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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
CONNUBIALITIES.

A lady, once, whose love was cold,
Asked II a reason could be told,
Why wedding rings were made OF gold
Iventured thus 10 instruct ner:
Love and lig ghtning are the same;
On earth they glanc 5, fro N heaven tney
Love the SOULS electric fame
And gold its best conductor.
Mi Reconstruction Whalebone,
wadding, powder and paint
The surest slip-knots are said to be
lovers ties.
Lydia and her new blondes have
commenced their perspiration season
at Wallack's.
81 promised to love honor and be
gayn is the way Philadelphia brides
get around the nuptial vows.
-"Its of no use any longer for
ladies to wear expensive jewelry the
imitation cannot be told from the real
article.
There are over hundred girls in
the st. Louis normal school, ana tney
are all required t. dispense with false
hair and wear calico dresses.
Our sage says it is with bachelors
"a with old wOod-it Is hard to get
them started, but when they do take
flame they burn prodlgicusly.
-Quip denies the statement that most
beautiful women are rendered more
attractive by little sense. He says
they would be, but they are not.
An Indianian asked the clerk Of .
court whether he couldn't reduce the
rates if half dozen fellows clubbed
together to take cut marriage-licenseA
San Antonio (Texas) picuics end
with the Dolly Warden march; the
young ladies stand up in row to be
kissed good night by the gents, to the
mrsic Of Put Me in My Little Bed"
Every thing will come in useful II
you keep it seven years. A young lady,
merely TO put this to the test, he, de-
prived heself of new dress, and pur-
chased plain gold ring.
Saratoga bellies are raving because
q paper in that place asserts tnat zoe
prettiest girl in that section Is an In.
dian maiden thx. sells bead-work ~
the springs. -.
A Nashville paper says there W.
never before such q glorious crop o.
"pairs, in that city as there mas oeo4
this season. Nearly every front gate
Is loaded down with them, on piess4Pt
evenings.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
The Twins.
BYr. BUCHANAN Read.

BY T. BUCHANAN READ.
Two rivulets came down,
With q rustic and lutter like ribbons of
blue
By delicate brsezss blown.
O'er beds Of golden lustre
In the shadow of rock nd tree,
They sang the same tunes with their Sill.
very tongues
Ard clapped their hands in glee.
O'er rocks with moses mantled
They eddied and wbirled like waltzing
pair,
Till they hand in hand with laughter leap
They mingled their misty hair.
O'er,the selfsame lodges,
Singing the self-same tune.
They passed from April to breezy May
Towards the fields of June.
They whirled and danced and dallied,
And through the meadows slid,
Till under the same thick grass and flowers
Their future course was hid.
/ Isaw two beautiful children
of one fair mother born,
Like two young clouds ofgolden hue
That smile on the breast of Morn.
The same in age and beauty,
The same in voice and size
The same bright hair upon their heads,
The same blue In their eyes.
Singing the same song ever
In the self-same silvery tune;
They passed from April to May,
Towards the fields Of June.
They whirled and danced and dallied,
The beautiful wales amid,
Till under the same thick leaves and fow-
ers
Their future course was hid.
In November GALAXY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
The Frozen Well of Brandon, Vermont.

About mile southeast of the village
of Brandon, Vermont, there is situated
a we'll, Al feet deep, the water of which
has the remarkable. popularity of re-
manning frozen all the year round. In
1859 the owner of the property began
the usual excavations for water. After
passing through feet of clay and 10
feet of soil, a bed of frozen gravel, IL
feet in thickness, was encountered,
which rapidly changed to mud when
exposed to heat. Further digging
penetrated another bed of clay, and
finally layer oil clean gravel, in which
water was found. As the winter
months approached, ice began to form
in the we'll at the rate of from 2 to
inches over night, while during the
succeeding summer, though the well
remained open, an occasional skim of
ice would appear Oh the surface.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Fowls in Orchards.

The public has Yet to learn the full
dvantage of keeping poultry. Few
Seem to appreciate what they may do
among trees in an orchard. Let any
one try them in an orchard of a quar-
ter of an acre, where they may be kept
by picket fence four or five feet high;
put in say 125 fowls, and observe the
result. They will avoid annoyance in
the garden, of which so many com.
plain, while they work amid the trees,
doing just what is needed and destroy
ing everything that can iDjure the
fruit trees, in the shape of bugs, worms
and other insects, and lay a large
number of eggs, which are cash
article to say nothing of the chickens,
which pay well for raising at the pre-
sent time. 1 have tried 1T and know
it is so. 1 have about 200 fowls, which
have worked admirably among my
trees. keeping the ground in good con-
dition, keeping off the insects, and
promoting the growth of the orchard.
I am satisfied that we have yet to
learn the full benefit which may be de-
rived from the proper management of
fowls; and it is quite possible that the
method have suggested may offer the
best way of getting our apple orchards
in good bearing cOnditiOn.-Fdrnaer's
Home Journal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

The Cairo and Fulton railroad will be
finished to Little Rock, this fall.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

IN AND TRKSPASSERs.
All persons hunting or .trespsseins on our
lands wiz Be prosecuted % the sEtsnt Of the
Elisabeth Dowell, g. @. Wissner,
y.W. Wnsner. x. Hull,
i. B. Fofgey. r. Haywood,
Solomon Haywood. W. @. West.
Mn. u. J. West, Mrs.. j. Sssrs.
Stephen Williams. w.J.Bates.
David r. Dorteh.
Dee. l.n-1y.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

HOME INSURANCE. COMPANY,
Cash Assets Oct. l. -'1l.-.....-.4, ,72S, ,20e 81
Losses at Chicago will
Leaving Cash Assets,
~ All losses will be promptly paid. and
Policies Issued a. usual.
CHARLES J.MARTIN. Prssidsn
J.H. wASHBURN. Secretary.
New York. October. IS71.
The Board of Directors have unanimously re-
solved to increase the capital of the Home"
to Capital Assets about $4,000, 900 -four
million dollors after paying all losses 1t Chica-
90. Policies issued By
Columbia, Nov. 10.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

THE GEORGIA home L
INSURANCE 60.
OF Columbus, Georgia.
Incorp0rated.......... 1853
Capital and Assets. ...eAsA ,s5s o6
Untouched By the Chicago and oths. disas
ters- Continued to furnish indemnity against
ioss by 6re on AL insurAbls property, at ado
quate rates.
RHODES BROWNE. Prsr.
D.F. WILCOX. Sec'y.
~ Applications rseeiysd and Hslici:. issued
by W. }. DALI. AeHN1.
Nov. 10.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

From q beautiful lake in the mour tain
Two rivulets came down,
With a rustic and futter like ribbons of
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

DOOIS, SHOES, &c.
COOKE. SETTLE d CO. J0bbers of
VI Boots and shoes, IS Public Square, Mash
yiIll Tenn, Watson NJ. Cooke, Joel W. Set
tie. Russell N. Hnnard. JAKE FoRsEr,
Salesman.
IN T.. wrNsTEAD 4 CO. Dealers II
i. Boots, shoes, Satchsls, Velises, ano
Trunks. No. Cherry street. opposite Max
we'll House, Nashville, Tenn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

They whirled and danced and dallied,
And through the meadows slid,
Till under the same thick grass and flowers
Their future course was hid.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27
LIES Brightest Hour.

Not long since met gentleman who
is assessed for more than million.
Silver was in his hair, care upon his
brow, and he stopped beneath his bur
den of wealth. We were speaking of
that period of life when we had realized
the most perfect enjoyment, or rather,
when we had found the happiness near
est to be unalloyed. "Ill tell YOU"
said the millionaire, "when was the
happiest hour of my life. Al the age OF
one and twenty had saved up eight
hundred dollars. i was earning five
hundred dollars a year. and my father
did not take it from me, only requirin,
that | should pay formy board, At the
age of twenty-five had secured a pret-
ty cottage, just outside of the city.
was able to pay two-,hirds Of the value
down, and also to furnish it respectfully.
| was married on Sunday Sunday in
June-at my fathers house. My wife
had come to me poor in purse, but rich
in the wealth of her womanhood. The
Sabbath and the Sabbath night we passed
beneath my fathers roof, and on Mon
day morning went to my work, leaving
my mother and sister to help i'll prepar
ins my home. On Monday evening,
when the labors of the day were done,
went not to the paternal shelter, as i'll
the past, but to my own house - my
own home. The holy atmosphere OF
that hour seems to surround me even
now in the memory. | opened the door
of my cottage and entered. [ laid my
hat on the little stand in the hall. and
passed on to the kitchen - our kitchen
and dining room were all one then. |
pushed open the kitchen door and was
in heaven The table was set against
the wall - the evening meal was ready
prepared by the hands of her who had
come to be my helpmeet in deed as well
as in name -a and by the table, with II
throbbing, expectant look upon her
lovely and loving face, stood my wife.
| tried to speak, and could not. Icould
only clasp the waiting angel TO my bo-
som, thus showing to her the ecstatic
burden of my heart. The years have
passed - long, long years -a and wealth
has flowed in upon me, and am hon
ored and envied; but-as true as heav-
en- i would give it all - every dollar
FOR the joy of the hour of that June
evening in the long, long ago!-Ne'0
York Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27
A Story With a Moral.

A farmer in Illinois had Il neighbor
across the Wabash. in Indiana, who was
keeping a pauper on contract at his
house. In the corn hoeing season. the
Illinois man sometimes borrowed his
neighbor's pauper to help in the corn
field. 1t was very soon rumored about
that old Bill Turner had pauper work.
ing for him, and as none of the people
in the neighborhood had ever seen Il
paupcr, they were very anxious to get a
peep at him. Consequently some twenty
of them joined together one day, armed
with their shot-g guns and rifles, and
went over to Turner's to see the strange
creature. They got cautiously over the
+ nee, and came up to w here the men
were working,
"BilI," said Silas Brown, their spokes
man, we've heard that you've got a
pauper working for you, and we'd like
to see it."
Bill thereupon pointed out the object
of their curiosity. The visitors walked
around the astonished pauper, and 81
lently surveyed him from every point
of view. At last Slas spoke:
"Look here, Bill Turner" said he,
you can't fool us; That's manP'
We wish all those in charge OF chari-
table Institutions ha the same idea
about paupers that Sllas had.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27
COnncil Bluffs Items.

Council BLUFFS, Iowa, April Quite
u nice town has sprung up around the
transfer glound5 Of the Union Pacific
railroad in this city. Railroad offices,
catlng-houses, etc, have appeared in the
last few days, and persons owning lots in
the neighborhood are looking on them
selves as fortunate. AS soon as the
freight contracted for is transferred by
boat across the river the two transfer
boats will seek other waters. the Col.
Mutt at Plattsmouth and the Gels at
Nebraska City. The old steam ferry
still maintains its course.
Two new daily papers are to be started
here in the next thirty days. in addition
to those already in operation. They
will he lied the Republican, and the
BuqLe Democrat.
a new salt spring has just burst forth
on the crescent bottom lew miles from
this city. There is talk Of working it
up.
Nearly $1,000 are subscribed of the
capital stock Of weigh-scales manu-
factory at this place. Articles of incor-
poration are filed.
The river is falling, but second
frcshet is reported coming from the
mountains and expected very soon,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27


Some three or four weeks since we
published an article descriptive of the
Pyramid of Cheops, which contained, it
seems, numerous errors. We there
fore cheerfully give place to the follow
ing corrections by Mr.. c. c. Pomery, of
this place, who has given the subject
years of careful thought and study, and
is consequently able to "speak by the
card: y
In your paper see selection under
the heading "Cheops,' purporting to
come from "a friend" who had visited
the great pyramids of Egypt, in which
are manifest errors, which with your
permission | will correct. The great
Pyramid of Cheops, from authentic
measurements made by the Astronomer
Royal of Scotland, is 764 feet square.
covering thirteen acres of ground. This
is accepted among students OF pyra-
midology as correct, while your in
formant says, "Wading in the deep
sand fourteen hundred feet before we
had passed one of its Sides The cor
rect measure of the sides is enormous,
and will in ages to come, as it has in
centuries past, afford subject of pro
found study for all investigating minds,
without doubling the true side of the
vast square of 764 feet, tapering with
scientific and mathematical accuracy
toward the sky, reaching the altitue of
4S0 feet. 1t is believed chat the "cap
stone" was thirty feet thick, which
would make the towering mass $40 feet
in height. Again, your informant is
in error when he says, "One layer of
brick was long since removed to Cairo
for building purposes" The Pyramid
of Cheops is built of limestone, red
granite, marble from the Island of
Paros, and porphyry, but no brick. The
blocks of stone are often nine feet long
and from two to five feet thick. The
most accurate chronology assures us
that the great pyramid is 1900 years
old-one thousand years older than
your friend makes it. 1t is true that it
was defaced by rude and barbaric
hands, by layers of this rock founded
edifce being taken to Cairo for build
ing purposes; but for us, fortunately,
this vandalism has been stopped, and
science now has an eye upon the noble
structure, and may yet reveal to us its
long hidden mysteries and throw light
upon a period in the worlds history
not found in our books.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27
Gail Hamilton.

Mrs. Grundy writes from Washing
ton: Among oar winter visitors is Gail
Hamilton, who spends several months
at time as the guest Of her cousin, Mrs
Blaine, wife OF the Speaker of the
House AS is well known, the real
name Of this clever writer is Abigail
Dodge. She is native Of Wenham, Il
small town about twenty miles from
Boston, but her home is in Hamilton,
Mass. The abbreviation of her given
name and the name OF the town in which
she lesides suggested her nom de plttnoe
Miss Dodge entered the field OF letters
while residing in Washington. She first
came here as a governess in the family
of DR.. Bailey, OF the National Era. She
IS remembered by those who knew her
then as a shy, timid, sensitive little gil,
who could scarcely be induced to mix
at all in society. Struck by her bright
ness and originality, DR.. and Mrs. Bailey
vaiuly endeavored to induce her to see
their visitors and make acquaintances.
Presently the Era received sparkling
articles from an unknown writer, sign
ing "Gail Hamilton" These were of
course published, and their authorship
never suspected by the Baileys, who dis.
cussed before the shy little governess
the new contributions to the paper.
After some time Miss Dodge acknowl.
edged herself to be the writer, and was
gre ttly encouraged by her kind friends.
She continued to write for the Era, and
when she published her first book it
vas under the auspices of DR.. Bailey,
by whom she was introduced TO pub,
Usher. Miss Dodge, while she is not
handsome, is rendered attractive by her
pleasant manners and great vivacity in
conversation
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27
Out of the Frying.pan into the Fire.

The New Orleans Republican of late
date says: The tremen employed on
the steamship Havana, on the last voy-
age of that vessel, undertook to SNUG
gle about 600 cigars into this port.
Before reaching here, and when per
haps a hundred miles out at sea, the
master of the vessel, Captain Penning-
ton, discovered the cigars, and for the
double purpose of furnishing the men
and saving the vessel from q fine on ac.
count of the smuggled goods, compelled
the tiremen To cast the cigars into the
furnaces of the steamer. and thus they
were destroyed. In this act Captain
Pennington's zeal only further increased
his embarrassments and his liability,
and he has thereby become liable to
fine of not less than 500 nor more than
$4,000, or imprisonment not les. than
one month nor more than one year. If
he had brought the cigars into port, the
extent of his liability would have been
the contiscation Of the cigars, and fine
equal to their value and if he had care
fully secured the property, and deliv-
cred it to the authorities here, with a
report of the facts, his vessel would have
escaped all responsibility.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27
A Miraculous Story.

There has always been some specula-
tion on the question whether a mans
soul ever actually leaves his body dur
ing sleep, or at any other time before
death, but evidence to solve this myste-
} Iious question is rare. There is story
told in Louisville, however, of mer-
chant of that city, who, while travelling
on a sleeping car in Mississippi, had a
vivid experience as of visiting his home
and seeing his wife and children asleep,
and noticing that the eight-day family
clock had run down, he wound it up
and set it going. lie then returned to
his berth, which was rafting along at
the rate of forty miles an hour in the
sleeping car, saw his own body distinct
ly, and resumed his place within the
well.ftting easement. On writing to
his wife about it, he learned that the
clock had been mysteriously wound up
on the night of his spiritual imagina-
ton.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27

THE preliminary investigation in the
case OF Cul. ID. l.. Stanton, late Collector
of Internal Revenue for The Fifth Ma
ryland district, VINO is charged with
embezzlement, has been commenced.
Supervisor Fulton testified that an in
yestigation of his affairs made showed
about $500 upaccounte3 f0r.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27

HAZEL GREEN, Grant county, Wis Is
going into the manufacture of nitro
glycerins
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27

VALUABLE AND RELIABLE" BroWn's
Bronchial IrocheS" are invaluable to
those exposed tc sudden changes, af-
fording promp. relief in Coughs, Colds,
stn. u Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27

Rev. Mr.. Off, of Fond du Lac, acci-
dentally poured quantity of hot water
upon his child's head, the other day,
scalding it to death,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-12-07
Speaker of the Next House.

A portion of the press, says the NeW
National Era Erred Douglass paper), is
taking time by the forelock in discussing
the question of Speaker of House of
Representatives not yet in existence. The
Forty-third Congress, members to which
were elected this year, will uot meet until
December of next year, more than year
from now. But we don't know that there
will be any harm in discussing the claims
OF qualifications of the various aspirants
for Speaker. Indeed, we rather like the
plan of putting candidates for office early
before the public, that the people may have
ample time to learn who and what they
are. The man who can bear twelve
months discussion successfully will be fit
for any trust to which he may aspire. We
think that Hon. Horace Maynard, who
has just passed through so remarkable a
canvass in Tennessee and been SO over
whelmingly elected, and who is now
prominently presented for Speaker of the
next House, will stand such test, If Mr..
Blaine is not a candidate for reelection,
Mr.. Maynard will be formidable aspirant,
and we can hardly doubt successful one.
At any rate we hope so. Indeed, we are
not sure but we shall favor him against the
field. There are reasons why we should
prefer him even to Mr.. Blaine. But we
will wait awhile yet.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-12-07
FOREIGN.

PARIS, Dec. 6.-The Governmental stu.
alton at Versailles unsettles business of all
kinds throughout the country. .a1
The committee of thirty formed yester-
day by the Assembly, are regarded as hos
tile to the Republic. The Republican
Journals at Paris declare the Assembly
does not represent the will of France, and
demand its immediate dissolution.
President Thiers is expected to resign.
The Government will probably make a
statement at the session of the Assembly
to-day as to the course it intends to take
HAIIFAX, Dec. 6.-The Western Union
Telegraph Company have purchased the
Nova Scotia lines. p
TURIN, Dec. 6.-The waters of the river
A rno as well as the Po have overflowed
their banks. Many bridges and crossings
over these two streams have been swept
away and destroyed. The communes are
inundated, causing much destruction OF
property.