Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-06
MELANGE.

| The feature OF our age-the cheek.
Dubuque has society for the proven
ton of decline in dog fighting.
j. Miller will supplement "Songs o
Sierras" with "Snn-down Seas" next fall
"A Vermont town is divided upon the
question of the propriety of its clergyman
playing at blind mans buff.
The Pennsylvania, at Oil City, has
suspended because the editor and his wife
couldn't agree about his employing female
compositors.
"A Louisville lass has set the fashion Of
sliding down hill in tin pan, and now nc
housewife in that region can find her dish
pan when she wants it.
--"Nitrite ofamyle" is the latest scien
tific remedy for asthma; but eur bronchitc
contributor says that night-ride of a mile
made him much worse.
| That was thoughtful individual who
went to church on Sunday, and took his
| flute along 10 amnse himself In case the
sermon proved to be dull.
"A punctual Minnesota maiden lately
married casual acquaintance who hap
pened to be 10 church, rather than be kept
in waiting for her original intended, who
was q quarter of an hour behind the p
pointed time.
"A couple of ladies were in the State
Library few days since, when one OF
them was addressed by an old gentleman,
who had come in from the country with a
lot of chickens and peanuts, sis thar any
hindrance to my climbing up thar ?" he
inquired in gentle accents, pointing toward
the spiral stairway leading to the regions
above. He was told there was not the
uliob4acf pd-ay 1aa;, in ba
"A Nashville man advertises for ga man
who has had some experience in a vineyard.
The writer wants that place, provided the
pay is good. he has had great deal of
experience in the principal vineyards of the
West, generally making his visits at times
when he knew that the owner was away
from home.
"A dispatch received at this Office last
night, from Columbus, Ohio, tells us that
Charlotte Thompson is to appear in that
city for one week, in the character of"One
Wife," We could hardly expect Charlotte
to appear in the character of "two wives
and therefore are not very much startled at
the information telegraphed, but it is
matter ofregret that the dispatch does no
state wlo wife she is to be for "ore
week."
-Parepa Nilsson Kellogg Busk has been
christened at Carlisle, Pa.-[ Exchanged
Just imagine tenderly raised young man
taking all that in his arms, eighteen years
from now, and calling it his ''dear, darling
duckyn
Mcconnell, of Trousdale, insists upon
it that step-mothers and bond-holdefs are a
slaudered set. The lady readers of this
paper are manifesting an urgent desire to
be introduced to the Senator from Trous-
dale.
Memphis appeal: "Th re is no Rep
resentative of West Tennessee who would
dare to show his face among his constitu-
ents after voting to eject Mrs. Paralee Has
kell from her Office of State Librarian, with
its miserable stipend of one thousand dol
lars, that some great ugly, lazy biped may
be substituted. The bare pr position is
shameful to the people of tennessee"
And now Merrill, of the Courier-Jour
nal, snorts around because, in burst Of
confidence few days since, the writer con-
fessed to secret desire to become the OWL
er, in fee simple, of a pacing mule. Some
people are so foolishly sensitive that they
are always making personal application
of everything that is said. Even if his gait
were satisfactory (Which it is not) there are
numerous other insurmountable reasons
why Merrill wouldn't fill the bill.
Mr.. Snipes congratulated himself yester-
day that in his opposition to the funding
bill, he was backed by ''the tall Pine from
ObioD, which stretches his arms above the
clouds, and the tall Cedar from Liucoln,
whose stately form reaches far above the
Storms" This beautiful flight of fancy
was evolved from the inner consciousness
Of the Senator from Madison, seemingly
without an effort, and if he does so well
without generalization, who can say what
the mau would be capable of if he should
drop politics and devote his whole time TO
studying up charming metaphors?
Our Senate reporter is jubilant. He
flatters himself that no longer will the
voice of the dun be heard in the land, so
far as he is personally concerned, and he is
happy over the thought that within few
days he will be relieved from the necessity,
in making bis peregrinations about the
city, of giving preference to alleys and out
of-the-way thoroughfares, simply because
boarding house keepers, tailors and wash
women won't listen to reason. AL day long
he listened with great interest
to the debate on the question of fund
AbS bhO OOdVO OOSb1 anu no Is
so charmed with the great advantages to
be derived from the measure, that be is
going to apply it to his own private indebt-
edness. 1t is bis intention to fund that in
debtedness in 1910 S T x 1860 bonds,
with coupons attached, drawing interest at
six per centum per annum, payable semi
at New York, Boston or Nashville,
at the option of the person to whom the |
bond was issued, or the holder of the regis
tered bond, in case the bond is registered. He !
is willing to pay compound interest on past |
due coupons, and it is his finn conviction |
that the rapid accumulation of interest,
under this arrangement, will have paid the
entire amount of his Indebtedness long be- |
fore the forty years expired. If this is not |
the case, he viii issue new bonds and begin |
again, for he has so fine a sense of honor, |
that he would owe man all his life rath- |
er than cheat him out of a cent. Propos- |
ais for engraving the bonds will be receiv- |
ed at this office, each one to be accompan-
en by three cent stamp as a guarantee of |
good faith.