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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-09
Fonr Persons Fatally Burned by the
-.,-.. Explosion or Gasoline.

A very deplorable accident happen-
ed at the drugstore Of Mrs. Vancamp,
in our neighboring town of Matamora.
on Tuesday evening last, that has east
a gloom over this whole section. Ii
appears that Mrs. Vancamp had bar
rel of gasoline in her cellar that had
been leaking great deal during the
day, and in the evening, when her son
Eand young man named Bennett. who
was working for him, came to the store,
the old lady, together with the two
men, took light and went Into the
cellar for the purpose of stopping the
barrel from leaking. =
Af.er they had accomplished their
object, and poured back into the barrel
the oil that had already escaped, aud
started to go up stairs, the gas that had
accumulated In the cellar ignited from
the lamp, causing tremendous explo-
sion, raising the whole house from the
foundation, blowing the back part of it
some four or five feet out, demolishing
nearly every breakable article that was
in the store, besides blowing Young
Bennett and two grandchildren of Mrs.
Vancamp, who were also in the cellar,
out into the yard, and setting fire to
Mrs. Vancamp and her son Charles,
who were already on the stairway.
The son Immediately took his mother
in his arms and conveyed her to the
room above. g His clothing being all in
flames, and unable to carry her any
further, be placed her down and rush.
ed out to the canal, which is but short
distance from the house, for the purpose
of saving himself. ...-..'.. -.
A crowd of citizens being collected at
the depot, on hearing the report, ran to
the house and succeeded in extinguish-
ing the flames. -Four of the victims of
this terrible disaster have been carried
to their last resting place, followed 10y
a large concourse Of relatives. Mrs.
Vancamp lived but about five hours
after the explosion The two grand
children, sons of George Kim.all, Esq,
who, at the time of the accident, was
absent at Fort Scott, Kansas, died, one
ON Thursday morning and the other i'm
the evening, aged, We believe, six and
eight years. The son, Charles Van
camp, died on Friday morning, leaving
a wife and several children. He had
his life insured for $1,000, but allowed
the policy to die out about three months
ago; Young Bennett, it is thought,
will recover.
We understand that a man by the
name of Pillker, from indianapolis, i'm
the latter part of May last, charged
Mrs. Vancamp fifty dollars for the right
of selling this oil.
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Skill In Trailing.

In lians in our Western prairics are
famous for their skill in following trails;
hut il is possible that some of the half
breeds i'm the old Spanish States of
South America are even more acute.
4 traveller gives an account of one of
them:
During the year 1880, a criminal had
ESCAPED from Jail. and Calibar was
charged to find him. The unhappy
man, knowing that he would be track
pd. had taken all the precautions which
tbe fear of the scaffold could invent.
Useless precautions! Perhaps they
only helped to ensnare him: for Cali
bar felt that his reputation might be
compromised, and self-pride caused
him to acquit himself well.
The runaway took every advantage
of the unevenness of the ground, SO as
to battle his pursuer; but his efforts
only proved the marvellous sight of
the trailer.
street Oh tip-toe, then climbed low
walls, crossed pasture, and returned
in his own tract.
Calibar followed, without losing the
trail. If he momentarily missed il, ii
WAS SDoll IttONtItu. Al last lie dIIIN tu
at canal of water in the suburbs,
where the fugitive had followed the
current, to foil the trailer. But in vain
Calibar followed along the shore, with
out any uneasiness, and, at last, stop
ned to examine some grass, with the
words, "At this place he came out ;
there is no track, but these drops of wa
ter in the pasture indicate it."
The fugitive had entered vineyard.
Calibar surveyed with his eye the walls
that surrounded it, and said, He is
within" The party of soldiers that
attended him sought in the vineyard
without success. At length they be-
came tired of hunting, and returned to
report the uselessness of their search.
"He has not come out" was the briei
answer which the trailer gave, without
moving himself, or proceedingto a new
examination. He had not come out
indeed. Another search discovered
him, and on the following day he wa,
executed.
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RELIGIOUS INfELLIGEyCE.

| A Boston Sunday School teacher has
not been absent from her class a single
Sunday during the past forty-six years.
Mr.. Joseph aWaltman, a Lutheran
layman, who died recently at Weaver
ton, Md, left 81 500 for benevolent pur-
poses. ., -e--.,, -. s,e.;s a.s .la
The Methodists are building eight
new churches within twenty miles Of
Boston, and subscriptions are started
for four more. ;.-.. H,-e ..,s. -
The Baptist churchill erected IN
be the first Protestant church ediace
in Kansas. go Z"
Bishop Quintard, of this diocese, is
recruiting his health, or rather trying
to do so, by travel in the Northwestern
States. Eminent physicians, whom he
has consulted recently, advise impera-
lively, that he must take rest from his
pastoral labors, if he would preserve
A medical college and Jesuit col
lege is talked Of for Memphis. At pres
ties for students of medicine and sur.
gerry. A large hospital in the city un-
der the care Of the Sisters of Mercy,
like that at New Orleans, would be
invaluable to students and and bless
ing to many sufferers. I'd
A lady IS years old, and who is oblig-
ed to walk two and half miles to
church, received the prize offered by
the superintendent of the Sabbath
school in wellington, Ohio, to the
member who should bring in the lar
gest number of new scholars in a speci.
fled time. ra .L 9-.L I'd
A gentleman who had listened atten-
lively to long, diffuse and highly or
namental prayer, was asked by one of
the members, "If he did not think
their minister was very gifted In pray
er." " Yes" he replied, i think it
as good q prayer as was ever offered to
a congregation" ..s-9 49,. -
Chicago has new church-the First,
Congregational-which has just been
finished at cost of S1S0,0O0. A pecu-
liarity of this church is, that the read
ing desk, or pulpit, is provided with
copper speaking trumpet, which is con-
Dected with eleven pews, where, with
rubber hose and cup attached, the deaf
may enjoy q sermon as well as those
not 50 unfortunate. +"
MINISTER'S OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
is clergyman in Maine whose entire
income is 500, with family to sup
port, who contributed S34 last year for
religious purposes"
We see this item i'm many of our ex-
changes. We do not know whether it
is true or not, but we never knew q
minister who did not, in proportion to
his means, give more money every
year for religious purposes than was
given by the wealthiest of his parish
toner's. t. BE- f-., ..,-F i
The sexton of Trinity Church, New
York, and his assistants have received
to lock all the doors of the
edifice on Sundays Immediately before |
the commencement of the sermon, and
to keep them So until the service is
The regulation went into
effect on recent Sunday and produced
much dissatisfaction among those who
to leave before the conclu- |
sion of the services. The sexton was
deaf to their entreaties and held them
prisoners until the end. Only one sue
ceeded i'm securing his release through
q middle door by threatening suit for |
false imDrisOumeut. -r.rf
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The censls of Norfolk shows a popu-
lation of ter thousand three hundred
and sixty. The Virginian says: The
census takernust have made a mistake
in the negro ,ortion of the population,
for last May hey voted over two hun
dred more thin he returned"
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Hamburg Smith, the Water Man.

Sitting Oh the porch of one of the
hotels the other night, l saw a man
who has put spas into every village in
America, Hamburg Smith. He is a
thin German-looking man of much re-
spectability, with gray whiskers,
and mingled look Of the professional
man and the merchant. He came to
this country many years ago, and per-
ceiying that Saratoga waters were dear
and in rare use, he resolved to intro
duce aerated waters among the Ameri-
cans. Nobody could see anything in
it. There was nothing in it, because
the national stomach was then running
upon Santa Cruz sour and rye whisky
cocktails. Poor Smith went stumbling
round the country with his tanks Of
Kissengen, Vichy, Pyrmont, and Spa,
but nobody wanted TO do more than to
taste the disagreeable things. He set
up his sign in. vain in PHILADELPHIA,
Cincinnati, and elsewhere, but his idea
kept him as poor as a rata chemist
with a retort but without a response.
All the while, however, a little creep
ing, yearning for the waters had been
developing among q few persons, and
still the number grew. Soda fountains,
with their plain soda, helped prepare
the way. All at once, Smith set up his
Spa, on Broadway, in New York,
1865, and he found his shop full. In
five years he has made. $50, 900, keeps
his horses. bottles his waters, has spas
in all parts of New York, and he has
excited the ire of the natural water
bottlers but they are foolish, for the
wider the taste for an artificial spa wa
ter grows the better viii the genrine
sell. Drinking from springs is thing
of accident, Of superstition and of ex-
perience. Get the taste for the salts
and you will never lose it. Smith
merely pOpularized here an old idea i'm
Europe, and so he is unable to hold the
trade, hosts of imitatOrs having risen
np to divide it with him. 1t Is anus
ing to read his gentle insinuatiou that
the Congress Springs has deteriorated.
1t Is equally amusing to read the fierce
responses of the Congress Company
that artificial waters are humbugs and
possess no real properties. Smith has
real properties. He Is the only man
who ever got better with water on the
brain. tHi0J - =
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In Wood county, Ohio, a widow was
introduced to q man on Saturday, was
buggy-ridden on Sunday, and married on
Tuesday. The groom came home drunk
Wednesday night. and was kicked out by
the bride, who threw his baggage after
him.
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InfallibllIry Dogsaa.

The scheme Of the dogma of Papal
InfAllibility, which has been adopted in
the Ecumenical Council, contains five
canons Is follows: 1sil fe-.r.
i. IL any one should say that the
Episcopal Chair of the Roman Church
is not the true and real infallible chair
of the Blessed Peter, or that it has not
been divinely chosen by God as the
most solid, indefectible and incorrupt-
ible rock of the whole Christian Church,
let him be anathema.
9. 1fany one should say that there
exists In the world another infallible
chair of the truth of the Gospel of
Christ our Lord distinct and separate
from the chair of Blessed st. Peter, let
him be anathema.
3. If any one should deny that the
divine magisterium of the chair of
Blessed Peteris necessary to the true
way Of salvation for all men, whether
unfaithful or faithful, whether laymen
or bishops, let him be anathema.
4. Ii any one should say that each
Roman POntiff, le2itimatefy elected, Is
not by divine right, the successor of
Blessed Peter, even i'm the gift of the
infallibility of ofmagisterium. and should
deny to any one Of them the preroga-
tive of infallibility for teaching the
church the word of God pure from all
corruption and error, let him be anath-
ema. s-. rrlg-- b. .... .-
d 5. II any one should say that gener-
al councils are established by God in
the church as power of feeding the
divine flock in the word of faith supe-
rior to the Roman Pontiff, or equal to
him, or necessary by divine institution
in order that the magisterium of the
Roman Bishops should be preserved
infallible, let him be anathena.
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2oetry.
WAR SONGS.
WHOSE SHALL BE THE RHINE {?

.
At the present moment there is a revived
interest in Nikolaus Becker's "German
Rhine" and the reply to it, by Alfred dc
Musset, and the following translation ol
them may be acceptable:
1t never shall be Frances,
The free, the German Rhine,
Tho raven-like she giances
And croaks her foul design.
So long as calmly gliding
Itwears its mantle green,
So long as oar dividing
Its mirrored wave Is seen.
1t never shall be Frances
The free, the German Rhine.
So long as youth enhances
Its fervo- with its wine.
So long as sentry keeping,
The rock its margin stud;
SO long as spires are sleeping
Their image in its flood.
1t never shall be Frances
The free. the German Rhine,
So long as festive dances
Its love-groupes combine;
So long rs angler bIingeth
Its lusty trout to shore;
So long as minstrel singeth
Its praise from door to door.
1t never shall be Frances
The free, the German Rhinc.r
Until its broad expanse Is
Its last defenders shrine.
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Mississippi is to have no less than
forty agricultural fairs during the COM
ing autumn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-09

Forty thousand dollars are pledged
toward the work Of organizing water
works company in Columbus.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-09

\ horse in Wallingfortl, connecticut,
the other day, while attempting to bite a
fiy OH the ancle of one of its rear legs,
drew the hoof into his mouth in such 4
manner that several hours were required
tO eytricatc it.
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American Affairs.

New YORK, October 1.-Thc Times
special from London states the result of
the Cabinet Council yesterday, accord.
ing to the London Times, to be further
postponement Of action of the Ministry
in regard to mediation. This delay
cannot be of long duration. The tone
Of the Times yesterday shows that the
Government must yield TO public senti.
p1cnt. Another letter from Bulwer this
morning to that paper, on the duty of
England in this crisis, declares, rs histo-
rical facts, that if. when the Emperor
Nicholas told Sir Hamilton Seymour he
meditated marching his troops to the
Principalities, England had firmly pro-
tested against Napoleon undertaking
this war in tho same manner lie would
not have commenced it. Sir Henry,
therefore. deprecates the Ministerial
policy of waiting for good opportuni-
ties, which may never arrive.
The weak points of tho defcnccs Of
Paris, which the Germans rely upon
carrying promptly, arc tho heights of
Scenux, which approach the forts within
1000 PAGES. The distance between the
forts and the city being only 1000 more,
and South of Mont Valerien.
I recommended you the other day to
p|ncc no reliance on statements That
Russia was arming. Gortschakoff's
policy is to keep Russia out of war at
present. We have now official contra.
diction of the statement that sho is pre-.
pairing for war. The rumor of the pur.
chase of iron.cluds from tho United
States is denied.
The reports Of French successes in the
neiehborhood are fatty contradictcd by
Pru$san organs. Tho latest reports re-
!atimg 10 the occupation of Versailles by
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FfNAR6tAL AND CoaMER6fnL

COLUMBIA, 8. O., October 4.-SaIea OF
cotton yesterday 104 bales-middling
1917. .
NEW YORK, October s-Noon.-stocks
heavy. Gold 1917. Money 405. Ster.
ing-long. 91; short, 1016; G2's, 49,.
Flour steady. Wheat quiet and firm.
Corn scarce and firm. Pork 24.625@
PATS. Lard quiet. Cotton quiet and
hrm-uplands 1875; Orleans 16ZS; sales
55O bales. Turpentine quiet. Mt 391a.
Rosin in moderate request-strained
l.95. Freights steady.
Z. M.-Cotton opened firm hnt
closed dull-sales 1900 bales; uplands
l6L. Flour-State and Western &c..
better; super 490@5.O5; Southern ao-
tive and little 1irmer-common to fair
extra 5.4U@6.10. Wheat 1c. better and
light supply of fair export demand
winter red and amber Western 1900
2.33; red and amber Southern 2.30.
Corn quiet and firmer, at 87@S8. Pork
tirmer. ut $500. Whiskey steady, at
S9t9S9. Groceries quiet and firm.
Money 4C@6. Sterling heavy, Mt 91l@
9A. Gold 135@1334. Governments
dull and steady. 62's 1921. Southerns
dull with lower quotations.
BALTIMORE, October 3.-Cotton dull
and -middlings 1G1l; sales $50
bales; net receipts 55; total $40 stock
1865
CINCINNATI October g. Flour dull and
unohnnged. Corn quiet aud wenk, at
~. Provisions quiet and unchanged
Pork dull-holders mako no concessions,
sales at 24 25. Lard dull aud nominal,
ut 14954. Ba ION dull-holders make no
CONCESSIONS; shoulders 1919; sides held
n
moderate demand, at S5(086.
CHARhEsToN, October g. Cotton firm
er-middlings, 14I; sales, 500 bales;
receipts, Q, 425; exports coastwise, 2, 1876;
stock, 7,9O5.
AUGUSTA. October 3.-Cotton market
closes dull and depressed -middlings,
l4G9l4]s; eales, GAO bales; receipts, $50.
LONDON, October 3--Noon.-Conso
92l6. Bonds 9O5s.
LIvEnpoon, October 3-Noon.-Cot-
ton steady-uplands S56; Orleans 81.
LIVERPOOL, October 3--Eyening.- -
Cotton tirm-uplands S3S; Orleans So;
sales $4,000 bales.
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.. "'fOHTER II. III. STEELE.
IMPORTANT
IL 7 1 il a Il I E9 s. i.
AND ALL IN NEED OF
SOMETHlNG TO WEAR.

HNHE ysried and extensive assortment of
u! j. GOODS just received, at PORTER 4
htIEEL'S 81 r.. EMPORIUM, offers rare opportunity
nomy with good taste.
Our stocks, in each department, are low
GO tHn re- and gil! hes- comparison with any
friends, and the public, are invited to call and
Saauino saa Tor themselves, when VIC feel conf
quality or our goods, will ensure their custom.
w Me AVG quote below few OF our leaders,:
TARTAN PLAIDS, in all materials: Silk
riopiins, Roubaix Poplins. Emprcss Cloths.
ne1aim, ne1Liinos, CSmiot closhs, Bombaznos Alpacas,
DHeiaines, Shawls, Cloaks and Furs, Blankets,
flanels, Woolen Goods, Gloves, Hoeiery.
SMALL WARES,
An unequaled line Of Domestic Goods, Table
Linens, ,v Towels. Doileys, Diapers, Bed Ticks
we would call special attention to our
Cents furnishing Department, consisting Of
Dress Dress Shirts. Undcr-ciothing, English and
Erenoh Cassimeres, Domestic Cassimeres,
Tweeds, Iubby Velvets, Jeans, eto.
sept 28 3mo PORTER l. STEELE.
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TN coming from Greenvflle to Charleston. on
Il Friday last, TRUNK, Marked @. G. CON-
NER. The loser has instead trunk marked
THORNLEY, which the owner can have by an.
plying at No. Meeting street. Oct
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NOW OR NEVER!
THIS WEEK ONLY!

VARIOUS oircnmstancos have delayed the
Y departure OF Dn. RENDAI, tho SUCCESS
fui operator on Oorns and Bunions, hut the
principal OF these the groat demand for his
Services, Which his peculiar system OF treat
mont has caused. But he must assure those
persons, who intond to honor him with a CALL
that ne has boon Holicited to visit other cities
to which he must attend. He can bo con-
suited in the cottage on Assembly street, ad-
lacont to the Washington House. The follow
ing arc the names OF few Of his many pa
tlents, who have borne testimony to the skill
treated:
have had a painful Bunion removed by DR..
Nendai most satisfactorily, and should a.
repetition OF it occur, will blame myself, not
the Ooctor. WM. NJ. LOVE.
Columbis, October Sd.
After the removal OF several painful Corns
by Dr. Kendall, am able to bear upon the
parts which could not be done without much
pain before tho operation.
JOHN C. L. SMITH.
Dr.. Kendall operated on my foot entirely sa
tisfactorily. j. l.. REYNOLDS.
Baptist Church.
Columbia, September q.
DR.: Kendall has this day removed several
september 2e ". d. CoRSWEsLpI., p. NJ. D.
DR.. Kendall has this day extracted Corns
trely. q. N. TALLEY nj. d.
Columbia, September 21.
COLUMBIA, S. c., September 20, 1870.
Or. Kendall has this day removed two most
troublesome Corns, without any perceptible
pain. l have had the operation performed
before, but not 80 entirely satisfactory to me.
w. P. GEIGER, NJ. D.
DR.. Kendall extracted for me this day. two
Corps, without giving any pain.
c.. II. Mot.
LADIES Can be waited upon at their resi-
dcnccs if desired. Oct
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LOST

LOST.
PErWEEN the Central House and tho Citi
~ zens' Savings Bank, a small sum of
MONE4. The finder will bo liberally reward
ca by returning it to this Office. Oct41
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Downer's Mineral Sperm Oil

A NEW OIL, 'rhich ,cin not light undey 800
"A degrees FarenheH; never gums; is almost
od ress and as safe as Sperm, OF, Ldrd on fo,
family use, and 'chen burned in he Mineral
SPERM LAMP. tho light is equal to the beat
Kerosene, at cost not exceeding one half
cent. per hour 1t requires but little atten-
breaks from heat.
supply of this safety oil, and small
gale by &T p SGNEW % io'
Sept 30
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Seed Rye.
Ok BUSHELS PRIME SEED RYE, for sale
10 hy EDWARr HOPE.
Notice,

NCClCe.
A LII persons having claims against the cs-
N tate OF GEORGE EiSTENHOUSE, will, be-
fore the 3lst OF October instant, present them
for payment--and those knowing themselves
to be indebted to said estate, will mako pay
mcnt to the undersigned, during samo period
EBEN SrENHOUSE,
Oct Qualified Administrator
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Notice.

>,a2 THE subscriber is now in receipt Of his
EA FALL and WINTER STOCK, cun.isting
5f0f CLOTHS, CASHMERE and vEST-
lAGS OF the very latest st yIc aud pat
himself, and Invites the public to call and oy-
anime tho same, III he has ono of the finest
aasortmcnts Of goods in his line that ever came
to this market. Have also on hand a splcn-
did assortment of tho STAR SHIRTS, eomo
of them the finest ever manufactured.
Sept q j. i. EISENMANN.
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Tobacco! Tobacco!

Tobacco! Tobacco!
Ok BOXES fne chewing TOBACCO; 3ye
~ boxes fine ont chewing TOBACCO. Also
a ine lot OF the WEED. to suit the taste OF
the generality OF mankind, in the shape Of a
nice CIGAR, oan be found at
Oct4 X HARDY SOLOMOE'S,
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Gcnninc Durham Smoking Tobacco
to he had at PoLLOcK's
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Removal of Dental Office.

&SEa o! DIR; D; l.. !. nonzER 4Gd' has removed his
Oh Main street, over the Mcssrs. Porter &
Co.'S Dry Goods store. where he offers his
professional rervices 10 his former patrons
aud the public. Jnne 2S
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Desirable City Lots on Arsenal

Hill.
TNHREE square ACRES on Arsenal Hill. 10.
Il Gated between the Governors mansion
Lot No. l, bounded North by Lumber street:
West, by Pulaski street; South by lot No. q
and East by lot of L. w. Wheeler.
Lot No. Q, bounded North by lot No 1; West
and East by lot No. 8.
-, Lot No. 8, bounded North by lot Of E. W.
Wheeler; West, by lot No 2; South by Rich
land street, and East by Wayne street
Tho above arc very desirable for building
purposes, and present excellent opportuni-
tics for that or for Investments, and Will be
sold in lots to suit purchasers.
FOR TERMS, ETC., apply to
y. @. PEIXOTTO & SON.
Auctioneers and Commission Merchants ann
Real Estate Agents. Oct ! q