Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-28

nut enSy VIZ COihe oaeA ~ ADS--"ASA an Oiu'
II a youth passes by, it may happen, no doubt,
He may chance to look in as chance to look out;
She would never endure an impertinent stare
1t is hOrrid, she says, and mustn't sit there.
A walk in the moonlight has pleasures, own,
But it isn't quite safe to be walking alone;
So take a lads aTm-just for safety, you know
But Aunt Tabith tells me they didn't do so.
How wicked We are, and how good they were
then!
They kept at arms length, those detestable men;
What an era of virtue She lived in But stay
Were the men all such rOgues in Aunt Tabitha's
day?
If the men toere so wicked, III ask my papa
How he dared to propose to my darling mamma;
Was he like the rest Of them2 Goodness Who
And what shall Isay, if wretch should propose9
am thinking if aunt knew so little of sin,
What wonder Aunt Tabitha's aunt must have
And her grand-aunt-it scares mellow shock
ingly sad .a#
That we girls of to-day are so frightfully bad
A martyr will save us, and nothing else can;
Let me perish-to rescue some wretehed young
Though when to the altar victim I go,
Aunt Tabitha'n tell me she never did sol
The editors of the Turf, Field and Farm
were gallant soldiers in the Federal army
They say:
''In the March number of the Old and
Nelr, Edward A. Pollard writes of New
Virginia. @. I. Dunbar reviews, in sem
sible way, The Internationals,' ana George
B. Loring draws parallel between wash
ington and Grant According to his views
there never were two such men as our first
and last President. In his enthusiasm to
make something akin to God out Of Gen.
Grant, Mr.. Loring jumps to such conclu-
sions as this: amid the disasters of the
first day at Shiloh, where Sherman earned
his laurels, it was Grant who was not taken
by SURPRISE As the disaster was the re-
suit Of a complete surprise, and as Grant
was the commander of the army, it looks
very much to us as if he was the principal
one who was taken by surprise. In fact,
Grant was enjoying himself at Savannah
when the battle commenced, and when the
firing was heard he spoke lightly of it as
mere artillery practice You should stick
to facts, Mr.. LOring. The other papers
give variety to the current number Of Old
and NelC."
The following gentlemen were yesterday
commissioned Justices Of the Peace: W. J.
Wynne, second district of Lake county;
Jno. B. Atwell, second district of DeKalb
county; H. A. Bib, Charlotte, Dixon
county; VIM. E. McNeal, eighth district of
Gibson county.
Yesterday the sum of S1,5l5.27 was paid
into the United States Internal Revenue
office.
Thirty men of the It'll U. S. cavalry left
yesterday morning for the mountain dis
tricts 10 raid illicit dstilleries.
Col. Van WORT, commandant Of this
post has gone to Cincinnati to appear as wit
ness before the General Court Martial now
in session.
A fire alarm was sounded from the Hook
and Ladder station at half-paSt six O'Clock
yesterday evening. The cause of the alarm
was the burning out of a chimney on South
Summer street. Only that and nothing
more.
A fellow with lightning cap was peram-
bulating Broad street yesterday afternoon.
All persons expecting to continue in the
tobacco or whisky business after May l,
1872, should apply to the U. S. Assessor of
Internal Revenue and pay the special tax.
A Windsor Canada man rallied off his
family Bible at ten cents a chance.
A Texan thought he could undertake to
chain a snake, but soon resigned in favor Of
professional undertaken.
In a divorce case pending in Ohio, the
grounds of the husbands applications are
that his wife insists that lie shall kill the old
cat that has been with them for ten years.
He says sit is not because he hates TO part
with the animal, but the job is too much to
ask of him while he is in feeble health, as
at present" He has drowned her twice,
shot fourteen rife balls through her vitals,
given her half pound Of strychnine, COM
mitted hari-kari on her with pitch-foTk,
and the only effect perceptible is a trife
more tone to her voice and a bay window
over one eve. This is one of the most
singular concatenation of circumstances on
record.
The latest dodge of parent to overcome
his sons aversion to medicine, and 'dOctor"
him at the same time, occurred on-PrOspect
street, where a crOupy yOungster was III
duced to make quite hearty meal Of buck
wheat cakes and ''alaple syrup'-but the
latter proved to be nice syrup Of squillS.
The boy said he Thought something allied
the molasses the minute his father told him
to eat all he wanted to-"
This is said to be an Ohio epitaph:
Under this sod
And under these trees,
Lieth the bod
Y Of Solomon Pease,
He's not in this hole,
But only his pod;
He shelled out his soul
And went up 10 God.
The report that Chicago has female
broker is supposed to have originated in the
report in the papers which said a female
broker husbands head with a skillet, Just
for amusement.
A Missouri husband, whose wife has ap-
piled for divorce, writes protest to the
judge, in which be says: "This dam thing
they call divorce has, in my opinion, parted
many a man and wife"
Will G. Monan is the name Of the gentle
man who has leased for term OF years the
Horticultural Gardens. He intends invest
ing a large amount Of money in ornament
ing and identifying this well-known place
of resort, and intends to keep it on the plan
of the Winter Garden.
The King of the Earlies is a new potato
In this market. We saw at BObb's store
yesterday six of these monsters that weighed
nine pounds, and ninety Of them filled a
barrel.
There was big fight Sunday evening in
the vicinity of Allison street and Stephen
sons avenue, South Nashville. Number
engaged, about MALTA dozen; weapons, brick
bats, anaxe, shovel and broomstickS; cause,
bad whisky, almanac jokes, and discussion
of rents We hope it wont occur again.
A fiery youth of South Nashville Sunday
evening drew pistol on a young man, but
didn't like the fun of the thing we'll enough
to fire. He must have been yoking mid
him.
One of George Elliott's old Scotch women
defending her sex says: 'I' not denying
the women are foolish; God Almighty made
them to match the men,"
"Annuitants never die is the English
form Of an old epigram. The following is
an expression of the same idea: cit seems
as if them as aren't wanted here are the
only folks as aren't wanted in the other
world"
A maggOt must be born in the rotten
cheese to like it, reckon.
If you could make pudding with think
ing of the batter, it would be easy getting
dinner.
There are folks who make bad butter
and trust to the salt to hide it.
1t is cheerful to praise the dead and the
mast. and vet il is but little good You'll do