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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-18
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

Tennessee and Pacific Railroad.
No. Leaves Lebanon at. ..7:20A.M,
Arrives at Nashville at..9:30 An.
Lesves Nashville st. AGO Pm.
Arrives at Lebanon at. $40 PIX.
Prices Stage leave Lebanon at T:SOo'clock An.
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Arrive
st Lebanon at O'Clock P. n. on Mondays, We'd
nesdays and Fridays.
Nashville Chattanooga, Memphis and
Sc. louis Railway.
Chattanooga train leaves s45 A. n. and 500 ?. Il.
srrives.1:30 P II. and 1:30 A. n.
Memphis and st. Louis
train SSS A. n s and Us is5 F. I'M n
shelbyvire trainlea!es. .s:soF.K.
81 T" arrives $50 An
The 500 P. Il. and 500 A. Il. trains an daily.
louisville and Nashville and Great
Southern Railroad.
Leave statisn on North College street at 500
A NJ, and zoo P. NJ, Daily.
Arrives at 4:35 A. NJ, and bib 2. II.
fThe zoo p. II. train does not stop at any point
between Nashville and Galstin, except Edge
Geld Junction.
GaIIatin Accommodation, Daily.
Leaves Nashyille............,...... ?. H.
Louisville and Nashville and Great
Southern MISUNDERSTANDING and
Decatur Division.
Leave L. & N. Depot, North College street,
Going South-9:20 AM; 5:15P
Arrive North-4:45 AM: 1:45 Pm.
Through trains arrive and depart from Louis
Vile and Nashville Depot, North College street.
Passengers car take trains at Louisville and
Nashville Depot or Nashville and Chattanooga
Depot
OoLUMBIA AoooMMoDATIoE-Leaye $40 P.
NJ, arrives 9:55 AM, from L. s. n. Depot, North
College street.
Sc, Louis, Evansville, Henderson and
Nashville Railway.
St Louis Mail leaves Nashville. 600 An
Accommodation leaves Nashville ..... .1:46 Pm
Sit. Louis Mail arrives at Nashville. 1855 Pm
Accom- odation arrives at Nashville. .7:4O An
IsOutsvfIIeand Cincinnati Short Line
Railroad.
Trains leave Sndarrive at Louisville - tolloWs:
LEAVE. ARRIVE
Southern Fast Line, except
Srndsy- ..... S.35 Il. n. 7 go p. n.
X work Exprsss daily 355 7. X. 1880 p. n
Kew York Night Express.
daily...... 1l'uO q a 0'lo a. -
Lexington Nail, except
Sunday. o:OO A. n 1l.VO A. a.
Lexington Express, exceP o.,o -.
Sun0ay..ss.ss.......s' : U - Wv E' -
sPcsnt SUndav....,.,.. sos p. n. s:U5 A. 4
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-18
STEAMBOATS,.

Fer Cincinnati and Pitfsbur8
i Steamer -
BRILL,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-18
For Cairo, Memphis, st. Louis
and New Orleans.

HIHE Fine Steamer - n
TYRONE, eF-1-s4F
Tom Harmon, Master, Alex. Hard. = -
CLERK, will leave as above ON "WEDNESDAY
18th inst, at 4 o'clock P. n.
For freight or passage apply on boardor t ~ y
H. ARTHUR & co. or HARRISON q SONE
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
Wit from the PUlDit,

1t is related of certain New Eng
land divine, who fiourished not many
years ago, and whose matrimonial re-
lations were supposed not to have been
of the most agreeable kind, that one
Sabbath morning, while reading to his
congregation the parable of the sup
per, in which occurs the passage, And
another said | have bought five yoke of
oxen, and | 90 to prove them; | pray
the have me excused. And another
said, [ have married wife, and there
fore cannot come''-he suddenly paus-
ed at the end of this verse, drew off his
spectacles, and looking around on his
hearers, said, with emphasis: The
fact is, my brethren, one women can
draw a man further away from the
kingdom of Heaven than five yoke of
oxens."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
How to Catch Moles.

We presume there are few of our
agricultural readers whOat some period
have not heartily anathematized the
mOles. Although these little animals
do considerable amount of good in
killing insects and worms which would
destroy grain, they more than counter
balance the benefits they confer upon
the farmer by the injuries they intiiet
upon the work of the gardener. They
appear to have a taste for the choicest
bulbs and for the roots of the rarest
flowers, while their tracks very speed
lily ruin the appearance Of smooth and
neatly kept lawns.
The Patent Office records show that
plenty Of inventive genius has been
expended in attempts to devise an
efficient mole trap. As soon as fresh
mole run is found, indicated of course
BY ridge on the surface of the ground,
hole should be dug and a large sized
ordinary flower pot set therein. Over
the top of this receptacle, a piece of
board Is placed, leaving a space Of
about three inches between it and the
edge of the pot, so that dirt from above
will not fall into the latter. The open
ings of the run lead, as represented,
into this space. The earth is replaced
and the surface of the ground restored.
The mole, in following his usual road
blindly, comes to the Orifiee leading to
the pot, inSO which he iDeOntinently
tumbles. As he is unable to crawl up
the sides or burrow through the hard
earthenware, he decides to remain and
wait for assistance, which generally
comes in the shape of gardener aud
a rat terrier The transactions of the
mole with the last mentioned of this
pair are such as TO destroy his taste for
bulbs or for future mining investiga-
tions.
In using this device, we caught seven
moles on the first day aud three on the
second day after sitting. Since then
we have captured one occasionally.
The result is a marked improyementin
the. aspect of our lawn and flower
beds. The trap was eontriyed BY
George Becker, gardner in Llewellyn
Park, Orange, n. j.. and is not patent
ed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
Love, Honor and Obey.

On the whole, married women, that
is, real women. prefer being ruled to
ruling. 1t is natural to a woman to
seek advice. 1t is scarcely in her ma
ture to go speechlessly on doing what
she has to do without aid or counsel.
Almost any one of the sex is happier
if she can talk things owe" with some
man upon whose discretion she relies /;
and in married life most wives, in the
smallest things, adopt that which "he p
likes, and fancy that they like it them
selves.
Since independence has become the
fashion, and strong minded women
have sneered at their more gentle sis
ters, there is great affection of despis-
ing the opinion of the gentlemen, but
it is all sheer pretence. Almost every
wife chooses her gloves and her sibbons
of the tint the husband admires, the
man shelOvesalmOst inevitably gives her
her political opinions, and biases even
her religious views. Her speech, her
dress, her manner, changes under his
influence. What he desires her to do
she does, in nine cases out of ten. The
tenth case we find in the divorce courts.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
Patrons Of Husbandry.
Ohio has 10000 Grangers.


The Grange is getting foothold in
Virginia.
There are eight Oranges of the Pa
irons of Husbandry in Christian coun-
ty,, Kentucky.
J. ID. Whiteman, Agent of State
Grange, has ordered 200 sewing ma
chimes for Patrons of Husbandry since
he has been in Des MOines.
The Patrons of Husbandry of Ala
bama, organized a State Grange at
Montgomery Nov. g. The Conveu-
tion was very large, and every part of
the State was represented.
A County Council of the Patrons of
Decatur county, Iowa, met at Leon
last week, and took preliminary steps
looking to the establishment of a broom
factory, cheese factory, and oil mill.
There are in Massachusetts, thirteen
Oranges, including the refractory one
in Boston. A State Grange was to
have been organized at Greenfield on
the 1st inst. Interest in the Order is
rapidly developing throughout the
State
APPROACHING GRANGE MEETINGS.
National Grange, st. Louis, Mo-,
first Wednesday in February, 1874.
Indiana State Grange, Palparaiso,
December %.
Wisconsin State Grange, Fon du
Lac. January ~. 1874.
The Secretary of the National Grange
reports the following increase of the
Order for the years 1872 and 1873:
Total in 1872, l ,G53; total in 1873 to
November s, 6.516.
The Minnesota Oranges are alive
with excitement on account of the ac-
ton of their executive committee in
admitting farmers who are not Patrons
to all the privilege of purchase enjoy
ed by Patrons who have spent time
and money to-perfect the organization.
The members Of nearly every Grange
in the State protest against and repudl-
ate the action of the committee, truly
declaring that there Is an end of the
Order If farmers who are not members
can buy goods and tools at the same
rate of discount as those who are.
The committee argue that it is a dog-in-
the manger policy, and as bad in a
Grange as in a railroad to keep up ex-
tortionate prices outside the Order.
1t is a very pretty quarrel as it stands,
and the way things look now, the
Patrons will have stock subject of
discussion for the long evenings Of the
coming winter
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
A Tower Taller than Babel.

Messrs. Clarke, Reeves & Co, pro-
prietors of the Phenixville Bridge
Works, Philadelphia, Pa, propose to
construct wrought iron tower, one
thousand feet in hight, to becompleted
forthe American Centennial Exhibition
in 1876. The tower is to be circular in
section, one hundred and fifty feet in
diameter at the base, diminishing to
thirty feet at the top. 1t is proposed
to have spiral staircases winding around
the center tube for those preferring to
walk up; but elevators will be pro-
vided, which are calculatedto ascend to
the top in three minutes. We have in
process of engraving a full page illus
tration, representing the tower in con-
trast with st. Peters Cathedral, Rome,
st. Paul's Cathedral, London, Bunker
Hill Monument, the Pyramids of
Egypt, and other existing tall struc-
ture, all of which, alongside of the
thousand feet tower, look like pigmies.
This is one of the greatest engineer
ing projects of the age, and it is in the
hands of constructors capable of com
pleting whatever they undertake The
beautiful engraving we are having ex-
ecuted will be ready for publication in
the Scientific American about Christ
mas. All new subscribers for 1874
will be furnished with the paper con-
tanning the engraving and description
of this immense work.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

Sarah Flower, the writer of this
touching hymn, was worthy the name
of Sarah. 1t signifies a princes, aud
sweeter fragrance has rarely exuded
from any flower in the garden. The
gifted girl married Mr.. William B.
Adams, a civil engineer of superior
abilities. She was of frail constitution
and amid many bodily sufferings she
kept her pen at work upon various
poetieal prOduetio AT what time
she caught the inspiration to compose
that one immortal hymn, which is now
sung around the globe, we have never
learned. Probably it was some season
of peculiar trial, when the bruised
spirit emitted the OdOr of childlike
submission to a Christening Father
Her hymn first appeared in a volume
of sacred lyrics bys Mr. Fox, in Eng
land, about the year lS4l. The author
ess did not live to catch the flame ii
was to bring, for she died in 1919, aged
"a. She was buried near NARROW, in
Essex. Presently the nymn began to
work it way into various collections of
songs of worship 1t was married to
the tune of Bethany" everybody
caught the strain. In MONDAY gather
ings for prayer it soon became so ia
miliar that if anybody struck up the
hymn, the whole audience Joined in.
Central Baptist.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

those gold hoops for years-her child
ren had never seen them.
Then she clothed her feet in neat
CATERS, and put on her wedding ring,
| and her nearest neighbors would hardly
have recognized the careless slattern in
| the bright-eyed, sweet-taced woman OF
to-day. The change pleased her-it
made her smile involuntarily, and that
smile was her chsrm-always had been,
why couldn't she wear it, too, if her
heart was full of joy so new and so
rare and beautiful.
The whole woman was completely
metamorphosed. The change beauti-
fed her, and the little bit of revenge
was harmless and-so sreeti
When her husband came home at
noon, he stopped in the doorway and
stood still an instant, then he whistled
long, w-h-e-wl
She turned around in an innocent
way, and-the expression of his eyes
was the same as when he was a devOt-
ed, admiring lover
My wife" he said, and he folded
her in his arms, his face twitched, and
he laughed in a pleased, hysterical
way.
Her eyes filed with tears, and there
was stifed sob on his bosom, but it
was the best sob she'd ever made, it
meant great deal.
I've been too thoughtless and care
less about myself Tom" she said. Il
thought so much of you and the child
ren, that | never cared how | went. L
didn't think of myself
You are so sweet, little wife, so
beautiful" " said Tom, holding her off
and looking at her, while she blushed
and struggled to get away.
The turning of that leaf was a new
era in Hetty Henderson's life. She
never so neglected herself again, and
instead of growing older, it does seem
that as the years glide by she grows
younger.
When the children came from school
that evening, one at time, they said.
Oh, where have you, been, mother?"
or Where are you going, motherY
and little Rosy, who had never seen
the jewelry before, or collar, or rose
in her mothers hair, said, in subdued
whisper, 8 What is the matter; you
look like the pictures of the pretty
ladies in the magazines ?" and she felt
of her face as though the vision before
her might melt, or vanish into air un-
der her touch.
We must confess that we believe
there is little spice of mischief in it,
when early every morning Hetty
takes time enough to pin on white
collar and brush her hair smoothly off
her brow, and remove every sign of
the careless sloven from her attire.
She knows very well that a neatly
dressed woman has the advantage over
one who is not appearing we'll. This
shows itselfi in the springy step, and the
selfassurance that gives her head a
queenlY poise. So the two lady visitors,
who cared more for her good dinners
than they did for Hetty herself, taught
her a lesson well worth remembering,
and her married life will be the better
and the pleasanter for it as long as she
lives.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

From Christmas hall are come,
| Who raise her gently in their arms,
And bear her swiftly home.
They placed her In the big arm chair,
Excited, torn, and humbled;
She does not blame old SANTA now,
Nor wonder that he grumbled.
"Ha Ha ~ laughed he. $50 you confess
You've lost your specs, and torn your dress
But what you've learned, II may guess,
VIII save me sundry railings."
upon my life ~ returned his wife;
81 really can't contrive
How you get through that chimney nue,
And nndsyonrseif alive"
"Aha, my dear,
The secrets here:
seldom venture down,
When espy
A theft or lie
Upon the chimney's crown.
Where these abound,
I've always found
That other sins have grown;
And have by sad experience learned
To let such fiue's alone
But now ii seems that must do
The work which you begun
Must traverse both the continents
Before the rising sun.
"Well, here goi Come on, Snow-flaker' ~
Cried he, with merry shout;
"The good shall have their gifts tonight,
The bad shall go without.
Away!
Away!
The breaking day
Must find our task completed;
And all good little boys and girls
To toys and dainties treated.
Ger ice and snow,
We swiftly go,
From lake, to gulf and isthmus.
Ye mortais all,
Both great and small,
Throughout the land,
From strand to strand,
A right good MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
Good Suggestions.

The Atlanta Herald, referring to
the dispelIing of the war-cloud, says
Let our hot-headed soldiers, then,
lay down their swords, and pick up
their pruning hooks. We have an
enemy inside our own boarders greater
than Spain to fight, and that is-Pov-
erty! Whenever we whip this foe we
may then look beyond our own dung
hill for another man to whip
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

LONG SERMONs.-The Early county
News man had this to say of long SER
mons We do not like long sermons /;
never saw any one who did; but many
people are afraid to say so. Sermons
should be good, but it is a rare
case for long sermon to be good
Throughout. They are scarcely more
entertaining than long editorials in
country newspapers. The advantage,
if any there be, is Oil the side of edi-
tOrials, for we can read them, as we
may elect; but, if caught by long SER
mon. between the pulpit aud the door,
we have no remedy but to hear it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

LARGEST Book IN THE WORLD.
We read of what promises to be the
biggest book in the world. 1t is row
in process of manufacture in Paris,
and will contain the names of all the
inhabitants of Alsac and Lorraine who
have formally proclaimed their wish to
remain French subjects. The list is
said TO comprise 3S0,000 names. One
hundred and twenty-five compositOrs
have been employed on the work dur
ing the last three mouths; it is being
printed on seven presses, and the vol
ume will include 13, 163 PIP. A valua-
bic work, no doubt, but not one which
we would wish 70 read through at a sit
ting.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
A Elincher.

" You hev hearn, gentlemen Of the
Jury. said an eloquent advocate, you
hev heern the witness swar he saw the
fash and heard the report; you heern
him swar he saw the dog fall dead; you
hev heern him swar he dug the bullet
out with hisjacknife, and hev seen the
bullet produced in corut; but whar,
gentlemen, whar, | ask you, is the man
that saw that built hit that dog?''
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

THE Rome Courier states that the
Stonewall Furnace in forty-two days
made 1,6l,7S5 pounds, or an average
per day of 3S,54l-that is, 723 long
tons, or an average of seventeen tons
per day. Average of charcoal l02
bushels per ton, and an average blast
of about $50.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

A NEW YORK evening paper asserts
that rifle factory at lion, n. Y, is
filling a second order for eighty th0us-
and rifles for tie Spanish authorities
in Cuba, and that the same factory
furnished three mitrailleuses to the
Cubans, which we're captured on the
Virginius.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

II Horace Greeley were President,
is there any man living fool enough to
imagine he could make such nomina-
ton as that of George III. Williams to
the great Office of Chief J ustice {?
Even after he had become crazy he
could not have been induced to do so
improper thing.-Neio York SIM.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

Mrs. SEARLs, who lives in Grayson
County, Ky, went out one day last
spring to dig ginseng. She is said to be
one of the most industrious women in
all her section. During the day she
dug seven pounds of ginseng, killed
five young foxes and two rattlesnakes,
slew two fawns, and went back home
and gave birth to twins.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

SMITH and Jones were IN a menag-
erie and the conversation turned Dar-
win 5 theory. Look at that monkey.
said Smith. Think Of Its being an
undeveloped human. Human, said
Jones, eontemptuously, Its no more
human than | am.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

a LITTLE boy born very far north
entreated his mother to tell him some
stories ABOUT bad boys, and upon her
expressing astonishment. said he want
ed to find out how they got out Of
scrapes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

AT Williamsport, Penn, recently, a
man, while suffering from typhoid fe-
yer, left his bed, and going to a neigh
bOr's premises, jumped into well. He
remained standing in the water, which
reached his chin, for twenty minutes,
when be was discovered and rescued.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

a GALENA man went to the ceme-
terry, dug up his fathers tombstone
and offered 1t for sale to stone cutter.
The Gazette triumphantiy adds, as a
challenge to the world, Bring on your
meanest men.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
WHOLE NO. a,sss.

Chisel in hand stood sculptor boy, 2 -
With his marble block before him;
And his face lit up with smile OF JOY
As an angel dream passed DER him:
Hecarved the dream on that apeles stone, J,
With many sharp incision;
With heavens own light the sculpture
shone.
Hs had caught the angel vision.
Sculptors OF life are we. as we stand
With our souls. unearved, before rs,
Wang the hour, when at Gods COM
m6nd.
Our life dream shall pass DER us.
II we carve 10 then on the yielding stone
With many ..sharp inoislOu,
Its heavenly Doauty shall be our own,
Our lives that gel vision.
-BisAo, DoaRe.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

GEN. KENPER, the new Governor of
Virginia, recently refused 10 receive
carriage and span ofhorses which were
presented to him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

We offer the CHRONICLE and the
Rembrandt picture for s4-when the
picture alone, if ordered from Mr.. Nc
Cormac. would cost YOU s..
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20

A DIsoRDERDY crowd in Utica was
dispersed by a man taking of his hat
and announcing that he was making a
missionary collection.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-12-20
MRS SANTA CLAUS ADVENTURE.
BY CHARLES 8. DICKINSON.

You know it isn't right"
Ssid madame Polly TO her spouse,
One bleak December night.
"What matter if the children be
Increasing on the earth,
And stockings multiply3byscores
| Around the chimney hearth?
I'm sure 1 feel almost:compelled
To box your naughty ears
| For talking sas you have to-day
| About the precious dears."
| At this old Santa shook.his head,
Laid by his pipe. stood mp, and said:
| "Now, Mrs. CLAUSE. I've lived with you
| You know I'm nOt.inclined to.scold
| Without sufficient reason.
Had you but ridden round with me
Through every Christian nation,
| And entered by the chimney top
Each mortals habitation;
| Had you but seen what 1 have seen
OF this small generation
Had you but heard the youngsters talk,
| You'd have no hesitation
In calling them-to say the least
A wonder of creation.
| 'Tis not because they multiply
So fast, that I'm complaining;
All no, indeed I'm always glad
To see their numbers gal ming.
| What troubles me of late is this
A serious trouble too:
You know the naughty words and deeds
1nat CnllQren say ana DO,
| Are hidden deep, by Nick, the imp,
Within the chimney fiue;
| And thus sometimes they get so full
That when, at Christmas eve,
1 seek to find an entrance there,
Pm sadly forced to leave.
I've often tried to press my way
Down through the notified thrOng;
But find 1t hardly pays to face
The saucy imps of wrong.
i know the chimneys nowadays
Ara anlt tQr hnr Ofx
The children should remember that,
And guard their actions more.
For this result must come at last:
If chimneys still decrease,
And children will persist in wrong
My gifts to them must cease"
"Oh. fiddlesticks !" returned the spouse,
with quite wifeIy pout,
81 don't believe it's half as bad
AS you make 1t out.
A chimney full of naughty deeds!
Well now, whoever heard
Such wicked ISLANDERS from your lipsi
Pshaw, Santa! it's absurdr'
"Absurd but true, grieve to say:
And if you choose TO doubt it,
Just go yourself, next Christmas eve,
And learn the truth about it.
The presents, sledge, and Snowflake too,
Are at your service, dear,
I'll tend the kitchen while you're gone, >
And keep things coy here"
"Indeed that's fair" said Mrs. CLAUS,
"'Tis very kind of you,
I'll go,-and mind, III make my way
Through every chimney fiue."
The days rolled on and Madame CLAUS,
With SANTA'S help, from trunks and draw.
erS,
Brought out the Christmas treasure:
Great, life-like dolls with fiaxen curls,
Adorned with silks and mimic pearls,
= Red lips, and eyes of azure,
Gay cards, and books with gorgeous plates;
Nuts, candies, raisins. figs and dates,
And toys a boundiess store.
There, in the grand old Christmas hall
In SANTA'S house, the presents all