Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-31

Il Ioro Marcn ensuing. rra
tstSpring bonnets, the ladies' saw. are oo;re
to be loves of ones. %
The market has abounded in fine an6
superior fish during the last few DAYS.
| NO railroad accidents worth mentionins
have occurred for some time past. d
A good deal of hay, fodder, wood. etc
day. = 80
An immense amount Of pounded rock i,
being hauled from Capitol Hill and spread
on about the Square. =. 900
sunshine and shadow, with a mild tenn
persture, made up the bill of weather YES
terday. r e-lI y -
| Raising the water pipes on the Square.
terday. ~ NV '03
Paving the CUTTERS on Church street was
the order yesterday-there ought to be
several miles of Just such paving done.
The front enclosure of the Nicholson
House has been considerably improved and
beautifed recently. " -
we learn that the Tennessee Press As
sociation viii be quite well attended bv
those most interested in the art preserya-
tive. : : = f-00'- W.
"A number of parties have beer, before
the United States Commissioners recently
charged with selling goods without license.
Inc hub OF a coal cart, on Church street.
went directly through its surroundings
yesterday, leaving it in very bad order.
The Tennessee and Pacific Railroad IL
doing good business, which We learn is
steadily on the increase.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Publiea-
ton Society have fitted up very excellent
rooms at their present quarters on Union
street.
Wills d Kleiser of the Battle House
saloon are now supplying their customers
with the famous Lonfellow cigars, brand
that is bound to take.
FESTIVITIES OF various kinds, on account
OF the news from Paris, were INDUCED in
yesterday to considerable extent-par
uculariy among our German friends.
We understand that considerable i'm
proyements are contemplated at Beersheba
Springs by the opening of the ensuing sum-
mer season. =.
shopping in q retail way was rather a
duh business yesterday; the sidewalks and
street crossings being not at all in an inter-
esting condition for the ladies.
There was somewhat of a knock down
Summer street near the trestle-vork YES
terday afternoon. Nobody hurt.
Considerable sickness, resulting prin-
clpauy nom bad colds, prevails in the
vicinity Of Goodlettsville. The same NAV
be said of many other localities.
Local items of importance, during yes
terday, were similar to chickens teeth.
or angels visits, friends in adversely, dol
lars in an editors pocket, etc.-few and
far between.
Prot. ]. B. Killebrew of the AericuI-
tural Departments Of the UNION AND AMERr-
GAN will deliver an address in Springfield
on the 9th of February We bespeak for
him large crowd and an attentive hear
ing.
Summer street and Church and Cherry |
have become the fashionable thorouxhfares |
Of the city and are not readily surpassed
In improvements or attractive promenaders
anywhere.
A number of our merchants will leave
soon to purchase their stocks of spring
goods. A very active trade is confidently |
expected in our city the ensuing spring.
We are gratifed (?) to see that, even
among all the foolishness of fashion and |
frivolities Of this wicked age, the la |
dies generally have not lost sight of the
interesting, refined, and beautiful accom-
plishment of-portrait painting.
Mr.. Ham Davis, formerly of this city, 4
with others, has been here for some days
past hiring eolored hands to work on plan |
tations in Louisiana. They offer good |
wages and inducements for laborers.
Quite fasilade was fred from the Ger
man Correspondent Office yesterday after
noon over the report of the capitulation of |
Paris, and the victories of the Prussian |
a ms. The German population were jubi-
Ia Mt enough during the afternoon and /
evening.
T Ie name of the Planters Hotel, corner
of Desderick and Summer, has, during the
lest two weeks, been changed to that of the
National Hotel. Under the recent applica-
lion of the painters brush and its present
the establishment presents
quite an attractive appearance
There was q Teachers meeting of the |
Public Schools at Hume Building yester-
day afternoon at o'clock Most Of the
teachers with the Superintendent and the
Board of Education were present and
quite harmonious and instructive hour
was had to all concerned.
The Memphis and Little Rock railroad
is nearly completed; only some fifteen
miles we learn remain to be finished, |
which gives a continuous and unbroken
railroad route of travel from Little Rock
10 Washington and the Eastern cities
through Middle and East Tennessee.
A galvanic battery, on the old postofice
corner, was the sensation yesterday among
hose who wished to try their muscle. We
noticed one man hold it until the machine
$50 degrees, which was consid-
cred good extraordinary, in fact. He
could not account, himself even, for his
ability to stand so much grief, unless it
was that he was formerly member of the
Police.
The velocipede question andthe nymphs
of the surf is completely "done" by fine
lot of Autographs introduced into Egan's
restaurant at the Chattanooga depot. They
are a very fine lot of pictures, and how to
travel, slope, and love, on wheels, is
shown out to a nicely, while the 1lustrs-
tons of how they do it at Saratoga and
Long Branch is good, TO say the least.
Some street improvement is being made |
at the corner of Broad and High streets.
Any one having seen that little shaggie
dog pU7p, with bobtail, named Pomp,
going down the street, will be cheerfully |
thanked by leaving information with the
owner, of his whereabouts.
The debris on the north side of Broad
street is being removed, and the back pre-
misses renovated, which is a wise and pru-
lent sanitary measure in that locality.
The machinery for the cotton factory
will DE put up on the first of March ensu-
ing.
There was considerable activity on the
wharf yesterday, owing to, the recent rise
in the river. Coal from the upper regions
of the Cumberland will be here now in
quantities sufficient to supply the demand,
and steamboatmen are more jubilant over
business prospects on the aquatic element.
The Baptist Sabbath-school exhibition,
recently postponed, will take place at Ma
sonic Hall early in the month of February
and will be highly entertaining.
Front street has very much improved
since this time last year, when it was mere
slush and mud and impossible almost to
vehicles and wagons heavily loaded.
A number of the streets have been i'm
proved recently to an sppreciable degree,
thanks to an efficient Street Commissioner
and persistent efforts in that regard.
After protracted cloudy, damp and diss-
greeabIe weather for some days, there
were indications yesterday Of its clearing
of and having more clear and settled
season.