Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-02
ALL OVER THE CITY.


amount of S72.50.
Some of the Sunday-schools will dispense
with their May picnic this year.
The C9lebs Club have their regular
monthly meeting at the Maxwell House to-
night.
The first Strawberries of the season were
served to the guests at the Maxwell House
yesterday.
There viii be preparatory service at the
Second PRESBYTERIAN Church al IL O'Clock
this morning.
A few straw hats appeared on the streets
an epidemic yet.
Judge Trigg appointed w. NJ. Woodcock,
of Wilson county, United States Colhmis-
sioner, yesterday.
The members of the Police Department
received yesterday the wealth due them for
last months services.
A heavy furniture van collided with an
express wagon yesterday on Church street,
breaking a shaft of the express wagon.
Charles Mueller was tried before Justice
Cassetty yesterday on the charge Of resist
ing an officer, but the case was dismissed.
DIR. McCook will preach at Odd Fellows
Ball, Edgefeld, at IL A. NJ. to-day, to the
congregation of the Edgefeld Christian
Church.
John w. Appleby was discharged from
his position as letter-carrier yesterday, and
Simeon r. Walker, colored, was appointed
in his place.
IT'S said that JEFF. Brothers stole vege-
tables from RObt. Stewart, of Edgefeld.
Justice Cassetty will find out about it at 2
p. NJ. to-day.
The concert given by the Nashville
Choral Society on Monday night next, at
the Church of the Advent, will be a
recherche affair.
Since Superintendent Glover hung out
his sign in regard to persons visiting the
Capitol, the other officers have had ''rest"
from curious visitors.
The Criminal Court meets next Monday,
when grand jury will be selected and i'm
panneled. An unusually large number of
misdemeanor cases are TO be disposed Of.
The office of Internal Revenue Collector
for this District was turned over to DIR. ID.
b. Cliffe yesterday, by eX-Collector Pea
body. 1t is generally understood that DR..
Cliffe will not make any official changes.
The picnic to be gwen by the BytOwn
friends of temperance al Watkins Grove,
to-day, will be conducted on grand scale,
and will probably be largely attended,
Judging from the number of invitations
issued.
"Back-water sufferers" have swarned in
on Judge Ferris for the past week, report
having been circulated to the effect that he
had a large sum of money 10 distribute
among those who were damaged by the re-
cent flood.
No. Tar,la,-ol t,,f,Nr,,oo tho .oifizafna nf
Nashville, by means of a proclamation,
that the pumps at the Water-works are out
of order, and, therefore, requests that they
use hydrant water in very economical
manner for few days.
A Nashville gentleman has received
twenty-five letters from Ohio farmers, re-
Gently. making inquiries as 10 the advan-
tages Tennessee offers immigrants. Col.
Killebrew, Secretary of our State Board of
Agriculture, will please ''make note
ont"
nDetective Pickett insists that he arrested
Garrett, the South Nashville stTeet-car
driver, at the instance of Young, who bosses
the company's stables; aud, now, that Gar
rett has established his innocence and
whaled Young in the bargain, what does
the latter propose to do about il?
Some curiously constructed rustic pic
ture frames, made convicts at the Peni-
Tertiary, were on exhibition at the COM
mercial Hotel yesterday. The convIcts are
allowed to sell such articles as they can
make during s'over hours" and inthe man
ufacture of many of these articles great in
genuity is displayed.
Singleton, the Cherry street book and
news dealer, has received the current issues
of AppletOn's Journal, the Weekly Graphic,
Clipper, Police News, Boys and Girls
Weekly. Frank Leslie's Illustrated News
paper, HaTper's Weekly, Danbury News,
and the latest New York, Cincinnati and
Louisville papers.
Jane Gross is a very eStimable woman.
but she will raise Cain occasionally; hence,
her neighbor. Mrs. Z. A. Dickey, was COM
PEELED to have Justice Cassetty bind her
over yesterday to keep the peace for the en-
suing six months. This will carry her
through to the first of November, by which
time it is hoped the weather will be sufi-
GENTLY cool to calm James pugilistic tenn
permanent.
Cy. Coffee, colored, has made himself
somewhat prominent lately. He was
bound over by Justice CaSsettY yesterday
to keep the peace for the next six months,
so far as Richard Ware is concerned, and
he will be tried by that Magistrate this
morning on the charge of having assaulted
and battered John Smith. Coffee had bet
ter avoid getting the ill-will of the Smith
family.
A man who was recognized as a resident
of South Nashville, visited several steam
mills in the city yesterday, endeayoring to
sell four-inch rubber belt, thirty feet long,
He claimed that he was resident Of ROD
ertson county, where he said he and his
brother were running a mill, but that they
had found the belt too light for their use.
He finally sold the belt to Mr.. Gleaves, Al a
reduced price.
Owing TO the high wind which prevailed
Yesterday, il was found almost impossible
to sprinkle the streets. The horses attach
ed to the sprinkling carts of this city are
being experimental upon in order to de-
termine whether it is possible for horses to
live without food, hence they have become
remarkably thin When they are headed
towards the wind, they cut through it like
sheet of paper, but when a zephyr strikes
them broadside, over they go like lot of
ten pins.
The rule adopted by the Libra
~ Directors prohibiting persons who are
not members of the Association from visit
ing the Library, went into effect yesterday.
The enforcement of this rule will have the
effect of excluding large class Of young
men, mechanics and others, who ought 10
derive the advantages which result from
the establishment of library of the charac-
ter of the one in this city. A visit to the
Nashville Library, will find the room filled
in the evening with orderly, respectable
men who, in this way, pass their leisure
hours in pleasant and profitable manner.
They should not be deprived of this priv
ilege.