Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-05
gFACTs AND rAxCIEsl


AS entered carriage one day;
'To whom2'' ''A young gentleman" poutng
"Then where is his baggage, 1 pray?'
Her ruby lips opened like rosebuds in spring;
Her face in deep bushes was dyed;
As muttering Grossly, You hateful old thingi
Why, am his baggage" she cried
Another tobacco sale on Thursday next.
Carsey, Son & Co. expect to have fifty
hogsheads under the hammer that day.
The Improvements on the Markethouse
are almost completed.
Candidates for the next August election
are beginning to move around among their
friends. -
The following couplet from Oliver Wen
del Holmes Uurania is to the point:
"And, when you stick on Conversations burrs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful
urs."
Landlady-Why are you yelling so and
keeping every one awake?
Boarder-I am shouting the battle-cry of
feedom.
DR.. Lillard is now manufacturing some
thing extra in the way Of perumery, and
the best of it is, sample bottles given away.
The election for Floater, to fl the vacan-
cy occasioned by the resignation of Hon.
VIM. Moore, takes place next Saturday the
9Th inst.
The almanac informs US thai Springtime
has come, but up to this time Of writing,
that ETHEREAL mldness that poets allude to,
| HASN'T arrived.
"Have you got the Gala1y?" said pur-
chaser to a new clerk in one of our periodi-
cal stores. "No, ma'am, PIN perfectly
well; never had anything but the measles
In my life."
A young Illinois girl used sealing-wax as
a substitute for chewiDg-gum. The Vene-
| tian red la tia wax somehow didn't agree
with ~ -iil, and she only fingered suffi-
cient Tine IL his vale Of tears to see that
her shroud was made according to the latest
mode.
There are rumors ailoat to the effect that
Mr.. Judson,o of this city, having perfected his
flying machine, intends to start from the
roof of q six-story building, and strike out
into ethereal space. If Mr.. Judson will
call at this Office before making the attempt
and leave q short sketch of his life, with a
! synopsis of his last words, and any sugges-
tions which he would like to have injected
into a good obituary Iotice, be will confer a
personal favor.-Er.
The O'Leary cows tail fetches % cent
an inch in New York.
go! there's not in this world happier life
Than to sit by the stOve-ppe and tickle YOU
| wife;
To kiss her warm lips in your moments of glee,
And twist the cats tail when she Jumps on YOU
knee"
The following is che way they call ou
the figure of a ''reel" in Georgia: "Danct
to the gal with the yellow shawl; now dowI
outside and up the middle; turner to you
partner, Isaac Smach, and now to that en-
tire stranger; sachez to the right and left
"a de tan, da du de; now to Peter Schwit
chell's daughter; turn to your partner, ever
one; set to the iaring fill; balance one anC
spin about the girl with the hole in the bee
of her stocking"
A mathematical conundrum: If a poo
lone youth, with a waxed end to his mus
tache, should write a young lady in thi!
city to meet him by moonlight alone, anC
the young lady's old mother should come il
on a tangent and tan the gent until tn
plane of his coat tailformed an angle witt
vertical line, would the hypOthenuse Of thu
community be equal to the sum Of tn
squares described by the young man il
''gittin way from dar?" And if so-how
| Somebody sent the Hon. Roscoe Conk
ling bit Of looking glass for valentine Oh
the 14th inst. Don Iiatt, who was loOkin
at him through an opera glass, says tina
when he opened the envelope, and caugh
sight Of the joke, che looked like disgust
ed owl caught out in daybreak by a blu
jay"
In Mariposa, CAL, there livedIa large-eye
beautiful little prattler-Mary Cannon. On
evening, when all was silent, she looked u
: anxiously into the face of the backsliddeI
father-who bad ceased to pray in hi
family-and said, "Pa, is God dead ?" 'No
my child. Why do Iyou ask me such
question as that p "Why, pa, you neve
talk to Him IS you used to do Thes
! words haunted him until he reclaimed. II
related the incident to one recently travelin
il that circuit.
Henry Ward Beecher says of the "item
column" in the newspapers, that it is wort
more than all the small fry of oOrrespOn
dents, with an editor thrown in to boot
Like q caravan, it stretches along its col
umns with packages and parcels, spices an
games, bits Of fragrance of cunniDgl
, wrought metals, gathered from the who'll
/ world besides. The items of the paper
f: like the stufing of a ThanksSiying-da,
turkey, represent everything in the house
crusts of bread, crackers aud all spices.
, SUICIDE OF MURDERER,-The follow
: ing account of the suicide of johnson, VIII,
murdered Singleton at Shellmound, nea
Chattanooga, is given by the MarengO Oil.
Republican: The Sheriff took a posse 0
, men and started for Mr.. JOhGsOn's resi-
: dence. Arrived there at u o'clock, mid
night, and went boldly into the house. Mr.
, johnson sat a table writing. The Sheril
: confronted him, when Mr.. johnson rose ant
asked, care you after me-" II don't know
what is your name?" John Johnson, Is u,
name" "Then you are the man am after
Il suppose you will let me finish lette
TO my wife, won't yOu?' "Wel, | dom
know, wen see." At this Mr.. johnson
rose, drew his revolver, and stepped bacl
!, through a door, one of the sherif7s mel
following him to the door, also drawing hi
revolver. AS johnson closed the door, Their
was the report of pistol in the room whicl
he had just entered. Not caring to ente
. the room where johnson was, the men sur
rounded the house, and waited till daylight
, when on entering the room, Mr.. johnson
lay on the floor dead, having shot himsel
through the forehead as he backed through
the door, causing instant death.
} Lydia Thompson's raid on the Chicag
| editor has been taken as a model by TIT
ZavistOwski Sisters at Sandhurss, Australia
An editor there revealed the fact that Ia
Wisconsin, was but a stage name, their lega
cognOmen being Murphy; and the offended
misses-they have been misses for many
many years-assailed on the street ant
| thrashed him with their parasols until the
, had satisfied their thirst for gore. Thel
i they settled with the magistrate for break
ing the peace.