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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-28
Not So Rad as Thai.

Mr.. L. i. Waters, of Meanwhile, has
recently returned from Texas, and states
that he conversed while at Dallas with a
lawyer who was thoroughly informed as to
the circumstances under which young
Charles Gentry, formerly of this county,
killed MiSSOurian named Shire, several
weeks ago. Though unfriendly TO Gentry,
the lawyer insisted that a quarrel about
some whisky which the two men had in
the stage led to the killing, and
that everything on Shire's body, including
his money, was left untouched. This, with
the cofrmatOry statement Of two Dallas
merchants who rode up very few mo-
ments after the tragedy, would seem to
clear vcHng Gentry Of the suspicion of
having added robbery to murder. 1t is eX-
pected that detailed and correct account
of the affair will be received here this week.
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY.
The Laying of the Cornerstone To-
day-Wh0 will Take Part i'm the
Ceremonies and What VIII be Done
a sfomentOus Event for Nashville.

Ceremonies and What VIII be Done
A FomentOus Event for Nashville
If the weather to-day should be at all
favorable, the cereiiiOnies attending the
LAYING of the cornerstone Of the Wander
bilt University will be witnessed by thou
sands of people.
The following programme will be OBJ
served:
l. Music by the Band.
2. Anthem by the Choir-"The earth is
the LOrd's.'
3. Prayer.
4. Music by the Band.
). Address by Bishop Met eire, setting
forth the history Of the enterprise.
q. Address by His Exeellency John Z.
Brown, Governor of Tennessee.
Z. Music by the Band.
S. LAYING OF the Stone by Bishop Paine.
8. Depositing of Documents by the Sec
Rotary, DIR. Young.
10. Original Ode by the Choir, sour
Vanderbilt" music composed for the oc-
easion by Prot. Mcintosh.
II. Address by Bishop DOggeit.
l.. Original Hymn by the Choif; ''Ihe
Foundation"
The members of the various chOirS, with
the exception of that of Elm Street Church,
win assemble at McKendree church at ?
O'Clock, sharp, this afternoon, and viii be
conveyed to the grounds by street cirs.
Ample provision for the public has been
made by Mr. Caldwell, President Of the
Broad Street Railway Company, and all
the cars necessary will be placed upon the
line.
Bishop Wightman, who assists in the GER
srnonies this afternoon, will deliver an adj
dress at McKendree church this evening.
Quite a number of prominent Methodist
ministers and laymen from various sections
of Tennessee and from other States are here
to witness the great event. Bishops Paine
and Doggett have also arrived.
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THE COURTS.

PRoBATE COURT-The will of Hagar
Robertson, decd. was admitted to probate.
Isabella Dillehay was appointed and
qualified administrator Of the estate OF B.
F. Dillehay, decd.
VIM. Carter, a eOlOred orphan, was APP
prenticed to Stephen johnson.
\ decree was entered in the case, of Har-
din ct al VS.. Hardin andOthers.
In the case Of Joseph Legler and wife vs..
| Charles BarkhOrn ct al, the original bill
for a division of land was fled.
CIRCUIT COURT.-JonesbOro Valley
Branch and Blair's Gap Turnpike Company
VS.. John C.. Brown, Governor; Judgment
for defendant. An appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court.
State of Tennessee ex rel, VS.. John @.
Ferris, Judge, etc; judgment for plaintiff
John Iurnsden vs.. Tennessee and Pa
cific Railroad Company; motion to set aside
| decree continued until next term.
Thos Joplin VS.. Melville Williams; APP
peal TO the Supreme Court.
In the matter of guardianship of Mary ,.
and Richard A. Moore, minors, permission
was granted the father TO retain the chill
dren.
j. b. Romans VS.. Cornelius & Weber;
order for vend. eX.
The mandamus suit against Mayor Ker-
cheval. in relation to the fire alarm teie-
graph, was continued.
CHANCERY COURT-Judge McHenry
presiding. Aaron Steuth VS.. Ann Gowdy,
confirmation of report of Clerk and Master.
J. W. Wilson ct al vs.. j. +. PitInan, adj
minStrator, bill dismissed as tOthe deienG-
ant.
W.R. Cornelius vs.. Mary Z. Lincoln ct
al, decree against plaintiff.
j. W. McAllister, surviving partner, vs.
Gen. W. Foster ct al, repleyin made to
Clerk and Master.
P. o. Harris vs.. Lucy E. Harris, same
order.
NJ. Burns VS.. j. Z. Newman ct al, and
Stephen y. Jones VS.. J. (. Newman ct al,
confirmation orders revived.
p. Henning Il Co. VS.. y. and \. W. X.
r. Co. ct al, bill dismissed at the cost OF
the plaintiff.
a. G.. Merritt, administrator, VS.. r. c..
| McNairy ct al, report recommitted to CLERK
and Master.
John FrizelI, executor, VS.. &. L. Fuller
ct al, report of Clerk and Master confirmed.
III. Clay Brooks vs.. Lizzie Brooks ct al,
appointed guardian ad litum.
The docket will be called to-day, COM
mencing at case No. 551.
FEDERAL. CoURT.-United States vs.. w.
| S. Evans, dismissed on payment of costs.
United States vs.. w. ). Evans, illicit dis
| tilling; verdict, not guilty.
United States vs.. McKissaek and Nc
Grew, rescuing a prisoner; verdict, guilty
| and motion for a new trial.
United States vs.. W. A. Chapman, re-
sisting an officer, continued.
United States vs.. VIM. Lawson, illicit
distilling; verdict, guilty.
United States vs.. W. G. Clense, Illicit
distilling, forfeiture.
United States vs.. Sims x Green, illicit
distilling; verdict, not guilty.
United States vs.. Hiram Martin, Illicit
distiIling; verdict, not guilty.
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Water, water, everywhere,
And NOT q drOD 10 drink"

as they were cut off from the GAINESVILLE sa-
looms. The co-operativeste steam saw-millhad
turned into a water-power institutional
least therewas apower ofwateraroundit 1t. The
waTehousemen were, in one or two cases, re-
moving their tobacco from their cellars,
while a considerable portion of the popula-
ton were, OH account of dearth of BUSH
ness, catching drift-wOod; the editors of the
Chronicle and Tobacco Leaf were viewing
with opera-glasses, from their windows and
back porches, the mighty waves with as
much earnestness as though they hoped to
discern beyond the broad expanse Of water
one or more delinquent subscribers; knots
of people were congregated upon the porch
at nv polite friend SCOTS Hotel, discussing
in an excited manner the probable height
of previous floods and a prospect for still
higher one. Little boys were crying
"Whew! what big river;;n middle-agetl
men remarking "quite food" while mat
rons, old enough to know, were mourning
greatly the loss of poultry and cattle, with a
regret that the indications p7ognOsticated
panic i'm the milk and butter market.
GAINESVILLE is great place. The people
are sociable and cultivated and the business
portion live, wide-awake men. It's claims
are urged for the location of the South
western University and it probably posses
ses more advantages in point of health,
morals and culture. than all the other
named places combined. Its facilities for
manufacturing are hardly equaled, and the
wealth of the community and county, tc-
gether with its excellent suburban sur
roundings, compel me to declare most en-
phatically that should | ever leave old
Nashville will settle amid the hospitable,
genial, whole-souled people of GAINESVILLE.
BILL SNYDER.
On THE HILL, April %, 1S74.-P. 81
forgot to say that about $50 (more or less)
negro converts, are awaiting the subsiding
of the food at GAINESVILLE, to go through
the form of immersion.
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RcrsOnaI.

Rev. Andrew Hunter, of Arkansas, is in
the city en- route for the Methodist General
Conference at Louisville.
w. j. Hagler, Circuit Court clerk OF
Stewart county, was in the city yesterday.
William Finn, formerly a prominent
business man of this city, is spending afew
DAYS among his Nashville friends.
Robt. b. Ford and J. III. Walker, of the
Chicago Commercial AdCertiSer, are in
the city for the purpose of working up the
project of establishing new lines of CON-
municatiOn between the South and West.
Mr.. Ford will address the Nashville Board
of Trade on this subject.
Mr.. Shrect, lately connected with the
signal service and stationed in Nashville,
was lying at the point of death in a Phila-
delphia hospital, not long since.
Sam. w. Small, formerly connected with
the Banner, of this city, and also with the
GreeneUdle Sentinel and Reporter, has
started a new weekly paper called the Star.
at Houston, Texas.
II. V. Redfeld, southern correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, is here with
a view to watching the political situation
i'm general and the colOred convention
which assemblies to-day i'll particular.
J. d. Spencer, F. ClatwOTthy, J. :.
Brownbridge, w. J. Carlow, r. TObin, J.
B. Seward, S. V. Dorrien and NJ. ID. Stain
back, New York; Charles Goodwin, Balti-
more; Col. G.. I. Theobold, Louisville;
Chas. E. foley, Cincinnati; Horace S.
Cooper, Miss Sallie Cooper, Shelbyville;
Fl. Victor Redfield, of the Cincinnati Com
mercidI; W. StiIwell, Philadelphia, and
Jno. b. Atkinson, Darlington, Ky, were
among the arrivals at the Maxwell yester
day. OIL
:. C.. is in the city en- route for Louisville
and will attend the laying OF the corner
stone of the Vanderbilt University.
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..,,ef for the Louisiana sunerers.

The suggestions contained in the follow
inc communication win doubtless be heart
ily endorsed by every reader of this paper:
To the Editor of the Union and American:
NASHVILLE, April u, 1S74.-I noticed
a suggestion i'm the city press "a few days
AGO that the citizens Of Nashville should
follow the noble example of other cities in
contributing to the needy people of the in
undated portions of Louisiana | have
I'een anxiously awaiting a move in the
matter. Nashville has always proved her
self ready and willing to contribute to char
table purposes. Certainly none can be
more deserving than this, and our people
will respond TO an appeal if made to them.
What say our merchants TO a meeting on
THURSDAY to make such arrangements as
are necessary.
A FoRAIER CITIZEN OF LOUISIANA. =
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A Groundless charge Withdrawn.

Board of Police COmmissioners-Gen
men: In addressing you this note do so
with much pleasure, for in it wish to show
You wherein have grievCusly wronged Mr..
Samuel Plummer, an eX-policeman.
From facts in my possession, now feel
confident that was mistaken in the identi-
tn of Mr.. Piummer, and acknowledge that
| have charged him with acts he never did,
and some else, | have since found out,
wronged me, and not Mr.. Plummer, as /
stated before your Board. make this
candid statement and acknowledgment Of
error in the hope that it will in some way
palliate the wrong have done Mr.. Plum
mer, for have unknowingly placed him in
a false light.
hope you will overlook my mistake and
again place Mr.. Plummer in the same posi-
tion of trust he has SO faithfully filled here
tofOre.
BY so doing you will in some measure
make me feel that have not been the in
st unent If throwing him ont of a posi-
ton. Very respectfully, A. J. HALL.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April %, 1874.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-28
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

ANIMAL Meeting OF st. Joseph.s Total
Abstinence soeiets-EIectioz OF Of
ficers-Programme for Tomorrow
Night.
On Sunday last, the third after Faster,
aud the feast of the Patronage Of St. Jo-
seph. the members of st. JOseph's Total
Abstinence Society held their sixth annual
meeting. large number of members being
present. At halfpsst ? o'clock, President
Cleary called the meeting to order, and
after the TRANSACTION Of the usual routine
business, the election came of, with the
following result:
President-P. Cleary.
First Vice President-James j. Mo
LaughliIi.
Second Vice Observation-Disclosures Shea.
Secretary-J. E. Wrenne.
Financial Secrctary-Peter McGOvern.
Treasurer-Iohn Broderick.
Iibrarian-Thos. Murphy.
Master of CeremOnies-Micheal Moran.
Trlstees-Martin KerTigan, L. Z. Jones,
Jerry Buckley.
The reading of the ANNUAL reports was
Laid 6ver until Tomorrow night at balf-past
7 O'Clock, at which hour the proceedings
will be continued, according to the follow
ing interesting programme:
The members u the Society will assem-
BILE in ST. Mary'S school building q : .: ".
promptly, and after clothing themselves in
their reSalia, and forming in lie, the So
ciety Baud lin full uniformly will lead the
procession through Vine to Cedar street,
and thence to the basement Of the Caths-
dfal, wheFe seats will be prepared for them.
selves and several hundred of their rela'
tives and friends. After music by the
band. the President will call to order al
halEpast I, and The officers win reaf
their annual reports, when the band viii
again discourse sweet music, appropriate
for the occasion. This will be followed by
an address by Rt. Rev. p. A. Feehan, who
is an ardent advocate Of the temperance
cause, and to whose fostering care is due
inuch OF the success Of st. Joseph's Society
and Band. Several clergymen will be pres
ent and address the meeting, among whom
the venerable Father JarbOe, the pioneer OF
the temperance cause in Kentucky half a
| century ago.
Altogether this is expected TO be rare
| literary and musical treat, and one Of great
interest to the community. al are invited
to be present, and we hope to see the ball
crowded, especially as this will be feast
of reason which can be enjoyed without
money and without price.
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Lease of the KnoSxiIIe ard Charles
ton Railroad.

Messrs. Thomas Richie and Allan Hay,
of New York City, and VI. G.. Edison, Of
Montreal, Canada, yesterday completed the
negotiations for the lease of the Knoxville
and Charleston railroad. The road was
leased from the State by these gentlemen
for two years at 81 ,0JJ per snnun, with The
privilege of purchasing the road for SlOO, 900
at any time within the two years. The
State reserves the privilege Of selling the
road TO any other party at the same price,
with a thirty DAYS option To the lessees to
make final purchase at this pfice. The
leSsees leave the city this morning and ex-
pect to take possession on the 1st of June.
II is the policy of the new management of
this road to connect with the Macon and
Cincinnati railroad, which will then be the
shortest line between the latter city and the
Southern seabeard.
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GehnOI HIafiRre

The Comptroller has sent nearly all of
the school warrants 10 the various County
Trustees throughout the State. The COun-
ty Court of Sequatchie county has decided
to submit the question of levying an addi-
tional tax for school purposes to the people,
at the August election. There are three
warrants in the hands of the Comptroller
to he issued TO the County Trustee of
Lewis county, as soon as that gentleman'S
name can be learned and his bond filed.
One of these warrants has been in the
COmptroller's Office since the 18th of OctO-
Der last.
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Death of Col. w. B. A. Ramsey.

The citizens of Nashville and Edgefeld
were deeply panied to hear of the death of
Col. w. B. \. Ramsey,a resident of the lat
ter place, who died about 10 o'clock yester-
day morning. Col. Ramsey was born in
East Tennessee, and was in his 10Th year.
He served four years as Secretary Of State
while Hon. NELL S. Brown was Governor,
and made hosts of friends in that capacity.
He was also editor of the KnOrUilIe Regis
ter for four or five years, and perhaps long
eT, and was connected with that journal
during the time of the celebrated Jackson
White campaign. For several years he
was Secretary and Treasurer of the Edge
field and Kentucky Railroad, and made an
efficient officer. Col. Ramsey was broth
er of DIR. j. O.. NJ. Ramsey, the historian OF
Tennessee, who now resides in Knoxville.
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Cassimeres, cheapest, at Hogan Bros.
ap26 81
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New Advertisements.

Attention is directed to the card of
..friel.- the celebrated work on the Negro.
He has recently been engaged in the prep
aration of a work ON the White Man;
but, by constant study has lost his eye
sight. He has not been able TO read or
write since last October, and he now de-
sires advances of means of employ a He
brew scholar to act as his amanuensis, in
preparing the work for the press and for its
publication. to be repaid by copies of the
book at half the publication price.
4 BLESSING IN THE FAMILY.-We have
no scITIples of conscience in using this
heading when we wish TO speak of Dooley's
Yeast Powder, for it is a preparation that
is Just what it pretends to be. If bread,
biscuits.Folls. and the like be a necessity,
then whatever tends to make them palata-
Ihe and healthy is a desideratum, or, more
properly. a necessity. Many of the con-
irivances for making such articles
rise light" will do it at the eX-
pense Of the stomach of the eater,
because the ingredients of which
they are composed are deleteriOus;
but such is not the case with the Yeast
Powder of the DOOley Brothers. Not an
impure substance enters into its compost
ton, and adds, in fact, to the healthful-
ness of the food prepared with it. An
other merit il has, not shared by any other,
and that is durability. Heat, cold, rough
transportation, nor lapse of time have any
effect on its vitality. And last, not least,
the high standing of the DOoley Brothers
for honesty and integrity prevents any
question as to the real merit Of anything
that they may offer TO the publicfOr its use.
Their advertisement more fully sets forth
The excellences of their powders, and to il
we refer.
Winstead, Shields & Co. sell to the trade
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night,
in connection with their days sale.
The Queens Lake Ice Co. is now pre-
pared to furnish ice to consumers and the
trade on reasonable terms.
The Water of Life, for sale by Duck
worth & Co.. is guaranteed a sure cure for
dyspepsia.
Hats and bonnets done up in the latest
style at the. steam bleacheTy, corner Of
Church and Cherry streets.
Plain and satin striped black grenadines,
printed piques. and Turner'S alpacas, in
great variety. at Thompson Bro. x Kelly'S.
4 position as corresponding clerk IS
wanted.
E.A. Cloyd, IS Sycamore street, adver-
Uses for a lost mule.
r. W. Brown has money TO loan.
John L. Glenn. Water Tax Collector,
saws the water tax must he paid by May l..
Arlington, FarTar Il Weakley offer lots
in the east addition to Edgefeld at prices
which cannot fail to prove satisfactory.
See advertisement of Dooley's Yeast
Powder.
Desirable property for sale at Supreme
Court and Sherifi7s sale.
The ball of the Nashville butchers comes
off at WeitmuellerS Garden Tonight.
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DRY GOODS

Ever offered in the city of Nashvillei and, on
Monday morning, the Grand Portals will open,
it'll the wild freshness of morning, and expose
to view the endless stock Of Dry Goods, No
tons, etc, etc Below we give a small account
of the many Goods to which we now call your
especial attention and impartial examination:
CalieOes, best brands, &c.; Percales,
CretOns; French and English CalieOeS
from 16 2-3 up; CasSimereS for men and
boys wear; Linens, Damasks, Towels,
Crashes, Linen SheetingS and Pillow
Castings, DOmestieS, Sheetings, Mar
settles Quilts, Piques, Lawns, etc., HO-
siery, Laces, Embroideries, Underwear,
Linen Handkerchief, Ruches, Neck
ties, Kid Gloves, ParasOls, Fans, sOme-
thing new; Dress Goods, npaeas, Bonn
bazines, special lines Of Mourning
Goods, Tamaise, Canton and Striped
Grape Cloths; Silks, all new shades;
Summer Silks, Satins, new Silk Pop
Inns, Lace Yeilings, Spanish Laces and
Capes; Ready made Suits in great va
riety and at lowest prices.
An of the above viii be sold at unheard of
low prices Judgment and experience com
bined, and firm decision to give you goods at
the smallest minimum profits.
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The Coming concerts.

One way to secure an equable distribu-
ton of the currency is for our people to
keep at home all they get hold of. This
can be done by patronizing home talent.
In Henry Farmer and his troupe, who pro-
pose giving us concerts next Thursday and
Friday evenings, We are offered an oppor-
tunity for patronizing home talent of very
high order, and however our readers may
differ about imitation of greenbacks or Ma
tional Bank notes, we venture nothing in
saying they will be all equally pleased with
the notes issued by the solvent Farmer.
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The Rock City Shooting Club held their
first match yesterday afternoon on the COM
mon between the cotton factory and St.
Cecelia's academy. Much interest was
manifested and the shooting of Watkins
and Kirkman was good. Mr.. Watkins won
the first match, and the second resulted in
a tie between Mitchell and Meadors, which
will be concluded on the 10th. of next
month at the same place.
Messrs. Kirkman and Watkins were
elected delegates to represent the club at
the spOrtsmen convention, tc be held at
Memphis on the 1st prox.
On the 10th of next month a grand
match will be held under the auspices OF
the club.
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The new Cumberland Presbyterian
Church will soon have a pipe organ not
equaled in the South. 1t is TO contain AL
the modern improvements, and the seieI-
ton of stops are said to be most excellent.
The testing of the instrument will be a
grand musical occasion, and will probably
take place in the latter part of May. The
Music Committee, with Mrs. VESSEL and
Prof. Zoeller, are to arrange the programme,
in which RoSSini's 'EStabat Mater" win be
performed by nearly forty Of our best anna
teUrs
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Table Linens, cheapest at Hogan Bros.
anT6 -
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Dedication of a New Church.

Arlington Chapel, five miles out from
the city, on the MurfreesborO pike, was
dedicated last Sunday with appropriate
ceremonies, the church being well filled.
The dedication sermon was preached by
Bishop Wightman, assisted by Bishop Nc
Tyeire. The latter addressed the Sunday
school in the afternoon, and stated that ar
rangements would be made at once to in
sure religious services at the church every
Sunday.
The neighborhood is made up of Presby-
terians, EpiscOpalians, Christians, Baptists,
and MethOdists all of whom have joined in
building this handsome church.
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lee! Ice! Ice!-The Queens Lake Ice
Co. is now prepared to furnish Ice to con-
sumers and the trade generally at reason
able rates, and viii guarantee to their pa
irons a full supply for the entire season.
Orders by mail solicited and promptly at
tended to. Office, No. 81 corner Bank and
Printers alleys. Storage house, No. p
Criddle street, near L. * y. r. r. Dept.
Geo. a. Bailey, Sup't; c. II. Ryman, As't.
ANS I'm
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Not Sentenced Vet.

The sentence to be passed upon Joe
Blackburn by Judge Trigg is still pending,
and the exact time at which it will be rem
dered is not definitely known.
Judge Shackleford, Blackburn's attorney,
telegraphed 10 the Attorney General Of the
United States asking that the sentence be
postponed few days in order to give Black
burns friends time to make additional eff
forts to secure his pardon, and the Attorney
General granted the request. In fact, if
Joe's politics had not happened to be fash
ionable at Washington he would have been
sporting the zebra regimentals ere this.