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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-16
STORE On EAST BAY, OPPOSITE THE
y NEW CUST0MHOUSE No. I'll.

Will be sold on TUESDAY, 10th instant, at the
Old Postofice, at IL O'Clock,
That desirable three-story BRICK STORE, with
extensive outbuildings Of brlck-to the north Of
property OF o. j. Chafee-measuring SO 6-l2 feet in
front by 222 feet in DEPTH This property Is i'm.
medlatey opposite the New Customhouse, and
very desirable.
Terms-One.thIrd cash; balance in one, two and
three years. with interest at the rate OF 10 per cent
per annum, secured by bond and mortgage OF the
property. Policy Of insurance to be assigned.
Purchaser to pay us for papers and stamps.
Oct16
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IN THE STOCK ARE THE FOLLOWING:
MIXED CASHMERE SUITS. SIS 90
Double and Twisted Cashmere Suits. II 90
Fancy Cashmere Observation-Disclosures. IS 90
Dahlia Melton Suits. s......................, IS 90
Black and White Silk Mixed Suits. ......... 20 90
Diagonal Coating Suits. Observation-Disclosures. 81 90
Scotch Cheviot Suits. ts...................... "a 90
Elbeuf SILK Mixed Suits. 25 90
Golden Silk Mixed Suits. 26 90
Olive Mixed Melton Suits. % 90
Chesterfield Coats at from. .......s12 90 to 20 90
Waterproof Tweed Oversacks. .............. 10 90
Melton Oversacks. .......................... IL %
English Melton Sacks. s...................... Is 90
Fancy Cashmere Pants at from....s5 90 to 10 90
Vests Of Cashmere, Cloth, Coating, Beaver
and velvets at from. ......"....s3 90 to 10 90
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-16

By W. Y. LEITCH r. S. BRUINS, Auctloneers,
No. IS Broad street.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-16
THE

Tailoring Department,
Supplied with large stock Of new FOREIGN
IMPORTATIONS for this falls wear, Of the most
choice styles, which will be made up to order in
the best manner, under the care of frst-class
French Cutter.
Prices fixed and marked on each garment.
Customers are invited to call and look through
the stock, and make their selections.
William MatthieSsen.
B. w. McTUREOUs, Superintendent.
sept21 tuths2mos
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BOYS AND YOU'T H S
CLOTHING,

To fit boys and youths from three to seventeen
years. Or age, in great variety OF qualities, for
School and Dress Suits.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-16
JOHN s. RYAN, AuctIoneer.

oct16 s3tu1
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
An Indignant Damsel.

We heard good joke on a resident of
Dog Creek the other day. The party re-
ferred to is bachelor and lives on the
wagon road. A few days ago an emigrant
wagon from Oregon came along and
camped near our friends place. The head
of the family soon made himself acquaint.
ed with the proprietor of the premises, and
asked him why he didn't have woman to
keep house for him. The answer was that
he intended to marry just as soon as he
could find woman willing to enter the
bonds of matrimony. The Oregonian re-
marked that he could find him partner if
he would take her. The bachelor said that
was right into his hand, and the emigrant
invited him into his camp. The emi-
grant called upon bouncing damsel of
about twenty years, and informed
her that the gentleman accompanying
him was "on the marry" and willing to
take her for better or for worse the dam
sci, delighted with the prospect, advanced,
and, seizing our friend by the hand, assured
him that she was glad to see him, and was
while the old lady hastenedup to congratu-
priced and alarmed DIT tile sefiotis tdfn iiiat-
tiers had taken, our friend, who is constitu-
tionally opposed to the institution of mat
rimony, endeavored to explain by saying
that he was only joking and did not want
to marry. At this the Oregonian became
indignant, and the would be bride request
ed her father to take his rifle and "drap
the varmint in his tracks" At this affec-
tionate suggestion the bachelor left for his
Notifications, the last thing he heard being
the voice of the old lady consoling her
"darter" with the remark that it was best to
"Iet the blk go"-Shasta, CAL, Courier
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Keeping q Secret.

THE Newport Mercury. relates capital
story of Stuart, the painter, which Illus
trates finely the power which secret has
to propagate itself, if once allowed a little
airing, and to reach q few ears. Stuart
had, as he supposed, discovered secret
art of coloring-very valuable. He told 1t
to a friend His friend valued it very
highly, and came time afterwards to ask
permission to communicate it, under oath
of eternal secrecy, to friend of his who
needed every possible aid to enable himto
rise.
"Let me see," said Stuart, making
chalk mark on board at hand; 81 know
the art, and that is"
"One," said his friend.
"You know it," said Stuart, making an
other mark by the side of the one already
made; sand that is"
"Two," cried the other.
"wel, you tell your friend, and that
will be" making third mark
"Three only" said the other.
"No," said Stuart, "it is one hundred
and eleveni" Q1D.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Death OF q Hero.

Another of The most distressing events,
which mark with almost certain fatality
every bathing season, occurred here on
Saturday afternoon. Three or four little
lads went in bathing in the harbor, just
below the residence of William Jennings
One of them, William Bessey, son
of widow William Bessey, could
swim a little, the others could not
A son of William Finney got beyond
his depth, and was struggling for his life,
which young Bessey noticing, Immediately
swan TO his relief, and succeeded in push
ing him SO far in shore that the life of his
little playmate was saved, but at the sad
cost of his own. He was observed to sink,
but no aid could be procured until too late
to save the heroic little fellows life. His
body was soon recovered, and every effort
made for its resuscitation, but without
avail The loss of the boy, who was un-
usually bright and active, falls with crush
ing weight upon his poor mother; but
terrible as is her loss, none could choose a
nobler death for man or boy than the Civ
ing up of his life in saving that of another.
No more fitting inscription can be placed
over the grave ofthat heroic boy of eleven
years, than that he lost his life in saving
another's." Surely there is not man or
boy in the whole land who will not revere
the memory of little Willie Bessey.-Nor-
scdtk Conn, Gazette
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Henry Keep.

A remarkable career has just been
closed in the death Of the late President
of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way. Its lessen is one that will long live
in the annals of our great railway finan-
ciers. The poor foundling of rural
poor-house in Central New York, with
the secret of his birth never solved then
a bound boy under a fiinty- hearted farm
er; and then, through such an unpromis-
ing rift, and opening upon life, too OBJ
scure and worthless to be followed by
those all too willing to get rid of him, the
forlorn little scarecrow rushed into life
alone. Could anything be more unprom-
Using? Put your own petted, bright
eyed, well clad boy beside him in this
picture, and say which shall surest mount
the shining sleeps that are known as sue
cess in life. The poor little astray began
life for himself by leading or riding horses
on the Erie Canal He helped drovers in
odd jobs of herding and driving cattle.
He was always busy and keen for ad-
vancement He made his first substantial
step as mere youth in buying Canada
scrip and converting it. His hands and
feet once on the ladder he climbed strong
ly and rapidly into his place as a broker,
banker, financier, until he came to con-
troll millions and to be mighty in stock
circles. Dying at the head of one of the
greatest American railway corporations,
he has shown by his life a remarkable in
stance of triumph over obstacles of birth
and early surroundings.-ChieGgo Repu6-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
A Word for Local Newspapers.

We clip the following from the NewYork
Tribune; it is true, and we commend it to
every one who has interest where he re-
sides:
Nothing is more common than to hear
people talk of what they pay newspapers
for advertising, &c, as so much giUen in
charity. Newspapers, by enhancing the
value of property in their neighborhood,
and giving the localities in which they are
published reputation abroad, benefit all
such, particularly if they are merchants or
real estate owners, thrice the amount
yearly ofthe meager sum they pay for their
support. Besides every public spirited
citizen has laudable pride in having a
paper of which he is not ashamed, even
though he should pick it up in New York
or Washington.
A good looking, thriving sheet helps
property, gives character to locality, and
in many respects is desirable public con-
venience. If from any cause the matter
In the local or editorial column should not
be to your standard, do not cast it aside
and pronounce 1t good for nothing, until
satisfied that there has been no more labor
bestowed upon it than is paid for. If you
want a good readable sheet it must be
supported. And it must not be supported
in spirit of charity either, but because
you feel a necessity to support it. The
local press is the power that moves the
peODle
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20

THE REAPERs.
n HAITIAN D. uR,sn.

BuLows Of shadow and brightness heot
Over the seae Of yellowing wheat
With steadier glow whore the white noon rests
0 On the fallen glory Of golden crests-
With wave on wave to the orchard hows.
Far to the right brown-armed row.
zee the stalwart reapen 20
Their shoulders rising and Milling free,
Like swimmers that sport IN summer soa-
While here and there scythe- blades blaze
Dips like o dolphin, and round them plsva.
And the jocund shout Of the Harvest Home
fioass mellow and deep, nom the jasper foam.
ssni rsgn,4 to ti.a,ss the verge q on. shaded path
kar behind IL stretches away
Piumed at the sides by tawny sprsy.
Ike f1Se IBBenR%S' IBe ReS s sssngtnsni1g the on g "a
through the thallowing waves, the gray-beard
Faster and fuller now swing. the steel,
With fery Hash, as the sunbcams writhe
From tip to hasp Of the sweeping scythe
There. following is the sheafpiied vain,
With the steeds neck-deep in the golden grain
Aud now, to breathe from their task work sore,
The dripping toiers have reached the shore,
But cooling draught nom .ne Guo"nne spn'ns'
Brown foreheads S brushed OF the shining sweat,
Like jewels Of honor there proudly Get,
And then with their backs to the ehaven lea
Another plunge in the amber sea
law music ,ervades the air,
From thicket and meadow. and near p1rteyrs;
As IT, the leaf-coverts and howcrs among,
The sleepy soul of the sunshinc sung.
From the velvety edge of tbis darling dell
Luxurious languore softly swell,
To lull the spirit and WOO the rense
To day dream, doth and Incidence.
But sweeter, pleasanter far to me
Than wind, or bird, or droning bee,
Thst tnsty shout. 30 CHEEKY and blithe,
yhst ringing sound OF the whstting scyths.
n speaks Of laurels nobly woa
BY the good strong arm in the good strong sun
OF energies, heavenly seconded,
To wrest from earth bosom the boon of t1Nsd
For wife and little o1es-charity-
And the hungry myriade ever the sea!
u sings song, and an echo springs
W orld-w and clear, as the scythe-blade rinss,
Telling of man and hie dignity,
His hope to be noble, his right to be free
Ol the God-like power in his bosom unfurled
vi the Drawn and body and soul Of the world
-Hbckord AosfAv for Augusf.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
KNOW you?

Know you the hour when Phebus steals,
From where Aurora blushing lies,
And mounts the heaven on glowing wheels,
And gilds the gray Of dawning skies!
Know You the time when birds begin
To carol to the rising sun,
When from the woods their jocund din
Proclaims the reign cf night is dones
Know you the moment when the dew
Exhales in silvery sighs from blooms
Wbereon it slept the whole night through,
Till Phebus the wrapt earth illumesf
Know you the moment, time and hour
OF daybreakf Well, you do, mayhap.
Well, that's the time feel power
or pleasure IN " that other nap"
-Frc1u HLu
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
What Allied the Telegraph?

DURING the fortnight which ended last
Saturday night, the telegraph line between
here and Chicago was mysteriously inter
fered with-so that no message could be
sent, and all dispatches were sent by way
of Racine and Savanna At first the
trouble was laid to the high water some
where, but after the various streams sub
sided, the trouble continued the same as
before. In the day time, however, the
line worked as well as could be desired.
After a week of nightly search for the
cause of the break, it was discovered last
Friday evening, in the shape of long
iron rod, which a miner at La Sale placed
against the wires upon quitting his work.
The rod was knocked down, and the line
worked well enough. The miner was
warned that repetition Of such dis
posal of his working tools would result in
trouble to himself as well as to the tele-
graph company. He was utterly amazed
at the power of his rod over the wires,
and thought the telegraph was mighty
quare thing to be sthopped by the likes o
that rod. d."-Darsnport (losea) Gassste, I'd.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Tippling Statistics.

THE editor of New York paper (who
probably knows) calculates the amount of
money spent for drinks He says: "Leav-
ing wines and expensive liquors quite out
of the question, let us see what plain
cocktailist or modest imbiber of old rye Is
likely to disburse on his favorite refresh
ments in the course of year. Take q
very moderate man as a sample. Assume
that he drinks every day one glass Of ale
at ten cents, and four glasses of whisky at
fifteen. That amounts to seventy cents q
day, which makes four dollars and ninety
cents week. Multiply by four, and you
have nineteen dollars and sixty cents Q
month, which comes, you know, to two
hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty
cents year. Thus, if the man who had
carried on at this rate for ten years had all
his liquor money back, his pocket would
be inflated to the tune of over two thou
sand dollars. This is only small beer
calculation; but think of men who spend
five times this amount on liquors, and re-
member that their name is legion.
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Nathan Hickman, that they used to call
Straight-eye II war to have fought him
this fall yu tell him why l can't cum, for
no one didn't oughter think 1 war 'fraid.'
q" If the coon says q word agin you,'
says ], 'Pn grease my boots with his liver.
Is thar anything else?'
"'Wal,' says he, / guess that's about
"Good-by, then, ole feller,' says I;
bless yur And with that 1 clapped my
pistol to his head, and blew it as small as
corn-shucks'
GOOD Heayenl" says l, revolted at this
eold-blooded butchery, "could you not
have spared the mans life, even theng"
Stranger" replied the old slaughterer,
with indescribable dignity" If you want
to find a critter so cussed mean as to hurt
q mans feelin's by sparin' him alter he's
been whipped in a fair fight, 1 guess yu'd
better not come to Cyrus Jehosaphat
Flinti Now, then, 1 calc'late we'd best
be lookin' alter our fixin's, for them's the
spires O. Stockholm shinin' yonder."
And, SO speaking, he turned upon his
heel and vanished into the cabin.
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pear, then the blood decomposes, its liquid
parts infiltrating the tissues, and its solid
elements being deposited either on the
heart or on the sides of the vessels. Then
follows decomposition, which slowly and
mysteriously reduces the whole to water,
carbonic acid and ammonia being the pro-
ducts into which are resolved all animal
matters in state of putrefaction. These
matters of complex compositiuh return to
the inorganic combinations which enabled
the plants to elaborate them thus the
study of putrefaction, at first so revolving,
acquires a special philosophical interest,
while revealing to us chainwork of phe-
nomena admirable on account of its beau
tiful simplicity.-Appleton's Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Death from q Scientific Point of View.

IT is law of nature that whatever has
a beginning must also have an end, the
idea of death itself being associated with
birth.
But this term of life, the moment that
reduces to inert matter the body which
life had animated, may arrive sooner or
later, accidentally or naturally.
Accidental death happens when one of
the essential organs of life, from some
cause or other, ceases to act; these prin-
cipal organs being the brain, lungs and
heart.
The action of the brain, however, may
be almost wholly suppressed, and yet life
continue; breathing may be for some time
suspended, and yet life linger within ;
then life is extinct.
Accidental death, therefore, is all the
more rapid from its cause acting more i'm
mediately on the circulating centre; it may
happen at all ages, although it is much
more frequent in the earlier than the later
stages of existence.
Natural death is much rarer; accidents
or disease almost always consuming life
before the period primitively fixed upon
by Nature.
1t may also happen at more or less ad-
vanced age, according to the peculiarities
of constitution, sex, race, climate, etc
When the work of destruction follows its
usual course, life departs in an opposite
sense from the one in which it had been
developed: in the embryo life seems to
march from the heart to the remoter Or
gans, but in the old man it gradually for
| sakes his body from the circumference to
the center. Then the members, becom-
ing motiOnless, and obeying the law
of heaviness, lose their sensibility and
heat; and the muscles no longer obey the
will, even if the will exist; the skin be-
comes cold and dry, or is covered with a
viscous sweat; the face assumes charac-
teristic aspect, and appears emaciated /;
the eyes withdraw deep into their orbits,
the cornea is unsettled, the eyelids are
half closed by the lowering of the upper
one, the cheek bones become prominent,
the nose droops, and the discOlored lips
are parted and puckered. The voice, like
thought, becomes incoherent; the eyes
lose their powers of vision, and the olfac-
tory nerves are insensible to odors; but
hearing is among the last of the faculties
that leave him. The abdominal and pee
toral viscera cease to fulfil their functions,
drinks fall into the 9sophagus as into an
inert tube; breathing becomes short, slow,
and irregular, now suspended, now re-
newed, terminating finally in the last gasp.
The pulse beats rapidly but fainter and
fainter, offering numerous remittances un-
til it ceases to be appreciable. The heart
still continues beating feebly and irregu-
larly, and its last contraction marks the
moment that separates life from death. No
vestige of life now remains, except in GER
tain tissues, which, even for some time
after death, retain organic properties; the
/ capillaries are contracted, so as to
drive into the veins all the blood
they contain; the irritability of the
muscles is demonstrated when placed un-
der the influence of the yoltaie pile.
! These last phenomena Of Life soon dfasp'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20

AS John Ystter, of Mortonville, N. Y,
was working in stable, recently, he took
off his vest and threw it over q stall. A
large pocketbook, containing $40 in bank
notes, and several notes of hand, dropped
out Of the side pocket near q calf The
notes were rather longer than the pocket
book, and the calf drew them out and ate
them. When Mr.. Yetter returned for his
vest, his treasure, as well as a number of
vendue notes, varying in amounts from
$50 to $3.50, were missing. The heller
could not be made to refund by persuar
sion or other mild means. Itwas stlength
decided to force payment, and to do this
it was necessary to kin the animal, which
was done, and three $50 notes were re-
covered, but the balance Of the money,
&c, had been 90 Changed" a. 10 b
worthless .'.e
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
How Joe Lost His Dinner.

In the town of Newcasle, In England,
there waga man who wentlby the name
of Patief Joe. He worked In Q coal
mine. 1was called PAdent lee, because,
if grief came to him, " would ~ It's
all for the best; those who love a6d shall
find tha&all things work tegetllef for
If all things I went well With him,
Joe would p1sise God; and Il things vent
illWith him, - would praise aod eills I'D
says* el1ss< f11sis lot1 I1e<
alone, there is . life to come after this; and
things that may not seem good for us here
may be good for us there.
In the coal pit where Joe worked some
of the men would jeer and laugh at him
when he said, +" It's all for the best" There
was man of the name of Tim, who would
miss no chance to laugh at Joe.
One day, as Tim and Joe were getting
ready to go down into the deep pit, Joe,
who had brought his dinner of bacon and
bread with him, laid it on the ground for
a moment. Before he could take it t,ij, d
hungry dog seized it, and ran off
Ha, haW p cried Tim, "that's all for the
best, is it, Joe? The loss of thy dinner is
all for the best, is it, man? Now stick to
thy creed, and say, Yes"
"Well, do say Yes" said Joe, but, as
must eat, it is my duty to try to get back
my dinner. If get it back, it will be all
for the best; and if 1 don't get it back,
why, twill be all for the best Just the same.
God is SO great, that He can rule the
smallest things as well as the largest"
SO Joe ran after tile dog and Tim, with
laugh and an oath, went down into the
coal pit Joe ran long way, but could
not catch the dog. At last, Joe gave up
the chase; and came back to the mine,
thinking to himself that the men would all
have good laugh at him.
But he found them all pale with alarm
and awe: "What a narrow escape you
have had, joel" said one of them. "The
pit has caved in, and poor Tim is killed.
If that dog had not run off with your
dinner, you would have gone down with
Tim into the pit and been killed too"
Joe took of his hat; and while his
breast heaved, and his cheeks grew pale,
and the tears came to his eyes, he looked
up to heaven, but said net a wotd-zhe
ElsTSe;s&
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Fruit from California.

To-day the Chicago market is well sup
piled with California fruit-once a rare
luxury in this city but now, thanks to the
Pacific Railroad, no longer so, and likely
t) become as common on our tables SIS the
peaches of st. Joe, or the strawberries of
our own State. A car load of fruit from
the Golden State arrived here yesterday,
being the first fruit ca through from San
Francisco. The freight is S. a cwt, or
about $940 on car load. 1t occupied five
days on the journey, and the cargo, which
consisted of boxes of plums, peaches,
grapes, and other ripe fruits was in
splendid condition.-Chioago Republican,
July 30.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20

A lady while out berrying at North
Granville, N. Y, came upon corpse with
the throat cut from ear to ear. She
dropped her pail of fruit and rushed for
the villagers, who at once repaired to the
scene to find that the corpse had come
to life and run off with the berries The
clever rogue had stained his neck and
breast with berry juice,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20

The German translation of Mr..
Bowles' Across the Continent" pub
lished at Leipsic with the title From
Ocean to Ocean," opens with an odd geo.
graphical blunder The translator knew
of Springfield, Ill, but not of Springfield,
Mass; and so his first chapter carries the
reader from Springfield, in Illinois, through
Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago, to the
Missouri River.