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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
prodigious that he gets into the news

prOdigiOuS that he gets lnto tue Ae"S-
papers.
A few weeks ago we were told OF a
seyen-year- boy of Atchison, Kan,
who had successfully passed an ex-
animation to the bar, though, OF
course, he cannot practice because ne
isn't of the requisite legal age. The
other day we were told Of a five-year-
old boy of Chicago who has shown
himself to be such an adept in anat-
omy that college has honored hin.
These boys are indeed prodigies, but
it remains to be seen whether their
manhood will fulfill the promise OF
their boyhood. With rare exceptions
precocious children make the most stir
in the world while they are children
A too rapid mental development usuai-
" results in an eXemplificatlon OF the
old adage, Soon ripe, soon rotten.
A very large proportion of the men
who are prominent in life to-day were
not deemed remarkable in their early
years. The most promising boy is the
natural, normal boy-the boy with
good health, good heart and good
sense. The Kansas boy may make an
eminent lawyer and the Chicago boy
an eminent anatomist; but the chances
are that they will be passed in the
race thirty years hence by boys who
are now giving no promise of what IS
in them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
DIED..

KELTZ-F'riday. January 14th, 1898 at
II Ia Al m at his late residence, miles
east of Sherrard. Marshal county, w. Va,
George Kehz. in his S0th year.
Funeral notice hereafter.
MORAN-On Thursday January 18th!
1895 at 2:30 p. m, Frank Fl. Moran, aged
66 years
Funeral from his late residence, No. 22l9
Eoff street Monday morning at O'Clock
REQUIEM mass at St. Josephs Cathedral
at $50 o'clock Friends of the family in
vited to attend. Interment at Mt. CAL
vary cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
OIL NEWS.

New Wells and Locations-Notes ABOUT
the Producing Wells.
Special to the Register.
Parkersburg, w Va, January ia
report comes here to-day that CaldWell
& Earnest completed a good we'll last
night on the Alleman farm, IN the
Ogdin field extension, last night. The
well is their No. 3.
The roads are still in very bad
condition leading from this city to the
Henderson, field, and oil men find it
impossible to transport supplies to the
field, and of course no work OF new
nature is being commenced.
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Wrappers, CSC. 1 eaa'fs two ~5
hundred light medium and dark Print,
Percale, Flannelette and Lawn Wrap
pers, worth up to $500. only CSC.
GEO. M. SHOOK & co.
A YOUNG TRAVELLER.

New York, January 16.-Victor Nc
Kenzie, aged sixteen months, was a
saloon passenger by the Hamburg
American line steamer Augusta Vic
toria, which arrived to-day from Gen
GA. The child's mother died recently
in the north of Italy, and there being
no relatives abroad, the baby was ia
ken in charge by the United States
Consul at Genoa and sent home in care
of Captain Kaemff and Purser Losch,
of the Augusta Victoria, to be for
warded to his grandmother, Mrs. Ash
bridge, of 702 South Washington
Square, Philadelphia. The child's IA
Their is an American officer in the SER
vice of the government of Peru.
A good ctcrxr .sr,ha Voux.z= ILL.,.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
BOWLING AVERAGES.
How Players and Teams Stand il
Different Tournaments.
A Very Pretty Race in the Wheel
ing League-The Local Base Ball
Situation-NOtes of the Boxers.
News Of Cycling-Other Sport,
Local and by Wire.

Secretary VIM. Fette has issued a
bulletin giving the individual aver
ages of the players in the Wheeling
tournament to-day and a week ago.
The averages of the leading players
are as follows:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
HANDS OFF."-OUR MOTTO.

And still we are told that the posi-
bility of an alliance between the Uni
ted States and England in the event of
war in the Orient over China is still
the subject of serious contemplation
in England. British diplomacy has
been and is exerting all of it's wiles
toward that end, and there is doubtless
some influence in this country at work
to bring about an understanding be
tween the two great English-speaking
nations But there is no shadow OF
probability that the efforts will be sue
cessful.
The neutral policy of this country in
all foreign complications except those
involving direct and immediate danger
to New World progress is covered with
the government Washington gave it
life in his Farewell Address. He earn
estly warned us against "entangling
alliances" A later President impaired
to it definiteness and candor in enun-
ciating the Monroe Doctrine. Every
party that has impressed itself upon
the life and character of the nation
has We'd with its rivals in supporting
this policy Though we are warlike
people, measured by the number of
conflicts we have had in the brief span
of our national existence, yet every
war in which we have engaged has
been in defense of the policy of attend
ing strictly to our own affairs without
asking aid or advice from Old World
peoples.
1t is, of course, to the interest of
every European nation to drag us into
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17

CHALLENGE FROM THE kid"
NEW YORK, January 16.-Kid Mccoy
to-day challenged Robert Fitzsimmons to
fight for the heavy weight championship
of the world, and has posted $1,000 to bind
a match. He declares that he will tight
no one but Corbett or Fitzsimmons and
that he can defeat either of them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17

Boss Platt wired Boss Hanna that
his (Hanna's) election meant the SAL
walton of the party. Platt and Hanna
use the same kind of salve.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
MR.. TORREYSON LEAVES.

Frank w. Torreyson departed yes
terday for Dayton, where he will at
tend the meeting of the Interstate
League managers tomorrow. Mr..
Torreyson and his partners have re-
ceived a very attractive offer for the
Wheeling franchise, but Mr.. Torrey-
son prefers to remain in Wheeling if
the ground question can be satisfac-
torily adjusted
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17

Correspondence containing important
rounding country.
rejected communications will not be re-
turned unless accompanied by suihclent
postage.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
index to New Advertisements.

war4s FOURTH PAGE.
For arnfBe elM to Travel
WantedN"N A Schaefer & Co.
WWaannted-Girl Agents.
Nraan,ttseseio-Agents.
opera House-Octoroons
W. FIFTH PAGE.
Picture SEQ. M. Shook & Co.
aliies-Nicolls' Art Store.
Btao,- EIGHTH PAGE.
Black Siiiiik Ss & Thomas.
Down 9nlhIks-Geo. E. Stifel & Co.
- -. oaie-Geo. r. TAYLOR Co.
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In the Carroll Club bowling tournament
"a, ~. ,9ss., - 4t,a +oor,,s e oS foIIo,vs,.

Games scheduled for this week:-Mon-
day Alphas vs.. Eclipse Crescents vs..
blers Deltas vs.. Myrtles: Friday. Lotus
vs. None SUCH Laurels VS.. Calumets.
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DID YOU EVER TRY

The, White Swan Laundry'q -.---.
trade has grown wonder -sr.-
good and proper service. ali
with us. Try US. Teltphone
III constant use. Office 10ll lr
FRANK r. SCROGG
Gloss or Domestic.
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onAhLES Il. TANEY, General Manager.
delivered by Carriers


- lrlputes OF Respect and Obituary No
tlces five cents per line.
stamps Of the denomination of two cents
one dollar
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Spain may scare Wall street and It
may scare Hannas protege in the
White House, but no one else.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
GENERAL NOTICES.

STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders
of the Standard Fire Insurance Company
of Wheeling West Virginia will be held
at their office in the City Bank Building,
on Tuesday. January 49, 1898 between the
hours of one "a and four "a o'clock p M.
for the purpose of eecting a Board of Di-
rectors and the transaction of such other
business as may come before them;
E. B. BOWIE, Secy.
Wheeling. w. va, Dec. %, 1897 de29ei
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FOR SALE.

The Brick and Stone Brewery at Har-
per's Ferry, w. Va, recently owned by
Mr.. ]. c. McGraw; capacity, 10000 bbls;
pure mountain spring water supply; con-
trolls trade Of Valley Of Virginia and other
large territory; in full operation; trade
intact, ready for purchaser. Sold on easy
terms For particulars apply to
JAMES NJ. MASON, JR., Trustee,
de15eh Charles Town, W. Va
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17

The REGISTER, embracing its several
editions, is entered at tho Postoff1ce at
Wheeling, w. Va. as second-class matter
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17

WANTED PURCHASERS FOR Blank
House Leases, OIL Leases For Rent Cards,
For Sale Cards. and Rooms for Rent
Cards. Call at REGISTER Office.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17
TO BE LAUNCHED TOMORROW

TO BE LAUNCHED IU-MUNINUW
Philadelphia, Pa, January 1.-THE
launching of the japanese warship,
"Kasagi," which is being built at
Cramps shipyard, will take place on
THURSDAY at noon. The "Kasagi' is
the most important ship ever built IN
the limited States for foreign account
and is the first foreign warshlp
launched in this country since the 70
baica in 1878.
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AGENTS WANTED


WANTED-Agents. Good inducement.
Call at a. m, at 1912 Market st.
jan16dqeq
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
pany. of Wheeling, w. Va, will be held
at the office of the company, Tuesday
January the twenty-ffth, 1885, between
the hours of II and II O'Clock a. m, for
the election of board of directors and
the transaction of any other business that
may come before them.
WILLIAM A. WILSON,
ia61O.1724 President
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xEANT PRODIGIES.

\ orv once in a while we hear of a
.afont prodigy. We hear of it
&c often in private life from
M 81 a fond father or mother as
M,ha columns of the press. 1t
MINI the prodigy is something
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-17

THE Pittsburg DispatcH IND
and Commercial Gazg -t.
Enquirer, Commercial Tr
other popular dailies, Geln
papers, magazines, books.
MANAGES, Sunday School lesson
pei Hymns.
G. H. Quincy. LII ErarE-
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Wool Underwear. iines Of
Underwear for men, women and chill
dren at one-half price.
GEO. M. SHOOK & co.

Order the Daily Register at once so
as to be sure to get the opening chap
ter of 'The Young KlOndikers.
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statesmen WANTED.

WANTED Salesman for lubricating oils,
greases and specialties; largest line on
the market. Salary or commission.
EQUITABLE REFINING CO, Cleveland,
Ohio. ja15, II, 19, q, q, 1921
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FOR Observation-Disclosures.

FOR SALES good wall cases. four good
counter cases and tables. large mirrors
window mirrors. / office table, ] small
case, 2 small tables. 1 umbrella case. /
stove and pipe Must be sold at once
w. ]. LUKENS & co. jal3ea
FOR SALE-Prominent grocery in Sis
tersville, w Va: will sell cheap for cash.
Address GROCER" Register office for
particulars. ja7etdq
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NEW ADVERTISER

HOW TO BECOME LawflG -.-
dentists or lawyers. Loci E-
cagO.
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WANTED-A partner machinist: small
capital; good established business. 1883
Market street. Jal3n
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NOTICE.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. s. 1898.
The annual meeting of the Guarantee
Savings, Loan and Investment Company
Ferry, w. Va, Thursday, January 20
between the hours of 8 a. m. and 6
D. M, for the election of directors and
such other business as may properly
come before it. I. w. SYNNOTT,
c. HOLMES CLARK. President.
Secretary. jan11, Ter
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MALE HELP WANTED.

ACTIVE MAN to travel in this and near
by counties; $50 a month and all expenses.
No experience or capital required. Adj
dress SHEPP COMPANY, 1920 Chestnut
street, Phila, Pa. Jaltq
ANTED-Traveling salesman, to sell
most complete line of lubricating oils,
greases. specialties, etc. on the market
THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO, Cleve-
land. Ohio. ja13eudq
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M MORRIS.
1h 1883 Market Street
Sells and buys second hand o,,.,...
prices are paid. Write I'd 81
call. No agents are repre- ser.
no20esb -'''
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WANTED-A good girl at once. General
homework. 100 South Front street, ISL
and. JalbcqdQ
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A good story. 'The Young Klon
dikers," begins January oath.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE
- Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Nights, and Friday and Saturday Mat
inee, January 20, q and %.
John w. Ishalns Famous
O G 7 o r o o N S.
This season greater than ever All the
old favorites retained and new ones added
Night prices, 10 25, IS and so cents
Matinee prices, 15 Is and 80 cents.
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WANTED

WANTED-Two young men to run as
news agents ON railroad trains. Must
have 5000 cash security Apply or az
dress UNION NEWS CO, Office b. y e.
depot. Wheeling. Jalfe&dn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-08
HOUSE DRAINAGE CONTRACT.
CONTINUED from Eighth Page.)

of the work for the city, and that any APP
pointments necessary would be made by
him. Several members of the board spoke
on the matter, but it was finally decided
TO refer it to the committee of the whole,
as it was thought some action should be
taken on it.
The petition, signed by Messrs. f. ].
Thomas, Percy Sugden and Il. NJ. Craig,
is as follows:
Savannah, Ca, Aug. 80, 1S9S.-To the
Honorable Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Observation-Disclosures; In view
of the fact that the city is about 20 enter
into a new contract for building the pro-
posed system of house drainage, and be-
heVing that a new arrangement for the
engineering superintendent of the work
would be advantageous to the city;
We, the undersigned civil engineers,
residents. of Savannah, respectfully petit
ton Council that we be given the work
of experimenting the construction of the
proposed drainage work.
Should the work be put, as suggested
under the control of the city engineer We
see no reason why Warng, Chapman and
Farquahar should be retained, and paid
large commission to superintend the
work, when there are engineers here quite
as capable TO do this work at a less eX-
pense to the city, and who would be will
ling 20 furnish a record of their work
WAtiAOul CIldISAuS extra LOT the same.
I'VE would respectfully state that from
out observation of the work, as it was
conducted last winter, we do not consider
that the city has been getting the best
class Of work
We have observed pipe being laid with
joints not cemented half round, we have
notice the careless manner in which the
storm water sewers have been treated,
we have noticed the subsoil water burst
ing through the joints in the brick sewer,
although the specifications distinctly calls
for subsoil drains to be laid when water
was encountered. SO far as we can learn
this was never done. From carelessness
in giving the lines one section of The brick
sewer on Randolph street has a sharp
bend in it. The work done last winter has
never been tested nor has it been exam
ined since 1t was laid.
THE tests called fer by the speciflca-
tons do not guarantee a tight sewer We
would respectfully petition your honorable
body that, as the city have always paid
for the plans of the proposed system OF
house drainage new arrangements be
made for experimenting the work and
that our services be engaged for that pur-
pose Respectfully
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-08
WALTERS EARTHLY PARADISE.
In Austria He Can Seize Your Bag
gage If He Doesn't Like Your Tin.
From the london Telegraph

cage II ne DOESN'T Like 1 our Tin.
From the London Telegraph.
Some years ago a London restaurateur,
having become embroied in a dispute over
The reckoning with gentleman who nad
just finished dinner, endeavored TO enforce
his claim by empounding his guests hat
For this summary proceeding he subse-
quently underwent judicial rebulxe. while
by the English public in general the ina
neuver was condemned as no less un-
sportsmanlike than Illegal. If, 1t was ar
gued, the law allowed men to settle dis
putes in this fashion by Selling on each
others portable property as security for
alleged debt, life would sooner or later re
solve itself into a series of breaches Of the
peace.
In Austria, however they do not seem to
be troubled by any apprehension of this
kind. The higher court of Vienna has
after a dignifed delay of nearly two years,
just decided that a hotel porter who has
been offered an inadequate "pourboire"
by a guest about to take his departure is
justified in carrying back the wretched
mans luggage TO the hotel and depositing
it with the manager. Six forms had been
rendered to him for thirty-eght days per
sOnal service--certainly not a very hand
peal Court, in confirming the dismissal by
the court below of a charge of "extor-
ton accompanied by threats and injury to
property" ruled that a servant who &c
ceiVed no wages was thrown for his
subsistence upon The generosity of the Wis
itors, a fact OF which the particular visit
or was judiciously held 20 have been
aware; and that personal eervice for thlr-
ty-eight days, according to the local US
age of ten kreuzers day, amounted 10
al least twelve fourns, and that the man
was not only entitled at law to this sum,
but was quite within his legal rights in
retaining the luggage to secure himself
against pecuniary loss"
1t Is, perhaps, only the last part Of
this decision which is calculated TO startle
the English mind, but that undoubtedly Is
very startling indeed. Usage" in this
country continually acquires the force Of
Jaw and when known to both of two con-
tracing parties-or even when only such
as both parties must De presumed to know
becomes as binding to both as an express
contract. But English law recognizes tho
right of Hen in only limited number
Of special and strictly defined cases; and
to allow one man to seize and impound
another mans property until he pays A
debt alleged 10 be due from him, instead
of proceeding against him for its recovery
IN the usual way, certainly strikes one
as somewhat too rough-and-ready meth
Cd of adjusting disputes TO square with
the refinements of an advanced ciViliza-
ton. II il We're applied in this country
TO drivers of public vehicles, who would
seem to be just much entitled to Il as
hotel porters, our streets would be stud
dcd with cabrnen sitting on ladies' bonnet
boxes to enforce payment Of that so fire.
quently disputed slxpence. ss
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-08
THE SOUTH BOUND BOND DEAL
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY DIREC-
TORS RATIFY THE CONTRACT.

baltimore Syndicate Takes the ST.
$50, 600 Held by the savannah Con-
>tructfOn Company - Meeting of
stockholders Called and Arrange
ments VIII BE Made to Pay on the
stock and Dissolve the Corpora
tfon-It Has Done "A Great Work for
savannah.
The negotiations for the sale to a Bal
tlmore syndicate of the bonds of the
south Bound Railroad, held by the Savan-
nah Construction Company, were consum-
ated yesterday when the deal was ratified
at meeting here of the board of direct
ors Of the construction company.
The directors met at the office of the
president, b. A. Denmark, Esq, in the
Citlzsns' Bank building. For some time
past the negotiations have been pending.
An offer had been made for the bonds and
accepted, subject to a ratification by the
board of directors. Yesterday
,he contract sale was COM
rIeted under which the bonds go
10 the syndicate referred to through the
Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company.
They are TO be paid for on or before Sept.
60 The price realized for the bonds is
about 70 per cent. of their par value, the
latter being $1,55O,OOO. This win place in
the hands of the construction company
sufficient funds to pay its stockholders par
for their stock. The capital stock of the
construction company is $4,000 and it's
outstanding debt is about s421,OOO.
II. -
mark to call a meeting of the stockhold-
ers at Savannah on Oct 3 for the purpose
Of winding up the affairs of the construc-
lion company and dissolving the corpora
ton. 1t is supposed that there will be no
opposition to this procedure. The company
has accomplished the main object for
which it was organized, the building of
the South Bound Railroad, that having
been particularly specified in one provision
of the charter as the main purpose for the
creation of the corporation.
The out-of-town directors present at the
meeting were Gen. John B. Gill of Baltl-
more and Judge A. c. Haskell of Colum-
bd.
The history of the Savannah Construc-
ton Company and the magnificent work
done for the trade of Savannah by the
building of the South Bound Railroad are
well known to the general public. Much Of
the success of the company is unques.ion-
ably due TO b. A. Denmark, Esq, who
has been its president since its organlza-
ton Mr.. Denmark from the beginning
manifested the deepest interest ia the IN
terprse and devoted himself assiduously
TO the important executive duties placed in
his charge. Only those who are in the com
pany, or well acquainted with its inside
workings, can appreciate the immense
amount of labor that devolved upon Mr.
Denmark or the high ability that was dis
Played by him in meeting all financial
emergencies. It is not too much to say that
Savannah is largely indebted to him. and
The directors who gave him such loyal
support, for the business advantages it
now enjoys from the Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad system, furnishing it
new and extremely valuable outlets to the
North and South.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-08
ALL ROADS ARE OPEN.
Georgia and Alabama Got It's First
Train In Last Night at Midnight.

Georgia and Alabama Got Its First
Train In Last Night at Midnight.
The Georgia and Alabama Railroad got
its first train through into Savannah
shortly before midnight last night, having
been shut out exactly one week by the
floods. Its break near Cuyler has been
repaired and its entire schedule will now
he run without delay.
The Central got rid of most of the ac-
emulation Of freight yesterday and new
freight is being handled promptly now
Both passenger and freight service are
delayed to some extent by the condition
OF the road bed, it being necessarily 10
travel slowly at various points, but the
delay has been reduced considerably and
within couple of days the trains will
De making practically schedule time. No
further trouble is appreheuded, the water
having gone down considerably at the
dangerous points and being still falling
Ihe Florida Central and Peninsular ex-
peeled TO open its line to the North last
night, advices showing that the necessary
repairs We're about completed. 1t is be-
heVed that the road to the South will be
III readiness for use to-day. This will
make all the routes for travel TO and from
savannah open.
Mr.. B. F. Wiley is the new general pas
senger agent of the Atlanta and West
Point Railroad, his appointment taking eff
lect on Sept. l. On the same day Mr.. R.
+. Lutz; formerly freight traffic manager,
became traffic manager.
Mr., j. H. Latimer, southeastern passen-
ger agent of the Nashville, Chattanooga
ana st. Louis and Western and Atlantic
Ia'lroads, and Mr.. Fred d. Bush, dis
trlct passenger agent of the Louisville and
Nashville road, were in the city yesterday