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a "BONDSMAN' AND WHAT HE
WAS WORTH.


The court 8as disposed to be lenient as
possible, and the question Of a bOnisman
was the only one 70 be settled, which, as
night was rapidly approaching, judicial
dignity was anxious to dispose of. After a
little search among the dusky thrODg Of
hangers-On, Russ Wood presented himself
and expressed his willingness to become
pecuniarily responsible for the future
presence Of the saddled- colOred prisoners.
"Mr. Wood" demanded the court, "2re
you worth one thousand dollars"
"Hes, sab; is" responded Russ.
Whereupon he was duly sworn as to the
value of his worldly possessions; but as
Russ was unknown on the assessors books,
the court felt a reasonable curiosity TO
know of what his available assets consist
ed, AID inquired.
'Of what does your property consist, Mr..
Wood?'
s.Propelty? Well, sab, ole Marse Wood
Glib thirteen hundred dollars for Inc fore de
war, and l is w1f as much to-day as l was
den; sides dat, Is got five likely niggers.'
A frOwn contracted the magiSterial brow
as the nature Of the assets were made
known, aud the Court expressed doubt of
Mr.. Woods ever having been worth so
much or commanding so large a sum Of
money.
"'Fore God, sab, 1 brung it in de Muir
freesbOro market. Is fraid of dis security
business anyhow; dat's what broke ole
Marse; ana # hab to pay dis III stan
Security Il, more.'
Now, tie Court claims Rutherford cOun-
ty as the place of his birth, aud the men
ton Of MurfreesboTO touched q tender
chord in the judicial bosom, the corrugated
brow relaxed, a chilG-like smile Overspread
the benignaht countenance Of the Court,
The bond was accepted, and the release of
the prisoners ordered.
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FATAL PANIC AMONG SHEEP.
Alameda (Cal) independent.

AAdL4Eud ANdll AlA4G A'cAlucnt-
Last week we mentioned the loss Of a
large number Of sheep in the hills back Of
Mission San Jose, belonging to Mr.. Ash
urst. The sheep, it seems, to the number
of about two thousand five hundred, were
quietly feeding on hill about three miles
east Of Mission San Jose on Sunday after
noon, July /, when a man who had been a
short time working for the owners sud
denly uttered 2 loud yell, which had the
effect Of frightening them. They imme-
diatsly began running down hill as fast
as they could. At or near the bottom
Of the hill large patch of poison oak was
growing, and they rushed pell-mell into il.
Here their legs got so entangled that they
could not move. Meanwhile the. others
behind still came rushing down upon them
until they were piled in layers, six deep,
one upon the other. Of course the most Of
them were soon suiiOcated and dead.
One of the owners came to the spot with
in ten minutes afterward, and with the aid
of a Spaniard succeeded in pulling cut
and rescuing about fifty head. BIT the
number that lost their lives in this strange
way was seven hundred in all. 1t is sup
posed that the yell by the hired man was
given for the purpose Of starting the sheep
off to camp
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11
ALPHABETICAL.


For the Information of whom it may
concern, we subjoin a list Of nearly all
the names that have appered in our
State exchanges in connection with the
Senatorial vacancy or. sted by Ex-
President Johnson's death. Owing to
the difficulty OF classifying them ac-
sording to their merits OF their chances,
we give them in strictly alphabetical
order:
James E. Bailey, VIM. B. Bate, A.
BLIZZARD, Jno. c. Brown, T. ". Brown,
A. Caldwell, Alex. w. Campbell, Rob-
ert L. Caruthers, jefferson Davis, B.
NJ. Estes, Edwin H. Ewing, Luke FIN
lay, Jno. NJ. Fleming, Jno. A. Gardner,
Isham G.. Harris, Gus A Henry, E. A.
James, Geo. w. Jones, J. N. Heating,
A. J. Kellar, D. NJ. Kennedy, D. NJ.
Key VIM. Kyle, Mayor League of
Memphis, G. N. McGhee, Robert J.
Mckinney, John Netherland, Gideon
J. Pillow, VIM. A. Quarles, F. B. Rag
land, John Roush. Jno. H. Savage, DIR.
W. R. Sewer, Jas. T. Shields, n. G.
Taylor, Dorsey B. Thomas, Judge Van
Dyke, Michael Waldron, Moses White,
John Williams, Patrick Winters, Archi.
bald Wright.
OF the names canvassed for the posi-
ton in private, and which have not
crept into print, we can give no list,
because they are legion. 1t may be
that the name of Tennessee's next Sen
ator does not figure in the above. Pos:
sibly, if it did, it might occupy very
modest position. We may remark, by
the way, that. while endeavoring to re-
feet the claims Of all, by copious ex-
tracts from our State exchanges, we
have carefully eschewed whatever re-
marks have appeared in displragement
of any man or section.
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transforming one bushel of seed wheat
into twenty; giving gain of nineteen
to reward science and industry. Making
shoe-pegs from wood is notmore simple
than making grains of wheat from air
and water with a sprinkling of sgricul-
tural salts.
This is the branch of productive in
dustry that men who somehow love
big rents for houses and lands, and
high interest en- money, should foster,
because a gain from one to twenty in
twelve months, enables the producer
to pay large profits to merchants, me-
chanics, bankers and professional
men, and have plenty left to live on.
But so soor as the soil becomes i'm
poverished, and small crops of wheat,
corn and cotton are harvested from
year to year. being nearly all consumed
to feed the farmers family, trade,
commerce and manufactures suffer
severely. The advantage of keeping
up the fertility of wheat lands is
shown by the experience of John John.
son, the model farmer of Western
New York, now in his eighty-fourth
year. His last fifty annual crops of
wheat have averaged twenty-eight
bushels per acre, Notwithstanding
his loss of two whole crops to re-
duce the average, and several partial
failures. He sows a ton of plaster on
twenty acres of clover at a cost of
twenty cents per acre; and clover gives
him his very profitable crops of wheat,
Let the thoughtful reader ponder this
bit of wheat history, where twenty
cents worth of agricultural salts per
acre a year, gives % bushels of wheat
a year for fifty years in succession, after
discounting all losses by smut, Hessian
fly, wheat fly, freezing out in winter,
drouth at one time and protracted
rains at another. MIR. Johnson's farm
is all underdlained. Into the SUBJ
soil of such land, both wheat and clover
roots descend several feet as has been
demonstrated. 1t often happens that
a farmers best wheat soil does not
come within foot of the surface of
the ground. Lime, salts and others
incline to sink into the porous earth,
but they are too valuable to be lost.
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A WAYsIDE MYSTERY.
Fort Warne lIndl sentneL.


This afternoon a farmer named James
H. Walfort, while going bone on the Bluff
ton road with his team, heard loud cries
and shouts of anguish some distance from
the road. Going 20 the spot from which
the sounds proceeded, he met sight which
literally froze his blood. Tied TO a tree
and stripped to the vast was a woman
almost frantic with pain, while a savage
male brute was beating her with a horse
whip, every lash drawing blood and
causing the skin to swell up in large
ridges. Mr.. WalfoJd addressed the man,
when the latter pointed a revolver at him,
and told him with an oath to leave or he
would shoe. him. Waliou harriedlv left,
and soon met Two friends, with whom he
returned to the spot, only in time to see
the man and bis companion going away in
a wagon as fast as their horses could carry
hem.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

In evidence of the manner that
Washington gamblers have been made
t. contribute funds to run Boss Shep.
herds ring, wehave the following from
Forney's Chronicle:
When District Attorney Wells takes
his Office, September l, ADMINISTRATION
Will be made, which viii satisfactorily
show that one hundred dollars per
month has been collected from gam
bling houses in this city by two m IN
who claimed to represent the District
Attorney and Chief Of Police. There
is no doubt about this whatever, but
we do not think there has been any as
sessment received by the police since
theHarrington safe burglary affair, al
though it may have been collected.
Because, as many know, that mon
strous conspiracy broke up the con-
nections between the police headquar-
tiers and the District Attorneys Office;
It also divided the detective corps,
three mel bers Of which refused to do
any work for the District Ring.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

THE KnOzUiIIe Age suggests that a
more important step for the welfare Of
East Tennessee could not be well taken
thanIestabishing in that city a Bureau
of Minerals. 1t is now concededfact,
on ali hands, that Knoxville is in the
center Of the grandest mineral belt,
perhaps, on the continent.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

BROTHER SHEARMAN Of Plymouth
Church has been addressing the
English Congregatoralists at toe City
Temple in London in defense of Mr..
Beecher. He told the English that
Mr.. Beecher had not INDUCED so much
In kissing as was usual with minister's,
which is certainly an uncalled for SLAM
der on the clergymen of America, and
the Northern press are a unit in de-
nouncing It's author.
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l2-32s.l
Richard F. WassOB ct ais, Is. YirqlI c..
WGesOn ef f1Zs

Lots Nos. liz and rs I'm Bryan's addition to
Edgeneld, on the corner Of Berry and Stewart
streets, having frame house with two rooms,
and fence enclosing said lets. These lots adj
join that OF Dr.. JnO. B. McFerrin, and are near
his residence.
Also, lot No. 105 in williams addition 70 Edge
field, fronting 50 feet on Fatherland street. be-
tween HObsOn street and Priscilla avenue. and
extending back 30 feet 70 an alley.
TERMS OF SALE-Fiftv dollars cash. for
the balance. credits Of and u months. Notes
required with approved security and lien re-
tanned.
Upon lots Nos. 112 and l13 a minimum If $50.
and upon No. los that Of $3.50 has been fixed.
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To the Union and American:

PULASKI, Aug. IO.-FOr the benefit Of
many companies now organizing through
out the country, for the purpose Of attend
ing the Philadelphia Centennial, plea e
state whether the safe will furnish TO
such companies arms, uniforms, transpor-
tatioD, ratioBs, etc. Much anxiety aud
solicitude has been felt by those who hold
important offices in said companies, in this
matter. q
The State fuIn shes arms when she
has them, on the proper security, but
does not furnish uniforms, trausporta-
ton or rations, except when the militia
are called into active service. In the
present condition Of our finances, there
is no likelihood that they viii be called
into any such holiday service asa jaunt
to Philadelphia.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11
NOT EnR InE

The Republican gentlemen who be.
gan the row about ''the third term
may make up their minds to catch it
from TIE Grant wing of the late party
of great moral ideas. Coming events
cast their shadows before; so we see in
the editorial outcroppings of the Grant
organs bitter hostility to Wilson, But
Ter and Blaine. a late issue Of the
Washington Republican says:
The NelC York Herald shows its ig-
nOrance of the political situation by de-
claring that North Carolina might send
delegates for Blaine; Georgia for Will
son, and Mississippi for Butler, TO be
candidates for President at the next
Republican convention. Neither Blaine
nor Wilson viii get a single vote in
that convention from the South unless
the developments Of the coming session
of Congress should prove that they
have learned TO respect the Southern
Republicans as a body Of men who are
entitled to recognition and protection
by the Government. We do not be-
heve that Mr. Wilson viii do this; but
of Mr.. Blaine, as we have said before,
we have some hopes. At any rate the
opportunity viii be offered to him, and
if he does not embrace it he may as
well make up his mind to continue to
receive and deserve the opposition of
the Southern wing of the party.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

URGED apparently by a latent fear
that East Tennessee may not after all
secure the Senatorial prize, the Chatta-
nOogG Times urges the claims Of West
Tennessee as second choice, but insists
that, on no account, should Middle
Tennessee be favored with the appoint
ment. The main reason assigned for
this latter position is that Middle Ten
nessee already has a Senator. If so
what does East Tennessee journals, like
the Athens Nel1sc mean by saying the
State sis now without a Senator. "
While publishing the claims of all, we
have not admitted to our columns one
word against the claims of any section,
and do not ike Middle Tennessee sum-
marily ruled out. Let the aspirants Of
whatever section stand upon then own
merits They are all - nesseeans, and
the Office they seek Is TO represent the
whole State and its Statehood in that
Parliament of States, the Federal Sen
ate. We have Congressman to repre-
sent all subdivisions. Let US be neigh
borly.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

A CIRCULAR from the advertising
agents Geo. P. Rowen & Co., states
that of 28 new newspapers placed on
their lists during July and taking
political sides, nine declaredthemselves
Republican and nineteen Democrats.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

The United States Economist says of
the deceased ex-President: at is said
that be had policies on his life for a
total of about S350,OOO. 1t is to be
hoped that this news is true"
We have reason for doubling the ac-
curacy of this report. which originated,
we believe, with the Charleston Nelrs
and Courier. 1t will be seen from an
article elsewhere that the correspon-
dent of the Atlanta Constitution, who
remained in Greeneville some days
after the funeral, and enjoyed unusual
the entire estate OF the deceased at
SI25,OOO.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

AMoNG.recent curious inventions is
the.application OF the camera obscura
to a railroad car, imparting to the trav
cling and wondering beholder a moving
diminutive picture Of the country
through which 1t is passing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

THE Richmond correspondent Of the
Louisville Ledger writes:
At a recent meeting Of the old First
Virginia Regiment Association, a CON-
mittee was appointed to look after md
care for the graves of Federal soldiers
who died IN the prison camp on Belle
Isle, and we're buried on that island.
Some of these graves have been recent
" washed out by freshets in the river.
The committee is also directed to per-
form the same Office toward any other
Federal graves that may be found in
the city or vicinity.
This betokens an earnest effort to
close the bloody chasm. VIII bloody
shirt" Morton and his organs make a
note of it?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

IN our Senatorial Drift" yesterday,
an extract attributed to the Athens
Post should have been credited to the
Athens NetUs. We hope all exchanges
copying from us VIII make the requisite
correction.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

THE Washington Republican, Grant
organ, says: 1.-The Southern Republi-
cans, with the help Of one or two
Northern delegations, Will be able To
control the nominations to be made by
the next National Convention Of that
party. Aword to the wise is sufficient. .
In another paragraph the Republican
says: 1.-THE assumption that the South
ern wing of the Republican party is in
favor of tho denomination of President
Grant Is correct.
Put this and that together, it looks
a little ike the third term idea still
lived.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

THE Nelo York Herald thinks there
are people in New Jersey who would
not object to seeing Gov. Bedle the
Democratic candidate for President.
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C2-416.l
n Breea rs. HOnOrn DlDley- ef qLs


P. g. BreeB Us. HOROrG Dl0yer ct ale
Lot No. $50 in the Original Plan OF Nashville,
together with the improvements thereon, begin
ming at a point on the south side OF Cedar street
at the northwest corner OF the lot convene 10
r. Lehman by b. Leake, running thence east
with Cedar street 25 feet 70 Mrs Smiths corner;
thence sOuthwardly with Mrs. smiths west line
IS feet, more OF less, 70 = fence; thence west at
right angles . feet 70 said Leake's lot; thence
sOuthWardly with the east line Of Leake's lot 70
feet, more or less, 10 the beginning.
TERMS OF SALE.-Credits Of s, u and Is
mOnths- Notes required with good personal
security on the first EOte, bearilE ihterest
from date and lien retained.
Sale free from redemption.
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR.,
Clerk and Master.
fv2I 2Skaur41I
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". 7. Briggs vs. J. II. Hinton ct ais.
Lot No. 9 in the division Of the estate Of John
HObsOn, deceased, lying on the Gallatin Pike,
about two miles from Nashville, fronting q
poles on said pike, and containing about %
acres Of well improved land. For description
By metes and bounds, see Book No. %, page 30,
r. o. ID. @.
TERMS or SALE-Credits Of six, twelve,
eighteen and tWenty-fOur months with interest
from day Of sale. Notes required with good
personal security and lien retained.
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Jennie E. Burge rs. Thomas and John
N. Burqe ct ais.

NJ. Blrge ct ais.
Part Of lot No. So. fronting IS feet on North
Cherry street, and running back - feet, being
next to the house and l0t on the corner Of Cher
y and Line streets, and Is the same lot which
was conveyed 70 ThOs. o. Burge, deceased. BY
james Davis by deed in Book No. 80, page j, X.
o. ID. @.
division OF lots Nos. IA and AS Of the lands of
JnO. McNairy, deceased
Lots Nos. and 2, each front 100 feet1n Wash
tngtOn street.
Nos. II and p, each front 100 feet On Desha
rect.
No. Is fronts 100 feet on Hamilton street, and
all extend back in depth 1SS Sc feet
TERMS OF SALE-Credits OF s and II
months. Notes required bearing interest from
day and lien retained.
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MEDICAL.
PRESCRIPTION FREE.

T5OR THE SPEEDY CURE OF SEMINAL
Weakness, Lost Manhood, and all disorders
brought On BY indiscrCtiCn or excess. ANY drug
zist has tie Ingredients. Address DR.. Z. hill
TON 8 CO., Cincinnati Ohio. oe29d1y
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11
SENATOR MAKING.

40 me OniOn anu A1neIlcans
NASHVILLE, Aug. 9.-As gratuitous
advice upon the Senatorial question
seems to be the order of the day, /
mOdestly submit to His Exeellency,
that no man has "claims" upon that
position. The divisional or territorial
claim is Of all the feeblest. 1t Is a
convenient claim, however, in this,
that it can be urged in favor of one
man, because he is an East Tennessee
an, and is Of equal force In favor of
another because he IS not. 1t Is an
elastic claim, and might, with little
stretching, be used in favor of cOun-
ties as well as divisions. 1t is claim
which, if logically carried out, would,
IN time, give us Senators from Carter
to Shelby, and thus reduce to the SIM
plicity of A, B. G the solution of an
otherwise most difficult problem. Let
those who urge this claim only suggest
some law, natural or artificial, by
which brains may be made to rotate
from Knoxville to Memphis, and this
claim becomes irresistible.
The other supposed claims of many,
when tested in the crucible Of truth,
amount to nothing more than a con-
suming desire and an oft-repeated effort
to be made Senator. QHid UOlO I'd
merea, because / wish the office, there
fore 1 deserve it is an argu-
ment which, however potent In
petty politics. should be dismissed
without consideration, when experience
and not experiment Is needed, when
merits and not "claims" are to ibe re-
warded.
No man has claims upon the State,
but the State has claims upon every
citizen, according to his ability to dis
charge them. In the present emergen-
cy, her claim is upon that man,
who. by public speeches, by
written communications and most
of all by acts of craftsmanship,
has shown himself most capable of
"risihg to the height of every great
argument" which may be sprung in
the council of the nation; upon that
man who not only has "views," but is
capable of enforcing them upon others,
who are not bound TO him by the ties
of patronage or of personal influence;
upon that man who will best represent
her dignity, her scholarship and her
intellect. The privilege of sending
such man to the Senate is more to he
desired than the position itself. As to
who that man is, the Governors opin-
ion is worth more than that of your
CORRESPONDENT.
The state Press.
London Times.
The appointment of n. G. Taylor, of
Carter county, to represent the State
in the United States Senate, would
give general satisfaction to the people
of East Tennessee.
Woodbury. Press.
1t is generally conceded that West
Tennessee will get the appointment;
and Judge Sneed is thought to be the
coming man.
Memphis Ledger.
In our opinion, and in the opinion of
no small number hereabouts, Gov. Por-
ter would cause the least dissatisfac-
ton by appointing Gen. w. B. Bate to
the vacant seat IN the Senate. -
But while we claim this, we do not wish
to be understood as opposing the ef-
forts which we learn the friends Of ex-
Gov. Harris, here and elsewhere, are
making in his behalf to secure the ap-
DOintmaDt
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THE era of good feeling-both par
ties seem 10 be satisfied with the result
of the Kentucky election.-Nel7 York
Herald.
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CHANCERY SALE.

(2-3iS)
Thomas L. Washington, Adm'r, ETC., Us.
Sandy CoekriH ct ais.
IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER IN THE
Il above entitled cause rendered By the Chan
Gerry Court at Nashville, at its April term. 1915,
viii expose 10 public sale, at the Courthouse
Nashville, on
Wednesday, Aug. II, 1876,
at y O'clock NJ, the following described prop
erty, to wit:
Fat OF Lot No. 81 in the plan OF the city Of
Nashville, beginning az point on North Cherry
street, 10 feet from the corner Of Cedar ard
Cherry streets and at the corner Of an alley 10
feet wide, running At right angles with Cherry
street; thence running along said alley s. feet
20 a y foot alley: thence along said alley away
from Cedar street 2j FEET; thence at right angles
with said alley 81 feet 10 Cherry street; thence
with Cherry street 25 feet to the beginning.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash. Free from the
equity Of redemption.
NATHANIEL BAXTER. JR.
jy21. te9saug4,1l Clerk and Master.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-11

THE London Spectator mas made the
remarkable discovery that the opium
of British India, on account Of its
mldness, does not hurt It's Chinese
consumers very much. 1t thinks,
also, that the peculiar constitution of
the Celestials enables them to stand an
amount of narcotism which would
ruin an Englishman. 1t would hardly
have reached this conclusion were it
not for the fact that a great part of
the revenue Of Hisdostan is derived
frJm the opium traffic.