Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-07
STATE NEWS.

The Jackson Wing and Tribune says:
Our enterprising fellow-citizen, Hon. D.
H. King, has Just finished one of the
finest awnings In front of his entire block,
to be seen anywhere. Also Messrs. Brady
& Russell, have painted the inside of his
elegant saloon, in a style, that for taste,
beauty and richness we have never seen
surpassed. The walls are lined with fine
paintings, representing many of the most
celebrated horses, ocean yatch races, night
scenes on the Mississippi during war and
peace, the great race between the Lee and
Natchez, and many others too numerous
to mention. Elegant mating is to be put
on the floor, so that the crowds which
throng the saloon,C many pass in and out,
as noiselessly as if IN fashionable draw
ing-rOom. The bar has been fitted up
with entirely new furniture, and together
with the white marble counter and mag
nifcent mirrors, presents dazzling ap-
pearance to the eye. Mr.. King, assisted
by the matchless Brown, from very fine
and interesting picture, as they gracefully
WELD the elegant cut alass decsnters,
tumblers and wine goblets. 1t is beyond
comparison, one of, if not the finest sa-
looms in the West, in all its appointments,
and keeps as fine liquors and wines, as
any house in the United States.
P. II. McCargo, of Cross Plains, Tenn,
has sent to the Mayor of Springfield q
lopg communication, and among other
things he says: "You have been indicted
by q grand jury noted for intelligence,
upon the charges which l preferred
against you, one of which was an attempt
to commit murder on the highway; eleven
indictments hang over your devoted
heads; hence you stand convicted of hsv-
ing published a batch of unmitigated
falsehoods. Shoddy is cheap and humbug
| is cheap, and so are Beecher's patent
sermons; but alas what have become of
the horn-books of the learned Mayor and
the little Recorder? You have been
weighed and found wanting; you see the
handwriting on the wall, and, like Bel
shazzar, your knees begin to smite one
against another"
| George Francis Train has arrived in
Memphis, and is stopping at the Peabody
Hotel. The following entry was made
| on the hotel register: George Francis
Train, Bastile of Lyons, France, Wis
Chicago Jail-544th Public Meeting.
George Francis related to hi
admirers in Memphis his futur'
plans and prospects, and anon!
other things told them how he propose
10 manipulate the wires 80 as to b
elected President Of the United States il
1872. George has lectured in Memphis
but it is impossible to give any synopsi
of his remarks, as the Memphis reporter
saw that che was lightning sure enough.
Why did they not send to Nashville for
shorthand reporter, who would be equs
to George Francis or any other emel
gency2
, Sober and sane is George Francis Train,
Who never chewed swore or drank;
But his assertions in this are wholly in vain.
The world drinks, swesrs, chews, and its vice
The confession. how sad the moralist is mad
While vice and vulgArity reign
The Nashville Christian Herald il
speaking of the question of e1
Guiding persons who deal in
drink ardent spirits, from churc
: membership, says ''But, to exclude tn
: retailer and retain those who buy it al
: drink it, in fellowship, is, to say the lea
: of it, inconsistent. A church thus actiI
= might he justly charged with both incol
L sistency and psrtialityE We conclul
that if the good of the cause of Chri
l. demands the exclusion of the retailer,
J demands with equal force the exclusi'
y of the buyer and drinker of ardent sp
it's"