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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03
A. Scene i'm the Sierras.

California is country unlike any
other Nature here is as rude, as in
choate, as unfinished as the life The
people seem to have come here thou
sand years too soon, and before the
great hostess was ready to receive them.
The forests, vast, silent, damp with
their underground of gigantic ferns, re-
call remote carboniferous epoch. The
trees are monstrous, somber and monot-
onously alike. Everything is new, crude
and strange. The grass blades are
enormous, and far apart. There is no
carpet to the soil, even the few Alpine
flowers are odorless and bizarre There
is nothing soft: tender or pastoral in the
landscape. Nature affects the heroics
rather than the bucolics. Theocrstus
could have scarcely given melody to the
ssof these active herdsmen,
with their brierwood pipes and their
revolvers slung at their backs. There
were vast spaces of rock and cliff, long
intervals of ravine and canon, and sud
den and awful lapses of precipice. The
light and shadows were Rembrandtish,
and against their background the faint
est outline of human figure stood out
starkly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03
Compost Heap.

1t is often recommended that when
manure is thrown into heaps in the
field, it should be covered with a layer
of earth, to prevent the escape of the
ammonia. The experiments of Dr.
Voelcker, at the Royal Agricultural Col
lege, at Cirencester, in England, have
established the fact that the evaporation
of ammonia from large heaps of manure
goes on but slightly; for the reason that
during the decomposition of the aeanure
certain organic acids are form rat the
same time the ammonia is evS1ed, and
then Immediately unite with the ammo
mia, forming non-yolatile compounds.
There is an active escape of ammonia
from the interior of large heaps, where
the heat is too great for the chemical
change above referred to; but, as it APP
proaches the exterior part of the heap,
where the heat is very much less, the
ammonia is completely taken mp by the
organic acids and retained.
There will be but trifing escape of
ammonia while there is sufficient mois-
ture to retain it, for water absorbs and
retains many hundred times its bulk of
ammonia gas at ordinary temperature.
These non-volatile compounds, from be-
ing highly soluble in water, are liable
to be washed away at every rain storm,
giving the well-known color to the drain
inQs of manure heaps
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Italian Industrial Progress

With the exception of 1000 tons of
refined sulphur derived from the Roman
mines, all of that material obtained
from Italy comes from Sicily, and is ex-
ported in crude state The total value
of sulphur is nearly IS, 200, 900, paid by
foreign buyers. There are about 19, 900
workmen engaged in this industry, s.
600 miners and IA 200 operatives en-
ployed in transportation, refining, etc.
The carrying of the sulphur from the
mines to ports of embarkation furnishes
labor for 20, 900 additional workmen.
The iron drawn from Italy and the az
ticles made therefrom represent annual
ly value of $4,OO0,OOO. The produc-
ton of the foundries does not exceed
%, 900 tons The total product is but
one fifth of the entire amount consum-
ed in the country.
Lead and zinc are derived almost ex-
clusively from Sardinia Their extrac-
ton requires 10, 900 workmen, and guam
titles to the value of 90, 400, 900 are pro-
duced. The lead ore is argentiferous
but the silver is found in extremely
small amounts. The zinc is exported to
Belgium and England The quantity
obtained yearly reaches 10000 tons.
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A Cup of GuHsc.

Much skill and practice is required
in making a cup of coffee. believe
the best way of preparing a cup of
coffee is this: To every half pint of
water allow half an ounce of coffee
powder. Pour into the pot containing
the powder boiling water; set the pot on
the fire for few seconds, but not to
boil up Then pour about half a pint
into the cup, and pour it. back again
into the pot, and then place the pot on
the hob to settle All the goodness is
extracted with the first boiling. No
wise person will boil the same grounds
a second time. You can boil tea leaves
three times if you like; they will al
ways give out some strength; but any
one who can manufacture fresh coffee
out of old grounds ought to take ont
patent.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03
An Ecclesiastical Struggle in Spain.

The controversies between the Roman
Catholic Church on the one hand and
the representatives of the secular gov
eminent ON the other, which have been
exemplified and are still proceeding in
Germany and Switzerland, have extend
ed also to Spain. A few days ago a pro-
test by the Spanish bishops was pub
lished, in which the government was
strongly reproached for withholding
their pay, which it is said they had not
received for two years. A much more
elaborate protest, signed by the arch
bishops and bishops, addressed 10 the
Cortes, has since appeared. The. min
lister of justice has prepared a bill
which proposes to reduce the number of
bishoprics and to discharge the treasury
from the obligation of paying the eccle-
siastical endowments.
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Defeated Candidates.

George Alfred Townsend writes, in
one ofhis letters to the Chicago Tribune.
about defeated Presidential candidates
as follows:
1t is an open question as to whether
the list of defeated candidates does not
present superior biographies, and not
inferior administrative talent, to the
list of Presidents. Henry Clay, whom
Mr.. Greeley followed so sturdily
through repeated disasters, ran against
j. @. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, and
Polk. In the light of time he looks
the figure of a Magistrate and a great
party leader better than at least three
of his successful rivals. There would
seem also to have been the same in
equality between William Harris Craw-
ford, who was abandoned after being
nominated in Congressional caucus, and
John Quincy Adams preferred. Adams
was good deal like Greeley in some of
Greeley's moods; he was alternately
Conservative and Radical, Federal
ist and a Madisonian Republican; he
clamored as much on the right of Pc
tition as Mr. Greeley upon impartial
suffrage, striking the same chord for
years. Although a finely educated man,
Mr.. Adams had neither the magnetism
nor the management for first class
Magistrate, while Crawford was the first
intellect of Georgia, and had been
Foreign Minister, Acting Vice-Presi-
dent, Senator and Secretary of War
and the Treasury. He was of a superb
Scotch type of manhood, six feet three,
strong in constitution and mind. and
always calm, gracious, democratic and
popular. 1t would bother critic now
to know why the Wing party dropped
Mr.. Clay for odd Zach;" and why
" Old Zach" beat Louis Cass, who was
a wonder and tradition amongst men,
having been the great pioneer Governor
of the Northwest, valorous in action,
faithful and patriotic, and honored with |
the highest State stations. So also |
with the success of Franklin Pierce
over Winfield Scott.
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Best Time for Painting Houses.

The best time for painting the ex-
terror of building is late in autumn or
during the winter. Paint then applied
will endure twice as long as when ap-
piled in early summer or in hot weather.
In the former it dries slowly and be-
comes hard, like glazed surface, not
easily affected afterward by the weather,
or worn off by the beating of storms.
But in very hot weather the oil in paint
soaks into the wood at once, as into a
sponge, leaving the lead nearly dry and
nearly ready to crumble off. The last
difficulty, however, might in a measure
be guarded against, though at an in
creased expense, by first going over the
surface with raw oil. By painting in
cold weather, one annoyance might GER
tainly be escaped, namely, the collection
of small flies in the fresh paint
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g. -. q
eaiT Ialy life is beautiful thing
I will crown me with it's flowers,
/ Will sing Of its glory all day long.
For my harp is young, and sweet, and strong,
And the passionate power in my song
Shall thrill ali the golden hours.
And over the sand, and over the stone,
Forever and ever the waves rolled on.
I said. my life is a terrible thing,
All ruined, and lost, and crushed.
will heap itS ashes upon my head,
will wall for my Joy And my darling dead,
iii TIE drsAre aige for the days that are fled
Stfrs faint Though the dull dumb dust.
And over the sand and over the stone,
Forever and ever the waves rolled on.
/ said, was proud in my hour of mirth,
And mad in my first despair,
Now I know nor earth, nor sky, nor sea,
Has heed or helping for one like me,
The deem or the boon comes, let 1t be.
Fur us, we can but bear.
And over the sand, and over the stone,
Forever and ever the waves rolled ON.
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Lime and Salt Mixture.

Prof. Johnson recommends for fertil-
izing purposes to mix one bushel of salt
and two bushels of dry lime under GOV
er, and allow the mixture to decompose
gradually, thus forming an intimate
chemical union of the two materials
For this purpose the mixture should be
made at least six weeks before use, or
still better, two or three months, the
heap mentioned being turned over oc-
casionally. This salt and lime mix
ture, when applied at the rate of TWEEN.
ty or thirty bushels per acre, forms an
excellent top-dressing for many crops.
1t acts powerfully ON the vegetable mat
ter of soils; fifty-six bushels applied to
tr1rnip crop have produced as large a
crop as barn-yard manure. 1t is also
very destructive to grubs and insects in
the soil. Like salt, it attracts moisture
from the air, and is useful against
drought. Its decomposing power is re-
markable, and if three or four bushels
of it are mixed with load of swamp
muck, the latter will be reduced to a
powder.
Consumption in some parts of
America causes twenty-eight out of
every hundred deaths.
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SYMPTOMS OF LIZ aK COMPLAINT, AND OF SOME
OF THE DISEASES PRoDucED By IA sallow or
yellow color of skin, OF yellowish brown spots
on face and other parts OF body; dizziness and
drowsinehs and frequent headache dizziness,
bitter or bad taste in the mouth, dryness of
throat and internal heat palpitation III many
cases a drv teasing cougli. with sore throat.
unsteady appetite, raising of food, choking
sensation IN throat, distress heayiness, bioated
or full feeling about stomach ard sides, pain
in sides, back or breast, and about shoulders;
collie, pain and soreness through bowels, with
heat, constipation alternating with frequent
attacks of diarrh@a, piles, fiatulence, nervous
ness, GOODNESS of extremities, rush of blood to
head, with symptoms of apoplexy, nunbness
OF limbs, especially at night; cold chIlls alter
mating with hot fushes, kidney and urinary
difficulties, female weakness, dullness. low
spirits, unsocability and gloomy forebodings.
Only few of above symptoms likely to be pres
ent at one time All who use DIR. Pierce's AIT.
Ext. or Golden Medical Discovery for Liver
Complaint and it's complications are loud in its
praise. Sold by all first-class druggists G19.
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PEMPLEs ERbPTIoSs. ROUGH SKIN.-The
system being put under the influence of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for few
weeks, the skin becomes smooth, clear and
velvety, and being Illuminated with the glow
of perfect health from within, true beauty
stands forth in all its glory. Nothing ever
presented to the public as beautifer of the
complexion ever gave such satisfaction for this
purpose as this Discovery. The effects of all
medicines which operate upon the system
through the medium of the blood are neces-
sarily somewhat SLOW no matter how good the
remedy employed. While one to three bottles
clear the skin of pimples, blotches, eruptions,
yellow spots, comedones, or 'grubs, dozen
may possibly be required to cure some cases
where the system is rotten with scrofulous or
virulent blood poisons. The cure of all these
diseases, however, from the common pimple to
the worst scrofula is, with the use of this most
potent agent, only matter of time. Sold by
all druggists. SOB.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03

SAID PARENT TO CHILD-"Just look at
those Shoes, only bought last week; good as
new all but the toes, which are worn through.
Money thrown away, feet wet, stockings soil
ed, all because they were not Metal Tipped. u
Parents take your choice-neat, genteel, Silver
Tipped Shoes, which never wear out at the
toes, or shoes without tips, with ragged holes
and protuding toes. Which looks the best ?
Which is the cheapest?
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IMPORTANT TO HoRsEMEN. - Inflammation
cannot exist where Prof. 'ANDERsoN's DERMA-
DOR is applied. Fresh wounds, Calls, Caulks,
Bruises, are dried down and healed without
Inflammation Scratches, Sand Cracks, Swell
ings and Sprains cured by few applications.
A thorough use will also cure Sweeney, Poll
Evil, Wingalls and Lameness, from whatever
cause.
See advertisements in This DaDer
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A Manual of Health

$5 TO SIS PER DAY made by Agents selling
the American Quilting Machine. Sells for $5.
Address IL. D. BRIER & co. Atlanta. Ga.
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LUNG COMPLAINTS, Bronchitis Asthma, ETC.,
are speedily relieved, and if taken in time,
permanently cured by Dr.. Jayne's Expecto-
rant You will find it also certain remedy for
Coughs and Colds. tI.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03

MILLIONS of pairs of shoes tipped with metal
are sold every year. For children's shoes they
are absolutely indispensable, unless one can
afford the waste of buying two pairs when only
one would be needed and few can safely sub
init to such a constant leak. With most people
it is the little economies of the household that
supply its members with comfort, and at the
same time make the load of the father of mod
crate means lighter one to bear. Cents in
vested in the purchase of metal-tipped shoes
save many a hard earned dollar.-America,t
Workman
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03

HAVE the readers of this paper ever used
any of Parsons Pu,gatiue Pills. If not, why
not they are the best family physic, besides
being the greatest anti-bilious remedy, there
is in this country.
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If your horse is lame, sore CALLED you
should use Jotnson's Anodg7se Linimerlt i: wash
the part with CASTLE soap and warm water, rub
dry with a clean cloth. then apply the Lini
ment rub in we'll with the hand.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03

ANY irst-class gents furnishing store can
supply YOU with Elmwood Collars. Try them
and YOU will wear no other.
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Neglected Cough, Cold or Sore Throat,
which might be checked by simple remedy,
like 'sBroaem's Bronchial Troches,' if allowed
to progress may terminate seriously.
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A FINE Complexion can be easily obtained by
using "The Queens Toilet"
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An edition of between nine and ten millions of
copies ola very useful work is ready for gratu-
tous distribution and can he had for the asking at
any drug store in the United States, the British
Colonies Spanish America or Brazil. The work
referred to is Hostetter's Almanac for 1873. The
medical portion Oft treats of the various ailments
TO which the human system is subject, and sets
forth the peculiar properties of Hostetters Stom-
ach Bitters-the purest and best tonic at present
known-asa preservative of health and strength,
and as a remedy for debility and disease. The Al
manac is printed in all the principal languages of
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woman who has a due regard for that choicest of
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the plain simple and convincing articles which
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Raw Hide RODes.

The manufacture of this kind of rope
is now carried on to large extent 1t
is used for hoisting purposes in ware
houses, names, etc, as also on shipboard
for tiller and other ropes. 1t is made
from the hides of cows, buffaloes, etc.
The hide, being lined and freed from
hair, is placed upon a round table,
when the workman, with a knife made
for the purpose, rounds off the extreme
portions, such as the shanks, cheeks,
and the like, until the hide is rendered
comparatively round; he then COM
mences to cut strip of the required
width, which he continues in one length
until the whole hide is cut up. A num-
Der of the strips thus made are taken
and stranded or plated together, &C.
cording to the thickness of the required
rope. The rope, being thus far COM
pleted, is then submitted to the action
of solution composed of ingredients
which have the effect of preserving the
hide from decay, as also rendering it
soft and pliable. Sailors approve of it
for tlIler ropes in preference to chain,
because, as they aver, it does not make
the rafting noise which is produced by
the motion of chain, and furthermore,
in cases of emergency, II it should hap
pen to break, the rupture is not SO sud-
zen as that which charaeterizes the
breaking of chain, and therefore time
is afforded to meet and provide, to
certain extent, for the threatened calam-
ity, while it is not affected by humidity
or extreme dryness, as is the case with
Manila or hempen ropes; and its tenaci-
ty being tenfold greater, it is less cum
bersome, and consequently lighter.
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CALIFoRNIA's BIGGEST NUGGET. How
much we owe TO California Her pre-
cious metals have enriched thousands of
our fellow citizens. and proved the main
stay of America iii times Of national pc
cuniary embarrassment Her mining in
dustries havesgiven employment to my
RAIDS of mechanics and laborers. She
is the land of promise to the fortune
seeker. But the Golden State has late
ly sent us new treasure. Her last
nugget is DIR. Walkers CALIFORNIA
VINEGAR BETERs. The health-giving
principle contained in this curative are
a more precious boon than gold. In all
affections of the liver and stomach, re-
mittent and intermittent fevers, rheu-
matism, and pulmonary diseases, it may
be relied upon. As blood depnrent
and invigorant it is uhequalled, purify
ing the circulation and infusing new
vigor into the debilitated frame. It
conquers that most unyielding of all
complaints, dyspepsia; and we know of
no other remedy that can accomplish
this Its entire freedom from alcoholic
spirit, which retards and neutralizes the
effect of any medicine, and which forms
the basis of many of the pseudo bitters
and tonics, doubly enhances its value to
the sick. The papers of the United
States vie with one another in doing
honor to DIR. Walker. We, too, add our
voice, and say all honor to the man
whose science and skill have enabled
him to draw from the vegetable kingdom
such balsam for human suffering
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CoNsUMPTIoN.-For the cure of this distress
ing disease there has been no medicine yet dis
covered that can show more evidence of rea
merit than ALLEYS LUNG BALsAM. This I'M
equaied expectorant for curing Consumption,
and all diseases leading to it, such as affections
of the Throat, Lungs, and all diseases of the
Pulmonary Organs, is introduced to the suffer
ing public after its merits for the cure of such
diseases have been thoroughly tested by the
medical faculty. The Balsam is, consequently,
recommended by physicians who have become
acquainted with its great success.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-03

People generally "come of age"
but once, but Gen. Grant has attained
his for Majority thesecond time.
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STRIKING evidence Of the high esteem in
which the Charter Oak Stove are held is the i'm
mense number of them th4t IRE annually sold
gDI3O in 1871