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JOSIAH ELLSWORTH ltonf Waterford
ia said County deceased hy giving bout a. tilr ..
directs Dec therefore rrqllsts ait pre- BUS Woo ll
Indebted % the estate OF sail tr.. $50 .1 ui... m
mediate plyuics, aud tio-v who have aay demand.
thereon 10 exhibit ihe sJmc ip
ANNA ELL-N OTrU
JiIc lI le7f
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AYer's Cathartic Pills,

For 90 relief
and cure oi an
ti....I-pucut- ~
the stjmacii, liver,
and bowels. They
are q mild apcrf
cut. and an cN-
ccilcut pur-aJivc.
Being purely veg.
cDlUlc, they CON.
tlu no mercury
or mineral what
ever. Much -,el-
aus sickness and
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JOHN n. MARTIN,

~ 4 III i AVS VI +AA-N -.
Secondhand instruments taken in exchange for
new.
F7-Cu toners who come from q. lance. anl
Who purchase la g. -tli,J.cut, Will DE cuictttiUei
FREE.
Sout, Paris. Nuril =. 1877. Il
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TIE SUBS .rlber hereby give. pat 'c u1l.. ti.t
she d is be,u duty appointed boy tlo Ron. Jrlr.Uf
Probate lnr ihc County Of OS ord auI .l.. .'..
tust OF Ailuinis tratriN of tile e-iHie"f
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Dr.. c. AY1R d Co, Practical Chemists,
LOWELL. Mss, 4. y. 4.
Fnf: .ALE lY Al uNLGnIsIs LNEnNMmERE.
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OXFORD. AT a Count %. Probate. lcId 40
Paris % lm and l1I ;hr County of uN'Jid
on Ibg third lIc day OF june, a. ID 1874,
{ LONAKD % PHILLIPS. Administrator On
4 ! thr r~iaicoi hing Philips, m'ro t Hebron,
Iu -ai1 County, .t, hINug pr .uiti u.s.
hr-t account 90. itIatiou ci tha E-lltr 90
aid dccsa ei a.. private account for
allowance.
Ordered, That tae said tDmu- traitor give notice
20 I! persons iutcrc-tt0 -eusiie copy ut i1i'
order Co De Published .ifo, week >ucce .tcly 90 the
oxford Democrat printed at iaii- iiiat tie, may
lipcAsat Probate Count 60 be held al Paris
ln said County on tAe tbifd Tuesday 81 .lHiy utNs
It O'clock "a the forenoon ami s.lcw cause 81 any
.hey have why the same shuuld no. Dee allowed.
\. II. WALKER Judge.
4 truc cupy-attt-t: II. q. DANI-, Rcl lister.
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THE subsc ibct hereby gives public uJfcf lrt
d. has been daily appointed by the Hon. J,rlse .r
Probate for the County OF oxford and suueo OLD.
trust of Administrator % tiU estate Of
IIfNEl JORDAN late ~ B,ihrl
IN eail County deceased by giving bond 40 Nae l.g
directs he therefore it9UrsIs all ners'us Who fre
indebted 10 the estate Oi said drrcased Deb max, ..
mediate payment and those who have any ccil-lf.
thereon 10 exhibit the sHmc 20
A.WyALESriSE.
TuE suDsr lbar hereby give. pat.'c u0l.. tl..
she D Is b,,u Iuiy appointed boy thc Hon JHir.uf
Probate lor ihr County Of oxford aui .a4.i .'i.
tiust OF AIl,uinis tratriN of iils estate ot
JOSIAH ELL WO&tIl lIic ni Nsicruri
30 said Cousfy deceased by giving boii ~ tur a-s
indebted % ihc estate oi '.ili -' .p Doc t.r i
mediate plymcst aud liiO-v who have a'y demand.
ANNA ELLSWORTH
THE .sy-riorr hereby gives pu1i' noa- tla.
De- Dos. L.ru a.iy HfpIl";@l br ih' Hon. jena ~
PROBATE iYr tlc Count. ut ONlurl li~l a'.lu. OLD.
ut.-t ot a Administered, 20 of thc r.trf. of
tubEtEs uCFAuDEN btr 90 ru-
insli ! roung deceased by '1flHg lr-I f. t.a l.v
ud,r,,G 20 the t-fat, li s'i.i oc4.. uIu... a..
mr.ill, pi- u'ft fut those Who a4tr alf I..r....
ALyAsnuErlGf
ONFUEJ. sat- q Court of Probate t,.a %
Ia.t, N.ihia and .lr thc Count OF us...l
ON ta' tlirl lr,-t.f 90 lra,. A. ID. ...l.
: N5iE1 ~.It Ck raliiau OiI-t NI--.l..
y minor rI.il4 sUd hclt oi ~. 20. 'ia.-'...
o. EG Elc.i, .u s4ll County, latin- N.,.ra .
-al account 81 guard.iI-i.ip of -t.. U.0.
Catered. Tlattlcsa.i Gaarl-n -.......
to li. persons interested ly DIu.i-I % CODY OBJ, f..
uft.rrt M publ he'd thIrc utc,t -I.... ,st,Ir Do -.
ONipId Dem"cl % priItef af Iasis tba' Obey my
speli 70 Probate Count :1 h' A..'i at Pane
in -aid County r1 Inc tiual Tuesday oi Ju." nose
tf "a u I. NJ ID
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b aIlor;ae county oi oA".I
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June 10. 1874

SOLOMON CHASE
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Notice.

PROVIDENCE, Z. !.
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE.
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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-27
Care for Daughters.

Would you show yourself really good
| to your daughters =? Then be generous
to them in a truer sense than that OF
heaping trinkets on their nRcks. Train
them for independence first, and then
labor to give it to them. Let them, rs
soon as ever they are grown up, have
| some little money, or means OF making
money, to be their owr, and teach them
how to deal with it, without needing,
every moment, somebody to help them.
Calculate what you give them or will
bequeath to them, not, as is usually
done, on the ,chances OF their making q
rich marriage, but on the probability Of
their remaining single and according to
the scale of living to which you have
accustomed them. Suppress their
luxuries now if need be, but do not
leave them with scarcely bare nCcessa-
ries hereafter, in striking contrast TO
their present home. Above all, help
them to help themselves. Fit them to
be able to add to their own means rather
than to be forever pinching land econo-
MIXING till t cir minds are narrowed
and their hearts are sick. Give them
all the culture you can to every pc twer
which they may posses. If they should
marry after all, they will be the happier
and the better for it. If they should re-
main among the million of the unmar-
ried, they will bless you in your grave,
and say of you what cannot be said of
many doating parent by his surviving
child: "My father cared that L should
be happy, after his death as well as
while / was his pet and his toy"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-27
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MARCH 81, 1874

d I gave her a small patch out of m,
diminished roll. She spread it ovel
the poor white face.
"Poor fellow !" she sighed, "I hope
the soldiers will find him, and give hin
decent burial p
Then she clasred her hands together
and muttered prayer. Heaven knows
she may have been sincere but my
faith in the woman was gone.
"Come |" 1 exclaimed, impatiently,
''let us be doing, or else we shall surely
freeze"
Ihad been pressed into service against
my will, and when had become thor
| oughly drenched with rain, when my
bare hands had become numb with cold,
and my feet tired with tramping, / am
afraid that proved to be not the most
desirable companion.
"You are very tired" said the nun,
kindly ''but we must not give way we
must keep on till we reach the spot
where the confederates broke and fed. !"
"For what?" asked, in a sarcastic
tone. She understood, and kept 81
lence.
We trod on together, without word,
till we came to where a man lay stiff in
death. He rested npon one side, his
back to us, his face invisible. Still, on
beholding him my brave companion
drew back, with deep breathing. She
raised her hand swiftly to her head,
then, rushing forward, she fell upon
her knees beside him, took him firmly
by the shoulders and turned him upon
his back. One look at the face was suf-
ficient with a wild cry she drew back.
The expression upon her face terrified
me. Instantly she was upon her feet;
in trice sne disappeared from my be-
wildered gaze into the depths of the
forest.
Many years have gone by since the
going out of the lights at the German
funniest. Many years have gone by
since the last strain of music had died
away upon the heavy summer night air.
And yet, standing alone with the dead
man at my feet, that early morning,
upon the banks of the Cumberland, the
cold rain saturating my garments, and
the cold air penetrating my fieah, that
wondrous night, with all it's abandon
and revelry, with its strange comming-
ling of refinement and grossness, sweet
est strains of heavenly music, and bit
ter beer, rose wildly before me.
Again 1 bel4eld-the splendid woman,
whom had seen goaded on to desper-
alton ando violence, by the heartless
taunts Of -faithless lover, disappear
among the trees with face full of
agony. Again saw her as l saw he
that dreary morning, in a far distant
land. All was clear to me now. knew
the dead man, too, who lay at my feet,
uncared for-knew him too well. 1
could not stoop even to close his eyes [;
I understood the woman now. She had
bartered her soul, for what for eyes
that would never look upon the glitter |
of her gold For heart that would |
never yearn for her in her splendor.
never saw her again. 1 have often
whether she went down into !
the lowest depths OF vice, or whether
all happiness upon earth being denied |
her, she continued to labor in good !
faith for her place in heaven.
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The Society Man.

A correspondent of Hearth and Home
draws this little picture of "society
man in difficulti,
I had curious encounter the other
night. It was madman-in Mrs. Brim-
! low s elegant gentleman's dressing-room
-'' first floor front for gentlemen"-as
the dusky door keeping automaton down
stairs had just informed me. Just in
side the above-indicated door l encoun-
tered a man 1 know it was a man
you can always tell them at a party.
They wear very thin, narrow boots !;
very tight pants very low vests; very
startling lock cts; very spiky dress coats !;
very distinguished ties under very ex
emplary collars very waxy mustaches,
and part their hair very near the mid
dle-very. Indeed your average party
man is a sort of mild superlative all
the way through-inside and out. But
if I had entertained any doubts at all
concerning his masculiRity, they would
have been dispelled by the muttered
oaths that came struggling from under
his mustache and through his COM
pressed lips. 1t certainly was a man.
l knew him by his cloths and his swear.
And he was mad. / said SO, and stick
to it. His face was red, aud his brow
contracted, his step impatient, and he
bore all the appearance of one who is
trying to keep his feelings under con-
trol. and that, too, with very Indifferent
success. He was evidently struggling
with something, and at last / compre-
hended the situation he was trying to
squeeze his hands-which usually ac-
commOdated nines-into a pair of white
kids that were only eights and a half
Certainly a very trifing affair to get
mad at /; but just try it yourself once.
AS he said to me /: "ThCre's my lady
waiting impatiently in the next room
for me to take her down stairs and
here / am yet, sweating and swearing
over these confounded gloves. See
I've just got one on u and he held up
rather cloudy white, which looked as
though the seams were trying to meet
each other through the poor mans
hand, making the parts where they
weren't appear like miniature canvas
bellyipg before the wind" ard now
here this other one won't come. BY
George / wish goats would eat their
own kids-so that-whew there the
old thing goes Confound it = And,
sure enough, an enormous rent revealed
a great deal of red hand between two
sections of rather rumple blocking kid.
He looked like man whose light had
gone out-a man who was sent for and
couldn't come-who thought he would
and then wished he hadn't-and just as
he was getting up an espepcial male
diction appropriate to the occasion,
Black John appears with a grin and a
Jerk: "Please, sab Miss Grimsby
wants to know if you are expecting to !
go down to the parlors this evening p
And so there was nothing else to be |
done, and the poor fellow descen led,
with an incensed lady, torn glove, a |
narrowed spirit-all because his kids
were half size to small.
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Plaster as a Manure.

There seems to be little doubt but
that plaster, or as it is called by chem.
lists, sulphate of lime, is on some soils
an efficient and cheap manure; while on
other soils it seems to be of little or no
value, as no difference can be detected
in the crops following its Hse. Now ia
order to tell the soil on which it will
pay to use it is the question that we
shall have to decide for ourselves, for j
am not aware that any man can tell by
looking at the soil, where it will pay to
use it, or where it will not pay. There
fore, if we would know for a certainty,
it is best to try small quantities on DIFF
ferent parts of the field, either by SOW
irg on grass lands as a top dressing, or
by using as a MANURE for field crops in
different ways, and the answer that you
may get will likely be n true one.
After you have found where it will pay,
then use it literally, and it may be well
to say here that if the crops are all
consumed upon the farm, there need be
no fears of running your farm by using
plaster in a judicious manner.
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Ahnnt Dreams.

II you dream that a black cat with
white feet and seven yellow rings
around his tail, is sitting on the meeting
house steeple, it is a sign that You will
marry within a year, if single, and that
your wife, if you are married, contem-
plates elopiDg with the hired man.
If you dream that you see white cat
sitting on a coffin, and n white horse is
galloping around in a circle, and white
flag is waving in the air, there will be
sickne IS in the family-probably your
wife; and you will do more gallopinQ
around and waving before she il well
than you ever thought of.
If a married woman dreams of fol-
lowing blue horse down hill, and she
com to spring of muddy water, aud
sees a snake in it, some one is going to
make her feel bad. The widow Skin
ner will probably start a story that the
dreamer needn't stick her nose up over
other folks, as her father was once con-
victed of stealing saw logs.
To dream of seeing n crowd of angels,
ani hearing blissful music, and of
plucking golden apples from silver
trees, is a sign that your mother-in- aw
is coming to visit you, and all the an.
gels and golden apples you see after
she gets there, can be put in your left
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Isytherma LinCs.

These lines, as their name ind'catca,
are lines Of equal temperature, and vary
greatly from the lines representing the
latitude Of different localities. II would
naturally BE- supposed that localities sit.
uated at the same distance north or
south of the equator would be Of the
same average temperature throughout
the year, but an examination of n map
on which isothermal lines ere repre-
sented will show a remarkable variation.
Take the isothermal line Of forty degrees
Of animal temperature. IL runs through
tho southern part Of the Gulf Of 81
Lawrence, thence south Of IcclCnl
and through the center Of Scandinavia.
IL is as warm on the western coast Of
Europe as il is on the eastern coast Of
the United States, GOO or 800 miles
further south. Grains will ripon i'm
these attitudes in this ratio. A similar
statement is true OF the west portion Cf
the United States. Take the parallel
OF fifty degrees of equal annual tCmpcr-
ature-it runs by Albany, tho south
shore Of Lake Erie, through Northern
Illinois, then northward TO Northern
Oregon and away 20 puget's Sound,
hundreds of miles further north lhan
it is on the eastern side.
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Mexican Manners-

A writer in the City of Mexico says :
1 doubt if any capital in the world con
tains so many handsome women and
wealthy gentleman, or has so many poor,
misunderstanding people. Like all Span
ish towns, the rich are very rich, and
the poor very poor. The wealthy are
handsomely, tastefully, and fash onably
attired while those of the middle
classes affect the chivalrous dress Of old
Castile-cloth jackets with metallic
buttons, gaudy sashes, sombreros with
embroidered bands, and gold and sill
yer clasps down the outer seams of the
pantaloons. The women promenade
with no head dress, their faces protec-
ted from the sun by p0rasols, which
they coquettishly carry. From ten to
twelve IN the morning the streets are
thronged and the shops crowded until
four or five o'clock in the afternoon,
after which hour few ladies are to be
seen on the thoroughfares until late in
the evening. Then the parks, plazas,
and p omenades wear an animated APP
pearance. Ladies are to be seen float
ing about gracefully, followed by their
servants and caballeros, in full dress,
swords, boots, and spurs, ride slowly
around mounted upon superb horses,
whose heads and loins are nearly COW
cred with elegant trappings.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-27
The Tomato

Joseph Harrod. formerly of Portland,
Maine, now of New York state, claims
to have introduced the tomato into
America. Tie spot where he made his
first tomato hills is now covered by
spacious stores, and is opposite the new
marble postofIice in Portland. The
story runs thus In 1916 Mr.. Har
rod had a store in Portland, with house
nd garden attached. In June, a friend,
who was a ship owner, gave him some
tomato ("golden or Glove" apple)
seeds, which were brought in n vessel
from Cuba. They were planted in the
expectation of seeing a nice Towering
plant. Three years afterward he sent
some seeds to his father and others in
Haverhill, Mass. Two years later still,
one of these friends, Sheriff Bartlett,
wrote him, saying that the tomato was
good for a salad, if cut up and dressed
like a cucumber.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-27
Moving the Stove.

A reader who is recently married
writes ms asking which cud of a stove IL
the lightest. A stove is very deceiying,
and one has 10 become well acquainted
with n new one 10 find it, points Of adj
vantage. Our friend should not hc too
hasty in taking hold Of stove. A stove
that is TO be moved should be visited IN
the still watches of the night before,
and carefully examined by the light Of
a good lamp. The very end We thought
the lightest may prove the heaviest On
fact is extremely likely toD, or II may
be that tie lighteat end is the most dif.
ficult tolget hold Of and hang on 10. IL
is a very distressing undertaking 10 car
~ "A half ton Of stove 10y your finger
nails, with n cold bluodcd man ea lily
holding the other end, AMI a nervous
woman, with a Dust pan In one hand
and broom in the other, bringing up
the rear and gett the broom between
your legs. In going mp stairs u is best
to be Mt the lower end ui the stove.
Going backward up stairway with
stove in your hands rCquircs deliclcy
of perception which very few people
possess, and which can only come alter
years OF conscientious practice. II You
are below, you have the ndva tnRo of
missing much that must be- painful 20 u
sensitive nature. The position you ara
in brings your face pretty close to tho
top Of the stove, aud aa no one can be
expected TO see what is going ON whom
thus situated, Won are relieved from all
responsibility and thought in the mat
ter, with nothing TO DO but 90 push
valiantly ahead aud think u Heaven.
Then above you is the carmnn whom
you do not see, with his lips two inches
apart, his eyes proirudlng, and his
tongue lolling on hls chin. AID 10 is
we'll YOU don't see him, for IL is an aw-
full sight. But the chief advantage in
being below is that, in clse Of the stove
falling, you will be caught beneath 10
and instantly killed. Nothing short Of
your death will ever compensate for tho
scratched paint, soiled carpet, and torn
Oil-cloth. And no man ia bis scnsssund
with his hearing unimpuired would
want 10 survive the catastrophe Dan
I1Iy1g AcyDg
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Always Green,

Vegetation in New Zealand is ever
green. Forests, wild strawberries OF
small bush, grass plains are alike cloth
ed with verdure winter and summer,
autumn and spring, and the effects OF
such a climate with such a vegetation
are these that the operation of reclaim
inQ and cultivating land can be carried
on most equally well at all seasons of
the year-that when the first condi-
tions of successful cultivation are COM
piled with, all the English grain. root
and fruit crops are fine in quality and
yield-that comparatively little winter
provision is necessary for stock, and
that all the domestic animals multi ly
fast, are free from many of the Euro
pean diseases, mature early, and present
to the eye of the counoisseur that Gle II,
sleek, glossy appearance OF coat and
skin seldom seen except among ock at
home.
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ALONE.

| Three stalwart sons old Sweyn, the Saxon, had;
Brave, hardy lads for battle, or the chase;
And though, like peasant, barbarously clad, --..
Each wore the nameless noble in his face
Onr DER another rose their heads in tiers,
Steps for their fathers honorable years.
One night in tumn sat they round the fire,
In the rude cabin bountiful of home;
Mild by the reverence due from child to sire,
-, Bold in the manhood unto mast'ry come;
Working their tasks DER huhtsmen's forest gear,
Loos'ning the bow and sharpening the spear.
Lost in his thoughts, old Sweyn, the Saxon, stood
Leaning in silence gainst the chimney-stone;
Staring unconscious at the blazing wood,
STEPPED in the mood of mind he oft had known
AS an old tree whose stoutest branches shake,
Scarce from their vigor sign of life viii take.
AtLol, the bearded, with mis- bow had done,
Alfred, the Limble, laid his spear aside,
Edric, the fairest firing of his fun,
Left the old hound to slumber on his hide;
Yet was their sire like one whose features seem
Shaded by sleep, and all their light dream.
Bold in the favor of the eldest born
AthOl, for both his younger brothers, spoke:
Father, the fox il prowling in the corn,
And hear the night-owl hOoting from the oak;
Let Ms to couch" But Sweyn had raised his head,
And thus, unwitting what had pass'd, he said
"see, from my breast, draw this chain of gold';-
Fair in the freight royalty it shone,-
q" This for his honor that shall best unfold
Who, of all creatures, is the most alone;
Take him from palace, monast'ry, or cot, ..
Loving unloved, forgetting or forgot"
Then Athol spoke with thoughtful tone and look /:
" He is the lOneiest-most alone Of all,
Who, in a skif to the mid-seas forsook,
Finds not an echo, even, to his call;
If echo lived, not all alone he;
But there's no echo on the solemn sea ~
And Alfred next: " But lonelier, brother, far,
The wretch that flies just avenging rod
To him all scenes wastes, foe the star,
All earth he's lost, yet knows no hpav'n, no God
Most lonely he, who, making man his foe,
Unto mans maker dareth not to go :"
Thus spoke the lads, with wit beyond their years:
And yet the old man held his beard and sighed
As one who gains the form his wishing wears
But misses still something most denied;
Upon his youngest eager looks he turned,
And Edric's cheek with grace ingenious burned
'' think. my father"-and his tones were low
" That lonelier yet, and most alone. is he
Scarce taught though crowds are leading, where
to go,
And one face missing other see;
Though all the Norman's court around him moves
He is alone apart from her he loves"
hush fell on them. Then with loving air
And all the touching romance Of the old,
The hoary father kissed young Edric's hair,
And Ger his shoulders threw the chain of gold:
Then fell upon his darling's neck and cried
81 have been lonely since thy mother died -