Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-25
TYPOGRAPHICAL.


The pistol-makers of Hartford have or
ganized the Colt Guards. They hope to be
Horse Guards some day or other.-BostoR
Post.
We are not at all surprised to learn, as
we do from an exchange, that the photog-
rapher who tried to make an affirmative out
of two negatives has become disguised with
grammar.
We have had champion billiardists,
champion base-balliSts, etc, and now comes
Tom Taylor, of the Battle House Barber
Shop, who claims to be the champion boot
black of Nashville.
1t is said that the name of the Hon. W.
Pinckney Whyte, Of Maryland, is more
frequently mispe!ied than that of any other
public man in the United States. There is
nothing strange about that.
A sharp Boston chap managed to accu-
mulate gOOdly number Of umbrellas one
wet night recently by standing in the en-
trance Of public hall holding out checks
and saying, Umbrellas, please" to persons
attending an entertainment at the hall.
To-day is Sunday, and if the weather
should continue pleasant, large number
Of Nashville young men who wish to see
other people, and are willing that other
people should see them, will take up PROM
inent positions in front of the various
churches, about the hour of closing the
morning service.
A good-sized crowd of the best dressed
youths Of the city will be found collected
on the northeast corner of Church and Sum
mer streets, in order to obtain a full view
Of the congregations Of the First Presbyte-
rian, Cumberland Presbyterian, Christ and
First Baptist churches.
The flinty-hearted st. Louis Globe man
suggests that It would be well to serve up
very thin soup 20 a certain class, merely
because one healthy female remarked,
.'Beiter living at the soup house and moth
ing to do as she left in high dudgeOn the
| boarding house where she had been en-
ployed for about day and half.
| An eccentric, but loving Connecticut girl
has sued one John Harris for breach OF
promise, asking $4,000 damages. Harris
says that the plaintiff has amused herself
! for some time past by sending him package,
| containing dead rats and other delicate
| tokens Of attention. If this be true ii is
not surprising that Harris affection should
| have undergone ratical change.
Ii must be that European clergymen are
not paid as they should be, judging from
| the following advertisement, taken from {
! HeSsian paper: "A ministers wife, aged
! f0rty-twO years, the daughter Of one Of the
superior Clergy, desires, having previously
obtaiHed her husbands permission, to OBJ
| tain employment as a cook, in consequence
| OF the pressure of circumstances
! very weakly Indiana paper, whicl
reaches this Office, philosophically remark:
upon the punning characteristic of thu
newspapers of this age, adding that all bu
one OF its exchanges shave attempted
| double entente on the name of Judg'
Waite" That ambitious pencil waste
NAV 90 down to his grave, possibly, withou
realizing that he intended to say ''dOubt
enfendre." The mind OF the kind hearte'
reader is filed with gloom at the thought O
it.
The Lebanon Herald has brought to tn
surface a poeteSs who breaks forth in TIN
wild way:
- loved YOU with love that could have dared
For You all pain
With YOU, the darkest deep OF Hades shared
And held it gain"
Farther along in the poem we learn tina
this maiden has recOiled on the youth 70
whom she was willing 10 dare so much, be
| cause she accidently discovered one day
that his feet were made of ''clay' Gas sh
tells us III bewitcling verse;. One woa!
suppose that a maiden who thus eXpreSse
/ 4 willingness to share the ''darkest deep
Of Hades in order to be alongside heryoun
man, might have gotten along with him o
| earth. even if he did have clay feet. Bette
far better that his feet should be made {
this material than for him to have had non
at ali.
Directly in front of the Battle House
much larger crowd will assemble for til
purpose Of seeing the worshipers Of NJ
kcuGree church and such portions o. thOs
attending the churches first named as pas
that far down Church street. This la:
named crowd Of young patriots viii be di:
tiH@uished from the other in that Its ga
ments will not be of so fine a tel
ture. nor OF such fashionable cut, bJ
will have the advantage of the SUnm'
street outfit in the matter of cheek, fl
there 10 men in the world who can stare
pasSers-bv with more steadineSS OF purpO;
p than that exhibited by those yOun
men and half grown boys who aSSembl
regularly every Sunday morning in froj
Of the Battle House. These chaps are Of
social nature. too. They make humOr0l
= remarks about those passing, thus within
away the time in pleasant manner, wher
as their better dressed brethren at the SIM
mer street corner. glare upon the ciurcl
going potion of the community in 81
rious way, plainly showing that they d
not thus assemble ont of idle curiosity, bI
+ are actuated by wOrthier motives. Ju
: what those motives are remains prOfoun
i mystery up to this date, but it may be tn;
: those Young men thus assemble IL order
show their good clothes.