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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
AN INCIDENT IN CHARLOTTE CUsH.
MANS EARLY LIFE.
From The East BOSTON Adrocats


More than fifty years ago a boy some
sixteen or seventeen years Of age was at
WORK one afternoon on the old '.Hingham
Station Packet" which will be remembered
by some Of our citizens as for years Occu-
pying a berth az the head Of the dock
where State Street Block now stands. Il
was an afternoon when there was no
school, and a girl, somewhat younger than
the boy alluded to, was passing the half
holiday in play near the store Of her
father. Venturing too near the edge Of
the dock she missed her footing and fell
overheard, it being high water at the time
she disappeared No one saw her fall, but
BY accident the lad noticed some bubbles
in the water, and having Just before seen
the little miss on the wharf, instantly took
in the situation. Springing into the water,
he succeeded in bringing her to the surface,
and calling for aid she was taken on shore
and restored to her parents. This act
Of herOism saved the life Of one who
has become the most distinguished
American actress Of the age--a lady as
highly respected for her moral worth and
irTeproachable private character as she is
renowned all over the world for her emf
nent histriOnic achievements. Her rescuer
is to-day one Of our most estimable eiti-
zens, and less than year ago acquainted
the lady with the circumstances Of her de-
liverance from a watery grave through his
instrumentality-a fact she well remem-
bered, although till then ignorant Of the
name Of her preserver. Cornelius Lowell
had saved the life Of Charlotte Cushman.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
swINDLED By BIBLE CANvAssERs.
New York WOrId.


Edward ". Shields, a canyasser, residing
at 176 East Warren street, Brooklyn, and
doing business at 42 Park place, New York,
was arrested last night on complaint Of
ThOs. McCOmbs, residing at Thirteenth
street, GOWanus, and doing business as a
publisher at p Park place, New York.
Mr. McCOmbs alleges in a complaint
made before Justice Walsh that he had
been sWlndled out Of $500 in all
BY a gang Of Canvassers, who have
since decamped. Their plan Of Op-
Grafton was to 60 around and obtain
subscribers for bibles which Mr.. McCOmbs
published, collect all the money they could,
and then, when they got the bibles to de-
liver, sell them tor cash to other parties and
pocket the proceeds. They made a large
amount of money in this way, and swindled
one Of the Brooklyn papers in the same
manner by pretending to obtain subscriD-
ers. When they worked Brooklyn and
New York as far as they could, the gang
separated, and some Of them are supposed
to be in Hartford, Conn, at the present
time. Shields was locked up in the Wash
ingtOn Police Station last night, and will
be taken before Justice Walsh this morn
ing.
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mo- n. n Observer.

Now that Beecher has told his story, 1t
must be weighed in the just scales Of pub
lie opinion; and, as a preliminary TO that
operation, it must be CONDENSED and shOrn
Of all needless verbiage. 1t is a very brief
tale when reduced to essence, and runs
something as follows: Beecher is absolute
ly innocent. Nus. TiltOn lild when she
charged that be asked her to become a
wife TO him with all that the word implies.
She repeated this lie to her husband, TO
NoultOn, to Mrs. AOultOn, to Rev. DR..
storrs and to fifteen or twenty other persons
Nevertheless, Mr.. BeeCher retained
the impression that she was remarkably
pure and sanity. In the atmosphere Of that
heaven to which he assigns her the ninth
Commandment is probably obscured in a
cloud Of gush. The MOultons and Mr..
Tilton are disposed Of in & word: They
are periurers. Mr.. Beecher's letters are to
be accounted for on the hypothesis that he
is a man given to extravagant language
Hebrew-prophet style OF person; and that
he is so excessively generous that it IS only
necessary to appeal to bis sympathles IN
order to get him to step down and out fOE
the benefit Of his enemies, who are con
spirato,s, perjurers, in6dels and hends.
/ That is his case.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
NEW ORLEANS.
Particulars of the Suit Against
Auditor Clinton and
His Securities.
Why the People of Louisiana
Have Had to Pay Heavy
Taxes, and Where the
Money Went.

NEW ORLEANS, April S0.-Wm. 2. Kel-
logg, Governor of the State Of Louisiana,
suing for the use of said State, and repre-
sented by A. P. Field, Attorney General, a
petition in the Superior District Court
against Charles Clinton, Auditor, and the
securities on his special bond,
Charles Menard, Chas. G. Sayback,
VIM. Dillon, j. N. Schwarts, and
Geo. C. Benham, SOlido, for the
amount of $4,000, to recover Judgment
against said Clinton for the sum Of S279,-
7S3. SO, the amount received from tax col
lectors in the year 1873, and unaecounted
for, detained and withheld by said Clinton;
and for the further sum Of $6O,3OO, the
amount illegally paid James LOngstreet;
and for The further sum Of S45,3S2.55, the
amount illegally taken from tax collectors
by sald Clinton and used by him; and for
the further sum of S13S,557.33, the amount
charged to be due for illegality in issuing six
warrants to Geo. w. Benham for S34, ,5OO,
James B. Wands for 81, ,437, E. W. Devices
for s., $50, G. W. Lowell S14,27S, James
S. Mathews S14,500, and ]. II. Oglesby
SS3, ,407.30.
The above warrants were issued under
the legislative voucher appropriations for
1870, 1871, and 1872, act No. 90 Of 1874,
and represented what was known as the
Pinclney Smith legislative vouchers for
these years. The warrants in the petition
are contained in the articles Of impeach-
ment.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
THEOLOGY AT OxFORD.

LSA-Ou NOLIe1pOuutlto Of the new YORK
World.
The University Of Oxford was once the
mother Of the study Of theology; but now
that queen Of science has been there de-
thrOned, and is in great danger Of being
exiled altogether. A pamphlet has
recently been, published on this
subject by Mr.. BurgOn, which shows
that had it not been for the new theO-
logical school established at OxfO.d, in 1870,
the science Of theology would by this
time have ceased 10 have a hahitafiOn at
OXfOTd-at Oxford, where the very names
Of IFS tWeRty colleges tell that for the study
Of theology they were founded. By means
Of the new school few theological students
are graduated each year; the number last
year showed a falling of, however, but
these students all stood low in their
colleges, and we're composed Of those
who would have failed had they tried
to pass in other studies. Mr.. Bur
gOn gives a picture Of student life at
Oxford, which is enough to make the
Catholic founders Of its colleges turn in
their collins. "In most Of the colleges"
he says, s'the religious education Of the un-
degradUate is neglected altogether.
In more than one college there is no arti-
Gle lecture, no Old Testament lecture, no
gospel lecture at all.n In the few colleges
where religious instruction is given attend
ance is dispensed with; and, Of cOursf,
sacred science cannot flourish where the
necessary elements Of Christian
knowledge are withheld This is
not all. Religion is not merely
neglected: it is assailed, and the prevailing
atmosphere Of the university is that Of in
hdelity, so that many young men who 90
there with the intention Of qualifying them
selves for ordination come away converted
into infidels. The Catholic founders Of
Oxford cared so much for theology that,
despite al the changes which have occurred
since the Reformation, the theological chairs
are still the best endowed Of all; but their
occupants hold them as sinecures, aud the
students despise them.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
A WRONG 10 BE RIGHFED.
Defrauding Poor Women Who Have
Bought Sewing Machines.
New York grrn


: The Howe Sewing Machine Company
through HickOx & Co., leased several hun.
dred sewing machines in this city to
housewives and others. The arrange
ment was that when the monthly rental
paid aggregated a eertsin' amount, title
was secured. But If default was made at
any time the money already paid was for
feited. Though the leases were in
the name Of the company, the business was
entirely in the hands Of HickOx, who paid
a certain sum for each machine, and
the company promised to pay forty per
cent. Of the price for every machine re-
turned for whatever cause. The company
say that HiekOx deals leniently with the
leSsees, giving them many extentiOns for
payment until all is paid but the last in
stallment, and then the machines are sud
denly taken away under foreclosure and
returned to the company, which must al
low forty per cent. for each. Application
was made to Judge Barrett for an injuc-
tiOn TO restrain the Messrs. HicllOx in their
course. Decision reserved.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
YEsTERDAY,s TRAGEDIEs

Yesterday and last night Nashville
Vas the scene Of q horribly atrocious
murdel,. followed by retribution swift
and terrible. The murder was without
nrovocation, without anger; and be-
cause it was so, 1t gave horrible provo
cation to retribution and revenge. In
view of the sworn testimony before the
coroner's jury, there can be 10 ques-
ton about the substantial justice OF
the second murder, but as advocate of
law and order. and Of self-gOyernment,
which implies self-control, We must
condemn in terms unmistakable
the resort to mob violence. 1t
was hazardous in itself, and, under the
circumstances. unnecessary. We hap
PLY enjoy self.go vernment. We make
our own laws and select ourown judges
and inferior officers. When a culprlt
is once lodged within the strong walls
of prison, under the officers OF the
law. there should be nc excuse IN a
well-ordered community fOr interfering
with or anticipating the course OF the
law. If the walls of the prison
are not strong enough, 1t Is our
fault, not the prisoners. If the
laws are defective, it is, again, our
fault. If the courts are not all they
should be, it is still our fault. There
fore, to interfere with the course Of the
law, after a prisoner is fully within Its
grasp, is to impeach ourselves and our
capacity for self-government. To this
irrefragable argument there can be
here in Nashville no satisfactory an
swer. That this most horrible murder
of a peace officer and most estlmable
citizen should have excited to the
highest pitch the passions Of the null
titude is not strange. But the very
raturalness Of this excitement, of this
intense passion, should have put the
officers Of the law on their guard
They should have been pre-
pared to resist the resort to mob
violence. 1t could have been
done and easily done without the she'd
ding Of g drop of blood, and with
perfect certainty of the condign pun
isbme7t of the murderer Of policeman
Frazier. How grand, how noble would
have been 81. .2h a triumph Of the ma
jesty Of the law.
We understand that the Jailer made
a gallant effort to protect his prisoner
but was really and truly overpowereo
But there was official negleeS some,
where; where, we are not prepared
this morning to say. Still, there was
official neglect, which cannot be eA'
culpated
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
ORIGIN OF THE WORD s.PEOTEs-
TAWT

With the month Of April is associated
The derivation and dissemination in a
formal and official manner Of the desigra-
tion Of Protestant. The Emperor Charles
the Fifth called a Diet at Spires in 1929 to
request aid from the German Princes
against the Turks, and 20 devise means for
allayiDg the disputes growing out Of In
Tiers rebellion against Catholicism. The
Diet condemned the refoTuoTs and issued
a decree in support Of the doctrines Of the
ancient Church. Against this decree six
Lutheran Princes and the deputies Of thir-
teen towns Of the Empire formally pro-
tested on April II, 1880. From this act
the DESIGNATION of Protestant, which then
was given to the followers Of Luther, is
derived. TIE Calvinists were subsequent
" included, and the title became general
for all the sects outside the original Chris
tian Church. The six protesting Princes
were John and George. the electors Of sax
Ony and BradenbUrg; Erness and Francis,
| the two Dukes Of Lunenburg; The Land
grave Of Hesse, and the Prince Of Anhalt.
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THE SHARK AND EHIs RIDER.
ST. Louis Republican.
The weird picture ola

"Nermaid on a dOlphin's back
Uttering such duloet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea gear curl at her song,'
has been more than realized in Hawaii.
The fish happened to be huge blue shark,
aud the rider was Miss Adelaide Miller,
the Hawaiian sOngstress. IL is the newest
fish story and has a moral like the Oldest
one, wherein the fish was the cause Of
man getting to the right place in the nick
of time. The new story is worth telling,
too.
Miss Adelaide Miller is a native, out and
out, of Sandwich Islands. She is gifted
with a voice Of superior sweetness, and is
called the 'sHaWaiian Nightingale" Miss
Miller is as good a swimmer as she IS
singer, all the islanders being amphibiOus
from their youth up.
Miss Miller was visiting some friends at
Waikiki, a Hawaiian fashionable watering
place near Honolulu. The place Is also the
summer residence Of the Hawaiin kings,
but that fact has nothing TO DO with the
story except to show thai Miss Miller was
doubtless IN the best company the islands
afford. The beach is always sWarmiug
with bathers. It is considered safe within
the limits Of a certain rect, but the daring
adventufer beyond the reef might as we'll
make his her will in favor Of the nearest
fish.
The Hawaiian sOngstToss was bathing in
company with several of her dusky sisters.
TIE girls commenced daring each other to
swim to the reef and finally the songstsess
started, followed By the Others. II was
pretty race, and the wonder Of the other
more timid bathers. As they approached
the dead line-the sweet voiced in the lead
some men in a passing canoe shouted
wildly, aManO." "ManO" The girls knew
well enough that meant ''shark'-the
true blue man eater-cannibals of th
deem. There was a roll Of water which brOl .
the regular surges Of the sea A hu
shark rose 70 the surface and lifted Mis-
Miller on his back. That was the safe Z
place for her now, and she grasped tn
sharks upper fin TO keep her seat firmly On
the monster. He, probably terrified at
human auGacity, skinned on the surface
of the water at lightning speed for about
sixty yards, and then getting tired Of his
burden shot down into the deeps, leaving
Miss Miller on the surface somewhat as
tonished at her adventure. The canoe
picked her up and took her ashore. Nov,
the course Of the fish was directly towards
NE American coast. Miss Adelaide Mil
Ter took the hint, and soon left for Cali
tornia to sing and make her fOrtUge. The
adventure with the fish made her exceed
ingly popular at home, for many Of the
Pacific and South Sea Islanders regard the
shark as a sacred animal, and never kill
one except in selEdefense. Miss Miller
having taken a ride on a sharks back con-
secrated her, and she became TO them
divine. She is now the Hawaiian diva,
and We may one day be treated tOher song.
Now. this barbarian fish story is just as
GOOD as any Of the adventures that serve
/ to bring European pTiJnd dOBRGs into no.
/ tice, and it is every bit as true.
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FOREIGN NOTES BY CABLE.

The death is announced of the famous
French traveller and artist, Jean Frederic
de Waldeck, at the extraordinary age OF
10 years.
II is supposed DIR. RastrOul and his COM
mune companions, who escaped from New
Caledonia, persisted, as fragments of their
boat have been found.
Belgium has sent an a nswer TO Germa-
ny's last note. Count AspremOnt Lynden,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, will make an
explanation in regard to the cOTespOn-
dence in the Chamber Of Representatives
Tuesday next.
The Emperor has given his assent to the
introduction of bill abolishing religious
orders in Prussia.
Guiterez, who was President of the rev.
olutionary Junta Of CaTtagena, Spain, is
dead.
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THE VICE PRESIDENT.

His Arrival In LOuisviIe-TO Visit
Frankfort and Lexington and Then
Go West.
LOUISVILLE, April 3O.-Vice President
Wilson arrived in the city this morning.
and during the day has received a large
number Of calls from prominent gentle
men of both political parties. Tonight be
is given a reception by Gen. j. n. Harlan,
and tomorrow goes to Frankfort as the
guest Of Col. Stoddart Johnston. From
Frankfort he will 90 to Lexington to visit
Hon. Jno. e. Breckinridgs, who, as Vice
President, presided over the Senate dur
ing one of Mr.. Wilson's earlier terms. He
will spend Sunday in Lexington, and then
start on his Western trip, intending to
spend some weeks in California.
visiting the Governments Depot I'm
JanersonEiIIes
JEFFERsOEvILLE, Ind, April 20.-Nice
President Wilson, accompanied by Col.
James A. Ekin, Deputy Quartermaster
General Of the United States army, aud ..
o. Stealey, a Courier Journal reporter,
visited the Government depot in this city
to-day. Mr.. Wilson seemed amazed at its
magnitude, and pronounced it a model es-
tablishment.
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NASHVILLE TENN. SATURDAY, MAY l. 1876.
FOREIGN.
GREAT BRITAIN.


Terrible Explosion and Loss OF Life.
LONDON, May l, 2 A. MA terrible ex-
plOsion occurred yesterday afternoon IN
Bunkers Hill Colliery, North Staflordshire,
while the miners were at work. AT mid
night twelve bodies had been taken out,
and twenty-three men are yet in the mine.
There is no hope that any Of them VIII be
recovered alive
The American Rife Team in 1reland.
In the House of Commons last evening,
Mr.. Sullivan renewed his inquiry, whether
members Of the American life team, who
were coming to Ireland to take part in the
international rifle contest, would be ex
empted from the obligations Of the law for
bidding the carrying Of arms.
Sir Michael II. Beach, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, said arrangements had been
made to prevent any Interference with the
American riaemen, and they would have
no reason to complain Of the operation OF
this or any other law.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
INVITED TO PEEL OFF.
Galveston NeWs.

We b ad little fun in town this evening
at the expense Of three gentlemen who
went out last night on a fishing excurs-
ion. They expected to be absent a few
days, but came in to-day dressed in paper
collar, pair of spurs and blanket, and on
being asked why they were crOwding the
season, explained that last night about II
O'Clock, while they were quietly sleeping
they were awakened and told to peel of
them store clothes. They did wake up,
and finding themselves confronted by two
escaped cOnVicts with dOuble-baTeled shot
guns pointed threateningly a. their heads,
they concluded that it was too warm to
wear clothes, and did pull of in double d
quick time. The cOnvicts immedi atel-
changed their striped suits for these, any
went on their way rejoicing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01
CassizIng Of a Schooner and DrOWn-
tnr of sixteen Persons.

SAN FRANCIsCO, April 3O.-The bark
Entine Maranfa, thirty-two days from Ia
hiti. reports the capsizing Of the schooner
NIargarat Ciockard, from Tahite to this
nort. having on board the officers and crew
~ the British ship AireyfOrce, wrecked on
the passage from Australia to San Francis
90 Sixteen were drowned. The remain
der, with Captain Godfrey, of the Crock
ard. and Capt. Cattier, OF the Aireytorce,
arrived at Tahite.
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The HOPFeFs.
spseisl to the Chicago Tribune

Spsciql TO the Chicago Tribune.
ST. PAUL, Apr! 2S.-Grasshopper eggs in
Becker county, on the Northern Pacific,
are reported destroyed, nearly a., oY worms
from a quarter to a halfinch long. me
smaller ones are white and the larger ones
tinged with brown. In Blue Earth cOUn-'
tv. Minnesota Valley, most Of the eggs are
said to be rOtted and killed by the pIO-
longed cold, wet weather. In the upper
counties Of the Minnesota Valley the eggs
are sound, and the soil full, promising an
overwhelming yield in Red Wood, Yellow
Medicine, and Lac qui Parle county.
To the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, April 50-Despatches from
various points say the recent cold weather
has destroyed the young grasshOpPers, and
the general belief is expressed that there
will be no further trouble from this pest.
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Insurance Losses by the Oshkosh
Fire.

CHICAGO, April 3O.-The following in
surance companies are known to have lost
by the Oshkosh fire in addition TO those
already sent: Mercantile, Chicago, $1,000;
Alleghany, Pittsburg, 5000; Glens Falls,
s.. 600: Black River, $1,000; Atlas, Hart
ford, $4,000; Niagara, New York, SIS, 600;
German-American, SG,500; Commercial,
St. Louis, $1,000; Etna, Hartford, $4,000;
Home. New York, Sj0,OQO; Liverpool, Lon
don and Globe, $4,000; Melville, New
Jersey, estimated at $4,000.
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A DIabOIIcaI Plot.
Special to the chicago Times

JACKSONVILLE, Ill, April 2S.-As the
New York express on the Toledo, Wabash
and Western railroad, going east, last
night, was dashing along at furious rate,
some two miles west of this city, the en-
gineer noticed an obstruction across the
track, some distance ahead. The whistle
was sounded, the engine reversed, and
brakes applied, and the train stopped just
as the forward wheels Of the engine struck
the object, which proved to be heavy rail-
road tie, grOOyed and. fitted down over the
rails closely, and chained to the track,
Two other similar ObstruCtiOns were met
with by the safe train between that point
and jacksonville. Plunder and robbery
are supposed to have been the object Of The
diabOlical attempt.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01

THE people of California have been N a
state of ef6rvescence for some time about a
radical change in school text books, brought
about by the State Board Of Education
Upon the application Of a relaior ap-
pointed by tie people, Judge Ramase'
6f the Sixth Judicial District, heaIG
the case, and declared the action OF the
state Board null and void. The PLAIN
tiffs urged the expense to the people ol
making the change, and cited the fact tnaI
the board had violated the law when re-
Guired text books which had been adopge5o
10 he used for four years. Similar trouble l.5
about the frequent and expensive cA9is5s -
i'm text books have been eXPerleenSS.Seu IL ~
Missouri and Illinois. The CalilOin'.' Il,.
state Board are determined to fight IL cut ~.
and an appeal has been taken 10 IIe 0',
pTeme Court.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01

SIR WALTER RALEIGH is repuled to
have discovered the potato, but III, Teller,
Of Paris, claims the merit OF inventing it,
as he has in his garden all the year round
new potatoes, which continue to increase
and multiply in winter under ground, like
trufIies, as well as in summer by the Ordi-
nary methods. He has taken out 10
patent, and viii Ony reveal the secret II she
nation rewards him with an annuity
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-01

DANIEL OLEARY, Of Chicago, has
accomplished the feat Of walking one
hundred and sixteen miles IN twenty
three hours and eight minutes, II Phil
adelphia. He had undertaken 70 walk
one hundred and fifteen miles IN twen-
ty-four hours. The time he made is
said to be-the best on record.