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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-08-30

friends" and told them when the Demo-
Gratis opened separate schools The did not adj
vocate mixed) for the education of their chill
dren as they had done for the education of the
white, they might make some claim for their
support Mr.. Miller ought to have known that
Maryland had done more, perhaps, for the edu-
cation Of colored children, than any other
State in the Union--that all The taxes they (tbe
colored people) pay, 60 to the education OF
their eien children-and, if they pay none, of
course, no funds are raised, this is their own
fault. But the Legislature Of Maryand-a
Democratic Legislatnre--at its last session, APP
propriated Fifty Thoucond Doller, for the ed
ucation Of colored children. If Mr.. Miller
knew this, he didn't tell tiff he did not know
1t, he is unft TO be q representative in Con-
gress.
Mr.. N. concluded 10 some "blood and thun-
der" remarks, that frightened nobody, bat
| evidently intended TO pave the way for the APP
pointment Of "a Commissioner, under the en-
forceu,ent act to superiniend The election--the
demand was and fair warning given, that II
the Commissioners of Election in this county
did not appoint Radical Commissioner and
Clerk--a Supervisor would be asked. We have
no doubt these gentry will be stuck up at eve
ry voting place in the South FOR there are
plenty of mean white men and negroes ready
10 make application for such appointment, il
for no other purpose than 20 annoy. The De-
mocracy of Montgomery win attend 30 taeir
own affairs 10 their own way, as they have
heretofore done, regardless of the essence OF
an unwelcome official, whose al hori;y goes
no farther than to stick bis nose 10 other peo-
pies matters. We would prefer being appoint
ed common hangman than 10 hold this Office.
Let him come.
Thinking some reply 10 Mr.. Miller necessary
in what related 10 the education of color ed
children, the friends of GEORGE PErsR, ESQ.,,
requested that gentleman 10 stale what were
the facs in the case in order that the colored
people might koow it, and so dsabuse their
minds, If any erroneous impression had been
made, and this he did TO the entire satisfaction
ofall present. We conclude by saying that Mr..
Miller made no converts for Grant, and now
tuin him over 10 the tender mercies of the
Hon. JOHN flfcg'E, if NJ. NJ. should get the
nonioatiop-if he does not. he WI oe sps Gu
The modification OF defeat.
SIS oJs.-1'ae Rsdi'als Me NOW err
neering she louisville Convention for the
st"aghtouters. Ibat the thing is 10 be rem
in the interest Of that party is evident from the
interest taken in the movement, as they think
they see in it hope 10 defeat Greeley AID
elect Grant. To eject tnis be Radical e ecr-
tive Committee at Washington are busily en-
gagged in ranking documents in all directions
in fnftherance of the movement. The Prime
mover in this matter has clei n a.,ei,st he
gosei nment for $40, 600 whc, is ncs likes
meet with much iasor unless Blanton Dpe:an
SAG eeds, hepce his desi e,o eject 3reacn n
'4e Deroc e,'c enks
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
Cholera Checked.
From the New York Post.

eAO 4NoW 1 YIN OrLs
There now seems to be fair hope
that the advance of the cholera has
been checked. We have heard but
little OF its ravages Of late in Russia,
and the news the other morning from
COnstantinople that the disease had
disappeared in that city is encourage
ing. During last September and the
latter part of August, it will be re-
membered, western Europe was
threatened by an advance Of the de-
stroyer in two different directions,
the route being from Cherson, Russia,
to Moscow, and thence by way of
KOnigsberg, Dantzic and Stettin, in
Prussia, to Hamburg, whence we fear
ed its emigration TO this city; the
southern route was from Cherson by
way of DebretZin and Vienna, in
Austria, to southern Germany and
France. Neither of these courses of
the disease included Constantinople,
but the fact that it was raging there
endangered all the Mediterranean
ports of Europe, and its disappear
ance proves, apparently, that the
source of the plague i'll Asia, where
it reached the Bosphorus, has been
exhausted. This source was the same
as that from which the cholera cross
ed the Black sea to Cherson, in Rus
sia; it came from the east, and touch
the Euxine at Trebizond. This place
is due east from Constantinople, and
the disease has probably nearly dis
appeared there also; with their COM
mercial relations it could hardly exist
in one place and not in the other. Oh
course, the fact that the source of the
cholera is thus exhausted is not posi-
tive evidence that we shall escape !;
but even if it should reach our shores,
its ravages will be much less than if
it We're constantly aggravated by new
supplies from the distant marshes of
the Ganges.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
The Uselessness Of Trial by Jury In
Civil Cases. ~.

Let us look at one positive advan-
tage from abolishing jury trials. The
rules of evidence, which have been
accumulating for centuries as lights
and guides to the temple of justice,
have become so numerous and con-
Trajectory as to dazzle and bewilder,
and more often shut out the truth
than aid in its productions Now, if
the jury system were abolished, near
ly all of these blind guides could be
safely swept away. The admission
and rejection of testimony could be
safely left to ajudge, with only few
simple rules to limit his discretion.
But, after all, the decision of civil
cases by juries is humbug. 1t is
said that juries in civil cases decide
the fact-in criminal ones both the
fact and the law. But in civil cases
they do not even decide the fact. In
every State there is court Of last re-
sort which is entirely composed of
judges, and nearly every case tried
in the inferior courts may be brought
before this for review. If the Judge
of lower court makes an erroneous
decision, the party aggrieved appeals
to the higher court, in which the
case is reviewed, and the judgement,
if wrong, reversed or corrected. The
very same thing happens in trials by
juries. If they decide against the
weight of evidence, their verdict is
set aside; if they pass upon a ques-
ton of law which 1t was the duty of
the judge at the trial to decide, a new
trial is granted. In short, the trial
of q civil case by jury amounts simply
to this-that if the higher court con-
slider the verdict to be right, it stands;
fnOt, then it is reversed.
Therefore, since civil cases are in
reality tried and decided by judges,
why retain the fiction that q jury
composed of twelve ordinary men de-
eide the cases which are brought be-
fore them? Why not abandon that
mode of trial, and thus save the in
convenience, expense, and delay that
we have shown exist From TRIAL
BY JURY, By Albert s. Bolles, in the
March number Of Lippincotrs Aaga.
zine.
THE American edition OF Phillips on evidence
contains references TO over twenty-five thousand
CAGES.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
Good Manners.

Young folks should be mannerly.
How to be so is the question. Many a
good girl and boy feel that they can't
behave in the presence of company.
They feel timid, bashful, and self-dis-
trustful the moment they are address,
ed by stranger or appear in COM
pany. There is but one way to get
over this feeling, and acquire easy
and graceful manners; that is, to do
the best they can all the time at home.
as well as abroad. Good manners
are not learned by arbitrary teaching
so much as acquired by habit. They
grow upon US by use. We must be
courteous, agreeable, civil, kind, gem
tlemanly and womanly at home, and
then it will become q kind of second
nature to be so everywhere. A coarse,
rough manner at home begets bit Of
ioughness, which we cannot lay off
fwetry, when we go among strangers.
The most agreeable people we have
ever known in company are those
who are perfectly agreeable at home.
Home is o school for all good things,
especially for good manners.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
THE EX-FMPIRE.
SaIe.of the Empress Eugenie's Fans

From the Pail Mall Gazette.l
The Empress Eugenie's collection
of fans, which are for sale, is now
on private view at Mr.. Harry Eman-
uel's in Bond street. The Empress
rivaled Queen Elizabeth and Marie
Antoinette in her taste for regal
luxury i'm fans, and contributed not a
little by her example to the revival
of the fashion for treating the fan as
a costly work of fine art, which has
extended to this country, and which
led to the special exhibition of fans
at South Kensington in 1870. Many
of the fans of which she has now dis
possessed herself were seen at that
exhibition to which she contributed
some of the choicest examples. Queen
Elizabeth's wardrobe included twen-
ty-seven fans; the Empress collec-
ton includes nearly fifty, and pro-
baby exceeds them as much in beauty
and costliness as in numbers. Among
the most curious is fan painted on
vellum by Camille ROqueplan, dated
the 3Oth of January, 1735, and which
formed part of the Empress corbeille
de marriage. 1t is charmingly
wrought in the style of the sixteenth
century, and in the centre of the
elaborately pearl stick are the
Imperial crown, supported by Gu
pids," and the initials f. N. in gold.
The reverse, by Franco, is an equally
good example of flower and fruit
painting. The gem of the collection
is fan which has the additional In
terest of having formerly belonged to
Marie Antoinette. The subject is La
Fountaine d. Amour" the guards
carved, nearly covered with enamel
and diamond ornaments, the stick of
acknowledgement ivory inlaid, and
groups and figures in silver and gold.
There are some very good examples
of Louis QuinZe fans, some of which
have been remOunted on modern
carved and pierced sticks of variable
merit, inlaid with gold, ornamented
with groups of figures and the I'm
perial cypher. There are among the
mounts signed works of Veillemot,
E. Moreau, Defaivres, GulmDet,
Anon Cyb, Regnier, BOqueplan, ana
Franco. Some of the Chinese fans
exhibited are souvenirs OF the ex-
pedition of the Count de PaIlkao.
In some of these costly and artistic
trifies the sticks are mounted with
enamel and precious stones, and ris-
ing, as some of them do, to a value Of
several hundred pounds, they afford
n very fair notion of the costliness of
royal toys. To the collection is added
some of the most remarkable OF the
"ombrelles" of the. Empress; one,
which is valued also at some hundreds
Of pounds, the well-known parasol
which was the envy and wonder OF
the Parjsians, surmOunted by an I'M
perial crown in purple enamel and
and having . handle OF
Louiis-Seize work in jeweled and
raised gold and green enamei.
To ladies the combinations of laces
and silks. carved ivory and tortoise
shell. no doubt present intrimic at
fractions which we cannot pretend
tn find in them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
Visit to Shawl Factory In Cashmere.

A gentleman who travelled long
time in India and Cashmere, gives
some curious facts about the manu-
facture and cost of a real Cashmere
scarf or shawl. While in Cashmere,
he visited Mooki Shah, who is the
best and greatest manufacturer Of
shawls of that city. The factory was
a miserable dirty building, the work.
room measuring about sixty by thirty
feet. Here he found some forty men
and boys, of all ages from six to fifty,
arranged in twos and threes, at diff
ferent looms, each one having a loom
to himself, for all the most valuable
shawls are made in looms, in small
pieces, according to the pattern, and
then sewed together. The pattern is
not put in cOlors and squares, like
our patterns of worsted work for chair
backs, seats or slippers, but the di-
rections are written. When the pat
terms are made they are all sewed to-
gether. At some looms in operation
there appeared to be four or five hum
dred small pins of wood with rolls of
different shades of woolen thread, to
be used In different parts of the pat
tern. 1t was astonishing to see the
dexterity with which the small child
ren worked these handlooms, and
understood their written directions.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
How Liquors are Adulterated and
Importers UndersOld.

1t appears that for some time past
importers of foreign liquors have been
complaining that they were under
sold by unknown parties on goods
which could not have passed into the
market except through their own
hands. These transactions seemed
inexplicable until finally facts ex-
planning the mystery have come to
light. This is the way the thing is
managed: Jones buys from an inn
porter out of bond, say, a lot of some
favorably known brand of brandy,
which may be worth, say, Sc gallon
in the market. He takes the brandy
home, takes One-half of the liquor
out of the casks, and fills them up
with alcohol worth 81 a gallon. Every
two gallons of this mixture now cost
him 81, or $3.50 each gallon. There
are number of bonded warehouses
here connected with the adjoining
free warehouses. To one of these free
warehouses Jones conveys his adul-
terated brandy for stOreage. He then
goes and sells, say. for instance Hen
messy, 1860, brandy, worth about Sc
in gold gallon, and which in its
mixed condition, but in a Hennessy
cask, costs him $3.50 gallon, thus
underselling the importers, whose
net profits, probably, do not exceed
from to q per cent, and making a
profit on his worthless article of 81. %
a gallon. Smith buys the goods, be-
ing assured that the brandy is in
bond, and not caring to enquire into
the reasons which induce Jones to
dispose Of brandy below the market
figure. Jones now gives Smith q
delivery order for the goods on G,
who is q bonded warehOuseman. G
occupies bonded warehouse, say at
402, 4O4, 4O6, 40S, and 4l0 X street, but
Smith ignores the fact that Alp X
street is also occupied by c, and that
4l2 is not q bonded warehouse, but q
free warehouse. Smith sends his
carman with the order to c, who is
known to him as q bonded ware
houseman the goods are delivered,
and if Smith has any misgivings he
may perhaps ask the carman, who is
deceived also, whether the casks
came out of bonded warehouse, and
receives positive answer in the affir-
| mative.-Boston Herald.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15

When I feel inclined to read poetry,
I take down my dictionary. The poetry
of words is quite as beautiful as that
of sentences. Bring me the finest
simile from the whole range of imagi-
native writing, and I will show you
single word which conveys q more pro-
found, O more accurate, a moro eio-
quent analogy.-O. W. Holmes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15

A couple went to a Virginia minis
ter to have the knot tied, but found
their united cash account to be but
twenty-five cents. The minister re-
fused to perform the ceremony with
out the full fee. As the depressed
pair were turning away, a happy
thought seemed to strike the forlorn
maiden and she turned and cried,
please, sir, If you can't marry us
full, won't you marry US twenty-five
cents worth? We can come for the
rest some other time," This was too
much for the parson. he married
them "full up" and they went on
their way rejoicing
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
Music at home-Mrs. Lyons Chacer

Music at home-Mrs. Lyons Chacer
How cruel of you to get up so sud-
denly, dear Mr.. Rumbletumski! Is
anything wrong with the piano%,
Herr Rumbletumski with pardon
able severity)-"No, matam; put /
vos avraid dat inderrubited de gen.
eral conversation ~ Mrs. Lyons
Chacer-"O dear no Not at all Pray
20 on!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15

Messrs. Tiffany & Co. lately sold
two of the finest strings of Oriental
pearls ever disposed of in this country.
We understand the price paid for them
was $4,000. As to color and shape,
they were unique. Itwould be strange
if the beautiful American pearl which
found its wayt the Empress Eugenie's
casket should, by the caprices of for
tune, be brought back once more to its
place of origin. ..E
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15

''Sez he, meek as Moses, "Where
shall I go TO, Nabby%'
"Sez l "1 don't care where you
go to, so longs you don't come near
me. I've always been a respectable
woman, and don't want none of
Hank Slater's friends round my
house" LE
"Well?" queried the squire, as
Nabby's narrative came to pause.
"Well," said Nabby, in rather a
subdued tone, "he went off. And he
hasn't come back. And l want a
divorce" '+'--'''
"Now, Nabby," demonstrated the
old squire, you don't want divorce.
/ know you better than that. You
are not the woman to give Josiah up,
and let him go to the bad, without a
struggle. You feel little vexed
with him now, and I don't blame
you. 1t is hard, very hard. But you
know you took him "for better, for
worse" Do you think, yourself, it
is quite right to break your contract
because It proves the worse for you
because you are the strong one snd
he the weak one of the two? That
doesn't strike me as good Bible doc
trine, Nabby. "We that are strong
ought to bear the infirmities of the
weak, and not to please ourselves, !"
you know"
swell, I dunne,u said Nabby,
twisting the corner of her shawl
obviously. II hadn't thought ont
in that light I must say. It's so ag-
gravatin' to have such a man for a
husband. Besides, 1 dunno's he'd
come back if I wanted him tor
Hasn't he been back at all ?n
"Why, yes, he come back once fol
q pair Of pantaloons. But I didn't
take no notice of him."
"Now, Nabby, you msy depend
upon it, it wasn't the pantaloons he
was after. He wanted to see if you
wouldn't relent. If he comes again
be a little pleasant to him, and I'll
warrant he will stay. Give him
another chance, Nabby. Josiah ism
the worst fellow in the world, by any
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15

ot<Al tA'S ZIG AACS 0Auf hosAD6 Sn>hSON
her dress, sat down to dry her feet
until the tea-kettle boiled. But even
the ruddy light and warmth with
which the kitchen now glowed could
not fend of the dreariness Of the
night. The rain" tapped With ghostly
finger-tip upon tie window. pane, and
the ewindhowled and walled around the
house like the spirits Of the lost plead
ing to be once more taken back into
human life and warmth. Such wind
stirs in even the happiest heart vague
sense of loes, of change, Of all that
goes to make up the unsatisfacton-
ness of life. Dead sorrows creep forth
from their graves on such nights, and
stalk up and down the echoing cham
bers of the heart. --Ess-ss-,f-s
Nabby could not help wondering
where Josiah was tonight. It was 80
lonely sitting there with no one to
speak to, slistening to the moaning
wind the creaking of the blinds, the
loud ticking of the clock.
'And Thanksgivin' q comin','
thought Nabby. "A pretty Thanks
givin' I shall have.' r
The wind walled and walled, and
Nabby thought and thought. The
very fact of having "freed her mind"
to the squire had relieved her long
pent-up Indignation, and now she
felt more sad than angry. Up before
her seemed to rise . picture of her life;
the youthful dreams and hopes, the
changes and Disappointment, thelove
turned into wrAngling. She even
thought of Josiah With pity. For the
first time she "put herself in his
place. and realized how almost i'm
possible 1t was for one of his weak
nature to resist, unaided, the tempta-
ton which would cost stronger will
no effort.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-20
The Public Debt.

The proposition of Mr.. TALlAfEREo, OF
the House of Delegates, for interviewing the
holders of Virginia bonds by n joint COM
mittce of the General Assembly, we rather
like. The movement would certainly be a
concession on the part of some members of
the present Legislature who seem to consider
tile bondholders rs having most seriously
wronged Virginia by lending her their mo-
ney. Their Indignation against those oilcn-
ders is as great as sense OF outrage can
make it. Transposing situations, they con-
slider the bondholdcrs insratcS, and threaten
them with the discontinuance of the patron
age of the State-just rs gentleman viewed
his relations to the Richmond Wing some
years since, when he indignantly Withdrew
his patronage and ordered diScontinuance
of his paper while he was in arrears upwards
OF hundred dollars TO the establishment.
The Chief Justice of the Wing did not think
this the most righteous sort of indignation !;
nor is that now displayed in the Senate and
House of the General Assembly more in ac-
cprdance with IN honest sense of obligation.
Yet, if tue Legislature meet the bondhold-
ers to parlcy with them, it will be an ac-
acknowledgement OF the obligation Of the State,
and that will be something. If in the inter
view anything can be effected in the way of
compromise that accommodates the State
and holds her promises inviolate, u great
deal more will be done. We incline to the
movement.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-20

HINTS TO THE LEGIsLATURE.-[From the
Winchester Tin,es.l-The decision of the
Court of Appeals declaring coupons receiva-
BILE for taxes and State dues imposes upon
the Legislature the necessity of reducing
expenses aud inaugurating the strictest
economy in every branch of the State 90
vernment. We have had enough Of discus
sion. The people now want action--prompt
and efficient. 4 hundred thousand dollars
can be saved by remode!ling the judiciary
system, and dispensing with juries except
ina certain class of cases, and then at the
expense of litigants. 4 balt-miion more
eau propably be saved by remodelling or
entirely doing away with the cumbrous and
expensive township system. The railroad
companies, too, must be taken in hand, and
made to bear their fair proportion of the
burdens of the State; and last, but not least,
the Legislature could save to the State an
nualy from forty to fifty thousand dollars
by reducing the per diem of members, and
Topping OFT its supertluous allowances for
pen.knlves, stationery, sc.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-20

CLOAK Rooa.-Mr. NEALE, of the House
of Delegates, moved on Wednesday that the
Superintendent of Public Buildings be in
structed to provide place for depositing the
hats and cloaks of members. The PROPOSE
ton Is one that will set the Superintendent
TO planning. If the members would on y
determine to dispense with their desks they
would not only have plenty of room, but
they would promote the energy, promptness,
and wisdom Of legislation. Desks are intro
duced into nearly all of the deliberatiye
bodies of the United States, to the very great
disadvantage of legislation. Members have
consulted their own personal ease and con-
venience rather than the public interests in
their introduction.