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And other means and articles, which make up
total of S259, ,523.37. upon Which they are
allowed q commission of 81, ,976.T.
The great man-and-dog-h tight has been drama
tiZed. That is an attempt hae been made to
take advantage OF the temporary e1clsement
caused bv that event, in Found E1ummF, an
1mprobabillty in Ono Act" recently produced at
ths P1incess' Theatre, London. A newspaper
correspondent ia sent down to the scene OF the
supposed encounter to ascertain the true state
of che case: and Al unfortunate Individual,
whoga name bears aome slight resemblance to
that OF QUE Of the combatRnt5, l8 presented "a
undergoing some persecution. No less able IN
artist than Mr. George Beluuore had been So
cnred to piay the part OF this mystiGed ge1tlo-
man. According to the dltenRun1, the farco
vay 80 bad that the actors had apparently de-
clined to burden their memory with the words,
and tho curtain fell amid storm Of waI-matited
hisses.
Ladies', Madenaa Jenauechek has sixty-sir
dresses and jewels untold, 4 pair OF solitaire
diamond earrings OF hers, gift from the King
Of Holland, is valued 1t 322. 060 and = ruby pin
s12, 600 more. WIS presented BY ths Empress OF
Russia while the solitaire diamond ring, weigh
ing 1917 carats, was 3 SIG, 600 tTlda from tho
Afchduke John Of Auskris.
Octave Fouillet commenced life as Journal
ist and wzs successively feuilletonist, novelist,
and dramatist. In 1862 he was elected to the
Academic to fill the eeat left vacant BY the death
of Scribe, and in 1868 obtained the decoration OF
the Legion Of Honor
Nine. Dejazet did not havo vulgar benefit
It mas a representation en- hon1e1tr de D9dzes.
Lucy q. Hooper, in her Paris letter to the
phiindelphia Press, thus describes the dresses
vorn by Blanche Plerson in ~ L. Dame aux
CanaA1llAa~ II tbs GImnass: "H tas hsss sos
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H. arsst;one WAS the following " Haye
Ar1ons tuo ~ think there il much lmmo1alts ID
roa reaeoul ~ ~ i farmer pondered on tcfs 1or
1oar pa!lsn The reputation Of his parish ne fess
.ou,e w. n.s bound to 10 ma1ntaneu, ~ tue
1. "" w;.h many others, went p@cA ~ 'oe wv"
ins" l.1'n Pretty ia'1lsn' .-
Darlington Ea,o&eye tells tn.a moulniu'
Tue o..yrste1day morniug noble yoatn up On
,so Hin mas diacoyerttoa co. ~ xyond-m1e nld The good
n msnun cd his Wild em.zenent. oh. sir.
Ell t1f1es1sx xonner man, have Fou aot heard +
sid the nou.e jead.7 And phllo he sat down on
uJ rnatneI: n:nc-hlock and buried his faco N his
,bc coosR6 Rso6bcd aloud bis pastor consoled MN:
btnos Int it wss indeed hafd. nxtq nalo Ut,
I'd ths youth, 'D'1'4
M u.,a hands ;" .,...
~. The prevailing belief in pennsylvsnla tist IT.
i ,ns nm gct INTO Heaven un'eSs he takes
20 dean 1nsn a,nv II tLs rlllauelphla Ledger with
with him ~ ~ ncer marked with red and blue
pencil. ia, +;nsv fellow. leaning up
rnlrlsIea rhere he expected to 60 when
tss;ns, Fiji .If can't get along any better than
be died. ~ aid. II shan't go anywhere I'll
.t.y " vhe1e AM
~, nov invented shot-gnns which can
They hs:o .ha pocket and 4 fellow can Glide
b car1,eo u, ~ nnn,ipe Sunday and no ono know 1t.
ops 49, r.,o,e in tho apostolic succession 2"
"Do you ~ - sidney Smith. II do" ho re-
inquired e9 oo9 nv faith in that dogma dates from
rEed, - @ neca1ne acquainted with tbs blsh-
.ne W. w.. who is go like Juaas-
Not pqt S.14e from Nsr E9d;hs has.hsS
the thT1ssua" ascrsr to Christianity, but from tho
''colnes tne ~ etr betwcen the lives Of Cnr7st.an
Ersst I'D he doc.lnes they call 'herb OF grace
,usundsya'' <
Il aosku ossTurc,,.memter to hsve to dra~ out lis
hansss Tssr IN order to get at his cents for the
,ootnbution-bo1-
.x,.t;c,, chrietian," according to Brook
-.p.a<atst;on. ncans man who can get up
~ nr.rer snd knock seven bells out Of hack"
n2n.
ri. born Of tho dilemma for Tyndan-Ihe
E.ttcr.horn.
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Thou art like some bright foNts4
So fair, 30 chasse, divine;
l Eaze on thee, and sadneAs
Around my heart doth twtoA.
Ny handa, II If IN blessing.
I'd lay On thy soft hair,
And pray that God thus keep tAea
Diyinely chaSta and fir
, 1874-10-18

paris e. Rheingold," :" Die Walkuro." and "Sieg-
fried ~ have bean printed for private circulation
in London.
MUSICAL NOTES.
Frczzo1ina is singing in tho cafes OF Venice.
Herr Pane, who, after Mr. Lazarus, was tho
best clariouet player in England, died last
month
II. Thomas has made q new arrangement OF
I" Hamlet " for Nine Nilsson and Ii. Faure.
Miss Adelaide Phillips Tom Kari, Orlandini,
and Baceli will shortly start On Western con-
cert tour.
It ia reported that Mme. Christine Nilsson,
after tour in America and farewell season 1t
Her Majesty's Opera, will retire into private
life.
The company engaged for tho 1talian opera
at Moscow End St. Petersburg includes Patti,
Nilsson, Volpinl, krauss. Harmon, Naudln,
Aarlni, Capou1, Vizzani, Rota, Cotogni, Nsusel,
Fol-, and janet
H. Victor Wilder is trnnslating the text OF
the use Of tho 6oclote de rHarmonie Saeree,
which II. Charles Lamoureu1 is forming.
Miss Rose Hereeo ia recovering from her recent
i1lness, but her engagement to appear at the
Corent Garden Promenade Concarta has been
postponed until November.
new "Swediah Nightingale has been dis
covered in the person Of Nile. Amanda Holm-
berg. Her voico IL aid to DO rich mezzo-
soprano
Sisnor Macaferri, the tenor, who recently died
in Belleyno Hospital, New York, from tho effects
Of poverty and privatiou, had legacy Of E5c0
left him, which arrived from Europe two days
after his death4
Itis impossible to bay uhe7e hadame Angot"
msy not turn up. That famous comic opera has
now reached spain, aud has been performed
during the lsst month 1t BarcalonA with tho
greatest possibls success Ihe piquAnoy OF thu
S;aiocna NOD the poiitica1 l1uaionI gained Addl-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
THAT HENRY COUNTY COEVEN-
TION.

From the Paris Intelligencer, April 10.
In the Nashville Banner of last week
there appeared an account Of a conven-
ton. said to have been held in the
courthouse in Paris, on the 9th inst.
Our single reason for a notice of that ar
ticle is, tbatit conveys afalseimpression
on the readers of the Banner, and
places the Democratic party IN Henry
county In a false attitude. That there
was a political meetingof some sort on
that day is true; but that 1t was an
outpouring of the Democratic party or
the people of Henry, is not true. There
was no previous notice, that was gen
orally known; so far from this. large
number of citizens who were In town
on that day knew nothing of it until it
had adjourned. We are informed that
it was held in an upper room over one
of the clerk offices, which is perhaps
Is or 20 feet square, and not of suti-
cient capacity to contain a large and
enthusiastic meeting.
The parade of names that appear as
delegates appointed at that meeting is
well calcu ated to deceive We are in
formed that many of those gentlemen
were not there, and perhaps knew moth
ing Of the meeting until after 1t was
over. Moreover We have been informed
thst a number Of that list of delegates
are not in sympathy with the affair,
and viii not endorse it. We have no
doubt that the whole thing was a cut
and dried affair, including the lChere-
dses and resolutions, and there Is no
difficulty in tracing them up, so that
the paternity Is left IN no doubt. There
is not one drop of Democratic blood IN
the veins of the maniprlatOIs of that
political meeting, convention sO-called,) J
so far from it, indeed, that there is not
a particle of sympathy for Democracy
In them, and it was not intended for
harmony, but to dictate to Democrats
such terms of compromise as could not
be accepted, and thereby to place all
the adheEents IN the more direct antag-
onism to Democracy with some better
show of excuse.
The Democracy of Henry county bave
nothing TO do with this lcrge and eRtbU-
siastic meeting, but IN due time will
meet and consult IN regard to the best
interests of the people of Tennessee,
and be content that these IRde-
pendent Democrats and Conservatives
may still stand firm in emergencies, HH-
AIRED by the threats. and HasedlGced By the
bIaRdishments Of selfish cfice-seekers and
partisan driIl-mGsters.
We recognize the right of all citizens
to meet and consult, and grandly re-
solve, as best suits their various views
and tastes, but we Go object to any
studied attempts to disOrganize and
distract the Democratic party, in this
emergency, especially when it is done
under the specious garb and false pre-
lenses of harmony and cooperation.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
MEMPHIS.
Aldermen Refuses to Appropriate
$4,000 for the OVerfiOwed.
we're Strie,ures of the Pr,

Severe Structures of the Press.
MEMPHIS, Nav 2.-There is considerable
excitement here this morning Overthe action
of the Board of Aldermen last night in
refusing to concur in the resolution of the
Common Council TO donate ten thousand
dollars to the sufferers from the overflow.
The ACGiGHche says the defeat was due to
the opposition of Aldermen A. J. White
and Andrew Davis, the first of whom
talked about paying the city bonds and the
latter delighted in reminding the public
that Mississippi and Arkansas did very
little for Memphis during the yellow fever
plague. Had either urged legal objections
against the appropriation of the money. the
argument would have been at least respeeta-
bic, but the objections urged by them were,
IN all kindness, not only contemplate but
unchristian.
The Appedl says: Anything more dis
creditable to US, anything more disgraceful,
anything so little aud contemplate, has
never yet blurred and blotted the official
records Of our city. We hang our heads in
very shame, and take refuge behind our
Gberal-hearted business men, our mer-
chants, our policemen and firemen, whose
labOrs in behalf of the immediate sufferers
alone relieves Us Of indellible disgrace.
Fatal Fracas.
Robert Elder, foreman Of the race-track.
was struck on the head last night by Willis
COnnut, ColOred, and fatally injured. Con-
nut escaped.
LATER.-Rnbert Elder who was struck
by a negro with a billet of wood, at the
race-track last night, died to-day. Connut
has not YET been arrested.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
BILL SNYDER.
He Interviews Himself ON Grants
Currency Veto.

nc AELtEHAth- AAAHAFEAA OAA 0Ae~-A~
Currency Veto
ssThe best laid schemes of mice and men,
etc, !" :or have Just been a dying, almost,
to be interviewed upon the all-abSorbing
topic Of indGtiOR and Contraction
Is soon as 1 heard that Grant had vetoed
this everlasting currency bill | put myself
i'm the way Of every reporter in his city
trpatins them to book beer, bivalyes, dew
iled-bans, and fresh Dutch woman's bea's
eggs By the quantity, and up OthiS writing,
with single exception, not one OF these
nOse-aFOunds has prOpOanded to me ques-
tiOn on the subject. This exception was
c., Of the Bonner, who said: ~HillO!
BIZ, what relation are you 10 Currency
Bill?r and then he showed his ivory.
told him the relationship extended no fur
thar han that which exis Ell between him
and a five dollar bill-if he could
Law his hands on it-in other words l was
for it, But he couldn't take the hint and
the mater dropped after he had indulged
again at my expense.
know how delightful it felt, while so
j0urner in the COnfederacy as one Of Boo
Lees boys, To walk up 10 a clothing mer-
chant and pay one hundred dollars for
clean shirt, or three hundred dollars fer
hat. Il tell you. l felt big rich, and long
for the time TO come when gTeenbacks will
be just as plentiful. And when | used TO
90 down 10 Richmond with my knapsack
full of bluebacks, and slosh il around on
huge scale, treating the girls TO ice-cream
and things, felt Just IS happy as if | had
received information, by telegram, to the
effect that nay ma-in-law had died and left
me cool million. But l always carried
my knapsack back empty.
Everybody cried OUt that 4 was imitation
that ended the war BY busting up the Con-
federacy. Maybe this is Grants view Of
the matter. for he knows plagne-takea well
we were not whipped. No, sirl not at all.
Nav my liver be sold for piece Of tripe II
ever 1 acknowledge it. Aud right here IS
where the stength Of my argument for IN
aation lies. wanted IL:
ssNot for 70 hide it in hedge,
Not for q train attendant
But for the glorious privilege
OF being 'indcDendenF -
for 4 while at least and then 10 see the
thing initiate until il breaks the backbone
Of this internal government and knocks
Grant aud the Radical party further into
oblivion tEEsn a ten poaEd eannon-oali
could travel in a thousand years
s.If this be tFeasOn-make the most Of it,
BILL SNYDER.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Robert Browning is just finishing long
poem.
Paul Hayne recently visited the grave Of
Edgar Allan Poe, in the Presbyterian
Churcll-yard in Baltimore, and draws a
sad picture of its desolatiOn. The burial
ground is quite uncared for, and the grave
is only marked by a wooden fOOt-boar1.
The affection from which the venerable
poet Whittier is suffering is one of the head
and eyes, and disqualifies him at present
for literary labor
Herr Hermann Linde Processes the ex-
tTaOrdinary ac1uiremant of being able to
recie all Shakspeare'S plays from memory.
He commenced lately series Of recitals
at Cologne, with the midsummer Nights
Dream"
George EliOt's new volume Of poetry will
include the poems contributed to English
magazines, and poem contributed only to
All American serial, together with more re-
cent pOetical work which will now for 5he
first time see the light.
Edmond About says that Victor Hugo is
the most learned Of men of letters. The
language of common life in France employs
al most about a thousand words out of the
twenty-seven thousand which the DictiOn-
ary Of the Academy contains. Many illus
trious authors, About SAYS, have not more
than fifteen hundred. Theophile Gaatier
used to boast of possessing three thousand,
but added, Il might toll 10 the last day Of
my life without attaining to the vocabulary
OF Hugo"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
Condensed TeIesnams.

The execution of Ann Hunt, for the poi
soning of Eliza Browner, took place at El-
berton, Ga Friday.
SteeraSe passengers are now booked from
Liverpool to New York for SIS.
An indianapolis shoemaker suicided with
morphine Friday night.
The stockholders of the st. Louis and
Iron Mountain road have voted to cOnsOli-
date with the Cairo and Fulton. The
stockholders of the latter company will
meet in Little Rock tomorrow to ratify or
reject.
Base ball has broken ont in several Nor
thern cities.
The Publishers Board of Trade at New
York have agreed to withdraw travelling
agents for two years. Now, if the sewing
machine companies would only do likewise,
we might have a rest.
The steamer Farraday is being laden
with the new Atlantic cable and will sail
in about ten days.
A schooner is loading at Chicago with
corn to sail direct TO Cork, Ireland.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
ARKANSAS.
The Democratic State Central
Committee Declare for
Baxter.
Gen. Fagan's Course Denounced
by His Old Comrades.
Attempted Assassination of the
Associated Press Agent.

LITTLE Rock, May 2.-The situation
remains unchanged. The State-house
party received few recruits to-day as did
Gov. Baxter. Both parties also sent of
some men. The Democratic Conservative
State Central Committee publishes an ad-
dress calling on the people to stand by
Gov. Baxter. About fifty of the old COM
rades of Gen. Pagan in the late war, who
has assumed command of the Brooks forces,
publish an address denunciatory of the
Generals course. About twenty-five De-
mocrats publish an address advising the
people to stand by Brooks. Nothing from
Pine Bluff to-day. The State-house party
had dress parade this evening, which at
tracted a considerable crowd Of spectators.
Later.
An attempt was made about dark this
evening by some one supposed TO belong to
the State-house party, to assassinate the
Agent of the Associated Press A shot was
fired from the outside, by some person con-
cealed in lumber pile, into the window
where the Agent was supposed to be sit
ting. The Agent had just left his desk and
had turned the light partially down. The
ball passed through the window scattering
the glass over his desk.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03

The railroad war in Wisconsin
promises a diversion for such sensa.
tioualists as have dreaded a dearth of
news when the deluge subsidies and
Arkansas comes to know her own Gov
ernOr. The State authorities of Wis
consin seem determined to enforce the
new railroad legislation, while the
two most powerful companies in
the field seem equally determined to
disregard it. Here is an issue as clear
ly defined as that between Brooks and
Baxter, but it promises to be fought
out on legal lines. Already two big
guns of the East, Judge Curtis, of
Boston, and Wm NJ. Evarts, of New
York, have been placed in training.
This use of Eastern attorneys may pre-
judice the case of the roads before the
peoples but they seem resolved to en-
ploy the best talent of the country,
whatever it may cost.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
CRIMINAL.
An Atrocious AutO-da-Fe.
A Boy of Fifteen Roasted to a
Crisp.
Branded with n Hot Iron, Immersed
i'm Turpenffne and Set Ablaze.

branded with n Hot Iron, Immersed
in Turpenffne and Set Ablaze.
BALTIMORE, May "A statement is
published this moIning of shocking out
rage perpetrated by two negroes on James
Henry Woodley, colored, aged IS, IN How
ard county, on the 18th Of April. The boy
charges that the men SCARED and branded
his limbs with a red-hot iron, and after
wards poured spirits of turpentine over his
naked body aud set him on fire. In this
condition be escaped and succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the flames. WoOdley is at the
Lombard street Infrmary. His back and
legs are roasted to a crisp. His recovery is
doubtful. II is reported the persons who
committed the outrage have been arrested.
Murdered with n MalIef-
ST. LOUIS, MAY 2.-The Democrats
Carrollton, ILL.,, special says: John Hal
Dirt, one of our oldest citizens, residing five
miles west Of here, was found dead in his
bed Yesterday, Friday, morning with his
head terribly mashed with a mallet, which
still Law in the room. There is no clue to
the murderer. Owing to domestic troubles
Halbirt had lived seperate from his fam ly
for several years past.
A QuadranguIar DueiIO-Tbree Killed
The intelligence from India" eEritory
is that Wednesday night last { VT IN n en-
route for Texas, while in camp igh miles
from Mvskogee, got drunk, qua ied about
the ownership of some horses use jointly
by them, and one party was killed outright,
two mOrtally wounded and the fourth bad
ly hurt. The parties are all from North
west Missouri, but their names are not
known.
The Pittsburgh HOrrOr-MOBey the
Motive.
PITTSBURGH, May 2.-The murderer Of
the Hamnet family was arrested last night
in Allegheny City. giving his name as Earn
est Mintzing. He made a full confession
TO-DAY and said he murdered them with an
axe, the object being 20 obtain possession OF
Hamnet's money. suppOsing a considerable
sum was in the house.
WoItz's JaiIer Recovering.
HUDsoN, y. Y, May 2.-Charles Ernst,
the officer whom Woltz the day before his
execution was thought to have mur-
dered, has recovered sufficiently to be re-
moved 10 his residence. The body of
WOltz was buried on the farm last night,
the only persons in attendance being his
father, mother, sister and laborer. The
brain of WOltz was sent to Albany for ex-
animation.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
UNPLEASANT TRUTHS.
why Southern Immigration schemes
Have FaiIed.

st Louis Republican, MayI.
The defect, the fatal objection to all
Southern immigration propositions, is
the failure to'ofer TO sell homesteads
to the farmers whom they seek to al
lure to that country. There is no
propositions to allow the thrifty farm
er an interest IN the soil. There is too
much intelligence In the world, even
among the working classes, to render
any scheme acceptable which does not
concede to them an equal station with
any and all other classes. The Euro
pean immigrant comes to Amer
lea TO secure a home for himself
and his posterity. If he is expected to
be merely tenant, he viii remain on
the estates of the European aristocrat
rather than become a tenant on the
lands Of an American. Let the South
ern people secure an influx of white
immigration by offering to sell lands In
parcels to suit, to immigrants, on ac-
eommodating terms, and then show the
natural advantages Of the country, and
they viii soon turn a stream of immi-
grafton IN their direction. Afew years
ago a large number of Swedish and
German immigrants were induced to
60 to Mississippi and Alabama. They
had not been long there until they saw
the position they were expected to oc-
cupy. They had not come to Anne
rica to become hirelings. With
good reason they became dissatisfied,
and scarcely waited for the close of the
year to leave the country. Some of
these people came to Missouri, where
they become proprietOrs of small home
steads, and are annually contributing
to the prosperity of the State. They
might have remained IN Mississippi
and be contributing to its prosperity,
had they been properly received.
These may unpleasant truths, but
it is best that they should be told. The
interest of the whole West should be
subserved by the highest possible de-
velopment of all the Southern States.
There must be a disposition to give
immigrants an even start In life, If the
South is ever made to bloom ON account
of the labOrs of adopted citizens.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03

THE trial of Professor Swing, In Chi
cago, is developing some pretty strong
talking in the Churches of that mild
hammered city. DIR. Thomas, OF the
Methodist Church, says the doctrine OF
predestination the Professor is arraign-
ed for rejecting is worse than pagan
ism. Common profanity is piety as
compared to it. The wonder iathat
there is no more intideity in the world
Universahsm and Unitarianism are
golden beside such dirt as Calyinism.
Gerald Massey said nothing a hum
dredth part as bad as that system.
What. 1 ask, is arguing against aper-
sonal devil compared to making the
God of Heaven worse than devil?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE
ORIENT.

Bayard Taylo5's Letter in the New York Tri-
hume.
noticed but one striking change.
This is the astonishing spread OF the
English language within the last
twenty years, resulting both from the
numbers of English and American
travellers who visit the East, and the
use of the language by travellers OF
other nationalities. French, which
until within the last few years was m
dispensable, has been slowly fading
into the background, and Is already
less available than English Tor Italy
and all the Orient | was little sur
prised. In Rome, at being accOsted by a
native bootblack with, ''Shlne up your
boots?" In Naples, every peddler OF
canes, coral, photographs, and shell
fish knows at least enough 70
make a good bargain; but TINS Is moth
ing to What one meets IN Egypt. The
bright-witted boys learn the language
with amazing rapidity, and are so apt
at guessing what they do not literally
understand that the traveller no longer
requires an Interpreter. Atthe base OF
Pompey's Pillar to-day a ragged and
dirty gIrl came out Of fellah hut and
followed us, crying, ''Give me a ha'
penny!" AN the cOachmen and most
of the shopkeepers are familiar with
the words necessary for their business,
and prefer to use them, even after they
see that you are acquainted with italian
or Arabic. The simple, ma ural struc-
ture of the English language undoubt-
edIy contributes also to its extension.
It is already the leading language OF
the world, spoken by ninety millions OF
people double the number of the
French-speaking races and so extend
ing it's eonquests year by year that its
practical value is in advance Of that of
any other tongue.