Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-22
FROM ALI OVER THE CITY.


The are 81 ~convicts confined in the
State prison at present, a large majority OF
whom are colored.
Only SI2.50 collected by Judge Duling
overwhelmingly enough to provide oil TO
keep the machinery of the court in order.
Willie Furman was thrown out OF a
canoe while navigating the backwaters yes
terday, losing a fino shot gun in conse-
quence.
The iron work on the suspension bridge
was being painted a beautiful red yester-
day by a large force of skillful portrait and
carriage painters.
To the u~ntiring efforts of Mrs. Golf and
successful presentation of the tableaux at
Masonic Hall Monday night.
Frederick Brown was sent to the County
Workhouse by Justice Everett yesterday
on the charge of vagrancy. He will re-
main at that haven of rest just five days by
the watch.
The new Methodist church which has
been recently erected about five miles from
the city, on the Murfreesboro pike will, we
understand, be dedicated next Sunday by
Bishop Wlghtman.
The following is a verbatum COPY (names
OLAAeeCdJ VI ~ ACttCl lCOCulll lCCCiNC0 W
gentleman who purposed serving the peo-
pie of this county during another term OF
office-that is if the county insist upon it:
@This april tn IS 1874 to Mr.
Announcement was made in these col
umn yesterday, to the effect that the con-
cert and tableaux given at Masonic Hall
Monday night, in aid of the Central Baptist
Church, would be repeated tonight, but it
Il hoe hoan fhn.Rnhf o1ufeoAla - ro4 rapaaf
the entertainment.
"There was a time In this country when
a hundred of them fellers a standin' on the
fence would induce a young man TO go n
see a GIRL m%ournfully remarked a Nash
vile man yesterday, as he passed a Spruce
street residence in front of which three or
four young woody heads were clinging to
the fence.
Two colored men, one of whom seemed
10 be very much under the influence of
liquor, got to wrestling on Cedar street yes
terday, when m was thrown against the
large windows of the Freedman's Bank.
One of the parties received a long cut on
the top of his head, and the other had one
OF his hands cut pretty severely by a piece
of the glass.
Afour year old son of Mr.. Rymackie-
1880 ASGAhAA6 OA NhC ~ VI OAACllN dlu
Gay, was thrown down and badly bitted by
a dog belonging to Mr.. G. ii. VESSEL, who,
upon being informed of the affair, at once
consented TO the dog being drowned. The
canine was thereupon conveyed to the back
water in the Sulphur spring bottom, and
consigned to a watery grave.
Poole, the photographer, has a splendid
photograph in pastel of Miss Maria Lums-
den, daughter of John Lumsden, ESQ.,, on
exhibition in the show window of Wheel
er Marshall & Bruce, which picture at
tracted crowds of passers-by yesterday. 1t
is, without doubt, the only picture of the
kind in Nashville.
"Bob, what'n thunder you doin down
here?" inquired an East Tennesseean of a
friend whom he met in the Federal court
room yesterday. SWELL" replied the 9TH
er, 81 didn't want to come. l was lust
maxim a little whisky in a quiet place out
in the woods, an they caught me at it an
asked me to come down to court, an l
thought / might as well come"
A lady who attended the auction sale of
flowers yesterday and who left home with
a determination to buy, made business
quite lively for an hour or two, bidding
against herself. The auctioneer knew
what she was doing, but, being a remarkably
timid, bashful man when in the presence of
ladies, he didn't have the courage TO inform
the lady of her mistake.
Mr. Handed me about so of your
tickets to is shue out j did so. He told me
you was a Highton Jintleman. He told
me to Let him have some whiskey to lee
tionear for you and you would make it al
right. The darkeys had a Meating Last
Saturday night and - told me that he
was going to lectionear for you and i thot
l would go over and see # he did it and it
was all right though i am a Stanger to you
l have all redy lectionered out $3.50 for
you. He was A man that i had confidence
in or i would not done So" Let us hope
this honest yeoman will be repaid for his
expenditure Of S4-50, as such instances of
confidence in a stranger are rare.