Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-21
FACTS AND rAxCrEs.

There Is many rose In the road Of Life,
If we would only stop to take II;
And many tone from the better land,
If the querulous heart would make it;
To the sunny soul that's full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust meier faileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the winter storm prevalent.
There is many gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweled crown, :
Or the miser's boarded treasure;
1t may be the love Of little child,
Or mothers prayer to heaven,
Or only beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup Of water given
Another beautiful day was yesterday,
which was balmy and spring-like.
Robberies are becoming plentiful. There
has been an average Of two or three each
night for week or more.
The additions to the Exposition Building
are to be commenced Immediately.
Martin King from Lincoln county had his
wagon, four horses and four barrels of
whisky seized by United States Revenue
official last week, fifteen miles below Hunts
vile, Ala.
One of the last words introduced promi-
nently to the public is "adumbrating" 1t
Is defined to mean the esindiYidualism of
preliminary and precipituous prognostica-
ton, as eliminated in irrefragibility of never
flinching and never-to-y ield-an-inch discom-
federation of spontaneous combustion,
whether or not, and eYincing antediluvian
indivisibilities, contemporaneously elucidat-
ed by unregenerating consanguinity when
sycoeloyhantical and scintillating approx
mately to scientific elaboration"
The sheriff of Robertson county yester-
day brought to this city Cato Mathis, color
ed, and Hughey Head, recently sentenced
to three and ten years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, the first for larceny and the
second for horse stealing.
We once heard of an artist who painted
a cannon SO naturally that it went off at a
very low price.
A Newark bride prepared, as her wedding
cake, composition that required two hum
bred and eighty eggs. It must have re-
quired eggs-traerdinary work for the hens IN
her neighborhood to fill the order.
Clevelanders are making merry over an
old COW, sprinkled with assafGtida and
labelled, buffalo meat killed by Alexis"
a gentleman in South Nashville yester-
day undertook to carry a baby-Wagon 20
the residence of neigbor who had left it
in his store. He was pursued by Billy,
lobe, and pack Of jolly fellows, causing
them to double quick. The result was to
frighten the family almost to death at this
strange conduct and cause young lady to
step into mud hole and lose her water
fall.
A butcher in Iowa puts a gold dollar in
every fifty pounds of his sausage meat. 1t
isn't the first time we have heard of cur
rency in sausages.
A very enterprising young lady in St.
Louis managed to get engaged to eight diff
ferent men within twenty-four hours, and
told them all to come at the same time the
next day to get her fathers consent. They
did so, and the scene which ensued can
hardly be described. The lady in the
meantime had left the State.
The Superintendent of the Davidson
County Public Schools had his horse stolen
on Monday night last.
A Kansas editor who attempted to ac-
company the Grand Duke Alexis, having
been unceremoniously put off the train, a
brother scribe embodied the moral of the
discreditable affair as follows:
"Iu fares the land, to Fastening ills prey,
Where members of the press are snubbed away.
Grand Dukes and Lords may flourish or may
fade,
A breath can make them as a breath has made:
But bold editor, his country'S pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied"