Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-02
POLICE p1ckrSGs.

At a late hour Friday night, belated
pedestrians on Market street might have
witnessed beautiful exhibition of mans
gallantry and woman's helplessness and
trusting confidence in the sterner sex. 4
man might have been seen slowly vending
his way from the corner of Church along
Market to the Police station. He trundled
a neat wheelbarrow in front of him, and In
that wheelbarrow .reclined a bundle of
female loveliness whom the angels call
Sallie Pucket-that is when they have
occasion to call her anything.
The individual who commanded the
vehicle, and who, ever and anon,
was observed to bring the procession to
halt and step aside in order to soliloquise,
was officer Vaughn. He had discovered
Sallie quietly snoozing at the corner of
Church and Market, and knowing that she
was en- route for the police station, had, in
the rugged generosity Of his nature,
conceived plan for saving the
sleeping beauty unnecessary eXer-
ton, and it-was in pursuance of this plan
that he was seen slowly wheeling Sallie up
the hill toward the police station. Miss
Pickett had an appointment to meet Judge
Duling at his rendezvous yesterday MORN
ing, but probably oXerslept herself, as she
was not at the place designated at the ap-
pointed hour.
Leander Woods explained the matter III
this way: He had married the sister of
Ben Bolt, which is the first intimatidn the
public has had that Ben Bolt had a sister.
Mr.. Woods, his wife, and his wife's. brother
all live together, and Mr.. Woods was in
formed by his wife's brother, the Ben afore-
said, that he had paid the water tax. Mr..
Woods had no reason to suspect that his
wife's brother was lying to him, and so he
used water from the city's hydrant, with the
utmost liberality. He watered his mule
with it; his clothes were washed in it; on
rare occasions he washed his hands and
face with it, and he has even gone so far as
to drink little of it once in a while, but
this occurred only at such times as he was
unable to secure cheap whisky-a fluid
with which he is more familiar, as a bev-
erage, than with water. For a year Mr..
Woods rested in fancied security, and he
then discovered that his wife's brother had
been laboring iiIruei' Il misannrehensiOn-
he had not paid the water tax. When the
true state Of affairs became known, and a
police officer notified Mr.. Woods that Judge
Duling wished to see him, Mr.. Woods was
astculided, he was surprised, ne was
amazed, he was aStOnished-at least he said
he was. But Leander is an ''Artful
DOdger." Leander breaches occasionally,
Leander drinks frequently, and Leander
tallies forth ever and anon with a long
black coat and very solemn face, and tells
sad story about a poor destitute family,
with dead child in the house and 10
money to deffay funeral expenses. And
then the tender hearted and benevolent
listener to this pitiful tale drops quarter
into the outstretched hands of Leander, and
turns silently away with tear slowly me-
andering down his nose. And then Lean
der also turns silently away,
but without any tear meandering
down his nose, and in five minutes there
after Leander is leaning across the counter
OF some favOrite gin mill, remarking that
he'll take ''the same as before" 1t may be
that Lenders story about his wife's broth
er having stated that he had paid the wa
ter tax, is made out of the same material
as his depressing and gloomy romance
about the dead child. However, he has
promised to square up the water tax bust
ness tomorrow.
His name is Moses White and he does
not treat his wife in as afiactionate and /
considerable a manner as he should. lie
is not cruel, or rude to her, but he is incon-
siderate-he is certainly inconsiderate.
For instance: While Mrs. White was bus
lily engaged cooking breakfast Friday morn
inc. the young Whites amused themselves
by breaking the panes of glass in the win
dows-which was highly improper conduct
on the part Of the young Whites. Moses
heard the racket, and with stern determine
ton upon his brow and peach-tree switch
in his right hand, he reached for those olive
branches and administered a little good
advice. Mrs. White thought he whipped
the youngsters to an unreasonable
extent, and she ventured to expOstulate
with him in that regard, whereupOn Muses.
turned upon her and sadly, but firmly kick
ed her few times, struck her in the face
with his switch, slapped her jaws, kicked
over her ironing table, threw a dipper at
her head, up set half dozen clairs-in
short he gave her to understand that he was
greatly glieved at her interference with his
carrying into effect the Bible injunction to
Train up a child in the way he should CO."
The judge said he thought fine of ten
dollars would be about right, but at the
earnest untreaty Of the wife, Moses was al
lowed to slide for this time, on his solemn
promise that he won't never do so no
more .....'