Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-16
ALL OVER THE CITY.


The Board of Managers of the Cotton
Exchange hold meeting this morning at
nine O'Clock.
1t has been many day since Broad and
Market streets presented such a scene OF
commercial animation as on yesterday.
Andrew jackson vs.. Fannie Jackson, is
the style of divorce suit entered in the
Law Court yesterday. The lisigants are
colored.
Our local bulls and bears, of the cotton
fraternity, were betting hats yesterday on
the question whether s1eotton has touched
bottOm.D
Mr.. Leichhart is about to commence
building fine residence at the corner Of
Market and Locust streets, opposite his
drugstore.
Gases of malignant sore throat are now
more numerous than at any other time for
years past, and many of them do not readily
yield to medical treatment.
As the holidays approach, shopkeepers
are filling their show-windows with every
thing calculated to please the older heads,
or gladden. the hearts of the little folks.
Workmea were employed yesterday in
removing the debris from the house OF Z.
II. Stockell & Co., Broad street, in which
the destructive fire occurred last Saturday
night.
The plans and specifications for the
erection of building at the work-hOuse,
to be used as headquarters for the police
force, are now on exhibition at the station
house, where they may be examined by
contractors.
The building on the east side Of the
Square, which was destroyed by fire about
the first of November, is being rebuilt. The
foundation has been completed, the joists
put in, and the brick work will be COM
menced at once.
The men engaged in the erection of tel
egraph poles are considerably annoyed by
children, who gather around the places
where they are at WORK, eagerly watching the
process ofgetting the poles in position, re-
gardless of danger from falling timbers.
Officer John Massey, who was badly hurt
by fall two weeks ago, was able to be out
on the street yesterday, and will go on duty
in few days. Though quite young, he is
one of the most efficient members of the
police force.
A we'll known broker of the city, who is
interested in the cotton market, paid
visit to the Exchange yester-
day for the purpose, as he recorded opposite
his name on the visitors register, of obtain
ing consolation" He got it, but only in
an infinitesimal dose.
Thirty-ive of the offenders in the work
house are employed in cleaning up the
streets and ditching the city cemetery.
These law-breakers have been put to such
good use in repairing the streets, that 1t has
been decided to dispense with number Of
the regular street force.
Business at the work-house appears TO be
moving along very smoothly. The pris-
oners are, with very few exceptions, in
healthy condition. They do not seem
much disposed to complain because Of the
tasks assigned them, and yield ready obedi-
ence to the discipline Of the prison.
OF the forty-fiye grunters recently taken
I'D aud nut in the work-house by City Nal
shal Pitman and his brigade, all were re-
deemed by their owners except fourteen
small pigs which were sold for 1896 last
Monday. Marshal Pitman says he intends
to enforce the hog law TO the letter.
There was diminutiVe jubilee amongst
our cotton factors yesterday morning, when
the dispatch came from New York stating
that cultures" were up quarter of a cent.
Some OF those who have been
carrying ucdu lOdu Vi TIE Ss11DiC III SbAnC
time threw up their hats in delight. But
Monday vas blue day in cotton circles.
Policemen are daily called upon to arrest
persons for using hydrant water without
license. The fines usually assessed IN such
cases would gofar Iwards paying annually
for the water privilege, and, if properly ap-
pied, would do much towards saving I'M
necessary trouble and expense. Ii seems,
however, that rough experience only can
impress some people with the idea that the
right way is, after all, the best and cheap
est way.
The work of putting up the apparatus
for the fire alarm telegraph is proceeding
in a satisfactory manner, and would have
been completed before this time but for the
difficulty experienced in making excava-
tiOns for the poles. When in working
order, the new system Of alarm will prove
an efficient auxiliary and great convenience
to the fire department. The boxes, fiom
which to turn on alarms, will be located at
prominent points throughout the city, and
citizens living convenient 10 them supplied
with keys. Each member Of the police