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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
MURDER in DeKaIb County.

The McMinnville Ne10 Era says chat on
Saturday night last about twelve miles
from that place in the edge of DeKalb
county, Goodberry Kirby shot and NOR
tally wounded S. Cotton, under the fol-
lowing circumstances: Kirby is understood
to be a notorious horse-thief, and was
charged with stealing some mules belong
ing in the neighborhood, and the Sheriff
of DeKalb learning of his whereabouts,
summoned posse of men to assist him
in the capture knowing him to be des-
perate character. Among the number thus
summoned was Mr.. Cotton. When the
posse proceeded to the capture of Kirby
he fired upon them, his shot taking effect
as above stated. He made his escape, and
has not since been arrested. There is a
reward of 5000 offered for his capture.
Kirby is about five feet eight inches, black
eyes and hair, but little beard On his face,
tolerably dark skin. He is reported to have
committed number of depredatiOns dur
ing the war, and was at one time SEN
fenced to be hung at Glasgow, but escaped
from jail some weeks before his execution
was to have taken place. A party Of men
are in pursuit, and express a determine
ton to bring him TO justice.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

as they seem TO be, we can see no pros
pect of better prices prevailing that warrant
the withholding of the staple from the mar
ket. The probabilities, indeed, are the
other way.
The condition of much of the grain now
held Is such that some Of the best opera
tors regard it as very doubtful whether it
can be handled safely, as soon as warm
weather shall set in, unless it is kept NOV
ing and passes into immediate consump-
ton. Hence, for these reasons, there is
little doubt but that the amount of wheat
that viii be thrown and even pressed upon
the market during the months of April,
May and June, will largely exceed that of
any former year. If so, the markets will
doubtless be glutted, and every one can
judge what are likely to be the prices that
will prevail Such are the views enter
tanned by most if not all the leading West
ern grain merchants, and they seem to be
well founded. Under all the circumstances,
there seems to be but little wisdom in
holding wheat for a rise, low as are the
prices that can be realized at the present
time.-NeIo York Commercial BuUetia.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
LOCAL YARIET1Es.


The weather yesterday was immensely
damp and che streets unusually muddy.
The gloom of the day was thick enough to
be felt.
The arrival of suspicious looking char
acters in the city within the past few days
has been unusually large for the season.
Why this thusness? Can general con-
vention at this point of the { lifting gen.
try be the explaining event
Mr.. E. B. Luttrell, Assistant Postmaster
at Knoxville Tenn, for the past six years,
has been removed by an order from Wash
ington.
People took as naturally to street cars
Yesterday, as goslings do to creek branches
in the spring time. 1t is an i'll rain that
doesn't do some good to something.
An exchange triumphantly notes the fact
that citizen in the western part of Its
town is adjoining his home with line O
shade trees, and then POLITICALLY adds
Westward the star of progress takes it,
way"
A little son of Mr. McOarty was drowned
at GAINESVILLE last Sunday by falling into ;
barrel of water.
In Washington county, Indiana, few
days ago, Lewis Laird shot and MORALLY
wounded Marion Payne, and is now be-
lieved to be concealed somewhere III Tho
vicinity of Salem. They were both refu-
gees, one from Tennessee and the othel
from Alabama or Georgia.
A Washington dispatch, received at
late hour last night says considerable ex
element is caused there by the reported
arrest of the Republican members of tn
Tennessee Legislature. If any member @
our General Assembly has been arreste,
for sedition, conspiracy, or other crime
we have not yet heard of it. Somebod
here has been ,hoaxing somebody at Wash
ton.
The Memphis Chamber of Commerce
has appointed a committee to take steps {,
have the Merchants Tax Law repealed
and also appointed an agent to canvas
Arkansas in the interest of the Kansas Cit,
Railroad.
Several big droYes of mules arrived il
the city yesterday by the Louisville an
Nashville Railroad, en- route for Souther
markets. Speaking of mules, we may ad
that sales of mules were made in Bourbon
county, Ky, last week, at the rate of eighty
five dollars per head for yearlings and $40
for two-year olds.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
GLEANINGS
To kill time-slcigh it.

To kill time-slcigh it.
Joint education-gymnastics.
How to fire and fall back-get a gun
that kicks.
| Aman can get his throat cut in Chicago
| for six dollars.
/ Hint to q lovcT-to succeed as a sutton,
! you must suit her well.
A Chicago Justice has fined Napoleon
DOnaparte Sl5 for beating his wife.
Out West, a man who keeps a gentle
mems furnishing store is called Shirt
| ist."
The Buffalo Express says that the live
lest business in that city ow-a-days is
the free lunch trade.
Teachers of shorthand don't thrive very
well now a-days. Most people are short
handed enough already.
The medical students of Michigan Uni
versity are so TapaciOus for subjects
that Ann Arbor people don't dare TO die.
Mr. Simms says that if il wasn't for the
hole in the hoop you couldn't put it on
the barrel, and the barrel would burst.
Lodgcr-''Somebody called in my alb
sence did he leave any name? 2" Mary
ooh, yes, sir, he said it was immaterial."
An Indiana editor abused a man to the
extent of half column, and stated next
week that it was a slip Of the pen.
An Iowa farmer lately sent a letter to
the Patent Office, asking if he could get
patent on Gan improved mode of making
fried cakes.
The latest dodge Of confidence men is
to make their checks payable to the order
of their victim, and then oil the back so
that he cannot endorse it.
A loafcr left his wife in a rage, telling
her that he would never come back till
he was rich enough to come in a carriage.
For once he kept his word, being trun-
died home in whcclbarr0w.
A Cincinnati pork dealer couldn't stand
the pressure Of a crowd of girls who
were begging for a church fair, so he
gave them lot Of live hogs. The girls
drove them away in high glee.
Greeley tells this storyabout a man who
got drunk on cologne water, and we
might believe il if he had not added that
the pcrfumery was taken from MS Gree
ley's) trunk.
The Hartford COUrdHt tantalizes its
readers with this atrocity: 'Have you
heard of the man who got shotl Got
shotl No, how did he get shot? He
bought EN-"
An English enthusiast is soliciting
funds for an exploration of Mount Ararat,
with a view of recovering relies Of the
Ark. His petition is filed IL the arkeo-
logical department Of the British
Museum.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
ORIEUARY.

EDWARD BRADFoRD was born in Fauquier coun-
ty, Virginia in 1901, removed with his parents to
Tennessee when but child, and the family settled
the Woodland place, then but cane-brake, Just
back Of the present Dr. Berry place, near this city
He grew up with the growth Of our people and the
city, and by industry and energy he had amassed
nIe estate, which was wasted by the ravages Of the
war, his fine residence having been riddled by the
Cannonading during the battle of Nashva while his
fine Arkansas farms were despoiled by the soldiery
Of both armies, By an accident he was deprived in
early life Of an eye, and from sympathy with It, the
other eye was lost also, and thus deprived of til.
great blessing Of sight he passed the last ten
for several years during the war almost wholly
alone in Arkansas
He was highly esteemed by all who know him, as
one our best citizens, and il any one trait in his
excellent character more distinguishable than
any other it his love Of reracity and his sterI
ing integrity. He was the last of fourteen chill
dren-the last link that bound the past to the pres
ent! r.
Feb. II, 1870.
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Criminal Court.

The reader will remember the kidnap-
ping case heard last Tuesday, before Jus.
tee Blskette, and fully described in our
issue of Wednesday morning By the
order Of Justice Baskette, the two children
who had been seized by their mother
Caledonia Nelson, were restowed to the
care and keeping of Henry Hamblin, their
father. Yesterday a writ of habeas corpus
was sworn out by the mother, and the APP
plication was argued at length before
Judge Smith. The Court refused 10 grant
it, and the children are TO remain with
their father
Edward Scruggs, charged with malici-
GUS shooting, was put upon his trial, and
jury obtained, and the witnesses sworn.
VIM. Fillett is the prosecutor. This is the
shooting case that occurred at the fair
grounds, near the city last fall.
A capias was issued for a colored man
named Toney Brown, who lately married,
and in less than a week ingloriously ran
away, taking of with him, the Sunday
harness and boots of his esteemed brother
in-law The supposition is that Toney
abides for the present, at Clarksvllle, and
the strong arm of the law reaches in that
direction for his person.
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ANornEs nIrIs sacaHFIoED.
Fatal Work OF the Whisky FIend-
A Wife and Mother Shot amd Kill
ed by her Husband.


A Wife and ElOther Shot and Kill
ed by her Husband.
Wednesday morning last we briefly an
nounced that man (whose name was not
given living near McWhirtersville IN this
county, had the day before shot and seri-
riously wounded his wife, while crazy from
strong drink. On the day of the unfortu
nate occurrence, the guilty man, whose
name is Thomas Noctom, was taken before
jeremiah Bowen, Esq, by whom he was
committed to jail He was brought to
prison in wagon, being at the
time too drunk to either walk
or ride a horse. A day. and night
had expired after his commit
ment, before he realized where he was,
or at all conscious of the terrible circum-
stance which had so recently occurred in
his own home, and in which he had enacted
SO dreadful and prominent part. Mrs,
Noctom died yesterday morning OF the
wounds inflicted by her husband-two pis-
toll shots, each in the heart-and the Cor
oner, p w. Brien, Esq, was summoned to
hold an inquest. The Coroner had not re-
turned to the city at a late hour
yesterday evening, and we are there
fore not able to give the verdict.
We presume, however, that it Will not
differ materially from the state OF facts APP
pearing in the hearing had before Justice
Bowen. When intelligence OF his wife
death was last night impaired to the plis-
oner. he seemed overwhelmed and I'M
manned by grief. Sinking down upon a
rude chair in his cell, exclaiming, Did
do this? Did LIDO this awful thing?" and
covering his face with his hand, he wept
bitterly, now and then repeating the names
of his wife and children Terrible agony
was depicted.in the features of the unhap-
DIV man, and the strong walls of his prison
house were not thick enough to confine
the sound of his lamentations.
The scene was an agonizing one, and in
itself the most potent temperance lecture
that could possibly be delivered. The wit
ness of one such scene would be worse
than mortal if he desired to see another
like it. The dead wife and mother, Mrs
Noctom, is spoken of by those who knew
her, as having been an industrious and pru
dent woman, strongly devoted to hei
family, and never quarrelsome or conten
tious. She leaves five children, one an In
FAINT three months old. 1t is supposed they
have no kins-people in this part Of the
country. The family resided about sever
miles distant from the city, on the line o
the Tennessee and Pacific railroad, andhaC
been living at that point but short time
Now the mother is dead-the father IN {
prison cell for her murder, and the chill
dren, more than doubly orphaned. Goo
help them
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

We have received several notes recently
in regard to local items and other matters
of interest, written by men of sense, too,
the writing Of which was in such q hand
that We could scarce transcribe the manu-
script. We do wish that our friends would
consider for a moment that Shakespeare 5
remark eff 'twere well done, 'twere done
quickly, does not mean that if 'twere done
quickly 'twere well done. It is no mark of
talent or genius, between which there is a
wide distinction, on the part of those who
can write, to send manuscript, long or
short, TO papers, expecting its publication,
it looking like fish hooks dipped in ink
had been scattered over the pages, or the
claws Of some uncaged and fretful bird
drawn by the tail, after being at a mud
puddle, across the smooth surface. In
portant or unimportant, if worth writing at
all, II is worth writing plainly. Those who
favor us with their correspondence or other
matters Will please bear this in mind
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
Music and NIirIh.

The weather last night, although forbid
dinghy inclement, was not enough so to
prevent the assembly of a crowded house
at The Academy of Music. The new songs,
charming dancing, understanding wonders
lately introduced at the Academy are
nightly attracting to that place of amuse-
ment crowded audiences. The enterpris-
ing proprietors are determined to make the
place still more worthy the liberal patron
age now bestowed, and are making their
preparations with a view TO accomplishing
that purpose Merit deserves success. and
buth.are and viii be theirs.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
The Future of the wheat Market

| INC O1 khc ~ neat MARKET.
The probable condition of the wheat
market during the next three or four months
| is a question of great interest to both deal.
ers and producers. In most respects, the
! season thus far has been an unsatisfactory
one to all classes except consumers, and its
influence on trade generally has been I'M
| favorable, giving rise to serious forebodings
for the immediate future. A very large
amount of the yield of 1869 has already
been placed upon the market and passed
into consumption, while the exports have
reached unusual figures, aggregating TO-
600, 900 bushels since Sept. l, against B.
$50, 900 bushels up to the same date for
1869. Notwithstanding this free move
ment In the staple, the stocks held at the
large grain centers at the West are exceed
ingly heavy. In Chicago the amount in
store Is nearly 3,200,0 900 bushels, and at
Milwaukee 1000, 900, and it is steadily in
creasing at all points, while farmers every
where are also large holders. The fact that
producers have turned spectators has
worked much injury to trade generally.
Western jobbers are complaining that col
lections are exceedingly difficult, while in
turn the burden is lifted from the shoulders
of the country merchant and laid upon
those of the farmers. 1t is said the latter
have wheat, but will not sell at current
prices to pay store debts. As partial re-
suit of such action on their part, trade is
much depressed, and failures are occurring
more or less all over the country, all Of
which exert reflex influence in creating a
gloomy and respondent feeling in business
circles.
In view of these facts it becomes q ques-
ton of serious importance whether hold
ers, farmers or middlemen are acting wisely
in refusing present prices, and whether by
such a course they are notmaking it certain
that prices will be still lower in the spring,
thus bringing no relief to themselves and
infiicting still greater injury upon the trade
generally. 1t should be remembered that
the markets everywhere at points of con-
sumption are holding more than their usual
stocks, and will do so at the opening of the
spring trade, when the grain still held back |
must be moved. There is no pro pect of a !
foreign war, or any other disturbance that !
will create an unusual demand, while the |
crops everywhere, now upon the ground, !
so far as reports are received, are looking |
favorable. With these facts well established, !
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SUGAR-We note another decline as
follows: New Orleans 12@14c; Deme-
rara 144c; standard hards 16c; A coffee
15c; B do. life; G do. 14ic.
CoFFEE-We quote Rio, common to
choice, 1924; Laguyra Csc; Java 35@36c.
MoLAssEs AND SIRUPs-We quote sirup
5O@9Oc; golden strip 9Oc; New Orleans
Sc.
RICE-We quote best Carolina &c.
SALT-Liverpools sack So. so; seven bush
Ell barrels by the car load, 1857; FIVE puB
half do. 50.
TEAs-Imperial $1,000; Young Hysou
$2.25; Black SOL so; Gunpowder ST. Go
@S2.
ORANGEs-We quote new Louisiana a
80 = barrel
FIsH-Mackerel have advanced. as fol-
lows: Nos. and 8, SIS and SIS q barrel /;
in kits, Nos. 1, 2 and 8, 1926, $3.50 and
1925.
CHEEsE-We quote factory at 19!@2Oc !;
English dairy zoe.
Massive quote at 81 1905 for 1Od's.,
and 25c additional for diminishing grades.
OANDLEs-Star, light weight, lac.
PowDER-DupontS6 Sc. 70; Hazard Sc. Is;
blasting $4.75; fuse, per 100 feet, 75c.
SHoT-Patent $2.75 buck SO.
LIQUoRs-Common rectiied whisky, g
gallon, $1.10; Robertson County $1.75@
2.75; Bourbon $125@5.5O; Lincoln
County S1.75@2. %; Highwines S1.O2.
BALE RoPE-Mo 1O@10te; Green Lea
10@10kc; Iron Ties &c.
BAGGNG-Ky. Py 29c; J. II. fax SOC.
SUNDRIEs-Blacking q doz, 4O@75c.
Washboards $2.75 Q doz; Buckets, 2 doz,
81. 1908. Tubs $4.75@5 . nest. Starch
TIC. Candy 2Oc for assorted . pound.
Snuff 57.75 q box for CARROTS packed.
Matches $3.50 per case. Pepper SIC.
Spice sc. Ginger 25c. Oysters So. rs 2
case for one pound cans; 1915 q case for
two pound cans. Canned peaches two
pound cans, So 3 doz. Soda &c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

Silence has language of its own, felt if
not heard. What heart has not thrilled to
the silvery silence which succeeds sweet
music, when the delicate harmonies that
had ceased TO vibrate on the ear were re-
peated, and each shade of melodious mean
ing translated to the inner sense. Such
too is the silence which descends Epon an
entranced auditory after the eloquent
enunciations of an impassioned orator.
Ear and lip for a moment refuse to utter
or receive the tinkling nothings of con-
ventonality, and this silvery silence is first
broken by the appreciative listener.
All! the leaden silence broods sometimes
| where distance intervenes between friends,
| when days and weeks drag heavily on, bring,
ing no glad tidiDgs of the absent one! Sad.
der still when this silence weighs down two
hearts, $50 near and yet so far, each suf.
| fering and each misconstrued; too proud
to murmur, though hope and even life it.
| self be crushed to earth. Could their stiheG
| pulsations but speak aloud the love each
bears the other, pride would be submerged
| in feelings tidal wave, and the leaden dark.
ness roll as goldenly away as cloud-drapery
| from the setting sun.
That is golden silence which in youth
| succeeds the first sweet interchange of vows
of mutual love and consistency. Hopes rain.
bow spans the scene. Music enchanted
throws her lutte away, whose sweetest notes
not half so sweet, would be as theunspoker
melody Of cloves young dream"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

A woman swore out a warrant against
another female for assault and battery,
which latter act embraced copious appli-
cation Of scald,ng water 10 the person Of
the applicant The case was heard yoster-
DAY bv Justice Wilkinson, who imposed a
fine Of two dollars and fifty cents upon the
scalder, but subsequently reunited IL, and
said to the woman. as was said long since,
GEO. and sin no more
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
Circuit Court.

The case of Arlington vs.. Dickinson,
suit for pay due for services rendered, is
in the hands of the jury.
r. C. Sorrels, whose house in Edgefeld
was destroyed by fire in 1861, brings suit
against the Planters Insurance Company
for the amount of Insurance he held in
the same. The case was heard yesterday,
the testimony being concluded
No. 3Sl is first on the docket to-day.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
New AdYertisemenrs.

We take pleasure in directing the atten-
ton of the public to the card of the Messrs.
Hurley, Real Estate Agents, No. II Church
street. To those who know them, words
of commentator from us are superhuous;
for the benefit Of those who do not, we
state that they are gentlemen, and inter
ests entrusted to their hands viii be zeal
ously guarded. Give>Shem trial
Biacksmiths and Iron-dealers, look out
for the sale of large lot of horseshoes, by
Yeatman, Shields & Co. next week.
Camela, the direct steamer for Pittsburg,
sails to-day at noon.
Those seeking boarding-place, read
''City Notices.
Any one with farm, dairy, or vineyard
TO rent on the shares, or otherwise, may
find a customer by addressing Box 10,
Nashville.
See dissolution of copartnership, and the
forming of a new firm, at the old stand, 10y
Murray, Jones & Co.
Among our new advertisements this
morning will be found a list of the famous
Richings Company, who are soon to glad
den the hearts of the pleasure seekers o.
our ''ville.
The public are notified by the admins
TRAITOR of the insolvency Of the estate o.
John Robinson deceased, and ordered tC
file their accounts against said estate.
Hemphin's Fresh Shad are as fine as eve
brought to this market, as also black fish
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

S. J. Slime has removed from No. "a
Public Square to his new and elegant store,
No. 50 Public Square, Corner of Cedar
where he has associated with him his for
mer partner, Mr.. James N. Birmingham,
under the firm name of Slime & Birming-
ham-hoping by strict attention TO bust
ness, and following up their old policy,
-s'CHoICE GOODS AT Low PRICEs'-to merit
the same patronage 50 literally bestowed
on them before. feb5-2w
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

One Of the elegant gentlemen of loiure
who loaf around the doors Of the Postoffice.
the Courtrooms and The Capital. had
blood vessel in his foo. broken yesterday
from tremeudous standing. Though we 10
not know his name. OF whence he came. we
state that hiS tracks were marked with
blood through the Courthouse, and to-day
the Coroner wiz lih.lr hold an inquest
where Le r.m-i.s.
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state librarian of Virginia.

The friends and acquaintance of DR..
Geo. W Bagby, who not long since deliy-
cred in Nashville q series Of very interesting
lectures, viii be gratiGed to hear that hehas
boen appointed State Librarian for Virginia.
The place is congeuial to the habits of the
distinguished humorist, and viii afford him
both the means and opportunity for pros
ecuting his flvorite pursuits.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

The grand ball announced to take place
Thursday evening, Feb. II, at the Concor-
dia Hall, under the auspices of the Hiber-
MIA Society, is postponed on account of the
weather until Monday evening, Feb. 81.
Tickets issued complimentary or otherwise
are good for the occasion. The committee
will spare no pains in making the ball an
agreeable one. D. s. MUNDY,
Chm. Com.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
CrOSstie Litter.

With this new invention three men, in
spiking crossties, on grade, can DO the
work of four men, and in narrow fills and
cats three men do the work of SIX men
without the Crosstie Litter; and we chal-
lenge practical demonstration before any
and all scientific railroad men.
BoMAR & YOUNG, Patentees.
NASHVILLE Feb Is 1870
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18
DIED.

BEADroBD-Of paralysis, in the sixty-ninth year
of his age, EDWARD BRADFoRD.
The friends and acquaintances are requested to
attend the funeral from bis late residence q miles
on the Granny White Pike to-day, Friday, Feb Is,
1870.
Services by Rev j. c. Mitchell