Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-24

winds and heroic effort alone have saved
us. Now psrts of three splendid blocks
in the business heart of the city, lie in par
tisl or total ruin. The aggregate loss tc
the Business and capital of the city by
these great fires, will amount TO $3.50 600
Ten thousand dollars of this amount, two
years ago, invested in establishing a compe.
tent FIRE department, would have prevented
those wide spread devaStations.
INSURANCE.
Before closing this account of the most
disastrous fire all things coDsidered-that
has ever visited Jackson, we are constrained
to express the opinion that insurance CON-
panies are entirely too liberal. not to say
careless ia their risks upon stocks, at least.
We do not mean that this extreme liberal
itv on their part has prompted men in our
midst to fire their own property for the sake
OF the insurance money; but we do mean
that the tendency of such policy is to
cause great carelessness on the part of the
insured, and to rather encourage rascality
when there Is strong. motive to plsy the
Villain. Indiscriminate insurance upon the
mere statement of applicants, is wrong in
law and morals. Agents should be careful
to know the full value of all they insure,
and should never go beyond the exact limit
of risk fixed by their respective companies
and law. We think that strict adherence
companies and SCENTS, will materially az
feet The number of fires.
OMITTED.
In the above estimate of damages we
omitted 10 in Jude the damage to Kings
four story brick. The wall of this splendid
structure, next to the burning, was split
from bottom TO top, and the damage to tie
building is not less than $1,000, and proba-
bly, will reach $1,000. Also the awnh in
front of Kings and Eppinger's block, which
is total wreck, cost $1,000 instead of $500
as stated above.
STOCKS DAMAGED BY MOVING.
l.. 81 8 Solomon, NJ. Mitchell g. Co., and
w. w. Gates, Jr. & Co., and two fruit
stands were damaged by removing goods to
the amount of at least 500 However all
the above losses are covered by insurance.
WIG AND TRIBUNE.
In this connection we desire TO state
that, although the principal sufferer by the
destructive fire of Saturday night, we feel
undismayed at our losses, and are consoled
with the thought that 'our misfortune may
be blessing in disguise"-at any rate, we
have not stopped either to esyil with for
tune or to carp at the way Of Providence.
In less than one hour after we knew of
the fire, We bought out the PlGiadealer Of
flee, and under the old colors of the Wing
and Tribune, without stripe erased or star
obscured, we propose to minister to the
intellectual wants of our readers, and to
issus 10 our patrons weekly live, healthy
and progressive paper. Not single issue
will be eith'r lost or delayed, every contract
will be faithfully carried out, and every just
obligation discharged TO the utmost far
thing.
To those kind lriecds who have proffered
Us substantial aid in this dark hour, no
test our gratitude. An old philosopher
of Greece once bore lighted torch 10 the
day time, exclaiming, 81 am looking for a
man." Whether he found him or not, we
do not know, but we announce as our own
that we have discovered by the
light of our own substance, there is yet
or ght side in human nature, and that true
is not yet all a myth or transitOry
shadow. II has manifested itself to US in
he FISH more than once within the last
,wo days-a livirg reality-and we could
not do less than here speak what we do
know, and testify of what we have seen.
Promising to meet, with all Of our all
ty, the reasonable demands of a ge" erous
public, and to maintain the repu. alton of
Iur paper, which has survived heretofore !
or generation, all disasters by food and
ield, We remain, the publc's Obedient SER
ant d. III. WISDOM d Co.