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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13
validity of CONDUCTOR, Checks.

An interesting case was recently tried
in the Superior Court of Baltimore. The
plaintiff, on May l, 1867, purchased a
through ticket from New York to Balti-
more, and proceeded on the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail-
road as far as Perryville, where he loft
the train-the conductor, after leaving
Philadelphia, having taken up the
through ticket, and given the plaintiff
a check il. lieu of it. On the 9th, the
plaintiff got upon the train for Balti-
more at Havre de Grace, and offered the
check in payment of his fare, which the
conductor refused, Notwithstanding the
plaintiffs assertion that on leaving the
train at Perryville, on May /, he was in
formed by the ticket agent there that
the check would be good on any other
day. On the plaintiffs refusal to pay
the fare in money, he was elected. In
an action to recover for this election, the
Court instructed the jury that the plain
tiff was not entitled to recover, unless
more force was used than was necessary
to put him off, and unless he was put off
at point where there was no station
house at hand, or no place for shelter
and food. The Court also held that if
the check had been indorsed in writing
by the ticket agent or by the conductor,
May j, it was good for another train at a
subsequent time, and would have bound
the company but that the conductor
of the train, May 6, was not required to
take ones word, unsupported by writ
ten authorization.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13
WHOLE NUMBER 216.
The Programme for COurting.

We meet, are duly introduced.
We talk and dance aw hile.
Then either seeks the others face.
To catch the brightest smil @.
Then moonlight smiles and Lalla RoOkh.
And serenading smiles,
That touch and lure away the heart
Like sOftest vesper chimes. .
Then presents shower at her feet
The poets back TO Chaucer.
Forget me not" in dazzling gilt,
On China cup and saucer.
Then bright bouquets whore every bud
A languid odor sheds,
Then pencil cases, solid gold,
With hollow heads for leads.
Then parting-never more to meet,
Then meetings by and by,
And then-who said you couldn't kiss
Outside Of rusting rye3
She does not frown. nor turn away, ..
But blushing. takes loves token,
And will you love me ?" YES, 1 willP"r
And so--the ice is broken.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

A VISTA OF Busy LIFE.-While visiting
the new store of John v. Farwell & Co.,
one day last week, we were surprised at
seeing the large amount of goods being
sold by them. The enormous drain of
their daily shipments would soon empty
their mammoth store, were not their
stock replenished during the night from
the immense reserve in their warehouse,
as well as by fresh arrivals from
the manufacturers in this country and
in Europe. The daily emptying and
filling up of this great depot of dry goods
is like the ebbing and flowing of the tide.
In the amount of sales they lead all
competitors.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13
Price Of Coal Lower at Retail than
Wholesale.
From the New York Times. March Is.

From the New York Times March IS.
Retail prices of coal have now come
down to about the point where they
stood five weeks ago, before the suspen-
sion of work in the mines. Some deal
ers, fearing that a general prostration
would follow the resumption of work by
the miners, have been glad to keep
little below prevailing prices in order to
clear off their stocks. Others have found
that the clamor about high prices and
the mildness of the weather reduced the
demand so much that unless they low
cred their prices they could not make
any sales at all. The result has been a
constant, though irregular, decline dur
ing the last ten days. In the wholesale
market there has been no corresponding
fall. The few operators who control the
small amount of coal which is for sale
not being affected by the causes which
have influenced the retailers, have sue
ceeded in keeping up prices, so that the
usual order of things have been reversed,
and the coal market presents the pine
nomenon of an article selling lower at
retail than at wholesale. In fact, the
trade appears to be in disordered con-
dition after its violent spasm, and retail
prices vary in the most extraordinary
manner. Each individual seems to have
put such prices on his wares as conform
eQ 10 MS own CneOfleS or the state OF the
market, without the slightest regard to
what his neighbors were getting. Hence
it comes that white-ash coal, egg and
stove size, for which dealer, who may
be called A, charge S12 so per ton, was
found, on inquiry, to be for sale by B, in
the very next block, for $3.50, while c,
D and E. along the street, varied in their
charges between those two extremes.
Wise purchasers compare the prices of q
number of dealers before buying, and
make a saving thirty per cent, thereby.
OPPOSITION TO New INVENTIONS
ly every new invention by which pro-
ductlon is made easier and cheaper, has
met with strong opposition. The old
way of making boards was by splitting
up the logs with wedges; and, clumsy
as the method was, it was no easy mat
ter to persuade the world that there was
better. Saw-mills were first used in
Europe in the fifteenth century. In
1868 Dutchman built one in England,
but the public outcry against it was so
vehement that he was soon obliged to
decamp and, for the next hundred
years, no one ventured to repeat the ex-
pertinent. In 1868 another rash adj
venturer began to erect another mill,
but a mob gathered at once and tore it
down.
A MAINE man, going into the wilder
ness, took what he supposed was his
compass, but found, when he needed its
L IL L.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

INNOCENCE is like an umbrella-when
once lost we may never hope to see it
back again.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

DEATH will stop all income provide
for the change by insuring in The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Chicago.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

TUNES are much worn as overskirts,
and are a darker shade than the dress.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

IHE reason we don't hear of girls Civ
ing the mitten nowadays-they don't
learn to knit.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

A FRIEND of ours who is chief clerk in
the Government Dispensary, says that
no medicine chest is now complete with
out Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. We al
ways Supposed it was prescribed by law /;
if it is not, it ought TO be, for certainly
there is nothing in the whole materia
nedica of so much importance to the
soldier and the sailor as JohnsOn's Ano-
d17e Linime7lt.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

A MAINE man, going into the wilder
ness, took what he supposed was his
compass, but found, when he needed its
guidance, he had instead taken his
wife's daguerreotype. 1t brought him
out all right.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13

WONDERS OF CHEMIsTRY.-Linen can
be converted into sugar sugar into al
cohol and carbonic acid; alcohol into
ether and water. Sugar can also be
converted into oxalic acid, and like
wise into pure charcoal and water. AL
cohol will readily change into acetic
acid or vinegar. Coal tar is transformed
into dyes that surpass the Tyrian purple
of old. Starch may be transmitted into
gum, alcohol, sugar, vinegar or oxalic
acid; and these are but few of the
magical changes which modern chemi-
cal science has made familiar as house
hold words"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
C,,,pa,,r,Aa Az RIGHT.

The San Francisco Examiner s'ys;
We hays never felt grester confidence IN
the result of an election than we now
feel All the signs betoken glorious
Democratic vic.oTy. From every quar-
ter of the State we arein reccipt of words
of good cheer sud encouragement. We
feel no hesitancy In predicting a greater
Democratic majority than in 1867. In
deed, IS we view it-and we wish our
contemporaries to make note Of what
wesay-Hsight viii carry every county IN
the State. This may seem extravagant,
but we say it with due reflection and
from a conviction of its probable realiza-
ton. Revolutions rarely go backward,
especially when based upon the sober
second thought of the people. Year after
year since the close of the,wac the Demo
cratic party has been gaining strength
The idea obtains that the Radical party
has hal its dsy-that its work is accom-
plished-that it has no aims or objects
now higher than the spells of Office. IL
has been enabled thus long to psrpetuate
its existence through the fear of the peo-
pie. But the people are no longer afraid
They see that they can only accom-
plish through the Democratic party those
great reforms in revenue and taxation and
currency essential to the well-being Of
society.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
TuE PUBLIC PRINTING.

Col. John Baxter, of Knoxville, pub.
Iished in the Knoxville Chronicle of the
goth, lengthy article sssaiIing the Pub.
lie Printers for alleged frauds IN their ac-
counts against the State. All who know
anything of the hostility of Col. Baxter
to the proprietors of the UNION AND AMER
loan and Banner, and of his eager desire to
succeed in the suits now pending in Knox
county in which they are involved with
him, can very readily determine the mo-
tive which prompts him to this new de-
pariure. With him we can have no
newspaper controversy. That he, q pro-
fessed hater of Radicalism, should
be driven 10 Radical organ
to find a conduit for his false
utterances, is enough to convince
those who do not know him that nothing
but baseness could move him, even if he
had a good cause. We repeat, with him
we can have no newspaper controversy.
Before an honest jury of Knox, unbiased
and unprecedented by this weak effort of his
to change the issue, we expect to have the
cause now pending there between our
selves and him justly determined. Should
be have any friend bold enough to at
tempt to maintain these late charges
against us before committee of the
Legislature, we shall meet him there,
ready to stand upon the law and the testi-
mony. The bully may below; he cannot
alarm
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
NASHVILLE UNION AND AMERICAN TUESDAY, AUGUST a. ls

SoMK weeks since allusion was made
in the Chicago papers to the Inauguration
inthat city of new enterprise on alarge
scale-the building of ready. made
houses for shipment to the
sparsely settled districts of the in
terror, where skilled labor is scarce, and
the facilities for house-building meagre.
1t now appears from the Chicago press
that the enterprise has proved an immense
success. The Tribune of a late date
contains the following:
SIN visiting the new harbor at South
Chicago we noticed three of the cars Of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
loaded with four complete two story
dwellings, containing seven rooms each,
with partitions, stairs, doors, windows,
sash and casing, roofs, and trimmings fol
doors and windows complete. and which
can be placed in complete condition fol
occupancy in two hours after being I'M
loaded from the cars. This is the frs
shipment on an order for two hundred
dwellings given to the South Chicago
Building Company. The buildings arr
constructed under the patent and direc
ton of d. s. Whittenhall, and will b.
furnished in every variety, and at price
that give them an attraction and meri
over any other buildings now used for III,
accommodation of population in new 10
calities
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
HOW THE MONEY GOES.

A correspondent of the Central Bdp
fist, after visiting President Grants farm
a few miles from St. Louis, Mo-, says he
"was received by Mr. E drod, relative
of the President, who is intrusted by him
with the superintendent of property
valued at not less than 100000. The
farm includes, with recent purchases,
500 acres, mostly rolling land" Refer
ring to this statement of the Central
Baptist, the Brooklyn Eagle says:
president Grant went into the army
not worth a cent, and has lived qui.e
freely ever since. His horses, eq1ipages,
etc are the theme Of admitting Gescrip-
tons from correspondents not only at
Washington, but at Long Branch, and
wherever else he takes up his temporary
abode 1t is, therefore, quite consolatory
TO find that out of his not excessive sal
airy, first as General and now as Presi-
dent, he is able to keep $500, 900 of
blooded stock and such like property idle
on a Missouri farm. These
boss politicians, whether called Supervis-
Ors or Presidents, contriye TO live at the
highest point of luxury, and on moderate
salaries, and yet to roll up riches"
Then there is the State Treasurer of
South Carolina, Mr.. Parker. He refuses
to allow his books to be examined. The
Charleston NeaOS says of him:
''Three years ago he was little better
than a beggar, When elected State
Treasurer hr was in the depth of destitu-
ton. Now he drives fast horses in
gold-mc united harness, buys fifteen thcus-
and dollar diamond pins, and has the re-
putation of being worth cool quarter of
million. All this in three years upon an
annual salary of twenty-five hundred dol
lars.
Another bit of romance is related by
the New York Sun:
ga follower of Wesley ard a preacher
of righteousness came to the Senate from
g Western State, pious and poor. Serv-
ing first in the north wing of the Capitol,
then in the Department of the Interior,
and then again at the Capitol, he wsxed
rich, and dWelt il his own lsVishly gar
nished brown stone mansion, and kept a
carriage which the Archbishop of Canter-
bury would have envied."
The following from Pennsylvania is OF
the same sort:
A FAIR-SIZED STEAL
PENNSYLVANIA swINDLED OUT OF $3.50, 900
IN TIE COLLECTION OF HER WAR CLAIM
FROM THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1.-THE Ere
ming bulletin this afternoon contains an
exposition of sn alleged defAlcation in
the collection of the Pennsylvania wal
claims from the General Government,
amounting, with the interest," to over
$365, 900.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
THE SyNDICATE-WHAT IT.

When we first heard of the Syndicate
wetlid not know what it was, but as We
saw it stated that Secretary Boutwell, had
turned over to it the negotiation of his
new loan, we very naturally supposed
that Syndicate was one of Gen. Grants
numerous resolutions. We see that the
Scotch claim that he is Of Scotch descent,
and we presume that as soon as his Rffec
ton for his relations is universally known
he will be claimed by all the nations of
the earth. The New York Herald throws
the following light upon the subject:
The Syndicate, in brief, is a combina-
ton of bankers exclusively entrusted, in
this case, with the negotiation of the new
loan. The law authorizes an expenditure
of one half cent upon each dollar SUBJ
scribed, either by an actual exchange Of
gold for the new bonds or by an exchange
for them of the old six per cant bends,
dollar for dollar. The one-half cent on
each dollar is made up by the allowance
of q commission of one quarter of one
per cent and an allowance for advertising
of one quarter of ore per cent. Mr..
Boutwell, originally made all the banks
and q host of designated private bankers
the gents for The receipt of subscriptions;
but aIter nearly five months of hard eXer-
ton was successful IN placing only $7O,-
100000 out OF the 81, 500, 900 auhOr-
ized to be borrowed or refund
cd. In this situation an offer was
made by combination, or, rather, two
c0mbinstiOns-One here and one in Eu
rops-to subscribe outright for S25, O0O,-
900 of the loan, on condition that It's
further negotiation, with all profits arising
iherefrom, should be theirs exclusively.
Mr.. Boutwell,, having given the old plan
time enough to prove IFS lack OF prompt
feasibility, has decided to test the availa-
bility of the more concentrated efforts
Likely 10 be made by these combinations.
He has therefore turned over to them so
much of the original Offering of five per
cent bonds as remained untaken, reserv-
ing fraction for so many of the nation
al banks as wish TO subscribe upon the
original invitation. The arrangement
seems TO have been msde with number
of firms having European origin or con
nectiOn or both. Such a combination is
known in Europe as a Syndicate. And
now for the word Syndicate.
In course of time the Stock Exchanges
of Germany were formed and the man
aging committee were designated the
Syndicate in Berlin. Later en- Brokers
and Bankers began to make combinations
for the negotiations of railway and othel
projects, TO receive subscriptions for The
CAPITAL stock of these enterprises and &c
undertake the initiation of such matters
generally. They assumed the title o.
Syad cate in these operat ons. Finally
the word was applied to combinations
generally, and now has a meaning on th'
Berlin Bourse capable of embracing even
The smaller and less dignifed combins
lions which in New York would be know
as pools" In its migration to Western
urope it has as yet lost none of its re-
spectability, and Syndicate in England
is very dignitied affair.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
RAILROAD SALE.
On Wednesday, the Goth day of
September. 1871

. sSCkS S~AAAoOte 40 il
A THE EAST SIDE OF THE CAPITOL. IN
"A Nashville, tne unuerngned Commissioners
Public Auction the following Railroads In the
State Of Tennessee, u nder various decreea N the
Chancery court st Nashville, made in the ease az
tucky Railroad and other Railroads and narties
with their franchises, rolling stock and equip,
ments, viz:
The Knoxville and Charleston Rs,Iroad e.sf'Ei
The Rogersville and Jefferson Railroad.
The Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad
And unless the decree Of the Court shall he con
Piled with by the Nashville AMI Nortbgestsrn
Railroad ordering the payment Of the debt to the
State within thirty days from the sth Of July.
1871, that Road, with its franchises and eouin1
ments will also be sold. Also the interest OF The
State, being its mortgage debt, in the following
Railroads viz: IIs- q
The Southwestern Railroad, and
The Western and North Carolina Railroad.
The debt against the hrst being s4oOOO0. CO.
and the debt AGAINST the last being s44s, OOO. co.
In the meantime sealed proposals for said
Roads and debts will be received by the Commits
sioners and be sent to the Comptroller Of the
State at Nashville, to be opened on the day of
sale and should any such proposals be acceptable
to the Commissioners, no sale of the road to
which they apply will be made.
The sale as to the others will proceed irnme-
diately. The payments may be made in the bonds
of the State and their coupons, onefourth at the
date of sale, and the residue in one, two, and
three years from the day of sale, W til personal
security and a lien upon the property sold.
The i've other delinquent Railroads, viz:
Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad,
Memphis, ClarksVille and Louisville Rail-
road, .nf.
Winchester and Alabama Railroad,
McMinnville and Manchester Railroad,
Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston
Rair ad, .- ....1 ...
Have generally made propositions to the
Court for adjustment of their respective debts
to the State, which, if promptly complied with
in the times limited by agreement, no sale OF
said roads will be made, but on failure to do SO
said roads will be exposed to sale under the
decree of the Chancery Court
All necessary explanations will be made on the
dsy of sale, and any information In the meantime
will be given by the Comptroller.
X. j. MCKINNEY,
a. WRIGHT,
T. b. FOGG,
d. W. O. Sc TER, Gov,
7. II. BUTLER, Sec. State,
ED. R. PENNEBAKER, Comp,
Nashville, July %, 1871. Commissioners.
jy27 I'd
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22

THE late Empress of France used of.
ten, when child at Grenads, as Eugene
Montijo, to be danced upon the knee OF
Washington Irving. In a letter written
in 1853, just after the elevation of Euge-
ME to the high station she filled for eight
cen years, Irving wrote the following,
which now reads almost like prophecy:
"The last / saw of Eugene Montijo
she was one of the reigning bellies of
Madrid. Now Eugene is upon a throne,
launched from returnless shore, upon a
dangerous sea, infamous for its tremend-
ous shipwrecks. Am l to live to see the
catastrophe of her career and the end of
this suddenly coDjured up empire, which
seems to be made of such stuff as dreams
are made Off l confess my personal &C.
quaintance with the individuals in this
historical romance gives me an uncom-
mon interest in it; but | consider it
stamped with danger and instability and
as liable to extravagsnt Vicissitudes as
one of Dumas's novels"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
County Court at Nashville.
80. Tucker ct ais vs.. Fanny Tucker ct a!

ATTHE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF TIE
n County Court at Nash Vile, on the 18th day OF
July, 1871, on motion of compliments by counsel
in the above cause, and It appearing 10 w ss
John e. quicker, is a nonresident Of the state Of
Sronresseo, and therefore the ordinary process Of
thi5 Court cannot be served upon him:
r. is therefore ordered by the CLERK that publ
..tion ha made for four weeks in succession in
The Nashville Union and American, newspaper
rTbI,sbed In the city Of Nashville, requiring the
ssid defendant to appear at the next term CT the
Gonntv Court. to be holden for the county Of
6ovj6son. al the Courthouse thereof in the city
~ Eashyills, on the first Monday in september
ne.t and answer said amended bill, or the same
viii be taken for confessed as TO him and set
for hearing ex parte. w. q. EWlN, Cierk.
aug1 1aw4t
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
Notice to Stone MaSOnS.

THE HONORABLE COUNTY COURT OF LIN
Il coin County, Tennessee, at their July term,
1871, determined to build . bridge across BLK
River, at Shiloh, the piers and abutments OF
which shall be bu Il Of stone. Two piers and an
abutnent on each side Of the River, all TO contain
about SIS cubic yards, to be put up fret oAss dry
masonry, well jointsd and bedded. Tbs Commit
tee appointed By said Court to contract for and
superiutend the building Of the piers aud abut-
msnts, will resolve scaled proposals for said work
until the 18th st. The proposals shall be TO 10
the work by or for 50 much per cubic yard, in
cluding Golfer dams, excavations for founda-
tons, etc
Bond with approved security In double the
Amount Of the contract viii be required o. the
contractor for his faithful aud timely perform
Rnce of the work. JOHN CRABTREE,
JAS. II. WARREN,
JAS. H TAYLOR,
August 1, 1871. Committee,
All communications should be addressed to
Jos. Il. Taylor, Georges Store, Tenn.
aug4 3w
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
In the County Court at Centrevius

In the County Court at CentreViue
STATE OF TENNESSEE, OFFICE OF CLERK
y and Master Of the County Court of Hickman
county, Aug. 49, 1871.
z J. Harwell, Admir-, VS.. All en- McCaleb and wife
ct al.
1t appearing from afidsvits filed in this cause
that the defendants, NJ V Harrington, Ewel' N
Harrington, II Mitchell, and Louisa his wife, X
NJ Martin and wife Mary F, D Harrington, Il
Harrington, and J IL olemsn and wife Louisa,
Crussell or J @ Russell and wife Matilda, NJ
Graham and wife Margaret, W darlington, M 7
Harrington and NJ L Harrington, are non-resi-
dents Of the State of Tennessee:
It Is therefore ordered that Raid defendants en-
ter their appearance herein at or before the first
Monday Ia October next and plesd, answer or
denur to the complsiDants petition, or the same
will be taken for confessed a. to them and set for
hearing ex parte, and that copy Of this order be
published for four successive weeks in the Nash
vile Union and American.
J. d. MURPHREE, @. & NJ.
Moore h Edwards, Soils for compliments.
Rugn d1t&3t