Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-26
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amount Of $50 yesterday.
A few of the Sunday schools have COM
menced preparations for their May picnics.
The contract for building the new school
house on the Hume lot has been awarded
to Messrs. Duffy & Bout.
kilograms remaining undellvered It the
Western Union Telegraph office Saturday
night. Sunday Office hours 9to 10 A. NJ.
to up. NJ:
VIM. Butler, at the Commercial Hotel,
has always on hand the daily UNION AND
AMERICAN and an assortment Of choice
cigars and tobacco.
Gray & Noble have improved their store
with splendid plate glass front, and now
have the haiidsoIne5t furnishing goods es-
tabiiShment in Nashville.
The Sacred Concert by the Nashville
Choral Society, which comes off Monday,
May 4, at the Church of the Advent, prom
ises to be a first-class affair.
An immense live tarantula was removed
| from bunch of bananas OF Union street
| fruit store yesterday, by Mr.. Taylor Hen
derson, who is preserving it in glass case.
Jno. K. Lasher & Co., of New York,
have sent to Mr.. A. S. Beadle, of this city,
whose stable and commission house was
blown down in the big storm, check for
500 to aid him in rebuilding.
Sheriff c. A. Rolls, of Stewart county,
| arrived here yesterday, having in custody a
colored man named Lewis Malone, SEN
tened to the penItentiart two years for
larceny. Malone was taken TO that institu
ton.
The ssretired business man" was incor-
rectly reported in our currency article yes
terday, as saying that an initiation would
injure the debtor class, whereas he should
have been reported as saying the debtor
class would be benefited.
The Russian baths of Chas Hreyer h Co.
under the management OF Dir. A. Balien-
berger, are becoming very popular. Every
body says that one feels like new man
after taking Russian bath, and what ev-
erybody says must be true.
The Rock City Shooting Club will have
their first match of the season tomorrow
afternoon, ON the common between the
cotton factory and St. Cec.lia's Academy.
The contest viii be open to all, and shoot
ing TO commence promptly at $50 o'clock.
Ordway, Gordon K Mcclure, 5. jenkins,
Col. Jno. II. Anderson, Jas. Chamberlain,
W. ii. Wood, Maxwell House, o. +. Noel,
Gennett & Co., Geo. F. Akers, Rhea,
Smith & Co., Julia Wilson, Mrs. w. B.
Thompson, ]. II. Maury, John Harper,
Thos. d. Fite.
A State convention Of druggists will be
held IN this city commencing on the. 10Th
Of May. At this meeting memorial viii
be prepared asking the begis.1ture to enact
bin to regulate the drug business in Ten
neSsee. The Kentucky Legislature passed
similar bill at its recent session.
About twenty German emigrants passed
over the ST, Louis and Southeastern rail-
road Friday evening, en- route for St. Louis.
The have been in Georgia and Alabama for
several months, but, finding no German
schools or German temples Of worship at
the places where they wished to locate, they
left for the West.
About one hundred delegates will pass
through Nashville in day or two on their
way to the General Conference of the
Methodist Church South, which meets in
Louisville on the 4th of May A number
will reach here tomorrow and will be
present at the laying of the cornerstone of
the Vanderbilt University on Tuesday.
The s'Colored Ladies' Benevolent AssO-
ciation'' will hold fair at Liberty Hall
this week, commencing tomorrow and
lasting three days, or probably all the week.
The proceeds If the fair to be devoted to
teaching destitute girls the arts OF female
industry. A large number of prizes will
be drawn among which are a set of fIIrni-
ture, and sets of silver and china table
ware. All the candidates especially, are
invited to be present.
Rev. DR.. Young requests us to say that
Mr.. Thomas Caldwell has agreed to run
cars from the Public Square to the Wander
bit University on next Tuesday, from noon
until hight. He has Secured cars from all
the other roads, and will place them on
also, and will place a card on the cars
marked Vanderbilt University" so that
all who wish to go may know what car to
enter. We know that our citizens will APP
preciate this arrangement, as it will enable
many TO go who have no private way to get
out there.
The officers and Executive Committee
of the State Teachers Association met
yesterday and arranged the programme for
the next meeting Of the Association, in
Knoxville, on the 10th, 18th, 18th and 10Th
of January. The Committee Of Arrange
ments have been heartily seconded in their
efforts by the officers and professors of the
East Tennessee University and the Board
of Education, teachers and city officials of
Knoxville. Prominent educators from all
parts of The State will be in attendance
and participate in the exercises.
AT meeting Of the stockholders of the
Suspension Bridge Company, held at their
rooms yesterday, the following officers were
elected: Samuel Prichettt, President, A. w.
Butler, Treasure, and Joseph B. Knowles,
Qt-r,l InrpneocS Iap,ae Whffrunr4h HnCh
Douglass, p. p. Weakley, W. w. Miller,
NJ. Henderson, A. Hamilton, Jas. Turner,
J. S. Bransford, John D. Allen, Thomas E.
Stratton, Directors. The proposition of
fered by the Edgefeld Street Railroad Com
pany to pay $1,000 per annum for the use
of the bridge for the next seven years, was
ratified. The company have been paying
s.. Geo per year for the last three years for
the privilege Of running its cars over the
bridge.