Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-14


en- route to visit his father, whom he said
lived in Chatoon county, Broom Corn Val
ley.
The Northwestern train yesterday even
ing brought IS raftsmen to the city from
They were originally from
Bedford, and probably carried over to the
Tennessee by the flood.
Dolly Warden bird cages have made their
appearance in this city. Dolly Warden
horse shoes are the latest of the prevailing
fashionable name out.
Mai. Glover, Superint endent OF the Capt.
tol, has made desirable improvements in his
office. A new carpet, fresh varnish, and
one or two other additions render his room
quite attractive.
Mr.. Pritchard, the landscape gardener, has
been sprinkling the capitol grounds with
bluegrass seed. We hope they'll spring up.
Jos. II. McGill, a well known merchant Of
Louisville, and formerly engaged in the
gentlemen's furnishing business here, died
recently in that city of consumption. He
had a large number of friends here who
will receive this information with regret.
A white man and an Ethiopian female
had a slight engagement last night on
Church street near the Central Market. No
loss of life or limb.
A man named James Mullins, who is not
a citizen of Bedford county, was yesterday
committed to. Jail by order of Justice Bas-
kettle on the charge of vagrancy.
The flashy illustrated papers East give
pictorial accounts of lynch law execution
in Nashville. The one now before us give
ex-Gov. Neil S. Brown credit for the cou-
ciiatory and sensible speech of the Occa-
sion, when in fact that gentleman knew
nothing of the occurrence until next morn
ING, it being Gov. John G. Brown who ad-
dressed the rioters and persuaded them to
disperse.
A lively fistic engagement near the cor
ner of Market street and the Square, was
the only event of special public interest in
that locality yesterday afternoon. Results
in no way disastrous 10 either party or any
body else.
The Criminal Court at Murfreesboro has
got through with the business of its term
and ceased from its labors. Judge Frazier
and Attorney General COldwen yesterday
returned to their homes in this vicinity.
The bright, pleasant weather, and conse-
uuent crowded condition of the streets, yes
terday gave the city lively appearance,
and business was more than usually brisk.
There was an extensive display OF floral
specimens ct the City Market yesterday,
and very general disposition manifested
to get possession of them. Prices were
even more moderate than usual.
The old brick and timbers taken from that
portion of the Methodist Publishing House
now being torn down are piled up on the
Square in front of the building, and will
make an immense heap. The work is Civ
ing employment to large number OF per
sons who might otherwise be idle.
The butchers stalls at the markethouses
were yesterday RECALLING visitors with the
sight of the finest beef and mutton seen
there since Christmas. Chris Powers made
a most handsome display.
The number of boiler explosions during
the year 1871, was los; the number OF per-
sons killed, 404; the number of persons
wounded, POI.
A Milwaukee lover, dying lately, left his
sweetheart, a poor maiden, fortune OF
$4,000. There are few such lovers to be
found.
Mr.. Brandon, of Ohio, has thirty-three
sons, twenty-eight of whom are married.
he should run for President against Grant.
George Lockhart Rivers, an American,
stand fifth in this years graduating class at
| Cambridge University, in England. There
were forty-fve contestants in the class, OF
whom the son of Charles Dickens was the
! twenty-ninth.
w. C.. Stewart, author of "The Practical
| Angler" is dead. He was known in Eng
land as all angler of almost miraculous skill,
and was the author Of book which may
be said to have reYolutiOnized the art OF
! trout fishing.
A correspondent of Baltimore paper
wants to know why marriages and death
notices should be paid for? For the best OF
reasons, one is an advertisement Of copart-
nership, and the other is notice of disso-
! luton. Business is business.
That was a profound philosopher who
| COMPARED advertising to a growing crop
He said: ''The farmer plants his seed, and
while he is sleeping the corn is growing
So with advertising. Whilesyou are sleep
| ing or eating, your advertisement is being
read by thousands of persons who never
| saw you or heard of your business, mol
never would, had it not been for your ad-
| veTtisement."
We must not hope to be mowers
And to gather the ripe, gold ears
| Until we have first been sewers,
| And watered the burrows with tears
1t is not Just as we take it
This mystical world of ours;
LIES field will yield, rs weEmake it,
A harvest of thOrns or flowers,
any heart leaps up when behold rain
bow in the sky" the great Wordsworth
saws. What a chronic palpitatiOn this re
spectable poet would have had, if he haC
lived at Santa Cruz, Cal, where there wer
recently witnessed no less than forty-on
rainbows in a single day.
A smart wife Dragging that she ha
helped her husband to raise seventy acre
of wheat, being asked how, replied: "Of
| stood in the doorway and shook th
broomsticl at him when he sat down
rest"
| Awake our souls, stretch every nerve,
| And press with vigOT OF,
| This here Hotel demands our zeal
TO benefit our town.
Was the language employed by the editC
of an exchange to push along the Drlc
hotel enterprise.
The women of Damascus, ILL.,, take pa
in the discussions of the Farmers Gu
meeting. A recent cOnmdrum was
"Shall we dress for comfort or show p
was, of course, decided to dress for comtor
and then they all went away, and at tn
} next meeting each appeared with tire
decker" head dIess and dolly Warden
: suit.
, '.Be gentle 70 the new laid egg,
For eggs are costly things;
They cannot fly until they're hatchdJ
And have pair Of wings.
, If once you break the tender shell,
? The wrong you can't redress;
The yolk and white VIII all run out
J And make dreadful mess.
| . Y. 1s..Y, hill, - l..at
That hens have power Ia lay
. Tomorrow eggs may added 10,
That we're quite fresh to-day
O. let the touch be very light,
i That takes them from the kegi
. There is no hand whose cunning SKIN
Can mend a broken egg"
1 During the storm al Brownsville, Tenn
I. on Monday, one house, containing ten
twelve negroes, was turned over sever