Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-17
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TYPOGRAPHICAL.


On Sunday last ali Edgefield young lady
was taken suddenly aud violently i'll, and
it was at once decided that she had an
attack of the cholera Such remedies as
were az hand were administered immedi-
ately and prompt and reliable messef ger
dispatched for doctor forthwith. The lat
ter obeyes the summons in hot haste, and
It was then found that the lady "a illness was
caused by her having accidently swallowed
a small quantity or snuff.
The local of the Chicago Tribune says OF
a rival quill shower: "fhe city editor O. he
Journal made terrible effort to dispose o.
bis spare Sunday suit when be Incorporated
the following in his scriticism' of the per-
| fornance at McVicker's Theater on Mon
day evening. sMr. Brown made an excellent
Dick Swiveler, though the makeup was a
little off color. Dicks dress should be a
brown body coat, with brass buttons in
| front, plaid waistcoat, soiled white tr us
! ers, bright check neckerchief, a limp hat,
worn wrong, with the wrong side f remost,
| 20 hide hole in the briln, and dirty white
wristbands folded far back over the cuffs
We have watched the career Of Seret.
Bates with the deepest interest, and it
grieves us 20 The heart 10 find paragraphs
| ike the following, clipped from The Alex
| exandTis (Va.) Gazette, going the rounds OF
| the exchanges: "When Sergeant Bates
! passed through this city o his famous
| march from the South some time ago, he
anticipated and proven ed the presentation
of his hotel bill by publicly thanking the
clerk fo- the hos 'itality and courtesy that
had been shown him, and ingraiated him
self still further into the remembrance of
the latter by little !. o. u. of SO for hat
and plume with which 10 enter Washing.
| ton"
We. COPY the following from the Provi-
| dence journal: The next Indian war should
be fought by The edfors and newspaper cor
| respondents. A CORD many of us could be
spared and nobody but The immediate suf-
ferers would be the worse for il. And we
hardly open paper that does not show us
! how much better tho war would be Carried
on by the writer's than by the men 10 whose
| experience and ssgacity it has been entrust-
ed. An editor, of course, knows every
thing, else be would be a very unsuitable
person for such position, but of all mat
| tiers on which editorial information and
ability and skin are displayed, an Indian
war is conspicuous. The rough deposits of
| ldNdJ WHICH 6tC 81 W US CTOSStu Dy
man and beast, offer no impsdiment to the
editor, and The deadly ambush, the stealtby
attack, the trsachery, the cruelty Of the say
ages, are trifies TO him.
A lively Nashville young lady says that
she cannot afford to be in love with any
| one, or TO be at all sentimental 10 these
cholera times, when her careful and pru-
ent mother is feeding her upon diet
composed exclusively of rice and boiled
| milk.
A young lawyer of this city had occasion
| yesterd y to wrestle with 3 deed to certain
city property, where the premises are de-
scribed as "fronting fifty feet OH - street,
thence running back parallelo- -gramically
one hundred and fifty feet to an alley" etc.
The individual who prepared the index
to Thompson & Stegers' Code, is evidently
man of original ideas. For instance,
where be refers to the manner in which
oaths shall be taken by kissing the Bible,
ETC., inste ID of following the usual form,
''Oath how to Administer" he uses the
word ''kissing." His ingenious substitute
gives the index very attractive appear
ance, butt looks odd-it certainly looks
l odd