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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07
MACHINE SHOP!
F. A. LE0NHARD,

Practical MaChiniSt,
Having secured shop-ro0m aud power M
Mcssrs. Lamb 4 Boyd's Furniture Shop, and
having fitted up q Lathe and tools for the pur-
pose, Is prepared 20 make all kinds Of light
Machinery, Patterns for Castings, aud Models
for new inventions.
REPAIRING MACHINERY
OF all kinds. whether Of iron, wood, brass Or
steel, ia q wOTkmaBliko manner, with prompt
ness and on Reasonable terms; and when
necessary will do repair work on machinery M
tho country when IL Is incOuycniont 20 bring
such machinery 10 the shUp.
lie also keeps well posted ia all new machin-
cry, and can usually BIO q considerable adj
vantage to parties who wish 10 have expert
mental machines or
MODELS FOR NEW INVENTIONS
made.
SHOP az Lamb a. BOyd's steam Fur
nlture Mandatory.
May22'1}-ly. COLUMBIA, TENN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

MORE Americans visit Shakespeare S
birthplace than English.
MUcH anxiety is felt in Russia, regard
ing the destruction of forests, which
proceeds very rapidly.
The use of bronze in the manufacture
of tield-pieces has been abandoned both
in England and Prussia.
LATEST accounts from the Sandwich
Islands represent the native Hawaaians
as decidedly opposed to annexation to
the United States.
NAPOLEON III. left considerable
body of notes for the continuation of
his life of Julius Cesar which are to be
edited under the direction of his wife
and published.
ONE million and three hundred thou
sand children are in the schools in India
supported by the British Government
The whole population of British India
is now 241 100000
A PARISH minister in the neighborhood
of Dundee, Scotland, announces that he
has discontinued studying, and until
Goals can be got at a cheaper rate he has
intimated his intention to preach his old
sermons! He alleges that he cannot
afford Goals for his study fire.
For some time past the Catholic cler-
gy of Brazil have been waging bitter
war upon the Masons, whom they have
prescribed and prosecuted to the extent
of their power. 1t appears from advices
lately received, that the controversy is
now dividing the cabinet, and that there
is likely to be a crisis in consequence.
This will make the matter a political
question, and 1t may be expected that
the struggle which took place in this
country about thirty years ago, will be
repeated in the dominion of Don Pedro.
The Dublin University Bill of Prof.
Fawcett, which originally proposed to
create Council on purely liberal ba-
Sis, and thus wholly recognize the insti-
tuition, has been cut down to mere alb
clifton of religious tests, and will pass
in this shape. This puts Irish univers-
ity education on the same footing as En-
glish, and considerably mitigates the
Irish grievance, thus preparing the way
for future additional and reorganizing
change, if the Protestant interest can
ever consent to admit the Catholics to n
share of administration, and the Catho-
lies can ever content themselves with a
share only.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
RAILROAD ENTERPRISE.

1t is reported that Jay Gould has been
recently engaged in perfecting a grand
railroad scheme, which will enable him
to compete with the Erie Railway in its
through traffic from the West and
Southwest. Mr.. Gould, who owns a
great part of the New Jersey Southern
railroad, has contracted for the build
ing of thirty additional miles of road
and for the construction of two new
steamers of great carrying capacity.
These steamers are to be $40 feet long
and 81 feet beam, and the decks are to
be fitted with railroad tracks, and all
the appurtenances necessary for the
transport of cars. One will run be-
tween New York and Sandy Hook, and
will carry thirty-thrce loaded cars. The
other is intended to convey cars from
Bayside across Delaware bay, whence
passengers will be transported by rail to
Baltimore, Richmond, Washington OF
Norfolk. 1t is claimed that by the Bal
timore and Ohio road, Cincinnati will
be practically seventy miles nearer New
York than at present. Globe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24

Once at the town | told my story to
the local police, and detachment was
sent with me to the spot
After much searching and many false
alarms, We succeeded in finding the
ruinous old house, but it was empty and
did [ ever recover my valise and watch
and chain, which latter / had left under
my pillow.
Its Drew's gang" said the leader
of the police; "and they've troubled
us these two years. L don't think,
though, they'll come back here just at
present.
Nor did they.
But the strangest part of my story is
to come yet. Some three weeks subse-
quently | received n letter from my sis
ter, who was with Alice in her English
home-a letter whose intelligence filled
me with surprise:
81 must tell you something very,
very strange" wrote my sister, "that
happened us on the night of the 18th of
October. Alice had not been so we'll
for some time i'll fact she had been
confined to her bed for nearly n week !;
and | was sitting beside her reading.
1t was late; the clock had Just struck
l, when all of a sudden she seemed to
faint away, growing cold and rigid as a
corpse. l hastened to call assistance,
but all our efforts seemed vain to restore
life or animation. l was just about
sending for the doctor when her senses
returned as suddenly as they had left
her, and she sat up in bed, pushing
back her hair and looking wildly about
her.
Alice p I exclaimed, chow you
have terrified us all. Are you ill ?"
Not ILL., she answered, "but |
feel so strange. Oracle, l have been
with my husband.
"And all our reasoning failed to con-
vince her Of the impossibility Of her as
sertions. She persists to this moment
that she saw you and was with you on
the night of the 18th of October, or
rather on the morning of the 18th.
Where and how she cannot tell but We
think it must have been some dream.
She is better now, and I wish you could
see how fast she is improving"
This is my plain, unvarnished tale. |
do not pretend to explain or account for
its mysteries. l simply relate facts.
Let psychologists unravel the laby-
rinthical skein. | am not superstitious,
neither do I believe in ghosts, wraiths,
and apparitions; but this thing do
know-that although my wife was in
England, in the body, the morning of
the 18th of October, her spirit surely
stood beside me in New York in the mo-
mcnt of the deadly peril that menaced
me. 1t may be that, to the subtle in
stinct and strength of wife's holy love,
all things are possible, but Alice surely
saved my life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
THE PLEASURES or NEW BOOTS.

THE PLEASURES or NEW BOOTS.
1t is little singular how well pair
of boots can be made to fit at the store
You may be able to get your foot
only pant way down the leg at the first
trial, but that is because your stocking
is sweaty, or you haven't started right,
and the shoemaker suggests that you
start again and stand up to it, and he
throws in a little powder from a pepper
box to aid you. And so you stand up,
and pound down your foot, and partly
trip yourself up, and your eyes stick out
in an unpleasant manner, and every vein
in your body Appeals to be on the point
of bursting, all the while that dealer
stands around and eyes the operation as
intently as if the whole affair was per-
fectly new and novel to him. When
your foot has finally struck bottom there
IS faint impression on your mind that
you have stepped into an open stove, but
he removes it by solemnly observing
that he never saw boot fit as good as
that. You may suggest that your toe
presses too hard against the front, or
that some of the bones in the side of the
foot are too much smashed, but he says
that is always the way with new boot,
and that the trouble will entirely disap-
pear in few days. Then youtakc the old
pair under your arm and start for home
rs animated as relic of 1872, all the
while feeling that the world will not
look as bright and happy to you again
until you have Drained that shoemaker.
You limp down town the next day, and
smile all the while with your mouth
while your eyes look as if you were
walking over an oyster-bed barefooted
When no one is looking you kick against
post or some other obstruction, and
show fondness for stopping and resting
against something that will sustain your
weight. When you get home at night
you go for those old boots with an eager
ness that cannot be described, and the
remarks you make upon learning that
your wife has disposed of them to a
widow woman in the suburbs, are cal
culated to Immediately depopulate the
earth of women and shocmakers gen
orally. NcUs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24

THERE was an elderly gentleman wend-
ing his way to the barber shop Saturday
afternoon. Coming from an opposite
direction was an unshaven man. The
shop lay between them. The unshaven
man quickened his step; the elderly
man struck into trot. Then the I'M
shaven stopped to look into a window,
and the elderly man came back to a
walk. Up started the unshaven man
again, and the elderly man resumed his
trot The unshaven man once more
slackened up; so did the elderly man.
Then the unshaven man quickened his
gait, and the elderly man once more
struck into trot, and reached the door
painting and putting as the unshaven
man went by. And yet women are dis
satisfied with their sphere. -Danbury
Ne,CS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24

The SHAH OF PERSIA. Shah of
Persia, who is to be the guest of En-
gland, in the course of the summer, is,
it is said, to have Buckingham Palace
all to himself He is said to have taken
a trifie of three millions sterling or so
out of the Imperial Treasury for travel
ing expenses, and there is a strong i'm
preston abroad that fair proportion of
that amount will be absorbed. Mr..
Grant Duff, who, it is said, speaks Per-
sian with a purer accent than he does
English, will be detailed for court duty
His Highness is to be treated with the
most demonstrative hospitality, and that
means that great deal of vivacious
London life is in perspective.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
THE LdTE JEDGE CHASE.

Salmon Portland Chase was born in
Cornish, N. H., Jan. 13, 1908, and had
just entered his 6Gth year. Ia 1915 his
father removed to Keene, N. II. In
1890, when u years old, his father being
dead, he went to Worthington, o., where
he was under the care of his uncle,
Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio He
attended the Cincinnati College for one
year, and, returning to New Hampshire
i'll 1924 entered Dartmouth College, and
graduated in 1926. The next winter he
opened private school in Washington
City. In 1929 was admitted to the bar,
having read law in the office of At
torney-General Writ. In 1880, he re-
turned to Cincinnati, and has ever since
made his home in Ohio. He became
early identified with the Anti-Slavery
party, and was an earnest and steadfast
opponent of the slave power. He was
elected to the United States Senate from
Ohio in 1S49. In that body he strongly
opposed the compromise measures
proposed by Mr.. Clay, and, by way
of amendments, sought to exclude
slavery from the Territories. In 1854,
he strenuously opposed the Kansas
Nebraska act; prepared an address to
the people demonstrating against it, and
he continued his opposition to it down
to the hour of its passage. In 1855, he
retired from the Senate, and that same
year was elected Governor of Ohio. In
1857, he was again elected, and closed
his second term in January, 1860. On
the 4th of March, 1861, he entered Mr..
Lincolns Cabinet as Secretary of the
Treasury. This latter Office he resigned
on the Sd of June, 1864, and on the 9th
of December, in the same year, he was
appointed by Mr.. Lincoln Chief Justice
of the United States, to succeed Judge
Taney.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24

The Des Moines Register believes
there is one sort of man whom even
the revivalist Hammond wouldn't deem
worth saving. 1t is the man who, when
barber shop is crowded at midnight
on Saturday night, insists upon having
his hair cut, and his head shampooned,
and his whiskers trimmed, and his mus
tache powdered, and his face bay-rum-
med and camphor-iced and powdered
and perfumed, and dried and perfumed
again. A Modoc would do for a peace
commissioner in effecting the civilization
of such an individual.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
VARIETIES.

THE Danbury Ne,Cs man says that
hens are like the weekly story papers
everything is in their necks.
WHEN has a man ghost of chance
Of appeasing his appetite? When he's
a-gobln' up anything.
A YOUNG farmer in Rhode Island
being asked if he believed in futnre
state, replied "In course 1 does, and
I'm going to enter it tew, just as soon
as Betsy gifts her things ready"
Mrs PETER PIPEE's baby was making
tremendous noise, and friend asked
Peter why it was so cross? "It has
stormy mother" said Peter, with sigh;
"you needn't wonder if it's little
squally, its quite natural"
AN auctioncer exclaimed Why,
really, ladies and gentlemen, l am CIV
ing these things away" care you?'
said an old lady present. Well, I'll
thank you for that silver pitcher you
have i'll your hand"
AN Irishman, meeting another, asked
him what had become of mutual
friend. "Arrah, now my dear honey"
answered he, Paddy was condemned
to be hanged, but he saved his life by
dying in prison"
A DRuNKARD, on being told that the
earth is round and turns ON it's axis all
the time, said: 81 believe that, for
I've never been able to stand on the
darned thing"
This is a new but unsanctifed version
of the old couplet which says, 81 never
had a dear gazelle, etc.:
"Twas ever thus; from childhoods hour
I've seen my fondest hopes take fight,
never held larboard bower,
But some one took it with the right"
A PENNSYLVANIA editor, disgusted
with the ordinary prospectus, comes out
fairly and frankly. He says his paper
is San airy old sheet, devoted to wind,
whisky, wickedness, and other religious
matters. Vox Populi, vox Beelzebub I"
PUNCH thinks that if young lady
wants to keep her hands free from
chaps, all she has to do is to dress in the
present fashion, and let it be known that
she has no money. Chaps, especially if
they be sensible chaps, will then let her
hand alone very severely.
A YOUNG lady teacher of a Milwaukee
Sunday school recently narrated the
Crucifxion to her class of little boys,
and when she had thought she had fair
ly engaged their minds, was surprised
with "Bet you they wouldn't a done it
if Buffalo Bill'd been there"
A WIFE asked her husband for new
dress. He replied: "Times are hard,
my dear-so hard can hardly keep my
nose above water" Whereupon she re-
torted, "You can keep your nose above
water easy enough, if you have a mind
to; but the trouble is that you keep it
too much above brandy"
A QUAINT old gentleman, of an active,
stirring disposition, had man at work
i'll his garden who was quite the reverse.
"Jones," said he, "did you ever see
snail?" Certainly" said Jones.
"Then," said the old man, "you must
have met him, for you could never have
overtaken him.
A PAPER speaking of strikes says:
"You never hear of farmers striking
Now it occurs to us that we have known
of such things. We fancy that if you
should let one of them catch you in his
orchard borrowing" apples, or sam
pling cider through a straw, we just hint
that you would be apt to see him
"strike," or, at all events, you might
feel him striking.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
MY MIDNIGHT PERIL.

Inc n1Pnt OF the litl OF October
shall ever forget its pitchy darkness,
the roar of the autumnal wind through
the lonely forest, and the incessant
down-pour of the rain.
"This comes of short cuts" I NUT
tered petulantly to myself, as l plodded
along, keeping close to the trunks of the
trees to avoid the deep ravine, through
which l could just hear the roar of the
turbulent stream forty or fifty feet be-
: low. My blood ran cold as 1 thought
what might be the possible conse-
quences of misstep or move in the
wrong direction. Why had not been
contented to keep in the high road?
Hold on! Was that light, or are
my eyes playing me false?
stopped, holding on the low, resin
GUS boughs of hemlock that grew on
the edge of the bank for it actually
seemed as if the wind would seize me
bodily and hurl me down the precipi-
tous descent.
1t was light-thank Providence-it
was light, and no ignus fatuus or
copse CLEAN to lure me on to destrnc-
ton and death.
Hallo-o-o-o!"
My voice rang through the woods like
clarion. | plunged onward through
tangled vines, dense briars and rocky
banks, until, gradually nearing, could
perceive figure wrapped in an oil-cloth
cape or cloak, carrying lantern. As
the dim light fell upon his face I almost
recoiled. Would not solitude and the
woods be preferable to the companion
ship of this withered, wrinkled, hideous
old man? But it was too late to recede
now.
What's wanting ?" he snarled, with
peculiar motion of the lips that
seemed to leave his yellow stumps of
teeth all bare.
" am lost in the woods can you di-
rect me to R station ?"
Yes RI station is twelve miles
from here"
Twelve miles p
l stood aghast
Yes"
" Can you tell me of any shelter 1
could obtain for the night ?"
"Nor
Where are you going?"
To Drews, down by the maple
swamp"
Z" Is it tavern ?"
"No."
" Would they take me for the night Z?
l could pay them we'll"
His eyes cleaned; the yellow stumps
stood revealed once more.
" guess so. Folks do stop there"
Is it far from here ?"
Not very about half mile."
Then let us make haste and reach
it. 1 am drenched to the skin."
We plodded on, my companion more
than keeping pace with me. Presently
we left the edge of the ravine, entering
what seemed like trackless woods, and
keeping straight on until the lights of
some habitation cleaned fitfully through
the wet foliage.
1t was ruinous old place, with the
windows all drawn to one side as if the
foundation had settled, and the pillars
OF rude church nearly rotted away.
A woman answered my fellow-travel-
er's knock. My companion whispered
word or two to her, and she turned to
me with smooth, voluble words of well
come.
She regretted the poverty of their ac-
commodations but I was welcome to
them, such as they were.
Where is Isaac ?" demanded nv
guide.
=" He has not come in yet"
sat down on wooden bench beside
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24

The demand for brevity is universal
sign of these hasty tines. People want
the profoundest questions discussed and
settled in a paragraph; decades of his
tory crowded into one newspaper col
umn and all disquisitions on science
ana art remanded to short essays in the
monthlies. Nobody has any leisure for
reading or doing anything lclsurcly
Thinking and meditation have gone out
of fashion. "Items' are ut premium
The cry is for breakneck pace i'll travel
ing on sea or land. Cramming invites
Indigestion ; and dining is snatching n
bite as if not n moment to spare. Hur-
ried are the horrible rushings for the
railways. The lightning itself is not
quick enough for impatient correspond
ence and the transmission OF news. The
effort in all directions is to risk all for
speed; and health, property, mind,
body and life are sacrificed in the strug-
gle to go ahead. All right; but then
how many pause to consider where this
impotence of thoroughness, this swift,
eager, reckless progress ends-only in
bringing nearer the grave, and robbing
existence of not few of it's choicest
blessings-while squandering it so
prodigally? Might it not occasionally
check the use Of the high pressure style
to remember that the goal of all the
whipping and squirting in tombstone,
and the result of successful endcavors
to kill time and annihilatc space simply
reaching that goal all the oner?-
Boston Transcript.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
JE WISH EMIG RA TION.

The New York Heraid says There
have lately arrived in this city several
wealthy Hebrews from Roumania, in
Europe, who have come to the Western
World as pioneers of several thousands
of their -religionists, resident in Rou-
mania, who intend coming over here
during the course of the present year,
when arrangements shall have been
made for their residence in this new
land, and it is considered that the
exodus will probably settle near Lin
coin, the capital city of Nebraska. In
modern or ancient history hardly any
parallel can be found to the atrocious
prosecutions which have befallen this
race in Roumania, where couple of
years ago large number of them were
slaughtered at Berlad and other places,
while their property was burned and de-
stroyed to an immense extent. 1t is
computed that, as soon as their colony
has been fixed upon in the United
States, from three to five thousand will
Immediately proceed across Europe to
Antwerp, in Belgium, where they will
embark for this port. 1t is reported by
Mr.. Jaroslawski, Of 423 West Forty-third
street, that fully fifty thousand of the
Jews i'll Roumania are desirous of pro-
cecding to this country, and that an or
ganization of friends has been estab-
lishcd in this city to help their persc-
cuted brethren who may arrive here.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
VOLUME Ii.
WILLOW WHISTLES.
BY OLIVE A. wADswoRTH.

The world is wide awake to-day,
The LATEST drones are busting,
The brook slips by, the wind is gay,
And every leaf is rustling;
This shady bank, meath Beech and Oak,
With laucc-like grasses bristles,
And you and |, two idle folk,
SIT making willow whistles.
oh, heavenly sunshine of the May,
Succeeding winter hoary,
What shade can shut its light away,
What gloom resis. it's glory.
Down through our Ieafy canopy
Dart myriad golden missiles,
And gid the brook, the bank, the tree,
And cen the willow whistles.
Such wealth of leaf . such worlds of green.
Such balm, no words can utter.
And all the birds that eer were seen
Have gathered here to hutter;
They pertly perch, with heads awry,
Upon the swaying thistles,
And evidently wonder why
We're making willow whistles.
How dare you, comrade, trifle so,
In these grand forest temples,
And laugh, and beat your sa py bough,
And set me bad examples!
Such songs of praise here arise,
As ne'er were found i'll Missals,
And we should hearken, were We WISE
Instead Of making hstles.
1ney say the worlds n vale of tears,
And man is born to trouble
The words sound idly in my ears,
Beside the brooklet's bubble;
Friends change, hear, and hopes grow pale,
The fairest project fzzcs,-
I'm glad there's no such word as fail
In making willow whistles,
The brook shows back two heads of brown,
Though ones prettier color,
Titan hue,-no need to frown,
I've said not which is duller;
They'll be the same, both yours and mine,
When time their BROWNIES grizzlies,
And then, We'll laugh at "Auld Lang Sync,"
When we made willow whistles.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
That Danubury dyspepsia-curer says

THAT Danubury dyspepsia-curer says
in his last batch of items "Another
match broken up. This was between a
clerk in well-known dry goods store
and young lady on Essex street. 1t
was SO warm on Friday evening that she
had the parlor window up, and he stood
on the lawn, and they were cooling to
each other, and he was just reaching up
for another kiss when the sash came
down like flash, and knocked off the
peak of his nose and scalped his chin,
and he hoped around so madly and
howled so dreadfully that the old gen.
tleman thought he was drunk, and had
him kicked out of the yard with great
deal of ostentation. Monday morning
he went West"