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NASHVILLE 151 Nashville. iron railroad bridge, with an immense draw of 280 ft., and two stationary spans, each of 200 ft., and also by a wire suspension bridge. Rail- road communication with Louisville, St. Louis, Memphis, Chattanooga, Montgomery, and other points is furnished by the Louisville, Nashville, and Great Southern, the Nashville, Chatta- nooga, and St. Louis, the St. Louis and South- eastern, and the Tennessee and Pacific lines. These railroads and the river enable the city to command the trade of an extensive and productive region. Its business is rapidly in- creasing. The value of its wholesale trade in 1873 was as follows: BRANCHES. Value. BRANCHES. Value. $2.000,000 1,043,250 750.000 500,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 2,500,000 1,069,000 110.000 400,000 500,000 800,000 Cotton $4,250.000 416.320 1,300,000! 4,000,000' 7,000.000; 2,000,000 i 300,000, 1,500,000! 10,000,000 1,300,000 1.000,000 1,200,000 5,000,000! 688,000! 175,000' 210,000 200,000 200,000 Cigars and tobacco Live stock . . Leaf tobacco Provisions Dry goods Liquors Boots and shoos. . . Hats Hardware Groceries Notions and white goods i Stoves and tin- Furniture . ... Paper Coach and saddle- ry hardware Saddlery and har- ness trade Other manufac- Drugs Clothing Flour and wheat.. Corn and oats Salt Leather Millinery Coal Books and station- Hides China, glass, and queensware Total $51,261,570 Nashville has one large cotton factory, oper- ating in 1875 400 looms and 13,840 spindles, and employing 325 hands; in 1874 it produced 2,628,907 yards, chiefly sheetings. There are seven saw mills, five flour mills, eight planing mills and sash and blind factories, two cotton- seed oil mills, two tanneries, two manufactories of chairs, four of furniture, three of wagons, four of carriages, one of cedar ware, one of fer- tilizers, several of mattresses, saddletrees and trunks, brooms, shoes, and clothing, six found- eries, six machine shops, two brass founderies, a brewery, distilleries, and paper mills. There are four national banks, with an aggregate capital of $900,000, a savings bank, and three fire and three life insurance companies. The city is divided into 10 wards, and is governed by a mayor and a board of aldermen of one member and a common council of two mem- bers from each ward. There is an efficient police force and a well organized fire depart- ment. The receipts into the city treasury, for the year ending Oct. 1, 1874, were $456,535 80 ; disbursements, $461,599 11 ; city debt, $1,630,- 506 22; assessed value of property, $13,355,281, embracing about two thirds of the property of the city. The principal charitable and reform- atory institutions are the state institution for the blind, several hospitals, two orphan asy- lums near the city, the city workhouse, and a house of industry for females. About 6 m. from the city is the county poorhouse, and about the same distance the state hospital for the insane. Nashville is the seat of sev- eral important educational institutions. The university of Nashville was incorporated in 1785 under the name of Davidson academy, and in 1806 as Cumberland college ; it received its present title in 1826. The literary depart- ment was united in 1855 with the " Western Military Institute," and was conducted on the military plan until the breaking out of the civil war. After its close the Montgomery