Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-27
OVER TIE CITY.


"A new pair Of track scales were put up
at the Southeastern shops yesterday.
Nashville Girl is entered for the coming
races at Utica Park, II. Y. The premiums
amount TO $50, GOO.
The Cooke Rifles will meet tonight for
the purpose of electing officers. IL is de-
sired that a full attendance be on hand.
There were no calabOOse prisoners to be
taken up to the Recorders Court yesterday
morning, which is a very unusual thing for
Monday.
Martha Brown, colored, was sent to the
county work-h0use by Justice Butler yes
terday, to await trial this morning, on the
charse of assault and battery.
Judge FERRIS yesterday sent little deaf
and dumb boy, six years old, to the county
wOrk-hOuse for protection until better
home could be provided for him.
Mary Burlington, a chronic case in the
Police Court, was picked up by Officer
Bolton yesterday while drunk on the street.
She was placed behind the bars till she
could recover trJm The effect of the tOddies
she had taken.
Justice Maxey has procured q copy Of
the minutes Of the last term Of the COun-
ty Court. He belongs to the section which
ultEL5 Al1AL OElOtCAs IL - bAAUAE4N IL ID
preparing TO make it lively for persons and
things generally at that time.
VIM. Fox was arrested by officer Starkey
and taken before Justices Csssetty and
Creighton Yesterday, on the charge of steal
ing Sl2 from the person Of w. I. StOyall.
In default Of a bond Of $500 he was COM
mitted to jail for trial tomorrow morning.
"Old South Carolina a Jehu whose
whereabouts has, perhaps, been a subject of
wonder to some people for a few months
past, has turned up again in the city. He
says he has been back to his native Pal
metlO State, sand don't You forget it."
Some stalks OF German millet were
brought TO our office yesterday from the
fai m Of w. 7. Henderson, in Rutherford
county. They were six feet or more in
height and bore blades almost like corn
fodder and heads like nubbins. II was rs
rich looking plant as We have ever seen.
Several persons saw floating down the
river yesterday, what they took 10 be wheat
or oats in the shock, and one gentleman de-
clares he saw wateTmelons going down.
We understand that a good deal of straw
was thrown overheard from an ice barge at
the upper wharf, which may have been
taken for wheat and oats below. The
Cumberland was rising, but was not as
high as il was few days ago.
Not for Good TemplaTs. Take the
head from a keg, fill it with the hand
soonest ripe peaches, put in all the whisky
it will hold, then head it up again. In
winter they will be found beautifully pre-
served, with the bloom all on, and with a
slight soaking and scalding in syrup, they
are 4 delicious accompaniment to ice
cream, far superior to any branded peaches.
The peach-whisky which remains will be
found excellent for mince pies aud pudding
sauce.
In his rounds yesterday reporter stum-
bled on a late paper from WauseOn, o., a
town, perhaps, less than q quarter Of
century old, in northwestern Ohio, giving
4 sensational acc INT of a stabbing alfray,
as being the first affair Of the kind that
ever occurred in that place. True says
the editor, ''we have had our quarrels, and
even fights, but the knife or revolver has
never, until recently, been resOrted to-"
The reporter thought that if he were in
any other business but his own be would
move directly TO that burg.