Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-13

The mistress of the milking pail:
The bold knights of the ringing ak
The heralds of the sounding fail
The ladies of the new mown hay.
The master of the spade and hoe
The MINISTRIES Of the glorious lay,
That all the sons Of freedom know.
And thus while on the seasons roll
He wins from the inspiring sod
The brawny arm and noble soul
That serve his country andhis God.
One of CIR latest and fastest friends,
partaking of little bird supper last night,
saw that some or the birds had been broied
on toast. None of the toast, however, had
reached our friend. He called "a waiter to
him and whispered: My friend, Can't you
bring me little of that creased bread? The
creased bread was brought.
The enterpriSing firm of Adams, Throne
& Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes,
yesterday sold $4,000 worth Of goods to
White 81 Morgan, for Paris, Texas. Nash
vile is now in close connection with the
Lone Star State, and hardly week passes
that we don't hear of some shipment in
that direction.
The Board OF Education, we understand,
will report to the City Council at their
meeting on Thursday next, upon the FEAST
bilty Of introducing the German language
as branch of instruction in the public
schools of the city.
VIM. W. Helm was yesterday appointed
Commissioner of Deeds at Louisville, KY,
for Tennessee.
Geo. Buchanan and Wash. Rutledge, ne
groes, convicted of larceny in Lincoln coun-
ty, we're yesterday quartered at the peniten-
tiary.
a. G. Cambridge, the accomplished
dudnt courier of the Marriott Italian Troupe,
being made to induce the company to give q
sacred concert at the Opera House on Sun
day night.
Gennett & Co. yesterday opened hogs
head of cocoa nuts direct from New
Orleans, and in it were found fifty live rats.
all the dogs in that neighborhood were sum-
moned, (and there are few Of them
and North Windy gave the war whoop,
Twenty-seven rats were in few moments
deceased. Gennett thi, ks that the next
time his New Orleans merchant forwards
packages, it would be better to send few
more cocoa nuts and not so many rats.
An excavation is at present being made
in front of the DR.. Boyd McNairy house,
on Summer street, preparatory to- the erec-
ton Of a business establishment at that
place.
The house building and repairing now
being done in the city, give lively employ
ment to carpenters, brickmasons, and other
workers in behalf of the common good.
Recent events give rise to some apprehen-
sion about mad dogs, and in consequence,
we hear much said as to the surest means
of preventing hydrophobia and its attend
ant horrors.
In temperature and appearance there
was very marked difference between yes
terday and the day before-the first being
cloudy, cold and cherries, and the latter
clear, genial and spring-like.
1t is gratifying to observe that in different
parts of the city sidewalks and fencing are
coming in for liberal share of the spirit Of
reconstruction row being manifested by
the people of the city.
Candidates for county offices are rapidly
increasing. We hear mention made of
several new aspirants for Sheriff, Trustee,
Tailor and other places of public trust.
North Edgefeld is looking up. Mr.. Bush,
the weI-known bricklayer, contemplates
building nine brick houses in that locality
this spring-each house to contain eight
rooms.
The Free Bridge Commissioners have ad-
dressed circular TO all the noted bridge
builders in the country inviting bids for the
proposed free bridge across the Cumber-
land, either of wood or iron. The charac-
teristics Of the superstructure are three
spans of 100 feet each, the width of road
way in clear 20 feet, width Of foot walks in
clear feet, height of floor above bed of
stream 115 feet, load per lineal foot to be
carried 2,240 pounds, with a trestle ap-
proach about 800 feet in length, having an
average height of "a feet. The above to be
a through bridge, having double wooden
food and foot walk on each side outside
the roadway.
From the number of "damns' used on
the Cumberland river yesterday by we'll
known coal merchant, big supply Of coal
from the upper mines may soon be ex-
pected.
The Smiths had a dinner at Pittsburg on
New Years day. The first toast was,
"Pocahontas-Heaven bless her Or saving
the Smiths to this country"
A cynical society man says that he does
not object to keeping the commandment
which tells him to love his neighbor as
himself, provided that neighbor is a woman
and pretty.
A bride in Indiana, after the conclusion
of the marriage ceremony, stepped grace
fully forward, and requested the clergyman
to give out the hymn, This is the way
long have sought"
A Wisconsin editor was called out of bed
one night to receive subscription. After
that he sat up nights for week, but the
offense wasn't repeated.
Caid tinsU br1ohord m hiS JUifa GGEc1t
needn't bl-l-ame me. Twas woman that
first tem-tempted man to eat forbidden
things" "That won't do" retorted the in
dignant wife. "Woman may have first
tempted man to eat forbidden things, but he
took to drinking of his own accord"
At marriage lately in Maine the brides
voice faltered, and she paused in the midst
of the impressive ceremony. Her little
neice, bright little three-year old, thinking
the naughty minister was compelling poor
aunty to say something disagreeable,
stamped her little foot and exclaimed in a
tone of authority, "Auntie, don't 90 thay
it."
The following curious advertisement is
taken from a Paris paper: "Marriages-
Two sisters, very distinguished, of the first
nobility, retired from the world, aged nine
teen and twenty-three respectively, with
fortune of four millions each, desire to be
united to two young gentlemen, not older
than fifty, possessing titles and fortunes.
Address for particulars" etc.
The following was picked up:
Ny eyes with tears are red and dim,
Cause he loves she and loves him;
But they'll be better by and by,
When she cuts him aud he loves l.
The women in town in Illinois have q
society for the prevention of the fair sex
kissing each other at partings. A local edi-
tor supports the movement on the ground
tina, the practice Is a shameful waste of raw
material.
"The tanning of the shrew," as rendered
by Mr.. Thomas Lane, Of Logansport, Ind,
involves the use of hickory club.
A'Chicago fire insurance company ques-
tions its applicants thusly: lido you keep
a COW? 2. Is it a female cow? 3. Is it a
farrow cow? 4. Is it kicking COW? 5.Is
kerosene used in milking?
A Western critic acutely observes that
'tbe same amount of energy and culture
that Wehli layishes upon piano would
wiring the soul of music from a shovel and
tongs, or pair of old fashioned brass mount
ed andirons."