Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-15
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The numerous friends of Sergeant Burke
will regret to learn of the death Of his only
child.
The Tulip Street Mite Society will meet
at the residence of Mrs. G. n. Morrison, on
Russell street, Edge6eld, this evening.
Robert Bartlett, whose exploits with a
knife were published in our paper of Sun
day, was fined S25 by Judge Duling yes
terday.
Officers Massey and Jackson deserve
great credit for their success in finding and
arresting VIM. Gatlin, charged with the
murder Of Samuel Haslam.
While panels were being put up at the
Exposition Building yesterday, the scafiold-
ing fell with a carpenter and a colored
workman, badly hurting the latter's foot.
If you have any old books you don't
want, send them to the City Library, at
which place several donations of this kind
have been received recently, among others
a fine collection from Ed l. Golladay.
At a rattle which came off at ConcOrdia
Hall last night, for the benefit Of the
Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society, a Ene
silver ice pitcher and goblets were won by
Mr.. n. Jacobus.
The indictments disposed of the Crimi-
nal Court yesterday were mainly in assault
and battery cases, none of them developing
any very serious consequences, o requirine
infection of very heavy penalties.
To a citizen who applied for a quarters
worth of sugar on space, a grocer testify
| said. swe keep no books" "And not
much of anything else,' was the sarcastic
answer of the sighted applicant.
Persons who use coal oilfOr illuminating
purposes, begin to see the utility and
| greater safety of metal lamps, as compared
with glass lamps. With ordinary care
there can not be much danger about a good
metal lamp.
Last Saturday Dewitt DobsOn, a co'ored
man. living on Judge East's farm, six miles
from the city on the Chicken pike, can. tC
Nashville with a load of watermelons and
r~oasting-ears. His wife was in the city
looking for him yesterday, he having failed
to return home.
John Charlton and Jack Dolin, both col
ored, got into a dispute near Rev. Nelson
G. Merry's church, Il a late hour Saturday
night. when Charlton hit Dolin between
the eyes with a brick, inficting a severn
wound, which may prove fatal. Charlton
gave himself up and is in Jail.
A short distance south of Athens, yester
day morning, as the train from Decatur wa
coming this way, a ball went crashing
through 4 window of one Of the cars
Fortunately no one was seated on eithe
side. The shot is supposed to have beef
fired by some distant huntsman, who dl'
not see the train.
The UNION AND AMERICAN has receiv
ed. with the compliments of J. j. Venable
| L --,l l4nHar nj fhn nrNCEnNln H0
tel, a bill of fare of the banquet to be giV
en- TO the Pork Packers Association o
Louisville at the Louisville Hotel. In
bill is printed on saGin and neatly bound
and bears a number of appropriate htho
graphic embellishments.
Yesterday afternoon a star was distinct,
visible, seemingly in very close proximit.
to the new moon. At dusk, the star shOn
with unusual b~rilliance, and was eve,
nssrsr the moon than during the day. I
bright little West Nashville boy notice.
this fact, and called cut; sMamma, com
here. Here's a star and the meoE cOmiI
together, and 1 think the moOnll bust tn
star all to smash; don't your
last Saturday night a young man OF thi
city repaired 70 his o accompanied by
|. friend whom he had invited % sleep wit
him. Striking a light, he was astollsle
to find that his bed and all the bedding ha
been removed by some ~kleptOmaniael
hand. A free use of scriptural languaa
was INDUCED in, but, strange to say, Oh
not result in the temperance Of the mis-;
Ing furniture, and the owner of the rOOI
was compelled 70 seek lodgings elsewher
for himself and proposed guest. dill
gent search yesterday vac re- sr'
Ell by the discovery Of the afOr
said bed and bedding in
secondhand furniture store, the propriet'
o. With stated that they had been 'tspOu
: ed WITH hiui Saturday afternoon, the dep
sitor FeoeiFIng theulf0f $40. The furn
ture man gave the name OF tie iEdiyidu
, from whom he had received the propert.
and insisted upon having refunded Il
money he had advanced.