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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21
What a Liberated Russian Report
About His CAPTIVITY.

A Russian subject, who has just been
restored TO liberty from imprisonment
by the Khivans, has reported 10 the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the Caucasus that
the Khan is not by any means prepared
to repel an atcack made by the regular
troops. The Russians name is Serge
Dedourinc; he is thirty years of age,
and has a wife and children at a village
called Nicolaeffsskoe, on the seashore,
two hundred versts from Astrakhan.
In the spring of 1870 he went fishing
with two companions 10 the Gulf of
Sary-tach. They were attacked by the
Kisghisi, who robbed them of their nets,
and bound and carried them inland IN
the neighborhood of the lake. The mp
proach of n Russian frigate in the gulf
forced the brigands 20 decamp with
their prisoners northward into the
steppes toward the Emba, where they
remained nearly six months. Dedour-
inc and his captors fed entirely on milk
during the whole of this period, and he
himself was obliged TO attend herds.
Carried thence to Khiva he was sold 60
the Divan-Beghi (prime minister) for
$50, and then presented 10 the Khan,
who made him his gardener. One ol
Dedourine's companions shared tho
same fate; the other, who was seriously
i'll when they quilted the environs of
the Sary-tach, probably died, unable 10
support the fatigue of the journey.
There were in all at Khiya twenty Rus
sian prisoners, nearly all employed in
the Khan's gardens, a similar number
being distributed among the divers
Kirphisi and Turcoman tribes depend
ent on the Khan. The garden in which
Dedourine worked was the khan's IA
vorite promenade. Thither he went
nearly every day, from time to tiDc
questioning the Russians about their
country. He is n man of about twenty
four, much given TO hawking, and APP
pears to be loved by his people. But
his Divan-Beghi is very repulsive and
harsh in his manners. There is no per
manent army; the Persian prisoners
and the Karakalpaks mount guard and
do duty in the Khan's residence. They
are badly armed with muZzle-loadcrs,
and Dedourine saw no field artillery
whatever. Since the summer Of 1871
there has been n question of liberating
the Russian prisoners. AT that epoch
the favorite uncle of the Khan fell
previously i'll, and the latter made
VOW 10 beJ lItc All MS piAholi'io nii'Ni''
he recover. He recovered. All the
Russians were assembled, and IL waa
decided TO give them each ten tillin
(about fifteen dollars for the journey
The Divan- Beghi, however, observed
that it would be useless 10 liberate them
without escort, as the Kirghisi would
again capture them and carry them of
to other markets. Dedourine has heard
the Khan say to the Kirghisi who Of
fered TO escort the prisoners 30 the Rms.
sian territory, "Why did you seize and
sell them to meY What security have
/ that YOU will not sell them again "
Dedourine adds that the Khan was 50
enraped on hearing Of the Russian ad
vance into his territories that he struck
dead at a blow Persian lad in his
service.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21
UNCLE 10.
BY ALICE cAEf.


have in memory a little story,
That few indeed would rhyme about but me;
lis not Of love, nor fame, nor yet of glory,
Although little colored with the three
In very truth, think much, perchance,
AS most tales disembodied from romance
10 lived about the village, and was neiehbor
To every one who had hard work to do:
II he possessed genius, twas for labor,
Most people thought, but there were one or two
Who sometimes said, when he arose to 90:
+" Come IN again and see us, Uncle 10"
The "Uncle" was courtesy they gave
And felt they could afford to give to him
just as the master makes of some good slave
An Aunt Jemima, Uncle Jim.
And of this dubious kindness 10 was Glad
Poor fellow, it was all he ever hadi
mile or so away he had a brother
- a Elen, proud man that people didn't bire:
RDS i1.1l I Relther sister, wife, nor mother
ana oaked his cOrncake at his cabin fire
6IIer 1l the days work, hard for You or me-
oui nc was never tired-how could he be
Ihey called him duh, but he had eyes Of quicknes
g, TOT OF everybody that he could befriend;
SAId one and all, " How kind he is in Sickness"
DIs tnere, OF course, his goodness had an end.
Her alother praise there was might have been given,
TOT one or more days ont Of every seven
with his old pickaxe, swung across his shoulder,
ANA downcast eyes, and slow and sober tread
he sought the place Of graves, and each behoider
Wondered and asked some other who was dead
But when he digged all day, nobody thought
Ihat he had done whit more than he ought.
At length, one winter when the sunbeam slanted
Family and cold across the church-yard snow,
The bell tOlled Out-alas a grave was wanted,
And all looked anXiously for Uncle 10;
His spade stood there against his own roof-tree,
There was his pickaXe, too, but where was he?
They called and called again but no replying;
Smooth at the window and about the door.
The snow in cold and heavy drifts was lying
He didn't need the daylight any more.
One shook him roughly, and another said:
" As true as preaching, Uncle 10 Is dead -
Artl-yVhen they wrapped HIM in linen, fairer
And finer, too than he hac worn till then
They found pictuTe-haply Of the sharer
Of sunny hope sometimes; or where or when
They did not care To know, but closed his eyes
And placed it in the coffin where he lies
None wrote his epitaph, nor saw the beauty
OF the pure love that reached into the grave
Nor how in unubtrusive ways Of duty
ne kept, despite the dark but men less brave
Have LETT great names, while not q willow bends
Above his dust-pOor 10, he had no friends,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21
SIMPLICITY.

sought thee oft, but found thee not,
Thou blessing of an humble lot;
Sweet wayside blossom, blooming free,
Thou rarely yfound-Simplicity.
I sought thee mid the young and fair,
Alas could not find thee there
For Fashion, with her hand of pride,
Hast spurned thy gentle form aside.
When Sabbath bells, with silv'ry chime,
Proclaimed the blessed service-time,
In pulpit high and spacious aisle
1 found thee absent all the while;
From poverty, by earnest toll,
A rich man smiled amid his spoil;
Yet what to the orphans cry
Or pleading widows fearful eye?
stood beside this rich mans bier,
I saw affections flowing tear,
And in that city on the hill,
Where every heart lies cold and still,
They laid him down, his work was done
Twas finished ere twas half begun.
The nodding plumes, the gaudy train,
Acknowledged cen not here they reign.
1 saw a form where age had cast
Infirmity, aud bound it fast,
And here, l thought with foolish pride,
All falsity will be denied.
Dut age was scOrneu, ana JaWufy tHluBs
Filled up the minds imaginings;
Death was a dream aud a life song;
And stubborn pride grew rude and strong
One summer hour, at close of day,
I saw little child at play,
And in its merry, cheerful smile
/ marked thee living all the while.
o, We whose search upon this earth
Is in pursuit of simple worth,
Go find it in its native grace
Upon an infants smiling face.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21
A Turkish Bride,

The marriage of young Princess is
always subject of interest, according
to the London Echo, but the approach
ing nuptials of the Oldest daughter of
his highness, Mustapha Pasha, with
Khail Pasha, has, in addition to the
feelings that such events inspire, the
halo and romance which life in harem
throws over the fair inmates. -Four
splendid carriages have been sent from
Paris to complete the number of the
brides equipages. Thirty gorgeous
robes are being made by fashionable
modistes. The wedding veil of Brus-
sells lace has cost four thousand dollars.
Besides the jewels presented by the
bridegroom, the bride will wear on the
marriage day a necklace and tiara of
diamonds, presented by her father.
These royal gifts have been purchased
for one hundred thousand dollars. So
that the young lady will be right royal
ly appareled; and it is satisfaction to
think that these valuables are her own !;
she cannot be deprived of them by her
husband or by any other person, the
Turkish law being careful to secure
wife's property. Two of her private
apartments have been furnished by a
Partisan upholsterer at a cost of four
teen thousand dollars, including clocks,
vases, lamps and other works of art and
ornament.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21
Dreams.

The great objection, however, to the
| theory that certain dreams have been
! intended to foreshadow real events, is
the circumstance that the instances of
| fulflment are related, while the in
stances of non-fulfIment are forgotten
It is known that instances of the latter
sort are very numerous, but what pro-
portion they bear to instances of the
! former sort is unknown; and, while
| this is the case, it is impossible to form
any sound opinion on the subject, so
far as actual evidence is concerned. It
must be remembered that, in this case,
we are not dealing with theory which
will be disposed of if one undoubted
negative instance be adduced. 1t is
very difficult to draw the line between
dreams of an impressive nature-such
dreams as we might conceive to be sent
by way of warning-and dreams not
specially calculated to attract the dream
er's attention. A dream which appear
ed impressive when it occurred, but was
not fulfilled by the event, would be
readily regarded, even by the dreamer
himself, as not intended to convey any
warning as to the future. The only
way to form a just opinion would be to
record each dream of an impressive
nature, Immediately after its occur
renee, and to compare the number of
cases III which such dreams are fulfilled
with the number in which there is no
fulfllment. Let us suppose that GER
tain class of dreams were selected for
this purpose. Thus, let society be
formed, every member of which under
takes that whenever on the night pre-
ceding journey he dreams of misfor-
tune on the route, he viii record his
dream, with his ideas as to its impress
siveness, before starting on his journey.
A great number of such cases would
soon be collected, and we may be sure
that there would be several striking
fulfllments, and probably two or three
highly-remarkable cases of the sort
but, for our own part, we strongly en-
tertain the opinion that the percentage
of fulfillments would correspond very
closely with the percentage due to the
common risks of travelling, with or with
out premOnitory dreams. This could
readily be tested, if the members of the
society agreed to note every occasion
on which they travelled; it would be
found, we suspect, that the dreamers
gained very little by their warnings.
Suppose, for instance, that ten thousand
journeys of all sorts were undertaken
by the members of the society in the
course of ten years, and that a hundred
of these journeys Zone per cent, that
is) were unfortunate; then, if one-tenth
of the journeys "a thousand in alD
were preceded by warning dreams, we
conceive that about ten of these warm
ings, Cor one per cent would be fulfill
ed. If more were fulfilled, there would
appear, so far as the evidence went, to
be balance of meaning in the warn
ings if fewer, it would appear that
warning dreams were, to some slight
degree, to be interpreted by the rule of
contraries but, if about the proper
average number of ill-omened voyages
turned out unfortunately, it would fol-
low that warning dreams have no signif-
cance or value whatever and this is
precisely the result we should expect
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21
THE RHINE MAIDEN

Twas in the sunny Rhinelaud,
AS the golden day was ending,
The ripe grapes in the vineland
We're in purple cluster bending
The ruined tower on the hight
Was glowing in the crimson light
The western sun was lending.
1 saw her then-I see her yet
1t was the first tims that we met
In the sandy Rhineland.
l saw her standing all alone,
The chapel bells we've ringing,
And mingling with the organs tone
/ heard her gently singing.
The river ran beside her feet,
And oh her voice so clear and sweet
Seemed like the lark's upspringing
/ saw her thus at close Of day,
gazed and gazed my heart away,
In the sunny Rhineland!
Upon her image in the stream,
All broken midst the rushes,
She gaZes in happy dream,
And smiles, and sighs, and bushes
She takes the arrow from her hair,
And adown her shoulders fair
The golden shower gushes,
/ watched her as 1 stood apart
That silver arrow pierced my heart,
III the sunny Rhineland
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

THE SYMPATHETIC QUALITY. In the
scale of power it is not talent but sensi-
bilitv which is best; talent confines, bat
the central life puts ms in relation 10 nll.
How often il seems the chief good 10 be
born with cheerful temper, and well
adjusted TO the human race. Such a
man feels himself in harmony, and con-
scious by his receptivity of an infinite
strength. Like Alfred, good fortune
accompanies him like a gift Of God. ~
Feel Yourself, and be not daunted by
things. 'Tis the fulness of man that
runs over into objects and makes his
Bibles, and Shakspeares, and Homers ~
great. The joyful reader borrows Of
his own ideas to fill their faulty out
line, and knows not that he borrows nnd
Qives.-R. W. Emerson.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

"A physician connected with Guys
Hospital, in London, has discovered a
new method of treatment for cases of
hysteria, which is gravely published by
Guy's Hospital Gazette. He states
that he has found by experience that
when young woman goes into Mysteries
and commences yelling and refuses to be
comforted, all that has to be done is to
seize her by the throat and choke her,
and the fit Immediately passes off,
Erchange. It would be interesting to
see a physician try that remedy in an
cold and aristocratic family.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

Exalted personality is not egotism !;
for such men, possessed by their idea,
gladly give their life to seal their work !;
It is the Identification of the men with
the object which it has been embraced,
carried to It's last extent. It is pride to
those who see in it only the personal
fantasy of the sounder it is the finger
of God to those who see the result
RenGn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

Miss Lillian Edgarton, the queen of
the lecture desk, who has SO frequently
packed the Maryland Institute Hall,
thus opens her famous lecture on '' The
Philosophy of Dress :" "Oh, Mother
Eve had you anticipated what habili-
ments your sex would wear, you would
have marveled with wonder unspeak-
able. But she had her advantages.
She WIS the founder, not the follower,
of fashion. She could never be told
how her mother-in-law could cook. She
never gave a cold inner On washing
days. Adams jud ment was not in
fiuenced concerning his wife by dis
paraging recollections. Blessed state
of existence Give us happy medium
between the fig. leaf period and the
Dolly Warden party-a halfway house
between the common sense of very an
cient times and the unreasonable and
exacting laws of civilization"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

Susan b. Anthony, the beautiful
captive, will have an ovation at Wash
ington on the 10th and 18th February
the occasion of the annual convention
of the National Woman's Suffrage As
sociation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Myra Bradwell, and the balance OF the
sistorhood will be present TO welcome
the prisoner as she comes from the dun
geon of Rochester.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

Florence Nightingale urges women
to put themselves in training, precisely
as men do, for special lines of business.
This is exactly what all wemen would
be glad to do, if they were permitted,
and what many of them, we are inclined
to believe, are doing, in this country, at
this time,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21
Lucky Numbers.

There is a widespread tendency to
believe in lucky numbers. The mysti.
cal properties of numbers, and the doc
trine of chances, have both something
to do with this matter. Card-players
have a number of crotchets of this kind:
'Luck under the Deuce" bad luck under
the nine of diamonds, an even number
for the trump card. One theory says
that even numbers are unlucky, because
each can be divided into two, thereby
denoting death and dissolution. One
nation made the year consist of 359
days, in order that it should not divide
into II equal months. Some of the
early Christians pronounced for odd
numbers because God is l III 3, and
because he made holy the 7th day. The
number 7 and its multiples were on
other grounds made lucky; because a
human being sheds his teeth at 7, be-
comes a youth at twice 7, a man at
thrice 7, and reaches his grand eli
macteric at nine times 7. In some
parts of England the housewives put
their hens on an odd number OF eggs,
because with an even number they fear
there would be no chicks. The current
year of our Lord is always a lucky num-
ber In the estimation of some persons.
Addison said in the Spectator, g l have
been told of certain jealous dissenter,
who, being great enemy to pOpery,
and believing that bad men are the most
fortunate in the world, will lay two to
one on the number 666 against any
other number, because, says he, it is
the number of the beast" This mysti-
cal number has played great part in
luck speculations. Some Apocalyptic
interpreters will have it that 666 is the
pope himself, while, on the other hand,
a Roman Catholic journalist has re-
Gently striven to show that if Bismarck
were spelled Bismarck, it would be
exactly equivalent to 666. Number B
is greatly in favor for luck; school-boys
insist that the third time will be fair, or
will result in success. There is an old
superstition or maxim, call it which we
may, that three handfulls of sand on a
dead body are as good as a funeral.
The Romans had notions about the
breath of a camp fosse measuring an
odd number of feet; the holding of
markets at intervals of an odd number
of days; the taking of the census at in
tervals of an odd number of years the
dining at triclinium or three-sided
IaDle, Ine SfaceS DelllS GuEee, Gue Itules
three; and the muses. seven. Greek
cities had an odd number of gates. The
French peasantry have knack of max
ing out lucky and unlucky years for
great personages, by adding together
the year of our Lord, the digits which
compose that number, the age of the
individual, and the number of years be-
tween his birth, marriage, or some other
notable event in his life, an elastic sort
of process which can be made to prove
almost anything we wish.-Chan16er8'
Journal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

We hear OF a consultation of emf
nent physicians having been called to
decide what is best to be done for q
young lady, fashionable, of course, who
has rendered her complexion almost
black by the use of poisonous cosmetics.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-21

The critics say the morals of mod
ern playthings is not good. The dolls
have not only gorgeous and wickedly-
extravagant toilets, but also fair hair,
flesh powder, rouge, and such things.
The make-believe practice into which
these things will lead the miniature
bellies should inspire a general deter
mination to Danish such pernicious toys.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-17
Dots from the Plains.

EDITORS CHRONICLE: We shipped sew
eral car loads of hogs South this season.
where they were sold at from S4.S5 to $500
per 100 pounds, which were much better
prices than some of our dealers expected to
realize.
Corn is moving off rapidly. Our mer-
chants are now taking all offering at fifty
cents per bushel.
The money for our hogs and corn will
soon knock the bottom out of the panic in
East Tennessee y decided change for the
better in money matters is already appa-
rent and acknowledged by all except few
sOre-headed grumblers with whom every
neighborhood is cursed. If greenbacl
dollars were as plentiful as the leaves in
the forest, and all the good things of earth
were piled at their very doors, l verify be-
lieve that these self-same fault-tinding
sneaks would continue the growl of Fl" hard
times and scarcity of money" and finally
die without paying their just debts. Let
our noble people learn to watch and avoid
these bipeds, and by manly efforts the
dark clouds will soon disappear from our
financial sky.
We long to see Davy Richards with a
large force, delving in the ridges of Tuck
ahoe and drawing forth those rich deposits
of iron ore, which have been slumberng
there for ages, doing no one any good.
Come, Mr.. Richards, they are yours-give
them your magic touch.
We have two steam saw mills running
up here. One is owned and run by Ed r.
Clark, and is situated in flat woods near
Trent 81 Vance's tobacco factory, and the
other by Frank Bunch, on Tuckahoe.
These mills cut from twelve to eighteen
thousand feet per day and the most of the
lumber is shipped on cars from point to
your city.
Mr.. Huffaker returned from Florida yes-
terday, and brought five barrels of fresh
oranges, picked from the trees last Tues
day morning, A barrel of the delicious
fruit was opened at the depot and all en-
jOyed them to their hearts content. The
day was very warm and TO see so many or
a0ges, and Feelings lying at every corner
made one almost think he were in the land
of flowers.
Yesterday was so warm that one of our
| merchants donned his summer clothing
cravat and all. Another gent, not Wishing
| to "mourn for FROST" danced all night with
his oyercoat on, and of course perspired
freely. ' ..
Tell some of your city shoemakers to
take in our bright genius that Eye localn
has been discoursing about and let him
make one pair of shoes for the centennial
of Philadelphia, and then send him home
TO his NANNY" Yours as ever.
Strawberry Plains, Dec, II. GNoRTs.