Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-01
ALL OVER THE CITY.

City Council proceedings on our third
page.
Bret Harte will lecture in this city Sat
urday night, Oct. "A.
"AIy goods advertise themselves" Per
haps your goods know more than you do.
Clocks are being introduced in the Broad
and Spruce street lines of street cars. Good
enough.
The special meeting Of the Board of
Trade yesterday was not called to order for
want Of a quorum.
b. T. @. Brooks left the city last evening
for the purpose of joining Porter and May
nard in the Gubernatorial canvass.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company paid into the State Treasury yes
terday $4,000 State bonds on interest ac-
count.
w. II. Ritchey and James King, of Put
nam county, were commissioned as megis-
trates yesterday by the Department OF
State.
8 man whose boots disappeared while
he was asleep under plank sidewalk, in
sists that there is no safe refuge here for
fallen men.
Sam Ferguson, colored, of Jackson coun-
ty, sentenced for tWenty-one years for house
burning, was delivered at the penitentiary
Yesterday by Sheriff johnson of that county.
Mr.. Kinly, corner OF Ash and College,
South Nashville, has on exhibition hens
egg of elephantine proportions-4x2.
inches, ard weighing nearly half pound
A stray horse yesterday strOlled into the
MarkethouSe, but in less than minute
had to stroll out again, in answer to official
summons requiring his presence at Other
stalls
sOh. wish III been born a foot longer
than am petulantly exclaimed Nash
vile man last night as he vainly endeav-
ored to hang a map on nail driven In the
wall twelve inches beyond his reach.
In the Republican County Convention
yesterday, when a motion was made tC
elect Mr.. P, secretary, colored mem
Der rose with parliamentary air and NOV
ed ''tO amend by appointing Mr.. M,
Secretary" .c ..
The State Superintendent of Public In
structiOn received scholastic returns from
Crockett and Jackson counties, showing
the scholastic population of the former &c
be .9SS, white 3,0lS, and oOlOred 9T5; anC
of the latter 5,SS7, white 5,lS4, cOlOred 703
The city government passes to-day into
the MANAGEMENT of new bosses, who will
no doubt. do their level best in behalf o
pru lent legislation, and in support OF suci
measures as viii be most likely TO re
dound to the interest Of the city and it.
people.
The editorial corps of the UNION AM
AMERICAN are indebted to Hemphill, the
popular Church street restaurateur, for al
| elerant midnight lunch, composed of Prin
e, ~cfrFa an
delicious flavor, fianked by the wherewitha
to wash it down. Hemp. always does sucl
things genteely. 81
| & brown skinned man named Charley
Ferbee is on trial in the Criminal Court 70
murder, il being alleged that be decapta
ted his wife with an AK. The defendan
sits very quietly in court, and does no
seem to know or care great deal abou
the terrible ordeal through which he /
passing. An examination of this man wa
| made last month by the doctors, who pro
nounced him insane -lE
| Conductor Latimer. of the Nashville
| Chattanooga and st. LOUIS railway, tell
| of having met, at Mckenzie Station, an oil
| gentleman by the name Of Heath, who j
the father Of twenty-three girls and tire
boys. When closely questioned as TO th
| correctness of his count, LItlmer lndlg
| nantly replied that he'd never tell lie 70
| three or four children, mole or less.
| ECitizens living along the lines of stree
railway occasionally fall into the habit c
| converting the drivers of street cars int
e1rand boys, to the great annoyance G
waiting passengers. A few days since,
West Broad street lady sent her servant on
with message to car driver, which Ia
latter responded to by stopping his tear
and going to the house where the lad
stood on the steps. An animated an
lengthy conversation ensued, ending in tn
drivers receiving some money, with direC
tions for its disbursement, which direction
Ire carried out by stopping his car in iron
Of a College street store, causing anothe
delay, while he made extensive purchase
for the Broad street lady.