Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-04
ALI OVER THE CITY.


The ST. PauIs Mission Mite Society will
meet tonight at the residence OF n Cor
bit, South College street.
Twenty-foilr snakes were found comfort
ably coiled up under box in front of a
West Nashville residence few days since.
The Central Baptist Mite Society will
meet for reorganization next Friday night,
at tie residence OF Rev. w. G.. InmAn,
south College street se
Men and things about the, Courthouse
Yesterday seemed unusually quiet, all the
ourts having adjourned over until to-day,
because of the election. M
A horse belonging to John Murphy, and
driven in hack No. so, dropped dead on the
corner of Bridge srreet and the Public
Square, at one O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
MI. Theo. +. Seward, the famous must
| cal composer, who is to assume the man
agement of the music department of Fisk
University, is recognizing the troupe OF
Jubilee Singers, preparatory TO another
Northern tour.
On account of the interest developed in
the revival services at the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, the meeting has been
protracted another week. Preaching to
night by Rev. NJ. b. Dewitt.
nooga railroad, the Virginia and Tennes-
see Air Line and the Great Southern
Freight Line, has been removed from No.
street.
There has been great falling of in the
demand for horses in this section recently.
One was sold at auction in this city a few
DAYS since for the sum of $40 that had cost
To- ho- xr-f,fo1,
had cost bis owner Sl65 year since, was
offered last week at SIS, with no takers.
The hog killing business has commenced
in lively earnestness, in consequence Of
which fact baekbones and spare-ribs are
plentiful, and the prices of bacon and lard
Dot so steep as they were. Severalhundred
fine hogs were yesterday put 'through the
mill" at Hart & Hensiey's mammoth estab-
lishment.
The embellishments and other necessary
repairs lately made to the various clerks
offices at the courthouse very naturally
suggest the impression that similar i'm
provements might very properly be made
in. the several cORrt-rooms. IL is hoped
that the Court-housr Committee of the
County Court viii take the matter into Sc
rious consideration.
A very interesting revival has been in
progress at the peniteDtiary for several
weeks past, the services being conducted by
the chaplain of the institution, DR.. Sawrie,
and the superintendents of the Sunday
school, Rev. III. 5. Bennett, and Mr.. j. o.
Griffith. This revival is peculiar in that
the meetings are week apart, being held
only on Sundays.
Speaking of game; a party Of seven
young men-two Of the number connected
with the Express office-threw aside the
cares and tolls of business and betoOk
themselves away &c the country, purposing
to return with several express wagons
loaded to the guards with squirrels, quails,
etc They returned yesterday, wearing
subdued air and bearing a yellow-tailed
squirrel, a robin and a yellow-hammer, as
the result OF their expedition.
In the Olden time, when a Nashville
contractor desired building fire-proof, be
clapped thereon a copper roof One by one
these houses have gone the way Of the
work of human hands, until the number of
buildings thus protected, has become very
small, indeed, meeting with a further re-
duction by the fire of Saturday night, the
building then destroyed being of the ''cop-
per-plated" style. The State-hOuse roof is
copper, and cost a sum sufficient to build a
good sized dwelling Of modern style.