Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-16
MARKETING In NASHVILLE.
A Morning on the Square.
A especial Reporter on the
49, Situation.

which,. if they give me no eclat, are YET
good enough for me. 1t is sBe polite TO
your mail carriers and be on good terms
with your steward. " The man who never
misses his mails or his meals is my beau
ideal of successful man. / recently
concluded l would be my own caterer
for the nonee, and with my chHm we
started to market A short walk brought
us TO the venerable shed, and we halted
| al the portal to "contour the scene ere
we should lose our individuality in this
boiling sea of human life, where al
tongues seemed eloquent, and all languages
expressive, if not ineligible. German
unity, with its varied dialects, with small
shipments of Anglo-Ssxon, was expound-
| ing the mysteries of bovine, porcine and
ovine. Black and white vernaculars of
divers lcyalIies was busy in reciting the
merits of this shank for soup, this excel
lent steak, that admirable roast. There
was Joy in the stall in our coming, and
we at last were ofttimes glad to get
away. "Where does all the meat come
from and who buys inv The poul-
try show next attracted our at
tention. Most of those we saw
were of the baniams, we suppose
The ''Shanghai chicken that grows so tall"
WAS not in the market. A man who goes
to market has no need for his olfactories
or his spectacles. These should be left
at home. There was game of grab for
the vegetables. "Ten cents for this pile,
ten celts for that" everything seemed
made for the decimal currency. Cabbage
grew just large enough 10 make the
change; cucumbers grew in little clusters,
Gall for ten cents" apples ranged them
selves in tempting clusters, ''all for g
dime" Corn, and beets, and onions, and
potatoes, and tomatoes, and squashes, and
cabbage, and snaps, and peaches, and loaf
bread, cut cake, and ginger bread, had
adopted the decimal system, and the
shrewd vendors always ''sized my pile"
and raked in my dime. Entrusting my
Exchanges" 10 an acquaintance, we COM
menced our ramble through the market.
We first thought to measure woman's ca
psclty for mathematics. We found the
vendors always the shrewdest in selling,
and the vendee in calico always got larger
piles than ourselves. We abandoned the
Equality question" as settled at the
market, and as fact was established, we
concluded to let our fancy guide us in
selecting some nymph of the market for
to rule or little EMPOWERED home. We
believed that she who could thread the
intricacies of a market would be a
'thelp meetn for me.
Soon we saw an angel come filling
through the painless crowd, her eyes
dancing with good humor, her curls
dangling meath her jsunty cap, with a
dress that looked IS if il had been woven
Of the tendrils of the beautiful gold thread,
with scallop and flounce that had been
festooned by the winds, and bits of va
lencia had crept around f0unce and fes-
toon. l gave but a glance, and l feltsick
e. the heart. | did not know whether it
was the fragrant mutton or that mslsdy
called love Of first sight. l won
dered that so spotless a robe could
pass through Sd plebian a thTODg
and yet remain unsoiled. Jsunting and
Haunting along went my beauty; haunt
ing her shadow l Haunted after. Espy-
ing a cage eff white young rabbits, with
admirable naiHette she inquired of the
owner ''if they could climb" 'Woo her
with gifts, if she respect not words"
said my mentor, and l took the number
of the rabbits as a reserve should
Stoves pleading" in words not avail.
Her female escort volunteered ''thst these
rabbits grew as large as common dog"
Ny beauty smiled assent. "What .
whopper," soliliquized "What," you
ask, ''the rabbit or the history" This de-
ponent saith not. We next spotted her
a. the honey stand. ''Thou shalt be my
queen" murmured my bea'iDg heart.
Being afraid of bees, even of queen bees,
l retreated again. | was ashamed, when
saw her again, to find the bees more de-
voted than myself. They were busy
cumming around her, either held en-
ttanced by her linpid tones, or eager to
sip the nectar from those tempting lips,
| wished with the poet that | "were
Tee to gather honey from those lips" l
! give tue idea in prose; the rhyme would
spoil my blank verse, and is rot to be
had. 1 left her with the bee. All, that
buff linen. / fear this trip at the mar
Eethouse has unsettled me. So much for
love in the markethOuse, TO say nothing
Of blue beef, willing pork and unsavory
mutton, and the smells, and the sells,
and the apples and artichOkes, the beans
and the beets, the beef and bacon, bread
and the butter, the babes aud the babies,
the cakes and the creams, the kales and
the cabbage, the calves and the kline, the
eucumbers and the cymlins, the chickens
and the crinoline, the ducks and the dar-
lngs, the dogs and the darkies, the fleas
ard the flowers, the fuss and The feathers,
the husbands and the ''HOney, my dear"
hog and h0miny, hops and hoaIhOund, ice
water and indian corn, leeks and lettuce,
mushrooms and melons, mint md mus
tard, okra and onions, rBes and parsly,
potatoes and tomatoes, rubarb and radisbeS,
pickles and pepper, sage and sayory, eel
cry snd satisfy, shote and shallots, squash
and cohosh, tansy and thyme, rue and
rosemary; and, as said the Sheba queen,
the half had not been told. ''Co0l sui
phur water, ice ll-around," cries juye-
nile peripatetic. ''Cool lemonade, two
glasses for five ceuts," is q rivals
r, spouse. "Cool and fine, two
glasses only cost one half a dime"
cries an embryo rhymsler. We turn from
the sweat and sulphur man and try two
glasses for five cents, had to drink two
glasses to get taste OF the sugar and
lemon. There Is q rush on the square,
and Burton is delivering famous pane
eyric on veteran steed. He warrants
the horse and warrants the man that sells
him, warrants bone and muscle and sinew,
and titles and teeth and toenails. Pente-
cost adds that ''title is all good, has
known the horse from his boyhood, gen.
lie and kind, only give him oats and corn
and hsy, and he will fatten every day.
Oats and hay are changing hands at pri-
vate account; corn and coTdwood are
carted off and cashed; carrier doves coo
in cages; nightingales MARBLE to discordant
sounds; hooking birds, mock bird and
beast, and crows and cackles; calves call
unto milking mothers; that low responsive,
and universal babel prevails. Shingles
are falling thick and fast from the City
Hotel, and the demon of destruction has
seized hold of another of our land marks.