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This may certify that had been suffering with the
''Rheumatism for five months, and at that time it
seized my right hip and leg, down to the foot
This 'the physicians called "Sciatic." tried many
kinds of highly recommended medicines which
took for the blood Still L got relief for seven
months more, all the time doing my best, with as
good advisers as we have in our city, Finally.
called at the New York University Branch and the
proprietor said he could help help me. So COM
menced his medicine, and IA four weeks Thought
felt relief and in eight weeks was able to leayt
my at home and have been well up to this ii me
three months have passed. DAVID KEAZER r.
Portland Aug. 2, 1870.
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have been afflicted for twenty years with Chronic
Rheumatism. have spent hundreds of dollars for
medical treatment without benefit. Ten days ago
commenced taking the University Medicines and
can truly say it has been more benefit to Inc than
business is 1877 Pearl street. shall be pleased TO an
swer all enquiries JOHN TURNER
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Portland. April Is 1873. Casco, Me.

This is to certify that have been afflicted with the
have employed most of the best physicians in Port
land and paid hundreds of dollars for medicine with
out any permanent cure. Two years ago last March
was taken with Rheumatic fever for five weeks l
was unable to turn in bed or feed myself my left
arm and hand was reduced to nearly half the size
of my right oHe and was unable to lift two pounds
weight until last July, when the effect of the
University Medicines on the daughter of Capt VIM
Thorndike | called on DR.. Staples and stated my
case. He SAID he could cure it. commenced taking
the medicine with the acupuncturation. Before
had taken four bottles considered myself more free
from pain than have been for twenty wears IN to
this time. have not had relapse. consider il
to.be the only medicine for the above complaint
WILLIAM.-J. SMITH,
To 49, aax - c.
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BOSTON.
American House, Hanover St. L.Ric
Proprietor.
Parker House, School st. HI. ID. Parker &
Co., Proprietors.
Revere House. BOwdOin Square, BulfincIa,
Bingham. Wrisley g. Co.. PrOprietors
st. James HOTEL. H. M. Sfetsop, PrOPri
etOr. H
fremont House. fremont ST. Bingham
Wrisley & Co. PROJECTORS.
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..e AUGUSTA.
Augusta House, State st. Harrison Bak.
err, Proprietor.
Cony House, G. A. & III. Cony. Proprie.
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have been troubled, more or less, for five years
with infamnlatory rheumatism For the last six
months have suffered beyond description. NV
limbs were badly swollen and infiamed; it was with
great pain and difficulty that could move My case
well known by thousands of citizens in Portland
l am to-day well man, and was cured by the
University Medicine, and Acapuncturation.
CAPT. w. S. PENNELL, Is GREY ST.
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BETHEL.
Chandler House, F. 9. Chandler L. Co.
PrOpriefOrs.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
CHICKEN CHOLERA.

notice that your valuable CORE
spondent, B. F. j., attributes the chick
en- cholera to exclusive cora feed" In
this he is certainly mistaken. Here a
great many Comparatively chickens
are raised in small lots by the negroes,
and except when young, get no food
but what they can pick up for them
selves, as the owner has no coin to
spare them, and yet they lost their
chickens quite as generally as those
who fed them every day on corn. A
neighbor lost lis out of III. l lost
100 out of los. My next neighbor lost
none. Another lost none of his own,
while the negroes living on his land
lost all. My penthouse was kept clean
-whitewashed, with petroleum in
the wash, and the nests and roosts
painted with petroleum. The fowls
had 200 acres to roam on if they
desired, and were perfectly free from
vermin. They died, and were yellow
with fat The disease killed turkeys as
well as chickens, and in one or two in
stances, geese and ducks. Itried alum,
laudanum, blue mass-also as a last
resort, nitrate of silver-withOut effect.
The above is from the Country Cen
tIenaan, and relates to a disease of great
interest as effecting animal life. The
germs of chicken cholera are as hard to
kill as to understand. The theory of
''B. f. j., >" who is connected with the
Illinois Agricultural College, that feed
ing corn causes cholera in poultry, is
not in harmony with facts.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
An Indignant Lady,

The following note of inquiry, beautiful
ly written on tinted paper, and addressed to
'The Reporter that Interviews Prisoners at
the JAIL" reached this Office yesterday:
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 8, 1S73.-Mr.
Reporter-Sir: have been reading your in
terview of Mr.. Blackburn, ST., at the Jail
piece Of my mind about that part of it
where you interrupt the old gentleman so
rudely with the arrogant and pOmpOus
question about his ''office' and business. l
think you are real mean. THERE won't sign
my name, fGr | don't want you to publish
this. | don't want anything to do with
your old paper any more Except to read the
telegraph | won't look at such mean To-
Gals. Respectfully, indignant AUNTY.
We sincerely hope ''Aunty'' will not car
~ into effect her threat to read nothing in
our paper in the future except telegraphic
news, for she is just the kind of a reader
that we love to write for, and it wounds us
keenly to be characterized as ''real mean
by lady who writes with so much spirit.
"Aunty' objects to the arrogant and
pompous question" about Mr.. Blaclbun's
'office and business" The reporter in
question is one of the mildest and most
modest of young men, and it is not in his
nature to PROFOUND arrogant and pompous
questions. The gentleman referred to had
made mention of his ''otflce," and the ques-
ton asked followed as a matter of course
as the reporter had never seen or heard of
Mr.. Blackburn, ST., before.
May we hope that ''Aunty'' will accept
this explanation?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11

At the meeting of the Ticket Agents,
held yesterday at the Maxwell House, b.
W. Wrenne, of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, was called to the chair, and W..
B. Davenport, of the st. Louis and South
eastern Railroad, appointed Secretary.
The object of the meeting was explained
byJ. C. Lopez, of the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad, and afterwards resolution
adopted to withdraw tickets from outside
agents, and binding themselves as the rep
resentatives of the respective roads to
maintain rates as established by the Short
line without any rebate or cut of rates of
any kind and not to allow. any tickets
either from local or general offices to be
sent by mail, express or otherwise to any
one Of the roads.
An agreement was then signed in regard
to the division of territory on respective
roads, the Convention adjOurning at mid
night.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
SAVE THE BEST FOR BREEDING.

The following is from the Poultry
World:
1t is the worst possible policy to kill
all the best and handsomest fowls, and
save only the mean and scraggy ones
to breed from. This is precisely the
way to run out your stock; for like
tends to breed ike, and the result is,
that by continually taking away the
best birds, and using the eggs of the
poorest, your flock Will grow poorer and
poorer every succeeding year.
1t wonld seem as though it was too
PLAIN to be insisted upon, but, in fact,
cline upon line" is needed. 1t is the
crying want of the poultry upon the
farms the country through-this care
full and intelligent selection of the best
for breeding.
Nothing is lost by little self-denial
to start with. The extra pound or two
of poultry flesh that you leave on its
legs, instead Of sending it to the mar
ket, is as good seed, and will bring
forth ten-fold and twentyfold in your
future broods Save your best stock for
breeding.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
HINTS FOR THE SEASON.

On many farms there are water
courses and bitches that need attention
A defective out-fall may hooda part
of field of wheat and kill the grain
so far as it extends, if neglected.
Banks may require strengthening, and
new water-furrows should be opened to
prevent stagnation, and it may be the
freezing out of grass on a meadow or
pasture during the winter. On the
other hand, one may, by little ditch
ing, throw running-water over land to
improve it by irrigation. This art is
rapidly gaining in public esteem wher-
ever it is fairly tried, whether on a
small or large scale. Laborers are Of
ten seeking employment in the winter,
and will work cheap for the
sake of work, Hence many farmers
have bushes, briers and weeds
cut and burnt off ready for blowing
during this month; others have rails
split and hauled, or wood chopped, and
keep the pillow moving when not too
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
The Cotton Markets.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 10.-COttOn dull and
easier; middling uplands S4aSsd; middling
Orleans SSaS2d. Sales 1900 bales; Ameri-
can 1900 bales; speculation and exports
1000 bales. Sales Of uplands not below
good ordinary shipped November and
December 3-16d; January and February
SD; on basis not below low middlings De-
ember deliveryS. 3-16d.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-COtton in fair
demand and higher; middling uplands 15ac.
Futures closed easy; sales of 1890 bales
as follows: December 10 aal5 SIG; January
- l5-32a15ac; February 10 27-32a155c;
March 164a16 SIG; April IS 9-16a1Gse.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 10-COtton active;
sales $3.50 bales; prices firm; good ordinary
to strict good ordinary 14a14sc; low mid
ding to strict low middling 15aal5sc; mid
ding to strict middling 16alG5c; good mid
dlings 17aa1Tac. Those quotations are for
certified checks. Receipts i2,147 bales;
exports coastwise 2,223 bales; TO continent
4,676 bales; to Great Britain 4,213 bales;
stock 172.7lS bales; unsoid G9,700 bales.
MEMPHIS, Dee. 10 Cotton dull and
prices dropping; good ordinary 13a13ac;
low middling 14!a14fc; middlings la
16c. Receipts for the past day 2,945 bales;
shipments for the last twenty-fOur hours
1885 bales; stock 46.031 bales.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 10. - Cotton higher at
144c.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 10. - Cotton steady;
middlings 142c.
CINCINNATI. Dec. 10 - CottOnsteady at
15ic.
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wet. There is always a plenty to do ON
a farm of any size. Hauling leaves and
swamp muck to stables, sheds and cow
lots to increase the manure banks, gem
orally pays fair profit. Economy, in
dustry and close attention to thou
sand and one little things 60 to make
up the successful farmer who is master
of the situation. All his stock is kept
we'll fed, watered. salted. Housed.
healthy and growing. They must
make flesh, milk, wool or fat.
In feeding turnips, carrots or beets,
care should be taken to wash them
clean, for dirt Will scour COWS, horse
stock and. sometimes, sheep. From
considerable experience we have found
carrots the best roots for cows giving
milk; they give the cream and butter a
desirable yellow color. Good, rich land,
properly worked, will yield from 500
to 700 bushels to the acre. Wood
ashes, land-plaster, lime and heavy
manuring are cardinal points in root
culture. In England, superphosphates,
guanos, nightsoil and cubic inter are
largely consumed in raising turnips,
cabbages, beets, carrots, parsnips and
vetches, for stock-feeding purposes.
Many farmers in this country have
yet to learn the value of con-
centrated fertilizers, or of common
manure, when it is all saved and APP
piled to the best advantage. Many
million dollars are annually wasted and
lost forever by sheer carelessness and
Indifference in reference to plant food
which forms in one condition food for
man and beast. The word husbandry
means to husband, rather than neglect
the elements of fruitfulness on the
farm. 1t is a mistake to allow weeds
so generally to take the proper place Of
clover and the English grasses on
Southern plantations These weeds
rarely grow after autumn frosts; where.
as orchard grass, blue grass, herds
grass, timothy and oat grass, all grow
in the winter months in our climate
Clover also keeps green from fall till
spring.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
Personals,

Mr.. George +. Phelps, the agent for
WOrcester'S Dictionary, is in the city, in
attendance upon the State Teachers AssO-
citation and the meeting of School Superin.
tendentS. Worcester has gained rapidly in
public favor within the last few years, and
now stands unsurpassed as authority wher-
ever the English language is spoken.
Col. j. G. HazletOn, Superintendent of
the Ktna mines, was in the city yesterday.
The following were among the guests Of
the Maxwell House yesterday: j. F. Gar
ret, Pulaski; Ed. Cooper, Jr., and n. p.
Evans, Shelbyville; r. NJ. Mason, McMinn-
vile, and d. p. Rathbone, Manchester.
Isaac Refs, Esq, of Cincinnati, was in
the city yesterday.
Jonathan Jones, of st. Louis, was at the
Maxwell House yesterday.
The following were guests at the Battle
House yesterday: Geo. c. Anderson,
Union; r. S. Thomas, J. B. Turner, Miss
Dora Cole, Brownsville; A. S. Watkins,
Trenton; J. b. Johns, J. p. Hooker, L. E.
Bell, MurfreesboIO: J. c. KritSer, Louis
vile; W. b. Ransom, Bedford county; J. w.
Mallard. Marshall county; w. A. Lewis,
Levanon; John Williams, Williamson
county.
J. g. Potter, prominent shoe manufac-
turer of Boston, was a guest of the Max
well House yesterday.
G. p. AtmOre, General Ticket Agent of
the Louisville, Nashville and Great South
ern Road; w. Il. Davenport, like agent of
the St. Louis and Southeastern; B. w.
Wrenn, of the Western and Atlantic Rail-
road; j. c. Lopez, of the Memphis and
Charleston Road; W. /. Danley, of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis Road,
and W. J. Houston, Of Atlanta, Ga, We're
all in the city yesterday on business con-
nected with their respective roads, and
were registered at the Maxwell House.
Col. J. A. Tronsdale, of Gallatin, was in
the city yesterday.
A. S. Curry, ESQ.,, County Superintend-
ent of Schools for Gibson county, is in the
city attending the State Teachers Associa-
ton.
DIR. VIM. a. Smith, of the Columbia
Athen8um, is in the city.
J. r. Cardwell, who has been located in
st. Louis for the past two years, is here on
a visit.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
Police Commissioner.
e Union and American:

To the Union and American:
Yours of the 10th to hand, and contents
noted. l perceive from short paragraph
therein contained that it will be incumbent
on our city fathers to select from the multi
tude of our worthy fellow citizens Police
Commissioner. Has it ever occurred to our
said city fathers and our grandfather Ker-
cheval, who is the chief, that one, at least,
of the Commissioners should be practical
policeman himself, graduate in the bust
ness, and who had experience and had as
ISOLATED for years in the police circle, and
thus became familiar with the system and
material necessary for the proper protection
of the city. Ifthey have not, would sug-
geSt they consider the matter when they 60
to make selection. Yours, WHACK.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11

LOUISVILLE d CINCINNATI SHORT
LINE RAILROAD.-Trainsle leave and ar
al c.lli it'll - fnlln1Is.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HoUsE.-Miss Fanny b. Price
closed her engagement last night, the at
tendance being rather slim. The ''New
Magdalen" was produced at the matinee in
the afternoon, and the comedT of 'Wild
Constance" at night, concluding with the
farce of 'Cousin .Ioe.' The engagement OF
Miss Price has been anything else but sue
cessfnl.
AT the conclusion of the first play last
evening, pigeon was thrown on the stage
on which was handsome wreath with a
card containing the words: s'To Miss Fanny
B. Price, from her numerous Nashville
friends and admirers" The lady was
called before the curtain and received will
applause. Miss Price returns TO this city
on the oath inst. to play another engage
ment, and expects to have considerable adj
ditions to her company.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
THE COURTS.

PROBATE CoBRT.--The will of Archi-
bald ID. Cox was admitted to probate, and
Samuel r. Barnes was appointed and quail
flied as executor.
CIRCUIT CoURT.-Nowlin use, etc. VS..
C. Blake, motion and appeal.
Mayor and City Council VS.. III. G. SEQ
vel, judgment for plaintiff S2,64S,00.
Union and American Publishing Com
pany and Albert Akers, Clerk, VS.. John c.
Burch, Comptroller, argument heard, and
no opinion yet rendered.
CHANCERY CoURT.-Decisions were
rendered in the following cases yesterday:
Mary NJ. Robertson VS.. Horace Harrison
ex'r.; E. F. Mulloy, admir-. VS.. o. NJ
Payne and others; State of Tennessee VS.
Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad Compa
nv and others; E. Jones and others VS..
Hu Douglas & Co. and Others; same VS.
same.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
Vanderbilt.

The first instalment Of the Nashville sub
scription to purchase a site for the Wander
bilt University has been due since the first
day of November. Scores of the subscribers
have paid their first installment, and Others
are calling every day. The Office Of the
Secretary, DR.. Young, is on the second
floor of the Publishing House, where all
money is paid. Please to call between this
and the first day of January.
The specifications of the architect are
nearly ready, and the jobs of woodwork
and cut stone, etc, will be let out so soon
as Bishop McTyeire returns from South
Carolina. Look out for advertisements in
about two weeks. We are happy to state
that the panic" has had no influence on
the steady progress of this great enterprise.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11

New Advertisements.

Gates & POhlman give notice that they
are selling out their stock Of jewelry,
watches, diamonds, etc, at cost. Their
stock is large and complete, embracing all
the novelties in the iewelry line. They are
in earnest too when they say cOSt-nO
humbug about it.
See insolvent notice Of the estate OF
George W. Bryan deceased.
Meeting of Masonic Lodge this evening.
Fresh stock of staple and fancy dry
goods for sale at aution to-day by Y eatman,
Shields & Co
See notices of insolvency of the estates
of A. J. Lee and L. J. Allen, deceased.
Warrant in bankruptcy against the estate
of b. Clark, of Mt. Pleasant.
Steamer Ada Heilman leaves to-day.
Small boy lost. See advertisement.
Be sure to attend the grand auction sale
by G. Rice & Co. to-day. They will offer
a large variety of fashionable goods.
DIR. Hyslop has been called professionally
to Gallatin, and his office on Cedar street
will be closed until the 20th inst.
Auction sale of furniture at the st. Cloud
Hotel to day.
Geo. r. Buchanan is with Gates u Pohl-
man, and will be glad to sell his numerous
friends and customers goods at cost.
The sale of the St. Cloud Hotel furni-
tme will take place this morning at IL
O'Clock. j. c. GORDON, Trustee.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
How thePanic Has Affected the
&nnfh

The following interesting extract is from
a private letter written by a reliable gen.
tleman in Tuskegee, Alabama:
'"The poor crops, money crash and low
price of cotton have completely impover-
ished this garden-Spot of Alabama. The
white people have lost all they had and the
poor farmers are in a most pitiable cOndi-
ton. Some who We're worth thousands in
January last are now not able to pay their
debts. As for the negroes, they are re-
duced to the very doors of starvation.
They keep the town in perpetual fear OF
their nightly depredations. They are out
as burglars every night, attempting to rob
the whites. They refuse TO make contracts
for another year expecting that the Govern
ment will issue them ratiOns."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
The Convention of Judges.

Judge Gillenwaters, of the first judicial
district, writes to the Comptroller:
81 assure you that the purpose Of the call
has my full sympathy and appreciation. |
have long been impressed with the neces-
sityof material changes in our present sys-
TEN touching the administration of crimi-
nal law. The expenditures, though posi-
bly, legitimate under our present system,
are largely unnecessary, and am sure there
is remedy. We need reformation based
upon such principles as will make it per-
manent. | have not time now to give even
the outlines of the matter as it is in my
mind. may write you again before the
meeting. will be present unless unavoid-
ably prevented"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11

If the intelligence from the west coast
of Africa is to be depended on, we may very
shortly hear Of the return Of DIR. Living
stone to England. BY letters received in
the last mail steamer it was reported that
he was then about 30 miles from st. Saliva
dor, and, therefore, within two hundred
miles of the coast. Assuming, therefore,
that he would travel nearly as quick as the
natives who brought the news, he might be
expected home by the next steamer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
The Cook-room of the Body,

The food that has been cooked in the kitchen
must be re-coOked in the stomach before it can
be applied to the nourishment of the body. As a
means of facilitating this second cooking, in
cases where the process is slowly and imper-
tectly performed, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
is invaluable 1t promotes the generation OF
heat in the living laboratory in which the crude
materials for building up and recruiting the hui
man frame are turned into convertible aliment.
But this is not all 1t acts beneficially upon the
cellular membrane which secretes the gastric
juice, upon the liver, which produces that natu-
raj laxative the bile, upon the vessels which re-
ceive the digested food, and upon the absorb
ents which connect the digestive organs with
the channels of circulation. If any portion of
this complex machinery is out of order, the Bit
tiers will set it right, thus promoting vigorous di-
gestion, healthy secretion, and the production
of pure, rich DEMONSTRATING blood.
dec9 dlw&wIt
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11
WAR DEPARTIsENT.
OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICFF
WA GITrs-CsTrpO nao 20 30 =

WASHINGTON, Dec, 10, 7:3O p. NJ.
PrObdbilities.-FOr lSew Englap d and
the Middle States, pactly CLOUDY az ID clear
weather with lOwt enperature. an,l north
west to westerly Winds viii prevail, follow
Ell by increasing eloudiD'ess aud variable
winds ThETsday evening
For the b.Ke region ? nd thence southwark
to the Chic valley Ind Virginia, light and
occasionally fresh southeastern to south
Westeriy winds with generally cloudy
weather and are as of light rain.
F'f the Nc Drthwest, less pressure, rising
temperature. easterly to sOutherly winds
and ligtG T..ins.
tog w South Atlantic and Gulf States
eaSE o. the Mississippi, easterly to sOuther-
v Wirr1s, partly cloudy weather and but
SllSb. changes of Temperature.
After to-day the display of cautiOnary
ignals will be suspended at lake ports for
the winter.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-11

A prisoner from Madison county was
sentenced to the penitentiary last February,
and has been confined since that time. The
Supreme Court recently granted him new
trial, and Sheriff May of that county is here
to take the prisoner from duronce vile back
from whence he came. If ne is finally
found guilty, and has to be re-sentenced, he
will of course receive credit for the length
of time be has been confined, but if he is
cleared, who will settle for the time he has
served in the penitentiary?