Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

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And glOssysthrOated grace, lsolt the Queen.
And when she heard the feet of Trstram grind
The spring stone that scaled about her tower,
Flushd, started, met him at the doors, and there
Belted his body with her white embrace"
The New York Commercial Advertiser
suggests that the authors manuscript must
have been altered by the publishers; for
that the lines, as originally written, were as
follows:
"Down in easement sat,
At low sea-sunset hour, a Thomas cat:
A glossy-throated Tom: the feline Boss
And whe he heaEd the feet of Tabby grind
The garden fence and climb the wooden porch,
Forth from the easement dashed this Tom,
The dorsal bone high curved and firm;
Whereat fierce voice cried, 'Pish! git you!
scat!'
Then quickly got this Tab, likewise this TRom-
as cat"
Futures were more active yesterday, and
numerous contracts were closed at advanced
figures. No time for festivals when there
is chance to buy ON margin.
The sidewalks in front Of the late burnt
district on South Market street have been
cleared of the rubbish, and all the loose
brick from the falling walls are being scrap
ed and piled up in order, preparatory to re-
building.
Evergreens, fruit trees, and plants of va
Tious kinds are beginning to come in freely.
A Savannah negro describes Summers
civil rights bill as a strap to kill fool mig
gers" He delivers himself thus: "You
see, sab, some fool niger will go to the
Pulaski House and jess set himself down
by white man, and de white man will
jess fro dat ar niger out de winder and
broke his neck"
We noticed the arrival yesterday of some
of tho fiulat aattla haua ho
market this season. There is an active
shipping demand at present, and other
cities are getting the benefit of our best
beeTes. Down South they Drag on extra
choice Tennessee beef.
\ very ludicrOus leap year incident Oc-
CURED, we won't say where, few nights
ago. 1t seems that a young bachelor on
retiring at night without first making an
examination of his surroundings, put out
his light and crawled into bed, but to his
surprise soon found that he had bed-fel-
low. He quietly arose, lighted his lamp,
and proceeded to explore the situation.
The first thing that caught his eye was a
snowy night-csp, costly resting upon the
pillow at the back of the bed. He looked
no further, but eXtinguishing the light, he
seized his clothes and beat a hasty re-
LlCdLs JlCSoAAAs, llll11oC4l dllCl SCb-
ting a safe distance from the room, be called
up the man of the house to make inquiry
in regard to the strange occupant of his
room. He could give no information about
it, and called his wife into the council. 1t
was, however, all a mystery to her, and the
landlord in company with his disconnected
boarder concluded to make a tour of obser-
walton. Cautiously they entered the
ha ba1 TNbo
sleeping beauty was undisturbed. In fact
she was resting as quietly as though one
half of the bed was her legitimate property.
The old gentleman in no very amiable
mood reached over, caught her by the Shout
der and rudely dragged her forth. Just
then wild scream of laughter from the ad-
joining room startled the ears of the two
gentlemen, and in fact, the old gentleman
most heartily joined in it. The seeming
woman was only bolster and some pillows,
cunnin9ly arranged and placed there by
some young ladies who were staying at the
house. The young gentleman has con-
Guided that the only way to avoid such
accidents in future is to give some one the
right to occupy the vacant place.
The latest case of ABSENT indedness we |
have heard of recently was that of negro |
boy in Edgefeld, who shut himself up in |
stable and turned the horse out.
The frame buildings on North College |
street, Just below the Square, which were |
Quilted by fire over month ago, are being |
and will soon be ready for oc- |
cupancy.
Secretary Boutwell, is given to billiards.
His capacity for ''draW" is therefore ex-
planned. He is specially successful in his
'draw" from the pockets" he "Eng- |
fishes" with good effect.
A little begar girl, eight years old, in |
Oshkosh, Wis, pursues her avOcation with |
a certificate borrowed for the purpose, which
states that ''the bearer is widow with five
children in destitute circumstance"
Two horses stolen from Gennett's stable |
in South Nashville several nights ago, have
not yet been heard from. On Friday night
a horse was stolen from ]. G. Herman, in |
Edgefeld. A first class case of hanging
might be a valuable lesson to these horse
thieves.
How one negro was Yankeed by another
was more fully explained by the victim yes
terday on South Market street, who was
cursing loud and deep the darkey who sold
him piece of marble for CASTLE soap.
An Englishman has invented new meth
cd of lighting houses with coal oil, being
simply to have an oil tank at the top of the
house, with pipes to convey the non -explo-
sive to all the lamps about the building. 1t
is suggested that one effect of this plan will
be to reduce the number of widows and or
phans, as tbs whole family would go togeth-
er in case of an explosion.
During 1871 there were seventy-six
horses in this country that tIO.ted their mile
in 2:30 or less.
A detachment of the 9th U. S. cavalry,
sent to Huntsville, Ala, several weeks ago,
returned to the city yesterday.
An inhabitant of Wilsonburg, West Vir-
ginia, wrote to the City Clerk at Cincinnati
to see if that official knew a man who
would give two gallons of good whisky for
six bushels of chestnuts.
The town Of Londonderry, n. H, holds
It's charter on the condition of giving the
Governor of the State peck of potatoes
every year, and pays the penalty of its cor
porate existence regularly.
The poet laureate Of the Bowling Green
(Ky.) Paragraph writes ofthe noble young
Louisville lady who refused to accompany
Alexis to Mammoth Cave:
Hurrah! for Miss Morton, the Louisville girl.
Who refused the Grand Duke the tip of her curl,
And felt that her hand, in love or IN barter,
Should never be claimed by Calmuc or Tartar;
That her exquisite face and unequaled person
Should never be worshipped at Moscow or Kher-
son,
Let the Grand Duke look out to soothe his young
dawn
For COburg or something akin to Dutch Drawn,
Or P uritan ready to swap for a dollar
Her shoddy-decked carcass, from shOe-tie to
collar. It T.
A true Southern girl is above, not benedfk, ~.
A MuscOvite Prince on her own native heath.