Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-07

Which the IRE fend has crossed.
There are lips whose smile,
Without malice or guile
Light up the face as the sun lights the sea;
And lips where a sneer
Chills the blood as with fear,
At iH dark malignity.
oh, the faces we meet
In the crowded street,
With care-worn brows or with gladsOme eve,
Are pictures Of life, made
OF light and shade,
As they pass us swiftly by.
The Nashville Choral Society win have
meeting tomorrow evening at haf-past 7
O'Clock.
Sixty conyicts have been shipped and forty
more will be sent of today TO work on the
Selma railroad. #
The State Library received yesterday
a copy Of the United States census
returns for 1870, together with pamphlet
OF statistical information.
The Comptroller yesterday issued four
new State bonds in place of four defaced
ones that had been returned 20 him for
that purpose.
John w. n. Fain was yesterday COM
missioned Magistrate Of the Sd district of
Lewis county.
Fifteen or twenty colored persons will be
baptized to-day at Nelson MerTy's Church,
Pearl street.
John O'Malley, now doing business at
No. 178 Church street, has commenced the
foundation for a large storehOuse on the
corner of McNairy and Broad streets.
The Rev. T. G.. Jones, D. D., has con-
sented to be special correspondent of the
Atlanta Christian IRde1.
NJ. s. Combs left the city last evening for
New York, to be absent several weeks.
AS a genuine clustering, Mareh-like day,
yesterday was big success.
Warren Carter, an old Nashville boy, but
now resident of New York, is at present
on visit to this city. He has been absent
seven years.
The ElmwOod Collar is the latest and
best novelty in the gentlemen's furnishing
line. This collar has folded edge that pre-
vents the corners turning up, and fine
| cloth surface that makes it the most perfect
imitation of a linen collar. Ely & White
sides have been appointed agents for the
sale of this collar.
There is point in this remark of the Bos-
| ton Post: "Principal business of the Radi-
! eals-annOuncing the death of the Demo-
cratic party; their hardest work-to bury
it,
Two of the foremost leaders of the beau
monde in Paris recently appeared in a
fashionable ball without chignous. 1t is
said an effort is being made in Paris to do
away with those unnatural appendages.
A new style of coffee pot has little steam
! whistle attached which warns the folks
when the coffee is ready.
The English Ladies' Reform League pro-
pose, among other things, to wear a dress
until it is worn out y
People who advertise only once in three
months forget that most folks can't remem-
Der anything longer than about seven days.
Some smart arithmetician has computed
that it has cost the Government over ST.
500 for printing the single word daughter
in the Congressional Globe during the past
80 years.
The NeocS says that Lincoln county can
| beat the world and the balance Of mankind
on the egg question in the way of natural
curiosity designed for Easter. That paper
says: The Overton county mans brown
eggs fall into insignihcance, compared to a
coal black egg laid by duck on Capt. Bob
! McEWen's farm, on Cane Creek, in this
county, on the day before Easter, purposely
for that sacred anniversary. Many of the
best citizens of the county have seen the
egg and will testify to its natural coal black
color.
Gen. Pennepacker, who is at present in
this city on leave of absence, we under
stand, departs for Germany tomorrow, to
be gone several months.
Trees have been found in Australia taller
than those in California, though not as
| large. One has been measured 4SO feet
high. The wood closely resembles the red
cedar, and the bark is sometimes eighteen
inches thick.
The largest species of ants-Eleph
1t is said that Douglas Jerrold once re-
| marked to writer of leading articles in a
popular London daily paper, who had
boasted of his having had weeks hunt
ing, 'It's to be hoped that you didn't ride
any of your own leaders"
The wife of a well known millionaire,
with companion, who had not secured
seats, entered crowded hall, in New York,
recently. The lady walked up one aisle
and down another, but everything was full.
A gentleman spoke out so audibly that all
could hear: "Ninety millions and no seat!
At church down in Kalamazoo
The question of questions was "WhO
Shall take up the cOllectiOn?'
| The final selection
| Was the belle of all Kalamazoo.
A little boy defines snoring as dieting of
sleep"
Crosses for the neck are more fashionable
than lockets.
Woman's rights in leap year-the rites Of
matrimOny.
A st. Johns (Newfoundland) lover re-
Gently married girl whom he supposed was
as poor as a church mouse, and not being a
CrOesus himself, love in a cottage was his
only expectation. After the knot was duly
tied, however, the girl informed him that
she possessed FL, 100000 in her own right,
and one of the handsomest residences in
Canada, which is to be the future dOmicile
of the happy pair.
The Cleveland Leader says that gentle
man of that city who prides himself on
his personal appearance, lately sought to
remove grease spot from his coat tail
by the free use of benzine, and then
stood close TO the stove that the odor
might evapOrate more quickly. He was
quite correct in his theory, but unfortunate
in practice, for he was soon turning cart
wheels through the window, and there was
not enough cOat-tail left to make ''weskit''
for doll baby. he does not ride hoseback
now, and sleeps on all-fours, like mule.
OUR Library.