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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
4 Rare and Blessed Spectacle in Cal
ifOrnia Twenty Years Ago.

In those days men would flock in
crowds to catch a glimpse Of that rare
and blessed spectacle, woman. Old
Inhabitants tell how, in certain camps,
the news went abroad early in the
morning that Il woman was come -
They had seen q calico dress hanging
out of a wagon down at the camping
ground of emigrants from over
the great plains. Everybody went
down there, and great shout went
up when an actual, bona fide dress
was discovered fiuttering in the
wind. The male emigrant was visi-
BILE, The miners said: "Fctch her
out!
He said, at is my wife, gentlemen
she is sick-we have been robbed of
money, provisions and everything by
the Indians-We want rest"
"Fetch her out! We've got to see
her!" vas the only reply.
He fetched her out" and they
swung their hats and set up three
rousing cheers and:.a tiger, and they
crowded around and gazed at her, and
touched her dress, and listened to her
voice with the look of men who lis
tened to a memory rather than a pre-
sent reality; and then they collected
$500 in gold and gave it to the man,
and swung their hats and gave three
more cheers and went home satisfied.
A year or two ago l dined in San
Francisco with the family of a pio-
neer, and talked to his daughter, a
young lady whose first experience in
San Francisco was an adventure,
though she herself did not remember
it, as she was only two or three gears
old at the time. Her father said that,
after landing from the ship, they were
walking up the street, servant lead
ing the party with the little girl in
her arms. And presently huge mi
ner, bearded, belted, spurred and bris-
thing with deadly weapons just
down from long winters campaign
in the mountains, evidently barred
the way, stopped the servant, and
stood gazing, with face all alive
with qualification and establishment.
Then he said reverently: Well, if il
amt child" And then he snatched
little leather sack out of his pocket,
and said to the servant: "Thcre's a
hundred and fifty dollars in dust
there, and I'll give it to you to let me
kiss the child"
That anecdote is true. Bat see how
things change. Sitting at that dinner
table, listening to that anecdote, if l
had offered double the money for the
privilege of kissing tie same child, !
would have been refused. Seventeen
added years had more than doubled
the pricc.-Enfalo Express.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
Agricultural Progress at the South.

In noticing the great State Fair the
Missouri Republican says :e Fair, the
So large a crowd was attracted, that
the staid and aristocratic city of Ma
con was jostled out of its habituaI Or
der and propricty, and had a very
rough and tumble sort of life while the
fair lasted. The hotels were filled to
overfiOwing, and the private houses
had to be thrown open for the accom-
mediation of visitors; even then. eve
ry evening. crowds had to 60 on the
trains, to find sheltef i'm the towns and
villages len or twenty miles out.
The transition from slave to free
labor at the South, so far from being
a misfortune, has had the hanpiest eff
feet on the sclf-reliance and improved
industry of the people. Labor OH the
farm is 10 longer done by careless, in
efficient scrvile labOrers. but every far
mer is now his own overseer and di-
rector; hence, improved machinery, a
better system of making and applying
manuets, by the exercise of brains, is
now the order of the day. Manual
labor now is so far exalted as to bear
a premium at the State Fair, and it is
no longer degraded by being confined
to slaves, but it is especially honoretl
by the superior intelligence of the far
mer himself, or his sons who now
guide the p!ow. +
Larger crops arc now made on
much fewer acres, and with tie i'm
proved machinery, a tithe of the labor
is required that was necessary under
the slovenly exhaustive system of
slave culture.
Three million bales of cotton were
grown at the South this season, the
sales Of which, ct the, present gold
griccs in Europe, will do as much to
keep down the p.ice of gold, and
bring back 10 the country sound
currency, as all our other exports put
together.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
The Broadway Beggar.

To the wcll-trained professional
beggar. Broadway is bank at which
lie possesses unlimited credit, whose
only drawback consists in the fact that
his demands on it are paid in nickel
and copper, instead of silver and gold.
To him the doorstep of fashionable
church OH Sunday is q perfect Edo
RADIO. To him the shivering blasts of
a cold snap are as welcome as they
are UNPLEASANT to the rest of the
world, for they are worth at least ten
cents apiece: and if some friendly
hack-drivcr will but knock him down,
without running over him, he will Sc
erctly forth blessings, instead of NAL
edictionS, on his head, as the bright
five cent pieces from the compassion
ate passers-by soothe him for the
which he had deliberately Courted,
and which he took good care should
not hurt him. Moreover, he is great
physiognomist. He knows well when
to adopt the manly tone of snpplica-
tion-when to Use the implOring
wiine-and when it is the most adj
yisable to do the silent sufferer, with
medieval expression of sanity re-
sigmation. He is. too great artist in
his way. His toilette is perfect. He
gets himse!tup for his post with all
the care and attention, in detail, of an
actor preparing for the stage on his
benefit night: and after hearty and
invigorating breakfast, washed down
with a couple drinks of whisky, he
puts three or four old crust of bread
in his pocket, for appearance sake, and
starts for lis cruising ground on
Broadway. lie hurries nimbly
through the by streets, till within a
short distance Of the scene of his ope-
rations, when he carefully assumes
the blindness and limping gait, or any
other afiliction which may constitute
his stock in trade. Several hours
passed on the flag-stones, with bare
feet and shirtless bosom, is not an
agreeable way of spending a winters
day; but think of the delicate oyster
stew, the tender loin steak smoking
from the gridiron, and steaming wills
XIV punch which await tue victim of
mud, rags and rude Boreas, when he
feels that his stake" of the day will
permit of his seeking the comforts
and seclusion of his favorite haunt,
and it is evident that begging has its
enjoyments as well as its lardships.-
N. Y. Tribune.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
Coed Milk.


The following rules were unani-
mously adopted by the Illinois and
Wisconsin Dairymcn's Association,
"to insure the delivery of pure, sweet
milk:
l. That no milk is good which is
made from filthy, sinking water OF
sloughs and frog ponds.
2. That no milk is good thai comes
from cows logged, or overdriven in
hot weather, from the pastures to the
stables.
3. That no milk is good that comes
from COWS pounded or kicked and
cruelty treated by brutal men.
4. Milk is not good that comes from
diseased cOws-cows that have sores
filled with pus, or that have udders
broken and running with corruption.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
A Double Man.

All the stories told of the Siamese
twins hardly equal the Scotch double
man, OF whom the following account
is given by the Berum Scotiarum of
Historic. During the reign or James
ILL.,, of Scotland, and at his court,
there lived man double above the
waist, and single below that region
The king caused him to be carefully
brought up. lie rapidly acquired a
knowledge of music, the two heads
learned several languages, they de-
bated together, and the two upper
halves occasionally fought. They liv-
cd, generally, however, in the greatest
harmony. When the lower part of
the body was ticklcd, the two indi-
viduals felt together but when, OIL
the other hand, one of the upper in
dividuals was touched, he alone felt
the effect. This monstrous being died
at the age of % years. One of the
bodies died days before the other.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
Burning Mountains.

Geological theorists assert that the
inequalities on the carths surface arise
from uplifting of volcanoes, cartli-
quakes, etc, and TO these they ascribe
the inclination o. strata, etc. But the
minute seams i'm sandstone formation
indicate that the whole is the effect of
dispositions and precipitations, while
i'm the submersions by the sea, and
the advance and retreat during peri
helion periods, we have the aqueous
agency required fer the precipitation.
About two hundred active volca-
noes are recorded, of which ninety
nine are in islands. Submarine vol
canoes often throw up islands. The
Azores, the Lipari, the CaDaries, etc.,
are examples. The ashes from volca-
noes often produce total darkne for
from thirty to forty miles around, and
three hundred miles distant. Pieces
of rocks are elected with the force of
a cannon ball. COtopaxic once threw
piece of one hundred cubic yards
eight miles. Fish elected from vol
canoes arc those Of neig iboring wa
tiers.
Lava is q stony substance, like ba-
salt, and may sometimes he ceen at
the bottom of crater rcd hot like
melted metal, bubbling as a fountain.
When it overflows the crater, it is
very fluid. AT Vesuvius, led hot
current of it wa; from eight TO ten
yards deep, two or three hundred
yards broad, and nearly mile brold,
and nearly a mile long. In Mexico,
q plain was flied up by it into q
mountain one thousand six hundred
feet high, by an eruption in 1850. Its
heat was so great that it continued to
smoke for twenty years aftcrward,
AID a piece of wood took fire in lava
three years and a half after it had
beer elected, at five miles from the
crater. Stones of immense size were
thrown to the height Of 1000 feet, and
others darkening the air fell ono hun
dred miles distant.
Thirty-onc great cruptions of Etna
have occurred within the records of
history. In an eruption in 1898, the
city of Cataloni;, was overturned in a
moment, and eighteen thousand peo-
pie persisted in the ruins. The crater
of -Etna is a quarter of a mile high
on a plain IT,. ee miles across. The
month is a mile in diameter, and
shelves as an inverted cone, lined
with salt and sulphur. The central
fiery gulf varies in size, and noises
arise from it with volumes of smoke.
D'Orvillc descended by ropes near
the gulf, but was annoyed by flame
and sulphurous effiuvias. Pompeii
was DESTROYED by showers of ashes,
but Herculaneum by hot mud, over
which six streams of lava have since
accumulated. They had recently been
destoyed by an earthquake, and were
rebuilding. In the barracks of Pom
peii were found the skeletons of two
soldiers fastened by chains; and in
the vaults of a country house was a
perfect cast of woman with a child
in her arms.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
THE LEOPARD OF THE AIR.
A sketch by Paul Du Cl,aiIIu.

One morning l hear a strange cry
up in the air. look, and what do Il
see 2 what do l see yonder, up in
the sky? An eagle. But what kind
of an eagle? for it appears to me so
much larger than any eagle that |
have ever met with before. And as l
asked this, my men exclaimed: at is
a guanionien the leopard of the air ;
the bird that feeds on gaZclles, goats
and monkeys; the bird that is the
most difficult of any to find and to
kill" "Yes," said QucriaOuen: ''il
my younger days remember that my
wife and myself were on our planta-
ton, with some of our slaves, and one
day we heard the cries of baby, and
saw a child carried up into the sky by
one of these guanioniens. The baby
had been laid on the ground, aud the
guanionicn, whose eyes never miss
anything, and which had not been no
ticed soaring above our heads, pounc-
ed Oh its prey, and then laughed at us
he rose and flew to distant part of
the forest" Then Queriaoueh show
cd me fetch partly made of two
huge claws of this bird. What tre-
mendous things those talons were
How deep they could go into the
flesh!
Then came wonderful stories OF
the very great strength of the bird.
The people were afraid of them,
and were compelled to be very care
full Of their babies. These grand ca
giles do not feed on fowls; they are
two small game for them. Monkeys
are what they like best; they can
watch them as they float over the top
of the trees of the forest, but some
times the monkeys get the better of
them.
"'Pcople had better not Try TO get
hold OF the guanionicn's young if
obey want to keep their sight said
Gambo: for, as sure as we live. the
old bird viii pounce upon the man
that touches its young
.'For long time | had heard the
people talking of the suanionien, but
had never yet had a glimpse of one.
Now. looking up again, | saw sew
eral of them. How high they were
AT times they would appear TO be
quite still Ia the air; at ether times
they would soar: they were so high
that | do not see how they could see
the trees; everything must have been
in haze to item; monkeys of'course
could not be seen. They were 10
doubt amusing themselves, and
wonder if they tried TO see how neal
they could 90 TO the sun. Some al
lines flew so high that lost sight OF
them.
''ln the afternoon thought / would
ramb'c round. | took doublc-5ar.
relied smooth-borc gun, and loaded
one side with bullet, in case should
see large game the other side i load.
ed with shot No. 2. Then CAREFUL,
plunged into the woods till l reached
the banks of a little stream, and there
| heard the cry of the mondi Colo5u
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28
A Peculiar viii.

The will of John Phillips was prov
ed yesterday in the County Court, and
letters testamentary given to Joseph
p. Ross, Daniel Russell and Henry
Tiebalern, under bonds of Sl80,000. The
provisions of the will are, that the
chair business, i'm which deceased was
engaged, shall continue, though it may
he closed after five years. His son Al
exander shall be assistant book-keeper,
James is to have a position in the paint
shop, and William have charge of the
machinery. Their pay is to be $1,000
each per annum they must work ten
hours per day, and have deductions
made for lost time. Rush college gets
81, 800, and $500 per annum to establish
a dispensary. The town Of Forfair,
Scotland, receives 81 200 for land OH
which to establish an orphan asylum.
If the business is discontinued, the
avaiIs shall be divided into seven shares,
the town of Forfair receiving three, and
the Rush Medical College one; and il
any of the heirs contest this will, they
are to lose all bequeathed them. John
Phillips, one of issons, is disinherited.
-Cicogo Eucning Post.
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If you will hold yourself erect, with
your chin close to your neck, swing
your arms freely and move rapidly,
you will find walFing the very. best
exercise. Few muscles escape work,
while you enjoy fresh air, sunshine,
and a constant change Of scene.
have taught gymnastics rs d profess
sion for, many years, but as . source
Of health l believe walking is supe-
rior to any Of tho artificial exercises.
The best hour during autumn and
winter, for people ofaverage strength,
is from seven to eight in the morn
ing |; for invalid, from ten to eleven.
Mrs. Lewis and myself have walked
around DIR Commons more than a
thousand mornings with the happiest
results upon health and spirits. BY
the way, is it nota curious fact that
while our people are clamoring for 1,
large park, which must, be located sew
cral miles away, this most beautiful
park, which lies at their very doors,
should never be visited by them
During these years of morning walks
we have never, that we can recall, met
single person out for .constitu-
tional." With the exception of the
children of toll hurrying across to
their tssks, we have it all to ourselves.
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The Qaietude Of Maturity.

Have you never watched Young
girl as she sits and thinks !? the pleas
ant smile stealing round her lips-no
frown of anxious care on her fore
hcad-no panied look in her eyes
Oh, my poor, weary-hearted reader,
who has gone through life's struggle,
what would you not give to be like
her, to be as you once were? But
that with many another jog has pass
ed away from you forever. You are
only too glad now to sit awhile and
enjoy tO-day's peace, and you have no
trembling hopes, no feverish longing
ings for tO-mOi row. 1t does seem too
bad that as We grow older all faith in
the future vanishcs, and anticipation,
in itself pleasure, leaves us. The
time comes to us all when thinking is
only pain, for it is either sad, sad
retrospect, or the foreshadowing of
coming trouble. You that are young,
prize the happy days that are passing
like breath; enjoy them while you
can, for beyond there lies a drcary
waste.-My Own Story