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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
For the benefit of our learne

For the benefit Of our learned
readers, who may wish to know
what class of subjects occupy the
attention of the world of science
at present, we give the following
complete list of the titles Of the
papers which the National Acade-
my of Sciences will consider at it's
present session in Hartford, Con-
necticut: By Professor Louis Ru-
dolph Agassiz- Protest against
Modern Nomenclature Zoology !;
Homocercy and Hetrocercy; The
Significance of Glasses in the Ami
NAL Kingdom; The Structured
Character of the Selachians; Steril-
ity among Skates The Fifth Pair
of Nerves and the Organ of Hear
ing in Skates Periodic Ovulation
in Sharks and Skates the Circu-
lation ofBlood in Salachians; Para
site Crustacea in the Gills Of
Sharks Embryology and Afinities
of Cyclopteras. By Professor VOL
colt Gibbs-New Processes in
Analytical Chemistry; Certain
Points in the Theory of Atomici-
ties; Spectorscopic Notices; The
Determination Of Wave Lengths
by the Method of Compa-
rison. By Professor Benjamin
Pierce-Algebras; The Limita-
tions and Conditions Of Associa-
tive Linear Algebra Single Dou-
BILE, Triple, Linear Associative AL
gebras Quadruple Linear Associa-
tive Algebras. By Professor O. NJ.
Rood-The Duration of the Elec-
trio Discharge. By Gen. ]. G..
Barnard-The Precision Of the
Equinoxes and Mutation as Re-
suting from the Theory of the
Gyroscope, with remarks Explain
atory Of the Deviation Of Rifed
Projectiles. By President T. HILL,
of Harvard University-Notes on
Problem in Curvature. By Pro-
fessor B. A. Gould-Observations
1867 of Right Ascensions ofStars
Observed by D'Azelet in 1855;
Determination Of the Proper Mo-
tions of Stars First Observed by
J. Lepaute D'Azelet. AS most of
these are subjects which are treat
ed in the most technical manner
by their expounders, and are Illus
trated by algebraic and other
scientific drawings on the black
board, it is almost impossible to
reduce to common language and
bring within the scope of the popu-
lar understanding the substance
of these scientific discourses. The
speakers do not address their
words to the million, but to the
fifty members Of the Academy, all
of whom are reputed masters OF
1.-The scientific situation.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
Concrete Pavement.

AS the subject Of pavements is
now interesting to many Of our
citizens, the following from the
New York Evening Post may
prove interesting:
"Many people stop in the City
Hall Park to watch the work 60
ing on Of preparing to lay a con-
crete walk across the PaSk from
Park Row, near the head Of Beck
man street, to Broadway. The
walk laid a year ago from the
same point toward the head Of
Murray street, which is as hard
as stone and impervious to water,
has given so much satisfaction
that the corporation made the con-
tract for another walk. The first
is coarse gravel. This is followed
with a layer Of coarse gravel and
sharp sand, mixed thorough with
pine tar. It's durability is said to
equal that of stone ; it is always
level and smooth, never cracks,
and is not affected by change of
temperature, or by frost, or washed
away by heavy rains. We under
stand this concrete has recently
been laid in Brooklyn, for private
walks and carriage ways, to the
amount of five thousand dollars,
and give the highest satisfaction,
and a contract has just been made
to lay it through the entire track
of a horse railroad in that city.
In Syracus thirty miles of sidewalk
are laid with it. It costs about
fifteen cents a square foot, about
half the price Of our ordinary flag
ging in New York. But it shows
for itself, after wear Of a year,
in the Park, and is just as smooth
and perfect now as when first put
down"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
The Chinese in California.

The Chinese are passing into
our State by wholesale, and prac-
tically solving the labor question:
Over two thousand seven hundred
arrived within the last forty-fve
days, and there are four ship loads
more already due at. this point
from Hong Kong. These men do
not lose an hour, but 60 to work
in the mines, on the railroad, on
ranches, or in other industrial pur-
suits, as fast as they arrive. [
passed large hall last evening in
which some forty or fifty, evident
ly new comers, were at work cigar
making, chattering away like so
many magpies, but making their
fingers fly at the same time, and
turning out neater cigars, and fast
er, than the grumbling, drinking,
discontented European workmen.
Il paid a visit the other day to
one of the famous fruit gardens Of
Alameda, some three miles back
Of Oakland, on the eastern side Of
the bay, opposite San Francisco.
Among the great features of this
garden-or, as it is called in Cali
tornia parlance, fruit ranche'-is
a red raspberry patch Of nine
acres. This patch will yield from
one hundred and thirty to two
hundred tons of delicious raspber-
ries this year. From one hundred
to two hundred Cinnamon are con-
stantly at work picking the ber-
ries for the market. The ranch
is owned by John Lusk, one of the
largest raisers Of Small fruit in
California. He received on an
average fifteen cents per pound,
by the box, for these berries, and
his crop of this single variety, will
yield him from $4,000 to 10000
in gold this year. Strawberries,
bIackberries, and other small fruit,
are raised on an extensive scale
by Mr.. Lusk, but not in such guam
titles as the raspberries. His gar
den is worth coming to California
to see."-CalIornla Paper.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
Ubiquitious-A New Psyche
logical Sensation.


In the neigborhood Of OFallon.
street lives a very poor but honest
and respected family, consisting Of
husband and three children.
The eldest Of the children is a lad
ten years age. This boy is very
sickly, has scarcely seen a we'll
day since his birth, ,and, it is said,
is empowered with ubiquity, in
other words, he possesses the mar
velous faculty of appearing in two
or more places at one and the same
time.
We give this statement as we
hear it and only for what it is
worth. 1t is alleged that the boy
has been seen at intervals during
two days in Paducah, Kentucky,
and at the same time was helpless
on sick bed in this city; that he
has been bathing in the Mississippi
when his mother was fondly lean
ing above him and expecting him
to expire every moment; that he
has been seen at the residence Of a
cousin in Sangamon County, Hi
nois, when he. was incapable Of
leaving his couch. Such are some
Of the extraordinary stories that
are told US concerning this poor
invalid.
What is stranger still, we are
told that this ubiquity, as it must
be called, is involuntary on the part
Of the boy; that at times when he
is thus ubiquitous he is seized with
violent spasms, and seems to be
afraid Of all who approach him.
He is perfectly conscious Of all that
is transpiring and relates conversa-
tions and describes all that he sees
away from where his body really
is. In truth, he appears to be
afraid Of his own being, and from
each succeeding spasm, occasioned
by this extraordinary phenome-
non, he awakens more feeble, and
is rapidly sinking into the grave.
Outre and unreal as this must seem
to all intelligent readers. there is
certainly sqwvthing very mystic
rious connected with the affair.
Many are the stories told by the
small circle ofacquaintances around
the boy. One-tenth Of them would
occupy more space than we pro-
pose to devote to the subject until
we have time to investigate it
thoroughly.
We have no doubt this account
will appear incredible to the minds
Of many Of our readers, and while
we by no means become RESPONSE
BILE for it's verify, yet we would
remind those who feel. disposed to
treat the matter as impossible, that
instances Of q similar nature are
mentioned by various writer's.
Robert Dale Owen gives a case of
this kind, and other distinguished
authors include the matter among
the range of possible phenomena.
Even if substantiated, it is not a
whit moro extraordinary than the
we'll authenticated stories told Of
Angelique Gotten and Fredrlca
Hauffe.-St. Louis Republican.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1867.
Wilson on Impeachment.

In his speech before the Massa-
chusetts Radical convention in
Boston on Wednesday last Senator
Wilson said:
"The equality of men in the
States, and the equality of States
in the Union, are not yet establish
ed by irreversible guarantees.
There is an obstacle at the White
House. That obstacle has been,
and now is, and will continue to
be, an inspiration to reactionary
hopes and strivings, malignant
passions and cruel deeds. Had
Andrew Johnson co-operated with
Congress, needed the voice Of the
people Of the loyal States, and met
the needs of the loyal people of
the rebel States, the equal rights
Of the freedmen would have ere
this been assured, the insurrcc-
tionary States restored, the nation
united, and his name would have
been forever associated with the
martyrd Lincoln in the love, graf
itude and admiration Of loyal
America. The masses Of the Re-
publican party turned trustfully
and hopefully to him when their
great leader was stricken down,
to lead in the granGest work Of
the age. But when he'went over
to the camp Of the men who had
fought against their country or
sympathized with them, they re-
solved to 60 on without him, or in
spite of him, to the final accom-
plishment Of the mighty task i'm
posed upon them by their endan-
gered country. Into the keeping
Of traitors Andrew Johnson put
the rebel States into the keeping
ofunrepentant rebels he has sstriven
to keep those States. Every mea-
sure to protect the loyal white
men of the rebel States, every
measure to secure the rights Of the
freedmen, every measure to weak
en- the rule Of the rebel chiefs,
Civil Rights bill, Freedmen's Bu-
reau bills, Suffrage bills, Recon
struction bills and Amendatory
bills-all have been vetoed by him.
When the Republican masses in
their magnanilnitE. refused to de-
mand impeachment, when the Re-
publicans in Congress forebore to
press impeachment they knew he
merited, trusting that they could
save their country and vindicate
equal rights in spite Of his miscon-
duct, he defantly continued to in
spire resistance to the will Of the
nation-dared his fate-and now
hundreds of thousands who have
held back from his impeachment
are sternly demanding it,"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
NO.39.
A Woman Tries to Blow Her:
self up with a Cannon Ball.

One Of the whimsical and un-
heard Of means of "shuf1ing off
this mortal COLI occurred in this
city on Wednesday. A woman
living in the lower part Of the city,
named Meyer, who, from ill=treat-
ment Of her husband, had become
disgusted with life, attempted to
make away with herself in the fol-
lowing very unique manner; She
took a six-pou"der cannon ball
which her husband had brought
from Vicksburg as q relic, and
which had been lying on the
mantle-piece for years, and having
a rather indistinct conception Of
the terrible effects Of the projec-
tile and the manner of using it, at.
length hit upon an idea. She
went to Edwards grocery and
purchased fifty cents worth Of
powder, returned home, and pro-
curing a breakfast plate she placed
it on the floor. She then poured
the gunpowder upon the plate, and
put the cannon ball on top Of the
powder. Having thus got her ar
tillery into position, and EVERY
thing in readiness; she then sat
down on the loaded plateJ and
with u burning taper in her hand
fired the powder. The effect Of
the explosion may be imagined.
The exploding powder burned and
blackened her lower extremities5
while the ball, which she vainty
expected would end her miseries,
did not stir from it's position.
The unfortunate victim Of this IN:
sane attempt Of self-destruetiqn is
lying in a precarious condition
from the effects of her foolhardy
attempt upon her own life.
st. Louis Republican, July 26.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

"MARR1AGE A LA MODE NoU-
vELLE."-An old Dutch farmer,
just arrived at the dignity Of the
Justice of the peace, had his first
marriage case. He dished it up
in this way. He first said to his
man:
"Vell, you wants to be marrit,
do you? loves dis woman so goot
as any woman you have ever e?"
EYES," answered the man.
Then to the woman:
"Vell, you love dis man so
better as no man you never see %
Lady hesitated, and he repeated a:
"Vell, veil, do you likes him so
we'll as to be his wife ?'
"Oh, certainly" she answered,
with kind Of litter.
Vail, dat is all any reasonable
man can expect. So you are mar
rit; I pronounce you man and
wife"
The man then asked the justice
what was to pay.
"Oh, nothing at all-nothing at
all-you are welcome to it if it
will do you any goot."
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
The Round Table on South
ern Prospects.

The Round Table draws ter
rible picture Of the condition of
the South at the present time, and
points to a yet more terrible con-
ditlon as sure to follow the eleva-
ton of the negro to Office. At the
beginning Of the article it thus
speaks Of the present state Of al
fairs at the South:
"From whatever point of view
moral, financial or political-we
may regard,the Southern States,
their situation is uuspeakably de-
plorable. The effect ofsubiugation,
is always deplorable. Men lose
heart, and hope, and selt-reliance.
Energies are paralyzed. Self-re-
spect is lowered. From the inspira-
tion of battling for cause men sink
to mere vulgar self.seeking and
greed; and oftenest it happens that,
the nobler objects oflife being aban-
doned, they plunge recklessly into
debased pleasures and degrading
sensualities. V9 victis Ifthe vic
tors be not, what the victors sell
dom are, magnanimous and gener-
ally mindful of their subject thralls,
"the lost cause" soon becomes the
least of the regrets of the more
wise among the conquered. A
lost people is an infinitely worth
ier subject of sorrow.
"Under their defeat, it cannot be
denied that the Southern people
have behaved with great noble
ness. Before the close Of the war,
men at the North as we'll as at the
South believed that the surrender
of the Southern armies would be
followed by guerilla warfare Of
years, yet from the day Of John
sons surrender not one outrage
has occurred such as had with rea-
son been anticipated. The cause
of this is twofold. The Southern
people were a martial people; and
however we may sneer at their
chivalry-which doubtless was an
element both Of weakness and Of
strength-we must at least con-
cede that they possessed the vir-
tues as we'll as the defects of the
martial nature"
1t concludes as follows:
"With a penniless negro legisla-
ture to tax, and defenceless white
men to be taxed, the issue cannot
long be doubtful. In every county
taxes will be laid in the same way
by negroes upon white men. In
the towns and cities negro council
men will vote themselves large
salaries, create unnecessary offices
for purposes Of plunder, and for
like ends undertake enormous jobs
of fanciful public improvement.
Justice administered by negro
magistrates will be farce; re-
dress of wrongs will be impossi-
BILE. Liberty Of outrage will be
amply secured. The liberty Of
death will be the only liberty Sc
cured to men whose crime is that
they were born white.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

The Savannah Republican, as sound
Republican paper as there is in
the country, is threatened by the
freedmen because it is against con-
fiscation and distranchisement.
The facts Of the situation in the
South are too plain and manifest
to admit of any misunderstanding.
And there seems to be no remedy
now except to mitigate the antici-
pated evils as much as possible by
endeavouring to inspire the freed
men with wiser counsels.
The Radical organs now fear
that they cannot carry their most
extreme measures, and advise
their leaders to moderate their
tone and temper. This advice
comes too late Thad. Stevens &
Co., will stand or fall by the most
ultra doctrines of their party.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25
The GREAT AMERICAN DESERT

The GREAT AMERICAN DESERT.
"A writer from Nebraska ex-
plodes m old geographical fiction,
and draws q picture which those
Of the readers who studied geog-
raphy fifteen years ago, will readi-
ly recognize. He says: .
I'm an atlas | used to study,
long ago-and l am no chicken
there was laid down just west Of
the Missouri river a tract, broad
and expansive, called The Great
American Desert l recollect =
forlorn buffalo, with tail erect,
sprawled away outside of this tract,
to show that he did not belong in
it, and could not afford to live in
it on any terms and even an In
dian with his pony's tail turned to-
the Desert was chasing off at full
speed for a better locality. AS an
infant in geography, l always took
a great amount of stock in this
Desert idea, which now I think,
after all, grew out of the conceit.
Of some lazy engineer who got
sick Of the vast expanse Of chain
dragging, and Jumped the whole
as a region not worth ten days
work with chain and level: He
libelled the fairest wheat. growing,
section in the world. To day thou
sands Of acres of the finest wheat,
that ever grew yellow in the sum-
mer's sun, are bending and rip.
ping on the fertile bosom of Ne.
braska, to give the lie to the old
atlas and the typographical chap
W 20 misled good Matte Brun>
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE.-A Board
of Trade, so long needed in Columbia,w was
organized on Wednesday, with the fol-
lowing officers President-J. G. Gibbes !
Viec-President-R. c. Shiver; Secretary
and Treasurer-T. 0'Neal, Jr Execu-
tive Committee-Chairman, John Agnew;
J. A. Blakely. T. Gregg, R. D. Sem, j.
H. Wells, J. Fisher. W. B. Stanley, R. N.
Lowrance, G. W. Beardon.
So says the Phoenix.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

The negro walters "tried on" a strike
last week at the "Chattahoocbee White
Sulphur Springs" Their demands were
refused, and all left. The guests set to
work and waited on themselves till new
ones could he hired. The gentlemen
washed the dishes, and at meals the fs-
dies ate first, the gentlemen waiting OH
them. When they we're done, the gentle
men sat down and the ladies served them.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

The Boston Advertisers Washington
dispatch of the 9Th instant contains tho
following at is known that the Presf-
dents friends have telegraphed General
Mcclellan to core here, and also that he
is expected by the fst of October, If he
consents to attach himself to the Presi-
dents cause. Just how Mr.. johnson
expects to use him has not definitely be-
come known"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

A verilable story is told of bright
little girl who attended Sunday School
for the first time, was asked, "Who went
into the Lions den?" The little one ap-
pearing puzzled and not answering, the
teacher commenced spelling, to awaken
the child's memory, "D-a-u." can
tell now, exclaimed she. "all smiles, lit
was Dan Ricer'
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25


Rev. DR.. THOMAS H. TAYLoR.-
This distinguished divine died On
Monday last, at his summer resi-
dencc at. West Park, en- the Hud-
son, New York, after a short ILL
ness. He was Rector of Grace
Church, and had teen connected
with it for upwards of thirty-three
years, since the yecr 1884, when
the congregation of the church
worshipped in an unpretending
building opposite Trinity, in the
lower part of Broadway. His life,
therefore, has been closely asso-
ciated with the hlstosy and pros
rerity of Grace Church, to which
edifce his eloquent and instructive
sermons attracted one Of the most
wealthy, enlightened and liberal
congregations in the city.
DR.. Taylor was born in South
Carolina, where he settled for
some time until the removal Of his
family to New York, where he
has almost continually resided ever
since, with the exception of some
few trips taken to benefit his
health, one of which, to Europe, in
1866, was supposed to do him i'm
mense good, and few among his
many friends imagined on his re-
turn last Spring that his end was
so near.
DR.. Taylor was both an eloquent
writer and speaker, and held a
high rank among the Episcopal
Clergy of the country. He posses
sed great energy Of character and
Jealous temperament, and his So
cial disposition rendered him a
genial and entertaining companion,
and made for him many warm
friends, who held him in the high
est esteem up to the last moments
ofhis existence. In debate he was
very earnest, and sometimes his
repartees were sharp and cutting,
though never urkind Or wounding.
He was low churchman, and al
ways took an active part in the
debates of the Annual Diocesan
Convention, where he exerted a
strong influence. His illness was
at first not regarded as dangerous,
but few persons thought it serious,
and none anticipated the event
that took place on Monday, and
which will be sad blow to a
large circle of friends.-Neao York
Herald.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

A gentleman who has recently
returned from a trip through the
Counties North of Atlanta, informs
the Mtelligencer that so abundant
has been the yield of corn, that in
many places it is offered at twenty
five cents per bushel. This looks
like the good time coming.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

The Viceroy Of Egypt, while in
London, said to one of his English
entertainers-a notorious man Of
pleasure II don't see that there is
much difference between. you and
rs. With US rich man keeps all
his wives under one roof; but in
this country you rich men have a
separate house for every wife"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

A modern philosopher, taking
the motion Of the earth on its
axis at seventeen miles a second,
says that fyou take off your hat
in the street to bow to a friend,
you 90 seventeen miles bare-head-
ed without taking cold.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

The newspaper is sermon for
the thoughtful, a library for the
poor, and a blessing to everybody.
Lord Brougham called it the 'best
public instructor"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-25

A New York correspondent says the
Herald claims to exDend million and
half per annum, and the Tribune and
Times about million dollars each, in
the publication of their journals.