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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14
THE NASHVILLE. AND DECATUR
RAILROAD,
To the Editors Of the Union and American:
7 notira i'm q late number of vOIIr val

To the Editors Of the Union and American:
notice in a late number of your valu.
able paper that you make some remarks
about The proposed lease of the Nash
Vile and Decatur Railroad, and speak of
the interest who Nashville has in the
matter, and also of the regret which her
citizens viii feel if the lease be made l
very cordially agree with you in all that
you have said, and though not citizen
of Nashville, sympsthize very sincerely
with her citizens in the regret which they
feel at the lease of the road. But we
have TO look at this az all other business
transactions in the light or shade of sur
rounding circumstances, and it may he
that We will find IN the end that this lease,
now q matter of regret, will become q
matter Of qualification to all Of US. An
ounce of fact is said to be Worth a pound
of theory. Then let US look at some of
the facts which are patent to all. When
the war closed, it was found that the
Nashville and Decatur Railroad had not
escaped the universal bankruptcy which
parAIyZd the South. Nevertheless, h8F
energetic President and directors set to
work to retrieve, if possible, the losses of
the company. They have paid off fully
the Indebtedness to the State, but still the
company is involved, for in order to raise
the funds TO enable them to accept the IA
| v0rable offer of the State to retire
! the Indebtedness, they have been
/ compelled, as you have stated,
/ and Is the public knows, to mortgage
/ the entire road, with all it3 Cquipmen S,
to private iLdividu Is. That mortgage
| must and will be fOreclOsed unless the
! business of the company can be increa5-
( ed, and their only hope for this is in the
: construction of the South and North Ala
bama Railroad. l have been informed
/ that application has been made to leading
capitalists in Nashville for assistance to
. the road, and thus keep it free from en-
tangling alliances from any other road.
I But that assistance was not forthcoming.
Help had to be found elsewhere. 1t could
not be obtained from the city of Nash
/ vile. from the citizens of Nashville. por
from the county Of Davidson. When
| help and immediate help was necessary.
! the hope of it from the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad came by accident, Il us:
/ Tle North and South Al9bama Rail
road from Decatur to Montgomery, Ala !,
is very important road to Nashville and
10 Tennessee. The Directory of that road
have been working hard for its compile.
ton. But they are at their rows END
unless then can get help from abroad.
With this conviction they made applica.
ton to the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road. But the company very properly
refused 10 negotiate for the building of the
South and North road unless they coult
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uNION AND AMERICAS



D. S. England, near Sparta, Tenn,
sends us a detailed account of how he
made thirty-two hundred bushels of corn
from fifty-iVe acres of land. He says
the land is the best in that region of coun-
try, and the growth, before cleared, was
sugar tree, buckeye, linn and poplar. 1t
had been only two years in cultivation
when he planted the corn. He broke the
field well, planted early, but owing to the
wet weather plowed it only three times.
The corn, some grains of which he en-
closed in a letter, Is large white corn,
very long and large grain, but not very
fliGty. He states that for The past thirty
years he has been improving his seed,
and he thinks Tie large yield which he
made is due quite as much 10 the excel
lence of his seed as to the fertility of his
land.
Mr.. E0glGnd is well known in the
mountain district for his industry, intel
igence and success on the farm. We
hope his example may stimulate some of
our more indifferent farmers to renewed
exertion. We are satisfied that with dill
gence, industry and attention, the farmers
of Middle Tennessee can pay much
larger per cent. on the capital invested
than they have been m the habit of doing.
The greater the intelligence On the farm,
with an equal amount Of industry, the
greater the profit.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14
HERE'S YOUR KU.KLUx.

We make the following extract from
the recent speech of Hon. Mr.. Beck, Of
KY, in the House of Representatives.
Here is q remarkable case, the case of
Tennessee. l csil 10 it the attention Ct
Congress, and espeCia " Of the members
from that Sta'e now upOa the floor; and
I call particularly The attention OF the
gentleman from Tennessee Mr.. MAY
NARD7 to II. The then delegation from
Tennessee, with the honorable exception
If Mr.. Hawkins, who opposed them all
he could, FLED their charges against The
State--here they are; signed by Samuel M.
ArneH, ". B. Stokes, w. T. Prosse-,
Lewis Tillm8p, w. J Smith, and HORACE
claiming that the State Of
Tennessee was in state of revolution,
and that it ought to be reconstructed.
will read precisely what they say on tnai
point. | do not propose to read The whole
libel:
ssThe State government Of Tennessee,
az now constituted and TeVolutlonlzed,
has never had any recognition by the
Government of the United States, and We
ask that Congress take immediate steps &c
provide for us a government, republican
in form. that will conduce TO The happ;,
ness and welfare Of al its people.
Mr.. Eldridge-When was that
Mr.. Beck-February, 1870; more thar
one year ago. There was a volume OF
testimony taken. hold it up, that gen
tlemen may see the pile. Men came be
/ fora tho committee and ewOre to such
things as you never heard of. / hope Ia,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14
TENNESSEE NEWS.


The Germans of Knoxville celebrated
the peace jubilee with speeches, flags,
music, and SO on.
The members Of the County Court of
Shelby have unanimously pulled down
their pay from five dollars to two dollars
per diep1
The Paris Intelligencer says: 81. P.
Dunlap, Esq, has resigned the office of
Attorney General of the Judicial Circuit.
We presume the vacancy will be filled at
the August election. Candidates viii be
as thick as black birds.
The Cleveland Banner of the 18th inst
says: ''Joe Marshall, worthless char
acter, was committed to the Jail of this
county, one day last week, for attempt
ing to commit rape upon q little girl
aged - years
The Memphis appeal of the 18th inst
says: FMr. Mitchell, who took new
wa9 of Ku-Kluxng two gentlemen out
of S185, on Monday, was sent to Jail
yesterday. The grand jury has him in
hand. Owing to the skilltul efforts of
Detective Shelby, 1929 OF the money
was recovered aud returned to the own
ers.
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In ChancerY st NmshvIlIe.-No.e.741

w SEs znCsry at Nashville -No.6,7H
- FATE OF TENNESSEE. Office Jerk and Mas
- ter ChauCery Court, Nashville, March the
-, 1911 H. II. Singleton, Complainant, vs.. Frank
E Perrin an CtHcrF, Defendants
Il appearing from affidavit fled in ths cause,
Sh3t the deien1aur, Frank Z. Perrin IS q non
resident OF the State Of Tennessee; and il fur
ther appearing tina. an attachment has issued in
this case and has been returned levied upon the
following properly, viz: tract Of land in the
town OF MUrfrf esbury RuthHrf0rd county, Ten
nessee, beEinai- g at a stake in ". J. AudeTsOn's
=, Z. COr15E, running I t. said AudersGH'5
next line, thence r. with sd line ID 4. A. Eli
Oft 8 = line, thence with said line W to Auder-
sons line, thence s. 10 the besinT ing, attached
the property Of Fzi5 Perrin to secure the payment
to SAID Singleton Of SlD3 90 justly due by judy
ment, besides a CLAIM for interest ard costs.
Il is therefore ordered that said defendant En-
ter his appearance herein on or before the third
Monday OF the next term of said court, to
be held on the Grst Monday in april next, (lS7l }
and plead, answer C- deuGr to compliments bill,
or the same viii be taken for confessed as TO him
and set los hearing eZ TaTte, and that copy Of
this O-der be published for four cUnsec Utive weeks
in the Nashville Onion and American.
c,py-Attes.:
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR..
CLERK and Master.
ihiip lindsey, Solicitor for Complainant.
7-1qW4t.
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many, and think it was good one. In
selecting The seed for sowing-either
wheat, OATS, barley, or any other grain
he would take quantity on one end of
the BAN floor, and with scoop (oom-
monty used by grocers TO scoop sugar and
cofee) pitch to the other end of the barn.
By SO doing, the plumpest and best would
fall farthrest away, and he selected that
for seed; and the result would be from
thirty five to fifty bushels of wheat per
acre. By following the rule of selecting
the bes. for seed, claim that our wheat
and other grain would not run out, as is
the case now. It is so with everything.
Take the worst of anything III the animal
or vegetable Kingdoms, and will soon
t'run out"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14
LARGE AND SHALL POTATOES
FOX PLANTING.

The Ohio correspondent of the Vest
ern RurGl gives his reason for prefer
ring large potatoes for planting as follows:
I noticed in the Western Rural, of
Dec. 10, an article on Large or Small
Potatoes for Planting" The New York
Farmers Club is III part correct in stating
that large potato adds fertilizing quail
ties to the potato, but it has not given
the most essential reason why a large pO-
tatO should be chosen for seed. am g
farmer of but little experience, and have,
rs far as my farming has extended, been
governed by sCie-utic principles, as well
as experience.
The reason why l adopt large potatoes
for seed, Is the same as in choosing ami
mails | clsaSl that the best of every thing
should be chosen TO propagate from in
the vegetable as well as the animal
economy. here give you The practice
of my father, who was farmer ia Ger
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1910 Z : Z Z z 1871
Time Tests the Merits of All Things.
DAVIS PAIN KILLER

THIS CELEBRATED MEDICINE HAS WON
L deservedly high reputation as alleviator
OF psln and preserver of health 1t has become
q household remedy, from the fact that it gives
immediate and permanent relief. It is purely
vegetables preparation, made from the beat and
purest materials, safe to keep aud to in every
family. 1t is recommended by physicians and
persons OF all classes, and to-day, after public
trisl o. thirty years-the average life Of InAn-it
stands unrivslled and unexcelled, spreading its
usefulness over the wide world. Its large aud in
cIeasing sale affords positive evidence Of its en-
during fsme,
PAIN KILLER was the First, and
is the only permanent pain relieVer.
Since the Pain Killer was first introduced Snd
met with such unsurpassed sale, many Linim IS
Relfefs, Pdngceas and other Remedies have
offered to the pubic, but not one Of them has
ever attained the truly enviabie standing Of the
Pain Killer.
Bs- WHY rs THIS SO .-AS
1t is because avis Paia Killer Is what Il claims
to be, Believer OF Pain. It's merits are unsur-
passed, II you aIe suffering from internal pain,
twenty t. thirty drops in little alter Will almost
instantly cure you. There is nothing to equal 1t.
In a few moments it cures Collie, Cramps, Spasmss
Heartburn, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Flux, Wind in
tie BOTe s,TSour StomGoh, Dyspepsia, sick Head
acre.
In sections Of the country where Fever aud
Ague prevails, there is no remedy held in greater
esteem
~ Directions accompany each bottle.
Price, 25 cts, so cts and 81 per bottle.
; n. sSARs2IS "a CO, Cincinnati, o /,
Psoprietors for the Southern and Western States.
~ For sale by al Medicine Dealers.
For sale by
LITIERER CABLER, Nashville.
BERRY, DEMOVILLE & CO., Nashville
EWIN, PENDLETON & CO., nashville.
r. +. ROBINSON & CO., Louisville.
L. J.SAGFORD & CO., Knoxville.
mAr23ed&wleniy sp
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14
MANHOOD!
In the Young and Rising
GENERATION.

T'HE VEaETATIVE POWERS OF LIFE ARE
strong, but in few years how often the paid
hue, the lack -lustre eye and emaciated form, and
the imPossibility of application to mental EFFORT;
show Its baneful influence. It soon becomes ey
dent to the observer that some depressing infu
ence is checking the development of the body.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14

A GENTS FOE THE PATENT JELLY LUPs.
n Agents fer the best Frui; Jars in the market
We keep fu ine Of Brilliant Burners, Chin
ueys Shades, etc. The Brilliant Burner ~ TIA Q
best Coat oil burner yeG invented.
Now is the time TO replenish your stock be. ore
the advance takes place, which By agreement Of
the En- llsh manufacturers, occu 8 on and after
the first of May, 1871.
HICKS, HOUSTON & co.
mario I'm
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REAL ESTATE BULLETINS,

CONTAINING \ FULL LIST OF CUR PROP
~ erty Tor sale furnished free, by app lying ct
our ofiCe, No. 80 North College street.
Conyeyalces to see property furnished free to
purchasers.
ARLINGTON, FARRAR x WEAKLEY.
mrl9 till Oct
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Tennessee and Pacific Railroad.
WINTER SCHEDULE
. DAILY TRAINS SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.
No. Lesves Nashville 81 o.. 6 &c l. y.
arrives at Lebanon at g.f5 A. Y.
Leaves Lebanon Gt-...4:rjP ?. y.
Arrives at Nashville 8 IL P. n
No. = Leaves Lebanon gt.--..-s 80 A. 81.
Arrives &. Nashville Il g:i5 d. 81.
Leaves Nashville at..,...4.O0 ?. II.
Arrives a Lebanon a. IS P. II.
Passengers leaving Nashville On the 6.2O A. r.
train connect with Prices Stage Lines for Ale1sa-
drfa, Liberty, Smithyille, Sparta, New Middleton
snd CoOkville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days; and with Gleln 4 Bakers line 10 Rome and
Carthage on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays.
ES- On application at General Ticket OlhCe Ia
Nashville, parties viii be furnished with "CCzlsT.
rATIoN TICKETs,7 at Is per ceus. discount On reg
uisr rates. ]. ". PARAAHOE,
noYZ7-u Superintendent.
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LOSS OF P0WER,
FATUITY, an
in one of which the patient may expire

IN one Of which the patient may o1pIrss
During the Superintendent Of DE-. WILSON
the Bloomingdsle Asylum, this sad result occur ed
to tive patients; reason had for time left them,
snd both died of epilepsy. They we're o. 10th
sexes, and about twenty years Of age.
Who can say that these excuses are not frequent
! followed by those di7eiul diseases,
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CON SUM TION

Is talked Of, and perhaps the youth is removed
from school and sent into the country. This is
one Of the worst movements. Removed from Or
binary diversions Of the ever-changing scenes OF
the city, the pCvsrs eff the body, too much en-
fsebled to give zest to heahfuI and rural exercise
thoughts are turned inwards upon themselves. If
the patient be
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14

Mail Train leaving Nashville at 4.53A 4. makes
direct connection for Henderson. KY. Evansville
st Louis, and all points North Northwest
Express Train leaving Nashville at 2:I5 P n.
carries through mail, aud makes direct couuec ion
for Memphis New Orleans, Mobile and all points
in the Southwest; and also, connects ct aauth5iG
with HOpkinsville accommodation
Mail Train arriving at Nashville a. 9:16 p II.
makes connection with trains from st. Louis, aud
also with through train from New orleans ant
Memphis.
Trains run daily, e1cepi 8uadsyH.
mrhl4 tju14 u n. L BLANTOy, BUnt.
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@Boyle county is known &n over the
State as Little Britain.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14

Nashville, Tenn, Wholesale Agent.
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& ", CURgRY q BRO,

ihi'ip lindsey, Solicitor for Complainant.
msrl7-law4t.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14

MANY HUMAN BEING EAs PASSED AWAY,
w for whose death there was no other reason
than the neglect of known aud indisputably prov
en- means of cure Those near and ar to family
and friends are sleep ng the dreamless slumber
into which, had they calmly adopted
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-11-11
The Gld.FashIOned Mother.

Thank God! some of lis have an
old fashioned mother. Not woman
of the period, enameled and painted,
with her great chignon, her curls and
hustle; whose white, jewele>, hands
nevtl have felt the clasp OF Jaby fin
bu -s old-fa shiol I'd, sweet
voiced mother, with eyes in whose
clear depths the love light shone,
and brown hair threaded with silver,
lying smooth upon her faded cheek.
Those dear hands worn with toll,
gently guided our tottering steps in
childhood, and smoothel our pillows
in sickness; even reaching out to us
in yearning tenderness, when Eer
spirit was hapti cd in the pOarly
spray of the riv II. Blessed Is the
memory of an old-iashioned mother.
1t floats to us now, like the beautiful
perfume of some woodland bl0ssC MS.
The music of other voices may be
lost, but the entrancing memory of
hers will echo in our souls forever.
Other faces will fade away and be
forgotten, but hers win shine on un-
| til the light nom heavens portals
shall glorify our own. When in the
fitGul pauses of busy life our feet
| wardor back to the old homestead,
aud, crossing tho well.worn thrcsh=
ola stand once more in the low,
| int room, SO hallowed by her
fesencc, how the feeling of childish
Innocence ana dependence come;
over us, and we kneel down in the
molten sunshine, streaming through
the western window-just where
long years ago, We knelt by oul
mothers knee, lisping "Our Father.
How many times when the temptel
lures us on has the memory Qf thosl
sagred AOqvs, thqt mpthag4 words
her faith and prayers, saved US frou
plungiug into the deep abyss of sin
Years have filed great drifts hetweel
her and US, but they have not hid
, den from our sight the glory Of he
pure, unsC0sh love.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-11-11

The cores are hollow, and 6 inches
in diameter, by 3 feet 3 inches in
length. This magnet is about five
times as powerful as that used by
Faraday in his famous researches.
From a paper on the vertebrate
animals of Australia, lately publish
ed,bY Mr.. KreirC, the Curator of the
Sidney Museum, we learn that no
woodpeckers or humming-birds have
ever been met with ia that country.
Among birds, the parrot is the most
prominent, there being more than
sixty species. Replies abound,
among them a species of crocodile,
individuals of which frequently grow
to the extraordinary length of thirty
feet, and occasion much trouble TO
the co!onists. No one of the five vc-
nomous snakes of the country is so
deadly as the English viper. The
number of known harmless species
is seventy-five.
Among recent discoveries in fossil
botany is the occurrence Of three or
four species of tree ferns, like those
of the coal period, in the Devonian
formation of New York and Ohio,
which underlies the coal. BY this
discovery, made by the geological
surveys of those States under the di-
rection of Profs. Hall and Newber-y
respectively, the existence of those
gigantic ferns is carried back as sfar
as the bottom of the middle DevO-
nian. One of them, says Dr. Daw-
son, 'heir describer, has the cellular
structure and vascular bundles in
such preservation as to show their
microscopic structure, which is ne
ciscly similar to that of mo- ga
ferns.
The English journals report that
during recent explorations in the
moss on the shores of Loeb Etive,
Argyle County, Scotland, the re-
mains of az extensive lake dwelling
were discovered. The platform Of
this structure is sixty feet in DIANA
ter, and the dwelling in the middle
is fifty feet long and tSenty.eight
feet broad. There was also discov-
cred in large cairn structure COM
posed Of huge stones, and consisting
of tNo chambers, each twenty feet
long, connected by passage of nearly
the same length. One broken urn
and the remains of four others were
also discovered. Loeb Etiye is an
inlet to the sea on the nnQrthwest
coast of Scotland, run varying for
over twenty miles, and3
breadth. an
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I
bottle, held il TO the light. 1t was
empty! The condition of that bottle
was destined to have an effect on the
future population of Pcrsimmon's
Corner.
otis empty, jedge," said Bill
"Tm sorry. Jest wait till | wind up
this game and III step around to the
Shades and fill it up"
William RufIin," said the Judge,
with as much sternness as the asthma
would permit, "we have come for
you, and you can have ten minutes to
prepare"
"Well now that is jest little
rough" said Bill. "That isn't quite
neighborlY. No man cant say as
eve. l didn't act squar' by 'em. Hcv
you picked out the tree, JedgeW
"Well, we thought as how that
old pine, jest outside the door, would
answer about as well as any" replied
the Judge, "That limb jest over the
door rather took our eye as we came
along"
The lad threw himself at his faith
er's feet and burst into tears. Bill
put him gently aside. 'Jcdge,' he
said, I'll jest trouble You to hand me
that there pipe on the mantle, there.
Ten minutes is time enough to play
this hand out and have one more
smoke
AS the Judge turned No. .Nosed Bill
struck match and stopped over. A
terrible explosion followed. When
the smoke cleared away, it was re.
marked that the door was split in
two and hung by one hinge and the
window was blown out, while at
least third Of the roof was gone.
The judge was no more; Stumpy
and the boy were no more; the
stranger was no more; No-Nosed
Bill was--a little more but not much.
With q loud imprecaiion which
tore off another large piece Of the
roof the seven men sprang upon Bill
with their knives, but he feebIy
waved them off with an uninjured
hand.
EASY, now, gentleman he said,
iaintly. jest let me play out this
hand my own way. I've only got
few keerds left and there amt none
on 'em trumps. Just lean what there
is left of me up against the wall, there,
will We, and let me pass in my chips
now without no interference. Nc
man can't say as ever took no ad-
vantage of 'cm, and that is about all
I | have to say
They complied with his request
and also gave him his pipe aud light
cd it, when be asked for it, but hC
seemed not to enjoy his smoke.
"I've got seven thousand dollars il
that 'erc trunk there he said pres
entity, and putD wish you'd set "
a monument over me and this DO!
(pufl). I'm sorry for the boy. | wa'
goin' to make a scholar anda gen lie
man of that boy. And have some
thin writ on the marble, you know
about how as | never took no ad
vantage of no man and allus tried tt
do my level best tpul, puff. Anc
put Il smallish kind Of one owe
that stranger there. There ain
nothin' mean about me-
The head of No-Noscd Bill drop
ped upon his shoulder and his pipl
t falling from his lips dropped on tn
floor and broke into pieces. TIN
seven men involuntarily shcathcC
their bowie-kniyes and took of thei
bats. And the faint smoke wreath
: noatcd gracefully upward through
the rent in the root, and seen mo
mcnt against the deep blue sky, van
ished forever.