Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-07
PARAGRAPHICAL.

For specimen Of heavy writing, this
passage from the EdinbUrg ReCielo will do:
ave would not lightly reproach q people
for not having undisguisedly violated a
fundamental provision Of their organic
law" After few pages Of such stuff, it Is
blessed relief to read even one of Walt
Whitman's poems.
If any one were to ask us our definition
of Anthony Trollope, We should describe
him as a novelist whose religion was that
the universe was constructed for the pur-
pose of providing him opportunities of re-
lating, through innumerable chapters, how
impossible it is for girl to choose between
two men, neither of which she is certain
she don't love.-Nelo York Herald.
Relative to that damage suit, tile So.
Louis Globe saws: The Democrats repli
cation to the Globes answer to the Demo
Gratis petition for an injunction against the
Globe 1--WE believe that's the way it stands),
viii be found in our local columns. Ii
consists mainly in setting forth that the
plaintiffs have ''no knowledge" of certain
facts asserted in the Globes petition and
essential to the case. If the plaintiffs pur-
pose to state all the facts of which they
have no knowledge, they may as well file
at once history of all that is worth know
ing in the universe.
In these days of fatal accidents, para
graphs like the following are read with in
tenest: ''The little son Of one of our citi-
zens, while playing with his sister, bright
sweet child of five summers, got hold of his
fathers gun, which had been left careleSsly
standing in the kitchen by the thoughtless
parent, pointed the gun at his playmate,
and, saying, iokingly, I'll kill you p pulled
the trigger. What must have been the
boys feelings when he found that he had
lied, that the gun was not loaded, and that
his innocent little sister had knocked a
portion Of his nose off with stick Of wood.
When Smiley, of PittSburg, started for
Philadelphia the other day, a woman occu-
pied the seat in front of him with twin
infants. Just before the train moved off
the woman asked Smiley to hold the babies
for a moment while she went to the drug
store across the street after a new bottle
top. He took the little ones, and before
the woman returned the train started.
Smiley was in agony, and when the babies
began TO cry no words can describe his
misery. All the passengers were looking
at him, and as he handled the babies up
and down, one on each knee, the perspira-
ton streamed from every pore. This
kind of thing continued until dark and
then as the conductor refused to have any
thing to do with the infants, poor old
Smiley put them in his own berth and tried
to sOothe them. But the more he tried the
more they howled and he sat up along
side Of them the whole night utterly
wretched, while the other passengers swore
at him and threw boots at his head, and
called him hard names, because he wouldn't
keep the youngsters quiet. By the time
morning came, Smiley was pretty near
crazy, and the twins were almost starved
to death. He had nothing to give them
but plug tobacco and bay rum which he
carried for his hair and knew they were
not healthy. His reason was all but de
throned when policeman entered the car
and seized him on the authority of a tele-
gram from Pittsburg, on a charge of kidnap-
ping. He spent the night in Jail and was
then released on bail. lie wants to find
the father Of those twins. He yearns to
fell him something and to tumble among
this hfn.-MGr Alder.