Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-08
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

| The 81. Louis Globe meditatively re-
marks: That new Frisco hotel will be a
| temptation TO earthquakes.
The Chattanooga Commercial man
| certainly went out of the way to find fault
with local singer, when he wrote: There
may be notes which he cannot sound fully
and smoothly, but we have not heard him
attempt them.
We learn from an exchange that bride
Of fifteen and groom of seventeen man
aged to astOnish quartet of Michigan pa
rents recently.
The following popular sample" is going
the rounds: Broker-How are you off for
money this morning? Cashier am off
with what little there was in the bank.
Good by.
st. Louis thieves carry red pepper when
engaged in professional pursuits, which
cOndiment they throw in shopkeeper's eyes
if the latter offer any resistance.
A Louisville coal dealer says that he will
give five hundred bushels of coal to the
poor of Louisville if the other coal dealers
OF the city will do the same.
In a murder trial now in progress at
HarrodsbQrg, KY, the principal witnesses
make their appearance in the courtroom
fully armed and equipped.
A st. Louis thief has been brought to
grief by his attempt to steal hot stove.
\ Louisville reporter undertook to inter
view woman who arrived in that city in
search of truant husband who was locked
up in the Louisville Jail. She received the
reporter cordially, but greeted all his skill
fully put questions with the response: "The
least said, the better"
Says the AtchisoE, (RansdS, Globe: While
the soldiers were digging up the dead at old
Fort kearney, a few days since, one coffin
was taken up that was literally filled with
snakes. Some wag remarked that it was
plain enough what that fellow died Off
The following startling paragraph is pub
lished: DistilleTs say that the continued
demand for increased piquancy 10 their
whisky cam OF be granted unless iron bar
rels are employed, as the quantity of oil of
vitriOl already used burns through the
wooden slaves.
We are pleased to learn, as we do from
an exchange, that the editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle denies that he has three
wives, and is about TO marry the fourth
He didn't win hundred thousand dollars
at cards, never tried to smoke his snuff-box
and doesn't write his own editorials.
In the course Of a very unfavOrable, but
yet righteous criticism of that arrant fraud,
Eli Perkins, an exchange propOunds this:
Had not the West, with its usual exuber-
ance, hurled adiectives after him from town
TO town, and when starving man in Chi |
cago made public appeal for something to |
do, had not the Northwest risen up as one |
man and begged him to kill Perkins for the |
good of society before the next lecture sea-
son commenced?
Ms. Harriet Beecher Stowe came down |
with us to-day from her estate of Mandarin |
on tie Mary Draper TO Jacksonville. When |
we touched at Mandarin she was standing |
on the wharf with her two daughters. young |
ladies to whom no good looks have been /
and whose age l could not guess.
| was disappointed in the appearance of the
famous lady. She wears her many years /
well, and is very active. Her face does |
not lack character, but there is nothing in
the least intellectual about it.-Philddel-
phid Press Letter.