Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-10

Crying With all ms might ana nam, 90
"Any R-a-g-sP"
His looks were sad, his eyes were dull;
His great big bag was nearly full;
And though his strength was failing fast,
He cried with voice like trumpet blast,
"Any R-a-g-s?"
No friend looked out with pitying eye,
And blest him as he wandered by;
Without blessing, cold and sore,
he cried aloud at every door,
"Any R-a-g-s9"
.'Beware the watch" an old man said
"Hes on the corner, just ahead"
an watchful be, !" the youth replied,
And lifting high his voice he cried,
"Any R-a-g-s?"
Beware the watch-dog's awful bitel
Beware the dangers of the night"
And as he hurried out of sight,
The youth replied with all his might,
"Any R-a-g-s"'
A traveller in the early morn,
A being found, ragged and torn;
There in the wet and mud he lay;
His mouth was fixed, but seemed TO say,
"Any R-a-g-sP"
! Sweet sleep had stolen DER his frame;
Another 'picker" had stolen his game;
His bag, once full, stood open wide
A voice far in the depths replied,
"Nary r a-g."
The first cabbage plants Of the season
were on sale in the market house yesterday
morning.
The Edgeheld Street Railroad directors
! had meeting yesterday, and ratified the
| contract between the company and the
Suspension Bridge Company. At this
meeting Thos. Caldwell sent in bis resig-
nation as President Of the railroad COM
pany, and j. Z. Warner was elected to fill
the vacancy. On Monday there viii be a
meeting Of the bridge directors, at which
time the necessary papers viii be signed,
and then immediate preparations to
| lay the track across the bridge.
Some days ago Sam Manning and Squire
| Scales, while digging on their premises
! about three miles from the city on the
| Harding pike, came upon and resurrected
| severalspieces Of ware that very much re-
| sembled the drinking vessels of the ancients.
They were not exactly Of the Assyrian
| type, neither like tho cup Of the Ptolemien
but somewhat on the order Of the Egyptias
! pottery. One Of the vessels, In the shape
OF an antediluvian teapot, was embellshed
WITH figure which would pass for either
the head of Chinese or Indian. They are
certainly curiosities, and In a remarkable
state Of preservation.
The rebuilding Of the Publishing House
is fixed fact. DR.. BEDFORD, the agent, has
determined TO erect building which will
be an ornament to that side of the Public
Square, and the plan of the City Hotel
block, or something resembling it will pro-
baby be adopted. The dimensions of the
new house will be 220 feet deep, and the
different stores 80 feet wide. One of these
stores has been already been rented to Jen.
nings, Goodba & Co., wholesale dealers in
hats; another will be occupied as the sale
room Of the Publishing House, and still an
other is 10 be rente0.
r. S. Murphy, of West Tennessee, nov
of the house of S. S. Smith, Jr., & Co.
, Cincinnati, is here on a visit.
3. K. Cutter is probably the only mer
chant in Nashville that has remained 70
SO long a period in one locality. He ha
occupied his present stand twenty-nin,
years last January, and be is a young maj
yet.
There is some talk of establishing lin
of street cars to run through the mammoth
establishment Of COwan 81 Co. The wal
! from one end of the house to the other i
.. fatiguing.
, Oliver Wendell Holmes sent letter t
the postoffice of a Ladies' Fair at PittsfelC
r On the first page he wrote:
"Fair lady, whosoe'er thou art,
, Turn this poor leaf with tenderest care,
And hush, 0 hush thy breathing heart
The one thou lowest will be there"
On turning the ''poor Leaf there wa
found a One-dollar bill, with some verse
beginning:
"Fair lady, lift thine eyes and tell
II this is not a truthful letter;
This Is the one ~ thou lowest well,
r And nought (O) can make thee love it be
, ter
= The battle of Roslin was one of the mos
e singular in Scottish history. 1t occurred i
5 the time of Wallace. Sir John De Segrav
having been sent into Scotland by Kin
: Edward with an army of 10000 men, col
: sisting chiefly of cavalry, on his march t
: Edinburgh, separated the army into tire
= divisions, which were successfully attacke
and defeated at ROsliD, on the oath Feb
! 1903, by body Of 5000 horse, under tn
/. command of Sir John Cumin and 81
: Sir Simon Jrazer:
Three triumphs in a day!
D Three hosts subdued by onel
Three armies scattered like the spray
Beneath one summer sum-
utleIuiuSu 1Huldua eIOpeSS, DelD
: closely pressed by her papa, charged a
eight-fOOt fence at a bound, and escaped int
the land of matrimOny.
? An American doctor at Marseilles is mai
: ing a fortune by "gonderful cures" II
! gives nothing to his patients but pure waite
/ which he magnetises by few passes of hi
hand; and it is said to be a curious sight {
: witness hundreds Of persons Of all cond
tons waiting their turn at his door, eac
with pitcher or decanter Of water. TIL
f number who call daily is estimated at a
average Of 900.
q A man looking for site for paper mi
? has found one in an Iowa town, where b
says there are more rags in proportion I
the population than in any other place b
, ever saw.
: A couple in Delaware county, Ne,
York, who have loved each other froI
D / childhood, but whom unkind late has hitt
, ertO separated, were married the other Ga
at the age of seventy-nine, their parents,
, is supposed, having at last consented to le
",he children" have their own way.
The following lines have been dedicate
, to March. They were written before th
severe blow on Thursday last.
Welcome, sweet wind; You bring
A soul Of Spring
From sons far fragrant rose,
That blows
] In some dear coming May, or half-forgotte
Spring.
Welcome, sweet Dream; you bear
Your wings Of air
From some lar isle Of love
dove.
Flying with gentle bOugh from some far, lovelie
air.
What though the sweet Wind knows
A vanished rose
NV dream the Past, alone,
} Has known2-
Bloom frem my heart, sweet dream; climb fror
my dream, sweet rose.
A Boston girl is 80 absent minded tina
she kisses any Of her male acquaintance
she may happen to meet under the impress
sion that the aforesaid are her dearest fe
male lntimates. The practice is rendered
all the more unaccOuntable from the fac
that the mistake seldom or never occurs ex
cept when TIE recipient of the affectionat,
salutati0n is young and good locking
Hope she wont come down this wav. /
would just be our luck to set one of then
accidental smacks.
A gentleman in the vicinity of Phiadel
phia recently lost his wife, and a youp,
miss Of six, who came to the funeral, saiC
to his little daughter Of about the same age