Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-08
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Her back was all saw of her;
To see her face tried in vain,
Until her fellow-passenger
Got up and left the train.
changed my seat and looked again;
So sweet a face never saw!
An eve with depths of soul within,
A face without flaw.
But as I gazedI saw tear
Roll down her opal-tinted cheek;
And casting off all thoughts OF rear
courage found TO speak
"Why are you weeping, fairest maid ~
Saw, why should so much beauty cryf"
"I do not weep" she tartiy said,
s1'ye got cinder in my eye!"
Such weather as we are Eow having is
calculated to make our citizens experience
a feeling oflaDguid lsssitudiness. On Fri
day last the thermometer stood at 81,
against 81 the same date last year. Sstur-
dsy it was 81, against 81 on the 9th OF
April last year.
The last Legislature, in its wisdom, cut
down some of the salaries of offices con-
trelled by the County Courts OF the State,
and various and sundry legislators insinu-
ated, at times, that they did not consider
the n embers of the County Courts modern
Solomons. As a sort Of retort courteou s,
the following was offered in the County
Court Yesterday py Squire Chickering, but
was not considered: Resolved, That we
hereby tender the thanks of Davidson
county to the Legislature for the great Wis,
dom displayed in its recent legislation, sn q
that they be requestedt to return soon to tae
Capitol to complete what they failed to 90
and undo what they have already done and
then 90 home and die.
Mr.. Stcckwel, President of the Pacific
Mail Company, for the last year known o.
King of Wall street, has been completely
cleaned out by combination of bulls. Mr.
Stockweu takes his reverses in very phil
osophic manner. he is reported to have
| delivered himself in conversation the other
day of the following humorous and trite ex-
pression: "When / first came down in
| Wall street / was called Stockwell; then
when began to make money, | was called
Mr.. Stockwell. Then it was Captain
StockweIl: and subsequently l became
known as Commodore Stockwell. Now II
| is that red-headed cuss from Cleveland"
A paper in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
contains a description of ball, from
which we learn that "Miss Katie Smith wa;
the esprit du corps of the evening" The
writer hardly does Miss Smith justice. He
| might very truly have added that her dane
ing was characterized by an exquisite sine
| qua non. and that she attacked the supper
with resistless sauve qui pent which
| made every other lady in the room seem Ell
| PEASANT. Few women in society, we are
| sure. have that air of de gustibus non es
| disputandum which is Miss Smiths chic
charm; and that man must be wholly los
to a sense of de trop who can observe tht
mise en- scene of her manner without /:
Flow of admiration rarely felt in this day o
NAL de tete civilization.-E1chdnge.
Gumbs, who lives next door to rs, ha
bouoht a new dog. He needed new one
His last dog used TO bark all night in thu
ward until, in frantic desperation, we woulC
sbv boots and cologne bottles and furniture
at him. But he always went on worse
and in the morning Gumbs would COM
calmly out and gather up these missiles ant
carry them into the house. He has NOR
than twenty pairs of our boots and slipper:
in his possession, besides chair legs, ant
cakes of soap, and hair brushes, and mattel
safes and towel racks. And he never haC
the manliness to offer to give them back
On the contrary, be trained that dog to 81
bv the front gate and to seize US by the lei
when we come out, three or four times ;
week, apparently for the purpose of secur
ing some more boots. But we poisone'
him one night, and the next morning
Gumbs threw the CARCASS over into on
ward. We threw it back. Gumb
returned it. We both stayed at home ths
day, and spent the time handing that do
TO one another over the fence. Then W
hired an Irishman to stand there night an
day to return the deceased to Guhibs' yard
Then Gumbs also engaged an Iri'hman.
was exhilarating work. The corpse prob
ably trayersed that fence six or seven thou:
and times in every twenty -four hours. d
must have become familiar with the route
even if he was dead. At last be wore ava
with so much handling, and on the last da
the Irishmen whiled away the hours b
fineing only the tail at each other. Ou
Trishman at last buried the tail, and resigr
ed. And now Gumbs has got new do
1t will be excessively singular if We do M
fish for that dog some evening soon with
Goldfish line and piece OF beef, and ru
him I'D all of q sudden TO our window an
launch him into the sewer. No dog owne
by man named Gumbs shall exuit oV'
us.-Mdr AdeleT.