Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-22

Appeal, presents the following as the result
of his observations: sis sometimes happens
that the pretty girl across the street forgets,
when she would seek repose for ttfe night,
to close the blinds. We could not refrain,
under the embarrassing circumstances,
from saying:
We cannot doubt that you are fair,
And young and very sweet;
We've seen you comb and braid your hair,
And even wash your feet.
We sit, with scarcely touched cigar,
And softly, vainly muse,
Upon what curious ways there are
Of ldosensng gaiter shoes.
The Memphis darkey Is very independ-
cut character, according TO the appeal,
which says: "The Modoc of the street-ral-
way will blush when we tell that a fierce
looking son of Ethiopia, unwashed for
many months, with cigar nipped tightly
between his teeth, stretched himself at full
length in q car and smoked cOntendedly.
Ladies, when the dastardly driver was APP
pealed to in vain, eft the car, as did gem
tleman who wa, passenger. The lady
writing to US on the subject asks Col. Bar.
rett how he can bear it."
The Chicago Inter Ocean is making an
effort to inaugurate excursions for the poor
children of Chicago, after the style inaugu-
rated by the New York Times for the child
rem of that city.
An individual signing himself "a country
editor" writes to the New York Wodld a
very pitiful letter regarding the law requir-
ing postage to be paid ON newspaper ex-
changes, concluding his whining episue
thusly "But we are st least determined
upon our course, and this is To watch the
Post office department. closely, and il we do
not promptly and regularly get through the
msils the exchanges for which we pay post
age, then shall we make our Indignation
felt in the proper quarters" Every patriot
in tie land will join us in the hope that that
"country editor" may receive bis exchanges
regularly, otherwise the heart grows SICK
with apprehension, as we endeavor to i'm
agine the fearful consequences.
According to the Kansas newspapers, one
OF the Congressman from that State drew
last sessiO under the head of Stationery
between two and one-quarter tons OF sugar
and twenty -four boxes of lemons. Do the
Kansas people regard Representative with
such an astonishing lelnon-and-sugar re-
cord as that a stationary member?--
| Courier Journal.
In very sensible article headed "Wo-
man, God bless her," an exchange has this
to say: "Rufiars who have murdered
women and children have been led to the
gallows and died game, protesting that the
pesrly gates were just swinging before
them. Occasionally one has varied the
programme by an apostrophei o the moose
and the supplying of text to the mentally
impoverished pulpits by aVowing that
whisky brought him to his last drop,
which the Sheriff wal, ed to administer, but
they have all died unwholesomely and lefi
behind either horror at their bravado OIL
disgust at their eanting. But the other day
little woman walked upon georgia gal
lows and was choked into the next world
She told nobody that she intended TO die
game She made no boast of the guam
tityof coffee she could consume 10 the shadow
| of the gallows. She just walked out with
her son-bonnet on and was hung without s
struggle, as calmly as she would have gont
to the b3dside of sick Eeighbor, laying
her crime at nobody's door, cantiDg not ;
word about pearly gates and DRY, adjust
ing the rough rope to her neck as if sh'
we're pinning on collar. It was gres
sight, was that vindication of the law on th,
little creaturer.n
The funny man of the Peoria ReUiea
gives the following interesting sketch of al
old man who resides in that section:
"He hasn't taken bit OF care of himself
He chewed tobacco sixty years, and got ia
on it. He drank hard for twenty-five years
and got youn ser every day. His eye-sigh
is so good that he reads his newspaper b.
i, HfA
make the type small enough for his pecu
liar vision. He walks every morniI g fou
miles for bis drinks before breakfast, b
chops cord Of wood between each meal
he has tried TO die of old age thirteen times
and failed every time. He attends to thu
vans of an old aud feeble grandson, an
superintends the funerals of his p)sterit.
with great care aud deceucy."
The discouraging results which ATTENDED
a Danbury mans purchase of dog, ar
thus put upon by the historian Ofthe NeCcS
"a Balmforth-ayeDue man borrowed deg
Thursday, to take with him on a huntin
trip. 1t was partridge dog, aud partrid
ges were Whist he contemplated. He le
the dog home by string. It was a wind
day, and the dust must have got into th
dogs eyes and made his vision uncertain
for be mistook eleven of neighbours hen
for a flock of partridges, and breaking ava
from the Balmforth-avenue man, he SEP
ped over into the group, aud for shout tiV
minutes there was sort ofcomplication c
cog, hens, feathers, sticks, stones, coat
tails, hoops, and profanity. At the end {
five minutes five dead hens, sore dog, q
amazed man, two mad women, and
pleasing assortment of symphsthizing child
rem, he exclusive control of the battle
ground. The Balmforth avenue man di
not go hunting for cartridges the next day
He atlened session Of the neighbOrs cor
vened to SCI price OIL five dead hens, an
having found that it was $500, he paid
ike a man, and held the dog in the gate
and kicked him TO his entire satisfaction
and then let him CO."
The st. Louis Dispatch tells this story
an industrious Senstor: Senator Upton, {
Nebraska, during the present planting sea
son, has set out or bis farm in Nemah
county, Neb., 1000 appletrees, and also To
following forest trees: 50, 500 black walnu
$50 white walnut, 500 birch, 800 elm, Sc
maple, $50 ash, 500 cottonwood-total 9,
$50 forest trees. He is now planting
miles of hedge, has 50 acres Of wheat, 20 {
> | OdtS, anu IL vi COih3 anu RiOPOS~S oAS-~AA 10
SO acres of sod this season. And yer
oommendable feature of this very con
mendabie improvement consists in the fa'
that all this work was performed by hin
self With the aid Of another man."
Our ice cream dealers are desponden
For two weeks past, all the CONCEALED la
teal fluid they have sold in any one day
could be put on dogs esr-and the dc
wouldn't need to be > very large canir
either.