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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
A NEW FREELOYE COMMUNITY.
Burlington, Vt, Sentinel.


Mr.. Orrin Shipman, a wealthy gentle
man residing in NinooSki, recently came
across an article on community enterprise,
written by Col. John Wilcox, of Wiscon-
sin, and the ideas it contained made so
favorable an impression on Mr.. Shipman's
mind that he wrote Col. Wilcox offering to
donate TO a company of the right kind his
property on ValcOur Island and his home
farm and all its Improvements.
This proposition was favorably received
by Wilcox and others, and re-
suited in an examination OF the
property by a committee, and the publica-
ton of a document by them, setting forth
the plan of a proposed community. The
community is ID be an industrial organiza-
ton for people who wish to come together
and produce subsistence in common, who
will be expected to work for the common
good, and whose sentiments are of what the
propOsers term the progressive, radical Or
der. Absolute social freedom, and that
sovereign right tOeach individual to control
his or her destiny in the sexual relation,
will be fully recognized. The community
is to be divided into eight groups, and each
to be arranged according to the law of as
sOciative attraction. There is to be a pre-
siding officer of each Sex elected annually,
and harmony, peace, and happiness are to
be everywhere promoted. The property
donated by Mr.. Shipman consists of 800
acres oil Valcour Island and his homestead
farm in Winocski, containing 2l0 acres,
altogether valued at 100000. The place
is finely located in the l~Oveliest section of
Vermont, and overlooks Lake Champlain.
Already twenty persons have arrived, and
numerous letters from other parties have
been received asking admission. The men
are described as being both intelligent and
industrious, and the women bright and
handsome.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
FINANCIAL.

Our money market is quiet and I'M
changed, 'while the banks are doing but
little in the way of discounting. Money
on the street is worth one to two per cent.
per month.
Exchange on New York is firm and in
demand. The banks buy at par and sell at
3 per thousand premium.
Gold is lower, closing in New York at
1922. Our dealers pay 1881, while they
hold at 109s. Silver is taken at 102 for
halves and quarters.
Government securities are unchanged.
The 5-20s of 1867 are quoted in New York
at III. They would bring about 1861 in
this market.
Tennessee bonds continue depressed and
are much lower, with sales of the funded
and registered series reported at 80, while
they are offered freely at 81. There are no
transactions in this market.
COmptroller's warrants are very dull with
considerable amounts on the market.
They may be quoted at 80 buying to 90
selling.
There are but few of our local bonds
offering for sale, and as there is no money
seeking indestment they are difficult to
sell. For quotations we refer to those
given by the Nashville Savings Company,
corner Union and College streets.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
TILE DRAINS UsEFUL2

S. J. Wooley, a practical farmer of
Franklin county, Ohio, writes as fol-
lows:
The farm that l now live on was sew
eral years since an unproductive, wet
and agueish place. But after under
draining it with five miles of tile, it
has become a very productive, healthy,
paying, valuable and desirable farm. /
have increased the crop Of corn by the
drains from twenty bushels Of inferi-
or, to eighty bushels of good, sound
corn. And lefore l laid the drains l
could with careful culture produce
from five to ten bushels Of inferior
wheat, but after the tile drain was laid
l have had no trouble in producing
from twenty to forty bushels of supe-
rior wheat. On grass lands, the differ
ence in quantity was not 50 great, but
the quality was superior.
AS to the health Of the farm stock,
it has been greatly improved, nor es-
pecially with sheep. They would die
about as fast as they could be pro-
duced, bat after the tile drains were
laid, the surface of the land has been
kept dry, and no moisture arising, and
sheep have been a paying kind of
stock.
Ny experience with tile drains has
been satisfactory beyond my most san
guine expectations, and l intend to put
at least ten miles more of tile under
ground.
The South contains much land that
needs tile draining; but in Tennessee
we r hardly prepared to make i'm
provements of that character.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
A CHARM AGAINST HANGING.
The Way a Texas Negro was Saved
From m Rope.
Cincinnati Times.

a private letter from a gentleman in
Texas, to his brother in this city, tells The
story-hOw a colOred man was saved from
being hung in San Antonio, in that State:
About a month since a cOlOred man
killed a white man, in a fracas in this
place. The cOlOred man was very much
alarmed, knowing that, should he be
caught, he would be hung to the nearest
tree convenient for the purpose, there be-
ing no hope for a fair trial in this section.
a friend Of his, hearing of his situation,
wen to see him in his hiding place, and
promised for a consideration, (of money, of
cOurse) to give him a powder, which he
should take when he was captured, that
would prevent his being hung or shot. The
poor man, believing it TO be a charm, read
lily paid the sum demanded, and received
the powder, which he waste swallow when
there was no other hope.
The next day the man was discovered in
his hiding place by a crowd of white men,
who were determined TO carry wi the de-
cisiOn Of Judge Lynch, and were about to
hang him to a tree which they had already
selected. The prisoner, with great reluct-
ance, yet having faith in the power of his
powder, was taken TO the tree, and when all
the arrangements were made, he took the
powder from his pocket and swallowed its
contents. The effect was quickly seen, as
he fell dead Immediately.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Wild grapes are abundant in the forests
Of Robertson county.
The Fayetteville Observer states that
there are now in that town, by actual
count, twenty-seven infants under four
months of age.
The Springfield Record says: A species
of measuring worm is doing great mischief
in this county to grass, millet, cabba-e and
late corn. Literally stripping the foliage
leaving nothing but stem and stalk in
many instances.
The MUrfreeSbOrO Monitor saws: Some
kind of worms, resembling very much the
army worm, have attacked various kinds of
vegetation in all parts of this county. They
devour blades of grass, millet and corn,
and in some instances have bored holes into
the cotton bOllS.
The Kingston Independent of the 18th
inst. says: Some fifty or seyenty-five con-
victs from the State penitentiary came up
from Chattanooga on the Emory City last
Saturday, on their way to the railroad,
where, we are informed, Messrs. Cherry,
OCOnner IL Co. have taken quite an eX-
tensiye contract. Some two or three hun
dred more are expected this week. The
party which arrived on Saturday were
mostly all cOlOred men.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
ARMY WORMS AND POULTRY.

In some parts Of Davidson county,
army worms are very destructive, par.
ticularly in the neighborhood where the
writer resides. Without these pests, we
should haze plenty Of crab grass and
other fall grazing for stock, but these
worms have eaten some fields almost as
bare as a sand desert. They appear
not to relish blue grass, but prefer
crab grass, Hungarian, clover, oats and
wheat. Turkeys are doing finely on
this abundance Of animal food, the
only trouble being that there are not
turkeys enough to eat a thousandth
part of tht worms.
Refrigerating contrivances are now
so well arranged that we can send
dressed poultry at least six months in
a year very easily to London and Liv-
erpool markets; and if made fat, and
delivered in good order, this variety
Of meat Will pay the producer a hand
some profit. Ducks are very prolific,
harder than turkeys, yield more sale
able feathers, and are great consumers
of worms and bugs. Like geese, they
will make more flesh from grass than
chickens or turkeys. Not many farm
ers have duly studied the facts tina
the sa grass which will form apound
of wool worth thirty cents, will pro-
duce a pound of live geese feathers
worth sixty cents.
An article worth from fifty to eighty
cents a pound in New York and Lon
don, which is not perishable like fruit
and provisions, has great advantages
W corn worth only two cents a pound
in market, and very liable to spoil at
that. Many millions of our species
live so far northward that feather beds
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
SEPTEMBER.

SYRUP, FOR THE CURE or
CONSUMPTION, COUGHS NJ COLDS.
The great virtue of this medicine is that it
ripens the matter and throws it out of the sys-
TEN, purifes the blood, and thus effects a
cure.
sCHENCK's SEA WEED TONIC, FOR THE CURE OF
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, ETC.
The Tonic produces a healthy action of the
stomach, creating an appetite, forming chyle,
and curing the most obstinate cases OF Indiges-
ton.
sCHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS, o HI CURE OF
LIVER COMPLAINT, ETC.
These pills are Alternative, and produce a heal
thy action of the liver without the least dan
ger, as they are free from calOmel, and yet
more eficaciOus in restoring a healthy action Of
the liver.
These remedies are a certain cure for Con-
sumption, as the Pulm0nic Syrup ripens the
matter and purifes the blood. The Mandrake
Pills act upon the liver, create a healthy bile,
and remove all diseases OF the liver, often a
cause of Consumption. The Sea Weed Tonic
gives tone and strength TO the stomach, makes
a good digestion, and enables the organs 10
form good blood; and thus creates a healthy cir
culatiOn of healthy blood. The combined ac-
ton of these medicines, as thus explained, will
cure every case of Consumption, if taken in
time, and the use OF the medicines perSevered
I'm.
DIR. Schenck is professionally at his principal
Office, corner Sixth and Arch sts., Philadelphia,
every Monday, where all letters for advice must
be addressed. Schenck's medicines for sale by
all Druggists.
sep l-deOd6w I'm
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BRIGHAM YOUNG's ONE WIFE.
Salt Lake Tribune.

S@AA A4sAN LAAtAuEs
1t will be remembered that in his now
celebrated "answer" in the Ann Eliza di-
vorce case, Brigham Young made oath that
he had but IN wife-Mary Ann Angel
who was lawfully married to him on the
10th of January, 1884. This venerable
woman, whose relation to the Prophet and
his celestial" concubines has been that of
a drudge and social Outcast for a quarter of
a century, first saw the legal document
recognizing her true position yesterday.
By the kindness of asympathizing sister in
misery, a copy of the Tribune con-
tanning the important confession of
her faithful husband, was placed in her
hands, when, with. tears streaming down
the sad, worn creeks, this sole and only
wife of a cruel tyrant read the instrument
over and over again, until satisfied that at
last the God of righteousness sent his or
selling message. After many long and
weary years of desolation, in which no
love, no sympathy, cheered her life, this
deserted wife finds the law of her country
a friend she never hoped for in the world,
and looking up TO the Giver Of all blessings,
thanked Him that her name was vindicated
among men. Forgiving the immeasur-
able wrongs and h~eartburnings Of her best
years, THIS MOHldil- true W NOHldh ; idtuIt'
kissed the words which declared her the
wife of her own husband, and wept with
joy on finding that, though deserted, she
was yet entitled TO the highest dignity
which Christianity and Christian c~iviliza-
tion can bestow upon her sex. A scene
| such as this was indeed worthy Of respect
full mention, which we delight in making,
and congratulating Mrs. Young on the
moral triumph which our beneficent laws
have secured to her In her old age.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 17.-COtton steady;
middling upland Sd; middling Orleans
SD. Sales 1900 bales; American 1900
bales: speculation and export 5000 bales.
Total sales yesterday 10000 bales, of
which 5000 bales was sold after the regu-
lar market.
New YORK, Sept. 17.-COttOn-futures
closed barely steady, with sales Of 1880
bales, as follows: 15ka15 21-32c for Sep
tembe delivery; Is 5-16c for October deliv-
ery; 10 5-16a % 11-32c for November de-
livery; Is 13-32a15 6-16c for December
delivery; 10 12-32a15 9-16c for January
delivery; Is 13-16a15 27-32c for February
delivery; 16{a16 slice for March delivery;
10 ~2-I6a15Ic for April delivery; 1870 for
Nav delivery.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. II. Cotton
demand moderate; sales 100 bales; prices Ca
sier; good ordinary to strict good ordinary
14a145c; low middling to strict low mid
ding to strict low middling 14sa15sc; mid
ding to strict middling 15s165c; good
middling 1910; receipts 1857 bales; ex-
ports cOastwise - bales; stock 17,62l
bales; unsold last evening 1000 bales.
MEMPHIS, Sept. II. Cotton steady;
middling 15aG receipts for the past day
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18

REMARKABLE MOVEMENT
CHINA


The violent opposition of the Chinese of
Canton to Christianity has nearly ceased,
1t is said; and many of them have become
earnest supporters and as jealous in good
works as the missionaries themselves. "a
system of free schools is being ~inaugurated
which takes large numbers of scholars
from mission schools. On this account the
London Missionary Society has been com
PEELED to ~relinquish the school they had at
Fatschan. The children preferred the schools
If their own n~eighboThood, taught by men
OF distinction. Hospitals, too. are erected.
at which medicines are dispensed GRATIS.
and the sick receive medical advice with
out charge. The poor find support from a
fund for the purpose, and widows and or
phanS a home. Preachers are being sent
out in imitation of the evangelical mission
aries, who are to preach both through the
city and country adjacent. To these en-
terprises public men of wealth are contrib
uting their thousands.
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are regarded as articles absolutely es-
IN - ,o-,f,-A

are regarded as articles absolutely es-
sential TO health and comfort.
The systematic transmutation of
Tennessee grass into the feathers of
geese and ducks, instead of
chinch bugs and army worms,
is the suggestion we make.
Let every reader bear in mind this fact,
that not an atom of the food eaten by
a goose is annihilated. If the manure
from the system has less value as a fer
tilizer it is because the food consumed
is weaker than that eaten by dunghill
fowls; and, also, because more of the
nutriment In the foods extracted to
form flesh and feathers. In a word,
the too often despised goose is an ami
NAL made by Infinite Wisdom with
wonderful economy of adaptation.
Where land and water are cheap it is a
living machine which may be run at a
large profit.
1t is an instructive fact that geese
have run on the hamlet commons of
England from ten to twenty centuries,
and these commons have not been in
tested by army worms, ehinch bugs,
nor others, like our long inclosed
grounds. The annual burning of the
prairies by the Indians and early white
settlers, kept down grasshoppers, bugs
and worms, and supplied fresh feed for
vast herds of buffalo, deer, elk and
other ruminants.
Our standardization is making
sad mistakes. Brother farmers,
we must burn more trash of
all kinds, and with it the eggs
and grubs of many insects. Vitality
is developed in a wrong direction; and
a reform cannot be achieved by one or
two farmers without the cooperation
ofthe whole. Ifourneighbor, ~bycareless-
ness orstupidity, raises five or ten acres
Of Hessian flies, the wheat nudge, or
of the seeds of thistles and sedge, how
shall we fence against the children of
his folly, which fly through the air
like evil spirits? Enemies with wings,
and many lighter than air, have to be
dealt with and exterminated.
Profound science, earnest and extend-
ed association of effort can alone pro-
tect human society from the invasion
of life in its most multiplying, ten
acious and microscopic forms. Cities
end it necessary to protect their inhab-
itants from the multiplication of the
seeds Of pestilence. These seeds,
though quite invisible through common
magnifying glasses, have vitality, the
same as those that cause smut in the
germs of wheat grains. Such wheat is
diseased; and the malady lisa type Of
three-fourths of the diseases which at
tack both plants and animals.
1t is simply a never-ending battle
for life. Mosquitoes want human blood
to enjoy the luxury of organizing eggs,
and producing myriads of the same
musical creatures In 100 years from
the time this article appears in the
UNION AND AMERICAN there will be
no mosquit pes in Nashville, unless the
people prohibit the cultivation of COM
mon sense. These insects do not lay
their eggs in running water to go they
know not where; and all standing water
is subject to human control. We raise
army worms, curculios, chinch bugs
and other pests by the million, and it
is an improbable business.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
In Chamcerv at .NGshUtlIe.

CTATE OF TENNESSEE, OFFICE CLERK
- and Master Chancery Court, Nashville,
September the Sd, 1S74-H. 3. French, Com
Plainant, VS.. Marshall NJ. Smith ct al, Defend-
ant.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this cause
that the defendant, Marshall NJ. Smith, Is a
nonresident of the State of Tennessee, and
and il further appearing that an attachment has
issued in this case, and has been returned leyied
land in Davidson county, Tenn, lying on the
east side Of the NOlensville turnpike road, be-
ginning at a point in the centre Of the said
turnpike road at the point Of its intersection
with the Mil Greek road; thence along the cen
tire OF the latter road north S. deg. east - poles
70 a stone; thence north deg. west X poles TO
a stone in the original north boundary Of the old
Ridley tract; thence north 81 deg. east %
poles to a stone, being the northwest corner OF
Fuller's tract; thence south with the west
boundary Of the same lgH poles 10 a stone, be-
ing Joseph p. Woods corner; thence west with
said Woods line 50 poles 70 a point in the centre
Of the said NOlensville turnpike road; thence
along the centre Of the same north % deg. west
1912 poles to the beginning, containing 6K
acres OF land: IL Is therefore ordered that said
defendant enter his appearance herein on or
before the third Monday Of the next term
of said Court, to be held on the first Monday in
October next, GS74,) and plead, answer, or de-
muir to cOmplamants' bill, or the same viii be
hearing eX parte, and that a copy Of this order
be published for four consecutive weeks IN the
Nashville Union and American.
a COpy-Attest.
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR.,
Clerk and Master.
NJ. NJ. Brien, Sen, Solicitor for Complainant
sept oawiw
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
COTTON AND WHITE LABOR.

The Jackson Wing and Tribune re-
marks that even men like ex-President
Davis help to give currency to the
delusive idea that the white people of
the Mississippi Valley are almost
wholly dependent upon the blacks, and
that without them this great alluvial
region could not be cultivated. 1t
afirms that the cotton crop is now
mainly made by white labor, and pre-
diets that the Mississippi Valley, from
the Gulf to the Lake of the Woods,
will eventually be the home of hun
dreds of millions of white men who
will perform all the labor, and make it
the most prosperous portion of the
earth. At New Br4unfels, In Texas,
Germans have been raising cotton and
sugar-cane very successfully yer
twenty years, and have demonstrated
the capacity of Europeans for
field labor where our staples grow.
The colored man has lost beyond recov-
cry his value as a productive element
in the markets of the civilized world.
Hereafter he must compete with three
hundred millions of white people in
Europe, annexed by steam to this coun-
try. They will do all that he does, and
do it much better. EVENT. the negro
had the same Intellectual culture and
capacity as English, Irish, Scotch and
Germans, the power of numbers is
overwhelmingly against him. This is a
battle for dear life, with Providence as
leader. What Providence has done for
the two races-in Europe and Africa
it viii do substantially again for
them in America.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18

THE Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, while in
London, went to hear Mr.. ~Spurgeon, and
writes as follows Of the great preacher: "He
just plants that broad, fiat figure Of his be-
fore the crowded thousands, and opens his
hOmely mouth, and a ceaselesS stream of
racy English, pure gospel truth, and tren-
chant appeal to the conscience, pOurs out
as steadily as water from CrOton
Reservoir. His notes would not cover
more than the back Of an or
binary envelope. He never pTecom-
poses one sentence. But he has the whole
Bible on the end of his tongue. and uses it
with rare discretion and point. .
His versatility is wonderful. He superin-
tends a church Of five thousand members,
a theological school, an O~rphanage and sew
eral other Institutions, edits a newspaper,
breaches three sermons a week, writes
books of Biblical commentary, publishes
his own almanac, and has made the Book
of Fifty Hymns"
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GROCERIES.


Saskatchewan 1I5a12e; standard
hards I2!I; A coffee 113c; b do. lie; extra
@ do. lie; yellow G 1OG10ic.
MoLAssEs-New Orleans 6S675c; sirups
55d65c; golden strip 65dT5c.
COFFEE-RiO, common to choice, 2l16
23!e; Laguayra 23Id24c; Java 29i6303c.
CHEESE-Factory, 16c.
NAIL-10ds, per keg, $500 and 25e adj
ditional for diminishing grades.
SALT bushel barrels, in store, SIPS;
by car load in depot, S2.35.
CANDLEs-Star 17lc % b.
FIsH-Half barrels, Nos. L. and 8 $3.50,
800 and $500; in kits, Nos. l, 2, and 3,
$500, S1.75 and $3.50.
RICE-ChOice new by the barrel, 94e.
TEA-Imperial 75cdS1.25; Young Hy-
son 75cGS1.25; Black 50c6s1.O 90; Gunpow-
der 75cGS1.25.
PowDER-Dupont $7.25; Sycamore Mills
$T.25; blasting $500; fuse per 100 feet 65c.
SHoT-Pstent S2.1O; Buck s2.35.
LIoUoRs-CommOn rectifed whisky %
gallon 9Ocd$1.00; Robertson County $1.75
$500; Bourbon $1.2565.5O; Lincoln
County S1.7563.O0; Highwines $1.OO.
BRooMs-Per doz. at $2.0O63.5O.
SoAP-Common to fancy, 5GSc ~ d, or
$3.25H4.50 ~ box.
BLACKING-Mason's large, per dozen,
zoe; small, S5c.
CANDRs+Common stick, lac; common
fancy 15c.
PEPPER-Per h., 274c.
SPICE-per h., 16c.
GINGER-Per h., 16c.
CLOvEs-Per h., 60d70c.
STARCH-Per b., 55c.
SODA-Per H., DC.
PECANs-Per h., 1O4612ae.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-18

The Nashville Savings COmpanyfurnishes
us the following quotations showing the
prices and movement Of cotton at New
York and Liverpool throughout the day:
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Sept. II, 1925 A. Motion
Ordinary 1890; good ordinary 14Ec; strict
good ordinary 15sc; low middling 155c;
middling 1870; Alabama 1870; Orleans 17b.
Market quiet and nOminally unchanged.
NEW YORK, Sept. II, 1925 A. M.-Cotton
Futures quiet and steady. September
delivery 15s615 11-16c; October Isl Gals Z
16c; November 15sd15 7-16c; December
15ad15 9-16c.
NEw YORK, Sept. II, 11:15 \. M.-CottOn
Futures quiet and steady. Septemberde-
livery 15s615 11-16c; October 15S615 /
16c; November 15Sd15 7-16e; December
153615 9-I6c; January 10 11-166l5sc;
February Is 15-15616c; March 1910; April
16 9-16116Sc; May 162616 15-16ci June
17d17sc. Sales 400 bales.
New YORK, Sept. II, 12:1O P. M-Cot-
ton-Futures dull. September delivery
15fd15 11-16c; October 5 sails 7-16c; No