Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-13
PARAGRAPHICAL.

A Nashville young man yesterday pur-
chased stencil plate of such huge dimen-
sions that if he ever goes into business it
will not be necessary for him TO purchase
sign-he can Just mark enc of bis socks
and fling it 10 the free breezes of heaven.
A colored janiter in this city took great
pleasure in informing his employer yester-
day morning, that the cholera in our city
had "de-bated," and that citizens of Nash
vile will beginning to return,
There is an exhibition Of CAIN, delibers-
tive thouehtfulness I'm 'er circum stances
peculiarly trying and frustrating, in the fol-
lowing paragraph, which is really refresh
ing: ''AmoDg the memoranda of young
man who was recently married, were these:
sThings to be done this afternoon, before
the wedding: Get some keys to tit Vaiise;
engage carrisge for train; get license to
marry; get shaved and hair trimmed a lit
tie; sew button on blsck breeches and get
pair of suspenders; buy bottle OF perfum-
ery; be sure to wash feet well.' F" @
Some of the Western papers speak Of
Cyrus Mccormick, the inventor of the eel
ebrated reaper, as the Farmers benetac-
tor" The Boston Globe thinks, in his re-
morseless zeal to help the poor farmers, be
really forgets himself. Aud this is the way
he does il: The original cost Of one of his
best made reapers, according to his own
testimony, is less than $50. The retail
price is 5000. The threshing machine of
which he holds monopoly costs less than
500, and sells for 500. The benefactor
of the agricultural race in his headlong race
to benefit his fellow creatures, should re-
member that he owes duty to his family
as well, and that common prudence would
dictate laying up something for rainy
day.-St. Louis Dispatch.
Old "Judge" B. of Santa Cruz, Califor-
mis-, was one of tho oldest of the many Cd
diies seen in early days in that wonderful
State. From early manhood to its prime
he wandered over the wilds of the Rocky
Mountain, trapping and hunting till lie
brought up in California, shortly before the
occupancy of that country by the United
States forees-making precarious living
by hunting and tanning the skins OF his
game. "Msny time," said be, shave l
gone bare till could tan buck skin to
make me a suit Of clothes, and oftener have
packed elk skins fifty miles to little trad
iug port, where Stockton now stands, to sell
them for dollar apiece, to buy me ammu-
milton and groceries" About the time
Col. Bennett Riley was Governor, cid b
located at Santa Cruz, when being able to
read and write, and possessed OF good
"horSe sense" he was elected Alcalde, O.
Justice of the Peace, which office he held
to the satisfaction of himself and the COM
munity over which he exercised jurisdiction,
till the catastrophe which brought his
judicial career to q close, and which he des
cribed in this way: swell, the windin' up
NV nv Alcadeship was this. e half-hreed
Vauuero thar in Santa Cruz tuck 1t into bis
head to Git jealous of his wife, and so he
went off and got rippin' drunk on aqua ar
diente-come home, tied up his woman to
the bed-post by the hair of her head, and
lust naturally whipped the life out of her
with his raw-hide lariat. Next morning
some of the neighbCrs come in and found
the greaser in bed, the bloody lariat in his
hand, and the poor "muger" dead as q
skinned elk. SO they fetched Mister Va
uuero up before me, with all the witnesses,
and after hearin' the case patiently, found
him guilty ana sentenced him to be taken
out into the Plaza and shot, which was
done accordingly. Then, to do things up
squar', | sot down and wrote letter
to old Ben Riley-military guV'nor, you
klOW-duu LOku ulDl LIS NuOlo St1G0 VI Llo
case AID submitted it for his approval. In
about ten days got an answer back, just
eivin' me HI, saying | was only justice
of the peace and hadn't no jurisdiction in
capital cases nohow; that the man should
ha' Teen tried before regular court and
Jury and the sentence sent to him for ap-
prevail before it was executed, and whole
raft of truck of that kind; and windin' up
by saying be should deprive me Of my com
mission of alcalde. Well, you bet wasn't
goin' to be backed down that way, so up
and wrote him agin; told him the greaser
was tuck red handed in the act; that | de-
cided the case on ''principles of nat'ral JUS
tice," and be got just what he deservedi
thai il justice of the peace wasn't to keep
peace in bis district I'd like to know what
he was thar for; and as TO his taking away
nv commission of alcalde, l didn't want it
nohow, and be might take it and be id.
And do you believe it, he never answered
my letter."