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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09
An Ancestor.

Sir John Lubbock writes to a recent
number of Nature that Mr.. Frank Cal
vert has recently discovered near the
Dardenelles indisputable traces of the
existence of man during the Miocene
age. Among the other relics found in
the stratum (Which is unquestionably
of the Miocene period was fragment
of bone, probably belonging either to
the Dinotherium or a Mastodon, on the
convex side of which is engraved a re-
presentation of a horned quadruped,
"with arched neck, lozenge-shaped
chest, long body, straight fore.legs, and
broad feet" There are also, he says,
traces of seven or eight other figures,
which, however, are nearly obliterated.
In the same stratum he has also found
a flint fake, and several bones broken
as if for the extraction of marrow. This
discovery would not only prove the ex-
istence of man in Miocene times, but
of man who had already made some
progress, at least. in art.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09
The Genins of Goodness.

Every man feels instinctively that all
the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh less than a single lovely action;
and that. while tenderness Of feeling
and susceptibility 10 generous emotions
are accidents of temperament, goodness
is an achievement Of the will and a
quality Of the life. Fine words, says
our homely old proverb, butter no pars
nips and if the question be how TO
render these vegetables palatable, an
ounce of butter would be worth more
than all the orations of Cicero. The
only conclusive evidence of mans sin
cerity is that he give himself for prin-
ciple. Words, money, all things else,
are comparatively easy TO give away
but when man makes gift Of his
daily life and practice, il is plain that
the truth, whatever IL may be, has taken
possession Of him. From that sincerity
his words gain the force and pertinency
of deeds, AZ his money il no longer
the pale drudge twiX. man ard man,
but by beautiful magic, what erewhile
bore the image and superscription OF
Caesar seems now TO bear the image and
superscription of God. II is thus that
there Is a genius for goodness, for mag
nanimity, for self-sacrifice, as well as
for creative art and it is thus that py
a more refined sort of Platonism, the
Infinite Beauty dwells IN and shapes 70
its own likeness the soul that gives IL
BODY and individuality. james husSe'
LO1OeU.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09

sorts of turnips. And gourds runnin
all over the driftwood and up into the
trees; you'd ought to have seen them
gourds! The niggers from all the plan
tations tharabouts was in clover. They
cum from all quarters and gathered
gourds until they couldn't rest. /
s'pose you remember the old saying, A
fool for luck, poor man for children,
a Frenchman for dogs, and nigger for
gourds. Well, judge, the seeds they
gathered from that ere truck patch of
mine, that fall, was scattered all over
Northern Alabama, and although my
mode of distributin' them thar Con
gressional documents may not have been
exactly according to Gunter, yet con-
slider it did the country at large q
powerful sight more good"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09

"A fond father in Burlington growl-
ed like dog with sore head because
a physician charged him $40 for remov-
ing a kernel of corn from his sons ear,
where it had lodged. He said coffin
only cost 81, and the corn would have
sprouted soon, and might have been
pulled up by the roots.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09

hOLudu hOuuOn
Eighteen feet below the level of
Cheapside lies hidden Roman London,
and deeper even than that is buried the
earlier London of those savage chariot
eers, who, long ages ago, bravely con
fronted the legions of Rome. In near
ly all parts of the city there have been
discovered tesselated pavements, RO-
man tombs, lamps, vases, sandals, keys,
ornaments, weapons, coins and statues
of the ancient Roman gods. So the
present has grown up upon the ashes of
the past. Trees that are to live long
grow slowly. Slow and stately as an
oak London grew and grew, till now
nearly 100000 souls represent its
leaves. Our London is very old. Cen
turies before Christ there probably
came the first few half-naked fishermen
and hunters, who reared, with flint
axes and such rude tools, some miser-
able huts on the rising ground that,
forming the north bank of the Thames,
slopes to the river some sixty miles
from where it joins the sea. According
to some, the river spread out like vast
lake between the Surrey and the Essex
hills in those times when the half-sav-
age first settlers found the low slopes of
the future London places of health and
defense. amid vast and dismal region
of fen. swamp and forest. The heroism
and the crueIties, the hopes and fears
of those poor barbarians, darkness nev
er to be removed has hidden from us
forever. In later days, monkish histo
rians, whom Milton afterward followed,
ignored these poor early relations of
ours, and invented, as a more fitting an
cestor of Englishmen, Brute, fugitive
nephew of Eneas of Troy. But, stroll
on where we will, the pertinacious saw
age, with his limbs stained blue and
his flint ak red with blood, is a ghost
not easily to be exercised from the
banks of the Thames, and in some
Welsh veins his blood no doubt flows at
this very day. The founder of London
had no historian to record his hopes-a
place where big salmon were to be
found, and plenty of wild boars were to
be met with, was probably his highest
ambition. How he bartered with Phoe-
nicians or Gauls for amber or iron no
Druid has recorded. How he slew the
| foraeing Belge, or was slain by them
and dispossessed, no bard has sung.
| Whether he was generous and 5heroic as
the New Zealander, or ape-like and
| thievish as the Bushman, no ethnolo-
gist has yet proved. The very ashes of
the founder of London have long since
turned to earth, air and water.
-"S Sir" said an astonished lady to q
traveller who had just sent his cup for
ward for the seventh time, "you must
be very fond of coffee. - ''Yes, madam,
am, y he replied, ''or 1 should never
have drank so much water to get SO
! title
The statutes have been approved
of a company formed for the constru
tion of railway plant at Taganro
| The Russian Government is doing all
in its power to stimulate Russian me-
ehanioal industry.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09
The Drollery of Drunkenness.


The teetotallers are, it is said, about
to start a comic paper, in which the
chief subject of ridicule Will be drunk
enness. Apart from all moral consider
ations, it will be interesting, as ques-
ton of art, to see how the writer's and
artists will set about their task. There
is a stage of drunkenness which is un-
doubtedly comic and all sorts of droll
stories are told about drunken or semi
drunken men. The French-who,
when they are not being besieged, bonn
barded, or otherwise maltreated by
victorious enemies, are a sober people
enough-allow that it is excusable for a
young man to get drunk once in his life
on drinking champagne for the first
time. Afterward the act Gf act it be-
of getting intoxicated is looked upon as
an offence against society; and, though
such offences are, no doubt, committed,
they are not considered laughable, but
blamable, or at best pitiable. Accord
ingly, the French comic papers deal
very rarely with drunkenness as a sub
iect of mirth and there are plenty of
French farces in which not one of the
characters is seen in a tipsy condition
from beginning to end. Perhaps cross
ing the Channel upsets them for in
English farces, which are known to be
for the most part taken from the
French, a certain number of the char
acters are tolerably sure to get drunk (;
while in our numerous comic and sol
disart comic papers the gentleman re-
turning from a dinner-party is n figure
constantly turning up. If the preced-
ing observations be accepted as true, 1t
follows, we think, that the most sober
countries are not those in which drunk
enness is most frequently viewed in its
grotesque aspect. But il must be re-
membered that in the farces and the
" capital stories in which drunkards
(or rather, let us say, persons tempor
arily and accidentally drunk are the
prominent personages, the laughter
evoked is not entirely that of derisiOn,
but is, to some extent, of q sympathetic
character. Take, for instance, the cele-
brated and familiar case of Mr.. Pick
wick in the pound, declaring his name,
his "cold punch" and so on. The
reader laughs, but not with bitter
laugh and if he will analyze his feel
ings, he will possibly find that he is not
altogether ungrateful to Mr.. Pickwick
for having given him an occasion for
laughter. The teetotal humorist may
say that the butt for his jokes will not
be the exceptionally intoxicated man,
but the habitual drunkard. He, how
ever, is not a comic, but tragic charac-
ter, causing "pity" to men and ter
ror to women. On the whole, We are
of opinion that the teetotallers had bet
ter reserve whatever fun is in them for
other subjects than drunkenness.
Otherwise they will either make no one
laugh, and their "comic paper" will
fail, or they will do their own cause the
bad turn of rendering drunkenness
musing-which, properly considered,
it is ot.-PaU Mall Gazette.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09

Atmospheric gas machines, invent
ed in Germany and improved IN Eng
land, are coming into use at bradford,
England, where they are valued a. q
ccnyeuient and economical small mo
tive power,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09
The Abolition of GLOVES,

1t seems curious for Frenchman to
propose the abolition of gloves. And
yet LIE Sport, which is supposed to be
the barometer of the ever-vafying ca
prices of fashion in France, gravely de-
clares that kids must be done away with
even on state occasions. The eighteenth
century despised them, therefore there
is precedent for the present. Since
1889 gloves became more and more the
fashion, and the reason is sufficiently
obvious. But the greater their CON
venience in a mixed society, such as thai
of France at the present day, the more
superfuous they are where there is little
disparity of rank. When you know
your man there is no objection to shake
handswith him, even without a glove
on, but it would be the hight of incon-
venience to have to wash your hands
after every shake from person with
whom you were not on intimate terms,
as was the habit of Nestor Roqueplan.
Besides, as a small hand, like q small
foot, is generally the sign of aristocrat-
ic descent, why should it be concealed
within a vulgar integument, where the
fingers of the Faubourg are on equal
terms with the horny ones of Belleville
gloves was to be the sign of high breed
iDg,' surely some unpleasant mistakes
would be likely to occur, for it is much
easier to dispense with than to buy
them. Gloves have always played an
part in human affairs. They,
and stockings, were the favorite medi-
ums by which poison was conveyed by
the Borgias, the Medicis, and the Brin-
villiers. It was said with what truth
we do not pretend to know that it was
only through the hands and feet that |
poison could be instilled. They have |
also played their part in politics At |
the time of the death of Charles X,
certain deputies who were ready to |
trim at moments notice used to APP |
pear at the opera in Paris with a yellow |
glove on one hand and a black one on |
tlfe other. Theblack glove represented |
the legitimate party, the yellow that of |
Louis Philippe. And from the days of |
Romeo to the last ball that took place |
in Belgravia, the glove has been a fav- |
Drite token with lovers. Many an aspi- |
rant has rushed happy out of the cloak |
room, where ne has been pitilessly |
by an awful dowager, because |
be has secured one of those gloves |
which he has been squeezing all the |
evening on the fair hand of his beloved, |
till the unmendable rent has borne tes-
5imony to the vigor of his affection. In
short, putting sentimentalism aside, it
would be difficult to do without gloves
even on the score of cleanliness, but |
perish all the gloves in the world rather
han the mittens of our grandmothers |
should again come into vogue.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09

The statutes have been approved
of a company formed for the constru
tion of a railway plant at Taganro
The Russian Government is doing all
in its power to stimulate Russian me-
ehanioal industry.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-09
LAW YERS.

A NhAhl4ES CLEAR,
u ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Columbia, Tennessee.
Special attention given to the collection of claims.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24
To Make a Tram 81 Cars.


tssyours turn, boys. and saw something
not long ago that's just theataing for you b,
make as a Christmas present for. yoars little
brother 1t was n train of cars made by n
boy, and any one who can .use a saw. a ham.
mer, and jack>knife, can max me. hke.it.
For the cars you want piece of pine plank
about two and half inches sgnafe, sawed
INTO blocks i've inches long as many as you
like. With Your knife round of the corners
OF the side which is ITO retfssenr the roof
For, wheels, get large sized button molds. M
large as two cent piece Fasten them to
the lower edge of the car, by putting A. sinsle
nail through the hole in the mold and driy-
ing it into the car. 1t will hold them fast.
yet allow them'to turn nicely = sa>..''esrs
For coupliugs buy at hardware store small
staples aud hooks-the smallest you can get
Into one end of each car, nsar the bottom.
drive staple, and into the other end of each.
car drive hook IT yod can't buy hooks
small enough, you eau cutoff part of d ssapie
with wire nippers-and Nserthat for hook.
Turn the hook down, so il won't pueouple,too
easily. If you make some of the cars of inch
boards, the same length end width OF tho
Others they will be dirt ears," aud carry
loads. :, he,.s', =, .yus- =
+: Now for the engine. Tske n piece of inch
board, as vide as the cars, and, eight inches
long. for, the platform. With your knife
whittle one end off to a rounded point, some.
thing as you would shape the front of a boat
that is for the 'cow> catcher :. For boiler.
find a round stick-a piece, of broom, handle
will do, though it ought to he larger. Saw it
off five inches long, lay it on the platform.
even with the square end, so as toilet the sscSw-
catcher" stick ont in front. ',Furn III unside
down and nail it on FROM below. Pation
wheels the same as for the cars. For. smoke
stack, piece of broom handle four inches
long, nailed or glued urright IN the front end
of the boiler, with thin piece Of wood Cor
.leather). little larger round, Fastened to tho
top of the pipe, to give it ,he swetlodSout an.
pearance of the real locomotive, Put hook
at the back end, and staple in front. to fasten
string to. The whole is much intproeed bv
painting. Buy at any pafnttshopa faw cents
worth of rcd or green oil paint. md half, tho
quantity of black. Take off the wheels. and
paint all the cars and engine platform red or
green-two coats When dry, nut hack the
wheels, and paint them and the boiler and
smoke stack black '..sg'a3.et .s7iiis7
You will be highly pleased with yonr train.
and besides giving you something to do. il
will afford your littlo brother as much amusc.
ment as though it came from toy shop, and
cost several dollars.-Lats Corporal.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24
PERSONAL.
NOAH WALKER K co


NOAH WALKER co,
.The Celebrated Clothiers of Baltimore
Announce the introduction of a plan of ordering
CLOTHING AND UNDERWEAR BY
LETTER.
To which they call spccial attention They will
send on spp'lcat' ton their improved and accurate
Rules For SELF MEASUREMENT.
and full line of samples from immense stock
"t C!o'hs, Cnssltneres, Cuat!ngs, .Shirtinga SC,
mus enabling parties in any part OF the country to
order their Clothing and Shirts direc: from them
with the certainty of receiving garments of
Tile Ec'y Latest StyIe
ind Ifost Perfect Fit
atalnable. Goods ordered will be sent by Express
10 any part o! the country. As is well known
throughout the Southern States have for Forty
three Years excclcd in all departments of their
business which s substautal guarantee a a To he
character of the Goods they wi II send out larre
and well assorted stock of
READY-MADE CLOTHING
always on hand, together with full lineof
FURNISHING GOODS
including all the latest novelties in design. and
Ar POPCL4R PRICE
When Gnods sent per Express C. O. D there
VIII he no cole ctiOn charge amounts of $40 and
over. Rurcs Tor selt- mea surCmcnt,. SAMPLES Of
GO"ds ahd Fri"e List free anuIicat ton Tho at
t"EtH n OF the Fra';e s invited to our IyhoIesale
department., which is always kept up the highes.
standard,
NOAH WALKER 4 CO.
Manufactures and Dealers in Mems and Bows
Clothing and Furnishing Goods either
ready made or made to order.
lGo and lGI Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE, MD.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24
The Hog Law,

BE At enacted dy the Legislature Of Vest pIr-
ginid:
l. That it shall be unlawful for owners to
permit their hogs to run at large in the county
of Harrison, and should such hogs while run
ming at large, destroy or injure the personal
or real property of another, the owner shall
pay TO the party double the damages sustained
by him for such destruction or injury: and
the party SO injured. shall have lien upon
the hogs for the payment of the said damages,
and should they be found upon his premises,
he shall have the right to retain them until
the damages and costs of keeping are paid,
aud he shall immediately advertise the said
hogs for sale, to be sold at the end of ten DAYS
unless the damages and costs of keeping be
sooner paid; in which case the hogs shall be
delivered over to the owner. The time and
place of such sale to be posted at two public
places in the nig ghborhood, q copy of which
advertisement shall immediately be delivered
to. the owner of the hogs if he be found
within the county, and should the damages
and expenses of keeping be not paid at the
end of the ten. days fixed for the sale, it shall
be lawful for the party injured to sell the said
hogs to the highest bidder for ready money,
the proceeds, whereof after deductine the
amount of damages and costs of keeping shall
be paid over to the owner of said hogs. IF
he shall make application therefor within six
months, and if no such application be made
within six months that the said residue be paid
over to the proper authorities of the county
for the benefit of the shool fund. The pro-
visions of this act shall extend to all the coun,
ties of the state; Provided, that the court
may upon the petition of one hundred voters
of the county, direct to have the same en-
forced in their said county or any district or
districts thereof
2, That this ac. shall be in force from its
passage.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24
BALTIMORE AND oHIo RAILROAD,

SCHEDULE of fPassen ger Ira in a arrivipnapd de.
~ parting at liarpcrs Ferry Station:
TRAINS GOING EAST
Columbus Express via Wasbington. SIS A. NJ
Winchester Acn 49, e % 8. =.
Passengers by ths train for.Frederioi
junction and other poin is old track
change cars n; Point of Rocks.
Fact Line via washiu gton. ......... 10 1s
Mail rraIn via Old Track to all points. 205 p NJ
81. Louis Express via Washipgton.... 6l3,
TRAINS GOING WEST.
St. Louis Express from halt via WASH 12 os, A. NJ.
Cincinnati 's a. 10 40 :. .t
Mail Train old tr,ls II &, :. =.
Winchester Aeon" was'n, i45' p. Nj
Fast Line - 90 :. ' .a
Trains On Main Stem make close connections st
Harper's Ferry with trains running on w p
DlvIsion to stasbnTe and points farther South
AT Hs serstown II Junction with trains for Haeers-
town &c. - se'e
9 Throneh Tickets to all prominent points west,
Ticket ofiro open for all passenger trains, dsv
and night. Comfortable facilitiee for w.itin pas
Harper's Ferry. June IT, 1873.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24

For DESTROYING CArEsP1LLARs-A
formula recently introduced in England, con-
sists of mixture of coal dust, common salt.
aud flour of sulphur. to be scattered Just be-
fore a rain. over freshly ploved land. Toex-
terminate caterpillars on trees, they may be
sprinkled with solution of one part of sui
phide of potassium in 500 parts of water.-
This, it is said, will kill the insects, and do
no harm to the trees.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24
GEORGE II. RsGLEY.

Mauufacturer of Ladies' end Gents, Ruvs' and
Youths, Misses'~end -Chldren's :
BOOTS, CATERS AND SHOES.
ofali Styles and Grades,
IA AFING located in CharlestownAA
L l. would inform the public that he ESSA
IL prepared to execute any and all of SsssLssso
ina above line OF work. with neItness and dispatch
Good mater lai and durable work guaranteed
o. Shop in former Post Office building. nearly
opposite First Nat ional Bank.
N. B.-Our business at Duflield's will continue
the same We keep large assortment of Boots
Shoes and Caters Tobacco, Cigars, Notions. Sc
In our Custom Department will be ready to exc
cute Ill orders at the shortest notice and in the beat
styles ind work knansnip - ~
May i3, lS73-iy. G. Fl. Il j. r HAGIEye
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24
BALTIMORE CARDS.
.STIEFF'S PIANOS.
UPWARDS OF FIFTY FIRST. PREMIUMS
GOLD AND. SILVER MEDALS.

UPWARDS OF FIFTY FIRST pREm1Un,s
GOLD AMI. SILVER MEDALS.
Were awarded to CHAs, M. sTIEFF. for the hest
FiANH, In competition with II the leadirg
Aanuiacturers of the country.
OFFICE AND swAREROOMs
NO. y ~ Liberty Street, Baltimore, III.
= The snreTiority of the Unriva lied stief Piano
Forte, is conceded by all who il W itb
1.nsrs ~, their New Grand Square scsle,75 oc
the most perfect Piano Forte possible
with thorough workmanship
large assortntcn. of Second Hand Pianos sixys =,
on hand, from S75 to $500.
f." are agents for the celebrated Burdett Ca binet
and Church Organs, al styles and prices to
made. ' 4 " any
Send for Iustrat ted Catalo logre, containing ma ues
o! over ;5nO Southerners, 6oU of whom are Vir-
san g,nans: suo North CaEonians. $50 East Tennes-
bought the Stlcd Piano sin ce the close of Tho
April 8, 1873 ~ " ''
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24

SMALL PUrYs.-one pint Of, flour. a piece
OF butter the size of an egg, two teaspooifnIs
OF cream of tartar. ono teaspoonful5 of, soda,
and mix,with cold water to the, consistency Of
stiff batter. This is sufficient for four cups:
Steam twenty minutes. To be eaten with
sweetened cream
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-06-24

--"Do you think l am fool2"ta violent
man once asked Of the Rev. DIR. Bethune.
''Really," replied the doctor, ...I. would NO.
venture the assertion, but now thst Won ask
my opinion, mnst say that am not pre-
pared to deny it."