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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
Terrible RetrIbuttOn.

The truth of the following narrative is
vOuched for by several respectable citizens
Of Rutherford county:
'Some five or six years ago Mr.. F., in
connection with two other Northern gen.
tlemen, rented cotton farm near Murfrees-
boro, employed negroes to cultivate the
ground for wages, which they never paid
them. The prospect for an abundant crop
was very flattering IL the early part of the
season, and expectations were excited to
the highest pitch. The growing season so
fondly anticipated, was soon changed by
the severe drought and the crop seriously
damaged, and his cherished expectations
sadly disappointed. Mr.. F., instead
Of gracefully submitting to the order
NC of Providence, became exasperated
with his Creator, and remarked repeatedly
to the family with whom he lived, that
"God was dishonest, unjust and had de-
ceived him." Such impious expressions he
usedSEith oaths, saying again that "fOr the
future he did not intend to regard His laws
in any way whatever; that there was no
particular Providence, and that he would
in the future, not rely upon a general Prov
idence; and that he would look to his own
interest, and if God was too busy with his
own affairs to send him rain in due season,
he guessed He would be too busy to notice
his (F's) actions, and he intended to be
master of his own time" Now, said he,
''this is Sunday; am resolved not to lose
another Sunday. cannot afford it. / in
tend to run my gin all day next Sunday,
and every Sunday until gin my crop; say
ing, "God has cheated me aud intend to
avenge myself"
The last time F. repeated these impetus
and defiant remarks was on Sunday morn
ing, and was taken violently i'll the follow
ing Tuesday, with what was thought to be
epileptic fits, wildly calling for absent per-
SONS and things, sometimes raviDg and
cursing the negroes, and telling them to
''drive that gin faster" Then he would
gaze awhile at some apparent object, whose
approach he dreaded, and imagined that it
was about to pounce upon him, when he
would scream piteously for help to wrestle
with terrible foe; struggling convulsively
and biting his togue till the bloody foam
issued from his mouth, and so rolled and
strained his eyeballs till they actually burst.
His countenance all the time was horrible
and CHASTITY beyond description.
The preceding Sabbath he had vowed
with an oath that the next Sunday he would
run his gin, and so forth. But on Tuesday
he was taken i'll, and so became worse and
worse, until Friday following, when he ex-
pired, and his mortal remains were on the
Sunday, as above, on the way to his home
at the North for interment.
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

By cur present mode of direction,
each one of our subscribers can tell
the time to which be has paid for the
UNION AND AMERICAN: for instance,
IA. B, Jan. IL, '72," shows that A.
B. has paid to Jan. II, 1872. Our
terms are invariably cash in ad-
vance. Hitherto we have not been
able to make this rule invariable. Hence
forth each subscriber will know for him
self when his time expires. If he wishes
the paper renewed, we will take it as a
favor to have it continued. To save
trouble and postage to him and to us,
we announce that we will consider
those who do not renew their subscrip-
ton as desiring to have the paper dis
continued. We shall certainly regret
this, and sincerely hope that our sub
scribers may each and every one renew
their subscription, and still continue to
patronize that sold reliable" the Peoples
Paper.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
THREE YOUTHFUL BURGLARS
CAUGHT.
They Confess Their GutIt.


Officers Mansfield and Plummer last
night saw a festive trio enter the Varieties,
and concluded they were inclined to do
wrong things. Acting upon this conviction,
they arrested the party, who turned out to
be VIM. Petty, white, David Smith, colored,
and Henry Dickson, cOlored. This was
about eleven o'clock, and thinking their
presence could be dispensed with at the
Workhouse for the rest of the night, the
youthful gang made a clean breast
of their misdeeds to the officers whose SYM
pathy was not sufficiently enlisted thereby
to let them go, for they were bunked to
await a hearing this morning. They stated
that they had during the night robbed the
house of Mrs. Mccarthy, on Cherry street,
and that of Duggin, on Vine street, but had
spent the money thus obtained in festive
amusements. Upon being further ques-
toned, they stated that they had entered
Ireppard Il Co.'S tin shop, No. p Col
lege street, at two different times,
taking one dollar at first, and after
wards $500. This they managed very
adroitly, their visits having never been de-
tected, owing to the information Of a
benevolent cOlored thief named Bart Tran,
who told them they must hold the bell on
the money-draWer when opening it so as
to prevent its ringing. They entered
through the drugstore on College street near
the telegraph office and robbed it Of money
Their happiest raid, however, was made
last Thursday night, yesterday week, at
which time they entered the saloon Of Mr..
ShoeTs, on South Market street, and stole
two pistols with which, in case of an emer-
gency, to fight their way cut, and two bottles
of brandy, to celebrate their victory or to
cheer their dropping spirits. Their story
is not much credited, and it is not unlikely
they know something of the Granny White
burglaries.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
RunRWays.

The buggy horse of DR.. Menees about
ten O'Clock yesterday morning, while hitch
ed to post on Church street, slipped the
bride and dashed down the street at flu
rious speed. He was stopped by running
against the gas post in front of Demovile's
drug store, corner Of Cherry and Church
streets. The buggy was considerably dam
aged.
About twelve o'clock yesterday a horse
attached to buggy took fright on the cor.
ner of Market street and the Square, and
ran away, circling around the court house
by the Ensley block and then to
North Market street, at which place
he ran against the curbing and fell upon the
pavement. A crowd took after the horse
which having regained his feet ran down by
DOuglass's stable and thence through an
alley to Front street where he was stopped.
With the exception of the shafts which
were broken the vehicle sustained no other
injury.
Yesterday morning the colored driver of
an express wagon, No. 737, collided with
the wood wagon of John Murray and broke
both shafts of the latter. Officer Reid
towed 737 with its driver to the Police
Station.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
THE GIRLS THAT ARE GROWING

HdTpeT'S BGzdr has word of comfort for
the girls who are beginning to ''gO off," as
our English cousins have il: eve say that
our friend is pdSSe. Is she past her inte!li-
gence, her good nature, her power of enter
tainment, her wit, her usefulness generally?
On the contrary, she has usually but just
attained the greater part Of them. She has
but just attained experience enough to ena-
bic her to comprehend and join in CONVEX
satiOn above the mediOcrity of gossip and
litter and compliment; her gayety is not
mere gigging, but there is in il some
thing Of the flash Of encountering intellects;
she has discretion enough to be silent, and
knowledge enough to speak on occasion; no
longer raw, or shy, or painfully self-cOn-
scious, her manners have charm of ease
that gives ease to all around her; if she has
accomplishments, they are practical and ma
ture, and you are spared, for instance, the
familiar horror of the schoolgirls music; if
she has not the rosy loneliness other youth,
she has knowledge of the arts of the toilet
that makes her dress perfect, and herself an
attractive object; in fact, she has only just
become capable of enjoying and giving en-
jOyment in society; and so far from the young
idiots who call her pdSSe having any rights
TO slurs in her regard, it is she who should
De herself an arbiter in society, and have
authority to pronounce whether or not they
are in any sense fit TO enter its charmed
circles. Indeed, it may excite all the won
der that it does among Europeans that the
young are here allowed to absorb all the en-
ioyments of our social life-the young who
have nothing but their youth or their beauty
to give; whose minds and manners are al
most totally unframed and insufficient;
who are, indeed, objects of pleasure to the
eye, and wherein they yield other pleasure
or profit, do so rather in subsidiary way
than in the main. We do not wish to IN
dervalue the element of innocence and
freshness which the young bring, or are
supposed to bring, with them; but we main
tain that the virtue of years, with their
knowledge of the world we live in-their
wisdom, their grace, and their charity-are
of at least equal value, and deserve equal
recognition in the place where men and wO-
men meet together; and we protest against
the curving of the scontumeliOus lip over
the claims to courtesy and consideration of
the woman beyond her girlhood."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
TURNER BROTHERS.
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
81 and 20 SOUTH MARKET STREET.
+ NASEEVIIIIGE1,
FLOUR
ECCENTRICITIEs OF MUSICIANS.

PaisieilO remained in bed when he intend
ed composing-a cheap, practical means, as
trustworthy contemporaries have assured
me; 1t saves clothing, fuel, etc. Zingarelli,
before sitting down at the piano to compose,
read few pages Of Latin poet; then, how
ever, he worked so easily that he was able
to write in four hOuTs-four hours, l saw
whole act of Romeo and Juliet When
rather Haydn could not get along, he would
take his rosary and say few ayes, and gen.
orally inspiration returned. In another
place Tead-prObably of his later years
Haydn sat quietly down ia chair, but he
must have upon his finger the ring Fred
erick the Great had once given him! In
London, however, even this expedient
seems to have proved unavailing, for we
have report that once the master had no
inspiration left at all; for two weeks he vain
ly tortured himself to get an appropriate
continuation to the first eight bars of an
adante. 1t is well known that it has been
thought some connection existed between
MOzart's fOndness for billiards and ten-pins
and his musical disposition. Beethoven
went out into the open air, into the magni-
tcence and solitGss of nature. MehuI was
a lover Of flowers, and liked to soiOurn in
pretty gardens. Mendelssohn, it is said, al
ways had bouquets on his desk. Halevy
required the sound of boiling water, to be-
come disposed" Auber, a good rider,
mounted his horse in order to gain the 70
mantle country, the artist finds every
thing he needs; formerly, perhaps; in later
ye4rs, when the celebrated composer was
an old, very old gentleman, he probably
composed his operas on foot. Francois
Hunten felt most inspired for composition
in autumn. He walked up and downin his
room, catching tlies-no very difficult task
at that season ofthe year-and thus were
produced more than two hundred compost
tions, the greater part of which might at one
time be found on every piano-long enough
ago, it is true.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16

A few days ago the UNION AND AMER
IcAN sold its Nashville, Edge6eid and
suburban subscription lists to Mr.. A. E.
Sneed, a gentleman long connected with
the subscription department of this Of
fee. He will conduct the delivery of
papers and receive subscriptions for the
same. He will devote bis entire time
to the BUSINESS, and requests Us to say
that he will guarantee the regular and
prompt delivery of the Daily papers to
all subscribers on his routes. he will
keep a registry of complaints at our
Counting Room, and desires that every
neglect or failure of carriers shall be
reported to him at this Office. He viii
receive subscriptions by the week, month,
quarter, half-year or year, at the pub
lished rates for papers delivered -25
cents per week, ST per month, So per
quarter, or S12 per year.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
THE COURTS.

CIRCUIT COURT.-Prior, Boyd & Co.,
vs.. Bell & Co.; judgment for defendant.
Corbitt vs.. Lowell ct al; jury respited.
Foster vs.. Garland; plaintiff called out.
Tufts VS.. BasSett; judgment for $137.50.
Driver vs.. Donaldson, sheriff; judgment for
one cent. w. r. Cornelius q Co, use, etc.
vs.. Jones; judgment for S121.44. Allison
VS.. Dernier, writ Of inquiry executed; judg-
ment for $167.12. McCrea VS.. Gillice ct al;
Judgment for defendant. Mcclure, Execu-
tor, vs.. Nashville and Chattanooga, and
Nashville and Northwestern Railroad Com
panies, appealed; judgment for SS0.35, con-
frmed. Payne VS.. Williams; judgment for
defendant.
CRIMINAL COURT.-JOseph Watkins,
colored, accused of carrying pistol, was
convicted and fined SO.
LAW COURT.-In the case of Samuel
Hare VS.. the First National Bank, the Try
rendered verdict for plaintiff for S391.72.
In the case Of c. W. Nance VS.. Robert
Warmuek, the jury rendered a verdict for
plaintiff, fixing damages at one cent. They
also find low water mark to be established
by the United States Government at its
late survey. W. II. Gordon vs.. R. A.
Barnes ct al, the jury respited.
a REMINDER.-The motions now pend
ing in the Criminal Court for new trials, and
alo the scire facias tocket will be called
promptly tomorrow and disposed Of.
Lawyers and other interested parties will
govern themselves accordingly.
SUPREME COURT.-One section of the
Court is now on the Sumner equity dock
ct, which will not more than be finished be-
fore adjoUrning time. The other section is
on the Marshall equity and will by Monday
reach the Maury docket, which will occupy
the court until its adjournment. Giles
county viii not be reached. 1t is now set
tied that the Davidson docket will not be
reached the present term, for the court will
not be able to get through the Ninth Cir
cult on which one section has been engaged
since the converting of the present session.
The court still takes out cases on brieffrom
the circuits that viii not be reached. At
tOrneys desiring to get causes on the special
docket should bear in mind that Tuesday
next, the goth inst, is the day set by the
court for calling the same.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
The Fire at fae Methodist PubIinhtng
EEousq

House.
The loss by the fire TO the Southern
Methodist Publishing Company is not 90
large as at first supposed. With the exeep-
ton of few half completed plates, stored
in the upper room, the presses and stereo-
types, valued at 100000, were saved, to-
gether with a large stock of books and
stationery. A good deal of sheet stock in
the biHdeFy was lost. The value of Mr..
John Loeken's property in the bindery was
a little over SIS 900, on which he suffered
loss of not over $1,000, saving most of the
machinery.
The minutes Of the Tennessee Confer
ence from the time Of its organization, 60
ing back to the beginning of the present
century, as also the minutes of the General
Conference, dating back from 1S45, the
time of the split between the Church North
and South, were deposited in the room oc-
cupied by DR.. Summers. Yesterday morn
ing Rev. DIR. Young and Rev. Mr.. Brown
went in search of these precious documents
and found them partly in a charred condi.
ton, but with the exception of those of the
last Conference, it is thought they can be
transcribed.
Rev. DR.. Summers library, containing
valuable books and rare manuscripts, which
can not be replaced, was utterly destroyed.
The entire loss to the Publishing House
Is estimated at $4,000. On the whole
building, Rev. DR.. Bedford had an insu-
rance in various companies of $4,000, of
which sum $4,000 in the Imperial was on
that part of the building used as a bindery
by Mr.. Locken. Owing to the little danger
Of fire in the part Of the building burned,
the insurance on it was less, being placed
on the stock and that part of the
building most liable to fire. The Book
committee meet this morning at 10 O'Clock,
to take into consideration the disaster, and
take such action as may seem best under
existing circumstances, to repair the build
iDgs, and commence operations again.
The AdUOcGte will not be suspended, but
will be issued on its regular day, and the
employees, numbering one hundred or more,
will be at work as usual within few days.
This is gratifying intelligence, and we hope
to see the company on as firm basis, and
enjoying the prosperous career which has
charactized its existence heretofore under
the efficient management of its faithful
agent, Rev. DR.. bedford.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
BETTER IMAGINED THAN DEs-
CRHRED.

The feelings Of a near-sighted man who
finds he has kissed his hand to the wrong
lady.
The sitting through long sermon with
tight boots.
To find your pocketbOOk gone just as
you are leaving a strange hotel, with no
time to spare to reach the cars.
Getting on horseback for the first time in
your life.
The amount of your gas and plumbing
bill.
Your mOther-in-law's remarks if YOU do
not go TO the mountains or seashOre during
the season.
The sensation from a lady's bOOt-heel
present style) when she steps on your foot
accidentally.
The prices charged at some Of the hotels
on ''the European s5yle."
The skill with which the "gentlemanly"
baTkeeper gives you short change.
The sudden recollection that you ate
onions for dinner after you have been half
an hour tete-G-tete with a charmer in the
evening, upon whom you wished to make an
impression.
The rapidity with which fancy stocks de-
cline when you go in, and rise when you
sell out.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
Hotel Personals.

Among the guests of the Maxwell House
yesterday were the following: Hon. r. J.
Mckinney, Sam. Mckinney, Knoxville;
John D. Chadwick, J. f. Brown, j. +. De
Laney, Huntsville, Ala; Frank Parsons, st.
Louis; r. May, VIM. B. Ramsey, New
York; G. Patterson, Brooklyn; A. New
kirk, Baltimore; II. Durant, Boston; Geo.
j. Oberman, Jos. Vaulx, Jr., New York;
D. A. Olin and wife, A. j. Akin and wife,
Milwaukee; Rev. J. L. Wilson, South Car
olina; W. S. Otey, Lebanon; Jenny Glenn
ons, Louisville.
The arrivals at the Battle House yester-
day were as follows:
Gen. G. Hunt, Alabama, Col. J. B. Cook,
Chattanooga; D. a. Tibbs, Georgia; r.
Williams, Tennessee; Y. P. McLe1Hore,
Marshall county, Tenn; Young McLemOre,
Marshall county, Tenn; VIM. Rule, Knox
vile; w. II. Dreper, Louisville, KY; G. H.
Brandon, LeWisburg Gazette; Joseph Car
ter, Decherd, Tenn; Jno' Seiper, st. Louis,
Mo-; J. B. and Ed. w. Bingham, Memphis,
Tenn; 7. A. Elan and wife; S. J. Craw-
ford, Columbia, Tenn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
Another RnrpIRrY.

Between and O'Clock yesterday morn
ing the grocery house of Mrs. Hannah Nc
Carthy, No. So on the Granny White was
entered by burglars, who succeeded in
stealing oysters, hams and clothing belong
ing to one of the boarders, who was absent
at the time, besides all the money in the
cash drawer, which was carried out in the
street and there left. The fetal loss to
the lady was about $500. She for
tunately slept in the adjoining room
and being awakened by the noise struck a
light, which caused the burglars to retreat.
They are doubtless the same party that
robbed Mrs. Nancy Logan living half
mile out on the Granny White pike. The
mode of entrance was almost the same in
both instances. They bored twelve augur
holes in the door just above the running
latch and lock. Through this hole they
succeeded in lifting the latch and turning
the key from the inside.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
ABOUT NOSES.

We have known in our day great many
people of either sex, who were dissatisfied
with their noses, which were either too
small or too large, or too much turned up,
or snub, or in some way not to the taste Of
the involuntary wearers. Science, it seems,
has come to the relief of such sufferers.
Alexander Ross of High Holborn, London,
advertises Nose Machine, Coy which the
soft cartilage of the nose may be pressed
into any desired shape, simply by wearing
the instrument an hour daily for a short
time" There have been old maids, and
equally old bachelors, with pug noses, who
always slept with the organ bandaged down,
in the fond hope of securing a graceful
droop; and for the convenience of such IN
fashionably made-up-people, Mr.. Alex.
Ross's machine will be positively invaluable.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
OUR WEEKLY EXCHANGES.

Some of our weekly exchanges have
forwarded us complaints that they do
not receive our daily issue. Hereto
fore it has been our custom, to a
most liberal extent, to furnish our daily
issue to our weekly cOnfrereS. But
the number of the latter is so great
that We find it impossible longer to
comply with this rule.
We are willing to exchange with the
Tennessee Press a weekly for a weekly,
a semi-weekly for a semi-weekly and a
daily for a daily. Further than this
justice does not seem to require us to
go. The actual cost Of our respective
issues does not permit of our doing
more. UNION AND AMERICAN.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
RIVER News.

The river has been falling RAPIDLY at this
point since our last report. We report 5
feet on Harpeth Shoals. Weather meder-
ating.
No movement of steamers Yesterday.
The Talisman was expected from below.
The Burksyille, from the Upper Cum
berland, is due to-day.
The Talisman is the regular packet for
Cairo this evening at O'cloek-Capt. Sims
in command and Johnny Harper in the
Office.
The Louisville Ledger of Yesterday saws:
"Ihe harbor yesterday presented picture
Of winter which, were it painted, might be
mistaken for a few square miles Of Arctic
Scenery-omittingt the bridge. The ice foe
was continuous, and the fields were Of i'm
mense size and of formidable thickness,
sufficient to have borne down and crushed
any ordinary steamer. As a consequence
10 steamer dared to leave her mO0rings,
and the ferry-bOats were compelled to tie
up. The intense cOldness Of the tempera-
ture locked the separate pieces as they came
in contact, and hence fragments suddenly
became cakes, and cakes enlarged 10 fields
until they covered the area OF hundreds Of
acres. So far no damage has been done %
last evening was anything but encourag~
ing"
The Cincinnati Enquirer of Wednesday
says: "The loss BY the breakup wiz
amount to over So, 900 at this point. Mr..
). W. Bard and Messrs. James Reese and
John Conway are the largest losers. The
formers loss is on barges, and is estimated
at 5000. That Of the last two mentioned
persons is on the steamer Wauanita, which
was cut down by the ice while living at the
bank in the Seventh Ward. She was val
ued at $4,000. About twelve empty coal
flats were broken loose and demolished by
the ice. -Four were on the other side Of
the river, and the rest on this side. Capt.
John Barrett lost a barge at the foot OF
Fifth street, partially loaded with nut coal.
The sand-bOat Enterprise was sunk Just Op-
pOsits the Seventeenth Ward. She hes
with her larbOard side in the water up to
her boiler deck"
By Telegraph.
CAIRO, Feb. 15.-Weather clear and
moderating. Wind southeast.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16

On Wednesday night last, a raid was
made on the grocery store of Mrs. Nancy
Logan, situated on the Granny White pike,
near the city limits. The burglars effected
an entrance by breaking through the win
dow. They secured about SO in money
from the drawer, and also carried off goods
amounting in value to between $50 and
$40. While engaged in ransacking the
store, Mrs. Logan was awakened, and con-
fronting one of the party, he drew a pistol,
and threatened to shoot her if she uttered
word. At that time she saw two others
outside the building, who were receiving
such goods as were handed to them by the
one inside. She is of the opinion that one
Of the party was white, and the other two
negroes.