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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
minn Worth $40 600 a nron-

The city of Bremen possesses twelve
hogsheads of what, according 10 certain
calculations undertaken by the Meme
Freie Presse. must be the most exten-
sive beverage in the world. The town
purchased in 1924 twelve hogsheads Of
Rudesheimer at 300 gold thalers each.
These were placed in the municipal cell
lars, where they still remain. AT the
end Of next year these hogshead will
be $50 years old, and will, reckoning
the interest on the original price at five
per cent, have cost 100, 6S0,00O Prus-
sian thalers. The waste Of wine from
evaporation is always estimated at hve
per cent. per annum; there remain,
consequently, only 465 bottles of the
original supply. This annual loss has
been made up by means of old wine
found in the cellar. Calculating the
price of n bottle Of this wine at one
tbaler only, the 21G, 900 bottles which
will have been thus added bv the end
of 1874 will be worth 3,427, 800, 600
thalers. granting the same rate of in
terest, five per cent. At the end Of
next year the twelve hogsheads thus re-
plenished will cost 4 ,2lS, 800. 600 thalers,
irving an average of pa, 232 thalers per
bottle. The hOgsheads are not, how
ever, all of the same value. They are
filed up on a system by which the wine
added must, in the course of time, pass
through all the ellen hogsheads before
reaching the last, which contains the
oldest and most precious liquid, each
drop Of which, reckoning q bottle at
1000 crops, is now worth $1,000 thalers.
1t is stated that the Russian gov
ernment proposes TO effect the junction
of the Black sea with the Caspian.
which is the lower by about eighty
three feet, or that much below the level
of the sea, 10y digging n canal only
about four miles long, connecting the
Manuteh, one Of the eastern tributaries
of the Don, with the Kerma. The
total length of the route will be four
hundred and sixty miles. The princi-
pal engineering labor will be in pierc-
ing the mountain which separates these
rivers, requiring thirty-two thousand
workmen for six years. An other pro-
iect is that of a new canal for connect
ING the Rhine and the Weser. 1t Is to
be eight and one-half feet deep, forty
four feet wide, and over one hundred
miles long.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
LINES ON 4 SKELETON.

The following lines which ring of the trues
1oesy were found about fifty years ago, on ta
Die in the meeting-room of the Royal college OF
urge cons in LOndon and was supposed to have
,een written by one of the members of that so.
iety. It first appeared in the London Morning
JhronicIe and in 8 short time thereafter a re.
7ard Of fifty guineas failed to bring out the au-
horship, nor is it yet known:
Behold this ruin! Twas a skull
Once of ETHEREAL Spirit full.
This narrow cell was life's retreat,
This space was Thoughts mysterious seat.
What beauteous visions filed this spot
What dreams of pleasure long forgot,
Nor hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this Wondering canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye;
But, start not at the dismal void,
If social love that eye employed;
If with no lawless fire it cleaned,
e But through the dews of kindness beanie d,
That eye shall be forever bright
When stars and suns sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift and tuneful tongue.
If FalsehOods honey it disdained,
And where it could not praise was chained.
If bold in Virtues cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke
This silent tongue shall plead for thee,
When time unveils eternity.
Say, did these fingers delve the mine?
Or with it's envied rubies shine?
To hew the rock or wear the gem
Can little avail to them.
But if the page of Truth they sought
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
These hands richer need shall claim
Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod,
These feet the paths of Duty trOd?
If from the bow ers of ease they fed
To seek Affections humble shed
If grauduer's guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to Virtues cot returned,
These feet with angels wings shall vie
And tread the palace of the sky.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
A Child's Sacrifice

my little children, let us not love
in word, neither in tongue; but in deed
and truth"
A child had beautiful canary, which
sung to him from early morning. The
mother of the child was i'll, so i'll that
the song of the little bird, which to the
boy was delicious, disturbed and dis
tressed her so that she could scarcely
bear to hear it.
He put it in a room far away but the
birds notes reached the sick bed, and
caused pain to her long, feverish days.
One morning as the child stood hold
ing his mothers hand, he saw that when
his pet sang, an expression of pain
passed over her dear face. She had
never told him that she could not bear
the noise, but she did so now.
"It is no music to me-" she said, as
he asked if the notes were not pretty.
He looked at her in wonder.
"And do you really dislike the
sound?"
"Indeed do" she said.
The child, full of love to his mother,
left the room. The golden feathers of
the pretty canary were glistening in the
sunshine, and he was telling forth his
loveliest notes but they had ceased to
please the boy. They were no longer
pretty or soothing to him and taking
the cage in his hand, he left the house.
When he returned, he told his mother
that the bird would disturb her rest no
more, for he had given it to his little
cousin.
"But you loved it So" she said :
chow could you part with the canary?'
81 love the canary, mother" he re-
piled "but loved you more. I could
not really love anything that gave you
pain. It would not be true love if I
did. THE QwiUer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

SELF-SACRIFICE.- the spirit of
sacrifice there are two distinct forms
the first, the wish to exercise seIf-de-
NAL for the sake of self-discipEne
merely, wish acted upon in the aban-
donment of things loved or desired,
there being no direct call or purpose to
be answered by so doing and the Sc
cond, the desire to honor or please some
one else by the costliness of the sacri-
fee. Now it cannot but at first appear
futile to assert the expediency of self
denial for its own sake, when, for so
many sakes, it is every day necessary to
a far greater degree than any of us
practice it. But believe it is just be-
cause we do not enough acknowledge or
contemplate it as good in itself, that
we are apt to fall in its duties when
they become imperative, and to calcu-
late. with some partiality, whether the
good proposed to others warrants, or
measures the amount of grievance to
ourselves, instead of accepting with
eladness the opportunity of sacrifice as
personal advance. .-Ruskfn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
Society and Solitude.

Not only of great but of al sound
minds, this is true, they require the
two elements, society and solitude. No
healthy life is ever lived in which either
Of these is ever wanting. And If we
turn 20 books, 70 Judge OF mind 10y its
most enduring products, we see the
same experience repeated, from age TO
age. There are books enough left ms
by those who, never having tried TO
live, have shut themselves within the
circle of their own meditations. Won
derful in its variety is the literature OF
mystihcation and sentiment What
wealth Of thought and feeling, drawn
from the pure depths Of human con-
sciousnessl Again, turn TO the memoir
writer's and court-gossips. What keen
observations of manners what infinite
webs of intrigue they unravel before
us what countless character they have
distinguished But what are the books
that instruct us; that speak 20 us as
men that raise us, but raise us not too
high for our duties and our destiny
Between the frivolous and the divine
lies the truly human. Wisdom that is
from above, yet that can give us no
light in this world Theory without
facts is not science, and moralizing
without experience is not wisdom. A
pallid and dreary iarPon is the meta
physics of the schools, by the side OF
the tangible and experimental maxim
which flowers out, naturally, from the
intellect that has lived. But. unless TO
this experience be added the maturing
influences of meditation and self-knowl-
eage. the result is equally one-sided.
We get, then, that unspiritual and de-
basing physiology Of human conduct,
that so-called philosophy Of courts,
which lures out Of the computation of
motive all that separates man from any
other species of mammal.-Quarter'y
ReUic7O.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

Weddings in Tangier are very fire.
quent, and make night hideous with
their noise. All except the very poor
est are accompanied with gun-fiTing and
music. When these luxuircs are be-
yond the means of the families, the wo-
men shrek ten times more 10 make M
for the deficiency. This is q cheap
noise, and noise appears 10 be the great
disideratum at these celebrations. No
religious ceremony takes place, as far
as I could ascertain, in connection with
marriages in Morocco, beyond the bride
groom saving certain number of
prayers, in one of the mosques, previ-
ously. The fattening of the bride is
the only preparation on her part for en-
trance into the holy state For this
purpose, from the time of her betroth-
al, she is confined TO one room, not per
mitted TO take any exercise, and COM
pelled 10 swallow large quantities OF
kesksoo every day. This system, pur-
sued steadfastly for a few weeks, brings
her into n condition Of what is cOnsid-
cred in Morocco becoming obesity. i
have heard Of an intended bride 80 fat
that she was unable 10 stonp 20 pick mp
her pocket-hnndkerchief when she drop
ped il, and who could with difficulty
move acrose the room without assist-
ance. Another curious custom observed
on these occasions is, that the bride is
not permitted to leave her bed for eight
days after her marriage nor, though
she is visited all this time by all her
married female relations and friends,
may she open her eyes or speak. On
the eighth day she gets out Of bed
for the first time; her sash is put on
with this exception she has always ap-
peared in full-drcss); she opens her
eyes, speaks, and walks round her
house. This occasion is made great
gala of, and the house is thrown open
to every one, of course Of the female
sex, who wishes 10 come in.-APPtcton's
TogJyu0I
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
CNOWDROPS.

There was fierce monster, who made
His home in vale, woodland and glade.
He laughed in his terrible might,
Aud chilled every heart with alright
As he scattered the powdery snow
Hoi no!
Three poor little maids lost their way,
AS homeward they wandered one daN.
How lovely they were and how sweetl
This monster said, " These will eat,
But I'll wait until darkness sets in
To begin"
The little maids heard him, and wept;
Then closer together they crept,
And each kissed the others pale cheek.
o who could harm darlings so meek?
Close under snow-bank they tried
To hide.
The sun went down, lurid and cold;
shroud of snow round them were rolled;
They heard the grim monster go by,
These three little maids to espy;
But, blinded with anger, no three
Found he!
Now the morning sun warmed them, and 10
They peeped from their shelter of snow !
These darlings were snowdrops; and he
Who bowed to his will every tree
Pine, maple, and locust, and larch-
Was March Little Corporal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
United States in its vari- Oregon

The total number on the catalogue
being 922. II we add to this those ar
ticIes of American invention manufac-
tured in Europe, we could probably
ted Corlies engine, there are specimens
from Austria, Germany, Belgium, and
other nations. Sewing now
ers, reapers, etc., are all presented by
European nations, and thus the United
States will receive many awards in an
indirect manner. Directly, however,
we have reason to look forward to the
same satisfactory results as in former
exhibitions,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
ArcbpoIogical Discoveries.

Archaeological discoveries, remarks
the Pail Mall Gazette, appear to be adj
vancing at a rapid rate. The Athens
correspondent of the Levant Herald re-
ports that the excavations at the King Of
the Hellenes' country-seat near Athens
are going on, and some inscriptions
found there last month leave no doubt
as to that spot being the exact situatlon
of the ancient Decelia. In the island OF
Delos, NJ. Bounouf, the director OF the
French school at Athens, and some OF
the students of that institution, have
made discoveries Of the greatest impor-
tance, having laid bare nearly the whole
of an ancient temple, most probably the.
famous temple of Apollo Of Delos, and
the ruins of a city. Another item OF in-
terest TO antiquarians is the return 70
Athens of DIR. Schlieman, who has Tor
years past been engaged in extensive eX-
cavations on the site OF ancient Troy
He comes laden with valuable trophies
of his zeal and perseverance, in the
shape not only OF innumerable vases
and other such usualrellcs oil antiquity,
but also with valuable silver and gold
ornaments, found at the depth OF from
eighteen 10 nineteen meters, and dug ont
of what the learned doctor considers the
very palace of Priam. Another dis
covery, equally noteworthy, but OF a
far more utilitarian character, is an
nounced from Messenin, whore exten-
sive and rich deposits of coal have been
found. Their quality is reported TO be
equal TO that Of the best English coal,
and eighteen petitions for their couces-
sion have already been addressed 10 the
government, but the monarch telegraphs
that il would not be prudent TO concede
them to any one, and that the state
should work them on its own account.
Excavations lately conducted at Rats
bon, on the site of a former carmelite
convent, have laid bare an important ho-
man inscription about ten feet long, for
merly forming part of a chief gateway,
and so far complete, although the end is
missing. that its general purpr rt may be
clearly made out. From this itappears
that the so-called Roman castle, au an
cient citadel of the place. was built un-
der the orders of Marcus Aurelius, and
was executed by Marcus Helvius Glenn
ems, then lepRte of the Roman empire,
residing at Augsburg, which was the seat
of provincial government, correspond
ing apparently nearly 10 the modern
kingdom of Bavaria. The recordstntes
that the wall was built complete with
towers and gates, of which. indeed, an
tiduaries have long observed the traces.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

The woman taxpayers of San Fran
cisco have got right up on the tips of their
little pink ears about it, and tetotally
swear, In the woman fashioa, that they
will make no further contribution to the
salaries of officers in whose election
they have no voice, if they can help it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
Modern English Poetry.

There IS more poetry written now IN
one year than was written during the
whole of the eighteenth century, Much
of it is fairly good, quite as good as
would have suficed to establish a great
reputation among our grandfathers.
The standard collections of British
poetry contain the works of many poets
who would have no chance of hearing
from us. Still, the best of ours is not
supremely good. Tennyson, Browning,
Arnold, Rossetti, Swinburne, Morris.
A goodly array, no doubt. But they all
belong to what may be called the litera-
ry class of poets. Now, it is a theory
Of mine that no poetry can live long
which is not born in the open air. The
poetry of the study is a delicate and
perishable commodity. Browning is, in
one sense, the only exception to this
rule. Though the most studious of our
poets, he is the only one who manifests
the vital insight of a Burns, a Shak-
speare or Scott there is the direct
pathos, the breathing energy of life, in
"The Ring and the Book" It is i'm
possible, think, that "The Ring and
the Book" can live. Yet it is, in many
respects, a stronger and greater piece of
work than anything we have had since
Shakespeare. Its author is clearly one
one of the great masters of the art which
purges the soul by pity and terror. But
the pathos of the others is not the
pathos which they have found in life,
but the pathos which they have found
in books. It is rank heresy, no doubt,
yet I confess I prefer the tMorte
d d'Arthur," as a whole, to the "Idylls of
the King" An exotic, nursed in the
hot-house, may be developed into vel
vety perfection but the simple and
modest wild flower native to the soil is
the harder plant of the two. What
will they know of our poetry a thou
sand years hence? It would not sur
prise me very much to learn that the
whole of it had died out, except Sir
Walters Proud Maisie is in the
Wood" and (perhaps) Allingham's
cup the airy mountain,
Down the reedy glen"
Morris is always charming so uniform
ly charming, in fact, that he gets just in
the least degree monotonous at last.
The greatest poetry has something more
than Morris reaches, something more
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

The man of truth is also the man
of power, Falsehood may give infu-
ence for time, but its mask is soon
off and its advocate becomes power
less and is forsaken by those over
whom he swayed the scepter of his
influence.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

Two amusing answers of the son of
a western senator at West Point are re-
corded. On being asked how many
pieces discharged spherical shot will
burst, he replied, 4" Into two, at least.
sir, should think" and on being asked
what was the uses of the vent in a piece
of ordinance, replied, after mature con-
sideration, that it showed the upper
side of the gun, and was useful to
spike il with.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
Williams & fowler,
Wholesale and Retail
DRUGGISTS.

A full supply of Medicines, Paints Oils, Glass,
Wines and Liquors, Tobacco and Cigars, etc, con-
stantly on hand; also Garden Seeds.
Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours
Of day and night fe17-7
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

Mrs. Swisshelm claims that the edu-
Gated Indians who return to their tribes
become vagabonds. Hole-in-the-Day
permitted his son and heir to be taught
in mission-school at st. Paul, where
he became a good English scholar and
dandy. Government built him six
room frame cottage, which his tribe
finally burned, but in which he lived
manv years of elegant leisure with his
six wives, who used to raise crop OF
corn and other vegetables, weave mats,
and keep my lord comfortable. lie
always had plenty of money given him
by the government, and, when he ira
yeled. he went in style, would attend
church in ST. Paul with the most aristo-
cratic lady on his arm, sit in the front
pew, and dine with the governor. On
his last visit to Washington he got Sl0,-
600 and a seventh wife, and was more
than ever the pet of the government
and people that now propose to drive
the Mormons out of Utah for having
more wives than one"
The "grashopper twist now the
proper thing in fashion circles. It is
a little variation on the " "Grecian bend;"
that was a forward, this a backward
bend, with the elbows placed at right
angles with the sides, in q similar fash
ion to the jumper of a grasshopper
when at ease. 1t is supposed the mouth
is to be wore open, though this has not
been announced yet.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

HOPE is good breakfast, but a bad
supper.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

"A rash snake charmer at Greenups-
burgh, KY, handled rattlesnake some
what too familiarly and got his leg full
of snakes teeth, assorted sizes, poison
thrown in. Whisky and tobacco saved
him, but the snake charming season is
over.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
" up the airy mountain,
Down the reedV glen, -

Morris is always charming; so uniform
ly charming, in fact, that he gets just in
the least degree monotonous at last.
The greatest poetry has something more
than Morris reaches, something more
fervid, some intenser strain. London
Quarterly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
LAWYERS.

A NJ HUGHES.
n. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Columbia Tenneksaa
VIII attend all courts to be holden for Maury and
adjoining counties.
Ofice, WhitthOrne Block. feb24In
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

WHEN does a man have to keep his
word? When no one will take il.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

A LAUDABLE AMBTIoN.-I honor the
man whose ambition it is not to win
laurels in the state or the army, not to
be iurist or naturalist, not to be a
poet or commander, but to be master
of living well, and to administer the
offices of master or servant, of husband,
father and friend. But it requires as
much breadth of power for this as for
those other functions, as much, or more,
and the reason for the failure is the
same. I think the vice of our house
keeping is, that it does not hold man
sacred. The vice of government, the
vice of education, the vice of religion
is one with that of private life.-Enae''-
son.
WurN does q man have to keep his
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

TILL FIGUERS
IL Attorneys at Law and Solicitors in Chan Gerry,
Columbia, Tennessee
VIII practice in the courts Of AIaury and adJoin.
ing counties
ONCE in the Whitthorne Block Inch15-u
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

OHARIEs CLEAR,
" ATTORNEY At LAW,
Columbia, Tennessee.
Special attention given to the collection Of cIaIzas
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-15
,THE.. GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY Is.

T1Et WRoNG DIRECTION. THE Newbury.
port Herald states that the mailing clerk OF
that paper in sending away his mail on Friday
morning used among his wrappers some waste
title pages of sermon printed 10 its JOB Office
and on it was a motto, SO that the direction on
one Of the. packages read aNew York city,
Always abennding in the work Of the Lord. = :,
The incongruity Of such a direction ID view OF
the ring swindles and the frequent murders
which have of late characterized that city was
SO striking;that he called attention to the curl
Gus concatenation of words. A gentleman who
called at the Herald sanctum was reminded BY
this of an incident which occurred at great
religious gathering in Chicago few years since
at which he was present. Among the speakers
was the venerable Rev. Dr. Goodell Broken
in mind and body, but animated by the 9cca-
sion, the aged clergyman said, Friends, l am
far on upon my journey towards the Celestial
City, but l could not help stopping on my way
to attend this meeting in Chicago" Here
voice from the multitude was heard by all,
Chicago is not on that road" The effect was
electrical, especially upon the poor old gentle
man, who was so confused that he could say
no more and was obliged to sit down.