Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-25
TROUSDALE COUNTY.
The ChOlera-HartsvilIe as an Edu.
catIOnsI POint-Crops-TOwn and the
"DOg Law"

| dARTSVILLEI July z1.-AS your numer
Gus readers are aware from the various
articles which have appeared from day to Gay
In your valuable paper, our mountain coun
Try, in sympathy with the greater portion oil
the State has heen scourged from 'Furret to
foundation" The pure and the good, the
cheek of beauty and brow of snow, none
| have escaped who came in reach of his
whitening scythe, and you can well imagine
/ that it is with no little degree of satisfac
ton that we report this morning the almost
entire disappearance of the disease.
Afew facts asregards the cholera near this
point may be of interest, and in after years
| become an item in the history of our town.
Is it not remarkable that notwithstanding
we have been surrounded on all sides by
this sweeping iconoclast, making, as it were,
Hartsville the very nucleus around which
all the poisonous malaria Of the country
seems to move, yet not one single case of
cholera has ever occurred? Like the Ale
CLANCY mountains it has proved barrier
to all the old gentleman's darts, and to- day
is as healthy rs though the cholera had
been no nearer than the interior of India.
HARTSVILLE AS AN EDUCATIONAL POINT.
This should certainly speak favorably for
| Hartsvlle as an educational point. Stu
sted in one of the richest and healthlest por-
tions of Middle Tennessee, free from en-
| d5mic invasions, and those communicating
vices and besetting evils so of.en found in
large cities and along great trunks of rail-
ways, gives it an advantage seldom enjoyed
by inland towns. Parents who app eciste
the beautiful in the works of God, and
who desire to give to their
daughters 8 thorough and practical
education in al the gcaces that
adorn and beaulify the life of woman,
should take into consideration the educa
tional facilities of HGrtsville; its healthy 10
cation, its pure water, its pleasant climate,
and the refined and elevated character CT its
society are all induc ,ments in its favor.
ADd where We take Tito consideration the
high literary STANDARD o. the "Masonic
Female Institute" sad lis high standard o.
scholarship, We End another great intuce-
ment why parents and guardians should
send their daughters here.
Prof. j. NJ. Phillips and his accomplished
lady, formerly Of the Mdrfreesboro Uni
| verify, are in charge of this institution; Of
large and var ed experience, tiey are ripe
scholars and well fitted to preside over an
institution Of is kind, in which the minds
of young ladies are 10 be trained for the
| more active and Sterner duties of life.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The County Court at its June term
placed fee of City cents or the head for
pasIc school purposes, and with additional
aid under the supervision of our active and
energetic superintendent, r. S. Smith, We
lock f.rwar,' to a better system of public
schools than ever before.
CROPS.
The extreme dry weather is disparagiUg
TO the farming interest; the corn looks
badly, the wheat crop not more than half
the average, and the farmer alone has been
rewarded for bis toll in the superabunda nee
of the oat crop, which is fine ard plen IT,
full.
THE DOG LAW.
The latest sensation in the Metropolitan
circles of this venerable village is the So
ca'led eDorg Law" The children and old
women grow wrsthy over the outrages
committed upon this pestiferous 1Chelp, and
claim that be has the same right to sleep
and growl in church as any other man, to
bark at any disputed text or howl at the
SOC dology if he dislikes the way it is sung.
An old lady of our acquaintance inter-
viewed US on the subject few days ago.
She says she has gathered the flow
ers of five and forty summers;
has watched The modest violet ope
its be auteous eyes in the gentle Spring
time. Has seen the sunlight paint in
beauty the eastern hills, and the "Storm
King" sweep from its firm foundation the
"siant oaa" of the forest. Has heard the
braying of trumpets, thu Clapgor OF arms,
the rattle of horses hoofs and the tramp Of
mafshalleG hosts in exultsnt victory. But
never 10 never! The grGadeSt tragedy
earth eUer witnessed is now succeeding In
Huntsville. The theatre is the Office Of the
Mayor. The actors are the members Of The
Board of Aldermen, and the subject the
poor "pnrp."
She ventures to offer the following Teso-
luton, if the editor will publish, assuming
all responsibility and urging its immediate
adoption at the next meeting of the Board,)
viz:
Whereas, it has pleased the Honorable
Corporation of the Town Of Huntsville TO
enter into q great {" Canine War;" and in
view Of the impending danger of canine
supremacy and the suppressiDg OF Msgiste-
rial Powers in this venerable city; therefore,
be it
Resolved, that on the first Friday in each
month in this, the Nineteenth century Of
American Independence, Freedom ard
Liberty "KnoW ye, by these presents,
greeting"-thst all men everywhere, regard
less ofrace, color or nationality politics or re-
ligion, from every city and town anG hamlet,
from every vale and valley and hill top,
from every land and cline aud nationality,
from the isles of the sea, and from the riv-
ers unto the ends of eartp, be We, therefore,
gathered together in one accord into one
place at or near the county size Of Trous-
dale county-Csptain Jack, Scarface Char
| lev. and the Modoc's TO be included-the
"Lava Beds" to be brought via Northern
Pacific Railroad, if necessary, for breast
works. for the speedy, special and specific
purpose of protecting the Town Marshall,
| the Mayor and Board of Aldermen against
the onslsughts Of the canine species and TO
| otherwise help, aid and assist them in mas
sacreiDg, killing, Staying, shooting, drown
| ing, and otherwise disp0sing OF the little
children's dogs, that business or pleasure
may induce TO wander away into the un-
clean avenues of the city, tbs unwhoisome
| condition of which has been overlooked by
the Mayor and Board Of Aldermen, but as
| q matter of course are eIcuSG6Ie-their
great beneficiary and lawexpounding minds
being otherwise engaged in the magnificent
aud stupendous passage Of this celebrated
D-o-r-g Law. Therefore, ..
| Resolved, that the Corporation under the
existing circumstances, be held in nowise
responsible, for the present woeful condi-
ton of the streets. But furthermore en-
powered TO col ect all privileges, taxes on
dogs, and taxes on cows, taxes on horses
and taxes on sheep, taxes on real estate and
taxes on personal property, and every other
moving and immoveable thing under the
sur; provided, that said tax, shaIl in no case
be expended for public improvements as
such would be highly out OF the question and
clearly unconstitutional. Furthermore,
Resolved, that the Fifteenth Amendment
of the Canine Constitution of this venerable