Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-20
rACrs AND rANcrEs.

And then-Oh, yes, remember,
The kettle began to sing;
And Fanny came in with her baby,
The cunningest bit Of thing.
And the biscuit were out in minute
Well, what came next? Let me see
OH Fanny was there with q baby
And we all sat down to tea
And grandma looked over her glasses
SO queer at Richard and me-
But it wasn't till after milking
That he said what he had to say.
How was 1t? Oh, Fanny had taken
The baby and was gone away
The funniest rogue of q fellow
He hada new tooth that day.
We were standing under the plum tree,
And Richard said something low
But was tired and futtered,
And trembled, 1 almost know;
For old Red Is the hardest of mixers,
And Brindle SO horribly slow.
And that-let me see-where wasI?
| Obi the stars grew thick overhead,
And we two stood under the plum tree
| TIlthe chickens flew up 70 bed
| Well, he loves me, and we're to be married,
| And that is-about what he said!
The tongue of a big hay wagon was
snapped in two on Bridge Avenue, in EDGE,
field, yesterday, and not being able to move
it for some little time, the highway was OBJ
structed.
Workmen commenced tearing down the
old house of B. II. Cooke & Co., adjoining
the City Hotel block, yesterday, and a mag
ni6cent building, with mansard roof, will be
put up in its stead.
The contract for widening Woodland
street, Edgefeld, between Hughes public
scales and Barrow street, has been let out
to John Myers, and the work was COM
menced yesterday.
The book recently published going to
show that Tom Paine was Junius, and the
author of the Declaration Of Independence,
reminds us Of the comparison instituted BY
the celebrated Robert, Hall, when once
asked his opinion of Paine's attack on the
! Bible. 81 think it is as inefably weak and
| ludierous as 1t would be for mouse to at
tempt to nibble off the wing of an arch
angel"
The following are the leap year ball regu-
lations, established by the young ladies' Of
| st. Louis: "Gentlemen are expected to be
| as lady-like as possible, therefore, no gentle
| man will be allowed to enter the ball room
except on the arm of his escort, or one of
the managers; no gentleman can dance un-
less invited to do so by lady; no gentle
man can enter the supper room unless es-
corted BY lady; the lady managers viii see
that no gentleman is neglected"
The p. m. Northwestern train yester-
day ditched four cows near Gen. Hardings
farm, eight miles from the city. They were
too unwel at last accounts to know the
result.
DR.. Cliffe passed through the city yester-
day en- route for Robertson county to sur
vey the distillery of Wiley Woodward,
which will commence operation in few
days.
DR.. Draughon's distilery in the same
county will commence running to-day.
A horse ran away with sulky yesterday
morning on South College street, upsetting
the vehicle and spilling the former occupant
of the seat into mud hole near the corner
Of Broad. No one hurt and only a little
excitement,
Yesterday the sum of s2,654.S5 was paid
into the United States Internal Revenue
Office.
The 10th U. 5. Infantry at Ash Barracks
was paid off yesterday.
A young man in this city has brass bell
attached to his watch chain and it tinkles
like an auction bell.
The latest pugilistic excitement at Clarks-
vile occurred in the shape of two females
fighting over one husband last Saturday.
ChignonS cinnamon oil and greasy woel
flew in all directions. One darkey threw
her loving arms around him saying he had
won her CONNECTIONS for all time to come and
she was gwine to hold them if she could.
Yesterday evening a jealous Ethiopian
named fish Sims, near the corner of Jack
son and College streets made herself no
torious by casting stones at the retreatipg
wagon of VIM. Ransom, colOred.
1t is positively asserted that majority of
our girls would give up the fashion Of wear
ing false hair if they had some of their
own.
At a public "Tea Party" recently held
in one Of our country towns, where "Senti-
ments" were in order, timid bachelor was
bold enough to remind lhe ladies that leap
year was upon them, by offering the follow
ing:
Three long dreary years have waited for this,
Now ifyOun pop the question, III surely say yes.
To which the lady promptly responded as
follows:
May do his own washing, and baking, and sew
ing.
The Memphis appeal tells the following:
Mardi Gras evening about nine or ten
O'Clock masker got in a crowded street
car and pretended to be much exhausted. |
The car was filed with people. The clown |
greeted some one in the car whom he knew, !
though himself unknown. The gentlemen |
asked him how it was he came to GO home |
so early; why not wait for the ball? |
"Well," said the masker, in stage whis- |
per, 81 felt unwell and consulted DR.. |
Brown, and he told me had decided symp- |
toms Of the smallpox" Four bombshells |
and an earthquake! Whewl The ladies |
precipitated thems elves out the door on to |
the pavement without notifying the driver |
to stop, and were scattered sprawlng about |
the streets for fifty yards in the wake of the |
"rolling wagon" When all hands had left |
the car, the clown gave hysteric laugh and /
leaped out also, taking the next car going
the other way, and played the same trick.
An enterprisisg dentist in a neighboring
city advertises: Get your sweetheart new
set of teeth as a birthday present"
One of the Columbus, Ga, cotton factO-
ries has lust made its fourth annual report,
showing profit last year of 500, 900.
An undertaker's office in indianapolis re-
Gently bore this cheering inscription on the
front door: "Gone for dead hanback,
sOOn."
A Texas exchange advertises as follows:
"Wanted, at this Office, an able-bodied,
Manufactured, bad-tempered, nOt-to-be-put-
of, and not-to-be-backed-dO
faced young man to collect for this paper;
must furnish his own horse, saddle-bags,
pistols, whisky, bowie-knife and cow-hide.
We will furnish the accounts. To such we
promise constant and laborious employ
ment." Here is an excellent place for SEN
ator Bayne or some other industrious
young man, who is willing to take "soft
place."
In a clever burlesque of the Jenkins style
of describing weddings, recently published
in the indianapolis NelCS, the brides dress
is described as a white megatherium silk
trimmed with prussic aud blue pompaded
front and lambrequins of the same, lOoped
with Gala lilies fecked by furiginated po-
tassite and mellaned triuere-Imported ex
pressly for her,. Her veil was biased po-
lonoise, trimmed with double futed ruch-
ings surmounted with the wreath of snowy
Some Of the presents were a
set of teeth and an oyster-freezer, from the
brides mother; a gold-lined hash-receiver
and chaste and elegant terrs-cotta jewelry
from the groom; quilt pieced by the donor
when eleven years of age, and package Of
cabbage seed from the BRIDES grandmother,