Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-10-11
NASHVILLE IN rHERAoE WEEK.

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combine little amusement with it
and, having done 50, the next thing
in order was to make our trip
amusing to our readers If possible
I Our only stopping-place on the
way was Guthrie, and our sojourn
there was very brief, the best thing
that can be said about it. The rest
of the journey was entirely devoid
of sensation, except perhaps that
one grits ones teeth little in going
down the ridge. Have our readers,
by the way, ever noticed in them
selves or in others when going over
a ticklish place in cars or carriage,
tendency to unconsciously grasp
something with vigor? We believe
| the tendency is universal. We
were once descending the ridge
with a young lady who had not
seen il before. When we came to
the steepest grade, and the ir0n
horse groaned with his efforts, she
turned little pale and seized our
arm convulsively. She was not in
the least aware of it; still less did
she know that her delicate little
finger-nails were sticking at least a
quarter of an inch into the integu-
ments of our forearm. We bore it,
of course, with a martyrs fortitude,
and when we arrived on level
ground she suddenly withdrew her
hand, exclaiming, "Why / have
been holding your arm all this time
4 am sure l beg pardon" "It
was pleasure" was of course the
reply. "But must have hurt you,
didn't II" "Not in the least"-de-
liberately lying, for those finger
nails left delightful souvenir of
our trip for some days. Let us
acknowledge that we would be will
ling now to renew the lease on the
same terms. She is married now
and the mother of large family,
and perhaps this Renaissance may
meet her eyes and afford her a
pleasant laugh.
Soon after passing Edgefield June
ton we were accosted by person
who Introduced himself as the rep
resentative of The City Transfer
Company; he talked very much as
IL he owned every vehicle in Nash
vile that ruas 'if'n wheels. We
want to N;tfI oar readers against
him, aud 50 sail describe what
took place. He sold us a yellow
ticket. Reader, avoid this yellow
ticket as you would an adder in
your path. This was to convey US
with safety and dispatch to what
ever part of the city we might
require in any one of the coaches,
chariots, baronches, Omnibuses, etc.,
etc, which this company COM
mands in profusiOn. On alighting
we were referred to a respectable
looking hack with three other vic
Tins. On enquiry we found that
one of them was bound to the Chat
tanOoga depot, another to distant
point on South Spruce street, third
Ga medical suddenly to the Univer-
sity building; our own destination
was the Maxwell House. 1t would
have taken five minutes to drive us
there, but our Jehu took us the
whole round of the other passen-
gers destinations, afull hours ride,
and then returned to within four |
hundred yards of his starting point |
to set us down at the Maxwell |
House. Moral-On the railroad |
from Edgefield Junction to Nash
vile, beware of fiends with yellow
tickets for sale.
Arrived at the Maxwell in time |
for dinner. The Maxwell is now in
the hands of a joint stock company.
AS a Nashville hotel does not gen.
orally appear to advantage during
race week, we will not pass judg-
ment on it till we have tried it
again.
After dinner we started for the
race-course. Let not the reader
look for "Sporting Intelligence in
this article. In witnessing a horse
race it is the horses that interest us;
the men whom they manage to
assemble round them are generally
not favorable specimens of the hu-
man race, which shows to a disad-
vantage when contrasted with
picked samples of the equine race.
We saw horses there who were
and men who were
semi-brutal. We prefer the horses.
One of the races we witnessed was
dead heat between two beautiful
animals whose noble emulation as
they approached the winning post
was to us an OBJECT of intense inter-
est. This interest was rather i'm
paired, however, by the unmerciful
lashing they were getting from the
Jockeys who were riding them.
There! we had better not go on, 1t
has become sufficiently evident that
our sporting editor is not at home
and that this writer does not APP
proach the subject from a sports
mans point of view. The truth is
that betting on horse-races takes all
the poetry out of the thing, when
the painting eagerness of the noble
animals is reduced to the sordid
of winning or losing
money on them.
What we have said, however,
about the human participants in
this sport must be interpreted on
the principle of averages. We have
known some of natures noblemen
who were passiOnately devoted to
the turf, and, apropOs of the present
occasion, it was our good fortune to
ride to the course in the same hack