Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-28
SHELBYVILLE,
Bishop Quintard-SehooI Election
Business Dcings.

To the Union and American:
SHELBYvILLE, TENN, Jan. 26.-The
Right Rev. G. 7. Quintard, bishop of
Tennessee visited this parish last week,
and on Tuesday the Goth. held morning
and evening service In the Church of
the Redeemer." There was not a
large attendance at morning service,
but in the evening the church was
crowded and the distinguished divine
entertained the large audience with one
Of his best efforts; setting forth in a
most forcible manner the great impor-
lance Of fortifying ourselves with that
good courage by which we may be ena-
bled to trample the opinions Of the
world under foot; take up the cross
and fight boldly and fearlessly as fol-
lowers of the meek and lowly Savior.
The bishop administered the rite OF
confirmation or "laying on of hands
to five persons, all young ladies.
The music, both at morning and
evening service, was beautiful and ap-
propriate, and has been very highly
comphmented.
Tue pieces were all very well exc
cuted; but would particularly refer to
Consider the Lilies" Loyd's 'Te
Deum Laudamus," Blessed is he that
considereth the poor" and "Jesus,
Saviour of my SOUL" as peculiarly sweet
and touching.
Bishop Quintard and his wife, who
accompanied him, left our town at .
o'clock A. M, Wednesday, Dist inst,
the Bishop to stop at Murfreesboro,
and Mrs. Quintard to continue on d.
rect to Nashville
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION
has been most Thoroughly agitated for
sometime past by the enterprising
county Superintendent Of Public
Schools, John R. Dean, Esq,
who has, by every conceivable
means, sought "to keep it be-
fore the people, that there was to
be an election held on Saturday, Jan
"a, for the purpose of voting an addi-
tional school tax on real estate of two
mills on the dollar. This vote was only
for this, the 9TH civil district of the
county. Grand(?) rallies and stump
speeches were the order of the day, or
rather of the night, and scarcely a
night passed without some demonstra-
ton of the kind. The "ear-splitting
fife" and "soul-stirring drum" were
called into requisition, and went thun-
dering and squealing around town, fol
lowed by 18th amendments and small
boys, ad infnitum, bearing numerous
painted banners and transparencies,
and torch lights. 1t was n good time
for the "hoodlums" of our town
to give vent to their pcnt up yells
and schreeches, and you may
rest assured they showed their appreci-
alton of the privilege in long and loud
unearthly din. It was a good time, al
so, for the young lawyers of this bar to
ventilate their slumbering DemOsthe-
MAN talent before an appreciative pub
lie.
THE ELECTION
came off on the 9th and resulted in
the election OF the two mills tax by a
vote of $50 for, ard Is against. There
are about $50 voters IN the precinct; so
it VIII be seen that the tax received
more than two-thirds of the entire
vote.
BUSINESS
here Is dull, though there is something
doing in the shipment of grain, pro-
visions, etc, TO other markets, princi-
pally to the South. During the
week ending Jan. 81 there
was shipped from this point
~ car loads of corn, l car of wheat, 2
cars of meal, l car of bran, % casks OF
bacon, four barrels of lard, $1,000 lbs.
of flour, 10 bales of hay, S. bales of
cotton, 1855 dozen eggs and 78 pounds
of butter. Our commission merchants
do a good deal OF shipping at the three
stations Wartrace and
Normandy, all three Of them being in
this county. WANDERED.