The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22
FRANKLIN TENN. :
CURRENTEVENTS.

DIR. Clark, of the Southern Methodil
church, has raised ten thousand dollar
for the Wesley monument church, Sa
yannsh, Georgia, by his tour north.
Capt. Bogardus, the famous pigeon
shooter of Chicago, who went to
England and beat all the shooters there,
has been arrested in St Louis at the in
stance of the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals, for shooting at a
match.
The Directors of the Nashville and
Decatur Railroad met in Nashville o
The 18th INST. The principal business
transacted was that of burning $205, 600
IN Tennessee and Alabama railroad bonds,
which had been previously cancelled.
Senator Bsyard of Delaware, made
speech at Raleigh, n. c., 10th inst, in
which he urged the people of all sections
to cultivate good will and harmOuy-not
to build up preponderance of one section
over another, but to secure the first great
principal of a happy Union, the equality
of the States
President Grant must feel very
strangely on getting back to his official
duties. Last April His Excellency start
ed off on a series Of excursions, and, with
the exception of few weeks of quiet at
Long Branch, he has been moving around
to race courses, clam bakes, soldiers re
unions, ect., ever since.
The other day limited gale of wind
blew one Ofthe centennial buildings down.
This is significant, and suggests that the
commissioners are using shoddy In their
important work. This will tend TO create
a suspicion Of unssfety to the visitors OF
the Centennial.
Major Sykes, in speech at Paris,
in this State, the other day, stated that
In less than four years a "narrow-guage
railroad would be built from Cairo to
the Louisville and Memphis road. 1t
would 20 where the greatest inducements
were offered, and the most assistance Civ
en-. 1t might go to Paris, or 1t might go
to Mckenzie
"A very distressing suicide occurred in
Nashville last saturday night. Mr.. W. j.
Hooper, a young man twenty-three years
of age, went TO HempEill Restaurant and
called for oysters for himself and friend
When they had taken their seals 81 the T..
bic Hooper, after handing two notes T.
his friend, deliberately put a pistol to his
head and fired, which caused his death
instantly.
When the great trotter American
Girl fell dead in a race she was trOtting
at the time, at Elmira n. Y, quite a
sensation was caused by the appearance
Of brilliant rainbow, one end of which,
from the grand stand, appeared as if ii
fell upon the PROSTATE form OF the dying
mare. The judges stand was draped in
mourning, and a funeral dirge was play
ed By the band. A subscription was
started for the erection of monument on
the grounds of the Elmira Driving Park
in memory of he great dead, and within
a short time $3.50 was contributed.
AT a sale of short horn cattle in the
Blue Grass section of Kentucky, last
week, some extraordinary sales were
made Forty-fOur native COWS and heit
ers, brought SIS, 2l0, averaging 81, 800,
and twenty imported ones SOL. 225 aver
aging -. 56l total for cows SiO9 500, an
average of 81, 40 Four native bulls sold
for Sl,7l5. average 1929, and FIVE impor-
ted ones for So, 800, average &, 500 to-
tai tor bulls Sl4Oi5, an average of 81 ,557; |
total for 3 animals, Sl23 45O; grand av-
eraEe II ,69l. With the exception OF the |
New York Mills sale, this is cOnsideren |
the greatest ever made on our continent.
Cholera is reported in India, which |
is the birth place and home of the dread |
monster Nashville had better look out |
for 1t will be visiting her purEeus next |
Summer Every traveller will tell you |
that Nashville is the filthtiet city they ev-
er saw. An Englishman born and reared |
in crowded England says he never saw as |
6lthy town as Nashville. Now we do
not mention these facts to injure Nash
vile, however we would not do anything |
to hurt her but we do it in order that the
people may know what her nelghbOrs
think Of Eer. The ques,.On is asked by
every man who visits Nashville. Why!
is this city so filthy Whose fault is it,
Is there no remedy?' DR.. Ely Mcclellan,
an eminent physician and medical author
ity Of New York who visited Nashville
soon after the great scOurage of 1873, has
published a book in which he claims TO
give the cause Of the visit of cholera to
America in that year. He says Nashville
suffered from the obstinacy OF the Off
Cials