Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-23

And at her small feet kneeling,
| Flinging down her corned beef hash,
I'd breathe my love in accents
| As sweet as damson pie,
While she sat with sausage in her mouth,
Affection in her eye.
Who cares for the head waiter,
! Bearded, and stout, and grim,
When two lovely eyes of hazel
| Are looking down on him?
Her head rests on my shoulder,
| Her words like jelly pass,
Asshe murmurs: "Get papa,s consent,
And some more apple sass!"
The Grand Concert Steinway intended
for Theodore Thomas Orchestral Concerts,
on the LIST and I'd of March, has been
shipped here to James A. Mcclure, the
music dealer on Union street.
An enthusiastic amateur cotton buyer
went in heavy during the late rise, and in
his eagerness to get few more bales to
make up lot, stopped in front of a produce
house, and asked the proprietor what he
would take for them, pointing to two pack
ages, done up handsomely in bagging. 81
will sell those feathers for sixty cents
pound" said the storekeeper. "Feathers!
be hanged said the inexperienced feecy
dealer, 81 thought that was cotton" Since
the decline, he amt been so anxious to pur-
chase.
Miss Louisa Fowler, of rural New York,
has received a $1,000 plaster for her lace
rated heart, from an Ulster county jury.
Mr.. Martin was the breach-ofpromiser.
Miss Dinkelspiel, of Vicksburg, couldn't
live with such a name any longer, and
rushed to the arms oil the matrimonially in
clined Mr.. Gusdoferchen.
Alphonse (who has had an attack of
mother-in-lawG "Parbleu, madam, it is not
l. IL, =, e.
Noni 1t is because she is not an orphan
when she is married to me-"
Our Sulphur Spring is to be opened as
usual during the coming season. 1t has
been leased to j. s. Burk.
We noticed an anxious father yesterday
close cycling his twin children, and trying
/! to tell tother from which.
The boxes for the Edgefield street cars
have arrived, and in a few days, passengers
can have the invitation staring them in the
face "pay your fare here"
A ferocious Georgia negro beheaded his
son in-laW with neatness and dispatch. No
one ventured to axe his reason for so doing.
Only think of nine millions three hundred
! bushels of grain in store and afOat at Chi
cago. What lot of colonels9
An Evansvillian who experienced no In
| q
a mule kick, is thinking seriously of attend
ing Senator Morton s lecture.
The Finance Committee of the Board
! Of Exposition managers were out again yes
! terday, and added S., 1000 more to their sub
scription list. Ten thousand dollars in two
days will do pretty well.
The Leavenworth Times confesses 10
positive liking for Brother Hammond, say
ing: "He is as full of life and activity as
| George Francis Train, as indomita lie as
Andy johnson, and as persistent as a life
| insurance agent. He is firm believer in
the power Of the press, and makes liberal
use of printers ink"
A New York reporter is responsible for
the statement that "Time has delved his
! parallels upon the brow Of Gen. Sigel."
| The old fellow is probably besleging the
! Generals Teutonic nose, and doesn't dare
| to approach it except by parallels. Sigel,
when he perceives the approach of his last
enemy, will doubtless renew his historic in
quiries, "Vere, oh! we're ISIS mine cavalle-
ree?" and "Vy don'd you pring up de
shackasses?"
Bob Eve has had a new and substantial
pavement laid in front of his elegant Eu-
ropean hotel.
An arlnistice now exists between the
Suspension Bridge Company and the
Edgeheld Street Railroad Company, which
expires on the 18th proximo. At that time
hostilities may or may not be renewed. Let
US have peace.
An old negro man won bet yesterday
by climbing the rock post on the corner of
Cherry and Deaderick. Being asked his
age he said: 81 was ten years old when
Gen. Jackson fought" He was treated.
In one ofour churches last Sunday night,
fellow who was awakened by the retiring
congregation, found the following "epetaf7'
pinned to his coat tail:
Sleep, generous one, sleep
With patriots gone before,
While all around you weep
Be careful and don't snore.
A fellow whose head is level on house
keeping, sums up few reasons why some
people are always poor. He says: Cream
is allowed to mould and spoil. Silver
spoons are used TO scrape kettles. The
scrubbing brush is left in the water. Nice
handled knives are thrown into hot water.
Brooms are never hung up, and are soon
spoiled. Dish-cloths are thrown where
mice can destroy them. Tubs and barrels
are left in the sun to dry and fall
apart. Clothes are left on the line
to whip to pieces in the wind. Pie
crust is left to sour instead of making few
tarts for tea. Dried fruit is not taken care
of in. season, and becomes wormy. Vege-
tables are thrown away that would warm
over for breakfast. The cork is left out of
the molasses jug, and the flies take posses
sion. Bits of meat are thrown out that |
would make hashed meat or hash. Coffee,
tea, pepper and spices are left TO stand |
open and lose their strength. Pork spols |
for the want of salt, from floats being on
the top of the brine, and because the brine |
wants scalding.
Capt. Sam Donelson's horse stolen sew
eral nights ago, was found Wednesday
evening near the Sumner county line, where
the thief who rode the animal away had |
left it.
SundoYn, n. H, cheerfully announces
the fact that it is without minister, lawyer
or doctor. The professions would not be |
likely to vegetate in a Shutdown place.
A Poughkeepsie dry goods clerk last !
summer saved from drowning the cook of a |
canal boat. Recently he received letter
from the father of the girl, stating that 'as
We saved the gal she's your'n." Strange to
say, be "don't see it."
81 say, mister, have you got any yaller |
developments ?" asked an old lady from the |
country of city clerk.
"Any what, madam ?" asked the aston
ished clerk.
"DevelopmentS-yaller ones"
81 fail to understand you, madam"
"Why, yew dandified ignorammus, yal-
Ter developments what they dew up letters |
into"
"Oh! EnrelOpes."
The Messoula (Montana) Pioneer for
Dec. 9, was printed on half sheet of wrap
ping paper. The edition consumed all that |
was left in town, and the editor announced |
that the next issue would be printed on
gunny bags unless it stopped showing.
The popular and most fashionable ballad |
now INDUCED in by Georgians commences
thus:
Yes, Wen rally round the bonds, boys, Wen rally
once again,
Shouting the battle cry of steal 'em.
We will rally from the hillside, Wen gather from
the plain,
Shouting the battle cry of steal 'em,
The last sensation novel is entitled, "The |
Poisoned Gum Drop; or the Candy Woman's |
Revenge" 1t won't appear in the Ledger. !
The Atlanta Constitution publishes a
poem, the first stanza of which commences
with this suggestive line: