Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-15
ALL OVER THE CITY.

There are at present forty-eight inmates
at the county Jail.
Several bills for divorce were yesterday
filed in the Law Court.
A forty-five dollar stove was placed in
the Chancery Court room yesterday.
Some of the courthouse officials now
improve their leisure hours by shooting
pigeons with air-gnns.
A petition is in circulation praying for
the repeal of the regrating law. 1t has
been numercusly signed.
If you picked up the child'S necklace and
bracelet on the street yesterday. you viii
find the owner at the First National Bank.
Mir. Isaac Lytton left at the UNION AND
AMERICAN Office yesterday a couple of
yam potatoes, weighing, together, twelve
pounds.
Several large droves of sheep and COWS
passed through the city yesterday. They
were for the most part in very fine can
dition.
Wild lOcusts, winter grapes, pumpkins
and PeFsimmOns are in market, as ripe and
luscious tributes to the inaugural Of the
frosty king.
There is an active demand for stove
pipes and stOyepipe hatS-t@o present
requisites to personal comfort and fashion
able style.
Artesian wells are now all the rage in
the tenth district. Nearly every citizen
in that vicinity IS having one bored upon
his premises.
The case of j. c. Knight and r. Il. Ma
son, now confined in Jail on the charge OF
horse-stealing, was taken before the grand
jury yesterday.
The scholastic population Of Chatham
county was reported to the State Superin-
tendent yesterday, being 2,Oo7-white,
1896, eolOred, 491.
Lewis Williams, a colored ex-convict,
charged with burglary and cOnspiring to
commit murder, was released from jail,
yesterday, by Justice Everett.
Henry Cherry, cclored, convicted fol
petit larceny, and sentenced for Is months,
was delivered at the penitentiary yesterday
by Sheriff Moore, of Henry county.
The present. hay appearance of the at
mOsphere indicates the approach of Indian
summer, or that people in the mountains
are building big fires under numerous chest
nut trees.
Only one arrest was made up to p. NJ.
yesterday, and that was the case of Gen
eral Smith, colOred, taken into custody by
Sergeant Tignor, for leaving his hacL
without driver.
A large number of ministers were at the
Methodist Publishing House yesterday,
when a negro from the Rural sun Office
came in and inquired what grunge wa;
holding a meeting.
There is to be a wedding in town this
morning-the contracting parties to which
are a young West Tennessee merchan
and a Memphis belle, who is visiting nea
relative in the city.
Mr.. Jas. NJ. Moulton, of the firm o
Young & Starlight, presented his compli
ments, in the shape of a vessel of fine
favored Robertson, to a party of the Expo
sition people yesterday-for which the sale
party tip their glasses to the health OF Mr.
MOulton.
Amanda Allen, colo red. was arrested a
tie instance of Edmond Minchen, colored
and arraigned before Justice Cassetty, yes
terday, on the charge of malicious mis-
chief. She was committed to Jail, but wa
afterward released on giving bond in the
sum of $3.50 to keep the peace for sil
months.
a certain beggar has become an insti;u
ton in the city by stationing himself ever
afternoon at the corner of the Fedora
Courthouse, Summer and Cedar streets
His invariable but meek salutation TO per
sons passing is, "Help me five cents, please
sir" which is uttered more like low mOal
than a request. He is an old STOPPED
darkey, apparently blind, with spe"iacle'
and stick, and is decidedly a pitiable oh
ieCt.
A newly welded couple, from some verl
rural district, came TO the city the othe
day for the purpose of visiting tie Exposi
tiOn. After stroll of a couple of hour
through the maTket-houSe, they emerged
curiosity stated, but declaring mutual,
that the Exposition was a grand thing
better than it had ever been before, Som
one, observing their ecstacy, and perceivin
the cause, kindly volunteered the informa
tion that it was only the market-house tina
they had been taking on over, when the
silently and bluShingly stole away, and re
tired, without delay, from the noise an
hustle of city life.