Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-09

He sat himself down at 8 table,,
= And crowded for bottle OF wlnei
Tn came with flask ano q eorkscfe",
A maiden Of beauty divine.
Then seized with deep love-longing,
Ne uttered, 80 dam0sen miney A
Snnnose YOU Just give few kisses
IA the yalorous Ritter Won Stein"
Bnt She answered, 'sThe kissing business
49, Is-eutirey out Of my line;
And / certainly will not begin 1t
on a countenance ugly as thine.'
oh. then the bold knight was angry,
And he cursed both coarse and hnei
And asked, Chow much is the swindie
For you and your nasty wineY"
And fercely he rode to the castle,
And sat himself down to dine;
And this Is the terrible legend
OF the terrible Heinz Won Stein.
We had in this locality yesterday con-
siderable amount of rain, accompanied
with lightning and thunder.
The Board of Free Bridge Commission
ers has been organized by the election OF
w. p. Marks, President, and j. n. Brooks,
Secretary.
The election for floaterial representative
to I'm the vacancy oecasioned by the resig-
nation of Hon. Vim. Moore, takes place to-
day.
A wooden sbanty on South Cherry street
near the Deluge Fire Company's Hall
caught FIRE Thursday evening, burning up
bed and lot OF clothing belonging to the oc-
cupants, who were colOred people.
Yesterday evening a cow fell dead on Lin
coin alley, between Cherry and Summer
streets.
James D. Cunningham, fourth district,
and B. F. Chafin, twelfth district OF Jack
son county; E. r. Baber, eighth district,
John l. Spence aud w. G.. Morris, ninth
district of Decatur county; were commits
stoned Justices of the Peace yesterday.
The Governor yesterday commissioned
w. c. Bishop, Columbus, Miss, Commits
sioDer of Deeds for the State OF Tennes-
see.
One of our cotton factors yesterday found
stored In his cellar several thousand old time
"Henry CLAW" brand of cigars which he had
! deposited there previous to the war, and
! had forgotten all about until resurrected.
He says they go off better than the present
! high-taxed cigars.
The distinguished DR.. Jeuner has the
credit of the following epigram, which he
sent accompanied by brace OF ducks, 10
one of his patients:
| give dispatched, my dear madam, this scrap OIL
n
To saw that Miss B is very much better;
A regular doctor no longer she lacks,
| And therefore I've sent her q couple of quackf"
at a warehouse in Macon, Ga., recently,
when a bale Of cotton was being sampled,
the gimlet was drawn out and, instead OF
cotton, an old wool hat was attached to IT,
The sampler stood and bored some time,
heping to reach the African who had 1t on,
but at last accounts had not ''struck ile."
The accomplished editor of the Franklin
Herald assures US that "no jeeTing skeleton
moclzs him from the battlsments Of melan'
choly's lofty peak" We are sincerely re
joiced to hear it.
The shawl of the period is an abomina
ton, says distinguished fashion writer. Il
looks like rolled out and fattened barber
pole, and as if its encrmity required heighten
ing: thetasteless wearer must hang it straight
/ across her shoulders. The peppermint
CANDY stripes meandering slantingdicularlI
from her off hip to her nigh shoulde
wouldn't be quite so uncompromisingl.
uglv. But no-4-in level bars of hidcous re-
and blue, they parade those diabolical wrap
till nv hair stands up at the sight.
The local editor of the Mobile RegtSte
bashfnlly chronicles the fact that while sit
ting abalt of lady whose dress was some
. what disarranged, be had his attention at
tracted to her Hbustle." and, being blesser
: with strong optics, was enabled TO rea
nearly the whole Of double-leaded edito! ia
thereon.
French dressmakers say that an America
r customer is worth more TO them than thre
, of their own countTymen.
Open air and cold water are recommend
ed by a celebrated physician as the best cos
metics for the complexion.
"How did you learn that graceful att
tude 81 asked gentleman ola fellow lean
5 ing in a maudling way against post. 'l'v
, been practicing at the glass" was the reply
Forty years ago a blooming young girl c
e l6 married an old man Of go for his money
j expecting that be would soon die and leaV
s her a wealthy young wife. Last week tn
lady died at the respectable age Of 90, lea'
e ing husband aged 100, and four childre
l. TO mourn her toss. That is what might b
called poetical retributisn.
Every fourth year is set apart as beln;
= peculisrly the woman's year, because SD
has one more day TO talk than any other.
The trotter "ChaIiey," belonging to Gov
: Stanford, of California, bids fair to give III
Eastern brethren a lively turn one OF thes
I DAYS. His last mile was made in 2:lS3.
e Boswell once asked johnson If there wer
!, no possible circumstances under which SUI
J, eide would be Unsuitable. mo-" was tn
d reply. "WelI," said Boswell, suppose
e man has been guilty Of fraud, that he wa
S certain would be found out" "Why, then,
I said johnson, Gin that case let him so t.
r some country where he is not known, an
not to the devil, where he is known
7 The following familiar quotation IS frol
a Scott's Lady of the Lake:
); osCome as the winds come, when
L Forests are rended,
=, I Come as the waves come, ynen
Navies are stranded"
y The following ''pome" was wr1ttenby "
d T. Brooks, of Anderson county, now col
), fined in the. Knox county Jail, charged wit
y killing Capt. Reagle:
"a In the walls Of this cold prison cell lay,
, Waiting for the ninth day OF March TO SO ava
Then to Clinton must 60,
n To meet my frieEGS in grief ana woe.
. Nv wife and children thea atll come
u To see what with me viii be done.
!, On March tho eleventh day,
e Judge Hall will say, from the Jail bring BroO
/, away,
The Sheriff then to the jail viii come with pisto
4 in his hand
s And of the Tailor me demand,
n Then at the courthouse l next am found
i, With friends thousand standing round,
\ Waiting TO hear the sentence past
d That / shall leave the prison walls at last
It A little daughter of J. w. Hogan, livir
t on South Summer street, yesterday, fell c