he don't come out to
see me, I'll go in and see him." was the in
dignant answer.
On receiving this, he did not stand on
tho order Of his going but went. On reach
ing the street, vixen, lightning and blazes
were visible In fact, there were several
vixens, lightnings and blazes flashing be-
fore the eyes of the man of mortar. All the
fires of Etna, Vesuvius, Stromboli, and a
number of other small sized volcanoes were
uncorked before him. Up went the raw
anu uOhn lIC Stlillc Will luNdGh
upon his shoulders, its stinging lash cutting
across the phiz. Thwack, thwack, went
the lacerating thong of the rawhide,
causing q goodly degree of writh-
The tortured man could stand fire no
longer, but rushed frantically from the
scene, smarting and stinging But the
frr,,lln hoI Of av,Aal A. h. II
to put the building walls between him and
his visitor, crack! bang! went the pistol
of the husband, who now appeared upon
the scene, and two balls went kissing past
his retreating form. This had a tendency
to accelerate his speed which was kept up
until he got the brick walls between him
and his assailants. Brickbats and things
are claimed by some to have been used
by the threatened party, previous to the
firing. Be this as it may, the measure of
the lady's revenge was full, although, as
we learn, she went down the street saying
Tim not done with that fellow yet.
Whether the parties belligerent will say
let us have peace, or whether muscular
hostilfties be resumed to-day, or whether
the courts intervene and they fight it out
on that line, remains to be seen. ."
LATER.
Since writing the above, we learn that
the husband and wife have been put under
arrest. The lady was held in her own re-
cognizance to appear before the Recorders
Court this morning, and the husband was
held in the sum of 81, 900 for his appear
ance before the same court. He has also
been required to give bonds in the sum of
81, 900 under a State warrant for his APP
pearance before Justice Brien at o'clock
this afternoon. The bonds in both cases
were promptly given. Before tho two
courts we presume that the facts will be
elected.