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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
How to Secure Healthy Homes.

ONE Of the most valuable AMI important
more, of the American Public Health As
ISOLATION was by DR.. Ezra M. Hunt, on
the general subject of securing health in
the construction and warming of houses.
The principle upon which the doctor lays
most emphasis in his paper is this:
3" Guard against ~stagnation either in air or
moisture" This principle must be borne
in mind in every detail Of house construc-
ton. In sinking a cellar, for example,
the majority of builders pay very little at
tention to the amount of moisture which
exists in the surrounding soil. How many
people who have the chance of doing so,
think Of insisting on q thorough system
of side-drains, and are fully awake to the
danger Of making their i~nclosed cellar
simply "a large terminal drain" or " an
expanded partof a continued drain"? But
a properly-drained cellar is one of themost
important requisites forhealth in a house.
Another point to which too little atten-
ton is paid is the free circulation of air
in the basement floor. Partitions are con-
structed without any reference whatever
to their influence in intercepting atmos-
pheric currents, and confined closets and
middle rooms are thrown in to serve as
"hiding-places for contagion and foul
air" Handy conductors for the vitiated
atmosphere thus formed in cellar and
basement are found in stairways and
dumb-waiters connecting with the upper
floor, and the inmates are condemned to
inhale the poison generated below, instead
of the pure air, whose abundant supply
they nave unconsciously taken infinite
pains to cut off.
DIR. Hunt also lays considerable stress
upon the necessity of avoiding the use of
a too dense building material, Or at least
of so modifying that density by the proper
use of porous mortar as to prevent it from
interfering with the sanitary principles
Of house construction. On this point he
lays down the ~salutary rule that "a
house should be constructed of such La
terials as TO admit air, and so arranged
in all its parts as to promote the insensible
motion of outside air through the struct-
ure. The arrangement Of heating appa-
ratus should be made especially with
this object in view. The doctor makes a
strong plea for the liberal use of open fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25

places, and for careful attention to the Sc
curing OF a thorough draft in fues. The
prevailing vices of house construction
tend to cOnfine the function of heaters
in a hygiene sense-to the evaporation
of moisture from the walls, to the warm
ing of the o and lime, in fact, rather
than to providing a constantly-renewed
supply of moderately-heated air for the
jewellers in the house. The eneryatinc
character of most of our heating arrange
ments is well illustrated by a reference to
the ease and comfort with which or may
ride in the open air, with a great-coat, at
a season when it is found impossible to
secure q comfortable bodily temperature
indoors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
from the PHILADELPHIA Preshrterian-1

FROM the Worlds Dispensary Printing-Of-
ice and Bindery, Buffalo, n. Y, we have re-
ceiyed "The Peoples Common Sense Medi-
cal Adviser, in Plain English; or, Medicine
Simplifed," by r. V. Pierce, M. d.. Coun-
selor-in-Chief of the Board of Physicians
and Surgeons at the Worlds Dispensary.
Whoever helps humanity in its struggle with
It's inherent weaknesses and diseases, to
bear or cure, is its benefactor. Ignorance is
not only of itself a cause of disease and
mortality, but it is the enemy of every effort
to cure or mitigate. Nothing will so speedi-
~ emove this cause as knowledge ian ele-
mentary one, at least) of the diseases to
which we are heir, as well as those superin-
duced by our own imprudence. DR.. Pierce
has rendered, in our Judgment, a benefac-
tors service, both to the afflicted and TO the
profession, in his diagnosis of the diseases
treated Of, and in the presentation Of the
philOsphic principles involved in their cause
and removal. He is sparing Of remedies,
and usually prescribes such as are safe in
unskilled hands. As a book merely of alb
stract knowledge, it is exceedingly readable
and interesting, especiallyth the following sub
jects: Cerebral Physiology, Human Temper
aments, Pseudo Hygiene, the Nursing of the
Sick, Sleep, Food, Ventilation, etc. In one
chapter on another subject, so delicate in its
nature that it is shut up beyond the domain
of warning to all but physicians, so ac-
most explicit, and, alike true to God. to yir-
tue, to life and to society, shows the truth
as presented in the teachings of Scripture
that life begins with conception--yitb GREAT
force, to which is added faithful warnings.
Price of the Medical Adviser $50. sent
postpaid. Address the author at Buffalo.
New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
Died for Love.

II this practical and prosaic age of ours
the cynic is apt to get the advantage of
the sentimentalist. The ridicule and sat
ire of the one blights and brushes the
pathos (or bathos) Of the other. Theworld
is too busy, and life is becoming too short.
to spend much time on what is merely
~fanciful or tender, which in a material
sense profiteth the world nothing. Yet
now and then an incident occurs which,
though purely romantic and sentimental
appeals strongly to the sympathy and
pity of the sterneSt-hearted cyniC. Such
for instance, is the story Of that simple
souled, sclf-sacrifcing, and loving young
Parsee who was recently found floating
dead in d reservoir in Lancashire, En-
gland. 1t is often questioned whether
hearts are ever broken for love, yet it is
certain that young Dorabjee Hormusiee
died for love. He went to England not
long ago to study cOtton-spinning, and
intended to return to Bombay to set up a
mill among his fire-wOrshiping kindred.
In England he became deeply attached to
a young girl Who failed to reciprocate his
feelings. She may not have liked his
dark skin, his broken language, his Orien-
tai ways, lis pagan religion; at least poor
Dorabjee, after such advances as his SIM
pie and poetic nature prompted, came to
see that his cause was hopeless. Forhim,
then, it was just as natural to die
as to love. In his heart there
was no thought of reproach for the Obdu-
rate fair one. He simply sat down and
wrote her a respectful, tender and plant
i've letter, and penned Oh the outside a
request that she would "please not show
this TO anybody" went up to the reservoir
and, tying his hands behind him, took the
fatal plunge. In all the epistolary litera-
ture Of love there is no letter more sweet,
simple, tender and free from selfshness
or guile than this of the young Eastern
fire-wOrshiper to his Lancashire lass"
Il hope you will excuse me-" he says,
" Tor taking liberty for writing to you, but
really | cannot help it, because I love you
so much, and you must truly believe that
[ never came across a young lady more
lovely and more atfectionate like you. l
hope you will be happy, but don't forget
me, because I sacrifice my heart to you,
dear. I always dreamed about you; I
don't think you hardly believed it that
how I loved you, my dear; but l am at
last disappointed. But never mind, it
cannot be helped; but don't forget me, be-
poJ1Cn Won ORC tho OO1u lOvo6 T don't
think you care much about me, but I did.
Remember me, my dear, remember me.
I hope you will be happy" In a more
chivalrous time the fate of the hapless
young Oriental in a strange land would
have been celebrated by the odes of a
Sappho or the sweet lyrics of a Petrarch
now his prosaic epitaph is the Coroner's
verdict, Died of the result of temporary
neutrality-suspicious. Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25

A MAN called into a store in this city
lately and asked for a sheet of paper on
which to write a letter. After writing
awhile the proprietor noticedhim scratch
ing on a piece of paper, and shortly came
this request: "Look here, friend, its
some time since l wrote much; won't you
show me how to make a z? | want to
write Isaiah" The merchant helpedhim
out of his NATURALIZATION (Ne)
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25

The German Empire contains 10000
schools, with 5000. 900 scholars. To every
1000 inhabitants there are $50 scholars.
There are $50 gymnasiums, IA progym-
nasiums and 4S4 real schools and gram
mar schools. The normal schools con-
tain III $40 scholars. There are twenty
universities with 10, 557 students, Berlin,
Leipsic and Munich having each more
than 1000. The polytechnic schools have
$50 teachers and 4,42S students.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25

AT a laundry near Jersey City 5000
pieces are washed daily, and 100 barrels
of soap are used per week. big wash
ing!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
Commissioner Pratt's Report.

WASHINGTON, Nov. II.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
completed his report for the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1875. The document is very vo-
luminous, and shows that the actual amount
of receipts into the Treasury from all sources
from and after June so, 1851, to June 80,
1874, exclusive of loans and Treasury notes,
was as follows:
81, 973, n0,367
Internal revenue. ........-....... 1886, 3d. 25
Dlrect tax 90 1~4,S1O,1S9
Publc Iands'...-.----. 1890. Y, 151,95
Miscellaneous 936,C81, 9S5
premiums on loans and sales OF
gold coin........~....-........,, 92,557.1 III
Total 80. S., 1885, 33,3
The collections for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1874, were S102,GH 746; for the year
ended June 80, 1875, $11O,575, 154. The in
crease during the last fiscal year is owing in
part to the increase of the duties laid by the
act Of March 3, 1915, upon distilled spirits,
manufacturer tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and
in part to taxes collected under the laws re-
pealed, extraordinary efforts having been
put forth to collect delinquent taxes due
from banks and bankers, railroad and other
corporations and taxes due on incomes, leg
acies and SUGGESTIONS.
A statement is given showing the receipts
under the act of March 5, 1875, up to and in
elusive Of June 30, 1875, from different articles
subject to an increased tax, showing the total
tax returned So, 203,818, The tax returned
upon distilled spirits was $1,719, 100.
Tie net amounts received from all sources
of internal revenue during the last fiscal year
= 4L. ~.--o-,.T E4oT.- - ,:,~, 90 c,EJ,,r..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
The Cincinnati Southern RAILROAD.

Maj. IhCs. O'COnnU, who has Just re-
turned from Cincinnati, says the trustees of
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad intimated
TO him that the road would probably be
leased TO the combination Of New York
capitalists mentioned in the article We
copied from the Gazette Of Wednesday.
With some reduction Of force, owing TO a
little holiday SPreeinC among the labOrers,
work on the road is going right along.
There are now iitty-nine miles Of the road
graded and otherwise made ready for the
ties and rails. This amount Of finished
work includes only finished mile sections.
There are enough finished portions of sec
tions to increase the length of completed
work to about a hundred miles. The
finished sections are distributed as fol-
lows: Nine miles through the rough
Eagle Hills Of Scott county,
Kentucky; thirty miles in Lincoln
county, Kentucky; four miles next the Ten
nessee State line in Whitley county, Ken
lucky; three miles Of heavy mountain
work in Scott county, Tennessee; three
miles in Morgan county, Tennessee, and
ten miles Of repaired old roadway between
NichOlsville and the Kentucky River.
Up to December p, ZONE thousand eight
hundred and sixteen feet Of Kings Noun
tain Tunnel had been dug. When the full
force (abOUt four hundred menu is en-
ployed, the progress from the two shafts
and from The two side entrances is one hun
dred and ten feet per week.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
New Advertisements.

Insure in the State Insurance Company.
Diaries for 1915 at los Church street.
Use the ElmwOOd collar.
See nonresident notice.
See insOlv5ut notice.
Dealers who wish pure article Of Rob
ertsOn county whisky should send their Or
ders to Woodland x Moore, Springfield,
Tenn.
A splendid assortment Of umbrellas, fur
nishing goods, furs, etc, can be found al
Jesse Ely's, Al North Cherry street.
A dividend Of seven per cent has been
declared by the Commercial Insurance Co.,
payable on the 4th inst.
The famous IrOquOis Tribe Of Indians
commence a two nights engagement al
Masonic Hall on Monday next.
Regular monthly meeting Of CUlebs
Club at Maxwell House, tonight, at q
O'Clock.
ID. I. EimOndSOn announces himself
candidate for dOOrzeeper Of the Lower
House of the next General Assembly.
The c0partnership Of Campbell McEwen,
Berry & Lea, and Of Berry & Lea, has been
dissolved.
Bunes & Co. have large auction sale of
furniture, etc, this morning, at % North
College street.
TIE Nashville Savings Company, corner
Union and College streets, are doing a
regular exchange and banking business;
they receive deposits and allow interest
thereon; they furnish drafts i'm amounts
wanted on En-land, Ireland and Germany;
they negotiate loans, and they at al times
pay the best rates for stocks, bonds, etc.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
ReaI Estafe TransEers.


The following real estate transfers were
made duting the past week:
Elijah i. Elliston 10 Lizuika E.
listOn, house on Union street. ,S45 90
Z. Caldwell to Ann I. Temple,
land in Davidson county.
A. q. Brown to Susan A. She,
land in Davidson cOunty...., 1000 90
Susan a. SHE to 4. q. Byron,
land in Davidson county,. 1000 o.
Jas. I. Patterson to NJ McClung
aud I. Anderson, lots in Edge
Beld, ................. q 90
Jacob Geiger to Minerva Baniza,
land in MclfavOck's addition. 1900 90
Weakley Il Warren TO Widow
and Orphans Fund Life Insur-
ance Company, land in Edge
ueiu..... .-............s..s. o,OUO %
Nathaniel Baxter, Clerk and
Master, 10 a. w. and Sallie
J. Brown, land in the
Eighteenth District. ...... 1858 90
j. Stillwell to J. II. Underhill
and others, land in the Twenty
fourth District. .,..s.......... 500 90
4. II. Robinson to Mary Hawkins,
land in Brownsville. ......... 800 90
j. g. Clark to a. J. Householder,
land in Knoxville.
J. @. FulghUm TO Margaret Han
son, land in Shelbyville. .... 600 90
Z. L. Freeman to Mrs. Bertha
A. Knox, land in North Nash
vile instrumentation. so 90
I. o. Beasley to E. L.HaralsOn,
lands in Buena Eista......... 100 90
Al. Barnes to G.. II. G. Samuel,
land in Barrow's addition. $50 90
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
A TEARS WEATHER.
What Old PrObs Remembers About
1874.

What Old PrObs Remembers About
1874.
We are indebted to Sergeant A. G. Ford,
Of the Nashville Signal Service, for the fol-
lowing:
The highest barometric reading at this
place, during the year 1874, was 30.S9
inches, on Jan. 25; the lowest, 29.4T
inches, on Nov. %. The highest tempera-
ture of the year occurred on Aug. II, when
the thermometer recorded 104 degrees in
the shade; lowest temperature, IL degrees,
on Jan. 10.
The total rainfall for the year was
5S.14 inches, which is in excess of the
quantity for 1873, by about Q inches. The
prevailing direction of wind has been
northwest. There were 12S wet DAYS in the
year. The precipitation was very unequal
~ distributed throughout the year, 3l.5j
inches having falling in the first four
months.
Mean barometer for tbs year, 30.OT6
inches. Mean annual temperature 6l.T
degrees.
The wind travelled during the year 3G,97S
miles, reaching a velocity Of Is miles per
hour in January.
Complete records Of the weather are on
Ble al the Signal Office in this city, where
the public are invited to inspect them.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
KILLED AT A CHURCH DOOR.
Particulars Of the Recent Double
Tragedy fn Claiborne COunfy-A
sheriff Murdered while DIseharging
His Duty.


A few days since we published an item
in regard TO the killing Of the Sheriff of
Claiborne county. From the MOrrtaOlrR
Gazette we clip the following particulars of
the affair;
On Sunday, the 10Th inst, a serious and
fatal difficulty occurred in the upper por-
ton Of Claiborne county, TepnesSee, lying
next 70 Lee cOEnt,, Va 4 number Of
citizens, among whom was the SheriTOfthe
county, Henley OvertOn, had met for pub
lie worship at a church in the vicinity.
During the services, several lawless per
SONS, eight OF ten in number, assembled on
the outside Of the church and disturbed
the congregation BIZ loud talking and
using prOfIne and vulgar language. The
Sheriff went out and demonstrated with the
parties, but they treated him with contempt
and defiance. He, thereupOn, arrested the
ringieader Of the lawless squad. But lis
companions, unwilling that their chief
should be dealt with as bis conduct de-
manded, by some means contrived to arm
him with a pistol, which he Immediately
presented and fired, the ball striking Over
ton in the breast, and passing through the
right lung. OvertOn fell 10 the earth, and
the desperate band assailed him with
poles and clubs; he raised himself on his
left arm, drew his pistol, and sent a ball
whiZzing through the heart Of his murder
err. The orderly disposed persons in the
church interferred at this time, or Over
toms life would have ended there and then.
lie was carried to a house near the scene Of
the terrible tragedy, where he died on
Monday following.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02

Blank &. indicates no report; cipher fO1 sta-
tionsryi minus t. tendency 20 fall plus On ten
deney 20 rise.
River still rising, with about p feet on
the shoals.
AITired-the Burlsyille, from Paducah,
with 12O bales Of hay and 500 sacks Of
corn.
Departad-the Abe Mcdonald, for Smith
land.
EIpected-the John S. Bransford, from
the upper Cumberland, and the Laura L.
Davis, for Pittsburg.
LeGriRg tO-dgJ-the Huntsville, for Pa
ducah.
The EUGRSUale Journal Of Thursday
says: "The Laura L. Davis passed down
from Pittsburg with full load, en- route to
Nashville. Capt. Owen W. Davis was
told that there was no use for an outsider
TO attempt to get a load, but he went to
work with real Western energy, and in two
days had his boat flattened out. The Davis
discharged 4 considerable amount Of freight
here for reshipment South, and proceeded
to Nashville. She will enter the Nashville
and st. Louis trade if there is any prospect
Of business; otherwise he viii make snOth-
eI trip to Pittsburg."
A New Orleans dispatch Of Dec. 81 SAYS:
"The Belle Lee arrived from Memphis at 8
p. II. to-day. Cargo, 5,9OS bales Of cotton.
the largest cargo that has arrived since the
war. She also had two bargos in tow, with
T62 bales of cotton on one, and 1900 sacks
Of cotton seed on the other. Cloudy and
pleasant "
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
carrie unless postage is paid thereon as by

carrie unless postage is paid thereon as by
law provided.
Newspapers (withOut regard to frequen-
g Of issue) one copy to each subscriber
actually, for the time being, residing in the
county where the same are printed, in whole
or in part, and published, are entitled to
pass free OF postage through the mails; but
the rate Of postage on the same excepting
weeklies) when deposited in a letter carrier
Office for delivery By the Office or its
carrier shall be uniform at cent each.
Weeklies, when sent through the
mails TO or deposited in a letter car
rier office in the county where the same
are printed in whole or in part, and pub
lished, TO be delivered through the box or
general delivery or by carriers, shall be
weighed in bulk and be subject to a post
age Of ? cents per pound, to be prepaid at
the mailing Office by special adhesive
stamps.
"The foregoing regulations are issued by
my authority and have my official sanction,
to take effect on and after Jan. I, 1875.
"MARsHALL JEWELL,
Postmaster General
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
ALL OYER THE CITY.


Yesterday was The dampest day We have
had this year.
The cost Of criminal prosecutions in Da-
wilson county during the year 1874 amount
to about S25, 900.
The Ieunesseeans gave an entertain
ment at Cooper Institute in New York
City Wednesday afternoon.
The congregation Of st. Johns COlored
Methodist Church, Rev. j. w. Early, Pas
tor, held a watch meeting Thursday night.
Two hundred thousand dollars of the
bonded debt Of Davidson county matured
yesterday, and 100000 viii fall due April
1, 1875.
The market-hOuse stalls are newly rent
ed, but the brick floor of the institution is
still in a miserably bad condition. Is there
no remedy?
During the year 1874 the county pest
house had not a single patient sent to it.
Yet the cost of running it for the year
amounted to over s, 200.
Citizens of Nashville who own real
estate in Edgefeld, can vote in the munich
pal election over there to-day, if so dis
pOsed-but not more than once.
The County Court Clerk and his aids
dispatched more business yesterday than in
AAA1 OA4C tAeAf SAAlAC 24As 8IAl lnuuCLluu III
to the Office, and, therefore, grieved the
more because the total fees for the day
amounted to only $500.
As a complimentary recognition of the
neat typographical execution Of the Max
well House bills of fare, Mr.. White, the
efficient and afIable caterer of that hotel,
sent the UNION AND AMERICAN job print
ers an elegant New Years dinner yester-
day.
The UNION AND AMERICAN received
greetings from the Maxwell House, the
Battle House, and the Commercial Hotel,
yesterday, with invitations TO take New
Years dinner. All those public inns
spread themselves, outdoing hospitality
Itself
The Good TcBtplar, organ ofthe 1. o. G.
L. Of Tennessee, has suspended peblica-
ton, and the Southern Household has taken
its place. II is under the editorial man
agement OF w. II. T. Lyon, p. G. w. G.
T., and the first number indicates that it is
in good hands.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
ADJUSTMENTS.

The IrOqUOis Indians, who were with the
Roman HippOdrOme until it cOllaps d re-
Gently, have reached Nashville on their way
to their Canadian home. They have been
travelling on foot to get here, where they
propose giving Performance at Masonic
Hall Monday and Tuesday nights next,
consisting OF numerous feats peculiar to
themselves. They play the game of ball
called La Crosse tomorrow, and next day
on the commons, east side OF the Supen
sion bridge. Everybody is invited to wit
ness this free.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-02
Personal.

Gen. VIM. A. Quarles, Of Montgomery, a
prominent candidate for the United States
Senate, arrived in the city yesterday.
Quite a lumber CT the East Tennessee
delegation arrived on the midnight train
from Chattanooga, last night. Their names
appear in tie list Of Senators and Repre-
sentatives now in the city, which we pub
lish this morning.
Registered at the Battle House: j. II.
BARNARD. Representative from ROane; II.
Ii. Norman, FlOater from Rutherford and
Bedford; A. II. Malone. Lawrence county:
ID. II. Talley, ". j. Anderson, Of Ruther-
ford, and W. p. TOlley, Lynchburg; P. b.
Coppage, Of Trenton, and Jesse W. SpOrks,
Of MUrfreesbOrO.