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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
GR0CERIE

SUGAR-New Orleans 9!d10Ic in hhds.
Demerara lie; standard hards l2c; A coffee
114G B do. life; extra G do. lie, yellow
G 10d10ic.
MOLASsEs-New Orleans 6867Ss sirups
55d65c; golden strip 65d75c.
COFFEE-Rio, common TO choice. PIN
&c; Laguayra 234624e; Java 295A3Ogc.
CHEEsE-Factory, 16d17c.
NAus-10ds, per keg. $500 and 25e ad-
ditional for diminishing grades.
SALT bushel barrels, in store, &. 25:
by car load in depot, S2.35.
CANDLEs-Star Tie % b.
FIsH-Half barrels, Nos. /, and 8 IS. so.
500 and $500; in kits, Nos 1, 2. and 3.
$500. $1.75 and SLIGO.
RICE-ChOice new by the barrel, Sc.
TEAs-Imperial 75dS1.25; Young Hy-
son 75edS1.25; Black 50edS1.0O; Gun
powder 75cd$1.25.
PowDER-Dupont $7.25; Sycamore Mills
SI.25; blasting 500; fuse per 100 feet CSC.
SHOr-Patent 500; Buck $2.45.
LIQUoRs-Common rectiied whisky %
gallon 95cd$1.1O; Robertson County 81. rs
63.OO; Bourbon $1.25d5.50 Lincoln
County S1.7563.00; Highwines S1O3.
BBooMs-Per dozen, 81 00A3.50.
SoAP-Common to fancy, 56Sc q d, or
$3.25d4.50 q box.
BLAcKING-Mason's large, % dozen,
Csc; small, 35c.
CANDIEs-Common stick, 15c; common
fancy Ice.
PEPPER-Per ID, 273c.
SPICE-Per ID, 16c.
GN6ER-Per u. Ice.
CLovEs-Per ID, 60d7Oc.
SrARcH-Per 10, SIC.
SoDA-Per d, &c.
PEcANs-Per d, 104d12se.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
WILL IT BE AtHARD MONEY CON.
EREGGP
Baltimore Sun,

An analysis of the membership of
the next House shows that on the cur
rency question it viii be much sounder
than the present House. Many of the
prominent Republican lnfationists of
the present House have been defeated.
Gen. Butler, the solitary Representative
from New IEngland in favor of rag
money, is left at home. In New York
the only Representative elected
who is in favor of expanding
the currency is Richard Schen, and
he did not show his hand until after
the election. The majority of the
Pennsylvania delegation in the present
House favor more paper issues, but in
the next House not more than one
fourth IF the members from that State
Will be on that side In the West large
gains have been made to the hard
money side. In the South it is proba-
bic that there has not been much
change, but on the whole 1t is very safe
to assume that the hard money party
Will have a decisive majority in the
next House.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
APET OF WIFE.

sSmall size"-this is the echo of most
mems wishes. They want some one to
Pc, to fOndle, to protect, they say; and this
is truth when they feei good natured.
Cynical women say they want some one
they can tyranniZe over, but we are inclin-
ed to take a cynical view of the subject.
Very few men wilfdlly tyrannize over
their wives and children, but the tyranny
is there, nevertheless, and intellectual men
such as the world admire are most prone to
exercise it. They are so wrapped III their
own plans, theories and speculatiOns they
do not even discover the fact that their
own households are vanishing for the bread
of love, and fainting for the gushing springs
Of sympathy. They are so accustomed to
adulation abroad that the simple home
affection seems tame and spiritless; as the
puTest water of the deepest well is tasteless
to one accustomed to the sparkling and
burning, but poisonous. draaghts of intoX-
icatiOn. In our zeal TO Vindicate the
'1ords of creation" from the charge of will
full tyranny we are leaving our two bach
elors and their imaginary wives too long
neglected.
Small size is a mans fancy, not the die
tate OfphysiOlogical knowledge. 1t is an
almost universal fancy. The larger, rough
er, more burly the man, the more sure he
is to prefer a small-Szed woman. 81 am
determined TO have wife whom can pick
up in my aims and carry her over all the
rough places" Said young farmer, whose
sOftest tones sounded like a clap of thun-
der. As he spoke he snatched the largest
and heaviest girl in all his acquaintance,
and lifted her over the brook. His words
are echoed in the selection made by most
large-sized and stentOrian-voiced men.
Their ideal is Of something the reverse of
themselves and thus fragile figures and
low tones are TO them the perfection of
feminine attraction. Our solution Of the
problem lies in the suppOsition that it is
an uneducated action of philoprogenitive-
ness, shown in the desire for some small
creature TO pet, to fondle, to caress.
Those who have watched the wsld for
fifty years know how often is enacted the
sad tragedy which may be named, The
Bride Of Year.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
FINANCE AND TRADE.
FINANCIAL.


Money continues close and the banks are
not loaning, but confne their operations
mainly to discounting cotton bills on New
York.
Bank drafts on New York are discounted
at discount to par, while the banks charge
- per thousand premium when drawing.
Gold continues firm, closing in New
York at l10s. For the small lots offered
here dealers pay 100, while they hold at
llOs. Silver is taken at 102 for halves and
quarters.
Tennessee bonds continue firm, being
quoted in New York at 76d77 and at 570
57s, with sales reported at 81. These
bonds are held at firm figures in this mar
ket.
Comptroller's warrants are rather scarce
and are in some demand. Dealers pay 90
and sell at %.
Our local stocks and bonds are quiet,
with but few offering on the market. 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, 1874-11-15
PEOPLE WHO WHINE.

There Is class of persons in the world
by no means small, whose prominent pc
culiarity is whining. They whine because
they are poor, or if rich. because they have
no health to enjoy their riches; they whine
because they ''have no luck" and others
prosperity exceeds theirs; they whine be-
cause some friends have died and they are
still living, they whine because they have
aches and pains, and they have aches and
pains because they whine; and they whine,
no one can tell why. Now word to these
whining persons. First, stop whining-it
is Of no use complaining, fretting fault
finding and whining. Why, you are the
most deluded set of creatures that ever liv-
ed Do you know that it is a well-settled
principal of physiology and common sense
that these habits are more exhausting to
nervous vitality than almost any other Vi
olatiOn of physiological law? And do you
know that life is pretty much as you make
it? You can make it bright and sunshiny,
or you can make it dark and shadowy.
Then step whining and fretting, and 90
on your way rejoicing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
CHILD LIFE IN sHAKERDoM

Children that are placed with the
Shakers at Lebanon are indentured to Ben
jamin Gates, or some authority, until they
ssbecome of age" he agreeing in papers to
provide them food, clothing, etc. They
are then placed in the chldren's order,
under the charge of sisters designated to
care for them, who commence at once to
instill into their minds the glOries of the
creed. In their management never a blow
is struck. Refractory ones are pun
ished by being laid fat upon
the floor, face down. When they
have been thus kept PROSTATE for
a length Of time, they are taken up and
''talked tO," the enormity of their Ofenses
pointed out, and are exhorted to behave
better in the future. Those from eight to
a dozen years of age ego to confession" ey-
cry Saturday, and 'own up" Cor are sup
posed toy 10 the little sins of the week
that have escaped the notice Of their
guardians. And as they receive special APP
prOval after an apparently very full con-
fessiOn, they early learn TO conjure up
quite enormous stories, knowing that they
'tgull' their .cOIfeSSoEs into q deeper be-
lief in their penitence. "Now, don't you
feel better after confeSsing all that?" asks
the ancient virgin who has heard the story.
''Yea, yea" says the little miss, and tipping
wink to her companions, she walks ont
as sedately as a spinster of seventy. An
other method of punishment is to put the
youngster into large sack, tying it tightly
around the neck. Should the child refuse
to get into the bag, it is drawn over the
refractory one, and then, head, feet and
all envelOped, he or she is left to
repent of the offensive disObedience. The
children are sent to school four months
each year-the boys in the winter and the
girls in in the summer. Coeducation hash
the slightest support here. The girls and
boys must not converse together. If they
happen to meet, and ifa roguish youngster
is bold enough to break the silence with
some pretty maiden, the maiden must be
deaf and dumb to him. "Isn't there some
boy here that you are just a little fonder Of
than the othcrs?" is a standing question in
the confessional. The reply always is
NAY" and the blind old goodies be-
lieye it!
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
DUTCH BEAUTIES.

Awriter in the Jelcish Messenger, speak
ing of Leeuwarden, town in Holland,
says: sThe women of Leeuwarden de-
serve paragraph to themselves. There is a
primitive air about them which is refresh
ing after the starched-up and made-up-to-
order beauties that are elsewhere visible.
They have sturdy, grand look. They are
generally tall, with high forehead,
aquiline nose, lips closely set, and
well-developed chin. The skin is
white, the cheeks del;cately tinted,
with colors from natures dtelier,) the eyes
are large and piercing. The young girls
have lost much of the Tristan bearing, for
their heads are crazed, doubtless, by the
furbelows and fixings of the foreign dress
maker and milliner. As among the Quak-
eFs, the younger generation are losing their
reverence for the distinctive dress which
should be every fair Frisian's pride to wear.
The mstrons, however, adhere to the fash
ions Of their ancestors. They have almost
a masculine face, but the sternness is re-
lleved by the beauty of the eyes and the
fair skin.
ain Southern Holland distinctive COS
tune is worn by many, but it is not 50
quaint as in Northern Holland, in which
Friesland is situated. Take a wonlanis
head-dress, for instance. A broad band of
gold, of horseshoe shape, spans the fore
head, aiding to keep the hair back. The
sides of the band are adorned with large
oval gold r0settes. Above the band is
reared lace cap or veil, often of the best
lace, with edges or complete wings dropping
to the meek. The ears glitter with rings of
gold and gems. These ornaments, which are
aifbnr of oold mr. -Oilvar ov,o,, o,,,ox,r~ ~,
poorer classes, are regarded with great
reverence, and, treasured as sacred heir
looms, pass from mother to daughter for |
many generations. The bands give a
Soldierly aspect to the women, who are gen.
orally full-faeed, not sunken-cheeked, and
walk with a firm tread. Their stout, large |
shoes are in pleasing contrast to the baby |
shoes which are considered the style among
our bellies of the languid and languishing |
type"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
LATE PACKING SEASON.
NeN York Bnlletin. NoH. l2.


The packing season has not fairly open
ed as vet al any Western point, with the
exception OF some in northern ATTITUDES,
and others where ice packing is resOrted to.
The mild weather of an unusually long
EIndian summer has been the cause of the
delay, and has also operated against the
distribution of the small supply of meats
which have been cut. In the meanwhile
the season has favored an economical fat
tening of hogs. The Western markets
have been poorly supplied with hogs, and
packers have bought spariDgly at prices
which have gradually advanced, as the low
stocks of meats and lard has guaranteed a
brisk sale TO consumers of the products OF
early cntting. The total slaughter TO dIte
is about half as large as at this date in the
last two seasons. The average range of
prices, for packing weights at Western
points since tie opening is 6.25aG.75, about
10 per cent. higher than year ago. Hogs
have so far averaged light in weight, but
condition has been good.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15

THE Yale Record tells story anent a
recent graduate whose name is hardly dry
yet in the triennial catalogue, who armed
himself with his diploma and started in
search of situation in the metropolis the
other day. Having removed his diamond
studs and donned his last years hat, he
sailed into The counting-house and beg
ged the gray-haired seTf to show him into
the senior partners Office. On coming in
to the presence Of the bald-headed million
aire he made an obsequious, we might
say, humiliating bow. He stated that
he was in search of situation. The man
said: swell, sir, what can you do" ..'Any-
thing" replied our friend. ''What salary
do you expect2" was the next inquiry of
the old buffer. aOh, well, $4,000 will do"
''Why, my young man, can get two
thousand clerks, competent men at that,
for five dollars a week. The graduate,
at this stage of the game, pulled out his
diploma and exclaimed: "You may not
be aware of it, sir, but am graduate of
Yale, and here is my diploma" 'If that
is the case, do not want you at any
price," The alumnus grew red in the
face, and, turning to the old man, said:
''Before l will work for five dollars a
week 1 viii chew air for nourishment on
the front steps ofthe Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Good morning"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
Memphis Ledger.


We are at last enabled to give the
total vote cast in this Congressional
district for Governor and COMPRESSION
al candidates: Porter's vote In Shelby.
Fayette and Hardeman was 1887;
Maynard's, 9,07l; Porter's majority,
4,75O. Colonel Casey Young, for Con-
gress, IN Shelby county, SSH; Fayette
county, 1906, Hardeman county, $50;
total, 1885. Barbour Lewis, in Shell
by county, 5,S49; Fayettecounty, 2,2S7;
Hardeman county, 935; total, 9,073.
Young's majority in the district, 4.748.
In 1872 Grants vote In the district
was l4,223; GIeeley's, 1889; Grants
majority, 1854. Lewis vote for Con-
gress, 1898; Haynes, 1889; Lewis
majority, 1924. So there has been an
absolute change Of 1892 votes In the
district within two years.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15

THE ScOtchmdn furnishes The following
illustration of the camel-and-gnat religion
Of some of his cOuntTymen. A traveller
says: "lStmddy morning at the hotel at Dunn
barton had just got up and rung the bell
for some hot water for shaving. A waiter
answered my call. 1want some hot water,
if you please 1 said. 'Ye Gamma have hot
water on the Lords Day for sic thing as
shaving said the waiter hoTOr-struck at
the idea. l insisted again, but with the
same effect. Ma, ma said he, sye Gamma
have it, Necessity is the mother of in
vention, It's said, and this aroused mine.
l thought if could arrange this order in
such way that it would not affect his relig-
ious scruples he would bring it directly.
therefore proposed that l should take
some tOddy, and told him to bring me the
material for making if, consisting Of whis-
key, sugar, and boiling lCdter. These he
brought without the least demur. ! gave
him the whiskey, which he drank, and l
used the hot water.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15


Dried fruit was reported &c lower this
afternoon.
DRIED FRUIr-Apples sc; peaches,
quarters and mixed, 5se; halves, &c; peeled,
ONIoNs-Per barrel, $4.25.
forAToEs-Northern $S.25 per barrel.
APPLEs-Northern $3.50 per barrel.
FEATHERs-Strictly choice, Agate.
BEEswAx-Choice 26d27c.
RAes-Well assorted, &c.
GINsESG-Per b, $1.35d1.40.
MooL-Unwashed, 23dS0c; washed S5g
645c. BURY 5d10c less.
BROOM CoRN-Prime to choice, 46ec.
CHEsTNUTS-Per bushel, 81 so.
BUTTER-Country, from wagon, 1sA
pc.
PoULTRY-Frying chickens, I2d15c;
hens, 1Sd20c.
Eees-FrOm wagon, 2262sc per dozen;
packed from store 25d26c.
TALLow-Choiee, &c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
FANCY WORK WITH AUTUMN
LEAVES

The bright tints OF autumn leaves are
very lovely for ornamenting our par
lors, bOudoirs, and dining-tables. Brack-
cts and picture-frames can also be adorned
with them, aid they add greatly to the
beauty of ones surroundings. Collect a
large quantity, combining every hue, from
crimson TO scarlet, from scarlet to yellow,
and from yellow to green. The red beech
and the beautifully yariagated sumach are
very desirable, as also are the oak
and ferns, but tie maple exceeds them
all in the great variety of
tints, and the various sizes of its leaves.
Smooth every leaf on the wrong side with
a moderately warm iron, holding it upon
the leaf only minute. Then take a camelis
hair pencil, and little olive oil, and care
fully brush over every part of the leaf.
Place them on fiat surface to dry, md let
them remain until the next day. For
wiring these leaves into garlands, &C., or
for preparing them for bouquets, take the
fine green covered reel wire, such as is al
ways used in manufacturing wax flowers,
and attach it around the stem, first laying
it so that il will extend the entire length
of the leaf 10 support it. Afterwards
wind around each stem to conceal
the wire, either n;trrow strips of
green tissue-paper, or brown Berlin
worsted, and join the leaves together in
sprays; of course the individual leaves on
each spray must be of the same species.
Prepare a large number of these sprays
mounted on wires, and then arrange them
in vases, about picture frames, over mir
rors, and as ornaments to lace curtains,
and your apartments will present a festive
appearances, although the dreary winter
weather has Drowned the face OF nature.
Oak leaves, acorns, and brightly-colored
beans, gummed upon a cardboard frame,
will make handsome eorner-brackets, or
wall-pOckets and vases to your beautiful
leaves. The acorDs and beans ought first
to be cut in half, when used for this pur-
pose.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
ROUGH AND READY WARMING.

The deer-hunting party returned from
the mountains on Tuesday, well pleased
with their jauHt, and looking none the
worse after ''roughing it." They killed in
all twenty-five deer. While on the noun
tains they received the following neat little
billet dOlLr:
"NoTIs To FURIN HUETERs: No all
men by these presence that turin hunters
is Respectfully Nutifde to leave the Cum
berland County and Return no more on
such Bissness, wind up and Return to your
homes forth with, and all will be right,
plain words is easy understood.
.sRoUGH AND READY"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15

"a BACHELOR says in a cOmmunica-
ton to the Nelo York Times on the sub
ject of matrimony practically considered;
al have a good room, for which l pay
twenty dollars month, with gas and IRE.
1 cook my own breakfast, which consists
usually Of fresh rolls and butter with
coffee or chocolate, and a couple of eggs, or
a few oysters, with fruit in season, and, if
l choose, little picked salmon, cheese or
caviar. as a relish. Ny breakfast costs me,
on an average, fifteen cents day, an es-
innate which looks ridiculously small, but
which any person can verify by trying the
same plan HIMSELF This bachelor, how
ever, eats square dinners and dresses well,
so that his annual expenditure averages
1921.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
FLIGHTY COsTuMES.

a terrible fashion has been introduced
this autumn into Paris to swell bills and
excite an honorable emulation in extrava-
gance. Some one has discovered that trim
ming dress with birds feathers has an ex-
ceedingly charming appearance, and that
envy is excited in proportion to the rarity
of the fowl plucked. The lady who has
introduced this novelty made her first ap-
pearance in a costume which evidently left
nothing TO be desired, though we are I'M
able TO understand the millinery jargon
in which it is described. The tunic was
trimmed with the feathers of the jaw, but
only the blue ones that form part of the
wing. As the jay is not a very common
bird-fOr he is deadly enemy to game
keepers, and even the Legislature has put
price on his head-thoSe feathers must have
cost pretty sum. But what will old
ladies and children exclaim when they hear
that another DleTTellleWSe, not to be outdone
has ordered black silk dress to betrimmed
with canary feathers? 1t is not easy to cal
culate how many hundreds of these little
creatures would have TO be butchered before
the quantity requisite TO produce the
effect would be obtained. Then arises the
question, what next? To ladies of in
ventive genius, the Geological Gardens Of
fer opportunities, the thought of which
ought to strike terror into the breast of DR..
Scatter. A pelican's beak as hair-pin
would set off the largest chignOD. How
many cOckatOOs' graceful tOp-knots would
be required tc furnish forth a costume de
cour could only be matter of speculation,
and the judiciOus expenditure of few
six-penny visits. A famingo's leg would
make an elegant parasol handle, and a
tigers tail a comfortable, as well as I'M
usual, boa. The mask of the Polar bear,
neatly trimmed with vultures' feathers,
would make a very striking as well as a
warm covering for the head during the
coming winter. But these are rather spec
ulations for the man milliners. If we only
live long enough we shall no doubt see the
elephant and Thinocerous contribute some
thing else besides their ''ivories" to the
exigencies of fashion, and when the earth
and the air are exhausted there will remain
the great deep and its inhabitants to help
- r
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
FLOUR. GRAIN AND HAY.

FLoUR-Superhne, $500; Xxx $500
4.75; xxx S5.2565.50; choice family
s5.75d6.O0; fancy, S6.5066.75.
CORN MEAL-Unbolted and bolted,
sacked in depot, S1.05.
CoRN-Sacked, 97acd$1.O0; in retail
lots, S1.0O; loose, 9Oc; ear, in car load lots,
75c; ear, by retail, soc.
WHEAT-Mediteran Csc; red, s1.OO;
amber and white, $1.05d1.10.
OATs-Saeked and delivered in depot,
Csc; retail 671c.
BRAN-Loose, 5000; sacked in depot,
$23.0O.
HAY-Timothy, $24OON27.OO; Prairie
hay, S21.00.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15
HIDES AND LEATHER.

HIDEs-Green 7dTsc; green sailed
Sc; dry sailed 14615c; dry flint l66l7c;
damaged and grubby lots &c of.
LEATHER-Oak sole per pound, 40
h42c; Hemlock 2Sd30c: harness leather
No. l, 40c; harness leather No. 2, 35c;
skirting 40d44c; brides, black q dozen,
S4S.00d5400; fair bride, S57.00d63.O0;
French calf $4S.O0672.00; American kip
S4S.OO672.00; calf SS3.O0642.OO; upper
leather $30.00d42.00; tOppings, all colOrs,
$10.006l2.00; Innings, white and pink,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-15

IT is announced by a writer in Serb
ner, that ii Is unnecessary to remove
the glove when about to shake hands,
as the custom Of removing the glove
has died out; 50 there is no improprie-
ty in shaking a gloved hand, nor is
there any use in going through the
formula, Excuse my glove"