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


FAa,Es AND EANCIEs.
MY life Is but blasted hope,
A blossom by the wayside sfrewn:
The dreams that danced before my eve
In brighter days have flown;
On field and flower, on hill and stream,
A shadow rests, without CLEAN
OF cheering sunshine gliding Ger
The paths trod so gay before.
Has nature changed? or is the gloom
Which deepens Ger her scenes In me?
A shadow of the heart, which spreads
Its trailing mists DER land and sea?
All, not in nature; other eyes
See beauty in her sunny skies,
And mountain cTags; and in her notes
OF bird and brook, wild music floats
To other ears as once TO mine.
Ger me the change is passed-o'er me,
Fair glorious naturel not DER thee
OF Withered hopes is wove the spell
That shrOuds the scenes loved SO well.
Oh, give me back my boyhood's dreams
When life was young; and hills and streams,
And fields and flowers, shall be as then,
And birds shall sing old songs againl
Oh, give me back the friends knew
The schOOlmates of my happier years,
When hours on golden pinions few,
And tears were only April tears!
VAN thoughts, be still why fOndly sigh
For dreams that with earth's visions fade.
Fly, hope, beyond this changing sky,
To fields of light no cloud shall shade.
The Office of the City Transfer Company
has lately undergone some frst-class i'm
provements, one of which is a magic gate
| the mystic number three being required to
open it.
Noah Jenkins, second district of Marion
xr-oo uQcfardox-
of the Peace.
Col. Butler, Secretary of State, has made
some convenient office additions.
About four O'Clock yesterday evening a
white horse, belonging to a gentleman liv-
ing out three miles on the Charlotte pike,
while being led up Cedar street, was seized
with the blind staggers and falling at the
corner of Park street died In five minutes.
His carcass was placed on dray and re-
moved.
A countryman's team became frighte ned
| and ran away with his wagon yesterday
morning, threatening destruction to every
vehicle on College street. BY the time the
animals arrived at the Square the driver
jumped out, and seizing hold of the leader,
succeeded in stopping his beasts.
There was a fierce runaway ON South
College street late yesterday evening. Slight
damage and nobody killed.
Mr.. Har, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, loved
his cousin. She didn't love him. He fol-
lowed her to church one day, overlook her
in the porch and whispered few words to
| her, whereupon she tainted away. He
then meandered gently toward home, lunch
ing on arsenic on the way, and shortly fell
dead. This is all of this narrowing story.
The Boston Post describes the difference
between town bell and Southern carpet
bag Governor to be Some peals from the
steeple and the other-don't." The INFER
ence is obvious.
Miss Mellon, poor girl of Michigan, has
received a legacy of 100000. Here Is a
chance for some enterprising young man to
go into the melon trade, and make it pay.
A heartless boarding house hummer per-
petrates the following ''rhyme without
reason" upon his landlady for ejecting him
from her bed and board. Judging from
the quality of his muse, the fellow is evil
| IDENTIFY astrologer ga straw-lodger."
For all the miseries and wrongs
Beneath which bOarders squirm and grOan,
The blame, in my belief, belongs
To boarding mistresses alone,
And when these heartless creatures die,
And Satan gets them in his paw,
l hope he'll doom them all to lie
Eternaly on beds of straw!
Here is a chap who knows how it is him
self: "a pair Of sweet lips, pink waist, q
swelling chest, and a pressure or two of
delicate hands, will as much unhinge a
man as three fevers, the measles, large
sized hopping cough, a pair of lock jaws,
several hydrophobias, and the doctors bill"
A Greene county farmer recklessly pub
fishes the following challenge: 81 will bet
S12.25 that my hired man can take longer
to go to tie harvest field, get back to dinner
quicker, eat more, do less, and bear down
harder on panel of the fence, than any
other hired man within fifteen miles of the
flagstaff in Jefferson"
An undertaker's office in Indianapolis
recently bore this cheerful inscription on
the front door: 'Gone for dead man
back SOON"
Jones, on being asked by Mrs. J. why
he didn't have dumb-waiter in the dining
room, immediately replied that he had
tried them, but they didn't answer.
a blushing bride in Missouri handed her
marriage certificate to the conductor in
stead of her ticket, and was Mortified to
hear the announcement that it wasn't
good.
The following Irish way of saying the
streets are dirty has been forwarded to
Dublin paper, by way of advertisement:
Lost, in the neighborhood of Appian way,
a crossing composed of granite stones.
When last seen it extended across Lesson
street. Should this meet the eye of some
geologist who is possessed of a pick-axe, he
is requested to dig about the locality, as it
cannot be very deep down, having been seen
about month ago by some workmen be-
longing to Pembroke Township.