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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03
Tit for Tat.

MIR. SHIRLEY BROOKS tells the Nustrdted
London Nesos rather singular story Of .
bit of meanness and the appropriate re-
venge which followed it. When the Prince
of Wales lately visited Hull, there was q
desile to ornament, in his honor, the
monument in that city erected to the
memory of Wilberforce. But the column
was lofty and not easily climbed, and it
was hard to find any one to make the
ascent and wreathe it with flowers and
foliage. The authorities offered money
reward to any man who would accomplish
the task. After some time, two sailors
from one of Her Majesty ships undertook
the job, and performed it well. They ap-
piled for the reward, but the local officers
refused to pay it, on the ground that, be-
ing servants of the Queen, it was no more
than the duty of the sailors to decorate the
shaft in honor of the Prince. Beer was Of
fered in lieu of the expected guineas, and
the sailors drank it and went their way.
But during the night before the arrival OF
the royal guest, all the ornament was torn
away, by the same strong and skillful hands
that had carried it aloft. Moreover, a
small ladder, decidedly not an ornament
to the column, was left sticking there,
where no one could get at il. The loyal
authorities of Hull could only hope that
the Prince did not observe the bar
renness and Disagreement of the Wiltef
force column, as he passed it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

JOHNNY TEARFU



I'll tell you Of the queerest lad
They called him Johnny Tesrfnl;
A very sorry way he had
OF never being cheerful. it-l
he cried the moment ne got up;
DE made din at dinner; = ~
with tears enough to al q cap $50 -
be never grew much thinner.
He cried IN spite OF an you safd
To keep the tears from streaming.
He cried when he was put to bed,
He cried while he was dreaming
His doieful eyes Of pigmy size
Were dim with overfiowing;
A walking shower-bath he was
The shower forever going.
They told him that the moon vas round
Enohgh-that set him bawling:
BE scared the kittens of the ground
By consent caterwauling.
But thoushdis tears fell thick and fast,
They neverdid his woes end;
Folks wondereNhow the drops could last,
They trickled dawn hls nose end
Bis kites were neves made to suit;
OF course that made him below.
He cried for green, forbidden FRUIT
This aggravating fellowsD
Why, If you only called hissane,
In tears you made him junlh up:
IL really was perfect shame,
The number he could pump up.
What cared he for the spring-time dAys
For flowers, or this or that birds
Why, when he went his moody ways
Each robin. jay, and bird
Flew up and shook its downy head,
While gayly hummed the May-bee;
And this is what the brides said;
"Cheer up, cheer up, cry-baby."
And now poor Johnny's fate sing:
He rose one morning early.
And in his eyes-the usual thing
There stood the tear-drops pesrly.
He kicked, and splashed the water round
They brought to wash his face in.
Then quietly dissolved they found
One huge tear in the basini
Our Hoszq Fblks
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03
FOx.FIRE.
By r. ii. g..


WHEN I was a boy, my father was q
farmer, and 1 had three brothers older
than myself. They were full of their
pranks and seldom allowed an opportuni-
ty to pass unimproved, to play off some
joke ON one another / remember one
night while lay in my trundle-bed in
lower room, the brother next above me
went up to his chamber to 60 to bed, but
presently he hallooed and screamed
in great fright, and came rushing
down stairs with all possible speed
The older boys had prepared fright
for him in this wise: One of them
had been blowing that day in stumpy
lot, and many decaying roots were brought
up by the plow and they ascertained in
the evening that many pieces were phos-
phorescent.
Phosphorescence is the quality of emit
ting light without heat. There are many
substances that possess this quality, and
among others, decaying fish and wood.
Under favorable circumstances they viii
be nearly as luminous in the dark as live
coal. Decayed wood in this condition Is
commonly called for:fre.
They brought their pockets full OF for-
fire to the house, and slipped up to his
chamber unobserved; they cut it into suit
able pieces and strips, and then arranged
them in the form of skeleton on the top
of his bed. The head was very large,
with an enormous mouth and frightful
teeth; and in general outline the whole
resembled the human form. 1t was q
dark night, and brother William-he was
the scared one-approached his bed un-
suspectingly, and as was his wont, with
out light. He was naturally rather cow
ardly in the night, and then in those days
we believed in witches, gobblins and
spooks Young people nova days are
more correctly instructed, ard scarcely
one can be found simple enough to cherish
such false and superstitious notions.
Suddenly the fiery picture fell upon his
sight, as he turned around the large CHM
ney to approach his bed. His excited
Imagination filled out what may have been
imperfect in the image, and it seemed to
him like S veritable ghost, which he de-
clared it to be upon recovering his speech
after he came down stairs. There was
great uproar in the family for few min
utes, but of course it was soon all made
plain, and William crept under his COM
fortables, vexed at himself that he should
be frightened by so familiar a thing as
for. fire, or sp0ke-lo00d as we used to call
it.
If he had exercised presence Of mind, ne
would have prevented the most Of his
fright, and his subsequent modification
A second thought would have revealed
the whole plot to him, but he was too i'm
petuous-he could not wait for a second
thought. This is failing in many people,
and all should watch and guard against it.
We often hear girls, and even young ladies,
shrek as if mortally hurt, from very slight
cause. This infirmity can be to great
extent controlled by habit of thought-by
cultivating selfpOssession-presence OF
mind. We should all try, and that con-
tinually, to not be frightened-not TO be
caught off our guard.-Schootday Visitor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

A SINGULAR accident is reported in
London. A tailor, while pressing coat,
knelt on needle accidentally left in the
garment. 1t entered the knee, and broke
in two pieces, one of which remained in
the limb. He seems not to have taken any
alarm at the occurrence, and went about
his work as usual; but in q few days
violent Inflammation set in, followed by
erysipelas, and his death was the result.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03
an ARTLESS LOVER.

know I'm "horrid ugly" Jane,
You scarcely need have stated
That interesting fact again,
Because it's antiquated.
And-putting natt'ry on the Shells
tell you, Jane, sincerely,
think you're pretty plain yourself,
Although love You dearly.
Your nose Ii not the kind of nose
To satisfy painter; ..
Your locks are Ike the red, red rose,
Or just little fainter. .tt.E
Upon your cheek the glow Of youth
Shines beet-root-eolored nearly;
Q'm bound, you know, to tell the truth,
Although I love you dearlyD
Its needless to possess two eyes
without the least connection;
Where each inquiring optic trios
A contrary direction
It's very much more useful, though,
Than ornamental, clearly;
I'm sorry that you squint, you know,
Although love you dearly.
think I've sal j enough to prove
You're not O perfect Venus
(And quite sufficient 10 remove
Unpleasant thoughts between uG;
So, when you criticize again
Ny visagc too severely,
You'll catch it, can tel you Jans,
Although love you dearly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

AN ECONOMICAL STOCKHOLDERS. "A
good story is told Of gay and festive socknoIne,,
who visited Portland, Me-, from away down east
ON the recent occasion Of an annual meeting and
fine dinner at the Kearsarge He must have Decn
one of these conscientious men who insist on gooa
dividends He didn't dine at the kearsarge because
he hadn't got his gold ''divvy." SO, with ali tne
Importance becoming his position, be took dignl-
fed stroll into an oyster saloon:
Say. mister, what do you ask for an oysterr'
80 One cent apiece was the reply.
"I guess as how I'll have one, said the stock-
holder.
The bivalve was duly opened upon o plate, and
he was invited to "pitch in"
Say mister is this all there is for cent?
"Yes"
Cant you afford to give us anOther' How dye
take itf''
ssWeIl, some swallow it whole, and some cut IL up
into hash. A good many ways You pay your
money and take your choice. -.
ait won hurt fellow, win 1t, thoughT
So -tockholder went for it, and In about two
minutes the good thing out OF sight, with tonr
large soda crackers to keep it company. NOBODY
hurt"
.. Saw. mister, don't care II do have another
oyster. Do you take any less where fellow eats
twof'
"No"
"well don't mind. I'll have another"
Oyster No. was disposed Of and win ~ eignt
of the aforesaid crackers StockhOlder snened OUT
the two cents, and was about to depart, feeling
money as he might need IL to get home with, and
he was welcome to the oysters. He took the Two
cents the most thankful creature ever seen in those
parts and departed. It is not reported whether ne
arrived safely at home, whether he got his gold
dividends. But has one of en-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

AT Odessa, in Russia, Jey6odies
lily, composed of five man who
Gently found murdered family Is under
had RaiG BEEN ena emplov criminal.
arrest ss the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

A peanut-picker was among the new
labor saving machines exhibited at the
Virginia State Fair: Hitherto the nuts
have been picked off the vines by hand (;
four bushels day the fair average for a
hand. A farmer who raised 1000 bushels
required ten hands for nearly two months
10 save his crop, at cost of fifteen cents
per bushel. The crop raised on the south
Side of James river, between Petersburg
and Norfolk, is estimated at 100000
bushels a year. To save this crop would
require the laber of 5000 hands for two
months, at a cost of 100000. The new
machine saves much time and labor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

"A novel wedding was recently eel
ebrated in Memphis. A widow lady
from North Carolina, Mrs. M. Blackwell,
on her way to the Red River country with
all her household goods, including several
children, felt an aching void and de-
termined to fill the place of the late MI.
Blackwell upon short notice. Procuring
a marriage license with a blank for the
name of the husband, she explained her
wishes to the landlord of the wagon-yard
where she resided while IN transstu, who
introduced to her young, strapping fei-
low named Daton, who was nothing lotn,
and the two were made one fye minutes
afterward where they stood in the wagon
yard After the ceremony, the new
matched pair took up their march for their
new home.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

POETRY.
BETROTHAL.
BY CARL eFKNcn.

y yoB one hour Of such enchanted light
As made fairer daytime In the sky. '"
When on the wiIlow-bank we sat thai night.
Ny old-time love and II - -
a while We talked 90 low and tenderly.
We felt the listening trees above us lean:
And louder far the silence seemed to me
That fell ct last between.
Her heart lay floating on its quiet thoughts,
Like water lilies on q tranquil lake;
And Love within, unknown because besoupht
Lay dreaming half awake.
All. Love is lightest sleeper ever knowni
whisper, and he started plain to view;
Oid as the heavens seemed our story grown,
while yet the moon was new.
And when she spoke her answer seemed the while
Sweeter for sweetness Of the lips that told,
setting preciens word within smile
A diamond tinged with gold.
Then bioomed for US the perfect century flower.
linen niled the cup and overrun the brim;
And all the etars professional, that hour,
Chanted bridal-hymn.
An, Time, all after-days may ny away,
ouch JOY az that thou hast but once TO give,
And Love ie royal from his crowning- day,
ihough kingdomless he live.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

Estimating the present crop Of cotton
at two million six hundred thousand bales,
and the price at twenty-five cents the
clear profits of the cotton States cannot be
less than one hundred and eleven million
of dollars. And when we remember at
this clear capital is realized from single
staple to which are to be added other
valuable crops of sugar, tobacco, rice,
wheat and corn, we shall find that this
people are digging solid wealth out OF the
soil and laying it up more rapidly than
any people in the world.-Ao6sle Register
Nocey6er 5.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-03

We ste It stated that George Peabody
never owned Q house or kept Q carriage.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-17
PORTLAND R0CAESTEp Q 9
WINTER ARRANGEMENT

Eys5sagsSggsI On and after Monday, Nov 90 ,o,.
ss@esSSsrss trains will run as follows: - ie69
Passenger trains leave Portland daily lSund
ceptedl lor Alfred and intermediate Stations az eI
A NJ, 200 r. NJ. Ut ''H
Leave Portland for Saco River at 5.3OPM
Leave Alfred for Portland at 0 81 AM
$40 p. M. 49, anu
Freight trains with passenger car attach
ed leave Alfred for Portland at $50 A. NJ.
Leave Portland for Alfred at l2.l5 p NJ
Stages connect as follows:
at Gorham for South Windham, Windham Hill
and North Windham, West Gorham, Standisb Steen
Falls, Baldwin, Denmark Sebago Bridgtop LAVAL
Hiram, Brownfeld, Fryeburg, Conway, Bartlett
Jackson. Limington, Cornish, Porter, Freedom, Mad
isOn and Eaton n H. daily.
At Saco River, for West Buxton, Bonny Easle
South Llmngton, Limington daily.
. At Saeo River for Limerick, Newielo, Parsons
field and Ossipee tri-weekly
At Center Marlborough for Limerick Parsops-
field, daily.
AT Alfred for Springvale and Sanford Corner.
April 2G. 1860
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Portland & Kennebec R. R,
summer Arrangement, May 3, 1869.

summer Arrangement, May 3, 1869.
THO Trains Daily 0et'ceen Portland and Aagusta.
bSsss Leave Portland for Augusta, mixed
GzXSSSsSct train at 100 A NJ.
Leave Portland TOR Bath, Augusta Wateryille and
Bangor. at 1245 NJ. Portland for Bath and Au-
passenger Trains will be due at Portland daily
at $50 NJ, and 2 l5 NJ """J
rare as low by this route to Lewiston waterviIle
henda,is Mills Dexter and Bangor as by the Maine
zen RAJ ROAD and tickets purchased in Boston Ior
Mupe CehIIal stations are good TOR a MASSAGE on
ms ine. Passengers from Bangor Newport neT
yer, &c, will purchase Tickets 10 Kendalps Mills
9nly ana after taking the of the Portland and
henheDec koad, the conductor will furnish tickets
anu make the ,are the same through to Portland or
Boston as via Maine Central. "
through Tickets are sold at Boston over the East
ern ana Boston and Maine Railroads ior ali Stations
on THIS me; also the AndrOscoggn X. r. and Dex-
Ter, aangor, &C., on the Maine Central. No break
Oh gauge east OF Portland by this route and the onlv
IoMe by which passenger from Boston or Port,
I Iand can certainly reach Skowhegan the same dav
stages leave Bath for Rockland, Sc. daily. An
gosta Ior Belfast daily. Vassalboro for North and
sssf Vassalooro and China daily Kendali's Mills
,or unity daily. AT Pshon's Ferry for Canaan dai
their rOute. 'o"AS ]'oi'n vi
Augusta, April g. 1869. maSi7 1tfnp''
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For Halifax. Nova Scotia.
SEMl-WEEKLY LINE.
FALL RIVER LINE.

For New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. WASH
lnssUn, anu al the principal points
West, South and South West,
Via Taunton, Fall River md Newport.
Cabin, $500; Deck $780, Baggage checked
through and transferred in free Of Charge
New York trains leave the Old Colony and New
port Railway Depot, corner OF South and Kneeland
sdaily tSundays excepted as follows al q 80
NJ arriving in Fall River 40 minutes in advance of
the regular Steamboat Train, which leaves Boston
at d 80 MI, connecting at Fall River with the
new anu magnificent steamers PROVIDE NEE Capt
y. Nj. Simmons, BRISTOL, Capt. W. H. Lewis
These steamers are the fastest and most reliable
boats on the Sound, built expressly Tor speed saiev
and comfort. This lire connects with ali The Sontb
ern Boats and Railroad Lines from New York going
West and South, and convenient to the California
Steamers.
'"rO shippers of Freight.o this Line, with
lts new and extensive depht accommodations in Bos-
ton anu large pier in New York. Exclusively for the
business OF he Line is supplied with facilities tor
freight and passenger business which cannot be sur
pass a. Freight always taken at low rates and for
warded with dispatch.
New York Express Train leaves Boston at 30 p
NJ; goods arrive in New York next morning about
A M. Freight leaving New York reaches Boston on
the following day at 9.45 A NJ va
For tickets, berths and staterooms. annlv at the
company's office at No 3 Old State House corner ot
washington and State streets land at Old Colony and
Newport Railroad Depot, corner of Soutb and Knee
land streets, Boston.
Steamers leave New York daily, SUNDAYS excep.
ed) from PIER 80 North Es liver, loot OF Chamber
st, at 400 p M.
GEO. SHIvERIcK, Passenger and Freight A gent,
JAMES FISK, JR., Pr esilent
. M. r. SIMONS, Managing Director Narragansett
Steamship Co.
Nov5 d1yr
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-17

Read what the editor of the Cincinnati Time
says OF ALIENS LUNG BALsAM:
A REMARKABLE C0RE.-Mr. Samuel Lewis. one o
the old Pioneers OF Cincinnati, was very long, ap-
Iarently, in the last stages of Consumption, and
given up by physicians, when some kind friend re-
commended him to use ALIENS LUNG BALSAM.
He did So and Immediately commenced recovering
and is now able to attend to business He saws: SIN
truth, may say it has saved my life. Mr. Lewis is
well known in Cincinnati, and the fullest confidence
may be placed in his statements 1t is DUE therefore
10 the community, especially those suffering under
this terrible malady, that the fullest publicity be
given to such marvellous cures, that other sufferers
may avail themselves of the remedy With pleasure,
therefore, we refer to this cure
From our knowledge of the merits of this excel
lent balsam, and what we hear of its merits, we
think it should be once used by all persons suffer-
ing from cough, or any pulmonary complaint. We
hear that many far advanced in consumption have
been cured by its use. dc1ii4w
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tecJsc GSe0ScNy X1lji5'3en9'af =,
TO THE EADEEC.

Dk. HUGHES particularly invites all Ladies', u no
need medical adviser, TO call at his rooms, No. "a
Prebie street, which they vii 6nd arranged for their
especial accommodation.
Dr.. 70 Electic Renoyatng Medicines ere unriyS,.
led in efficacy std superior virtue In re sulanS all
Female Irregularities. Their action is srecilic and
certain OF producing relief IN a short time
LADIES viii find it invaluable in all cases Of OBJ
ttruc0ns after ali other remedies have been tried in
vain It's purely vegetable, containing nothing in
me last Injurious to the health sud may DO tsksn
with perfect safety at all times.
sent to an pSri or the country, With full direction!
By addressing DR. HUGHES
jsnI. 18s5j.SSs. 80, IL prehle Street Portle-d
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RAILROADS.
Maine Central Railroad.
PORTLAND AND BANGOR LINE.

rpzrH1 Trains will leave Grand Trunk Deno,
ny Gat Portland for Auburn and Lewiston
at 10 A. NJ LOS p. Nj.
Leave for Watervie, Kendalls Mills, Newport
Dexter, (Hoosehead Lake, and Bangor, at Us p
M. Connecting with the European & North AmerI-
can X. r. for towns north and east
rlelght train leaves Pc tlanI tor Bangor and in
errneulate stations at 6.G5 A. NJ.
,d r1 ans leave Lewiston and Auburn for Portland
'i TBS sTs'9 on at 9 20 A. NJ, 1904 +. M.
a., A1 "a. ~, from Bangor and intermediate stations Ia
and Auburn only at $40 a NJ anu --' 'A
The only route by wbioh W. -,
TO Bangor, Dexter and all in5eEmedisfe stationa
through. anu baggage eneckeu
dee16tf EDwt~r >,o,rr,r -
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Norfolk and Baltimore Steamshi Line,

r. Steamships of this Line sail from end
8YSsaS of Central Wharf, Boston. T,cice a
S1A<zAtezAyea oeee, tor NORFOLK and Baltimore.
.",George Appold," Capt. Solomon Rores.
Wm.am laurence" Capt. Vm. d. Haliett.
"McCteidn," Capt. Frank NJ. Hoves.
Freight forwarded from Norfolk to PETERSBURG and
Rtchmond, by river or Ial and by the "a & Tenn.
Air Line to all POINTS in Virg,nia, Tennessee, Sia-
0dmd and Georgia; and over the Sed5oaId and ROa-
nofe H. X to all points in North and South Carolina
places Vest. 80
Through rates given to South and West
FINE Passenger acco odaIions,
Fare including Berth ana Meals S15O0: time tn
Norfolk As hours. To Baltimore 65 hours
For further information apply to
Il. SAMPSON, Aoept
nolId3m jS Central Wharf Rosfon