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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
NEW YORK..
A Model Radical Official.


New YORK. March 1.-THE trial of
Charles Calender, ex-Bank Examiner, ac-
cused of taking bride of $4,000 to make
a false return of the affairs Of the Ocean
National Bank, is adjourned till Monday
next.
An Outrageous Jury.
The jury in the Challis libel suit against
Woodruff & Clafiin to-day returned YER
dict of not guilty. Judge Sutherland char
acterized the verdict as one of the most out
rageous he had ever heard.
McCullough's Lead Company has sus-
pended.
The strike of the Knights of St. CriSpin
has ended. Most of the employers who
would not agree to the payment Of regular
wages for merely eight hours work per day,
have compromised by placing the men on
piere work, leaving the question Of time
for labor 20 be settled by themselves.
Insurance and Railroads.
The Board of Fire Underwriters have
adopted resolution in regard to the mis-
cellaneOus storage Of general merchandise
in warehouses, with jute, hemp, flax, and
cotton in bales, hay, straw, and other veg
etable fiberS, making an additional charge
o. HUH ~ " . pei Atl4A-" oAA AtheN1- -
ira rates to be abated on the removal OF the
Objectionable fibres named. \ new stand
ard of rates has been adopted in regard to
provision warehouses.
committee of grain receivers are IN
conference to-day with the freight agents
of railroads, considering whether the pro-
posed inspectors Of grain should be paid by
the grain receivers or by the railroads, and
as to the grade of wheat to be adopted as a
standard. The receivers proposed also thai
the railroads should guarantee the weight
of grain to be the same when delivered a:
when received at points on their lines.
MuGiIafed Mails.
When the German mails, by the steam
ship Mosel were opened at the postOfice, j
was found that at least forty packages, eacf
containing from 200 to 800 letters were IL
a broken and ruinous state, nearly all dam
agel. The letters were enclosed in THU
fiimsey envelopes, and the packages wer
tied up in weak brown paper.
Only Ten Years for Matricide.
Jos. Freeman, tried in the HeHderso
county court for shooting his mother Il
Jersey City, was convicted this evening o
manslaughtev and sentenced to ten years i
the State prison.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
CENTRAL AFRICAN CUSTOM.

AT Masindi Sir Samuel Baker found
about eight thousand men, among whom
could not be seen a single woman. This
was regarded as a bad sign, for whenever
YOU saw plenty of women among the ma
tives you were pretty sure of peace; the alb
sence. of women was a sure sign Of HOSTILE
ty. Accordingly the king, very bad fell
low, behaved most treacherOuSly, killing
some men who had been sent back to Fat
tikO,and sending into the camp jars Of a sort
of native cider, which was poisoned. The
result was that forty of the troops We're
lying on the ground al one time, suffering
aeutely. The next morning the expedition
airy force was attacked by seven or eight
thousand negroes. Bakers men-fOur hun
drod Egyptian trOOps-being well drilled
protected the camp ellectually, and the
fifty Snider rifles with which they were
armed saved the expedition With
their rockets also they set fire to and
destroyed the whole town. Unfortunately
the King escaped. This young man had
distinguished himself by numbering his
family, under these circumstances: Wien
a King dies, his body IS placed in a sort of
huge gridirOn. and then is toasted by fire
kindled beneath. The body then lies in
state anburied, and is the signal for civil
discord. The sons fight until one Of them
is victorious, and he sticks his spear into
the body Of his parent as a
symbol of victory, Then the funeral rites
take placs, corresponding with those re-
corded af The ancient Scythians.
\ large PIT is dug in which some Of the
deceased kings wives are put, and the
corpse is lowered down till i rests on its
knees. Then there is a raid on some
neighbOrinG villages, and the people
caItaEed are brought to the brink OF
the pit, where their aims and legs
are broken, and in this .nutilated cSnGi-
tiOn they are thrown down TO she corpse
beneath. Then the earth b piled upon
them, the people scamp It down upon this
mass OF writing humanity, and the hor-
rid rites arc complete. Such had been the
ceremony Obsersed at Masindi, and the son
who had succeeded to the throne then IN
vited his relations to dinner and caused
them all TO be maSsacred.
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ANTI-ALCOHOL.
when Doctors Differ.

NEW YORK, March 14-In the Mission
airy Societies and Band of Ministers meet
ing, Bishop Jaynes, after reading the reSO-
luton passed at the ministers meeting
Thursday, said there was nothing left to
hope for in this temperance cause but the
conversion Of the liquor [dealersl them
selves. When it had come to pass that min
listers pass resolutions and speak about the
judicious use of liquors it was the only
hope left.
At church temperance meeting yester-
day the resolutions adopted by the Clergy
men the day before were the subject Of crit
icism, and it WIS unanimously declared
that true temperance consists of the moder-
ate use fall good things and total absti-
nence from all bad things. Therefore con-
sistent and intelligent temperance demands
total abstinence from all intoxicating Ii
quors as beverages.
Taking the Census.
WILLIAMSBURG, PA, March 14.-This
morning the ladies stationed themselves al
the doors of the liquor saloons to take the
the names Of those entering. The saloon
keepers are greatly excited and some OF
them have closed.
where Is NeWburg?
NEwBURG, March IA large temper
ance meeting was held in church here last
night when addresses were delivered by
several clergymen and wednesday next ap
pointed as day of special prayer for the
success of the temperance reform.
Michigan Missionaries.
PROFESSIONALLY, March 14.-Fifty cru
saderS were out this afternoon, followed BY
IL l.. Il.
heretofore. IT," police were Son hand il
full force and no disturbance occurred. 4
number of saloons we're visited and all de-
MED them admittance except a. A. Fauts
where they were admitted. Here services
were held nearly two hours. A number OF
fervent and emotional prayers were Offered
that brought tears to many eyes; but with
all the earnest pleading they failed to Sc
cure Faults signature to the pledge. Mis-:
Rouleson, of Michigan, and two other mis-
sionary ladies have arrived to assist in the
work.
A Counfer-Irrltant.
Mrs. Eliza Mordaunt claims that there i:
two sides to every question, and will lee
ture in opposition to crusaders on Monday
night, a. Mozart Hall, in this city.
Anton Keepsie, of the Falls City Hotel
called on Mayor b. c. Pile and asked
there was any process by which he could
prevent crusaders from blocking up tn,
pavement and annoying him. The Mayo
replied that he had no authority to sup
press that kind of assemblages. An appli
cation is expected to be presented to Judge
Bicknell the first Of the week. asking 70
an injunction against the crusaders.
PomerOy Purifying.
| CINCINNATI, March 1.-THE grand
jury at Pomeroy, Ohio, adjourned last even
ing after finding 200 indictments agains
whisky sellers.
Pacific Retailers.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.-The retail
grocers have organized for vigorous OppOsi
tiOn to the women's temperance movement
Evansville.
EVANSVILLE, March 1.-THE ladies
the number of about fifty, met at the Wa
nut Street Church and resolved to hold
mass meeting on Tuesday. The geners
expression was in fIvoT of the enforcement
of the present laws and against beleaguel
ing saloons.
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Locomotive ON ISc RamPage.

ALTOONA. Pa, March Ian engine
standing in the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's yards got started To-Day some
Iy,v and ran through the round house,
across an open space and into the large ma
chine shop in which over 500 men were az al
work, One man was killed and another
sounded. The engine smaS adeyerything
in its course.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
CONGR ES SIGNAL.
HOISE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-The session of
the House to-day was given up exclusively
to debate. Kellogg concluded the speech
begun by him Wednesday last, onthe legis-
lative appropriation bill. All the other
speeches were ON the bill to regulate inter-
State railroad commerce, and were made by
MeSsrs. Pratt, Stannard, Hazleton, of Wis
conSin, Burrows, and Eden. Mr.. Cox pre-
sented memorial, signed by prominent
business men of New York, forsuch legisla-
ton as may insure the full success of the
centennial celebration. Adjourned.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
ECCLESIASTICAL.
Ex-Parta.

NEW YORK, March T4.--Dr. Edward
Beecher has written long letter protesting
against what he characterizes the ex-parte
council of Congregational churches called by
Rev. Drs. Storrs and BuddingtGn to consider
the recsnt conduct of plymouth church, and
pronouncing it also dishonOr to the word
of God and a violation of the fundamental
principles of the Congregational system.
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Died OF Fright.

CINCINNATI, March IA man named
Vanhorne and his son living near ,somson-
vile, ClermOnt ccrctJ all this State, while
o. thci. wy nome between s and 9oclock
were stopped and robbed. After they had
delivered their money, etc, to the robbers,
the elder VanhOrne died which must have
been caused by the shock, IS care.Gl Ia=
vestigrtion showed no marks OF violence
thai would cause death.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
TEXAS.
A Formidable Indian Raid.

Lone Wolf Leading the War Dance.
GALVESTON, March IA NelcS special
SAYS parties in to-day from Jacksbo,o re-
ports formidable raid on the frontier by
Indians from the Fort Sill reservation.
Lone Wolf is leading them.
Large Railroad Fire at DennisOn.
DENNIsON. March 1.-THE Union pas
senger depot here, the Adams and Texas
express offices adjoining, thirty freight cars
laden with merchandise and lumber, and a
number of valuable sample trunks, were
consumed by fire this morning. The flames
spread so rapidly that Superintendent Eddy
and other employees, who rOomed in the
building. lost ali theirpersonal effects. But
for a timely rain the freight depot and gov
eminent warehouse would have been
burned. Loss $4,000. The railroad COM
panies will Immediately rebuild the de-
pots.
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EXnreSs Robbery.

NEW HANEN, March 1.-The office Of
the Adams Express Company was robbed
last night of the messengers safe, which
had arrived from New York. This morn
ing the safe was found open some distance
IRON the Office. Loss unknown,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
CINCINNATI.
An Editor Languishes In jail for Con-
tempt of COurt.

tempt Of Court.
CINCINNATI, March 14.-JOhn r. Nc
Lean. one Of the proprietors Of the Cipctn-
natl Enquirer, was sent to Jail by Judge
Marcha1ft, of the police Court, this after
noon, for persisting in refusing to answer
questions propounded to him yesterday.
The case before the court was one in which
Thomas Quinn and ex-Judge Huaffer We're
plaintiffs, and E. 7. ScOwden, engineer Of
the waterworks, was defendant. Charge
libel, IN causing a publication affecting
plaintiffs character to be made in the En-
q,trer. Mclean was asked for infOrma-
ton on which this publication was based.
He refused to answer and went to Jail. The
future course the case will take is not fore
Swallowed,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

4 CLERGYMAN hearing "The Beautiful
Blue Danube Waltz became excited and
exclaimed: Its abOminable, but is bean
tifdl! | declare il makes one feel Ike
breaking every commandment in the deca-
logue right straight through"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

A WRITER in the Br1isA COlOaaSs noes
various instances Cf the Transmission Of
idiOcy into genias by head-breaking acci-
dents. What a yIst number Of unappre-
ciated Michael Angeles and ''mute inglO-
riOlsS Millions sleep the nightly sleep Of
The unjust in the cells Of our police stat ions
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

THE Ceremony ofcrematiOn was recently
PU: ia practice in England, upon the body
Of Lemontinia Smith, famous gypsy ora
Gle. Moore than hundred ROmany ''chals''
attended the funeral. All the wearing APP
parel, trinkets. and domestic articles be-
longing to or in any way used by the dead
woman, were sOlemnly burned.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
NEW ORLEANS.
Ship Afzre with 5000 Bales OF Cotton
Loss 100000

NEW ORLEANS, March 1.-THE ship
Ailsa, with a cargo of 5000 bales Of cotton,
is partly burned. The amount of damage
is not yet aseertained.
LATER-The fire has broke out on the
ship Ailsa. She was filled with water, keel
to the bottom. The loss is about 100000
on cargo and 5000 on the vessel, insured
in foreign Offices
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

RICHMOND is OversiOcSea with petty
girls. and there are fewsF eligible men
there to turn them ire good wives than N
almost any other city of double its size in
the whole country.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
Iar,e RaiIroad Fire al DennisOn.
WOODBRIDGE.
burglary and ArsOn-LOss Over $780,
OaO

WOoBMDGE, CANADA, March liar
IL this morning the office Of the Woodbridge
Agricultural Implement and Machine
Works was entered by burglars, who blew
omen the safe. rifled it of its contents. prom
isorv notes and other papers to the value Of
upwards of one hundred thousand dollars.
The burglars then set fire to the building
which was entirely consumed. The loss
or the building and Manufactured stoctl
Mil exceed two hundred thousand dollars.
One hundred men are thrown out of en-
plovment by the fire.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

DOsABHAI SORA3GI, a teacher Of Ian
guages in India, used OllendOrfi-s method
rs far back as 1903.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

COTTON was dull and irregular IN
the New York market yesterday, with
middhng at 164c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

TENNESSEE BONDS were nominal In
New York yesterday, with the old
issue quoted at 904 and the new at so.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
Accident on the Central Road.


SAN Francisco, March IA paSsen-
ger train going West on the Central Pacific
Railway, between LoanO AMI Wells, was
thrown from the track by broken rail and
went down a bank thirty feet, 1t is reported
with great loss Of life. Particulars soon.
LATER.-Dispatches received show the
first report of the railroad accident was
greatly exaggerated. Three cars, and two
emigrant coaches are off the track. No
serious injuries.
STILL LATER-A dispatch just received
from Loano, says the West bound passen-
gertrain which left here $50 A. NJ, to-day
had the smoking and emigrant cars thrown
off the track twelve miles west of this
place. No lives were lost. Some passen-
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Particulars of the Accident.

A dispatch from ElkO Tonight gives the
particulars of the railroad accident this
morning. ten miles west Of Loano. The
western bound train was one hour behind
time, but running at usual speed, when a
rail broke precipitating the rear coach and
emiorant car down an embankment thirty
feet. The coach was filled with passengers
and turned completely over. The emigrant
car also went down but did not turn over.
The following is list of the wounded:
James Dick, Colorado Springs, slightly;
Benz. Camson, Providence, X. l., cut in the
forehead, not dangerous; Mrs. ". N. Roe,
Dundas, Canada, seriously, case doubtful.
Several Others sustained slight injuries,
The wounded, with the exception OF Mrs.
Roe, will be able to proceed to their desti-
nation.
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UNION AND AMERICAN.

GOLD opened in New York yester-
day at l1l2 and closed at 112, ex-
tremes of the day.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
The Agitation Against it for Sixty
Years.

Religious Character OF the Early Ef.
forts-Success and Failure Of the
Moyement-The Total Abstinence So
cieties which FOiIOwed-Apathy of
the Last Twenty Years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-13
Fashion Notes.

RUSSIAN pompons will ornament the
spring bonnets.
Striped and dotted materials will be
fashionable next summer.
THE old-fashioned handkerchief rings
are revived for the 999th time.
SOME of the new carriage parasols Of
lace are remarkably handsome.
AN effort is being made to introduce
again the Irish bogwood iewelry.
JUST at present Roman gold jewelry
is the most popular in New York.
The redingote improved and elabo-
rated is good for six months yet.
BLACK grenadine trimmed with Jet
makes an effective evening dress.
BLACK is all the rage in Paris and
colors are never seen on the street.
OvERsKIRTs as they used to be have
been entirely and forever abolished.
IT seems fixed fact that Napoleon
blue will be the next fashionable color.
EMBROIDERED dresses of white Swiss
muslin will be fashionable next Sum-
mer.
HIGH Spanish combs will be extern
sively worn next summer, as the new
style of wearing the hair will require
something of that sort. They are shown
in every pattern and style.
One of the rare colors in evening silks
is called London fog" 1t has a yell
low hue and is not as ugly as some
would think from its name. The old
London smoke is out of date.
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They Say.

Who are "they? Who are the
cowled Monks, the hooded Friars, who
glide with shrouded faces in the process
sion of life, muttering in an unknown
tongue, words of strange import ? Who
are they? The midnight assassins of
regulations, who lurk in the by-ways Of
society, with tongues sharpened by in
vention, and envenomed by malice ; to
draw the blood of innocence. and hyena-
like to banquet on the dead? Who are
they? They are multitude no man
can number-black, stolid, familiar of
the inquisition of SANDER, searching ~
victims in every city, town, and villa G.
wherever humanity throbs, or the as hoe.
of mortality find rest. Give me thel
bold brigand who thunders along de-
highways with flashing weapons, that|
cut the sunbeams as we'll as the shades.
Give me the pirate who unfurls the
black flag, aid shows the plank which
your doomed feet must tread but save
me from the. They-seyers of society,
whose knives are hidden in velvet
sheath, whose bridge of death is woven
in flowers, and who spread with invisible
poison, even the spotless wilderness of
the winding sheet.
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The Siamese Twins.

DR.. Louis A. Sayre, Professor of
Orthopedic Surgery in Bellevue Hos
pital, New York City, who is most dis
tinguished surgeon in his speciality
the deformity of the human body-is
thoroughly convinced that the twins
might have been separated in life with
perfect safety by simple process well
known in the profession and frequently
practiced, most often in cutting horses
tails of. This process is to run q silver
wire or piece of silk through the CEN
ter of the band. By tying the ends to-
gether and making structure around
the part of the band encircled, the
tight impression would cause the wire
to gradually cut through the band, the
flesh sloughing away until the whole
structure was cut into two. The sever
ance in this way would have been so
gradual that the shock to the system and
the danger of peritonitis would have been
avoided.
The arterial circulating between the
two was so slight that when one twin
was chafed by the Doctor at Apollo Hall,
New York, in 1S43, though his pulse in
creased greatly in rapidity, that of the
other was perfectly regular. The Doctor
was then convinced that his theory could
have been carried out in practice. The
Professor, then a young doctor, actual
ly proposed to attempt It but the twins
preferred to continue their profitable
partnership. He returned to New York
at midnight.
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Why the Red Sea is Called Red.

A question that has puzzled scholars
found a solution, some time since, in
the observation of an American SUBJ
marine diver. Smiths Bible Diction-
airy" discusses learnedly the name of the
Red Sea. The Dictionary" surmises
that the name was derived from the red
western mountains, red coral zoophites,
etc., and appears TO give little weight to|
the real and natural reason which came
under our Americans notice. On one
occasion, the diver observed, while un-
der sea, that the curious wavering sha-
dows, which cross the lustrous, golden
floor, like Frauenhofer's lines on the
spectrum, began to change and lose
themselves. A purple glory of inter-
mingled colors darkened the violet cur
tains of the sea-chambers, reddening all
glints and tinges with an angry fire.
Instead of that lustrous, golden firma-
ment, the thallasphere darkened to
crimson and opal. The walls grew pur-
pie, the floor as red as blood the deep
itself was purpled with the venous hue
of deoxodized life-currents. The view
on the surface was even more magnifi-
cent The sea at first assumed the
Ii tawny, or yellowish red of sherry
VINE. Anon, this wine-color grew in
distinct with richer radiance as far as !
the eye could see, and flashing in thS
crystalline splendor of the Arabian sun,
was glorious as a sea of rose. The
dusky red sandstone hills, with border
of white sand, and green and lowered
foliage, like an deliberately wrought
cup of Bohemian glass enameled with
brilliant flowers, held the sparkling
liquid petals of that rosy sea. The sur
face, on examination, proved to be COW
cred with a thin brick-dust layer of in
fusoria slightly tinged with orange.
Placed in white glass bottle, this
changed into a deep violet, but the
wide surface of the external sea was of
that magnificent and brilliant rose color.
1t was new and pleasant example to
the lustrous, ever-varying beauty of the
ocean world. 1t was caused by diato-
macee, minute alge, which under the
microscope revealed delicate threads
gathered in tiny bundles, and contain
ing rings, blood disks, of that curious
coloring matter in tiny tubes.