Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-18


skill with which she managed that ma
chine, OF the artleSs simplicity and remark
able correctness with which she gave us al
needed information regarding the business
she was engaged in, and which she seemed
to understand to perfection. We are some
what of visionary, but we could not hell
regarding her as a modern Joan d Arc
pointing the way TO the industrial and com
mercial independence of the South.
HOW MASSACHUSETTS OVERLOOKED HET
| HAND.
In IA conversation which We had with
Gen. o. o. Howard, sometime ago, we
mentioned that the time would soon come
when Massachusetts would feel sorry that
she had ever meddled with slavery. He
seemed rather astOnished at this PROPOSE
ton, until we mentioned to him the fact,
that the South had now about one hundred
cotton factories, and that just as soon as We
could double that number, her occupation
would be gone, for, with the advantages OF
our genial climate, our timber, coal, miner
ais and the superiority of our agricultural
productions, we would be able to compete
with New England in all the markets Of
the world. Our little Mary told us that
she was native of Alabama, cast upon the
hospitable shores of Tennessee by the ter
rible upheayings cfthe war
Terrible river dark river of war
With thy tide of blood and gore;
Let thy waves be swept afar,
In Lethe's gulf fOrevermVre,
Beautiful river beautiful river,
River of Peace from North TO South,
At its flow each heart shall culver,
Each patriots heart from source to mouth.
THE KNITTING MACHINE.
About the middle of the hall we find a
most interesting young lady, Miss NJ.
B, manipulating a little mysterious
machine, which will be the ultimate means
of making mothers-in-law and old maids
an entirely useless appendage to many
household, and emancipate sons-in-law
who are now signing away their existence
under the despOtic thraldOm of mother-in-
law-dom. Yes. that knitting machine con-
ceals domestic volcano, for in about fif-
teen minutes it can knit pair of stockings
which il would take the most industrious
mOther-in-law nearly week to accomplish.
Now take my advice, and have that in
ventor killed off at once, so as to stifle his
direful invention at its birth. We have no
idea, Miss Maggie, that you ever will be an
old maid, but you may be mOther-in-iaw,
JUST VI NOllSCltAlCc
YOU might experience hereafter in the
thought that you had worked at your own
destruction by introducing that rev0lu-
tiOnary little machine into the domestic
circle.
HONEST NASHVILLE.
The Chicago papers are making terri
BILE blow over poor ragged bOot-black,
who found a roll of bank-notes in the
streets. Instead Of keeping it, as Credit
Mobilier, and investing it in candy or jews
harps, he actually returned it to the owner
next day, and received ten dollars for his
honesty. We can beat that in Nashville.
During the rush at our Exposition on last
Wednesday, we were told that a fond huS-
band from the country LOST his wife, and
she could nowhere be found. Next morn
ing, however, bright and early, she was
brought back, and the gentleman who
found her refused TO accept any reward for
his honesty, and actually left the city to
escape the grateful demonstrations of her
husband. Let Chicago blush, if she can.
And now We are itching to say something
about
A MODEL FARM
We visited few days ago, and we really
feel sorTy that We could not bring it into
the Exposition building, to show the work
ings of it. 1t is a farm Of 200 acres just
outside of the city, and which is managed
entirely by two OF our most excellent and
sensible ladies, who have always moved in
the highest walks of life. Their present
position, though, is no sinecuTe, but a pretty
hard task for ladies brought up in the lap
of luxury, with hundreds of slaves at their
command. But they fully understand the
new Southern regime and its responsible
tiles. They are up by daybreak, and put
into operation the machinery Of their
household, thus setting wholesome exam
pie for those beneath them. The place is
cultivated altogether by colored people, who
pay their rents promptly in money, and
there never has been dispute or lawsuit
on the place. Each tenant has a little check
book, in which all credits and debts are
scrupulously recorded from day to day.
They have applications from ten
ants for thirty miles around Nash
vile, but as the present tenants are
always anxious TO remain, there is no
chance for new ones. We tried to find out
the secret of this successful and exceptional
management, and got up very early to in
terview some of the tenants. We met
little boy and asked him if he would not
20 with us to Alabama, but at the very
proposal he fired up and told us that he
would not leave his mistress for any other
place in the world. We asked him why he
liked her so much, when he told us the
secret Of it, which We will give in his own
words. "Well, mister, she gives us a COM
Portable house aud pasture ground for our
COWS; she allows us to have picnicS in the
woods, and gives us a share of the hickory
nuts, scaly-barks, and some of the fruit.
She lets us have our own preacher on the
place, and also comes to see US when we
are sick, and is very good to u.s." Now
there is a lesson in this little boys remarks
that might well be pOndered over by some
of our male and female grumblers.
We were surprised to lind the
MODEL POULTRY YARD
right in the heart of the city, presided over
by the accomplished wife of one of our
principal photographers. She raised nearly
a hundred turkeys and quite a legion of
other fowls this season, assisted as she was
by Bounce" a splendid Newfoundland
dog, with a capital set of teeth, and who
seems conscientiously opposed to the fami-
liarities of the Civil Rights bill. He kept
a faithful watch over them by night, and
prevented them from being kidnapped like
poor Charley Ross. J. j. G..