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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04
COAL AND IRON IN TENNESSEE.

Without exception this little pamph-
let is the fairest and most complete
statement of the coal and iron resources
of Tennessee, that it has been our good
fortune to read. There is tone of can
dor about it that must carry the con-
viction to the reader that Mr.. Kille-
brew is stating simple facts without ex-
aggeration. This is Just what isneeded,
plain, unvarnished tale; and Just such
statements viii do more to build up the
material prosperity of State than any
amount of extravagant putting, which
can only excite smile.
We have never questioned that Ten
nessee has wonderful advantages for
the manufacture of good iron cheaply,
but it also has some disadvantages.
The position it occupies in this respect
is, of course, relative, and its advanta-
ges are to be known only by compari-
sons with other States, and these CON-
parsons can only be made by taking
the average of the States compared. 1t
would not be fair to take the furnace
most advantageously situated in Ten
nessee, and compare it with the least
advantageously situated in Ohio.
While we cannot in all cases accept
Mr.. Killebrew's conclusions, we do give
him the credit of striving to be fair
The advantages of Tennessee for max
ing iron are stated to be: LIST, cheapness
of ore I'd, cheapness of fuel; Sd, days
of blowing; 4th, lower taxes. These
have reference mainly to charcoal fur
naces, though it is claimed that they
will apply-wlth greater force to stone
coal furnaces. On the other hand the
disadvantages are given as: LIST, want
of transportation; I'd, difference in
price of labor. To these might have
been added want of market at home,
and we believe that until demand is
created for pig iron nearer the point Of
production all these natural advantages
will count far less than they should.
We cordially recommend the pamphlet
of Mr.. Killebrew to all seeking in
formation regarding the resources of
Tennessee.
#Coal and Iron in Tennessee Advance sheets
from the Report of the Bureau of Agriculture
by j. e.. KilielreW. Secretary.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04
MORBID IMPULSE.
The Great Doctor who Does Not Be-
1eve I'm "EmOtionaI'' Murder.

Dr.. William A. Hammond has deliv-
cred a lecture before the New York
Medical Society on a topic of present
interest-the morbid impulses which
lead to crime, and which are, in certain
cases, now urged as palliation for it.
His conclusions are adverse to the
criminal;
l. A person aware of the existence of
an impulse to commit crime, and
which he fears he may not be able 10
resist, is bound to do everything in his
power to render the accomplishment of
his propensity impossible. 1t is his
duty to Immediately place himself
under restraint. If he does not, he is
morally and legally in no better posi-
ton than ruftan who feels an impulse
to acquire other peoples property, and
accordingly murders the man most con-
venient for his purpose.
2. The individual who is clearly
shown to have yielded to a previously
unfelt impulse to commit crime, and
who accordingly perpetrates an other
wise motiveless offense, or one which in
his normal condition would evidently
not have been committed, is too dan
gerous to society TO be allowed to 90 at
large. He ought to be placed under
permanent restraint. | say permanent,
because experience shows that this
form of mental alteration is exceed
ingly apt to recur. Several of the cases
l have cited are illustrations of crime
committed after the discharge from
confinement, and there are hundreds of
similar instances on record.
3. Those morbidly constituted indi-
viduals who commit crimes because it
is pleasant for them to do 50, such as
Helen Isgado, Domollard Pomeroy,
and others whose cases have cited,
should be treated exactly ike other Of
tenders against the laws. The appar-
ent absence of motive is apparent only.
The fact that the criminal experiences
pleasure from the committal of the act
is as strong motive as any other that
can be alleged, and is entitled to no
more extenuaUing force than the
pleasure of revenge, acquisitiveness. or
other passions. Lord, how / do love
thievingl" said London vagabond; IF
had all the riches of the world ] would
still be thief"
4. The fact that a murder has been
committed in order that the perpe-
traitor might secure his own execution
is not palliating circumstance. Those
who contend that it is-and am sorry
to find DIR. Maudsley among them
seem to be actuated by the erroneous
idea that suicide is necessarily the act
of an insane person. The desire to be
executed may be evidence of morbid
mind, but not necessarily of an insane
one, and if we are going to excuse
every crime committed by jaundiced
and hypochondriacal and notoriety-
loving people, we might as well close
our courts at once.
5. A morbid impulse to crime ex-
perienced by an insane person-and by
an insane person l mean one who ex-
hibits other evidences of insanity be-
sides the morbid impulse, and who
would be considered by competent
Judges to be insane, even if no such
impulse Embellishments continued
sequestratiOn.
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country there is an absolute scarcity OF
the coarser grains. This is notably so
in New England and in the Middle
States, where drouth prevailed.
1t Is not worth while for anybody to
become alarmed at the prospect of a
large corn crop, since it will be large
only relatively, for heavy surplus will
be required to supply deficiencies and
to fatten all kinds of stock, which
have been more or less pinched, and
thus place the country in the same
position it occupied two years ago. The
increase OF population is another
element to be taken In to account,
and also the increase Of the manufac-
turing population, f6r which a large
crop viii Indirectly, but surely, find
employment. When ten men previ-
ously idle are set to work, they call for
as many more, at least to go to work
for them. The farmers certainly are
far from doubling that they will real
ize a good price for their corn, because
they think they have nearly completed
a system of reduced transportation, or
il they find such not to be the case,
they will rejoice in the occasion of re-
opening the conflict.
Aside from the disastrous overflow
of the lower Mississippi we have no un-
favorable accounts from the cotton
fields. Last year there was constant
rain; it was difficult to get stand,
more difficult to clean out The grass,
and the plows ran in mud. This year,
so far, it appears that they are having
fair average season. Whether the
cotton planters are really planting less
cotton and more corn, agreeably to
their new motto, is uncertain, though
it is to be hoped that each planter will
gradually acquire the habit Of raising
his own supplies. There is so much
satisfaction In eating corn-dodgers
grown from corn of ones own raising,
as well as bacon, biscuit, eggs and
poultry, that nothing but spirit of
speculation, now proved to have been
il-advised, could have induced the
planter to depend upon the North for
supplies.
No widespread disaster to fruit buds
has been reported, though In some To-
calities peaches are killed. The hard
winter of 1928 proved uncommonly
fatal to many orchards over wide Sec
tons, and the opening of springonly
proves more surely that the trees are
past recovery. Replantings have been
somewhat extensive, but fruit growers
will become more encouraged as the
memory of their losses wears away.
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GROCERIES.

No alteration in the state or quotations
Ofthe grocery market.
SUeAR-New Orleans, (new) in hogs
heads 9610ac for fair to choice; Deme-
rara 1I5Hl2c; standard hards life; A
coffee 10.c; B do. 1Osc; extra G do. 1O3e;
yellow C 9sd10.c.
MoLAssEs- Orleans 6Sd7jc; sirups
55d65c; golden strip 65dS0c.
CoFFEE-Rio, common to choice, 236
25bc; Lagusyra 27!ac; Java 33c-
CHEEsE-Factory, 1Se.
NAu%10ds, per keg, S4.00 and 25c ad-
ditional for diminishing grades.
SALT bushel barrels, in store or on the
wharf, 1925; by car load in depot, S2.35.
CANDLEs-Star 16n16ac! 80 ID.
FIsH-Half barrels, Nos. l, and $500,
$50 and $3.50; in kits, Nos. /, ?, and 3,
$3.50, 500 and S1.T5.
RICE-BeSt Carolina by the barrel, 9ac.
TEAs-Imperial 75cdS1.25; Young Hy-
son 75c6S1. 25; Black 50cdS1.OO; GunpOY-
der 75ci$1. 25.
PowDER-Dupont s7.25; Sycamore Mills
sT.25; blasting $500; fuse per 100 feet 65c.
SHoT-Patent 1925; Buck $3.50.
LIQUORS rectiied whisky 9s
gallon 9OcdS1 90; Robertson County H.75
$500; Bourbon S1.25d5.50; Lincoln
County s1.75d3.00; Highwines S1.OO.
COTTON TIES-Per ID. loo.
BRooMs-Per doz. at S2.25d3.50.
SoAP-Common to fancy, 5dSc % b, or
$3.25f4.50 % box.
CANDIEs-Common stick, lac; common
fancy 15c.
PEPPER-Per h., Pc
SPICE-per h., 16c.
GINGER-Per h., 16c.
CLOvEs-Per h., 60670c-
STARcH-Per b., 5G5ac.
SoDA-Per H., 6d6.c.
PECANs-Per H., 1Oad1lc.
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GRAIN CROPS AND LIMITING PRO-
DUCTION.

Under the above heading, the NelC
York Bulletin has a leading editorial,
Of which the following is the marrow:
The Western agricultural mind is
possessed Of a new idea. The idea is
that it would be a good stroke of poll
cy on the part of the farmers to cur
tail the production of the cereal crops
on the assumption that the less they
raised the higher price they would get
for their grain; so that obtaining thus
as much for a small crop as for a large
one, a great deal of work could be
saved. 1t Is scarcely credible that
proposition of this kind could be seri.
ously advanced in this day of general
intelligence; but the freedom with
which the farmer class are airing it in
some of the leading Illinois and Wis
consin journals indicates that they
mean what they say.
But, supposing curtailment was re-
solved upon IN a general way, would it
not. even then, be the interest of every
individual farmer to raise as plentiful a
crop as he could? Much as every man
might desire his neighbor to curtail, in
order to enhance prices, we suspect it
would be difficult to persuade anybody
to make a beginning. For of what
avail would higher prices be if there
was but little to sell: The logic of the
proposition is as preposterous as the
proposition itself; and our advice to
the farmers therefore is to get rid of
all such cobwebs and keep on planting
as much grain as ever-more than ever,
if possible-never doubling that, whe-
ther as regards the foreign or home
market, it viii fetch all that it is
worth.
We can hardly imagine worse advice
than is above expressed. 1t implies
that indefinite millions of laborers and
of capital shall be employed to consume
the natural resources of American soil
to .he certain but incalculable injury
of coming generations, whether the an
nual wants of mankind call for their
crops or not. 1t is Just as easy to pro-
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| and will bring as much money as can
be obtaired for 4, or even 5 million
bales. A small crop is increased in
value by speculation. A large crop is
reduced in value by any disturbance of
the money market, or by war, pesti-
lence or famine. The surplus land can
be proftably occupied in producing
pork, corn and hay, without reducing
the value of the cotton crop one dollar.
To the above the COlsmbsas Enquirer
adds another calculation, illustrating
the proposition that the labor bestowed
in raising crop of cotton more than
three million is so much labor literally
thrown away
1t is often worse than that, as every
planter should fully understand. Til
lage always consumes fertility, just as
lire consumes wood, whether any cotton
or corn grows on the land or not. Til
lage enables oxygen gas in the atmos-
Phere to burn vegetable mold in the
soil, and as it burns the gases and va
pors formed feed new generation of
growing plants which are the cultiva-
tors crop. But suppose the worms de-
stroy his young corn or cotton? That
does not stop the burning of vegetable
mold by the aid of the pillow. hoe and
cultiyator. Chemical action In the
soil remains unchanged, and gases and
vapors cannot go back to solids and
molds again except through the agency
of plant life.
But if tillage did not increase the So
luton of all agricultural salts, whether
OF lime, magnesia or potash, blowing
would fail to achieve the grand results
for which blowing is done. When fer
tilizing salts ere dissolved in water
there Is danger of their passing into
bitches, swamps, rivers and the ocean.
Hence to cultivate four acres to obtain
90 bushels of corn that might better be
raised on two acres, or one, may in
volve the loss of plant food equal to Is
bushels.
What tillage does first to increase
and then consume available plant food,
few have studied. Thirty years ago
the writer showed by chemical analy-
ses that the phosphorus unavoidably
consumed in the growth of an acre of
eventwenty bushelsof wheat, atthe then
low prices, was worth more than the
crop sold for. When sixty pounds of
good wheat are worth Sl.40, what is a
fair value of the raw material from
which one can make a bushel of this
grain! Production and consumption
always go together, unless you assume
that sOnethingi is made from nothing,
which is very common absurdity.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04
FINANCIAL.

We hear of no change in our money
market. There is very little demand for
discounts, and the banks are all willing TO
loan to their own customers on short time
at the rate of ten per cent per annum.
There is good deal of money on the
streets to be loaned on cOllaterals, at the
rate of 10 per cent.
Exchange on New York is bought by
the banks at par and is sold by them at the
rate of 81 per thousand premium.
Government bonds are a shade lower.
These bonds are not dealt in to any great
extent here, as they are looked on as very
high. The 5-3O's of 1867 are bought at
l20 and are held at 1901.
Tennessee bonds are still low and de-
pressed, being quoted in New York at 81
and 62s. There is no investment demand
for these bonds here, and about the only
buyers are the regular dealers. They
would pay about 62 and 81.
In our local stocks and bonds we hear Of
no transactions. Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis Railroad stock is firm at %;
Nashville and Decatur would bring, We
suppose 45, and Nashville and Louisville
20. For quotations of other stocks and
bonds we refer to those given by the Nash
vile Savings Company, corner Union and
College streets.
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duce an excess of corn as an excess of
farm wagons, or of any product Of hu-
man labor. Nothing is more common
than misappIed and undiversifed m
dustry. We confess our surprise that
a journal 30 well informed as the Bull
tetin should base its logic on facts
which are at least thirty years behind
the intelligence of to-day. American
farmers will soon find something bet
ter to do than to kin the goose which
lays eggs of gold for the benefit of
transportation companies and city
merchants. The farmers capital is In
the soil, and his FIRST duty is to hus-
band that for the public good as well
as his own. ..-.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04

THE Rev. Thomas X. Beecher says that
he has never known of case of habitual
drunkenness to result from the use of lager
beer. He recommends the appointment in
every city of an aunimpeachable inspector
of all brewerages offered for sale, and in
exhorable condemnation of the deleterious."
When this is done, he continues, ''we shall
then probably have gone as far as il is pos
sible for human society to go in protecting
its members against bad habits. In this
direction it would seem as if time and labor
and money would be well expended. Pro
foundly satisfied that stimulus has salu-
tary part to play in Christian civilization,
and that alcohol is natures readiest and
almost universal stimulus, the problem
would seem to be So use it as to gain from
it all the good that can be gained and avoid
all the evil.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04
AGRICULTURAL PROFIT.

If with unusually high prices for
wheat, consequent upon poor harvest
in Europe, the farmers are not salts
fed, and complain of the unproftable-
ness of their labors, it becomes a seri-
GUS question how the large prospective
crops at home and abroad, and neces-
sarily lower prices, will affect them.
The Chicago Tribune thinks that the
Western limit at which wheat produc.
ton pays has been reached. 1t saws:
If our agricultural limit has been
reached, the development Of the West,
save In the neighborhood of the mines,
viii hereafter be very slow. The west
ward way of the course of empire must
be railway, or canal, or pneumatic
tube. Until science can manage to
shorten the distance from ocean to
ocean, the prairies of the far West can
not be broken mp into grain-fields. The
tide OF Immigration has flowed near the
limit of successful agriculture. There
are two lessons to be drawn from the
fact. The first is, the inexpediency of
encouraging further immigration, espe-
cially that of the thousands of English
agricultural laborers who are now beg
glng passages to this delusive Canaan.
The second is, the necessity of concen-
trating scientific attention on the ques-
ton of cheap transportation. The dis
covery of some practical way of short
enlng the distance between Chicago
and New York would push the limit of
agriculture nearer the Rocky Mount
aims, and would so throw open another
great belt of our Western land to set
Element and development.
That leading journal published on
the great highway of travel should talk
about 1.-THE inexpediency of encourag-
ing further immigration" will strike
many with surprise. Has the ''tide of
immigration flowed near the limit of
successful agriculture? We say no,
il the country will adopt a system of
wise tillage and husbandry. But ifthe
policy of land-killing is to be continued,
the fewer to perpetrate this great ma
tional sin the better. 1t is well to
concentrate scientific attention on the
question of cheap transportation" and
in that behalf, we call the attention of
the Chicago Tribune to the fact that
the exports Of that city are nearer the
Atlantic by southern line through
Kentucky and Tennessee 10 seaports in
Georgia and South Carolina than to
New York via the lakes, Canada or
any other route. Distance is time and
labor, and both are money.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04
Food and Digestion.

In dyspepsia the gastric juice, which should
dissolve the food, is only formed in small guam
titles, and whatever may be the feeling of emPti
ness or weakness in such cases, the dyspeptic
should eat very sparingly. To remedy the evil,
the mucous membrane OF the stomach, which
secTetes and emits the gastric fluid, should be
stimulated and toned, and the best, in fact the
only sure preparation for this purpose is Hostel
teT's Stomach Bitters. Not Only does this adj
mirable stomachic promote a sufficient and
steady supply of the solvent which converts the
food to the purposes of life, but it also regulates
the flow of bile, controls the bowels, and has a
most inyigorating effect upon the nerves. The
glow which the very trst dose diffuses through
the system is an earnest of the more permanent
yitaliZing effects which are produced by its per-
sistent use: 1t improves the appetite, cheers the
spirits, and renders the body hardy and strong.
ie2 deOdlw&wIt
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04
COUNTY COURT SALE.

A. +. whitman, Admir-, vs.. JnO. n.
Northern ct ais.
z &c
IN PURSUANCE OF A DECREE OF THE
il County Court Of Davidson county, Tenn,
rendered at its May Term, 1874, in the above
cause, will sell at public sale at the Court
house door in the city OF Nashville,
On Saturday, June s, 1874,
at II O'Clock NJ, the following real estate in the
city Of Nashville, and belonging to the estate OF
Jane Northern, deed, tO-wit:
A lot of CrOunt situated on South jefferson
street, fronting 81 feet on said street and run
ming back sOuthwardly to an alley, upon which
Is situated good fame residence, and known
as No. IS in g Brownies Row"
Sale free from the equity OF redemption.
TERMS OF S2LE.-Une-fOurth cash, the
balance in g. y, ard IS months, to be secured
by notes BEARING interest, with good security
and lien retained
W. G. EWIN, Clerk.
my17 ,z7&iei
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FARM AND GARDEN.
GENERAL B. #. CHEATHAM As A
FARMER.

A Netc Era correspondent has lately
visited Gen. Cheatham' s farm in Coffee
county, and commends very highly his
three hundred and fifty arces In fine
blue grass pasture, while he cultivates
only fifty acres, or one-tenth of his
land under fence, With seven acres
in grass for keeping stock, to one un-
der the pillow, he is able to manure the
latter, and raise large crops of corn
and other grain per acre The regular
readers of this department of the
UNION AND AMERICAN neednot betold
that the system of Gen. Cheatham is
in perfect harmony with views often
expressed herein as the nearest attain
able approach to wisdom and truth in
Tennessee agriculture. The system
accumu)ates fertility.
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TOBACCO.
PROVISIONS.

Business good, with slight advance in
key lard.
BULK MEATs-Shoulders &c; clear rib
sides 10c; clear sides l04c-
BAcoN-Shoulders SIC; clear rib sides
10sc; clear sides lie; country hams 12ac.
COUNTRY BACoN-FrUm wagons, SIC for
shoulders, 1Oac for sides and II &c for hams.
From store &c more.
CHOICE HAMs-Hart & Hensley's c. c.
G. brand 1876.
LARD-Prime in tierces, 12c; pressed in
tierces, 12c; in kegs, 12sc; in buckets, 13e.
BREAKFAST BACoN-Choice, IL &c.
BEEF ToNGUEs-Per dozen, $500.
DRIED BEEF-New, lie.
SMOKED Pie TONGUEs-Per doz., SOC.
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THURSDAY, JUNE is, 1874.
COUNTY COURT SALE.
A. +. Whitman, Admir-, vs.. George L
WeimRr Ell aIa

A. +. Whitman, Admir-, vs.. George L.
Weimer ct ais.
IN PURSUANCE OF A DECREE OF THE
Il County Court of Davidson coanty, Tenn,
rendered at its May Term, 1874, in the above
cause, willseil at public SALE at the Courthouse
door in Nashville,
On Saturday, june 6, 1874,
at Il O'Clock NJ, the following real estate, In
the 18th District of Davidson county, and be-
longing TO the estate Of Catherine Weimsr,
decd, tO-wit; One lot of ground near the eorpO-
ration line OF Nashville, adjoining VI. f. Mel
lis, fronting Al feet ON North Cherry street, and
running back III fees 70 Is foot alley.
Also one other lot, being No. 10 and half OF
No. 9, in Woods addition to Nashville, fronting
IS feet on the west side Of North College street,
near the corporation line, and running back TO
an alley, upon which lot is situated a small
brick residence.
Sale free from the equity Of redemption.
TERMS OF SALE-One-fOurth cash, the
balance in s, y and IS months. Notes with
good security required for the balance, and
a lien retained.
W. G. EWIN, Clerk.
mvfTglSief
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FLOUR. GRAIN AND HAY.

A rather light trade at unchanged quota
tiOns.
FLoUR-Superfne, S5.O0d5.25; Xxx
s6.O0d6.5O; Xxx S7.OOd7.50; choice
family S7.756S.25; fancy, 1915.
Corn MEAL-Unbolted and bolted,
sacked in depot, 95697ae.
CORN-LOose, S0dS5c; sacked and in
depot, 90d95c.
WHEAT-Prime to strictly choice, S1.20
61.35 per bushel.
OATs-Saeked and delivered in depot,
67ad70c.
BRAN-Loose, $500; sacked in depot,
5000.
HAY-Hungarian S17.OOd1S.0O; clover,
do; timothy, S22.00d25.00.