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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28

DY VIRTUE OF DEED OF TRUST MADE TO
ID me as Trustee Of Andrew J. Duncan, on the
22d Of May, 1869, and under the order OF the
Chancery Court at Nashville in the case of W. +.
Coop, and others vs. A j. Duncan and others,
viii, on the S0rH DAY OF MAY instant and on the
premises, sell at public auction, to the highest
bidder, the tract of land the Franklin turnpike
about three miles from Nashville, known as Kirk
WOOD consisting Of about eighty acres, the land to
be sold in parcels according to plan to be seen
the day of sale.
And on the next day, at the Courthouse door in
Nashville, viii, in like manner sell lot ON Cher
~ street in Nashville, in the Of the CONNER
cial Hotel fronting ffty-four feet on sdid street
also house and lot on Summer street, on the east
side, between Church and Broad streets, adjoining
the late residence Of Gov FoOte; also a frame
house en- the corner Of Church street and the De-
pot grounds of the Nashville and Chattanooga
RailI Dad Company.
These sales viii be made upon the following
terms: One-third OF the purchase money TO be
paid in cash, and the residue secured by sstisfac-
tory notes, in equal instruments, at one and two
years from the day Of sale, with interest from
date and lien retained The sale will be free from
the equity of redemption.
W. z. COOPER, Trustee, etc.
Nay Q, IS70.-my1I-tds.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28

TERMs-Credits of 6, u, Is and "a months, with
interest from Date; notes required with approved
security, and lien retained. Sale free from re-
demption.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28

TERMS-Credits of 6 and II months, with inter-
est from day of sale. Notes required with ap-
proved security and lien retained Sale free
from redemption.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28
OHANCEfxY SALE
y IL
EDGEFIHlLD LOTS.

In pursuance Of decrets Of the Chancery Court
in the case of Jane A. NJ. Davis and others, ex
pIrte, will sell the premises, a. 10 o'clock, on
TUESDAY, JUNE I, 1870,
number of beautiful lots, laid of in Mrs. Davis
property on the Gallatin turapike, Church street
and Woodland street extsoded.
These lots are well situated for residences, and
are in a good neighborhobd, convenient to schools
and churches.
TERMS OF SALE-One-fourth in cash, and the
re sdue on credits of one two and three years with
interest. Notes with approved security required,
and Lien retained.
Sale absolute and free from redemption.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28

This Is to give notice, that James r. Harris,
Thomas Seser, W. II. Lucas and r. NJ. Weber, of
Davidson county, Tennessee, have filed in the office
of the Clerk of this Court their petitions for dis
charge, and it was thereupOn ordered by the Court
that hearing be had upon the same,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28

For this disease, now prevalent, cheap. safe
and reliable remedy is offered in the CRESYBIC
OINTMENT. Not single instance Of its failure
has been reported. ...
ID. cans, zoe; 5 ID cans, 81; ID. cans, sl.2.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28
COURT-Jame-ao1va.
" MAY ROLES. 1870.
NJ L llurphee vs.. James n Wright, Adminissrs-
tor aud Executor.

NJ ( Murphee vs. James M- Wright, Administra-
tor aud Executor.
In this cause, il appearing from the allegations
Of the crOss-bin Of defendant which il swosn %,
that the defendants, NJ Durham Joseph N Dur
ham, a. c. Miller and H. A Miller, TO the crOss-bi
: re nOn-resideTits Of the state OF Tennessee:
II IL therefore ordered by the Clerk and Mister
at his May rules, 1870 that publication be male far
four successive weeks, in the UuiOu and American,
a newspaper Published in the city Of Nashville no
tfying said defendants 20 appear before the Chan
Gerry Court OF jamestown, Tenn, on the second
Monday in October, 1870, then and there to plead,
answer or demur to cOmplIiLants cross bill or The
same viii be taken for confessed and set for hear
ing eX parte, as to them =. o. BOWDEN.
maylg-dli SW3t @. and NJ
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28
$1,000 Re " A II D.
Jones Collins Cook and sambo Cook,

81 will pay FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS RE-
WARD, each, for the apprehension and delivery
10 me at Lewisburg Marshall county, Tenn, Of
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28
c. W. Nance VS.. Jno. Brotherton.

Lot No. 16, in Humphreys, Houston's and Mar
tins addition to Nashville, fronting so. feet ON
Franklin street, and running back $50 feet to an
alley sbetween lot No. 10 on the east and lot No.
II on the west.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28
DESCRIPTION.

who esccped from, were taken out Of the fail Of
said county, on the night Of May Z 1870 where
they were confined on a charge Of murder.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
a Terrible Fate.

The Montana Democrat of the LIST says
"Oue of tho saddest affairs we have ever been
called upon to record occurred in Yell town
ship, in this county, on Saturday, November
25th The facts, as we have gathered them,
are these:
emery Ackerman, young man of twenty
Eve or thirty years of age, left Boonsboro on
the day mentioned to 90 to his fathers in Yell
township, having with him his gun, aud
hunting as he journeyed along. When in
Yell township. nearly home. he fell into an
old deserted we'll. thirty feet in depth. Upon
the mouth of the well plank had been placed
and covered over with dirt, over which all
the snow had fallen. completely hiding all
evidences of the terrible pit. On to it he
walked, and the rotten plank giving way. he
was Instantly hurled to the bottom of the we'll
But the saddcst part of the story remains to
be told A portion of the old stone wall re-
mnined. and on it he clambered. But above
him there VS. no means of escape. nothing
by which he could climb, nothing by which
he could clutcE. Deat h stared him in the
face How he called for help, hour upon
hour. throughout that long night, and the next
day, aud the next, only God knows, for the
cchoos of tho voice never pierced beyond the
dark and dismal cavarn into which he had
fallen Hope fed and the King of Terrors
confronted him. He scratched upon stone
the story of entomhmont, aud upon the fourth
day he probably perished On Friday
the sixth day, some one fell on his tracks.
which were yet imprinted in the snow and
coming to tho we'll. at once realized that a
human being had been precipitated below
The search was made. and the facts we have
rccited them brought to light. AS young
Ackerman did not live at home, it is likely he
was never missed, so that no search had ever
been instituted
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
A Photograph of Beau Hickman.

by some one of those unaccouutable inun-
dations which drive wharf rats ashore, and
make poor houses yawn, the person referred
to has been lively since Congress assembled,
and may be seen daily in the Capital, fuctu-
ating between. Downing's restaurant and the
reception room of the Senate, consumptive
old hummer, with curled moustaches, very
fierce, and ragged old blanket thrown across
his shoulders, cane in his hand, borrowed
boots, spotted brown necktie, and gor-
geously figured vest His left hand always
twisting his moustache up into additional
ferceness, while his right leans heavily upon
his cane to save him from twinges of the
rheumatism. His face is not without im>
posing characteristics, and the old vagrant
has fought age step by step, clutching on life
desperately. His career is mild exponent
of the force Of an original predilection for liv.
ing of men OF the world among them. He
came to Washington in the hey-day OF south
ern domination, was convenient time>server,
an amusing bar room acquaintance, and man
of tailorly appearance. dressed in the height
of splendor. For some time he kept his head
level; next he descended to being harmless
curiosity whose company paid for his extortion;
then he became the protege of gamblers, and
worse. What terrible struggle with hunger
he has had, what secret mlSglvlngs OF SUICIDE,
what human yearnings for death, what aroused
inStants of sincere and fearful shame, we may
never know. A Wandering Jew in the world
of politics, dauntless- outcast, too timid for
crime, he has illustrated here the EXTREMIST
miseries of the man vino deliberately eyades
the social con'r and trusts to the idle char
tiles Of the profiigate of his own sex. The
brave old vagarant is near the end of his days.
The feet of invisible ravens show round his
eyes. His star of precpate and grateful re-
cdgnition grows more piteous. What loneli>
ness! What resources God help us all in
our fight for existence
Wash. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

A SErTLER.-A teacher in western
county iii Canada, while making his first vis-
it to his '.constituents," came into cnuver~a-
tion with an ancient Narmouut lady, who
had taken up her residence in the back
Woods" OF course the school and former
teacher came iu for criticism. and the old la
dy, in speaking of his predecessor, asked
"Wa'al. master, what do you thiuk hc larnt
the schollards z"
Couldn't say, mama. Pray what did he
teach z"
"Wa'al, he told 'em that this ere airth was
round, and all that sort of things. Now. mas
ter, what do you think about sich stufl-
Don't you think he was an ignorant feller 2"
Unwilling to come under the category of
the ignorant, the teacher cvasively remarked
at really does seem strange, but still there
are many learned men who teach these things"
"Wa'al," says she, IF the airth is round,
aud goes round. what holds it up Z"
"Oh, these learned men say that it goes
round the sun, and that the smn holds it up
by virtue Of the law of attraction"
The old lady lowered her specrs and by way
of climax responded: ''Wa'al; if these high
Iarnt men sez the sun holds up the nirfh,
should like to know what holds the airth up
when the sun goes down !"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

LIVING BY THE DAY. compare, says
John Newton, the troubles which we have to
undergo in the course Of the year to a great
bundle of faggots, far too large for US to lift
But God does not require us to carry the whole
at once. He mercIfuIly unites the bundle,
and gives us first one stick, which we are to
carry to-day, and then another which We are
to carry to morrow, aud so on. This we might
easily manage, if we would only take the
burden appointed for US each day; but we
choose to Increase our troubles by carrying
yesterday stick over again to- day, and adding
to-morrow's burden to our load before we are
required to bear it. William Jay puts Tho,
same truth in another way. We may consider
the year before US desk containing three
hundred and sixty five letters addressed to Us
one for every day, announcing its trials, and
prescribing its empIoyments. with AZ order to
open daily no letter but the letter for the day.
Now we may be strongly tempted to unseaI
beforehand some Of the remainder This
however, would only serve to embarrass US,
while we should violate the rule which our
Owner and Master has laid down for US -
Take therefore no thought for the morrow
for the morrow shall take thought for the
things OF itself"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
A Praying Band.

A "praying band" consisting of twelve
members of the Methodist Church in New
York, are visiting various churches of their
denomination. At.the appointed hour they
enter the altar, commence singing, aud con-
duct the service in genuine camp meeting
style. The service, increasing in interest,
eliminates with the evening session. The
house is usually denscly crowded; the leader,
Mr.. Halsey, is one Of the most renowned
Methodiss in New York. The evening ser
vice opens at and closes at 10. 1t opens
with crisp song started by the leader Of the
band Ministers all give way. Revival
hymns. earnest prayers, short, sharp exhorta-
tions. consume the first halt of the meeting
Invitations are then given to come to the
altar The congregation untes in singing
While the hymn is sung the members of the
band scatter through the audience, exhorting
individuals to seek the Lord. As The excite
ment begins to glow, and strong men and
children come up and bow down, the scene is
indescribabIe, chipping of hands, ringing out
of"Amens - "Glcry to God !" singing, pray
ing, shou.iug talking, comforting monrners,
calling on the congregation to come out all at
the same time-makes a scene of apparent
confusion. But the whole thing is conducted
on a regular system. and the excitement and
enthusiasm continue to the close. When one
is conv erted, the whole audience come to their
feet and sing, Praise God, from whom all
blessings flow"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
A BoY Again.

A company of gentlemen ia Rene were not
long since, Willing an evening away by singing
songs and relating anecdotes, vsheu one asked
for the song of Would I were Boz. .Agaiu.s
at which "Old Pi Ute" (John X. .Loysjdy.s 5
who was present, broke out as follows:
ga boy again ~ Who would be sbov
again if he could to have measles. mu,nus
aud itch, to get licked by bigger boys and
scoIded by older bIoihers, to stub YOUR toes
to have the belly ache from swallowing cherry
stones. to get lousy helping Irish Mike to do
his sums, to have chapped hands aud irozen
toes, to slip up on the ice, to do chores, to Get
your ears boxed, to get whaled by thick>a
headed school master to be made to Stand up
as the "dunce" for the sport of the school, to
have visitors to come to the school and tell
you how miserably weak and stupid you were
when you were born, aud to ask you what
wunId have become of you ut that Interesting
time in life if your parents had not BEEN so
patient with and SO kind to youi TO eat at tie
second table when company comes, t0-set out
cabbage plants because YOU are sittIs, and con-
sequenty it wouldn't make your back ache so
much; to be made TO 90 to school when YOU
don't want TO, get spelled down in school, to
lose your marbles, to have your sled broken,
to get hit in the eye with frozen apples aud
soggy snow balls, to cut your finger, lose your
knife, to have u hole in the rear of your only
pair OF pants when your pretty cousin from
the city comes to see YOU, to be called coward
ii you don't fight at school, to be whaled Mt
home if you do fight at school, to be struck
after little girl aud dare not tell her, TO have
n boy too big for you 10 lick tell you that your
sweetheart squints, TO have your sweetheart
cut you dead aud affiliate with that boy John
Smith whpm you hate particularly because lie
set up your the week before, to be mnde
go to b d when you know you amt bit
sleepy, to have no firc-crackers on the Fourth
OF July, no skales ON Christmas. to want
piece OF bread aud butter with honey aud get
your pulled, o-be kept from the circus
when it comes to town and all other boys 20,
to get pounded for stealing roasting ears, 10
get run by bull dogs for trying tn nip wuter~
melons, to have the cankor rash, catechism
aud stone bruises. to be called up to kiss all
the old women that visit your mother, to be
scolded because you bike Maggie Love bcttor
than your own dear sister. to be told of what
scorchng time little boys will have who tell
lies, and are not Ike George Washington, to
catch your big brother kissing the pretty
school ma am on the sly, and wish you was
big so you could kiss her too, and-and-
darn Icing boy agan.
T4Ve,C ORLEANS Crescent.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

A KNIFE GUH.-The Prussian needle-Run,
it is said, has a formidable rival in the form of
a amdnessergc,cehr, or knife gun. the breech-
loader invented by Herr Mayhoier, fKouschr,
EasS Prussia. At recent trial in KoDigs-
berg twenty five rounds, with full cartrige, are
said o have been fred of per minute This
missile penetrates at distance OF two thousand
yards. The piece carries with great precision,
and has the great advantage Of a minimum of
smoke The invention extends TO the cart
ridge as we'll as to the gun. The inventor
had repeated his offer to sell his pnteai to i!le
Prussian government, but it has not yet been
accepted. He has spent his whole fortune Of
twenty FIVE thousand dollars, in the production
Of the arm. and threatens to 90 to Austria or
France if Prussia does not give him an answer
soon.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
P0ETICAL.
THE DEAD YEAR,


The ivy over shines the wall.
Her purple poison berries shed
Ash-clusters blAcked to their fail;
The year is dead
A flick of amber, in the cloud
Thar wathes the east, is dawn and light!
And day, that gloom and mist enshr0ud,
Makes geleOme night
As one who, seeing life depart,
Ponders the wonder of our lives,
So at the dead years feet, my heart
Strange thought revives.
think of one, a blossom set
Shining amid the SHOWS of yeare;
Sweet in remembrance, in regret,
Even in tears.
see the bright rose of her face
Flushed with the tender flush of youth,
And murInur, amOrous OF its grace,
blue eyes for truth"
Blue eyes-the summer sky less blue
They were my rapture. my despair;
knew them bright. and telt them true
Blue eyes that were!
Again wa tch the cloud that lends
The future all its rainbow dyes;
Again its veil the Phantom rends
And rapture flies.
The anguish of each winter day
Comes back into my heart anew.
The char ma death could not steal away
Once more view.
And in the wailing of the winds,
The moan of branches swaying bare,
Again my soul re- echoed incs
Its own despair.
The ivv over shines the wall.
The berries e the ash are shed;
Under the hoIIy's coronal
Thesyear lies dead.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
= The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad will,

- The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad will,
under its new management, be pushed to
speedy com pletion to thu Ohio river and West
ern connections. The Company propose, at
the same time the work is being vigorously
prosecuted on the east side of the mountains
and in tuuuelng, another force with rolling
stock &c. will work from the Ohio river east
ward to the mountain. BY this wise arrange,
ment. when the great tunnels have been accom-
plished, the road will then have been completed
through TO the Ohio river. 1t is proposed to
have the entire line in running order within
the next two years; which will then be the
great central line through to the great vest,
making Richmond and Norfolk the great
shipping marts for the produce of that vast and
fertile section of the Union.
This road has been. heretofore under very
able management, and it is to be hoped, that
under the control ofthis new company of cap
italists it will be pushed with the vigor its
necessity demands.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

A "Pennsylvauia Bachelor" thus get
teth after lovely woman -
81 imPeach her in the name Of the great
whale OF the ocean, whose bones are torn
asunder to enable her to keep straight.
Il impeach her in the name of the pea
cock, whose strut, without his permission, she
has stealthfully and without honor assumed.
II impeach her in the name of the horse,
whose tail she has perverted from its use to the
making of wavy tresscs to decorate the back Of
the head and neck.
Il imPeach her in the name of the
kangaroo, whose beautiful figure she in taking
upon herself the Grecian bend has brought
into ill-favor and disrepute."
Here the old fellow heayed sigh, and
heaved himself overheard.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

The preceding conversation will furnish
sufficient key to the respective characters of
the two boys who have been introduced to the
reader. George Douglas had a strong and
offensive sense of independence which led to
a constant jealousy lest his rights should in
any way be interferei with. For this reason
he resolutely declined making 6ny personal
sacrifices to promote the convenience of others,
considering that he would thus be suffering
himself to be imposed upon. The natural
consequence was. that he had the reputation
of being very disobIigiBg. and was far from
popular among his schoolmates.
Arthur Gray was the direct opposite of
George in the points which have been men
toned He was as obIiging and popular as
the latter vas the reverse
Time passed, and both boys left school
They were now of an age to enter upon some
business, and both decided to enter store -
So large is the number of boys, however, who
are in pursuit of just such situation, that
they find it matter of difficulty to procure
them. Such was the case in the present
instance both boys made diligent inquiry for
two months, without beipg able to obtain such
a chance as they desired. At length Mr.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
Tn tbe limited States there are 75f1 mar

In the United States there are $50 paper
mills in active operation. They produce 27O
100000 pounds of paper. which. at an average
of ten cents per pound would be worth s27,-
100000 As it requires about one pound and
a half of rags to make pound of paper,
there are consumed by these mills S400000,-
900 pounds of rags in single year.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

josh Billings says: "When spiders are
seen climbing up the wall backward, aud
frogs cough as If they had the hickups. look
out for rain. This IS also 4 SUE, sign that
children will have { &c measles light" lie is
also of opinion that when hens lay two Eggs
a dag. aud men cease to bragg aud wimmeu
cease to cackie then Injin summer draws nj,
and the Millennium amt fur oph" Further
more, he says Love Is sed to be blind. bu;
l kuo lots Of phellows in love who ean see
twice as much in their s1eethearts as kan
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

lyon pull teeth here. l suppose? 2" in
quired green looking customer. who dropped
into dental Office for information.
Yes. sir. take chair" replied the pro-
prietor, .our charge is only fsty cents, and
can do 1t instantly"
well. ! guess TT wait until l get home,
for I can't pay tha, price because or doctor
charre. ONLY quarter aud it takes him twO
hours. besides he pulls you all around the
room, and you get the worth Of your money"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18
Howard g3QWsc.

(Two pqors from Baltimo,c Strcct,)
BALTIMORE.
T1HIS Hotel has recently been enlarged. thorough
i ly renovatcdand elegantly rcfurnishcd through
mt and is now capable of accommodating over
800 guests. Under the management of the present
pEoprietors, it has attained popularity exCcllCd
by NO Hote in the country. Everything which can
conducc to the comfort Of gucsts, is furnished with
a. n unsparing hand; and tho Howard House offers
accommoda tions to the travelling public equal to
any other urst class Hotel in the United States.
BATHS BILLIARD ROOM, BAR. Ere,
are all unexeeptionable, The Proprietors solicit
the patronage OF the public.
90 Stages will be at the Dcpots arrival of
trains also at the steamers their arrival,
vey guests and their baggage TO the House.
TERMS---S3.oo PER DAY.
n. p, SEWELL,
March 80, ls69-ly Manager.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

A little girl who had never seen any
kittens was shown litter lately. when she ex-
pressed her opinion that somebody had bro-
ken pussy al! to pieces
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-01-18

ALL FoURs A phriend pheeling phun-
nily phigGrarive, FURNISHES the phoii""ins
Atty 4tuuote 4es;ers Ituifousiy 4tyiyin@ 4i"rn
4tresses. 4cibly 4bade 4iy 4eigners 4mins
4aging 4ces.