Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-08
ALL OVER THE CITY.

The bell striker for the fire alarm tele-
graph was put up on the Square yesterday.
II is reported that Ariel intends to de-
liver few lectures this season in Nashville
on the book Of Genesis.
Diptheria, aggravated by Group, has made
its appearance in Edgefeld, proving fatal
with two or three children.
The employees in this city of the Louis
vile, Nashville and Great Southern Rail-
way were paid off yesterday.
Three wires were kept busy all the after
noon, yesterday, bringing to Nashville the
Presidents remarks to Congress,
Two Of our largest steamers put into the
port of Nashville yesterday heavily laden
with produce from the upper Cumberland.
The Federal Court was not in session
yesterday. There are few cases set for
to-day, which Judge Trigg will hear, to-
gether with any others that may come up.
Wiley Mayfel1, sincerely regretting that
he ever married, is now seeking in the Law
Court, divorce from his wife, Mary May
field.
Owing to confusion about the time and
place of assembling, the officers of the
State Teachers Association failed TO hold a
meeting yesterday.
About the last of January, the Mendels-
sohn Quintette Club, of Boston, will give
two concerts in this city, if negotiations
now pending prove successful.
There are two lady aspirants for the posi-
ton of engroSsing clerk of the State Sen
ate. Where is the young man who will
dare announce himself a candidate for that
Office?
A meeting of the Cotton Exchange is
called for 81 O'Clock this morning, and the
members are notified to be on hand
promptly, as business OF importance viii
come up.
1t being the occasion of the opening of
the Supreme Court, many representatives
of the bar of Middle Tennessee were to be
seen in the city yesterday. Quite a num-
Der were present from Shelbyville.
On the 22d inst. the new Odd Fellows
Temple will be opened with a grand con-
cert, under the management of Mr.. John
Ashford, in which most OF our popular
singers will participate. From the arrange
ments being made, this will be a notable
affair.
The telegraph line is being removed from
Front to College street, along which thor
oughfare large cedar poles are being erect
ed, and will prove not only useful, but Or
namental also. The fire alarm telegraph
wire will be attached to these poles.
James Sumner, a we'll known colored
man of this city, who commanded col
ored company in Brownlow's militia, died
Sunday at the residence of his father, VIM.
Sumner. The burial occurred yesterday,
and was attended by the cOlored benevolent
societies.
The following articles were won by the
parties named at the late Jewish Fair, and
have not been called for: Rug, table 6,
Thomas KendricL; fish globe, table 6, Mr..
Dougdale; pair of birds, table 6, N. NJ.
Brien, Jr.; chrome, table 3, Mr.. Valentine;
child's Afghan, tables l and 2, P. jock.
The new regime at the city workhouse
has been in operation Just month, during
which time those of our citizens who have
sought retirement at that secluded retreat
have broken 5,l72 bushels of stone, and
have put in 403B days work on the streets.
AT the rate paid the street hands, this work
will pay the running expenses Of the work
house for a month, and, with the cash value
of the broken stone, leave profit OF over
500. There were thirty-one hands out on
the streets yesterday.
The session of the Supreme Court which
begun yesterday will be one of unusual in
terest, as a number of important cases will
be disposed of. Convicted prisoners, who
have appealed their cases, are being brought |
in from all portions of the State and lodged
in Jail here, pending hearing OF their re-
spective cases by the tribunal which, in
some instances, is the sole barrier inter-
posed between themselves and the gallows. |
Who can picture the intense feeling of |
anxiety with which these men will await |
he decision Of this court of last resort?
Ii is settled at last. After lengthy and |
earned discussion, the "Sylvan Debating |
Society" decided last Saturday night that |
he whites were justifable in driving the |
indians from their hunting grounds, and |
now we trust there will be no more idle |
md improbable discussion on this subject. |
At the meeting referred to, the Society |
elected the following named their officers |
or the ensuing term: T. II. McNish, |
President; G. II. Plummer, Vice Presi- |
lent; James Vaughn, Secretary; Albert |
Irisham, critic; George Childress, sergeant
It-arms.
Our citizens generally will be rejOiced to |
earn that the management of the Spruce, |
Broad and Cedar street lines of street rail- |
way have cut down fare to five cents on |
hose lines. No more dollar tickets will /
Ne sold, and no advantage to the purchaser
will result from buying tickets for smaller
ums. This is as it should be, and we not /
Dnly hope, but predict, that the receipts on
hese lines will not show a decrease at the
nd of the incoming year, while the reduc-
ion of fare will be appreciated and taken
dvantage of by hundreds of poor people
ThO, after the labors of the day, are in alb
Olute need of the rest ride to their homes
7ill afford, but who are unable TO pay the
are heretofore exacted. In nearly every
ity in the Union, nickel pays for a ride
n the street cars, and when one visits a
ity where it does not, he is unfavorably
at once.