Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-16

If dirt we're lrumps, what hand little
Mary Brown, of Chattanooga. would hoie!
Mary lefs her village home and came to the
city Saturday last, being actuated by an
earnest desire to see something OF the
world. She is a charming young girl, and
| IL seems almost pity that she will smoke
| aud dip snuff, and chew touacco, and get
drunk, and swear, for it must be confessed
that these little habits cause her to be
somewhat less attractive than she would
otherwise be. Then, too, If she would wash
her face and hands, say once week, or at
beast twice month, she would prob
ably be more generally admired
than sse now is. However, we
all have our little peculiarities and eccen-
trities, and those above enumerated, are
Mary's, but as long as she is happy and con-
tented, her friends ought 10 be satisfied,
Miss Brown is only about fourteen years
of age, and but few young ladies OF her
tender years would think of coming all the
way from Chattanooga alone without three
dollars to her name, and depend entirely on
sleeping in the streets, and sustaining lie
by stealing, until such time as she saw mt
to return to her mountain home; but this
fact only goes to show that when Mary
does this, she is none ofyour ordinary girls,
but is possessed of resolution, nerve and
self reliance to very great extent. When
Miss Brown announced her intention, yes
terday, of taking temporary quarters at the
lock up, she did not indicate how long
she purposed remaining.
Albert j. Downs and w. n. Luckett
were before the court charged with having
thrown q stone against the door OF house
occupied by woman who had angered
them The two young men loaned the
city ten dollars without interest, and with
ont asking for collateral, which was Ger
tainly very generous of Messrs. Downs and
Luckett.
Elijah Cole, colored gentleman, said he
was not guilty of making an assault upon
Eliza Wilson, but added that he "would
have fit her If the perlec8 hadn't come in"
Fortunately for LIE, the ".perlece did
come iE after Elijah had slapped her few
times, as sort of preliminary to the beat
ing be proposed giving her. At the pre-
sent writing Elijah holds contract with the
city, the terms and conditions of which re-
quire that the former shall break rock for
the latter to the amount Ct ten dollars, at
the rate of seventyive cents per diem.
"How sharper than serpent's tooth, it
is to have thankless child" If that be
true, how sharper than two serpent's teeth
must it be to have child that fights pa
rent, especially maternal parent, as does
Jennie Burnett, brunette Of some
seventeen sweet summers and like mum
Der of winters. Jennie denied having bit
her dear ma, but said she had struck at her
but missed her. Jennie's kind mother was
in the court room as witness against her
afectionate child, and she gave it as her
opinion that the nights confinement her
daughter had undergone in the lookup
would be lifelong lesson to her, and that
she would never again rsise her hand in
anger against her mother.
"Well," said the Court, addressing Miss
jennie, "we'l have to charge you some
thing for keeping you last night. Our ac
commentators are not what you would
call gorgeous but they are the best we can
afford"
"How much do you charge for her
nights lodging7" asked Jennie's Immediate
maternal ancestor.
"Wen, for taking her down there is an
express wagon, and giving her lodging and
breakfast this morning" l-
Jennie (interrupting) "Now you don't
want to charge me for my breakfast, cause
didn't eat any"
"That don't make any difference" said
the court, eve went to the expense of hay
ing breakfast prepared for you, and if you
didn't eat it, that's your fault, not ours.
Your bill for last nj GIFTS entertainment will
be one dollar"
The mother paid the money and departed
homewards with her erriDg child.
Oh, these mothers-in-law! They are
always making "drubbles." Here was
Henry Hargrave, colored, having pleasant
little time, and passing eff an idle half hour
in slapping his wife, kicking her about the
room, pulling Eer hair, twisting her
ears, pitching her, and engag-
ing in other similar demonstra-
tons calculated to show the deep and fer
vent affection be has for her, when his
meddlesome mother in-law suddenly ap-
peared on the scene and put stop to
Henry's innocent recreation by having him
arrested on thefrumped up charge of "abus-
ing bis wife," This was of itself sufficiently
annoying, but in addition to this, the court
lent credulous ear to the weman's story,
and fined the risky Henry five dollars,
merely because the latter chose to express
his pent-up feelings Of love for his wife in
somewhat unusual and original manner.