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The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-07-28

A boy cirous-rider performed the
astonishing feat Of turning twenty-five
consecutive somersaults on horseback.
in Louisville, the other day. A dis,
pute having arisen between him and
the manager as to how many he was
capable Of turning, the latter promis-
ed him the horse, pad and bridlo with
which he performed the oct if he
turned twenty-five times, After be-
ing introduced into the, ring, and per-
forming number Of very difficult but
beautiful acts of horsemanship,< he
threw aside the whip and prepared
himself for the trial. Until ho COM M
pleted bis tenth somersault The crowd or
remained quiet, but when fourteen.
htteen, sixteen and sevente eh we're
called tho most intense interest was
manifested,- and when he had fairly
accomplished his twonty.fifth somer.
saplt the applause was doafeninp.
Immediately after his great act, WITH.
out leaving the back Of his q steed
which he had fairly won, he success.
ifnily accomplished the pes:lle,;s ss,a
dlifioplt act Of turning Eve back som.
.ersaults, making thirty in all. li1The
horse and equipmentssa Sure dValuedfat fat
two thousand dollars. essass
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SOUTH CAROLINA.

State Agricultural aud Mechanical
MAGAZINE.
(OGcial Organ Of the South Coro'ina State
.Agriculfurdl and Mechanical SocieIy.)
At AN carly date, the subscribers will
publish tho fret number Of q Monthly Ma
gazine. devoted to tho development Of the
material interests or this State, and the
whole South; and will distribute fvo thou.
sand copies gratultously, 80 that every ono
may SEQ what It is before subscribing. They
intend TO make II tho best and handsomest
industrial magazine ever published at tho
South, and they ask tho cordial co-opera.
ton of overy good citizen in this enterprise,
which must rebound to tho public welfare.
Persons wishing copies Of the first num-
Dor, will please send their address to
WALKER, EVANS g. COGSWELL,
may 1874 Charleston, 8. G.
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m The London powepapers. contains
correspondence from Canton, stat;ng
That sparatippg ere ra ind ID iii5 lese
for whoicsalS smigf alton to che Uni
ted States on the part of The masses.
who did Bhat sto6l sag gsf O. "a U bfaco any nv
opportunity to get away from their
tiandarins and syne basEi Einatio. ehas sf'S
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SOUTH CAROINA RAILROAD.

g ! Geo. "a
GENERAL SuPERIETENDENr's OnFrcE,
Charleston, s. C., April 10, 1868.
0N and after Sunday, April llth. the
" Passenger Trains on the South Carroll.
ma Railroad will run as follows, VIZ:
For augusta.
Leave Charleston, $50 a M
Arrive al Augusta, 4.45pm
Connecting with Trains for Montgomery,
Memphis, Nashville and New Orleans, via
Montgomery and Grand junction.
For Columbia.
Leave Charleston, $50 n m
arrive at columbia, 6.lO pm
Connecting with Wilmington and Man.
chester Railroad. Charlotte and South ca.
rolina Railroad, anI Camden Train.
For Charleston..
Leave Augusta, 0.OOam
Arrive at Charleston. 5.lOptAs
Leave Columbia, 7.45 II
Arrive at Charleston. 5.l0 m
augusta Night Express.
(Sundnys Excepted.)
Leave Charleston, 7.8Opm
hiflSo h' Augusta, 81 n
Connecting with Trains for Memphis,
Nashville and New Oaleans, via Grand juno
ton.
Leave Augusta 4.1Opm
Arrive at Charleston, 4O0am
Columbia Night Express.
Sundays Excepted.)
Leave Charleston, 6.O5pm
Arrive at Columbia, 445nm
Connecting Sundays excepted) with ths3
Greenvlle and Columbia Railroad. "a
Leave Columbia, 65Opm
Arrive at Charleston, 5.oGa =,
iSummervile Train.
Leave Charleston, 8.36pm
Arrive at SummrrVillc, 5.O0pu
Leave Snmmervillc, 7.l0 m
Arrive at Charleston, S25 am
Camden and Columbia Passenger Train.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur-
days, connecting at Kingsville with up uui
down Day Passengers.
Leave Camden, 63B n m
Arrive at Columbia, II 90 am
Leave columbia, 2.20pm
Arrive at Camden. l 7O6 nm
II. I. PEAKE. GenI sup't.
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and Shingle Mills, Wheat and Corn Mills,
Circular Saws. Betting. &c. Send for des :
oriptive Circular and Price List
~ WOOD & MUM STEAM Enc. Go.
feb 13-6m Utica, New York.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-07-28

From WAsHINGroN.-- Washin7ton
July lS.-It is ascertained, on good
authority, that all the patronage of
the Government is to bo used for
Stokes in Tennessee, Davis in Texas,
and for the nominee of the ultra Radi-
calls in Mississippi. Radical members
of Congress and leading members of
the National Republican Committee
have been here and urged this course,
and have obtained promise that it
should be followed. This is in con.
tradiction to the policy SO very recent
ly announced by the President, and
is further proof of how little control
he has over national affairs. Massa-
chusetts really controls the Govern
mcnt to-day.
The principle topic of conversation
among politicians, for the last two or
three days, has been the remarkable
disposition Of the Yerger haJeas cor.
pus case. To the lasting honor of tho
Attorney 6 eneral, he declined to per.
NIT the blood of man, judioially
murdered, to attach to his skirts. He
has felt all along that the validity of
the Actof Congress, authorizing trials
by Court Martial in the Southern
States, was at least questionable. The
compromise effected by tho eminent
counsel for tho applicant (Messrs. Car,
Isle and Phillips) virtually strips the
case of all technical difficulties. 1t
docs far more. 1t, in effect, surren.
dc doris the question of the power of the
Supreme Court to determine the main
point at issue upon tho morits of con-
trovcsy.-C Cor. Baltimore Guzctte.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-07-28

The farmers Of 6 Charleston Neck bavo
heid am agricultural meeting, and formed
"Rghcts o.5S,.ss s.f,s6-gr4
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sSouTHERN EMtenAfIoN. -Intelli-
gence upon which we place i'm mplieit re-
lance jjustifies the remark that there is
more interest manifested in Germany,
Sweden and Norway, in American
Southern ini.n igration, than at any for.
mer period. The great European emf
grafton houses, with their hundreds oi
agents. are carefully gathering informa.
ton and indus triously circulating it.
The States TO which they are now turn
ing their attention are Virginia, Ten
nessee, and North and South Carolina.
The winter is The season for canvassing
TOR emlgrants, and the statistics should
be sent forward during the summer
All that is needed TO turn the tide south
ward is the assurance Of peace, liberty,
and toleration in the South. Great
attention has been excited in Europe by
the efforts of northern men in favor oi
popnlating the South, and in few
months the results will begin to show
b M sci v G 8 practically. = Dormeys
Chronicle.
We have people from all these coun.
tries now in Richmond They are witt,
us and of us. They hclped to elec,
Walker and eleven Conservative mem
bers of the General Assembly. There
nres at least thousand German votes
IN Richmond. That looks as if there
might be ",oleration" here
Oh. the vilo hypocrisy Of the scoun.
drels who by hnuendo slander our peo'
pie, and make foreigners afraid Of us
Richmond Dispo,ch.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-07-28

Sun STRoKE-Huw TO AVON IT,
The season when the Gums rays pour
down with their greatest intensity,
and inflict upon the head Of man the
dangerous malady known as coup de
soieH, is now at hand, and it is we'll to
remind persons Of the fact. Very
simple precautions will save persons
from being seized by the malady in
question. One Of the best preven.
tives is thin piece of sponge loose.
ly sewed into tue top Of the hat and
occasionally moistened with water iu
the course of the day. We have
heard of a man who walked twenty
miles undor hot Gun with damp
pocket handkerchief inside the crown Of
his hat, and did not suffer any iucon-
venienoe. The precautions are SO OBJ
vious and simple that people do not
regard them. Were they complicated
and expensive, their use would be
more general.
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Miss. AsfHoNY ON s4EEpINa ALONE.

Miss. ANrHoNY ON SIEEPINa ALONE.
Susan b. Anthony is out in a paragraph
in the Rspokution recommending that
married people should no longer, sleep
together; that every man., woman, and
child should have bed to him or her
self that those who are just going to
housekeeping should buy no double
beds; and she exclaims with enthusiasm.
Cribs, cots, and single beds for health
and happiness" Poets. both male and
female, have often surg Of "cots," but
they have always insisted on placing
them beside rill, Here is the para
graph upon which she bases advice:
Tho laws of life cay: "More quar-
fels arise between brothers, between
sisters, between hired girls, between
apprentices in machine shops, between
clerks i'll stores. between hired men,
between husbands and wives, owing to
electrical changes through which their
nervous systems 60 by lodging together
night after night under the same bed
clothes than almost by any other disturb.
ing cause. There is nothing that will
SO derange the nervous force as to lie all
night in bed with another person who is
absorbent in nervous force. The ab--
eorber vii! go to sleep ard rest all night:
while the eliminator will be tumbling
and tossing, restless and nervous, and
awake in the morning fretrul, peevish,
and fault finding and discouraged. No
two persons, no matter who they are,
should habitually sl,ep together. One
will thrivean the other will lose. This
Eisathe law, and it is defined almost uni
versally.n S aE '
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CROPS IN THE SrArE.-The Sumter
Watchn,an, of the 2lst inst, says: ~
We have recently had occasion tc
pass oyer the Spartanburgy and Union
Rail Road, and found the crops suffering
terribly from drought and and the burn
ing sun, The same sad state Of affairs
exists in Kersliaw, Richland and along
the line Of the Sonth Carolina Railroad.
And this report is equally true @itl,
reference to Sumter Corn is believed
to have been cut off at least one-half,
and losing terribly every dav. The
prospect has been distrossingly changed
within two weeks. A light shower ol
rain fell at Sumter yesterday TUESDAY }
about three o'clock, since the above
was written.
@FiRE IN ArKEN.--A friend who IS
sojourning in Aiken informs us that a
large two story wooden building, To-
gether, with its contents, belonging to
Madame DuPre, was destroyed by fire
on last Saturday afternoon. The build
ibgswas used as a storehouse, in which
was stored some furniture belonging TO
Madame DuPre, also large quantity OF
frnit preserves Of her make, together
Withabont five hundred gallons Of wine
tt'ade'of the Aiken grape by Mr.. Bon
netheau. The FIRE was the result of an
accident occurring from sparks from a
burning chimney at.t ched to the kitch-
en- We regret to learn there IS no in
surance on either The building or it's
contents.--- Chaylestoa Cowier.f@
t.4. & ID Z .-----tTt-7ss "a So. .----.-- s5l,sI
SO THE FLooD I'm sTExAs--.A LARGE
SLIoE soBs THE C6rroN URop. ..--Ac.
counts Of the dieastrans food in nearly
oil Tho stiyers of Tsxas continue 70
reach ps by telegraph, although, as com
,,unjea,ion 10 intercepted in great part
the datailswil only reach 40 after the
wastrs shsli have anbsided. Il 10 clear,
hoygh,that the .statisticiaps will have
70 q sabafs their fgpreseyesy. materiallysin
Estimating theeetton crop of the present
Tear.@, The crop on all the best river
ahdcreek bottoma 6f the State has been
destroyed, apaisria entirely TOO late 10
thikk II tsglaptiae jtas Al VI
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THE PAST AND THE PRssENT.-A
special dispatch to the New York
World, dated Washington, July Ia,
says:
That historic place the old Senate
Chamber, now used as the United
States Supreme Court Room, present.
ed novel sight to-day. 1t was we'll
that tho eyes of the justices who have
gone before, and whose lineaments,
perpetuated in marble, adorn the sur.
rounding walls, were too inanimate to
view the spectacle before them. Ga
the very spot whore stood Calhoun
nineteen years ago and predicted the
soenes. to-day, could zba seen the At
torney- General Of the United States
defending the. action Of military
commission, in assuming to itself the
trial Of citizon charged with murder
in in! Mississippi. Ho remarked that he
was tbore, but knew not hardly &he
cause for his presence, and that In the
face of the petition of an humble citi.
zen of disfranchsed State, asking
that q, writ of Habeas Corpus be is
sued to remove him from tho custody
Of military commission which the
late Henry Winter Davis always char.
aoterized as an institution ssorganized
to convict" E2pTH5
!. CorToN FAILuREs IN ENGLANp.-4-
Our English exchanges announces sew
eeral cotton failures. In Preston,
Siessrs. George Smith & Ion, Moor
Brook Mills, had been compelled to
suspend payment, and Messrs. Stead,
Taylor q Stead, Of Liverpool, were
preparing the necessary balance sheet
and statements. sMessrs. Smith &
Son ran $4,000 spindles and about 450
looms, and employed upwards of two
hundred work people. The failures
have also been announced of sMessrs.
Il. w. Jackson, cotton spinners and
manufactures, Of Lancaster and Pres.
ton, who rau $4,000 epihdles and 900
looms, and employed three hundred
operatives and Of Mr.. Bourne, Of
Brindle, near Preston, who ran Sd, 900
spindles and 500 looms, and employed
about the same number of hands.--
The cotton trade in Preston and the
vioinity-indeed, throughout Ian.
cashlre--is in a most wretched cohdi.
tion, and there are rumors or other
mistortunes impending, ~,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01
A Night in a Japanese Hotel.

As / was about to pass nay first night
in Japanese house, watched snxiously
the preparations for slesping. They
we're simple enough: a mattress in the
form of very thick quilt, about seven
feet long by four wide, was spread on the
floor; and over it was laid an ample
robe, very long and heavily padded and
provided with large sleeves. Having
put on the night dress, the sleeper COW
ers himself with another quilt and sleeps,
1. e., If he has some years practice in
the use of his bed. " i
But the most remarkable feature about
Japanese bed ia the pillow. This is a
wooden box about four inches high,
eight inches long and two inches wide at
the top. 1t has a cushion of folded
papers on the upper side to rest the neck
on, for the elaborate manner of dressing
the hair does not permit the Japanese,
especially the women, to press the head
on q pillow. Every morning the upper
most paper is taken off from the cushion,
exposing a clean surface without the
expense Of washing pillow.
/ passed the greater part OF the night
in learning how to poise my head in this
novel manner; and when / finally closed
my eyes, it was to dream that / was
being slowly beheaded, and to awake at
the crisis to fnd the pillow bottom side
up, and my back resting on the sharp
lower edge of the box. During my stay
in the country learned many of its
customs, mastering the use of chop.sticks,
and sccustoming nay palate to raw fresh
fish, but the attempt to balance my head
N o two-inch. pillow gave up in
AZ ,pair. after trying in vain to secure
~. Nox by tying it to my neck aud head.
-1I mPun. 'pelly's Travels Round the World
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01
Reasons for Thinking the OnOndaga
Giant q PetrifaetfOn.
From the Rochester Chronicle.

From the Rochester Cnronicie.l
Tne opinion entertained BY several
good authorities, fsvoring the theory OF
petrifsction. may be summed up briefly
as follows: First, Near Cardiff have been
found skeletons of human beings eleven
feet tall; also, fish petriied to perfect
stone similar to that of the giant. Sc
cond 1t is generally known and con-
ceded, / think, that all statues of this
character have defnite position, with a
tablet or pedestal upon which they are
designed to rest. This figure has none
of these characteristics. Third. If this
be q statue it appears reasonable to sup
pose that the sculptor would have repre-
sented the hair upon the head. while here
the head is entirely smooth. Fourth. By
knocking upon the head with the knuck-
les it gives a ringing, hollow sound not
produced in any other part of the body;
and from the examination made in my
presence, l feel assured that the head is
hollow, which would not be the case had
the figure been cut BY hands from solid
stone. a LaAH Nt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01
Gold Ca iowds-The Woman Suffrage
Convention az Cleveland.

Correspondence Cincinnati COMMERCIAL
The convention was we'll conducted,
because half dozen leading spirits with
unity of purpose took control from the
start, and maintained control through
out. The enthusiasm of the occasion
was chiefly confined to the platform.
Feeble efforts at applause we're OCCASION
ally esssyed in the four or FIVE rows OF
seats at the front where the delegates sat,
but these displays of appreciation of
what was going on seldom extended far
lher The citizens of Cleveland, men
aud women, gathered in great numbers
in the hall, probably no less than two
thousand persons being present yesier-
day aitei noon, hundreds Of whom stood
cIsely wedged together in the aisles, and
hundreds more crowded tbe galleries up
TO the ceiling Yet the manner Of those
present, while 1t carried in it that re-
speciful Difference to the right Of free
speech, which always chsracterizes
Cleveland audience, be the subject OF
discussion what it may, DO speaker sue.
ceeded 10 extracting any token Of appro-
val from the vast sssemblage. Men and
women, most of then in or past middle
age, came and stood for hours watching
every movement as much as they =ould
any curious exhibition whatever, Of which
they had heard or read much and seea
little
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01
c,,,. Coin in the susTresaury.

Prom the New York Timei,l
Manv neonle we under the Impression
,.a, aaob p n;acs n, coin is counted sepsr-
ately in these exam instlons, but little
reflection will convince them tnat THIS Is
AN error. One man cos ID scarcely count
sIOO, 600 on an average IL day, and TO
examine at this rate would consume TOO
much time, nor would it be necessary,
Each denomination of gold is packed
separately, and the bag labeled win
tag. showing the character of the coin,
and the amount. In the process OF count
ing, ole of the sealed chests will be
opened, the contents carried on trucks
into the gold reom, and then. one bag
will be counted and the remainder OF the
same denomination weighed against u
in accurately adjusted scales. Should
any perceptible difference 10 weight be
noted. the contents Of the deficient bag
will be counted, and thus any error will
be guarded against. Should nothing oc-
cur to prevent, the examination will pro-
gress at the rate of SO, ,000, 900 per day
When the contents of one chest have
been examined, the coin will be returned
to il, the chest locked and sealed with
the initials Of the com mittee and the rep
,,esentatives Of both Senator Folger and
General Buiterfeld. This work must be
conducted by daylight, in order that no
possibility Of the loss Of a piece may oc-
cur. 1t is, perhaps. unnecessary to say
that the public will not be admitted to
these examinations.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01

Olive Logan was asked By an impu-
dent war, the other day, ifit WAS true, as
the papers report, that she wore fifteen
hundred dollars on her head 10 the shape
of hair: "Qaite true" replied the gentle
Olive; "snu It is also true that wear
twenty thousand dollars in my mouth in
he shape Of teeth, aud halt 3 million
dollars in the shape Of tongue, to say
nothing Of the billion or two Of dollars IN
the shape Of eyes, ears and such small
deer. And TO tell the trsth, wouldn't
sell out even st thsse fgures.'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01

Counting the collateral branches, there
are in England about six and twenty
princes aud prineesses of the blood royal.
To these the nation pays in pensions the
SUN of ell, 900 sterling yesrlyi and as
the younger sons and daughters Of the
Queen grow up. it will be ssked to pay q
roud deal more.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01

A little girl got to school in Danbury,
Connectieut, the other morning just IS Il
commenced, and her teacher said, " You
are just iu time, Snsie." Then. turning
to the other scholars. she asked, In
time for what, children 2 A hand went
up, and an Intelligent boy thus signIhed
be had solved the problem. Well.
Thomas, just IN time for whatf Lam
sgan's balll" shouted the promising
youth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-01

Helen A. Miller bas recovered $50, ,O0C
| from the Brooklyn Life Insurance Com
papy. Il was policy on her husband
life. HNH #I NHH H
Fremont has issued semi-monthly
journal in Paris, called the Trans Con
tinentat, in the interest of the Memphis
and Ell Paso railroad.
| Mayor Hall, of New York, has teen
presented with portrait of his father s
grandfather, who was hung as regicide
Of Charles l. at Tyburn.
| A Texas paper highly extols a new
dramatic star. 1t ssys: "The boys 20 to
the theatre just to hear her sing and see
her pile on the style. She wears Gee-
clan bend"
| The well-known magnificent Gear of
Rassia was always fond in winter time
Of sitting with his feet on the fender.
Hence his laughter loving people called
him Peter the Crate. elaw a
The Chicago Times complains that
most OF the female servants in that city
are mainly interested in area and back
door Hrtations, with view to early mat
rimony."
The Cherokees have a new Speaker
for their Parliament, and he rejoices ia
the eminently breezy and appropriate
name of Stand Whirlwind. He must be
q fearful blower as an orator.
A lady at Williamsport, Pa, has not
been able to sleep wink in month.
Examination into the cause by eminent
physicians revealed the terrible truth
that her night-gown was out of fashion.
The woodcock in Europe have arrived
at their usual haunts two weeks before
the accustomed time, and hence the
sportsmens assert that severe weather
may be expected during the approaching
winter.
A little girl in Peoria, Illinois, at.
tempted suicide the otker day. She as
signed as reason that her father had
disowned her because she preferred work
ing in a hotel kitchen to- attending
school, where her playmates made fun OF
her sore eyes.
A plot has been discovered in Galicia
for the sale Of women into Tarksh ha-
rems. The Austrian police laid hands
on two fiends who have carried on for |
some time this traffic. The letters of |
some of these victims are published,
giving narrowing account of the indig-
mites to which they have been subject,
their children being sold to the Turks |
and they themselves placed at the mercy
of the Pashas. ~
A female African was recently brought
before a New Orleans police court,
charged with disorderly conduct.
=" What's your name p inquired the
clerk. She gave that of distinguished
member of the Legislature, stating,
" Hes my husband" "0h, / reckon
not" replied the police functionary.
!" You reckon not do you, sir Well,
| shall have you discharged You white
employees don't treat us colored ladies'
with proper respect" fFt
The Pantin murder is still eau sing the
greatest excitement in France, and
the murderer, is the hero of
the day in Paris, where sentimental ladies
adore him. Although sure of suffering
the death penalty, his avarice has
him to go into speculation
With his photographs, which he sells for
three francs apiece, advertising at the
same time that those sold for halt franc
are not genuine and o swindle.