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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17
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Young stockton Rcnews His Attack
ON the Gentlemen from Jerusalem
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New York Sun Washington letter
Colonel Jacob r. Freese, of Trenton
who is said to havereccntIy returned
from Jerusalem, is in this city, The
Colonel is the most digniiied man l
have ever seen. He is as dighitied as
Gen. Stephen j.. Meany, the six-toed
Irish orator of your city. This after
noon the Colorel entered Wizards
Hotel Young Robert 4. Stockton,
son of the Senator, met him in the
hall. Young Robert carried good
sized cane. As soon as be saw the
dignified gentleman from Jerusalem,
he walked up to him and renewed the
fight which took place in the Office OF
the Trento1 Sentinel last fall. Young
Robert opened operations by striking
the Colonel a powerful blow on the
head with his cans. The blow had a
good effect. 1t created an inordinatc
development Of the ColOnePs bump
of fveneration. A second blow follow
ed, and the Colonel's bump of sublim-
ity got on its feet and looked at its
bump of fveneration. The third blow
raised the COlOncl's bamp of combat
iveness, and, the fourth puffed out his
organ of destructiycness. The Jeru-
salem gentleman then launched out.
lie too, carried cane. Young Stock
toms organ of cansality was swelled
at the first blow, tune raised itself at
the second, and ideality got up to see
what was the matter at the third.
Such su lden chronological develop
ment was never before seen at Viii
lard's. ir-s $3.50. r. -..l-.'.
The blows rainel thick and fast
but finally both parties threw away
away their canes, and went for each
other in more scientific manner.
The display OF science was most
charming. The c.aret flowed like
water, while potato traps were busted
bugles were split, and mice were rails
ed over the combarants'eyes in a man
ner most refreshing. At last the
clinch came 1t was beautiful. Young
Robert fastened himself on the digni-
fed gentleman's shirt collar, and went
| for his ear, while the Colonel took an
under hold, and acted as if he wanted
Roberts nose. II was lovely. 1t ex-
cited the admiration of the bystand-
ers. But just as the struggle for the
fall was becoming interesting. Mr..
w. Markley, Vice President of the
Camden and AmbOy railroad, and
three other gentlemen iuterfered and
separated the combatants.
The conduct of Mr.. Markley and
his friends is severely censured by
men who understand the revised rules
of the prize ring. Colonel Freese's
friends, however, claim young Robsr
repeatedly struck him below the belt
and this alone, they assert, was just
cause for Mr.. Markley's Interference.
The fight has, therefore, been adjourn-
ed to another day. ~
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17
The M0cking Bird.

The 1ocking bird of Florida is de-
scribed as rather dissipated char..c.
ter. He forages about, nging in his
neighbor's vineyard while he robs
him, until the berries of the Pride-of-
China are ripe, then lie proceeds 10
have a regular irolic, acq Tres habit
of intoxication, and gets as drunk ms
lord. 1t is curious to see a flock of
these birds at this time. They become
perfectly tipsy, and fly round in the
comical manner, hiccOughing and
staggering just like men, mixing up
all sorts of songs and intcrrupting
each other in /. the most impudent
manner, without any regard to the
politeness and decorum that usually
mark the intercourse of all wcll-bred
society, whether OF birds or men.
They will fly about promiscuousIy,
inirude cn domestic relations, forget
the way home, and get into eacE 9th
er's nests and families, just like the
lords of creation. After the b; rries
are all gone and the yearly frolic is
over, they look very pcnitent, make
many good resolutions, join the tenn
perancc society, aud never induIg
again until the next season comes
round and the berries are ripe once
more. r .f
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17
Adrian.

Adrian, the Roman Emperor, for
talent and learning, has been ufiyer-
sally allowed but few equals at any
period. His memory was SO retentive
that he could repeat whole book
after having once peruscd it. He ex-
celled i'm every branch, of learning,
and was, without doubt, the best ora
tor, poet, grammarian, philosopher,
and mathematician of his time. He
was born the twenty-fourth of Janu-
aIy, the seventy-sixth year CT the
Christian era began to reign in the
year III, and finished IN the year lbs ;
and OH the approach of his death
wrote the following verses, addressed
to his soul. Thus translated by Prior :
Poor little. pretty, futtering thing.
Must We no longer live together?
And dost thou prone thy trembling wing
To take thy fight thou know'st not whittier?
Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly,
Lie an nexlected. kll forgot; rests E
And pensiye, wavering, melancholy
Thou drcam'st and hop'st thou know st not
what.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17

People who are fat can easily be re-
duced by reducing their food and giving
themselves more exercise. Such persons
must not sleep too much. Long sleep fat
tens. Thin people. Old the contrary
should sleep great deal.
The Herald Of Health says: that those
who are predisposed to heart disease
need not give up the ship, but for all OF
it may expect to live to a good Old age
if they will avoid violent exercise, stinl-
ulating fool and drink, excitement wor-
ry, eating so much as to get lat. and
thinking about their heart.
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SUNDRIES.
A Chop for Breakfast-Hasn.

a Chop for Breakfast-Hasn.
Tight boots are so comfortable, be-
cause they make man forget all his
other miseries.
1t is said that the dogs of the United
States eat enough to make $50, ,0OO, 600
worth of pork.
Why is grain of sand in eye like a
a schOolmaster's cane? Because il
hurts the pupil.
81 have very little respect for the ties
of this world, ~ as the chap said when
the rope was Put around his neck.
A man excused hmselffo marrying,
by saying that his friends declared he
drank too much for a single man.
The new hammer in the Bessemer
Steel Works at Harrisburg, Pa, weighs
81, 35,O0Opounds and cost S92, 600.
The "Dodge Club" has been organ
lied in Boston. The qualification for
membership is experience and skill in
dOdging creditors.
A negro on being axamined, was
asked if his master was true Christi
an. "No, sir, he is politician" was
the reply. -
Aman ofwit once asked a peasant
what part he performed in the great
drama of life. 81 mind my own busi-
ness" was the reply.
Pennsylvania owns up to 10000
liquor dealers, and is said to spend
S31 ,4S7, 600 in the purchase of alcoholic
drinks. The Pittsburg Paper, noticing
the fact, says that the State debt is less
than 49,, 600, 600, and could be paid by
the money spent for liquor.
A clergyman Observing poor man
by the road breaking stones, and kneel-
ing to get at his work better, made the
remark: "Ah! John, wish / could
break the stony hearts of my hearers
as easily as you are breaking those
stones" perhaps, master, you do not
work on your knees" was the reply.
tom, where's that ten dollar coun-
terfeit bill you had a while ago."
swell, marster, never was quite clear
in my mind about dat are bill. Some
days fought it was a bad bill, and
order days | fought it was a good bill;
and one o. dem days when / Fought it
was good bill, 1 jes' passed it aw ay"
1t is very common practice to mick
the tails of horses in order to give them
more snowy appearance. In Plrila-
delphia this seems to be regarded as
coming under the law for prevention of
cruelty to animals. and person has
been prosecuted in order to test the
question.
The peculiar effect of fear is exempli-
fled in the fact that Mrs. Alfred Ack er,
having died suddenly in Montgomery
county, Pa, hired man in the house
was so afraid that he might be accused
of numbering her that he hanged hinl-
self in the barn. 1rE
Maine offers to every able-bodied
male Swede a farm of one hundred
acres, and exemption from taxation
until 1876.
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The experience of the last few hours
had already reduced her to q state OF
mute resignation. Nothing he could
say would much astonish her now. SO
to this remarkable question she only
answered, "Do II" 4 tf
do you? why, yes, Maggie. Don't
you remember Jack CarIeton?Y
"Are-you-Jack Carleton ~ came
from the lips that were returning to
their natural color.
"Yes, indeedw he replied. "Am !
SO much altered ?" Perfect astonish-
ment and silence. "And you owe me
kiss" Jack continued; 'iyou remem-
Der that, don't you, Maggie? Pm go
ing to have it now"
Quick as thought an impromptu kiss
was taken in the dark, while the rest
were burning their fingers, AMI then
shrieking in the usual senseless way
that people do in these days.
Well, by degrees Miss Barton became
more reconciled to the existing state OF
things; so by the time the blue flame
waXed dim, and the raisins were all
consumed, it seemed the most natural
thing in the world for Mr.. Carleton to
place herhand upon his arm and march
her off to quiet corridor for a tcte-a-
tete, while the company in the great
hall were flying up and down to the
tune of 1.-The Parsen Kissed the Fid-
dler's Wife,
What can'tbe cured must he endured.
Here was this young gentlemen, a
stranger for years-taking the most
complete possession of her, and all the
time his likeness was in her Lara as
that ofher future husband; 80, of course,
when after about two golden hours,
spent in each others society, he re-
quested the honor of her hand, what
could she say but "yes"-fOr was it not
her fate as told by the stars by won
derful astrologer OF course she said
yes,
Then, in a perfectly cool and collect
ed manner, acquired on the continent,
Mr.. Carleton took Miss Barton in to
supper, and Joined in the festivity just
as if nothing had happened out Of the
common. He was quite satisfied for
his part. Maggie Barton was the pref
test girl in the room, an orphan with
three hundred pounds year in her own
right, and the ward of Mr.. Frances, the
husband of the Squire's second daugh.
ter. She-Miss Barton-was the sort
Of a girl fast young men call "a stun.
tler." She was pretty dancer, could
Sing songs of the Barney O'Hea"
school in a ringing soprano voice, and
play all the waltzes of the season. She
was good skater, could sit square in
her saddle, handle a gun, or hit the
BULBS eye three times out of four at an
archery shooting.
In fact, believe, with all his care
lessness, she was hardly the sort of a
girl Jack Carleton would have chosen
for wife, had he waited to form an
opinion; but he acted upon impulse
and, strange to say, he never had oc-
casion to repent, for Maggie was the
sweetest and tenderest of wives. But
the secret was her secret forever. AT
least Jack never told her about his
friend Signor Morgani, nor did she ever
tell any one how she consulted the
astrologer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17
The Bxcellence OF the Farmers Life.

~ ~ 81 sta fe z > ~ p.
Agriculture corresponds to that degree
of exercise which is the best preservative
of health. Itrequires no hurtful fatigue
on the one hand. nor indulges on the 9TH
or Incidence. still more hurtful. During
a throng OF wolk the diligent farmer
will sometimes be early and late i'm the
field: but this is no hardship upon an
active spirit. :,
mind. In the management OF farm
constant attention is required 10 the soli
to the season, and to the different opera
tions. A gentleman thus occupied Pc
comes daily more active. and Is daily
gathering knowledge; as his mind is
never suffered to languish, he is secure
against the disease of low spirits
But what | chiefly insist on Is, that,
laying aside irregular appetites and am
bilious views, agriculture is. nf all occu-
pations, the most eonsonant of our ma
ture. and the most productive OF content
ment, the sweetest sort ofhappiness. In
the first place it requires that moderate
degree of exercise which corresponds the
most to the ordinary succession too rap
i'd; angling produces a succession toe
slow. Agriculture corresponds not only
more to the ordinary succession, but has
the following signal.property, that far
mer can direct his operations with that
xlegrea of quicknesS and variety which
- gable to his own train of fpercep-
1 'fI67l
. The hcp9s and fears that attend agri-
apss1re Bcep the mind always awake and
i,bane gfllivening degree of agitation
Hope never approaches certainty so near
as 10 produce security, nor is fear evel
SO great as to produce anxiety and dis
tress. fIence it is that gentleman far
mer, tolerably skillful, never tires of hi
work, but is as keen at the last moment
rs the first. Can any other employment
compare with farming in that respec
q. No other occupati<a rivals agriculture
in connecting private interest with tina
of the public.
Every gentleman farmer must of cours,
be patriot; ior patriotism, like othel
virtues. is improved and fortified by eX.
ecise. In fact, Ii there be any remain
ing patriotism in nation. it is found
among that class Of men.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17

HEROIC ACTION. = Swinemunde,
Prussia, is fortified place, and within
the limits of the fort immense quanti-
ties of ammunition gre now manufac-
tured. The process of making shells is
finished by the sealing of each with
boiling pitch. Each shell must be held,
sinRIy, over the vessel of pitch, while
another man seals il. AS might be ex-
pected, the operation is ticklish one,
as ali about are scattered piles of shells,
sealed or otherwise. Recently man
who was holding shell let ii fall into
the vessel of boiling pitch, when the
Chief of Ordnance, who was standing
near superintending the operations,
without losing one moment, plunged
both hands into the hot stuff, and seiz-
ing the shell, flung it into tub Of cold
water standing near. He tainted i'm
mediately afterward from pain. But
lad he hesitated q second or so, there
would have been a most disastrous ex-
plosion and conflagration, which the
heroism of single individual alone was
capable of averting.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17
Black Turning Nhite-i Eelnal kable
Transformation.

The Egurative affirmation that a
tiger cannot change his stripes or a
leopard his spots, is put to fault by an
actual occurrence in this city-no less
than a negro changing from black to
white. The man as wen-known ho-
tel porter, and the best authori.ies can
attest the fact Of his turning from a
man with black skin to a man with
an 'uncommonly white skin. The
process of this change OF colors has
been going on for sevs,al years. 1t
commenced by the almost unnoticta-
BILE peelIng oil of the skin Of his face
several years ago, and ended in the
complete TRANSPORTATION Of the skin
Of his body, so that row DO one can
perceive, save by the facial features.
that he was ever anything but a very
pale white man. 1t WAS first thought
TO be some uew disease, but the man
has been, and is now. as healthy as
any of his fellow-mortals. We be-
lieve this is the frs; case OF the kind
known to books or experience
Columbus (O.) Crisis.
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ggaetry.
By wN. H. LYLE.


II am dying Egypt, dyinx. ."-Shakespeare
i am dying, Egypt dying,
Ebbs the crimson life tide fast,
And the dark Plutonian shadows
Gather on the evening blast
let thine arms, oh Queen, support me,
Hush thy sobs, and bow thine ear,
Marken to the great heart secrets.
Thou, and thou alone, must hear.
Though my SCARED and vetran legions
Bear their eagles high no more,
And my wrecked and scattered galleys
Strew dark Actiums fatal shore;
Though no glittering guards surround Inc
Prompt to do their masters will.
I must perish like Toman,
Die the great triumvir still.
Let not Caesars servile mini0ns
Mock the lion thus Lid low;
Twas no foeman hand that slew him.
Twas his own that struck the blow,
Hear, then billowed on thy bosom,
Ere his star fades quite away
Him, who drunk with thy carcsses,
Madly flung a world away.
Should the base plebeian rabblc
Dare asssil my fame at Rome,
Where the noble spouse, Octavia,
Weeps within her wi lowed home,
Seek her, say the gods have told me,
Affairs, Augurs circling wings,
That her blood, with mine commingled,
Yet shall mount the throne of Kings.
And for thee. star-eyed Egyptian.
Glorious sorceress of the Nil,,s
Light the path to Stygian horrors
With the spiendors Of thy smiles;
Give the Caesar crowns and arches,
Let his brow the laurel twine,
i can scorn the Senate's triumphs;
Triumphing in love like thine.
lam dying, Egypt. dying,
Hark tho insulting foeman's cry.
They are coming-quick, my falchion,
Let me front them ere die.
All no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting swell,
Isis and Osiris guard the,
Cleopatra! Rome me!-farewell.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17

Francis Creely, a native, and for 50
years and 8 months, a resident of st.
Louis county, No., felldead on the
floor the other night, while dancing at
his grand-daughter's wedding. He
leaves small family of 123 children,
grandchildren and great grand chill
dren to mourn his untimely end.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17

The Methodist Episcopal Church
North has 1OI institutions of learning
which employ 719 instructors. There
are twenty-seven universities and COL
leges, and five theological seminaries,
one of which is a mission institution in
Germany.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17

They havea little girl in Williams
town, Mass who is aregular bird and
animal charmer. The birds come to
her feet for crumbs when she sings, and
numbers ofcats and dogs are almost
constantly besfegiDg her house for the
hospitality they know she viii not
refuse.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17

An unbelieverer, while vehemently
discussing in a crowded room the sub
ject of religion, confidently exclaimed.
81 should like to meet that Bishop OF
Litchfield; I'd put question to him
that would puzzle him." "Very welf,;'
said a voice out ofanother corner, "now
Is your time, for l am the Bishop"
The man was rather startled, but pres
entlysaid "Well, my lord, can YOU
tell me the way to heavenw "Noth-
ing easier,n answered the Bishop; "you
have only to turn to the right and go
straight forward"
A Richmond writer advocates charg-
ing an admission fee to church service
Astead of selling pews yearly.
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FARMING: TOOLS.

Treppard & Co., keep for sale all
kinds of Farming Tools, such as Hoes,
Chains, Lines, Cradles, Cotton Scrap
ers, Rakes, Snothes, &c. Sold whole
sale and retail at bottom prices. Don't
forget their numbers No. 19 and q
North College Street, Nashville,
Tenn
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17
CRATES AND MANTELs.
SILVER PLATED WARE.

Messrs. Trenpard & Co., deal in the
best brands only of Plated Ware, all
ofwbich they warrant to be best and
purest quality of Silver Plating.
Their prices for this line of goods is
yerv low p =. - y y -
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HARD WARE.
RRTTANIA WARE.

They keep large assortment of all
kinds of Britannia Ware, consisting in
part of Tea Pots, Coffee Pots, Soup
Ladies', Spoons, Drinking Cups, Tea
Spoons, Table Spoons, Water Dip
pers. Molasses Mugs. etc. etc.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17

Messrs. Treppard & Co. sell all kinds
of Tin, Plate, Copper, Bucket Covers,
Sheet Iron, &C., &c. Country Shops
will find it to their interest to pur-
chase from this house as they buy
from the importers and consequently
can sell at the lowest prices. They
warrant all goods of the best quality
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#istellauy.
MAGGIE,s SECRET.

MARRIAGE.-Thc great astroIoger, Signor
N1 Morgani, will return a correct likeness IF
stamps. Name, age, and sex must be given,
with a slight description of personal appear
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-18

AHswERs,-"s." furnishes US answers
TO two oithe problems Nos. / and 81
which APPEARED in yesterday mornings
paper. That ofNo. We do not think
correct. A certainly did not get all Of
the twenty-eight dollars, when he had
only one acre more pasture than B. Will
"s.n review his figures:
He submits the solution Of the second,
in full, and finds the length ofthe rectan.
gled parallelogram to be 81 rods; the
width, 10. These numbers correspond
with those furnished by the party who
submitted the problem.
H.. S., Of Pruntytown, sends us the an.
swers to the problems which appeared
in our issue Of the 14th inst. he solves
both ALPHABETICALLY, and finds the number
Of eggs 10 be s53; and the numbers re-
quired in problem No. 2 to be Z and 8.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-18

AWFUL DESTRUCTION. - Yesterday
morning the proper authorities Of the old
Merchants & Mechanics Bank of this
city, brought to the bindery of the INTEL.
LIoRECRR office, one million and hall
dollars in bright clear and unsigned bills
Of various denominations, to be cut into
slips and used in putting around packages
ofmoney. The notes were on the bank
mentioned anditS branches, located at diff
ferent places in what was, under the old
regime, the State Of Virginia. In view o.
the tightness Of the money market, II
looked rather hard to see the knife rem,
dering worthless what would, at one time
at least, have afforded material relief In
business circles.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-18

'LfFE AND TINS oPREy. THOMAS II. HUDSON,
Of the PitHburgh annual Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Cincinnati,
HITcHooCK 4 WALDEN; New York, CARLTON
&LANAHAN."
We given the title page in full Of
a handsome volume placed on our table
several weeks since by the author. The
work Is comprised in nineteen chapters
and IN appendix, with an introduction by
Rev. Dr.. C. A. Holmes, and Is embetlished
with faithful likeness OF the venerable
minister whose life and times tits intended
to delineate.
The volume Is q record Of some OF the
more prominent personal incidents which
have transpired during Mr.. H's ministry
extending througha period Of little more
than half a century, and will be read with
more than ordinary interest by the thous.
and in this State, Eastern Ohio and West.
ern Pennsylvania who have listened with
delight in the days Of other years to the
words OF truth as they fell from the lips OIL
this father in Israel. Rev. Mr.. Il. has
been distinguished for his freedom from
sectariapIsm during his long and eventful
career, and his autobiography will there.
fore, it Is believed, be welcomed by those
Of other denominations, as well as the
membership Of tho church with which he
stands Immediately connected. We trust
tho work will have large circulation
1t Is on sale at the office Of John Baltic
Union railroad ticket Office, under The
Mcclure House.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-18

STREET SPRINKLING.-The terrible
scourge of dust with which our city las
been afflicted for several days, suggests the
prOpricty of having some measures insti'
tuted to prevent similar visitation in the
future. A small sum contributed each
month by every one doing business on any
square, would insure total immunity from
the dust nuisance, and would amply com.
pensate somebody for doing the work. A
sprinkler can be fitted up without incur.
ring great expense, and We have no doubt
the city would furnish the water
at nominal cost. Passing along
most of the streets twice or
thrice every day, giving them pretty
thorough sprinkling each time, would
most elTectuAlly lay the dust The cost
would be nothing in comparison with the
positive comfort derlved-leaving the &C.
tuAl loss sustained by those engaged in
trade entirely out of the question This
last item, in many instances, is no small
matter, and we hope to see system Of
street sprinkling speedily inaugurated.