Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-05-18
Nashville Letter.


our most energetic and enterpris-
ing citizens have been preparing
for the past three or four months,
was opened with q State (artillery)
salute, and by an entrance intu
the magnificent and spacious
building, erected for the purpose,
of thousands of interested visitors.
The building, although not yet
filled-the time not being suf-
icient to get into it all that is TO
be exhibited-presented to the
eye more of the products of Ten
nessee artisans and artists than
many of the spectators expected to
see. But few even of our own citi-
zens know the extent of the abili-
ty of Nashville artisans to manu-
facture. There is hardly any
thing necessary or convenient but
what can be furnished by Nash
vile enterprise-and cheaper by
far than the same article can be
purchased in other large cities.
We find on enquiry that many ar.
ticles manufactured here, for the
want of demand, are shipped to
Louisville, Cincinnati and St.
Louis markets, and there sold to
merchants in Tennessee and the
South and returned sometimes
through our city to the buyers,
and at much greater cost than the
same could have been purchased at
from the merchants here in Nash
vile. | know of many instances
of this kind. Not only this, but
Louisville and Cincinnati some
times sell articles Of manufacture
to merchants South, and the or
ders are sent to Nashville to be
filled with the Cincinnati dealers
uame and place of business brand
ed on the articles. This has been
done repeatedly, but more especial
Iy to merchants and others of
West Tennessee. tits hoped that
this Exposition will make known
to the people generally the proud
fact that Nashville manufactures
can furnish any article found in
any American market.
The great feature in the Expo
sitien is the exhibition OF a work
ing model of the new motive
power lately invented by John NJ.
Cayce of Franklin, Tennessee. 1t
is thought that this Invention will
produce a revolution in the use of
power to move small machinery,
from a printing press and street
car down to q music box. Mr..
Cayce has sold tor cash three
quarters Of the right to use his in-
vention for sewing machines in
America to private citizens for
twenty-five thousand dollars, and
one-half of the right in Great
Britain for ten thousand dollars.
This has been done during the
past month.
One other point of most impor-
lance in Nashville, is the large
building ON Jefferson street, near
the great cotton factory building,
where an institution has been es-
tablished like the one in Breslau,
Prussia, for the preparation OF sea
air by chemistry for the cure of
that heretofore incurable disease,
Consumption. In 1860, it was
discovered by a great German
physician, that sea air could be
made from Iodine, Bromine, Chic
rine, salt-vspor, and other chemi-
Gals, and confined in a room, it
would cure consumption i'll its first
and second stages and give great
relief in its last stage. This was
made practicable from the fact
that sudden changes of weather
on the sea coast or on the ocean
could be avoided in a room the
temperature of which could be
governed. The institution was
established in Breslau soon after,
and hundreds of cures effected very
soon. DR.. H. Falk, al eminent
Prussian physician, arrived in this
country last year, associating with
MIN DR.. R. NJ. Lyle. one of our
most eminent physicians. This
room was leased and fitted up. In
the large room used for inhalation,
a fountain occupies the centre
room from which the sea-water,
conveyed through pipes from all
upper room, shoots up and is sepa-
rated into drops which evaporate
very rapidly and impregnate the
air very strongly, and this produ-
ces upon the lungs the most re-
markable effect, very readily per-
ceived by the patient to be bene-
fetal. One lady who was SO low
md weak that she was taken there
in bed, in February, was up and J
able to go visiting in a few weeks.