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Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
Mr.. Summers Will.

A Washington telegram to the Phila-
delphia Press says that in September,
1872, just before Senator Sumner left
for Europe, he wrote, in his own hand,
his will, by which he bequethed all his
papers, manuscripts, and letter books
to Henry W. Lpngfellow, Francis E;
Balch, and Edward L. Pierce, as
Trustees all his books and autographs
to the library of Harvard College; his
bronzes to his friends of many years,
Henry W. Longfellow and DR.. Samuel
G.. Howe. He gives to the City of Bos-
ton, for the Art Museum, his pictures
and engravings, except the picture OF
"Miracle of the Slave" which he be-
queaths to his friend Joshua B. Smith
of Boston. To Mrs. Hannah Richmond
Jacobs, the only surviving sister of his
mother, he gives an annuity Of $500.
There is a bequest of $1,000 to the
daughters of Henry W. Longfellow ;
81, 900 to the daughters OF DR.. Samuel
G. Howe, and $4,000 to the daughters
OF James T.. Furness, of Philadelphia,
of whom he says: 81 ask them to
accept in token Of gratitude for the
friendship their parents have shown
me-" The will directs that the residue
of his estate shall be distributed in two
equal moieties, one moiety to his sister,
Mrs. Julia Hastings, of San Francisco,
Cal, the other moiety to the President
and Fellows OF Harvard College. in
trust for the benefit of the college
library, the income to be applied to the
purchase OF books. In reference to this
last moiety the will adds: "This be-
quest is made in filial regard to the COL
lege. In selecting especially the Ii
blary, ] am governed especially by the
consideration that all my life I have
been user of books, and having few OF
my own, have relied on the libraries
of friends and public libraries, so that
what I do now is only return for what
freely received" Francis E. Balch,
of Boston, formerly Clerk to the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, when
Mr.. Sumner was chairman OF that COM
mittee, is designated sole executor OF
the will. Mr.. Sumner estate is valued
at 800, 600.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
A Curious Custom

Talking the other day with the travel
ing salesman of London woolen ware
houseman-iobber, We should call him
here-there came to light a curious
custom which prevails in England in
that line of trade. A tailor, instead OF
having heavy line of stock for his GUS
toners to select from, keeps on hand,
in many cases, only full line Of pat
terms, representing the stocks OF the
leading warehousemen. The customer
selects from the patterns the style and
make that suit at once his fancy and his
purse. Then, his measure having been
taken and his order booked, an order
goes up to the warehousemau for the
cloth. He sends it down by his porter
the whole piece-who leaves it with
the tailor. The tailor cuts of what he
wants, and the next day the porter
looks in and carries back the piece to
its owners, who had it measured before
it left them, and again measure it on
its return, charging the tailor with the
difference. Our "jobbers have
learned that shorter way is to cut of
what the tailor wants and send it to
him but this idea does not seem to
have 90 cured to our cousins over the
water, or else it is too new-fangled and
simple to suit their ideas Of business.
Commercial Bulletin.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
Fate OF Modest Men.

The world generally takes men at
their own apparent estimate OF them.
selves. Honce, modest men never OBJ
tain the same consideration which bust
ling, forward men do. It has not time
or patience to inquire rigidly, and it is
partly imposed upon and carried away
by the man who vigorously claims its
regards. The world, also, never has
two leading ideas about amy man. There
is always remarkable unity in its con-
ceptions of its characters Of individu'
ais. II an historical person has been
cruel in single degree, he is set down
as cruel and nothing else, although he
may have had many good qualities, all
not equally conspicuous. II o literary
man is industrious in remarkable de
gree, the world speaks Of him as only
industrious, though he may be also
very ingenious.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
Imaginary Terrors.

Instances Of the deadly influence OF
fear on the minds Of children are by no
means ihfrequent. Many a little sui.
ferer has undergone agonies in the
"dark closet" that some parents MAKE
their choice instrument OF punishment,
which have had an influence on the
mind for life. To many children OF ac-
tive imaginations it is positive torture
to sleep in q dark room, and they have
hours Of terror at night, by calling up
visions and shapes of terror suggested
by their reading. 1t is useless to scold
at them, and cruel to laugh at them, for
it is part of their nature which they
cannot change. Sara Coleridge, the
daughter of the poet and philosopher,
passed through untold agony from this
cause. The ghost of Hamlet seemed to
haunt her chamber. Millions picture
of Death at Hell-gate rose before her In
the darkness. The horse with eyes OF
fame, in Southey's ballad Of the "old
Woman of Berkley," was worse than
either. She said, pitifully, "Oh, the
agonies I have endured between nine
and twelve at night, before mamma
Joined me in bed, in presence OF that
hideous assemblage Of horrors y Her
Uncle Southey laughed heartily OF her
tale of suffering. Her mother scolded
her for getting out Of bed and going
down into the parlor when she could
bear the fear no longer. But her father
understood the case, and directed that
a lamp should be left burning, and from
that time all her sufferings ceased. All
parents should guard their children
from such terrors.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
Oueer Medical Facts.

The following paragraphs are taken
from q recent lecture by DR.. Brown.
Sequard:
We are indebted to the observation
af O very intelligent negro, whose mas
ter was affected with a disease OF the
spinal cord, which produced convul,
sions in the lower Limbs. The most in
tense stiffness would manifest itself in
the lower limbs. They were rigid like
o bar Of iron for q time (; and after ten
minutes of this extreme rigidity they
began to have violent jerks. The jerks
then disappeared and the rigidity re-
turned. All day long the lower limbs
were in this state of muscular contrac-
ton. His servant, the negro, having
to dress him, found it very difficult
to put on his pantaloons.
One day he by chance took hold OF
his big toe, and found as he pulled it
that the limbs became perfectly soft
and movable. The convulsions had
disappeared altogether. The negro
certainly had q natural genius for
science. He learned that whenever he
wanted to push his masters pantaloons
up, he had only to pull his big toe
down. He succeeded every time. And
as the master found the cessation OF
the commissions useful at other times
besides when he was dressing, the
negro was asked very frequently to act
on the big toe in order to effect it.
This fact is not q unique one. I have
seen fourteen such cases. Many OF my
medical friends have seen them also.
A friend OF mine, DR.. Waller, most
intelligent man, a man Of genius, found
that by pressing on the neck he could
produce the most interesting physio-
logical phenomena. He has succeeded
in curing headaches, neuralgia Of the
face, and many other affections in
which there was pain or great conges-
ton of the head. An attack Of epilepsy
may be stopped in that way. Many
physicians before him had produced
some of those results, but they all
thought it was from pressure Of the
carotid artery.
DIR. Waller has the merit Of showing
that it is chiefy-he thought it was
only, but I have found that it is chiefly,
not only-through an irritation Of that
nerve, the par vagum, that the motion
OF the heart is arrested in those cases,
and that diminution Of the beating OF
the heart was followed by an ameliora.
ton in the circulation in the head, q
cessation Of An attack OF epilepsy and
of various other complaints. It was
something, therefore, quite different
from the mere pressure on the carotid
artery. These views were not absolutely
complete, as I have found that another
nerve which goes to the blood vessels
Of the brain is also irritated by the pro-
cess and that the pressure e1erted in
the neck produces three effects:
T It certainly diminishes the cur.
ront in the carotid artery, and, indeed,
stops that current altogether il the
pressure is considerable; (2) it di.
minishes the circulation considerably,
and may induce profound state oi
syncope by acting on the par vagum
and (S) it also acts on the cervical sym.
pathetic, and produces q contraction oi
the blood vessels in the head, by
means OF which Q part of the good ef.
feet ia obtained,
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
A Big Tree In Kentucky.

Mr.. George Riley, Of Shelby county.
cut o poplar tree on his place o short
time since which measured to the fork
11s feet, and 65 feet top; the stump
measured 6 feet 8 inches in diameter
and twenty feet in circumference.
There were in all ten cuts 10} feet in
length; FIVE OF these cut 765 rails, leaving
sufacient for $50 moro. In al, LILO
rails, and seven loads Of wood from one
tree. The tree had 1bsen Dtruck BY
lightning and q seam opened from top
to bottom, but not in the least shatter-
ed or injured. It was also perfectly
solid and sound, without spot or blem-
ish. The four butt cuts averaged l7o
rails each, and 1t is estimated that the
whole tree would have made 3, ,0OO
shingles
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
Employment for Children.

The annual report of the Massa-
chusetts Labor Bureau, just issued,
contains many interesting statements
concerning the employment of chill
dren. The report says that the Bureau
had difficulty in obtaining answers to
its letters of inquiry in very large
number OF cases. Twenty-one towns,
however, reported 1880 children under
ten employed, while twenty-eight more
reported that such children were en-
ployed, but gave no numbers. Twenty
eight towns reported 1.723 children
from ten to fifteen employed, who had
not received the legal amount Of school
ing, and twenty-nine towns reported
children thus employed, but gave no
numbers. These figures, in the opinion
of the bureau, very inadequately rep
resent the number of the children
really employed. Quite a number Of
towns and cities have half time and
evening schools. "Upon this subject
of the education OF mill children, I"
saws the report, "there can be but one
opinion that the matter is not attend
ed to either by the State or local au-
thorities that legislation is needed to
compel attendance, to punish illegal
employment of children, and to provide
proper schools for the instruction Of
operatives along with work. Person
ally" it continues, '"we believe in the
EXTREMIST legislation in this direction,
and, could we have the power given us,
We would not allow girl under sixteen
years of age to be employed in any kind
of factory or workshop. II she could
be free till she reached the age OF
twenty, mankind would be the gamer.
This is physiological matter, and the
result of our investigation OF facts in
this connection, and our careful con-
sideration of this subject, leads us to
express the hope that, if no other SUBJ
ject connected with the labor question
is thought worthy Of legislation, this
may be selected for legislative study
and action. No argument is necessary
to convince people Of the importance
of giving the years under sixteen in q
girls life to the growth and develop
ment of her organization, on the
healthy condition Of which 80 much
depends-her own health, happiness,
and usefulness, not only to herself, but
to those dependent upon her, either for
care or sustenance."
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16

PENs1oNs.-Georgia is the first Of the
States lately in rebellion to pass law
giving public money to persons who
became helpless in the Confederate ser.
vice. The bill made donation OF 500
to those who had lost both eyes by
reason of service rendered to the Con.
federate States. It was disapproved by
the Governor on q technicality, there
being no entry on the journal to show
that the act passed by two-thirds
vote, as is required by the Constitu-
tion, though in fact it did 80 pass.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16
VOL. ". NO. %.
A Reyerie.

Only pebble, washed on the shore,
Shaken by the Oceans suuen moan
Weak and small.
Helpless all,
In the wide hollowness Of its home:
On Creations face,
Only pebble!
Only blade Of grass, upward growing.
Pointing finger to the stars
Tremblngly,
For you and me,
Pointing finger up to tho stars:
In the space Of God,
Only blade Of grass
Only thought, q thought Of DEATH
For the time will come, and the day,
The cold
And mold,
The decay and crumbling away:
In eternity Of mind,
Only thought!
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16

HOME AaAN.-Santa Anna, who is
seventy-six years old, ls going to Mex
leo to spend his remaining days in the
land of his birth and early glories. he
says he returns under President
Lerdo's proclamation Of amnesty, but
is firmly resolved to take no part in
Mexican politics.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16

THE BApT1sTs.-The Baptist Year
book for 1873 gives the total number OF
Baptists in the United States at l. $685.
939, an increase for the year Of As, 707.
The present number Of Baptist minis
ters is IL, ,598, an increase Of 706 num-
ber Of churches, 20. $40, an increase of
800.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-16

It has been aptly suggested by an ex-
change that some one month in each
year should by general consent be set
apart for the return Of borrowed books
and to pay the printer.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23
GEORGIA NEWS

Mr.. John Hix Bass has become
associate editor Of the Rome Com
mercial.
John w. O'Neal, the Radical
candidate for Congress in the Ninth
District (where the white Radicals
outnumber the negroes), is advocat-
ing on the stump the Colonization Of
the negroes, Lby their removal from
Georgia and Alabama and settle
ment in some territory to them
selves. He boasts of his great in
Auence at Washington-says that
he can and viii, if elected, pass a
law removing the tax from brandy,
and another to strike the pending
distilIery cases from the dockets Of
the United States courts.
Gen. K. Toombs clustered out
another speech last week.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23
THE VICTORY.

The New York democratic stat
central committee has dispatched
from the democratic state committee
of Ohio, claiming $4,000 democrat
10 majority, and a gain Of seven con-
gressmen. Also from the demo-
cratic state committee Of Indiana,
claiming from $4,000 to 10000 ma
jority, eight out Of thirteen congress-
men, and . majority Of the LegisIa-
ture.
The World, commenting on the
result Of yesterdays elections, says
that as result Of the days work,
four states, Ohio, Indiana, West
Virginia and Arkansas, have been
enlisted and enrolled for battle in
1876 against Grant. It predicts
fuller and more sweeping verdict in
November, and especially in Illinois.
\
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23
DON'T DO III,

Don't Iinger where your love lies
dreaming" Wske her up and tell
her to get breakfast,
Don't turn up your nose at light
things of bread and taxation.
Don't insult a poor man. His
muscles may be well developed.
Don't put on airs in your new
clothes. Remember that your tail-
or is suffering.
Don't stand still and point the
way to Heaven. Spiritual guide
boards save bat few sinners.
Don't ask your pastor to preach
without notes. How else can he
pay his provision bill !
Don't fret. The world will move
on as usual after you are gone.
Don't be too sentimental. A dead
heart, properly cooked, will make a
savory meal.
Don't write long obituaries. =
Save some Of your kind words fol
the living.
Don't depend wholly on Spauld
ing's glue. 1t will not mend brck
en- promise.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23

WINDSOR Castle, in Great Britain
Is mansion really calculated to ac-
commodate q large family. II only
covers seventeen acres of ground,
and contains seventeen magnificent
state apartments, seventy-nine bed
rooms, sixty-fve sitting rooms, and
forty eight miscellaneous rooms, in
Guiding kitchen, pantry, confection-
cry and store-rooms. In addition
to these there are apartments for
the accommodation Of two hundred
and forty servants. What q first
class American hotel it would make.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23

THE RATTLEsNAKE's ENEMY. OF
all the enemies with which the rat
tlesnake has to contend, except
man, the hog is the most destructive.
An old SOW with a litter Of pigs to
provide for will hunt forreptiles with
perseverance, and sagacity truly
astonishing, tracking them By their
scent to their hiding places, and
never letting them escape.
In the West in early times, and
now throughout the country, II rat
tlesnakes become troublesome In any
locality, drove Of hogs are turned
into their haunts, and the snakes
soon disappear.
The hog, when it sees rattle
snake, instantly erects his bristles
and back, and commences rafting
his tusks. The snake accepts the
challenge and prepares for defense.
The hog seems to understand what
parts Of bis body are invulnerale to
poison, so it gets down upon its
knees, and in this awkward position
deliberately crawls, by a side-long
motion, up to the enemy.
The snake darts forward, and the
hog dsxterously catches the fangs
in the fat Of Of the jaws; the blow
Is repeated, and the hog having been
smitten on one cheek, deliberately
turns the other. This the animal
continues to do until the snake has
not only exhausted, for the time be-
ing, its poiscn but alsoit strength.
The hog then deliberately rises from
its knees, and, regardless Of conse-
quences, seizes the serpent near the
head and, putting its fore feet upon
its squirming body strips the reptile
through his teeth aud thus tears it
to pieces. IF the hog, AZ is some-
times the case, happens to be very
lean, and the poison fangs, thereby
strike circulation, it will die from the
wound, but this conjunction rarely
takes place.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23

Unpopular music--Thomas's con-
certs on the back yard fence. ''s~
THIS is the latest form Of wedding
invitations: ''Come around and see
me capture a mother-in-law at s
o'clock, sharp"
Quilp, who has heretofore been a
Universalist, now thinks there are
two things destined to be eternally
lost--his umbrella, and the man who
stole it.
IT doesn't look well, to say the
least, for church member to have
to draw out his revolver in order to
get at his two cents for the contri>
button box.
A party of young men were out
serenading few nights SINCE
They sat on a plank upon which a
solution of tar had been spread
Next morning the rear Of six pair
of pants dotted that plank, and
music is heard no more around that
cottage.
AN Irishman recently stopped at
a hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, where
pretty high bills were charged, In
the morning the landlord made out
the amount Of damages and present.
ed it to Pat. After he had glanced
over it the latter looked the landlord
in the face and exclaimed: eye put
me in mind Of a snipe." "Why 7"
asked the landlord. "Because ye're
very nigh all BILL"
IT is related Of George Clark, the
celebrated negro minstrel, that be-
ing examined as witness, he was
severely Intercepted by the attor-
ney, who wished to break down his
evidence. "You are in the negro
minstrel business, I believe 7" in
quired the lawyer, eyes sir,v was
the prompt reply. ''Isn't that rath-
er low calling I demanded the law
yer. 81 don't know but what it is,
sir" replied the minstrel, 'sbut it is
so much better than my fathers that
| am rather proud of it." "What
was your fathers callingf" "He
was lawyer" replied Clark, in a
tone of regret that put the audience.
in roar. The lawyer let him
alone.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23
DEATH OF A WIFE.

In comparison with the loss of a
beloved wife what are other be-
reavements The wife ! she who
fills SO large space in the domestic
heaven, she who is so unwearied -
bitter, bitter is the tear that falls
upon her grave. You stand beside
her tomb and think Of the past fain
would the soul linger there. No
thorns are remembered about that
sweet clay, save that your own hand
may have unwillingly or unkindly
planted. Her noble, tender heart
lies open to your Utmost sight. You
think of her as all goodness, all
purity and truth.
But she is dead. The dear lhead
SO often laid upon your bosom, now
rests upon a pillow of clay. The
hands that ministered SO untiringly
are folded white and cold beneath
the gloomy mortals. The heart
whose every beat measured an eter-
nifty of love, lies under your feet
There is no white arm over your
shoulder now-no trembling lips to
murmur, "Oh, it is SO sad p There
is SO strange hush in every room !!
No smile to greet you at nightfall
and the clock strikes and ticks and
strikes. 1t was sweet music when
you could count the hours with her
when she could hear It'll Now it
seems only the hours through which
you watch the shadows Of death
gather upon her dear face. But
many tale it tells Of joys past, sor-
rows shared and beautiful words and
deeds registered above. You feel
that the grave cannot keep her. -
You know that she is in a happier
world, but still you feel that she ID
often by you-an angel presence.
Cherish these emotions. They
will make you happier. Let her
holy presence be as . charm to keep
you from evil. In all new and
pleasant connections give her .
place 10 your heart. Never forget
what she has done for you. Be ten
der of her memory.
To how-smany bereaved hearts
will these sentences come, who will
look back upon the past with ming
led recollections Of sorrow and JOY
perhaps penitence. $50 should
live husbands and wives" says an
old English worthy, "that when
either dies the spirits of both may
minple.v
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-23

In bridging 3 stream, engineers
often carry over . single thread
With that they stretch q wire across.
Then strands are added until foun-
dation is laid for planks; then the
bold engineer fnds safe footing
walks from aide to side. So God
takes from Us some goldsn-iheaded
pleasure, and stretches il hence into
heaven. Now he takes child, then
q friend. Thus be bridges death,
and teaches the thoughts of the
most timid to find their way hithsr
ead thitber between the two sphsrss.