Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-29
TYPOGRAPHICAL.
0. He'll is stopping At a Cleveland hotel

y. Hell is stopping at Cleveland hotel.
Henry Ward Beecher began life as a
writer on the Cincinnati Gazette.
Z A startling tombstone was erected In
Vermont recently to he memory of "Ta-
bitha, beloved wife of Joseph Wright,
Thomas Andrews, Eben Halsted, Charles
Dean and Edwin Murray, by her devoted
husband, Cyrus Morgan
An injured wife of Glens Falls. New
York, waited at the church door till her
husband came ont with the "otber woman
hanging on his arm, and then, after Giving
him considerable piece of her mind. at.
tackled her rival with all the fury OF which
the "woman scorned" is capable. Since that
little episode the husband has been very cir
cumspect in his behavior.
knowing that those Evansville people
never heard first-class joke, and couldn't
appreciate one if they should, the local of
the Courier contents himself with diluted
wittic'sms of this character: "sBury me in
Mount Pleasant were the last words of
Crawford, who fell off a telegraph pole in
Iowa. However, it seems that it was not
Pleasant Mount for Crawford after all %
Tie Albany Argus tells this story: A
young lady at Bayfield,, ILL.,, while sitting
under tree in the yard, suddenly saw a
huge rattlesnake approaching her. She
screamed with terror, and the snake was at
once killed, but the young lady never got
over her fright, saying that she could feel
the hot, breath Of the snake on her cheek.
This caused constant and Undesirable
terror, and in few days she died of fright.
Fashionable st. Louis society took to
It's bosom few weeks ago, Ia dashing,
richly dressed Stranger, OF the brunette or
der OF architecture. The stranger cut q
heavy swell for time, Playing sad havoc,
meanwhile, with the susceptible hears of
the young ladies be met, until the fact that
he had secured bis freedom through the
emancipation proclamation, became known,
and row st. Louis fashionable society is
very much disguised.
The Manchester On. H.) Union relates
the following pos office romance and mys-
terry: Regularly every two weeks for the
last six years letter has been received at
the postofiice addressed to OBJ,
Manchester, N. H." written evidently By
the same hand. Tho cslligraphy is good,
and is evidently that of lady. The name
is entered on the list time after time, and
no one has ever claimed one Of them.
After lying at the Office the time specified
by law the letters are sent, one after the
other, to the dead letter office at Washing
ton. So it goes on year after year.
The paragraphs of the Memphis Ledger
is one of the kindest of men. Having made
arrangements for a full supply of moon
shine during next month, he thus an
nounces the fact: ave would announce to
all young persons Hho are fond of strolling
in the moonlight that the next full moon
will put in an appearance On the Sd of
August; so let them pass the intervening
days in pleasant anticipations, and when
the time does come, let them make the best
Of it for who can tell whether the affections
of their "adored" will not wane with "the
moon, the inconstant moou." We know
how it is ourselves" .r-
The man who drew an elephant in lot
terry, which he couldn't keep, and daren't
let go, was happy individual in COMPARE
son with the officer at Oil City, who has
levied on building containing several cans
OF nitro-glicerire. The particular hard
ship of bis case is that the defendant per-
sists in keeping the key. His obvious duty
in the premises is to batter down the door;
but he is modest man, and dislikes to in
trude upon the privacy of the nitro-elcer-
inc, feeling in which he is encouraged by
the company in which his life is insured.-
Chicago Times.