Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-18
POLICE PICKINGS.

Messrs. Hardin and Thompson pay
Five Dollars Each for the Privilege
of Creating q Nutsance-Mr. Trim
mer gets Drunk, gets Mad and gets
Fined-About an Awful BOX of Offal
Am Episode I'm the Life Of Aaron
Woods, Esq,
For refusing to abate a nuisance. Henry
Hardin was fine fined S..
Jessee Thompson threw slops in an alley
day-before-yesterday, aud yesterday morn
ing he stepped around TO Judee DuiC g's
place of business and paid S. for the priv
iege.
Irwin Tansey, Ed. Woods and box of
offal became involved in a difficulty, which
resulted in all but the box being present
in the Police Court yesterday. The two
men stated that they were hired, together
with several other darkeys, to convey said
box to the river Monday night, and cast it
upon the wild, wild waves. As they
were trudging along Front street, they
dropped the box, the lid of which
flew of, and the stencil was so overpower-
ing that the negroes all fed precipitately,
leaving the box lying in the street all night.
Several witnesses testified that Tansey said
he was going to kill all the darkeys on
Front street. He was fined $25, and Wood
$40.
Monday was John Trimmer's day for
getting drunk, and as that individual is sx
tremely conscientious in the performance
OF any little duty devolving upon him, he
devoted bis entire energies, and all the pow
ers of his great mind to the business he had
on hand Monday, /. e., getting drunk. The
result was that by ten O'CLOCK A. NJ, MIR.
Trimmer didn't know whether he wss on
foot or on horseback, and cared great
deal less. Some men make a living
by politics, others keep saloon,
while others again sell pea nuts,
mend old tin ware, or grind scissors.
These occupations are eminently
useful and honorable, and it is quite proba-
bic that if Mr.. Trimmer were TO enter up
on either of these pursuits he would accu-
mula.e ducats and achieve more or less
renoWn. But Mr.. Trimmer has nos seen
fit to adop. either of the professions CT
occupations named. Mr.. Trimmer drives
hack-that is when be is sober. On Mon
day last, about the time the subject of this
truthful sereed reached the stage of utter
demoralizatioD, as to bis mental powers, an
intimate friend and fellow-hsckman was
engaged by II. DeGranville to drive him
about the city on a sort Of exploring
expedition, the young man OF
the aristocratic appellstion being
a stranger in our midst. Realizing that he
was hardly in condition to transact bust
ness, Mr.. Trimmer had refrained from
from bringing out his own hack, but wa:
Willing away the morning hours with
riding about the streets perched upon the
seat of the hack Of his intimate friend and
fellow hackman and by the side Of said init
mate friend and fellow hackman. Mr.. De
Granville paid for his ride before getting
into the hack, and after his ride was de-
posted, right side up with care, in front OF
the Maxwell House, at which place Mr.
Trimmer decended from the box with
all that dignity for which he /:
so famous. Here it was that Mr.
Trimmer made mistake; be should moi
have left the hack. He did leave it, how
ever, and with the impression firmly lodged
in his clouded brain, that it was his own
vehicle, that DeGranville was his psssen
ger, and that he had not paid bis fare
Hence it was that when the latter attempt
ed to move of, Trimmer laid violent hands
upon him, and in the rudest and most bois
IerOuS ldIcs III VAIL
did D DeGranvile expostulate; in vain did ht
rem lnstrate; in vain did he attempt to ex
plain. The more he talked, the more ex
cited Trimmer became, until finally, wher
DeGranville started up Church street
| Trimmer began to watt rocks at him, chas
sing him to the corner of Summer, and ~
Summer to the lst Baptist Church, wher'
the excited hackman was arrested. Trim
mer was fined So. .... - s...-...
Asron Woods came over from EdgefelC
to see US yesterday; imbibed freely of chol
era medicine, went into barber shop, sal
down in one of the chairs, fell over and
broke the back of the chair, and then re
fused TO pay for the damage be had done
but, on the contrary, exhibited strong de
sire to climb into another chair so tina. ht
could break it. Mr.. Woods was asked Il
loan the city $40 on account, and the cour
made the request in such an insinuating
irresistible manner that the former couldn'
find it in his heart to refuse, and so forkeC
over with commendable show of cheerful
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