Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-15

roads arriving last evening we're pretty wen
crowded, and in consequence the hotels
were in the same fix.
Eggs are still eggs, but not quite so stu
pendOus in cost as short time ago, the
present retail price not going above Is cents.
The same remark, we regret to say, is not
applicable to good qualities Of butter.
A fine looking horse who was evidently
a7erse to buggy work, was yesterday giving
his driver much trouble on Cherry street,
at one time going faster than the law allows,
and at another making magnificent moves
on his hind legs. An excited observer said
the unruly steed was certainly one of them
wild horses from Tartary.
a coal dealer whose supply has been
much reduced by the late heavy demand,
reiOices in the fact that there is a coal boat
tide-such boats being tied at distant points
up the river.
The General Assembly yesterday accep-
ted an invitation from the Irish societies of
Nashville to witness the St. Patrick's pro-
cession next Monday.
The tableaux announced to take place
at CrageiehOpe on the 18th inst. to aid in
raising funds for the completion of the
Seminary at that place, have been post
poned. The usual hop, however, will take
place on Monday night next, and delega-
ton from Nashville is expected.
Everybody remembers the first cigar and
bis sweetheart.
Germany has five daily and fourtee
weekly papers edited by women.
Miss Brush, the new American prima
donna, is sweeping triumphantly through
Spain.
London is known to have existed as a
town more than two thousand years ago.
The first flock of sheep we have seen this
year arrived yesterday. They were from
the farm of Ben. Judd, near Springfield
Don't all speak at once. An Indiana fe-
male will give $4,000 to any man who will
marry her.
"There was an old man with flute,
sarpint got into his boot;
But he played day and night
Till the sarpint took fight,
And avoided that man with flute"
As stout old lady got out of crowded
omnibus the other day, she exclaimed,
"Well, that's relief, any how" To which
the driver, cycling her ample proportions, re-
Piled, $50 the 'Cssas think, num-"
a woman in San Francisco opened a
billiard saloon. The room is handsomely
fitted up, and the tables, ten in number, are
of the Phelan and COllender make. The
! markers and bartender are also women, and
the establishment boasts large patronage.
| The proprietress is young and pretty, and
handles the cue deity herself.
There was a generous-hearted lady In
| Canada who the other day dropped a
pocket-boOk containing $4,000 in notes
/ and bills. And there ives little ragged
/ boy who found and returned it, and went
! off happy with the magnificent reward OF
! twenty cents which the lady gave him.
! There is nothing like encouraging honesty
! among the poorer classes.
A forgetful woman out West the other
/ night aroused the inmates of hotel to
| which her bridal trip had led, on account oil
| finding a man in her room. The triling
circumstance of her marriage that morning
/ had quite escaped her memory, and it was
not until summary justice.was about to be
visited on the offender that she happened
! to recollect it.
A cool young gent, all Of the modern
/ DAYS. entered 8 menagerie, with cigar in
| his mouth, when the proprietor politely re-
| ouested the visitor not to teach the other
| MONKEYS bad habits. The young man
! proved himself equal to the occasion, by
| producing his cigar case and saying "Try
| one"
ave are informed that the gentleman
| who stood on his head under a pile-drivel
for the purpose Of having tight pair Of
boots druv on, shortly afterwards found
himself in Chiny, perfectly naked and
without a cent in his pocket"
One Of the Board of Education, going
his rounds as an amateur, put the
following question TO a scholar in country
school: "How do you parse Mary milks th'
cow?'" The last word was disposed Of a!
follows: "Cow is a noun, feminine gender
singular number, third person and stands
for Mary" ISLANDS for Mary?" exclaimed
one of the Board. allow do you MAKE
that outP" because added the intelligen
pupil, ''if the COW didn't stand for Mary
| how could Mary milk heT?"