Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The London Spectator, short time after
the death of ''Artemus Ward" published
the following verses in memory of the
humorist, who, more than any other, had
captivated the English people. They have
been but recently published in this country
Is he gone TO the land of no laughter,
The man that made mirth for us all;
Proves death but a silence hereafter
From the sounds that delight OF appal?
Once closed have the eyes ne more duty,
No more pleasure the exquisite ears;
Has the heart done O'erfowing with beauty
AS the eyes have with tears?
Nay, if aught can be sure, what is suTer,
Than that earth's good decays not with earth?
And Of all the heart-springs none are purer
Than the springs of the mountain of mirth.
He that sounds them has pierced the hearts
hollows,
For the foam-1akes that dance in life's shadows
Are wrung from life's deep.
He came with heart full Of giadness
From the glad-hearted world of the West,
Won our laughter, but not with mere madness
Spake and jOked with us, not in mere Jest;
For the man in our heart fingered after
When the merriment died from our ears,
And those who were lOudest in laughter
Are silent in tears.
The weather yesterday was as lovely as a
poets dream.
A number of law volumes for the State
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st. Louis.
Leap frog, with hop, skip and jump was
fearlessly INDUCED in yesterday by a party
of young men in South Nashville.
At a ColCred school in one of the rural
districts, the teacher has base drum to call
his pupils to order. One of the little amend
ments who took a seat on that drum the
other day fell through, and that school for a
few moments was in terrible uproar.
IG is said that Weston has applied for a
divorce in an Iowa court. A man who can
walk as fast and far as Weston, ought to be
able to get away from his wife without a
divorce.
A handsome front is the latest attraction
at DOrtch 81 Haddox's drug store. When
the improvements are completed, that popu-
lar corner will be much beautified.
The New York Citizen has put on a new
theatrical critic, who thus begins notice of
the 'Black Crook" "Where now is the
erst-while glad frondescence Of your garish
grottOes, the fanlmivomoUs effulgence of
your Hades, the fuYiatic mockery of your
copper-bottOmed lakes, the imperIneable
cotton of your oscilating foam, or the foe
culent dorescence of your glowing muslin
roses? and where, indeed, the horrors of
your delirious vastly deep, the splendor of
your apOplectic rainbow, the diaphonous
abundance of your tisSue-paper skies, the
illecebrOus Meditation of your willOWy pros
trate vestals on their messy banks of baize?"
There has been no response to these inter-
rogatOries-even echo is knocked speech
less.
The Edgefeld street cars were crowded
every trip yesterday. The attempt to crush
out this enterprise has created sympathy
among the Nashville ladies, who went over
in force to enjoy the pleasant ride, and also
help to swell receipts, and thus aid in pay
ing such law suits as may arise.
The Connecticut Republicans want to
give their Jewell another Setting" Better
metal we think, could be substituted.
John P. Wall was commissioned yester-
day Justice of the Peace for the seventh
district of Decatur county.
A New York man has been attacked by
elephdntjGSiS, or swelling of the system. At
each of his regular meals he consumes l
pound of beef, half dozen potatoes and a
quart of soup. The physician who is en-
deavOring to save him allows him, besides
his regular meals, 6 ounces of whisky, 4
eggs, "a oysters, quarts of milk, pound
of beef, quarts of beef soup, half pound
of crackers, quart of rice, and some Cruel.
The poor wretch has already attained a
weight of 500 pounds, and is rapidly ex-
panding.
r. T. A. Macy, the Edgefeld artist, has
just finished portrait of little Macy Car
ter, which for expression and artistic finish,
would do credit TO a master hand. His
talent if cultivated will make him one Of
the first artists of the period,
A Buchanan, Mich, girl is the first on
record to take advantage ofleap-year. She
proposed to a beautiful dry-gOods clerk and
offered to defray all expenses, but the young
man referred her to his father, who declined
the honor of her alliance.
One of the Battle House porters was so
badly frightened by pair of deer horns
yesterday that he had congestive chill,
somewhat on She order of buck ague.
An Arkansas paper publishes the follow
ing notice: Persons wishing to have their
marriage or obituary inserted, will please
hand in.
Littleberry Crews, of Marion county,
KY, recently died at the advanced age of
95 years. Truly his cru's3 on this earth has
been protracted one.
"Never mind the obituary, Judge" said
a Montana culprit when the court became
patheGc in pronouncing the sentence.
'Let's fix the time for the funeral"
female Justice Ofthe Peace in Wyoming
has kept herself in pin money for some time
past by filming her husband in her official
capacity whenever he committed domes-
tic contempt Of court,