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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
KantuckV Maids.

While it has always been an acknowl-
edged fact, says the Montgomery Re
publican that the Kentucky women are
the fairest in the union, yet the half
has not been told of them. Their forms
are perfect models of ease and grace ;
and there is a certain style and gesture
in their walk which is not possessed by
one out of a Thousand in the north.
Their features are regular and hand
some; their skin fair ; light, heavy,
waving har; dark blue eyes, and a
peachy bloom on their cheeks which
makes them almost irresistible-to a
married man. Their forms are much
better developed than are northern
women, and though slender enough
around the waist, their muscle is sufii-
cient to curb the fiery steed on
whose back they take their morning ex-
ercise,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
LIFE AND DEATH

Detk life survive the touch of Deaf
Deaths hand alone the secret no
Which as 20 each one he unfolds
We press to know with bated breat
whisper there, q whisper here,
Confirms that hope to which we g;
But stiil we grasp at anything,
Ana sometimes hope and sometime ar.
Some whisper that the dead we knev
Hover around us while we pray.
Anxious to speak. We cannot saE
We only wish it may be true.
know a Stole who has thought,
" As healthy blood flows through veins
And joy his present life sustains
And all this good has come unsoug
For more he cannot rightly pray,
Life may extend or life may ceas
He bides the issue. sure of peace
Sure of the best in Gods own way.
Perfection waits the race Of man;
If, working ont this great des5gu
God cuts us off, we must resign
To be the refuse of His plan"
But 1, for one, feel no such peace
dare to think have in me
That which had better never be;
If lost before it can increase.
And oh the ruined piles of mind,
Daily discovered everywhere,
Built but to crumble in despair p
/ dare not think him so Lnkind.
The rudest workman would not fling
The fragments of his work away,
If ey'ry useless bit of clay
He trod on were sentient thin0-a
And does the wisest worker take
Quick human hearts, instead of stone,
And hew and carve them one by one,
Nor heed the pangs with which they break
And more if but creations waste
Would He have given us sense to yearn
For the perfection none can carr
And hope the fuller life 20 taste
tbink, if we must cease to be,
II is a cruelty refined,
To make the instincts Of our mini
Stretch out toward eternity.
Wherefore welcome natures cry,
As earnest of life again,
Where thought shall never be in vs.a,
And doubt before the light shall fly.
HdcmiWdns E7JgziHe
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
Food Before Cotton.

The policy Of planting less cotton and
raising more corn, adopted in the Caro-
linas, has been followed in Georgia. As
a practical illustration Of this in a single
instance, take the following from the
crop returns of Macon county, Ga,
region which is most advantageously
located in the heart of the "cotton
helt :"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
Josh Billings " in English.

Time is money. and many people pay
| their debts with it.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of preiu-
| dice.
Wit without sense is a razor without
a handle.
Half the discomfort of life is the re-
suit of getting tired of ourselves.
Benevolence is the cream on the milk
of human kindness.
People of good sense are those whose
opinions agree with ours.
Face all things; even adversely is po-
lite to a mans face.
Passion always lowers a great man,
but sometimes elevates little one.
Style is everything fer a sinner, and
little of it will not hurt saint.
Men now-a- days are divided into slow
christians and wide-awake sinners.
There are people who expect to es
cape hell because of the crowd going
there.
Most people are like eggs-too full of
themselves to hold anything else.
It is little trouble for a craven image
to be patient even in fly time.
Old age increases us in wisdom-and
in rheumatism.
A mule is bad pun on horse.
Health is loan at call.
Wheat is a serial. am glad of it.
Manner is a great deal more attractive
than matter, especially in a monkey.
Adversely to man is like training to
pugilist. It reduces him to his fight
ing weight.
Pleasure is like treacle. Too much
of it spoils tie taste for everything.
Necessity is the mother of invention,
but patent right is the father.
Did you ever hear very rich man
sing?
Beware of the man with half-shut
eyes. He's not dreaming.
Man was built after all other things
had been made end pronounced good.
If not he would have insisted on giving
his orders as to the rest of the job.
Mice fatten slow in church. They
can't live on religion, no more than min
listers can.
Fashion cheats the eccentric with the
claptrap of freedom, and makes them
serve in the habiliments of the harle-
quin.
There are farmers so full of science
that they won't set gate post till they
have had the earth under the gate post
analysed.
When lambs get through being lambs
they become sheep. This takes the SEN
timent out of them.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14

where the wife is the unpaid servant,
toiling for love far longer than she ever
could for pay, and often supplementing
her husbands wages with some small
earnings of her own, the fiction falls.
1t is partnership of labor; it should
be of gain and loss as well. 4"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14

"A writer in the Rural New Yorker
says, that cows should be salted every
morning, and in the stable, before fod-
dering, but never after taking water.
This is the practice of the best stock
keepers of Switzerland, and he thinks
it quite preferable to sailing them once
or twice week, or to keep It constantly
within their reach.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14

The food crops exceed the cotton g.
897 acres, and including the orchards
and vineyards, there is an excess Of g.
426 acres. The remainder Of the state
will probably exhibit like proportion,
in which case there ought 10 be cheap
food and plenty of 1.-two things which
constitute in themselves elements Of
recuperation which cannot well be over
estimated.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14

pending upon their residence for the
time being. The Princess of Wales is
naturally bewildered with the manifold
religions of her royal relations, and
clings to the faith she was taught in
Denmark
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
Bepgars in Tangier.

The beggars of Tangier are about the
most Objectionable specimens of the
species it would be possible to see
Many of them are afflicted with leprosy,
scrofula. ophthalmia, and other hideous
and loathsome diseases, besides fright
ful deformities of all kinds, and their
condition of dirt and raggedness is in
describable. In addition, however, to
the unfortunates who are redrced by
infrmities and want to this mode of
life, there are number of people who
adopt the profession simply through
laziness-preferring it to active and
monotonous employments that necessi: !:
tate regular bodily exertion. These en-
deavor to atone for their healthy def
ciencies by additional personal filth,
and they get themselves up in such a
perfection of tatters and dirt as enables
them to compete, not unsuccessfully,
even with rivals wanting an arm, leg,
an eye, or a nose
Disease and dirt, however, are COM
mon to beggars all over the world,
though the very acme of both is, per
haps, reached by those i'll Tangier. But
What struck most, as distinguishing
them from all the other beggars that
had ever come under my observation,
was, that it was apparently considered
in no way inconsistent with their pro-
fession to smoke cigarettes and wear
costly iewelry. I have already noticed
the blind man who perpetually smoked
and begged by deputy, but it was still
more strange to me, when L saw 1T, that
a filthy diseased wretch should pro-
trude from beneath a garment, from
which all shape and color had long ago
disappeared in rags and dirt, an arm en-
circled with massive gold or
silver bracelet, or extend for charity
a miserable, emaciated hand, with rings
of the precious metals on the fingers
One class of beggars, indeed, the
dirtiest and raggedest of any-the
saints. whose saint ship rests chiefly on
the fact of never washing themselves or
their clothes-are always loaded with
costly Jewels, the girls of pious symp-
athizers and admirers.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14

Many young people think that an
idle life must be pleasant one. But
this is a sad mistake, as they would
soon find out if they made trial Of the
life they think go agreeable. One who
is never busy can never enjoy rest; for
rest implies relief from previous labor;
and if our whole time were spent in
amusing ourselves, we should find il
more wearisome than the hardest days
a uork. Recreation is only valuable ss it
unbends us; the idle can know nothing
of it. Many people leave off business
and settle down to life of enjoyment;
but they find that they are not nearly
30 happy as they were before, and they
are often glad to return to the occupa-
tions to escape the miseries.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
AtoPresbvterian cbnrcb. in S

-AU = ItHDJ VbIIdII Oh IIIOHJ IN JaI NIV-
ga, a sermon was recently delivered on
the Christians regatta toward the
heavenly goal. He was described as
feathering his oar with precision, tInn-
ing the stakeboat of life with all the
resolution of faith, coming down the
desperate course of the homestreich
with vigor, fixing his eye on the heaven
Iy Referee and taking good csre not TO
initiate the disciple Judas and break
his scull.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
The Duty of a Woman to be a Lady.

WIdness is a thing which girls can
not afford. Delicacy is a thing which
cannot be lost and found. No art can
restore to the grape its bloom. Famil-
iarity without love, without confidence,
without regard, is destructive to all
that makes woman exalting and emo
bling.
''The world is wide. thess things are small :;
They may be nothing, but they are all"
Nothing? It is the first duty of wo-
man is to be lady. Good breeding is
good sense, Bad manners in woman is
immortality. Awkwardness may be in
eradicable. Bashfulness is constitu-
tional. Ignorance of etiquette is the
result of circumstances. All can be
condoned, and do not Danish man or
woman from the amenities of their
kind. But self-possessed, unshrinking
and aggressive coarseness of demeanor
may be reckoned as a state prison Of
fense, and certainly merits that mild
form of restraint called imprisonment
for life. It is shame for women to be
lectured on their manners. 1t is a bit
ter shame that they need it. Women
are the umpires of society. 1t is they
to whom all mooted points should be
referred. To be lady is more than TO
be prince. A lady is always in her
right inalienablylworthy of respect. To
a lady, prince and peasant alike bow
Do not be restrained. Do not have i'm
pulses that need restraint. Do not
wish to dance with the prince unsought,
feel differently. Be such that you
confer honor. Garry yourselves SO
loftiIy that men shall look up to you for
reward, not at you for rebuke. The
natural sentiment of man toward woman
is reverence. He loses a large means
of grace when he is obliged to account
her being to be trained into propriety.
"A mans ideal is not wounded when a
woman fails in worldly wisdom; but if
in grace, in tact, in sentiment, in deli
cacy, in kindnes, she should be found
wanting. he receives an inward hurt
Gail Hamilton.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
-"There is a fiction, saws the Chris

There is fiction, says the Chris
tian Union, "still extant in some news.
papers, which agrees to call the wife a
supported person. In even the aver.
age prosperous household, whose ways
run smoothly, there is question if the
wise executive ordering of the home
comforts do not in itself fully balance
the mere lucre that supplies them. But
among mechanics and laboring-men,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14

Each period of life requires espe,
cial gifts and graces. Therefore, inde-
pendently of the progress of character,
persons shine particularly in one or an.
other period, according to their natural
temperament and endowments. Those
who most charm us in youth do not
always dispense the steady fragrance OF
good deeds in middle life; and ouI
ideal of old age is often best satisfied
by those who have passed unnoticed
through the more active periods OF life.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
The Mississippi editor usui

The Mississippi Editor usually
leaves something to the readers imag-
ination. Thus: "Two rough-looking
men aecosted Mr.. Barnhurst, the editor
of the Vicksburg Times, and wanted
that item corrected. After the two
dead bodies were removed by the coro-
ner, Mr.. Barnhurst proceeded to write
up the affair in his own graphic style, ;
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14

Congress having authorized the
change, the secretary of war has issued
an order stating that John Rziha, cap
tain in the fourth infantry, shall here
after be known and recognized in the
army as John Laube de Laubenfels.
The benefit of the change, if any, is
merely nominal. We don't see how
John can hope to figure in history with
the new more than tie old name.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-14
ATTORNEYS AT LAW

A I'D ALEXANDER,
VI Attorney ey-at-Iaw and Solicitor in Chancery,
Columbia, Tennessee.
Ohlce: whitthorDe Block. Jan'y. 16 1y
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07
CURRENT NEWS.
wA>HrNGTo>.

a asnx~r,ou. couuserftit having apF,<2rs1
on The dve-1oilsr note. 81 ne Trsiers Va
,ional Bank q Chis2-0. the Treasury Depart
meur ose-. one-Aalf T<r csnt- premium for
rrturu Of TIE renni1e kve-s0llxr no,es q thai
h.nk 10 TIE p.rparr3eni Tor 1c-iructiOn- The
no.es shoald D strapped separately. and n1Ay
Be inclu8~i in packages q national hank
noie- returned 20 tie Treasury for rs.er1p-
tion. and nav b. rrrnrsei AZ the exp~n-s q
the department. All renuine s5 note> q this
hsnk should here1ff-r b. refused. and nOte- u
the Senominzfion thu drawn cut q eircula-
ton. Ne r0re fthe~e nosss wiil ~ issued
hereafter BY the ConptrOlirr cfih@ Currenry
10 that bank AfienfsOn q bank o1oers :
especially called 70 the Necessity q prompt.
rrtirinr ,he-r nOte-- which sill entlr~iy pr
vent the c.rcEllxfi-1 ef the counterfeit
wNo-sciAlly szn0uBc-t from Wxshin<-
ton on the ssh. that al hiss a. par and up
wArSf- for the ave p~r csar- losn hsd heen
soceps<d. exc~p; on the large Ones. n 20 Wiki
negotiations. were p~niin<- AL Other BIDS
had been rrieciei. TIE scoep;ed bid for the
new i've per cent loan Up 70 the date Den-
toned amounted 70 sIe.lls5so. wh5ch
amount. il i believe-i. J. for p@ruAnen- IN
ve-rnent NJ bone
w.shinx-on dispatch % the 9Th az:
Negotiations for tie bzlNnoe q the I'VE Per
cent funded loan were c0nciDtet By the Sec
rstzry Of the Treasury to-day EIth August
Belmont 4 Co. on behalf q y n ROth--
child A Sons. OF LondOn. and }. A W >elig-
man 4 Co. On behalf q themselves and their
associates Thess parties rnsce Al absolute
subscription for sss-ooo-s,0- coupled with The
option Of taking the rsmainder q the loan AZ
1ny time within six months The lO2n l.
taken ~ par. 70 Be paid for In con or Eve
twenty bonds. the parties 70 receive ore
fourth Of one per ce nj o0r1Eni--ion and 70 d.
fray al the exp<n~e~ q the trzns.ction. IN
Guiding The delivery q the bo1ts- No doubt
exists 81 the Treasury DeTArrr1ent q The
ability o, the bankers 20 place The entire
loan
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07

Three men were burned TO death by the en-
plosion Of some oil tanks NJ the Standard Oil
Works. Cleveland- on the I'd The fire was
communicated from \ lantern which one Of
the men carried
II i stated that -ome relies o. the lost
steamer CITY Of Boston have been recently
pieksd up on the FLORIDA coast. among them
q bos,le confsininx a paper signed by John
Css~sIl. LonSsn. Eng written on sunday
uixht mo ssher datel. stating tia; the ship
hid sprung aleak and all hope wNs lost. The
City q Boston Iefr the port Of New York.
jan >. 1870 ant wa- never definitely heard
from thereafter.
Al Eureka. Nsvaia- on the 3s;h. terrible
inuntstiou occurred. csa-~s BY the bursting
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07
WElGN.

In the French Assembly, on the sd. CASH
mer Perier's bill was rejected by 333 yeas to
ga nays. Immediately after the vote, Leon
Malleville. Moderate Republican submitted
motion for the dissolution Of the Chamber,
supported by the signatures OF 800 members.
The motion was defeated by q vote Of $40 to
80. The discussion on VI. Perier'- bill was
very exciting. and General DE
Cis-ey rad n communication announcing
the opposition Of the Government to the bill.
II -et forth that the only object Of the bill
WIS proclamation Of dednitive republic.
which was inexpedient. a It would satisfy
only one party. The Government expects
the adoption Of the laws demar .ied by the
present condition Of affairs, leaving the coun-
try free 10 determine it, own destiny at the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07

"A correspondent SAYS that the Prin-
cess De Ia Tour d'Auvergne. who Is erect
ing convent on the Mount Of Olives
which she has purchased and presented to
the Catholics-will remain in Jerusalem
seven wears longer. Her sole companions
in the little cottage where she lives are
dog and cat
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07

John Bruner, twelve years old,
hanged himself at his fathers house, in
Hardin county, n.y., the other day. His
father had refused to buy him new sad
die
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07

Gold closed in New York. on the s,sh- 81
100 -
Mr. TIltOn has made public lengthy stale
menr explaining her share N the Beocher-
TilfOn controversy. In il she Indignantly d.
nies the allegations q guilt charged upO1 her
hy her husband. and SAYS that the whole din
Guilty = ch2rgezble 70 his desire 10 = crush out
Mr. Beecher.- In regard 70 some o. the pa
pers signed by her and Published IN TilrOn--
statement she says rhsy wsr- obtained BY
MISREPRESENTATION when ne w4s on bss q
sickness. and without her knowledge % their
contents. In confusion. she SAYS that -be
appeared before ihe Investigating Committee
voluntarily. and without any sOlicir2riOn On
the part Of Mr. BeScher's friends
Following J. the comparative o0rson s-z,e-
renf for the week ending JAY =;
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07

Miss Hattie Lewis. Of New London,
Conn. has recently married the Roman
Count Bandalairi at Paris.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-07

A terrible rain Storm swept over the cifv
Of PS-r-burg and surrounding country on the
night Of the ssth. which esa-ud great de-truc-
ton 70 both life And property TIE tee
zrzpkic sccour-- q In disaster furnish the
follo~inE particulars.
The extent % isrrit0ry dara1--d j. 10, Ie-.
than twenty 70 fEeufF-1ys mile- in diameter
and bcuV The main portion u The civ q Pitt
burg. lvin- u doe IN tae c-ntcr q rhi- cir
c.. e-ck{-d without further injury. seems A.
most miraculous To prex4linx theory
scene 70 - that the disaster w2s caused By
some kind u w1;er--pout A Gentleman
who wa-ched the storm from fe~ miie- down
the river. where therr w4. bet little rain.
ssy. that ky the frirhtful sashe- Of kxhfninx
b. could - . huge. inkv-blsck cioud- which
syerhung The city. tn nArrow erd- being
loxe-f- ~hiie tn DARK psrts gave vent 20 an
almost perpetual bur~r q Lightning II j
almost impossible for Any one Dot familiar
with the geography Of this locality 20 form
m ideA ~ TIM. disaster. or how Il could pos-
-ihly have occurred he main civ q Pirr--
b1rx. a. II rAe- gradually from the point
formed By the junction Of the two rfvers- has
MANY zulches IN certain localities. which rsu-
der q Good q thi. description liable 20 Do
great damage. and ihe part known ~ The ball
region j. freQ8er.ly lizble n suffer from ioezI
inund2fion.- The dxrn4<e here. however.
i his tine llE1- CONF ard Hifn Otoer oc1lt-
ties strictly Suburban The Dorth hank q the
Alleghzny River. upon whc-e hiIl-side. and
IN whe-> valleys The UpTer p-orriOn q the
city = situated has. 1nc0r1ing 90 AL A.
oounf-. be-n the -cene q The greatest Dr.
aster. TIE work o. de-rrucfi0n comle1ced
a. = point shout two miles north % the
central portion % Anexhxny CITY. Bufcherss
Run Valley. ~ ia mouth. i probably D.
tween 40 and so feet wi3e. and NJ the point
where the work % desrrrr-ion o0mmenred Il
> not more than 80 feet wi5e- Between
North avenue and this no-1heriy point uur1er-
ou- rxvine- empty into B1tcher-' Rur Valley
Along this run fhe hO1-e- we're hslili directly
over The natural pAter-cour-e. cuiverfs beng
made and us@d IN pxr- ~ f0una2tio1- for
dweilinE-hou---- The Inc n des-rS1cfi0r f0l-
lowed the wx.er-cogr-e 20 The river. And IN
VOWEL an imnsen-e number % b0u-es hat
were not % the line q ne cuive-r WIZ
the rain ooumenc-si falling but little Nprrp-
bension- were entertained: hut tho-e who
liy-1 near the bad q tn Wiley state that
su1denly Il Seemed a. II TIE beaver. were
opened ard the water cane down ~ n d.
cnArrec from iuuDrns~ r-re.- TIE volume
"a. % lArre thai the narrow vAiiev ma.
nllef with \ rxxing ro-rrnf- III frxnDe
dweliinK~. stsbie- and observation-disclosures gave
WAY Ike ripe-ssrr1. and the dehrfs from fhe
wrerk. were swrp- 3owr Alonr TIE linz oftfe
plank ru'sd. TIE weight hing Auxrneniei ev-
erv m0uezt Ia m district Ivfrr vet q
Chestnut street and nor-h of = linz parallel
Win SLnth aEenDe- The waters roe 20 4
o~ptn q fuilF i~e1ir f-~t- In -orne piArss
The People's vindicator., 1874-11-21

Little Rock Gazette: If a Democrat
sh0uld wish to take q long ride
through Democratic territory lie can
now do so. lie can start from Gal
vclston, on the coast of the Gulf of
Mexico, and .journeying through Tex
as, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee,
Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware, reach the Atlantic
Ocean, without crossing the territory
of a State that has single Republi-
can Representative in the next lower
house of Congress. These eight
States extend through the heart of
the Union, and they send fifty three
members to the National House of
Representatives, and the whole fifty
three members just elected are Dem
ocrats--not black sheep in the flock
Should Republican make the jour-
ney, he will discover that the Demo
cratic party is not yet dead.