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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-17
EDGEFIELD.
Meeting of the Board Of Mayor and
Aldermen.

Meeting OF the Board Of Mayor and
Aldermen.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen met
in regular session last night,
Present-Mayor Glenn, and Aldermen
Parker, Morrow, Thompson, Bartbell, Jen-
kins, Murray, Coleman, Hales and Hutchi-
son. cE3 ,t
Aid jenkins, from the Finance Commit
tee, submitted the report of the Revenue
Collector, showing collections of S274.7S
since last meeting, which report was re-
ceived.
Several bills, recommended by the FL
nance Committee, were or tered paid.
The report of L. S. Blair. Street Com
missioner, showed expenses OF Street De-
partment for the past two weeks at S243. go.
AID. Thompson, from the Building Com
mittee, reported that five bids bad been re-
Ceived for the building Of the new school
house, the lowest bid being made by Pat
ten &c McInturf-the building with bell
tower complete $10,921, and without the
tower $l0,296. The committee asked that
the Board direct that hey close the contract
for the building with the bell tower COM
plete, and also recommended that John
Lewis be confirmed as the superintendent of
Lue DuIutUS
Report received an contract accepted.
AID. Barthell and Parker made explana-
tions in regard TO the ponds ordered drain
ed, statiDg that The committee appointed to
superintend the work had been advised By
high msdic2l authority that the draining
Of those ponds al this time would DO at
tended with danger, inasmuch as it would
breed sickness and in their present condi-
ton would do no harm.
Aid. Morrow moved that the Street Com
mittee be directed to ill up the pond in
Nsrth EdgefAld, the cost OF same to be
charged TO owner of lot. Carried.
Aid. Thompson submitted proposition
from n. Hobson in regard 10 a lot adjoining
the school lot, and moved the appointment
Of committee of two TO investigate tn c
same. Carried, and Messrs. Thompson
and Hsles constituted said committee.
Aid. Thomps, n offered bill entitled an
act to establish system Ofsewersge. Pass
cd thin reading and referred to commit
tee consisting Of Messrs. Murray, Hutchi-
son and BartaeIl.
Aid. Parker submitted resolution &C
cepting the propo sition and contract made
by tue Nashville Gas Light Company. No
action taken.
The board adj ,urned.
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ACCIDENTAL Or INTENTIONAL.
Interesting Facts Concerning Atwood
Il, M0reley.

Mr.. I. n. Moreley, brother of the late
Atwood r. Moreley, whoee,dead body was
found near this city q few days since, ar
rived in Nashville Sunday, had the re-
mains Of lis late brother taken up at 4
O'Clock yesterday morning, and left for
Yorkville, Ill +, in the afternoon, where the
decea ed will be re-interred in the family
burying place.
Mr.. Moreley says that bis brother was q
quiet, moral young man, Was not known to
have any trouble on his miId, and he says
he is not " ling to believe that he deliber-
| Ately committed suicide, but thinks it pos
sible that he had been in the habit of using
morphine, and that his eth had been
caused by an overdose Wae there was no
oae near TO lender him any assistance. He
was th foughly acquainted with the nature
Ofthe poison, having been in he drug bust
ness for some time. 1t was not an unusual
thing for him TO take sudden trip to dis
tant parts Of the country, and these trips
were always made without giving his
friends any explanation upon his return, as
TO where he had been, or what he had been
doing. He was 26 years Of age at the time
of lis death.
The following letter concerning him was
received by Maj. Hopkins, our assistant
postmaster, last week:
YoRKvILLE, ILL, June Is, iS73.-To
the Postmaster, Nashville, Tenn.-Dexr
Sir-I sea dispatch 10 the Chic go Times
to-day and enclose the same. had young
man about 20 years Of age, in good health
and sound mind, about Eve feet high, light
complexion, large nose. Name, Atwood
A. Morley; was in my employ forthree years
and lived in my family; understood all the
effects of morphine and drugs in general.
The dispatch says be was from Yorktown,
Illinois; that must be mistake. | wish
you would hand this to the chief of police
and Lave him ferrit the report out. know
the man SO well, if it is the same, tn It l
CAM be ieve it. He left this place OH Mon
day, the I'd CT June, or my employ, but i'd
not say where he was goins; but told me
he would write after he located; be bad
some $3.50 when he left this place, If this
dispatch is correct, please telegraph to IN at
once and will pay all expenses, and if be
is the man found, have the body held till
some one can get there. Please do me the
favor to hand this TO the proper person to
look after. Yours, truly, A. T. SEELY,
Postmaster
P. S.-You will find some papers on his
person with my name on. A. I. SEELY.
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NEW BOOK.

WORK: A Story of EX perience, by Lou
lisa M. Alcott. Bos5O;: Robert Brothers.
Tbs Boston Advertiser proUOuncas this
last book by Miss Alcott as admirable, and
interesting enough as 3 story TO win and
hold Inn umerable readers, while it's health
full tone, its tho: ough nobleness, its pure
democracy and practical Chris ianity CANNOT
be over-praised | is indesd a story
work-of constant, useful labor, with no
shining rewards If riches, position or
worldly hOnors, but with the UNNECESSARILY
geater ores of "independence, education,
happiness and religion" The heroine is
Christie Devon, an orphan, living in The
country with kind cid aunt and crab
bed, parsimoDious old CEcle, to whom she
was burden. At twenty she determined
to be independent, to travel away into the
world and seek her fortune. She had no
special gifts; she was not beauty or a
genius; but she hS youth, health, brave,
warm heart, willing spirit, and, thanks
partly to her parents and partly to Aunt
Betsy, those mos convenient end0wments
capacity and common sense. The eXpe-
rences of the somewhat eVentful life of the
heroine Miss Alcott describes wildly, show
ing clearly the lights and shadows of
each condition. There is more than
one love story woven into the
tale; and there are passages of humor and
of homely, ungrammatica wisdom scattered
abundantly thu rough it md relieving its SOM
bre tints The chief persons of the story
have real dignity of character, unaffected by
their circumstances; it might be called q
story of character, as well as story of ex-
perience; and this gives it great nth. The
motto which Miss AlcGtt has placed upon
the ti'le-page of her book is chosen from
Carlyle, "An endless significance lies in
work; in ideuess alone is there perpetual
despair" She does not Lheorize about any
social problems; she has nothing to say of
the relations batween labor ard capital, of
strikes, financial reforms, or trades unions;
but she shows in 4 simple, earnest, realistic
way, Without rhetoric, poetry or passion,
how honorable work is, and how happy
workers may be; she deals chiefly with
women, unlike in station, education and
experience, and shows how they ali, en-
ployed and employers, eau work together,
can add TO each others happiness, can live
without jealousy, oppression or unfaithful-
ness. She shows, TOO, how true work, how
what is called hard life, develops tender
and noble character, aud she often alludes
TO the touching beauty of expression seen
in plain faces; "for no deep experience,
bravely borne, can fail TO leave It's mark,
often giving power in return for PATIENCE,
and lending g subtle loveliness 10 faces |
whose bloom it has destroyed"
For sale by Messrs. W. L. Berry & Co.
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Odd FelIoMsLMuIunI Aid.
To the Editor of the Union and American

To the Editor OF the Union and Americans:
During the prevailing epidemic, when SO
many persons are stricken down By disease,
and so many feel the necessity of aid and
sympathy, the mind naturally revers to
those associations which are designed TO
relieve the distressed, visit the sick and bury
the dead. Prominent amongst these stands
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
whose members are pledged By sll that is
sacred and honorable, TO assist each other
in distress. There ale young men in
the city, fer from home and friends, that
need not oDly the social advantages, and
wholesome restraints which this Order af-
fords, but also the sympathy and kindly
attentions and visitatiors of its members
when sick or in distress. Mutual aid is a
Fundamental principle OF the Order, and all
in good standing have right 10 and can
demand their sick benefits, and such at
tentions as are necessary TO their comfort.
The d, es to be paid by each member are
trifiing, but the ben.fi:s when sick or in
distress sre inestimablc. A. 2. G..
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The Right to Kiss the Cook EsIab-
Iished.

The Chicago Times has this to say rela-
tive TO a question which has heretofore
given rise to a vast amount of discussion:
The future historian OF the progress of
human liberty Will haye to record that in
this year Of grace 1873, 8 proud prerOga-
tive OF the saxon freeman was firmly eStab-
hshed-tbe right to kiss the COOK. II was
in the case of teacher in private school
In England. He ha. been detected by the
heSd of the Institution in tie act of bestOw-
ing gentle osculatory attention on the
superintendent Of the cuisine, and was dis.
charged. ThereupOn he brought suit for
three mO4ths' pay instead of nnLice. This
put the question directly in issue whether
man has right TO kiss the cook, and the
jury decided that he has, and gave he
plsiniilia verdict. 1t is no. explained by
what PROCESS OF reasoning the jury reached
this conclusion. Cocks in boarding schools
are supposed to have something approach
ing sinecure, and their wages arc probably
commensurate with the duties; henca the
jury may have thought that she was enti-
tied TO peIquisite that came in her way.
But if the OSCILLATION was administered for
culinary faVors had or eXpec ed these pro
ceedings were of corrupt character, and
should have been discOuntenaDc d by the
jury. For the present, however, it is
enough to know that the great principle is
established that man may kiss the cook;
though it may sill be questioned whittier
men who have viglant wives will find it
profitable to exercise the prerogatiVe to any
co siderable extent, ..
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The Nashville Gas Light Company and
. Corporation Contract.

Mr.. EDITOR: In looking over your paper
this morning, l was careful to read the re-
port of the proceedings of the City Council
And sir, must confess astonishmeut at the
seeming earnestness with which the Com
mitttee and Board entertained and proposed
To contract with the said Gas Light Com
pany.
In one of the items a consideration pre-
posed BY said Gas Company was the fol-
lowing:
"The Gas Company to furnish gas to the
city for its public lamps and buildings at
one half the price charged private consum-
ers, and furnish the city with gas as long a.
the charter of thecompsny is in existence"
This MIR. Editor, is put in, as If an en-
tirely new consideration, and of vast mo-
ment, and yet sir, it is exactly what the first
contract was, and which they violated by
collecting more than twenty-five thousand
dollars over aud in excess Of their CONTRACT.
In the next place they ask the corpora
ton to grant them perpetual contract Of the
streets against other companies, in other
words exclusive right of way over its streets.
This is what might be termed heavy drain
age, and str ,nge to say the committee report
the same and recommend the same.
Mr.. Editor, l own no gas stock in the old
nor new company, and hence, as tax pay
er, claim the right to suggest to the board,
that in all probability, it would be prudent,
not to forever forclose others from invest.
irg their money in gas works or otherwise,
That it would be in all probability wise
measure, to 50 legislate rs to cheaper light
instead oflegislating to continue high and
exorbitanL prices, and finally would it not
be wise and polite to have no entangling
alliance with company who seeks to bind
a yoke around the neck Of the corporation
binding them forever to do their pulling
and keep all snsgs out of their way.
If this contract is to be made and fasten-
ed upon the city by the present board with
out any remedy or show by the citizens,
injunction may become necessity for self
protection against men who care not for the
welfare of the people-we will wait and see.
A TAX PAYER.
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MELANGE.


--TtF0 Of the New York Herald men
are in Spanish jails, and the rest of The
stat silver now whenever they get note
from the managing editor.
-An Illinois pig broke open car of
nitro-glycerine aud swallowed pound Of
the stuff, and now no one dares TO kick that
porker.
Mrs. Maria Parker, of Stamford, YER
mont, is the happy mother of ten sons and
sixteen daughters. She might be termed
the woman of the period, If there wss any
indication that she had come TO full stop.
Two or three school girls in Athens,
Georgia, are quite sick from swallowing the
heartsease flowers. Their romance was,
that whenever they swallowed one of these
flowers whole and then expressed wish,
they would have it grati6ed. Prussic acid
in the flowers made them quite sick. 9
- The murderer Lusignaui, lately hung
in New Jersey, had some native Wit, if he
did part bis hair ia the middle. Just before
lie was led out to execution one of the
priests said :-t4 would willingly be in your
place, you will be in heaven soon." "Well,
TAX my place." said the prisoner; 81 wiH
get under the bed" -
- Some Of the Indiana farmers are COM
plaibing that their corn ID not az forward as
il should be. The editor OF the Glasgow
Times says his corns were never more for
ward, that he has been compelled to wear
slit slippers for six weeks. He regards him
self as promising toe martyr. AIf
John Franklin, a farmer of New York,
deliber tely threw valuable plowshare
in6o the river on account of his wife's in
cessant scolding. Mr.. Franklin, it might
be we to add, was attached 10 the weight
by rope; consequently Mrs. f. has lost a
husband, a plowshare, and three feet of
good rope, just through chronic propensity
TO wag her tongne. 7al 49,.
Foreign Psychologists have dug up in
an Italian cave the remains of gentleman
who lived, loved, and for ought we know
carr led on profitable business long before
Adam was on earth. He bad finely shaped
skull, q high forehead, and wore clothes
made Of clam shells. No papers were
found that would lead TO his identity, but it
is supposed he was the grandfather Of Gains
wife
The pursuit of information is some-
times attended with difficulties even in San
Fl ancisco. One inquirer who applied to
tine Chronicle for information as to where
Cain obtained his wife is cru"lly Tebufied,
The only reply vouchsafed him being this:
"Upon any subject Of a public nature we
never refuse to throw the desired light. But
this is al different thing. 1t is a family
ma ter, with which we do not care to med
die. Cain died some time before many of
us were born, and such idle curiosity re-
gsrding the family affairs Of a deceased per-
son we regard as reprehensible and cacu-
lated to violate the sanctities of domestic
life. For these reasons, and because we
do not wish to injure the feelings of the rel
atives of the deceased, we decline TO answer
| the nnestinn. -
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rhe NnshyllIe ChoIern SCARE Abroad.

The ST. Louis Journal has this To say
relative to ire Nashville cholera scare:
Nashville las had her cholera scare and
is now recovering. There has been I'M
doubtedly great deal of sickr ess in Nash
vile, and the scare will have good effect,
if lit incites the city authorities to prepare
for the pestilence which may yet come.
The telegraph reports that the Nashville
papers Ofthis morning say majority Of the
physicians now believe the disease is not
cholera, but that it has arisen from malaria
and from bad eating alt drinking. There
were eleven deaths yesterday, and a very
few new cases are reported. Every one
who could leave left early in the week. All
the schools and many Of the business
houses are closed. The excitement is now
aba'ing.
There is no reason to believe that the
cholera is likely to appear in this more than
in any other year. Everything will depend
upon the weather and upon the condition OF
city. There is, of course, tendency 10
alarm because, st this season, many are af-
fected by diseases resembling cholera and
likely to be mistaken for 1t. 1t won be .
boon to st. Louis could every member OF
the Board OF Health be slightly affected with
the cholera mOrbus, just to incite them 10
effort, but unfortunately such diseases gen.
orally strike he poor people who live in al
l5ys and GOL't hold office.
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A FAMILIAR SPIRIT.

The defenss in the case Of Mrs. Char
lotte Lamb, tried at Trimbelle, Mimi, for
the poisoning Of Ms Ottoman, took the
extraordinary course Of offering to prove
that Mrs. Lamb also poisoned her youngest
son, her only daughter, and Mr.. Garland.
1t was held that she was subject to period
ically recurring attacks Of insanity. Her
delusion is said to be, that she has very
often seen and conversed with a ghOstlY
visitant, which by pleading, argument and
command, and by some potent influence
over her body and mind, forces her to the
crime Of poisoning. She was first visit
ed by this phaotom many years ago. 1t
sometimes urged her to be resigned to the
ills of life, and sometimes to poison people
"a very singular and eccentric spirit. Its
method Of argument was, if people were
unhappy or SICK, that they might better die.
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RerROnaE.

Among the arrivals at the maxwell House
yesterday were the following:
Gov. Jno. G.. Brown and Hon. w. G..
Whitthorre; E. Marshal, Memphis; S. b..
Tobev and family, Memphis, W. B. Daveh-
port, General Ticket Agent of st. Louis and
Southeastern Railway; T. d. Ball, Wash
ingtou, Mo; z. Clint Collier. Chicago; Geo.
W. Thurmond, st. Louis; w. III. Fraser,
st. Louis; Horace n Biackmsn, Richmond,
Va; J. N. Oady, New York; S. Hoff, New
York; j. d. Eakin, Bedford county, Tenn;
A. w. Childress, Arkansas; VIM. A. Gsvett,
Raleigh, n. C; Charles Montague, Boston;
W. L. Marry, New York; Capt. Thos. w.
Garrett, Atlanta, GA.
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TENNESSEE CENTKHL RAILROAD

DR.. Lea, President Of The company, and
the corps of engineers who have for several
weeks been engag d Ia the survey of the
Central Railroad, are now in town and
have their tents pitched upon Texas Hill.
We are informed that they have COM
pleted the line of surveys from Hunting
don via McLemorsville, Milan, Trenton,
Brazil and Ripley, to Trenton, and find
throughout an excellent route of easy and
cheap construction. Capt. j. B. Inman,
Chief Engineer, with bis assistants, is now
engaged in prepar ing his maps, profiles and
estimates of the cost of constr uction for
the purpose of laying the same before the
corporate authori les Of Trento n, Milan,
etc, for their consideration, before submit
ting the proposition to vote subscrip tons to
the stock of the Tennessee Railroad
Trenton Gazette. .II1le IL
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NAR DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE CT CHIEF SIGNAL OFFIoER,

OFFICE CT CHIEF SIsNAL OFFICER,
WAsFINGI,h. D. c., June 10. 1878
PY0bGbftitSes.-For New England in
creasing cloudiness and occasional rain areas
tonight, but winds Veeriug 10 westerly and
northerly on Tuesday, with clear and clear
ing weather. For Middle States light To
fresh westerly and northerly winds, and
clear or partly cloudy weather on Tuesday.
For lower Lake region winds gradually
shifting to easterlY and sOutherly on Tues
day with clear or partly cloudy weather.
For South Atlantic and Gulf States east Of
Mississippi, generally cloudy weather, rain
areas and light TO fresh southwesterlY and
southeasterIy winds. From Ohio Valley
and Missouri 10 upper Lakes diminishing
pressure, easterly to southeIly winds, and
clear or partly cloudy weather. For the
Northwest, essterly to sousherly winds and
diminishing pressure. For Tennessee and
Kentucky, partly cloudy weather and oeea-
sional rain areas on Tuesday. 1u
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saved from Drowninx

A little son of Jack Mckenzie Z or s
years of age fell from raft on the Edge
field bank into the river on Sunday evening
last, and had narrow escape from drown
ing. He sank as many as six or eight times,
but struggled manfully. He was finally
rescued by colored man who crossed the
river in a canoe. and when taken out Oh
shore, life was nearly extinct. Several citi
zens took him in charge, and by proper
treatment soon had him all right again.
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DEE.

MARSHALL.-At the residence of John d.
Wheeler, No. 20 South Spruce street, Sun day
morning, June Is, 1873, &C O'Clock, MARY
LOUISE, infant daughter of Andrew and Hattie
II. Marshall-aged nineteen months.
BROOKS.-Died at I1:SO P. NJ. june l6, 1873,
MRS. ANN Ia. BROOKS, cOnsort Of the late
Christopher Brooks, in her 65th year of her age.
Friends and acquaintance of family are in
vited to attend her funeral from the late resi-
dence, No. n3 South Summer street, at one and
half O'Clock P. N. to-day, June II.
Divine service by Rev. Dr. ID. G. Kelley.
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AN Evansville merchant, who closed his
store at six O'Clock to give bis clerks a
breathing spell and time for mental aud
physical improvement, went around to a
beer saloon and found every one of them
breathing very heavy over their beer. This
sort Of improvement didn't strike him as
the thing, and hereafter the young men will
remain until eight O'Clock.
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A SIAuESE RIFLE

Miss Sailie Roane Mattingly, of Bsrds.
town, KY, has presented a Siamsse Bible TO
the Public Library OF Kentucky. 1t consists
OF twenty-eight thin strips Of bamboo.
twenty inches in length by one and half
inches in width, one side of which is covered
with hieroglyphics. The whole is held to-
gether by strands Of silk and forms a very
neat looking package. 1t is very Valua-
bic curiosity.
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Larceny of Money.

Henry Landers, colored man, yesterday
swore out a warrant, charging Thomas
Gray, Dick Copeland and Fred Clark with I
Stealing S36 in money and a bank book
FROM his person, in the bottom beyond
HsTdings. Copeland and Clark gave bond
Sor the5y appearance before Justice Classify
,o-day, aud Gray failing to give bond, was
mmiited 10 jail
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Fine Cattle,

Walter J. Guild, Of Gsiatin, sold few
days ago to New York shipper 40 head OF
cattle, averaging 1862 pounds. These cat
tie were composed entirely of 4 year olds,
and said to be the finest that have ever left
the State. They were sold At 81 cents per
pound about a month ago, Oh a contract TO
deliver the same on the 10Th Of June.
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Cnose.i for wand Of BusIness.

The following significant notice was
found posted on the door OF the Tax Oon-
missioner yesterday: 90
June II, 1873.
This Office closed until Saturday, for
want of business. Not excited but some
what agi ated. 4. w. CALDWELL,
Comm issiOner.
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Death at edgefieId Junction.

A colored woman named Rody AlIston,
who left here on Saturday last for Edge6eld
Junction, died at that place yesterday of
cholera. The members of the Good Sam
aritan Society, of which she was member,
ordered coffin, which will be sent up by
this mornings train.