Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-09
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

sized hurricane last night.
There have been some very large Mis-
sissippi river fish in the markets recently.
The Exchange Hotel at the Chattanooga
depot, is having placed upon it q new
single roof
The door way being cut through the
stone partition at the Comptroller's Office,
will be finished to-day.
Business continued lovely at the wharf,
and steamboatmen are active with their
varied duties.
The season for setting strawberry plants
is opening, and the demand for them is
quite brisk
The improvements of the stone steps
and vestibule of the Cathedral will be
completed tomorrow.
Three convicts were brought to the city
yesterday from Washington county, and
incarcerated in the Penitentiary.
Mr.. Warren jackson has established q
shingle yard on the southwest corner of
Broad and Summer streets
The Cotton Factory machinery IS being
rapidly put up and adjusted, each part in
its proper place.
The new City Directory develops graf
flying increase of business names in our
city during the last twelve months.
Quite number of distilleries have re-
sumed operations during the last week OF
ten days.
Work in improving the trestle in the
rear of the Chattanooga depot is being
pushed vigorously forward.
An elegant iron fence has Just been con-
strUcted around the house and yard of
Judge Lea's new residence on the corner
of Vine and Union streets.
Beautiful and rare flowers and plants are
becoming abundant from the various
| conservatories and nurseries in and ada
cent to the city.
General and extensive preparations are
being made for rousing celebration of
| st. Patrick's Day, by our Irish friends.
Two barrels of Mountain Dew -four was
shipped northward yssterday-one to
| Maine ard the other to Boston, Mass.
Good for Nashville four
A number of coal boatmen have been
in the city during tie rise in the upper
Cumberland bringing barges of coal to
our wharf.
The Board Of Aldermen have decided to
let the Exposition building have a supply
of water free Of charge during the exhibit
ton, the managers laying their own pipes
We presume that the Council will concur
in this liberal arrangement.
There is still a proposition pend
| ing TO have a Horticultural Fair
this spring Independent of the
Industrial Exposition, though the matter
has not been fully determined upon.
| Mr.. ]. Skies left for Atlanta Tuesday
evening, to look after the reward due him,
from the Governor of Georgia, for the ar
rest Of negro desperado some time since.
The large, capacious brick carpenter
and joining shop, erected for Thompson
& Robertson, on the corner of Cedar and
McLemore streets, is about finished, and
has received an excellent and handsome
tin roof
The sword-swallowing chap has left the
| city. We understand that he is now in
the country taking gun-hints, carpet
tacEs and broken glass for the purpose of
soothing his i1nards for the summer cam
paign.
The ladies who are soliciting contribu-
tons for the Orphans Fair, are meeting
with encouraging and admirable Success,
in their commendabie enterprise.
Yesterday was a clustering, dusty and
for the most part a cloudy day. Present
appearances indicate rain and Unsettled
weather.
The Purim festival on Tuesday was ap-
propriately observed by our Jewish friends,
the observance closing with grand and
delightful ball at Concordis Hall at night.
The fitful gusts of March winds yester-
day, sent plug hats whirhgigging through
the streets, and played all sorts of freaks
with awnings and erinoline.
A wagon load d with six hundred bun
dies of fodder, to which four horses
were attached, was blown over on the cor
ner of Church and Cherry street yesterday
morning, obstructing for a time the street
and the railroad track. A crowd of dark
les gathered and turned it back again and
it went rolling on.
EX-MsyOr A E Alden, whose commits
sion as Post Trader at Fort Benton we
mentioned sometime since, has accepted
the appointment, and will leave for his
destination on or about the first of April.
Mr. David Clay, who has been long con
nected with the road, has been appointed
Special Watchman at the Nashville anC
| Chattanooga depot, vice Mr. j. Skiles, who
has filed the position for the last year anc
half Mr.. Clay was gallant soldier il
the Confederate army, in the campaigns o
which he los. an arm, and his appointment
is a deserved and most excellent one.
Correspondence is going on between
those having the improvement of the
Capitol grounds in charge, and the Super
intendent of the Smithsonian Institute
and the Supervisors of the New Yorl
a | Central Park, with reference to the pro
I curing of a floral architect and landscap
D | ist, to carry out the adornmeRt and deco
: ration of the grounds.