Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-19
ALL OVER THE CITY.


Five hundred people took dinner at the
Maxwell yesterday.
The Police Court collection yesterday
morning added up S45 even.
II was Mathew Eakin who was fined $40
Yesterday morning for fast riding. Frank
Gentry's turn comes this morning.
Among the delegates 10 the State Con
vention is a gentleman who distinguished
himself as a General in the Confederate
service.
When the delegates refer, in the Coven-
ton to-day 10 "this august assembly," no
allusion TO the name of the month will be
intended.
Inst. Louis, last week, there were thir-
teen deaths from congestion Of the BRAIN
TEX. Didn't know that there was that
much brain in St. Louis.
Mrs. p. B. Kelley tainted away yesterday
while sitting in the shoe shop opposite
Masonic Hall, listening to the music o
Gibson's Band.
The Atlantic Base Ball Club of Nash
Vile has challenged the Worth Club o.
Montgomery, Ala, and they will probably
play on the 9Th of September.
About 225 names were registered az the
Maxwell House yesterday number far ex
ceeded by the number of guests now lodg
ing in that capacious hostelerie.
Richard Ransom, sheriff of Rutherford
county, brought to the penitentiary yes
terday, John Hall and Burwell Smith, con
victed Of larceny and sentenced to five
wears each.
There is TO be picnic at Hadley's Grove
three miles from the city, on the Lebanon
pike, next Friday. MeSsrs. J. NJ Perry, j.
Moore, w. ID. Lester and j. l.. Porter con-
stitute the committee of invitation.
There seems to have been a general mis-
appropriation of hats at the Maxwell last
night. The writer of these lines and one
other ill-starred individual, if not Others
lost their chapeaux and could not find any
fitting ones among those left to replace
them.
Sheriff Stephens, of Cobb county, Geor-
gia, secured requisition from Gov. Blown
Yesterday for the removal TO that county Of
Samuel McAlillen, cOlOred, who has been
confined in the Jail here for a week past
The two left the city on the O'Clock tralu
last evening. McMillen confessed to out
raging white girl near Ackworth, Ga, last
month.
The members of the Robert Emmett Club
will give picnic next Tuesday al MeEw
ems Grove near MallOney Station on the
Decatur Division Of the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern road. Every eff
fort has been made 10 provide for the en-
jOyment of all who may attend, aud il viii
no doubt be one Of the most pleasant affair:
of the season.
Two handsome new cars, costing SS5l
each, lave been placed on the Cedar street
line. They are labeled "Watkins Park,
via Chattanooga Depot" Persons who
have difficulty in getting the right car OF
the Church street track, viii do well u
make a mental note of the fact that the
Spruce street cars are numbered ) and q
respectively, the Broad street = and s, and
the Cedar street 9 and 10.
"Why didn't YOU answer the letter
wrote YOU last week?r inquired one Of the
delegates 10 the State Convention, yester-
day. of a brother delegate. ''For the rea-
son that, thus far. havn't been able tC
figure out what your letter was about, was
the reply. The questioner hung his head
in shame, for he was painfully conscious OF
the fact that his writing does not bear the
slightest resemblance to a copy plate.
George Battle is one of the most Obedieni
of little colOred boys. He lives out in the
country a short distance, and when his ma
told him yesterday morning TO come &c
town and bring her back some money, be
hesitated not, but trotted briskly into the
city, proceeded to the markethouse, insinu-
ated his dirty little hand into a money
drawer, distracted forty cents and =
tumbled into the clutches Of a policeman,
He was escorted to the police station
where he told his little tale, and was finally
released on condition that he would scOot
homeWardS without unnecessary delay.
An old woman who said her name was
Margaret Jones, put imam appearance at the
police station yeSterday-tO which she said
she had been sent by the Governors Score
iary-and insisted upon Capt. Yater send
ing out and arresting party of twenty
persons who had followed herself and
daughter all the way from Henderson
county. Ky, in their journey by foot, tc
Nashville. She explained that the party
had taken off her own and her daughter:
toe nails, "With their steam works" In
answer to an inquiry as to where these
people were, she replied ''they're out in the
surburbs, lynn as fasl's their tongues car
wag." The poor woman was evidently
| somewhat flighty in the upper story.