Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-23


day to demand the attention of Recorder
Halle. The ofienses were most generally o
the milder grade and no very heavy penal
ties had to be inflicted.
| Ed Woods, who endeavored to get pos
session of Capt. Stockells horse with bi
of spurious Writing, is working out fine o
$50 for the forgery committed.
"A Louisville (Ky.) paper Of a recen
date says: Among the importation
through the Customhouse in this city, tn,
firm of Messrs. Ed. Peynado & Co. hav'
imported from Havana $4,000 cigars within
the last thirty days.
We hope to see some Of them down her,
in few days.
Frank Dowd, connected for the pas
five years with the Nashville Transfe
Company, has accepted a situation il
Huntsville, Ala, for which place he leave
to-day.
A gentleman sleeping not THOUSAND
miles from the Nashville Postofice, wa
aroused night before last by noise like tina
of Ku-Klux breaking down the door. Ate
arming himself with pistol and shouting
thieves, burglars, murderers, etc, until the
! Ku-KluX were heard to move away, tn,
hero of nocturnal dangers opened the door
| A billy-goat saluted him and thereby put al
end to Lis fears. He must have beer
drinking buck beer.
The jail physician expresses the opin
ion that Bill. Smith will soon get the bettel
of the wounds inflicted in effecting his cap
! ture.
-Droves of very fine cattle coming from
the upper counties have arrived here with
in the past few days. In consequence the
butchers stalls are blooming like roses in
the display of fine meats.
Preparations for the temporary emf.
grafton Of some of our citizens to Cincin-
natl are actively proceeding. Billed shirts
and carpet bags are in good demand.
An amiable friend of ours who believes
in keeping up with the times, is the father
of beautiful twin girls, just now a week old.
He has named one of them Dolly Warden.
What name shall be given the other is left
discretionary with committee of discreet
ladies.
The two following gentlemen were
commissioned Magistrates yesterday: Mar
tin Cooke, Third District of Union county,
and Noah Jenkins, Second District of
Macon county.
The festival for the benefit of the Cen
tral Baptist Church commences tonight.
Flowers, music and good things, besides
young ladies and pleasant matrons, consti-
tute the programme for the evenings enter
tainment.
His Excellency, Gov. John c. Brown,
yesterday received an invitation to the Bos-
ton Musical Peace Jubilee, which COM
mences in June. The Inequalities OF the
city have been extended, and we judge
grand preparations are being made.
Father Ryan has been invited, by the
ladies Of GIeenyille, Ala, to deliver an adj
dress in that city on the occasion Of decor
ating the soldiers graves.
-Au old gentleman of 81, having taken
to the altar damsel of about 16, the cler-
gyman said to him, "The font is at the
other end of the church." ''What do
want with the fOnt?" said the old gentle
man. "Oh! L beg your PARDON" said the
clerical wit: 81 thought you had brought
this child to be christened."
Why does q widow feel her bereaVe-
ment less when she wears corsets? Because
then she's sOlaced.
"A San Francisco pair who attempted to
be married on tug-bOat on the DAY, were
SO seasick that they were forced to go
through their ceremony on their knees.
Old Hicks was an awful snorer. He
could be heard farther than a blacksmith's
forge, bub his wifs became so accustomed
to it that it sOOthed her repOse, They were
a very domestic couple-never slept apart
for many years. At length the old man
was required to attend court at some dis
lance. The first night after his departure
his wife never slept a wink. The second
night passed away in the same manner
without sieep, She was getting into very
bad way, and probably would have died,
had it not been for the ingenuity of a SER
want girl. She took the coffee mill into her
mistress chamber, and ground her to sleep
at once!
There is something quaint, but with
look Of manufacture about it, of the follow
ing inscription on atOmbstone:
"Here lies the remains OF Thomas Woodhen,
The most amiablo Of husbands and excellent of
men.
N. Bills real name was woodeock, but it
wouldn't come in rhyme.-HtS WidOw."
1t was an Irishman who wanted to find
a place where there was no death, that he
might go and end his days there. 1t was
an Irish editor that exclaimed, when speak
lily VI LltC NlOllEo VI llCldllOs 'IlGI cup VI
misery has been for ages overlooking, and
is not yet full :" 1t was an Irish neWspa-
per that said Of Robespierre that "He left
no children behind him except a brother,
who was killed at the same time" 1t was
ali Irish coroner who, when asked how he
accounted for an extraordinary mortality in
Limerick, replied, sadly, 81 cannot tell.
There are people dying this year that never
l |, l,E
announced, With boundless liberalty, in
reference to a great political demonstration
in the ROtunda, that "Ladies, without dis
tinction Of sex, would be welcome"
The following sonnet commentaries
q "dream" or ideal kiss, Of the unknown
rosebud order:
1 dreamed last night little girl,
One not quite twelve years old,
Whose raven hairs inclined to curl,
Whose manners are not bold,
Come, with her girlish fears distressed,
So she could scarcely speak,
And graspcd my hands, and gently pressed,
tIer lips upon my check
Bright girlhoods love- like violet sweet,
FAR as anemOne,
None other with il can compete,
Or homage claim from me
Time from this heart shall ne'er dispel
Its influence, rOguish little belle.
Very nice indeed! The next is better
written than told. The point of kiss-poet-
~ should be in the kiss itself not in a
quarrel. The first verse is as excellent as
the second is common place:
Dear girl don't pout when thou art kissed
Oh, yes, pray do, for when thou meetest
NV lips with thine, in natures wav.
IT'S then L think the kiss is sweetest!
But if thou'st angry with me, love,
beg, don't scratch my cheeks or strike them,
And when nv kisses are not sweet,
Return them, if thou dost not like them.
The following is Illustrative of a con-
scientious" kiss: AS the coach was about
to leave the village inn, a modest limb of
the law approached the landlady, pretty
Quakeress, who was near the fire, and said
he could not think Of going without giving
her a kiss. "Friend, thee must not do it."
said she. ooh, by heaven, will, /" said the
young lawyer, "Well, friend, as thee hast
s worn, thee may do it, but thee must not
make a practice Of it,"