The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-09-22


IL never will be useful or grand,
Like the waterfall foaming and hOers-,
Or the river benigDant and bland,
That sweeps far away through the valley.
And turns all the mills I'm the land.
Just broOklet, 40 perfect ~ sweet
Like child that Is AWAY, child!
picture rs fair and complete.
Asson and peacefully Uikl
As IL nature had only just ma,Ir it,
And laid down her pencil and smiled.
U, teach mo your song, happy brook!
II visit you yet many Zines,
III put away business and book,
And list TO your fairy-bell ohima,
Will your freshness breathe into my verses,
Your music glide Into my rhymes!
Miss Spaulding, M. d.. OF Santiusky
amputatcd o mau's leg few days
ago.
SIX dresses with brDca:lcd flounccs
are coming in fashion ,gain thi.
winter.
The new style OF dress In three
eOlors arc called the patchwork cos
tunes"
The wife of Sir Walter Scott did
not appreciate his literary attnin-
mcnts. She called his novel. "non-
sense books"
II IS said that Sallic Warrl Hunt, Of
Louisville, Is engaged on book to be
entitled "Thc History of a Belle
Ladies i'm the country have taken
10 wearing thick boots with broad
square heels, as the Louis Quinze
boots and heels are not at ali adapted
for rough service.
Queen Victoria, an English paper
says, Is troubled with visions Of the
pOOr-house. The table of the Queens
servants is about the worst served Of
any in the country.
Miss Mary e. Rea carries the honor
of being the first woman who has
made q pre-cmption purchase Of one
hundred and sixty acres of public
land in Montana.
Miss Lydia Nye wears The honors
Of champion female pedestrian" OF
Bennington, VT, having walked the
other day thirty miles within eight
hours over rough and mountainous
road.
A Lynchburg colored woman fell
thirty feet out of n third-story win
dow, striking the ground head fore
most. They are filling up the hole.
She wssn't hurt any.
The Washington "Womems club
have conceived the strange idea that
the most prompt way TO cure the So
cial evil is to describe in glowing
terms the splendors Of the houses de-
voted TO vice.
A Belle at Saratoga boast, OF hav-
Ing had twelve offers this season.
Her friends think half of them must
have been done by letter as there hiss
hae not been that number Of unmar-
ricd men In the house all the summer.
An Illinois agricultd!a sOsicty
has hit upon a shrewd plan for iu-
crcasing the population. Ills TO offers
heavy premium ten years In advance,
TO the couple who will at the end of
that time show The largest number
Of descendants.
Among the lamp-lightcrs in Mil
waukcc, Wis.,, is little girl ten years
old, who makes her rounds in all
kinds OF weather, and runs up tho
ladder like a squirrel, while hor
elderly mother watchc. for her safcty
below.
A Louisville Ky.) girl, whose bridal
dress was white satin aud point lace,
and whose train was carried up The
aisle bv q page, caused the choir 10
sing. by her own special request,
during the ceremony:
"Strip me Of the robe of pride,
ClOthe me with humility
st. Winifrcd Stubs, an elderly
maiden lady ofLondon, was directed
by the health officer 10 discharge frop
further service fourteen dogs who
lived with her rs companions, and
she was so sOrrOw-stricken at the sac
rifice that she died instantly on re-
ceiving the order.
There is food for thought i'm this
extract from the writings Of Madame
Guizot: "a woman who has reached
the end of youth must not suppose
that she has any further concern with
even with vanquishing
it. Her strength must henceforth lie
in calm, and not in courage"
A Honolulu paper relates that as
, native man and woman were out
fishing on a reef a shark appeared
md attacked the man, and by sue
;essive bites took Off his arms and
EGGS; that the woman made for the
shore with the limblcss trunk of her
husband that she reached it i'm safety,
md that the man still lives!
A party of Polish ladies, of great
.hough peculiar beauty, arc among
he late arrivals at Newport, and
nave made quite a sensation and put
III the old bellies i'm the shade. They
ire just from Paris and dress In a
style entirely different from that i'm
rogue here. They dress with their
Iair classical styie-a small coil high
,n their head, from which drop two
Or three curls.
Mrs. Mary Knight of Salem, Iud.,
'cccntly called about her dcath-bcd
ler entire family, five sons, the
Youngest 60 and the oldest 73. all of
hem grand-fathers who had never
ost one of their children. She her
elf was "a, and hal not had DAYS
erious illness during her entire life.
The Knights arc known throughout
county for their vigor-
,us constitution and remarkable pow
RS of endurance.
Colorado is the home of the braycst
woman Of the ngc, Il Mrs. Van Han
ION. One day in July, while her
and several other men were
IA pursuit OF Indians, her two little
children came running into the hous,, /,
The Indians, The Indiansl' Two
iots fired at The children struck the
hick oak door just rs the Young
mother shut II in the face OF three
cheyenne warriors. After bolting
he door and piling bed, bureau, and
'toyc before it, the mother sent her
title ones into the cellar. Taking q
'evoiycr and an old rusty rifle, the
leriOc young woman stood near the
,pen window, shooting only when
,aintcd face made itselfvisible in the
,rush. This determined conduct
,cpt the Indians at n respectful dis
tance, and after two hours Of vain
to 'Outwit the brave
woman they set fire TO the barn and
eft. The smoke attracted the atten-
ion of the scouting party, who re-
urned i'm time to prevent much dam