Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-05
MORE MACHINERY,


now already in operation, q do7e-tailing
machine, an ax-handle turning machine, a
large washing mach ne, two rival smut ma
chimes, and sorghum mill by Col. Walker
of this city, will be running to morrow
Mr.. Wood, of the Motive Power Commit
tee, has made such changes in the pullies
that the sewing machines now make each
$500 revolutions per minute. Everything
in Power Hall is now assuming shape SO
as to represent an immense manufacturing
establishment of all trades.
GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
A number of mineral specimens were re-
ceived yesterday for this department, which
will be completed tomorrow or next day.
The minerals are arranged SO as to be shown
to advantage.
BERGMAN's AUTOMATIC WONDER,
of which there was description in the UNION
AND AMERICAN, is perhaps the greatest at
traction of its kind ever exhibited. The
manner in which the automatic figures are
made to move, eat, look and ply at their re-
Spective tasks displays mechanical ingenu-
ity not often seen. Its wonderful meehan-
ism will interest one for an hour or more.
THE AFTERNOONS ATTENDANCE
yesterday was also quite large, and COM
posed chiefly of residents in the city. The
interest in the Exposition increases daily,
as its attractions become known. The work
of fixing cases and preparing places in
which to exhibit goods still gees on.
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY.
There were many in the building yester-
day from distance, and persons who have
attended Expositions in other cities, state
that the Nashville Industrial Exposition
surpasses in many respects any similar ex-
hibitiOn ever attended by them. Its size,
and the variety of articles on exhibition
render it as grand as that Of any city in the
United States.
EXQUISITE NEEDLE WORK.
On the column near the press stand are
two beautiful slipper patterns, worked with
a needle on black velvet ground. The
figures are those of flowers of several differ
ent colors, and the exquisite mode in which
they are worked attract careful examina-
tom from every passer by. They were
made by a young lady, and presented to
Mr.. Benjamin Sawrie Of the Maxwell
House.
CURIosITIEs.
There are so many curiosities in the Ex-
position that description wonld be too
Ong for publication. Among them, how
,ver, may be mentioned
A WHALES TOOTH,
he history of which is quite thrilling and
Owing to its length we give
merely synopsis, which is: A long while |
Igo there lived in one Of the Southern |
States young man of wealth and educa- |
ion who loved beautiful girl, once also
wealth, but reduced by the |
financial endorsements of her father al |
most to penury. Alone in a cottage she
ived with her mother, who had been, in |
Ter young days, the belle of society and
eader of fashion in Mobile. Her father
lad been dead some time, and it was only
y the hardest exertions a support for her
elf and mother could be made. Alive to
II the keen sensibilities of her more re-
med nature, the young lady was unwilling
0 marry the young man, and to prove his
ttachment was sincere and his motives
ure, he left home and went to Europe, in
ending to make a tour TO the principal cit
IS. At the end of two years he was to
ave returned home and welded the poor
laid, who had now become satisfied that
is love was true. While on a tour across
re ocean his ship was wrecked and the
Dung man with two sailors alone survived
lie disaster by swimming to an island half
mile distant. Here they lived several
-eeks, feeding upon shell fish and box of
-et crackers washed ashore from the wreck.
lis companions being unab
, exist longer on the meagre fare sue
1mbed to a disease and died, leaving
ur hero alone on an ocean isle. His col.
ton can better be imagined than de-
ribbed. Three weeks after the death of
is companions the young man was seized J.,
18th illness, which continued for weeks, as
as asceItained by memorandum written
the clay under a hanging rock, and died
is thought from starvation. t
The captain of Whaler that was cruis- Q
g in that latitude discovered the wreck of a
e vessel, and attracted to the island by b
lriOsity, came across the body of the b
,UDg man, who, from all indications, had Y
vt been dead over twenty-four hours. In u
Re hand was firmly held the tooth of a
hale, with which he had written in the j
# earth the name of the young lady and o
+ place of residence in the United t
ates. This little incident very much l
ected the captain and the sailors who Il
a class are very supersttious. The BODY u
Is uGdbll luJCl1Cu Oll DiC loldhOs OpOu
turning to the United States year after "a
g kind-hearted Captain visited Mobile g
d from there went in search of the young al
". Both she and her mother had died
nth previous to his arrival, while the
,ther of the unfortunate young man also T
died. She had heard that her SOD, By
r only child, and only help on earth, had az
an killed by desperate in a drunken of
zee. This so grieved her that she did not m
q survive the news. No one was there tn
% could show sufficient gratitude to the er
Captain for this act of kindness, ed
ich would have been treasured hi
deeply by the mother and en-
fair young girl, neither Of whom ever tn
rned that he, the son, the lover, had died an
ne on the rude ocean isle, and rested su
ere the music ocean wave breathed its 81
seless melody. The Captain took the -
th with him When, be went to visit the
ing lady, and gave It to gentleman liv- Pt
in the neighborhoOd. He afterwards Fa
and wiled it to a relative, residing in tie
Y York, who presented it to an old gen wi
nan who had been of great pecuniary till
stance to him. BY this gentleman the th,
h, which is of an unusual size, was of
IN to STANDARD Green, a little boy of kn