Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-06
PIcKINGs AND sTEALINGs.

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81 Lava bed bulletins fad quick Iespons-
es in the red mans breast. u 4
. The Chicago newsboys own corner
lot in the heart of the city.
Fish thinks the Vienna commissioners
played scaly trick on him, anyway.
Indiana COW thieves are accused OF
taking stock and then denying It.
Sailor boarding houses in New York
catch not Jolly tars, but the other kind.
"A Cleveland court is frittering away its
time over the ownership OF a griddie,
Montana has had wooden wedding,
at which everybody was knocked down
with club. 11D -.' sasI3 q
"A New York restaurateur plumes him
self on sauces to suit the complexion.
Kentucky farmers will quit raising
hemp if there isn't better demand for it
before long. t9- d 3s3
is Won Moltke shocked sensitive Amer
lean at Bancroft's banquet by drawing out
bandsnns and giving a sneeze that tipped
over bis coffee. g.
Omaha editors are given to poetical
ways OF putting things. They call loafer
''promiscuous and variegated vagrant "
A little lady in Schenectady recently
sent word to her aged p. In New York that
she must be excused from writing longer
letter. She had spent very restless night
with her sick doll.
An Iowa editor has q | tier from sub
scriber who says: 81 don't want your pa
per any longer" The editor says this is 70
be regretted, as be had arranged to make
the paper about six inches longer in a few
weeks.
"A Vermont family living in retired
read that had been blocked with sOow for
several weeks, were recently found to have
been keeping Monday for the Sabbath.
"A Florida alderman sold his vote for
an oroide chain and circus ticket, and his
friends pitch into him for not asking for
jackknife in addition.
In cleaning up for the Centennial some
Philadelphian has come across an old silver
watch of the bulls eye pattern, and labelled
"Ben Franklin, l776." AS a tiue keeper it
isn't worth led, but as a relic it has been
put in glass case.
"A "charm doctor' died lately in Buffalo.
and horseshoe, stuffed frog, filbert nut
and an English shilling, all folded, together
in cotton cloth, were found suspended about
his neck. He was honest enough to believe
in his own medicines, at any rate.
"A New York young lady was recently
struck with the uselessneSs of her life, and
| Immediately went to work with vigOr to
learn plain sewing. At latest dates she had
hemmed one side Of towel, which the
| proud parents have framed and hung in a
conspicuous position.
"A COW of unblemished reputation
meandered into the Baltimore lookup the
other day, and getting frightened ran into
one of the cells. The apartment was so
narrow that it took something more power
full than habeas corpus to draw her out.
Here is a new story of Charles Dick
ems: An Oxford undergraduate, with the
natural modesty of the ace, send to the ed
itor of Household Words, at the end of the
Crime&n war, copy of verees on the re-
turn of the Guards, with this note: "ST:
! Understanding that you insert rhymes in
your serial, send you some" To which
| Dickens answered: "Sir: We don't insert
| rhymes without reason"
| The Scientific gentleman who, every
spring resurrects single toad from his bed
of solid rock, will have to take back seat
now, for at Concord, N. H, a man digging
up an old fence post, the other day, dis
covered a colony of 142 toads snugly
slowed away at the bottom Of the hole.
| He does not include in his count one old
toad that was thin and rheumatic.
"A Greenville Is. CO. doctor fights cere-
bro spinal meningitis in this way: He
battles the spine with spirits Of turpentine,
and then passes over it q well-heated
smoothing.iro for fifteen minutes. At the
same time he gives qUinine in heroic doses,
each followed by heroic dose Of bromide
of potassium, combined in solution with an
| ordinary dose of solid extracts of hyoscy-
| anus. He throws in at the same time
great doses of calomel Wouldn't his pa
tents "larrup" him if they should recover:
But they don't, and that's what saves him
Tennessee Coal and Railroad Go.
A meeting of the stockholders of this
fourishng organization was held in this city
yesterday for the purpose Of electing a
board Of directors and other officers, which
resulted in the election Of a. S. Colyar,
President; NJ. A. McClaugherty, Vice-Presi
dent; James G. Warner, General Manager;
and Messrs. A. S. Colyar, w. II. Evans, E.
L. Colyar, G. L. Lewis, f. A. Shepard, A.
NJ. Rutledge, NJ. A 5McClsugheTty, Sam
Cowan, and W. G. Erwin, Directors.
A very interesting report, showing the
present condition of the company and its
future prospects, was presented " the
President, accompanied by very carefully
prepared report from the General Manager,
Mr.. Warner,
We quote from the PGesident'S report:
''By giving this company the benefit of
its oKa earnings for few years, its dura-
ton will be ag LISTING as the hills Of coal
from which it draws its supplies, and ITS
| dividends will be as certain as the return of
the seasons.
Il submit that, having increased our
transportation by building and purchasing
! cars and locomotives, and having replaced
our worn rails by new ones, and having
| bought in fifty thousand dollars OF our own
| stock, in striking contrast 20 the practice of
| watering stock, is more substantial, if not
more attractive than dividends. The cap.
1 ital stock now being reduced to $3.50, 900,
which is less than half the value of the
| property.
Our coal has come into general use aud
is quite popular as a gate coal, but as coal
| for manufacturing and making steam, it
! has no superior. For coke making, which
must soon come to be sn immense bue-
ness, it is Goubiful if even the famous Con-
melville coal surpasses it.
1t is clearly the interest of our company
to prepare at once for making blast furnace
coke, as the day is pyoba ,ly near at hand
when the demand for it will be equal to The
demand for coal. If it shall turn out that
our coal will make frst-rate article of
blast furnace cote, the whole South and
West will be our market.
So intimately connected With the coal
trade in Tennessee is the development Cf
our immense resources Of iron, and the
field is so inviting at this time, and the two
are so dependent, one upon the other, so
helpless alone, and so strong united, that it
will doubtless be our interest that portion
of our profits in the future shall be employ
ed III developing the iron Of Tennessee"
a Complicated Case.