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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18
FLOODS IN AUsTRo.HUNsARY.

1t mostly happens that about the time our
crops are gathered a report comes from
some corner of the world to give our
farmers hope of an extra market for their
produce. Some corner of the earth has met
disaster which must be temporarily repair
ed by the abundance Of moro favored
lands.
The intelligence comes now that Austri-
an Hungary is in great distress from floods
which have laid waste more than four mil
lion acres of rich wheat growing country.
Hungary has been called the grarary Of
Europe, and when the crop of wheat is full
supplies large amount of the European
demand. Many sections are entirely de-
pendent upon Hungary for bread, and these
will have to draw their supplies from other
quarters. They are looking to America,
which is supposed never to fail in any thing
in the way of food.
Hungary can raise in good seasons from
thirty to forty bushels to the acre of choice
wheat. Now almost all the wheat lands
are under wafer. Bohemia has had the
same experience. At the latter end of May
rains and storms and waterspouts came to
such an extent as to inundate the country
with fearful rapicity. The water rose four
or five feet minute, and there was great
destruction of life and property. Large
tracts of country are represented as deserts
covered with sand and mud to depth of
two or three feet.
The land this year will be totally unfit
for cultivation, and much of it will be ut
terly lost for agricultural purposes, the ex-
penses of restoration being too great to be
borne by the poor people. A direct conse-
quence of this failure of the markets which
have supplied great portion of Europe
with grain will be the necessity of drawing
large supplies from other countries, and
the prospect is that a considerable exporta-
ton of grain from the United States will be
required to supply the deficiency.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18
FLIGHT OF CHATTANOOGA JAIL
Birds
Five Prisoners Escape.

Monday night the following prisoners
confined in jail at Chattanooga escaped
VIM. Tumlin, colored, Henry Baker, Jessie
Williams, larceny; Shade Westmorel, muir
der, and Andy Williams, forgery. They
were confined together in the west end of
the Jail building which is an old brick
house, having strong wooden cells inside
and separate from the walls. The cells
have each double doors, one of wood and
the other of latticed iron. On account of
the warm weather the outer door of the
prisoners cell had been left open, and in the
evening one of Bakers friends placed an iron
bar about an inch thick and near four feet
long on plank and passed it through the
window. With this bar they pryed off the
paddock 10 the cell door and bent back the
outside window bars, allowing them to gain
the yard, and then over the fence into the
street. One of the escaped party, Andy
house of Tailor Bryan, whose son he in
formed of the delivery, and therefore made
no effort to escape. Westmoreland and
Baker, after circulating about town
until midnight, also went TO the house of
The jailer, whom they aroused from his
slumbers. They said they were sleepy,
had been TO political gathering and want
ed to go to bed. The jailer lit candle, and
conducting them to- the cell from which
they had escaped, "put them in their little
bed" Baker lost no time in making for
Walker county, Ca, where be larcenied
horse from gentleman named Long, for
which he was arrested and tried before JUS
tice Stone, who committed the fugitive
thief to Jail at Lafayette. Tumlin is still
,umbling and not yet captured.
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Stealing from the PenltentiaIy.

For some time past there has been rea-
son to suppose that frequent thefts were
occurring at the State prison, and the off
GERS of that institution have been vigilantly
watching fol they depredators and the mar
ner in which this stealing occurred. Acting
under information given them by the prison
officers, the police yesterday in the tenth
ward called at two houses, occupied by
three negro men, named Nelson M'Cane,
Albert Brown and James Franklin, each of
whom has served a term in the
Penitenta y. The men wee arrested
and their houses searched. In each of
the houses were discovered blankets, shoes,
leather and other articles recognized as
property of the prison. The goods were
taken to the police station, and the arrested
men placed in the workhouse to await trial
on the charge of receiving stolen goods. 1t
is not positively known how this property
got out ofthe Penitentiary, but is supposed
it was taken at different times by certain
prisoners who are occasionally allowed TO
act as TRUSTEES, and given over to the men
in whose possession portion of it hes
been found.
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AN ATTACK ON THE TEAPOT.

The London Lancet makes another dead
ly attack upon the teapot. "Tea," says our
medical contemporary, sis no more fit
thing to drink in excess than is alcohol"
1t is admitted that tea bibbiDg is much less
deadly than habitual devotion to the bottle.
That, of course, must be selfevident to
every one; but the Lancet proceeds to
analyze with a dreadful minuteness the
principal ingredients of the favorite leaf,
and demonstrates that the quantities of
this beverage drunk every day, espe-
cially by women of the poorer class,
must prove decidedly noxious." The
mischief arises in this way. The definite
effects sought from tea drinking are pro-
duced by the alkaloid "theine'' and the ar
omatic matter of the leaf The latter is
what is most valued by the connoisseur,
aud it is to be obtained in perfection by
drawing off the first infusion, without
'stewing" of any kind. Prepared in this
manner, the Lancet has nothing to say
against tea; it is the slow stewing process
adopted by the poor, process which ex-
tracts large percentage of the theme and
other astringent substances, that converts
very pleasant, and even beneficial, beverage
into hurtful narcotic which tells inju-
r;ously upon the nervous system. Putting
aside" says the Lancet, "the by no means
very rare cases of persons in whom cup
of tea taken rather later at night than usual
will entirely prevent sleep, and also the re-
ally very numerous persons who cannot
take green tea at all without suffering
complete upset of the nervous system, it is
certain that very uncomfortable form of
dyspepsia, with palpitation of the heart, is
an exceedingly frequent consequence Of ex-
cessive indulgence in tea by the poor. We
have often heard from surgeons practising
among the poorer classes of the manufac-
turing towns that the mischief reaches an
extraordinary extent in such places, espe-
cially among the DOR women"
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Personal.

Col. Burch returned from New York last
evening.
Mr.. A. G.. Carter, who was on Monday
last suddenly Frustrated by sickness, was
able yesterday to take carriage ride to the
Country. -....
Hon. Ed. L. Goladay, the energetic and
efficient Representative of this district in
Congress, left for bis home in Lebanon last
evening. 1t will be seen from his an
nouncement in this mornings paper, that
Col. GolIaday is candidate for reelection.
Miss Emma Nash is going out of town to
spend several weeks amid the pleasures and
delights of country life.
The Campbell spoken of in the Dispatch
es in connection with the late row in Alex
andria, Egypt, is Maj. W. A. Campbell,
son of the late James Campbell, of the law
firm of Campbell & Fletcher, of this city.
Hon. Benz. j. Lea, of Brownsville, is in
the city, and is stopping at the Battle
House.
Among the guests of the Maxwell House
yesterday were the following: Col. Joseph
Jaques, General Superintendent of the con-
solidated line from Bristol to Memphis;
Gen. Pstton Anderson and Maj. Geo. W.
Gift, of Memphis; Mr.. w. M. Cannon
and bride, of Rome, Ga; Hon. w. G. Whit
thorne. of Columbia; Hon. w. Fl. Williams,
of Lebanon; Geo. Rogers, Esq, University
of the South.
Gen. B. F. Cheatham, of Coffee county
is in the CITY.
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New Residences.

" We are glad to see that the gentlemen
who purchased the Bass property on South
High street are already making preparations
10 erect residences on it, which will be an
ornament to that portion of our city. The
foundations for the houses of Mrs. Jas.
Snow and A. l.. Berry, are now about
completed; and the masonry VIII be COM
menced in few days. Mr.. Brad. Nichol,
our well known furniture dealer, who pur-
chased the lot on the corner of Demon
breun and High, is having the ground made
ready to commence building fine resi-
dence. The gentlemen who purchased the
other two lots on High street, we under
stand, intend to erect fine residences thereon
before fall. We also understand that the
purchasers of the property intend to widen
the street in front of their lots. 1t is to be
hoped that the widening of High street
may be extended to the City Cemetery,
which could be done with little or no
expense to the property holders on that
now promising thoroughfare, as the houses
generally are some distance from the street.
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ssTHE QUEER
New Fifty Cent COunterfeits = Look
ONT for Them.

out tOF Anem.
In "Peterson's Counterfeit Detector" fol
July is the following description of the new
counterfeit half-dollar notes, extensively cir
culaled at present: "The head of Stanton,
the beard is harsh and stiff, the background
on the right of the head irregular and
scratchy. Under some of the letters Of the
words fractional currency are five
lines in the ruled shade to the letters,
and but four in the genuine. In the
words United States the blank spaces
between the body of the letters
and the ruled shades are irregular and gen
orally narrower than the genuine, which
are of uniform width. On the back of TIE
counterfeit the hair lines forming the turns
at the top and bottom of the italic letters
are heavy, on the genuine they are light
and delicate. The red seal also differs ma
terially from the genuine in the forms oflet-
tiers; the dots on the shields, the shades to
the letter, which are irregular
and on both sides of the letters, and the
ruled lines forming the background
to the shield. The fibre paper on which
the genuinenotes are printed has been imi-
tated by scratchy lines engraved on the
counterfeit plate. All this seems quite I'M
necessary when the spurious paper passes
equally well with the genuine, and one is
as good as the other for all practical pur-
poses. Nobody knows and nobody cares
which is which. If a stamp looks too
rough it is refused. The counterfeits are
usually as well executed, or so dirty and
ragged, as to defy detection under the care
less scrutiny to which they are commonly
subjected"
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CircumstantiaI Evidence.

The London Globe publishes statement
which is an illustration of the danger of re-
lying upon circumstantial evidence, even
when it approaches positiveness. 4 gentle
man went to the British Museum with an
order to have case opened containing some
valuable medals for his inspection. He ex-
amined particular medal, which was SUD-
posed to be unique, restored it to the tray,
and after talking some time with the custo-
dian, was about to leave, when the latter
discovered that the medal was missing.
1t was searched for everywhere, and
could not be found, when it was suggested
that the pockets OF the visitor should be ex-
amined. To this he objected, and a police
man was sent for. However, before be ar
rived, the medal was found to have Slipped
between the tray and the bottom of the
case. When asked why he refused to be
searched, the supposed culprit produced
medal from his pocket, the exact counter
part of that which was in the case, and re-
marked that his object had been to verify
the authenticity of his own, which, being
identified with the missing one and dis
covered in his pocket, would at once have
convicted him of the theft.
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sT. LOUIS.
Special to the Union and American.


n Special to the Union and American. /
ST. LOUIS, July 17.--The excursion train
which left Nashville this morning srrived
here safely in twelve and a half hours, the
distance being three hundred and twenty
miles. The delegation were met by a com
mittee from this city.
,s.. To the Associated Press. e
ST. LOUIS, July IT, An excursion
party, numbering some 800, arrived here
tonight over the st. Louis, Evansville and
Nashville Air Line, the occasion being the
opening Of the line through to Nashville via
Evansville, Ind, and Henderson, Ky. The
party is made up of prominent citizens Of
Nashville, HopkinsyiIle, Trenton, Madison
vile, Evansville, Mt. Vernon and other
places. They were met by committee Of
st. Louisians at Queens Lake, Ills, some
thirty miles from here, escorted to the city,
and assigned quarters at the various hotels.
A suitable entertainment will be provided
for them tomorrow, and they viii proba-
bly, return home at night. The run from
Nashville was made ii twelve hours and a
halt. F Tb
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18
Musical Ran and Frisky Monkey.

A street organ grinder, seemingly of the
old style, and bearing upon his back heavy
organ with astonishing capacity for shrillness
of sound, is among the present musical at
fractions of the city. Little boys in large
numbers eagerly follow him about, but the
circumstance has not yet amounted to a
identity from distant land, is accompanied
by sprightly monkey dressed in striped
clothes of the Dolly Warden style. This
monkey faithfully gathers up all the small
change in sight, but beyond this fact fur
nishes nothing in support of Darwin's the
DRY. We are no: at this time prepared to
say how long be and his master intend re-
naming in Nashville.
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a troublesome breakdown.

A clap-board wagon from the Ridge broke
down yesterday afternoon just in front of
the Suspension Bridge office, and in such a
way as to make it impossible to remove the
blockade until the boards, which were very
numerous, had been transferred to another
wagon. The work of removal occupied an
hours time, for that time very considerably
retarding the facility with which vehicles
and horsemen usually pass Capt. Farmers
Office. In the whole fifteen miles of its
progress to the city, that clap board wagon
could not possibly have found more i'm
proper or inconVenient place for breaking
down.
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LArEsrmARKETs BY TELEGRAPH

SAVANNAH, July 17.-Cotton dull,
middling 22ac; net receipts bales; sales
$50 bales; stock 767.
GALVESTON, July 17.-Cotton nomi-
nal; good ordinary 204c; net receipts 10
bales; exports coast 2l6 bales; sales ID;
bales; stock 422 bales.
MOBILE, July 17.-Cotton dull and
nominal; stock 1886 bales.
CHARLESTON, July 17.-Cotton dull
nominal middlings 22ac; net receipts AZ
bales; stock 1864 bales.
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New Advertisements.


Crawford & Co. sell diamonds at auction
next Friday. -
All styles of musquito bars at Chas. Rich
heimer & Co.'s.
Partnership of r. j. Stewart and W. E.
Byers dissolved. a
Yeatman, Shields & Co. sell goods at auc-
ton to-day.
Coal Miners wanted for the Tracy City
Mines. r
A serving man for general household
work is wanted. e.. ..-.-
Among our new advertisements viii be
found that of Crawford & Co., who viii
sell at their Central Auction Rooms No. 76
Church street, opposite the Maxwell Friday
next, $4,000 worth of diamonds. These
Jewels will be sold at cost, and rare OPP
portunity offered to persons wishing to pur-
RnQEa
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Certain members of the City Council
seem so immovably bent upon having a
hog law of some sort that they are almost
ready to insist upon the point Sat every
hazard and to the last extremity" Several
bills relating to the hog business have been
prepared, and will be duly considered at
the Council meetings next ensuing. 1t
now seems evident that some means of ex-
termination will be at an early day fully
determined upon. Something must and
will be done. -.. .
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18

"BiliOus."-If you feel dull, drowsy
debiitated, respondent, have frequent head
ache, mouth tastes badly in morning, If
regular appetite and tongue coated, you a,e
suffering from Torpid Liver or "Rilious-
ness" In many cases Of oliver Com
plant" only a part Of these symptoms are
experienced. As remedy for all such
CASE s, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoy-
erX has no equal, as it effects perfect cures,
leaving the liver strengthened and healthy.
Sold by all first-class druggists.
jy16 deod1E&YIt
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Stop, Just MOment.-If you want a
Boot or Shoe, stylish or plain, neat and
easy tit, and at moderate price, leave your
measure at Fitch & Myers Boot and Shoe
FACTORY, No. s Union, between Market and
College streets.
+. S.-We keep our own make of Boots
and Shoes constantly on hand, and sell at
prices that will not take your breath clean
away lyle 1w
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18

From Nashville to St. Louis inside ofthir-
teen hoursl Think of that, oh ye of little
faith in the possibility of all things, and no
longer doubt the genius of man ever being
able to almost annihilate time and so lessen
space as to make it but the slave of his great
powers. Excursionists, here's to you, as in
one breath you say goodbye to Nashville,
and with the next salute st. Louis. By you
especially viii this wonderful achievement
be forever most pleasingly and wildly re-
membered.
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WESTERN ways.

A Colorado letter to the Philadelphia
Press has the following:
Even now, in the good season, prices seem
extOrtionate to our Eastern ideas. For poor
hotel accommodations you pay always 81
pc: daJ. Stage fare is twenty cents mile,
and everything else in proportion. The
very commonest and most unskiled labor is
worth from So to $3.50 per day, and at eur
place my landlady told me she paid SIS a
week for kitchen girls. 1 observed that
those highly valuable young ladies oficiated
in the kitchen and dining-room in polonaise
skirts and elaborate chignons. This, how
ever, is the style of the country, and per-
haps is demanded by public opinien. 1
have seen stage drivers driving over dusty
roads in faultless lavender kids and silk
hats.
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Hand Shaking.

The pleasant and polite ceremony of
hand shaking goes on at lively rate, be-
coming even more vigorous as certain events
expressive of the popular will draws nigh.
How much of this thing a man can stand
without serious injury to his nervous system
remains to be seen, and the testing process
is now in full, if not alarming, play.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18

$4,000 Fruit Cans-Self Labelling.
Treppard & Co. are now Offering for sale
10000 tin and glass Fruit Cans of all the
s rious kinds made.
They have the exclusive sale of the self
sealing, self-labelling can and they want
the ladies to call and examine this can.
Price the same as for the old style can.
ie9-sun&thurs-tf.
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Again VERY rorrid.

After few days cessation, in Difference
to the rainy season, the hot spell was yes
terday again renewed. Throughout the
day July sun poured down its fierce rays
in merciless fury, in consequence of which
fact pedestrians were showing considerable
foot-walking so much faster than usual as
to give the sidewalks the appearance of a
procession going in search of physicians. No
wonder, for the weather was excessively
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STATE OF THE WEATHER.
WAK DKPARTNKNr,
OEsIoR OF THE OHIKB SIGNAL OPyIoHR.
WAaHINaTnM. d e .Inlu IL 1874

OFBIOH DI6NAL OFFIO1Ea
WASHINGTON, D. c., July II, 1874
Prob0bilities.-The barometer will prob
ably continue rising with northerly winds
and cooler weather from the lower lakes
westward to Missouri. Cloudy weather
will continue over the Ohio Valley. South
westerly winds with more local storms will
prevail in the South Atlantic and Gulf
States. Westerly winds, lower temperature
and cloudy weather will prevail from Vir-
ginia to New Jersey. Easterly winds and
cloudy weather will continue in the New
ENGLAND coast.
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Edgeaeld street Cars.

Gentlemen interested in the Edgefeld
street car enterprise are not just now max
ing any active movements for the purpose
of extending their line across the Public
Square so as to connect with the city street
cars on College street. 1t is hoped that in
this behalf, quiet persuasion and gentle me-
gotiation may be able to accomplish what
other means have failed to do. E
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nW ED.

FITZPATRICK-Died last evening, at the
residence in Edgeield, ELLEN, wife of John
Fitzpatrick aged u years.
The funeral will take place from the Cathedral
Friday morning at 10 O'clock. Friends and &C
quaintances of the family are respectfully in
Vited to attend.
Baltimore papers please cOpy 2t
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All Well that Ends Wen.

Sunday morning DIR. McIntosh's child, of
Knoxville, in an effort to catch hold of the
rope while servant was drawing bucket
of water, fell headforemost to the bottom.
An employee named Bel bearing the ap-
peal for help fastened to render assistance,
the child having seized the bucket which
had been lowered. BY this means the at
frighted child, who sustained no injury by
the fall, was safely drawn up. -
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A HORRIBLY nervous lady, accompanied
by her husband, arrived in Baltimore re-
Gently on visit, and on their way to a ho-
tel encountered two men on the sidewalk,
quietly engaged in conversation. The lady
instantly fancied the men intended to harm
her husband and set up violent screaming,
and before the husband could obtain an ex-
PLANTATION from her he was in the arms of
the two men, they naturally supposing that
the woman had been assaulted. An expla-
nation of the conduct Of the husband was
demanded, and the nervous female, per-
ceiving that her champions were about to
thrash her husband, quickly explained mat
tiers, and relieved her husband from the
awkward position in which her own folly
had placed him,
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A Rural JoIIf6catIon.

The people of the 23d district are to
have a temperance picnic and general jollif-
cation to-day at Phillips grove. The Rock
City Band will make music for the occas-
ion, and the good people of that locality will
do every thing that may contribute to the
happiness of guests who are there to enjoy
their hospitality.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18

Chapped hands, face, rough skin, pim-
pies, ringworms, salt-rheum, and other
eutaneous affections cured, and the skin
made soft and smooth by using the Juniper
Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard &
Co., New York.
maF31 sUntsythurs I've
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Female attire and honey stolen.

A woman Of not very spotless reputation,
well known about the city by the name of
Hannah Dowd, was yesterday arrested for
entering the house of Mrs. g. S. Goodman
and stealing dress having $50 in its pock-
ct. The stolen property was found in Han
nah's possession and returned to its owner.