Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-04
POLICE PICKINGS.

Judge Dulingremindeda number ofhack-
men yesterday morning that the streets of
Nashville cannot be kept in good order
without the expenditure of money. In the
majority of cases the fine was five dollars.
Although they both denied it, Caleb
Morton swOre positively that Matt Scruggs
and Caleb Swanson, colored, did have a
fight, and he succeeded in weaving such
web ofprove about Messrs Scruggs and Swan
son, colOred, that they were fined five dol
lars each, and then the OPTICIANS Morton
was directed to waltz over TO the position
occupied by the defendants, while they
were sworn as witnesses against
Morton. They testified that Caleb
had legged" them on to fight. and that
there would have been no fight had it not
been for his disente:ested conduct. Mr..
Morton was also fined five dollars, IS the
court is nothing, if not impartial.
Mike Herman boards All. who can detail
the wretchedness, tlic discomfort, the
gloom, the dispair which are expressed in
that sentence 1t carries with it visions of
muddy coffee, venerable butter, heavy
bread, damp napkins, Soiled table-clOths,
sOle-leather beefsteak, thin beds on fragile
bedsteadS, diminutiye pillows, ricketty
wasli-Stands, soap which ',SmellS TO heaven
OF roSin, dirty towels, etc, etc, etc.-that
is, where the clearinghouse Is managed by
professional clearinghouse keeper, who
seems animated by desire to accumulate
fortune in six months. at very small
outlay. Mr.. Herman not only boards. but
he is also unfortunate in another wayne
has contracted a habit of swearing and
uses very improper language whenever he
gets angry, and he has not that degree Of
patience for VIII eli Job was noted. Ii is to
be regretted that We have 50 little data
with respect to tie case of Mr.. Herman.
The testimony was of the most meagre
and unsatisfactory character. Itwas tothe
effect, First, that Mr.. Herman is a boarder;
Second. that he boards on Cherry street;
Third, that he sometimes swearS; Fourth,
that he swOre a. his landlady on or about
the ID day of January, 4. ID. 1874. Moth
ing was said rs to the prOyocatiOn, and the
MIND is left in a state of dreadful uncer-
tainty on this point. IL may be that the
hash provided iOr Mr.. Kernan's matutinal
repast was unusually stringy, or contained
more than the usual number Of horn but
tons: it may be that the hair in the butter
was not of that color to which Mr.. Herman
had become accustomed; it may be that the
proportion of sand in the coffee sugar
was largely in excess of what it
had been previously; possibly the
heavy buckwleaJ cakes We're more
than ordinarily gritty, or that the
smell Of fried onions were overpoweringly
strong in the dining-roOm, staggered by the
long list of dreadful possibilities in this
connection, which, weighing upon the
mind of the desperate Mr.. Herman, finally
caused him to fly into passion, and ad-
dress his kind and thoughtful landlady
in an UnbecOning manner. We would
take mOurnful satisfaction in enlighten-
ing the public with reference to this mat
ter, but, under the circumstances, il is i'm
possible, and in all probability pOsterity
will remain in deplOrable ignorance as to
what caused Mr.. Herman TO swear at his
landlady upon the occasion referred TO. 1t
may be well 10 state, however, that the
wicked, thankleSs, ungrateful and unrea-
SOnable Herman was fined five dollars