Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-26
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

The local of the Evansville Courier is
very loud in denouncing the locals OF other
papers on tie exchange list of the Courier
as ''literary pirates" In Thursdays issue
of the Courier we find half-C olumn article
about one Napoleon Bonsparte Joseph
Macmillan Friedland having lost an UNI
brells, quarter of column describing the
robbery of clothing store and q paragraph
OF two tsticks" length warning mothers to
beware of toy balloons, sll Of which were
written by a reporter on this paper, and
were stolen bodily by the Courier man, the
word Evansville" being substituted for
NASHVILLE" wherever necessary in order
to localize the articles.
The San Francisco NeaUs Letter having
occasion to sllude to Joaquin Miller, men
tons him as "the long haired, greasy howl
er of the Serras," and ridicules his attempt
to pass himself off upon the English public
as (ex) head man among the Modocs.
The San Francisco NeIuS Letter is re-
msrkably sensible sheet.
Frank LeSIie'S Illustrated: It is some
thing of feat for young graduate Of tire
New York press to take hold Of an old
established and rather inanimate paper
like the indianapolis Sentinel, and trans
form it into bright, vigorous. enterprising
jo.rnal. This task, however, hiss been &C.
complished by Henry F. Keenan,, who OBJ
tanned his training partly with Robert Car
ter, on the Rochester Democrat, but also
under the able direction of Whitelaw Reid,
Gu the Tribune. The thcroughness of his
training and his unusual journalistic talent
are fully shown by the nature of the work
which MIR. Keenan, has performed.
The present crisis, says communication
in the New York Graphic, is having most
disastrous effect upon the nervous systems
of our ladies. Calling on friend of mine
last evening, / found his wife in Mysteries.
She had just been reading fashion article,
and it was too much for her. 81 told her
at dinner" my friend said, "that she must
make her old buds do this winter. She
bore it like an angel till she took up that
unlucky paper and read description of
some styles at what's-his-name's then she
went into this terrible fit" The poor
woman is, indeed, in a sad condition. She
has no object in life now.
Mothers-in-law are not appreciated at
Spring field, in this State, as they should be.
A resident of that place called at the st.
Louis and Southeastern depot the other
day, with sewing machine, which he
wanted TO ship to Springfield. BE was told
by the agent that it would not be received
unless it were boxed up, and upon finding
that it would cost him seventy-five cents to
have it boxed, replied: "Wel!, won't send
it then. 1t belongs to my mother-in-lsw,
and I'd never get my seventy. five cents
backs The machine is still at the depot.
The chap who endeavored to secure the
position of 'sobituary edidor" on the st.
Louis Republican, of whom mention was
made in these columns a few days since,
has evidently taken a contract to furnish
obituary notices for a number of our Ten
nessee exchanges. The following "sample"
reached this Office yesterday: "Went to
Heaven, at haIf-past 4 O'Clock A. M, Oct.
II, 1873, aged four years, four months and
twenty-four days. OF uncommon beauty
and sprightliness, she was justly the pride
of her parents, and the pet and admiration
of all who knew her. She was here just
long enough to win the love and enjoy the
caress of all around her-just long enough
to learn how sweet, and not show bitter
too" earthly existence is, and then her
bright spirit, shaking off the "mortal coil"
which seemed so little like coil made to
die and be shaken of, passed into glory"