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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-06
THE VOICE AND THE PEAK

By TENNYsoN.
The voice and the peak
Ear over summit and lawn,
Ihe lone glow and long roar,
Hreen rushing from he rosy thrones of dawn,
All night have heard the voice
Rave over the rocky bar;
But thou vert silent in heaven
Above thee glided the star.
Hast thou no voice, oh, peak,
That standest high above au9
- am the voice Of the peak,
roar and rave for fall"
A thousand voices 90
To north, south, east and west.
They leave the heights and are troubled,
ana moan and sink to their rest.
The fields are fair beside them,
The chestnut towers in his bloom;
But they-they feel the desire Of the deep;
talL-and follow their doom.
The deep has power on the height
Ana the height bas power on the deep;
-uey ate raised for ever and ever,
ana sink again into sleep.
Not raised for ever aud ever,
But when their cycle is Ger
Inc valley; the voice. the peak, the star
Pass, and are found no more
The peak is high, and hushd
Al bis highest with sunrise fire:
Ihe peak l. high, and the stars are bigh
and the thought Of a maH is higher.
A voice below the voice,
Aud height beyond the height;
Our hearing Is not hearing,
And our seeing is not sight.
The voice and the peak.
Far into heaven withdrawn;
The lone glow and long roar.
NEeeh rushing from the rosy thrones Of dawn.
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The Writer of st. Elmo.

A Mobile letter in the Inter Ocean
says of the author of est. Elmo -
"She is Mrs. Wilson, now, and lives in
beautiful little chateau in the suburbs.
Her husband is banker of wealth and
influence, and she is q plain, unassum.
ing lady, about thirty-fve years old, /
should think. From her appearance
one would not imagine she had wres.
tied with Confuciur, the ssSanskrit Phil.
osophers and the ancient5 Greeks. I'm.
agine tall, slender lady, Of dark com
plexion, black hair, and eyes of an in
different color, features plain but full
of animation and intelligence, and man.
ners that are at once unobstrusive and
attractive, and you have this De Stael
of the south. She is seen but little in
society, and seldom entertains any but
intimate friends f; but the poor know her
well, and the hospitals and institutions
for the homeless and friendless find in
her local Florence Nightingale.
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ground. Surrounding this, garter of
bright blue, edged with white and gold.
bearing the city motto, Domino dirige
nos, in gold letters. The whole is :
circled with costly border of gold SIS,
alternating with rosettas of diamonds
set in silver. The jewel is suspended
from the collar by a portcullis but
when worn without the collar, is sus-
pended by broad, blue ribbon. The
investiture is by a massive gold chain !;
and when the lord mayor is reelected,
by two chains"
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lconoclasn.

Don Quixote took tilt at the wind
mills, but the ed tor of the Courier
Journal charges church s5eeples. He
asks Why not abolish the church
steeples? Is there any part of build
ing so useless as a steeple? It can
neither be constructed nor kept in re-
pair without great danger to human
life, aud 1t dosen't look we'll after the
best can be done for it has be done
AS if heaven itself were protesting
against the folly of this unsightly heap,
scarcely a thunderstorm passes over
the country which does not hurl its
bolts against some church steeple.
During storm this summer in New
Jersey, steeple was struck three times
in succession. The other day lightning
struck the steeple of church in Ohio,
and nine women in the church were
prostrated, five of whom may never re-
cover. Why should we set up targets
for the lightning? Even if the road to
heaven really lies through the atmOs-
phere, we have surer guides to it than
church spires. We Hould be gamers
by building our churches on modest
plans. The story Of the tower of Babel
is quite enough to show that heaven is
brought no nearer by building high in
the air
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That absurd person, the lord mayor
of London, wears peculiar collar. Col.
Forney writes of it: "The collar is of
pure gold, composed of series of links,
each formed of a letter S united York
and Lancaster or Henry VII rose, and
a massive knot. The ends of the chain
are Joined by a portcullis, from the
points of which, suspended by a ring
of diamonds, hangs tho jewel. The
entire collar contains twenty-eight SIS,
fourteen roses and thirteen knots, and
measures sixty-four inches. The jewel
contains in the center the city arms, cut
in cameo OF delicate blue, on an olive
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Jackson,s Opinion Of Newspapers.

Gen. Jackson, when president, said
TO one of his fercest newspaper oppo-
uents: "Send me your newspaper. L
know that you are opposed TO me, but
then / should like 20 see your paper
every day. want TO see how many
lies you can tell OF me-" General, "
said the editor, "I think do right in
opposing you, and / shall continue TO
do so with all the ability OF which am
MASTER" Here was a man after Jack
sons own heart, and he replied with an
oath: "Sir, send me your paper, for
aside from your abuse Of me your pa
per is a good one. Besides, I never
saw newspaper in which / could not
find something worth reading" Just
so. No man can pick up n newspaper
without finding something OF interest.
You may take the paper and tear IL into
Fragments, and in each fragment You
will see something TO amuse or instruct
you.
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The Thirty-fve Ton Steam Hammer.

The great steam hammer lately built
for the royal gun factories, at Wool
wich, has been successfully erected and
set to work. Being much the largest
piece of mech nism of its kind in the
world, considerable interest attaches
to its performance. The weight of the
falling portion is nearly forty tons, and
its force of impact is greatly increased
by the use of steam to drive it down
from the top, the augum, ntation being
estimated to equal the force represented
by allowing the hammer to fall of its
own weight, from a height of eighty
feet. It has been allowed a striking fall
of fifteen feet three inches. The ham,
mer is forty-fve feet high, and covers,
with its supports, base of about 100
square feet. Its weight is about SOC
tons above the ground, and the iron
used in the foundation below will
weigh 665 tons,
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A Journalistic Murderer.

The other day a compositor in the
Detroit Free Press Office got hold of a
part of page of chirography of G. NJ
D. Bloss, of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t isn't writing at all, but Bloss seems
to kick the ink. bottle at sheet of pa
per and then send the paper down to
the compositors as ed torial. This part
of a page was used as the foundation
of plot to deliberately destroy a hui
man life. A line or Two was written
above it, Bloss' page marked "solid, %
and if was handed to "iour" who had
just struck the Office. He claimed to
be lightning" on the "set" and on
reading manuscript, and he set up the
Introductory line like a whirlwind.
When he came down to Bloss he grab
bed for cap :" A, held it a second, and
then dove into the "Y" box. Then he
threw that back and picked out dollar
mark. No sentence can commence with
a dollar mark, and the typo paused,
spat on his hands, and rested one foot
on the cross-5ar of his rack. After a
moment he grabbed an eff, but slowly
replaced it, and toyed with an italic
"Z." Then he spit on his hands some
more, corrugated his brow, and hauled
bII0 LIS GJ Cb IL "db
no go. He held tbs page further of,
close to his nose, slanting to the right,
and square before the window, but he
couldn't start it, and he knew in his soul
that no other cOmpositor outside the
Enquirer could do it. AS afternoon
faded into twilight be laid the page
aside, set up two or three lines out of
his head, and then slipped into his coat,
said he'd got to go to the depot to see a
friend, and he was gone. In his stick he
had set up the words: "Tell my
mother that I will meet her onthe other
shore" He probably will. He was
seen at the foot of Griswold street,
heard to ask if death by drowning
wasn't easier than hanging, and it is
probable that his marble form lies in
the bottom of the cold, green river,
while Bloss is murderer.
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case in which the cans are packed en-
ploys in the manufacture five men, max
ing in all forty-two persons necessary in
a regular establishment to prepare a
can of salmon, from the catching the
fish until it is ready for shipment. 1T
is no unusual matter for one of the
large canneries to prepare for market
25, 900 one pound cans in a day.
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Detroit Court PROCEEDINGS.

"You are sailor, arn't you?" in
quired his honor, as the prisoner hung
to the railing and stood on one leg.
eyes, I SAIL" he answered. Chow
about this getting drunk?" "Is that
the charge ?" eyes SIR" GO I thought
it was stealing chickens" said the pris-
oner, heaving a sigh of relief. They
found him lying on the wharf, the cool
breezes of an autumn evening toying
with his raven locks, and his legs hang
ing grf cefulIy over a lump of Brier
Hill coal. He didn't want to "come
along" and tried to kick the officer be-
low the belt and do murder. He said
he wanted to go and be an angel that
the soft breeze was whispering to him
to cast off this shell called life and fly
to the stars, and the officer had to trun-
die him down here in a hsnd-cart.
"What did the soft breezes seem to say?"
inquired his honor. 'I don't remem-
Der much about it." replied the pris-
oner, glancing around in an uneasy
manner. "Did they seem to say five
dollars or thirty days?'" asked the
court. The prisoner was undecided,
and Biiah put the fatal chalk-mark on
his back and led him away.-FFee
Dress
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Railway Accidents in England.

There is an impression that English
railway travelling is safer than our own.
the British companies are required,
under penalty of e2O for each omis.
sion, to report every case of accident.
The official returns thus arrived at
gives 773 as killed last year, and LII
as injured. Private inquiries made by
Mr.. Bass, M. p, show that on certain
sections of certain railways the ascer-
tained number of accidents is far in ex-
cess of the official report. On the as
sumption that these sections are fair
samples of the rest of the lines, strik-
ing an average, the whole number OF
deaths appears as 1900 and of injuries
$1,000. The officials of the board OF
trade are called upon to ascertain the
truth.
"A commission of Icelanders is about
to visit Alaska, to inquire into the pro-
spects for the settlement of a colony oi
their countrymen in that territory.
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"A great many of the stores in Paris
are dedicated to some one or to some
thing real or imaginary. One sees such
signs as "To the Good Devil" !" "Te
the Poor Devil" "To the Infant
Jesus" "To the Gray Overcoat, ''To
the Madonna" "To the Americans, :"
"To he Universe" "To the Poor
James," etc. The stores for the sale of
miscellaneous merchandise are now
more generally closed on Sundays than
they were four years ago.
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will repent; seeing your sons and
daughters make their homes miserable
by complaint, and raising their chill
dren up in the same way-Rurdt NeW
Yorker.
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An Indiana woman says if they
have to wash and iron in heaven, she
hopes they'll let her remain in Indiana
for all time to come,
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Does Prohibition Prohibit 2

Figures won't lie, and, as they won't,
figures make a very startling exhibit
with reference to the working of tenn
perauce legislation. Maine, for in
stance, has a law forbiding the Gale
and manufacture of liquor. This law
has been in frrce twenty-three years.
In that time Portland has increased in
population less than so per cent, while
the number of places where drunkards
are made has increased over 200 per
cent. Bangor, with 5000 inhabitants,
has 800 saloons, so that every fifty of
the inhabitants have a saloon to them
selves. Massachusetts, has a prohibi-
tory liquor law. In 1856 the number
of persons arrested in Boston for drum
kenness was 6,780, and in 1870 the
number was 1850. In his official re-
port for 1871 the chief of police shows
the number of men made drunk during
the year, as follows
Number of hotels, 76 drunken men,. 81
Groceries, /, ,425; drunken men. LAPS
Bar-roOms, LIPS; drunken men......... 6,425
Jug-rooms, 327; drunken men. 3,511
Total. .......... II, AIS
As compared with other cities, the
New York Sun says of Boston, that
while it has an average of one arrest for
drunkenness in every 16 of her inhabi-
tants, Providence has one in %; New
York has one in 27; San Francisco has
enc in %; Louisville has one in %
Rochester has one in 81 !; Washington
has one in 80; Detroit has one in 81 ;
st. Louis has one in A; Cleveland has
one in AZ; Brooklyn has one in 64 ; Gin
cinnati has one in SO. If it were the
habit of temperance-reformers to stop
and think at all, such facts and figures
as these ought to convince them of the
folly of any prohioitory legislation in
the matter of what man shall drink
and that, instead of advancing the
cause of temperance, they are really ad-
vancing the cause of intemperance.-
CHICAGO Tribune,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-11-05

We boast our system OF education; We
have female high schools, female colleges,
female medical schools and female heavens.
Our girls are refined, learned and wise; they
can sing, dance, play pianos, paint, talk
French and Italian, and all the soft Ian
guages, wnte poetry, and love like We
muses..
They are ready to be courted at ten years.
and can be taken from school and married
at fifteen, and divorced at twenty. They
make Splendid shows on bridal tours.
can coquette and jirt at the watering pla-
ces, and shine like angels at winter parties.
But heaven be kind to the poor wretch that
marries in the fashionable circles. What
are they at washing loors7 OH we forgot
nobody has bare floors now; how vulgar
that would BEL What are they at making
bread and boiling beef Why, how
thoughtless we are, to be sure--they will
board or have servants. What are they at
mending old clothesl But there we are
again-the fashions change so often that mo-
body has old clothes but the rag men and
paper makers now. What are they at wash
ing their babies faces and pinning up their
trowsersg And here is your intolerable
studidity once more-AdviRg children Is Lefi
h. foreigaersl What lady thinks Of having
children about her nowl or, il she is so uii-
fortunate, don't she put them to wet nurses
TO begin WITH and boarding schools after.
ward. We repeat, we have come to point
where young men hesitate and grow old
before they can decide whether they car
marry and afterwards keep clear of bank
ruptcy and crime. What is the conse-
quenceg
There are more persons living a single life.
Arc there more living a virtuous life9 1t Is
time for mothers to know that the extraya'
gance they encourage is destructive of the
virtues Of their children; that all the foolish
expenditures are, instead of answering that
end, tending to destroy the institution Of
marriage altogether. -BOSt0n Investigator.
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PRICE OF TICKETS So.

The managers are men Of high, respectability and
great business capacity and therefore reliability is
sured.--St. Louis Republican.
We tidle pleas are in commencing them to the pub
lic.-Tsrds odd FellOlD.
The distribution viii eomprise over 6OOO acres of
land and city property II viii be fairly honestly and
eQuitably distributed Cohesion NelDS
For three dollars, one takes the chance Of becoming
the lawful owner OF Texas property worth from $500
to $4,000 So far regards the standing OF the man.
They are both PROMINENT wealthy and reliable citi-
zens-H0nSt0R Age.
We can voueh for the responsibility Of the firm, and
that all they promise they viii perform. The scheme
is an excellent one, in opinion means of set
ting up State and inviting immigration. Dallas
Herald.
N- Send for Circular.
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TNoR SALES FOR sALEn
No PANTY HORSE. GOOD RocKAwAY
ana Harness. ne horse Is fast gentle ana kind
sola for fault CITY prOpessE url be taken IN sx
ehnve InQure Il this once
ssGw&dd
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IFor the Democrats statesman.l
THE ISLE OF MEMORY.

There isan Islo-a sweet, enchanted Isle
Where wings the thoughts Of every human mind,
On which weloye 70 muse, or weep, or smile,
Andfeel ursouls 90 bounding uneOnhned.
Fortherc are velvet lawns where flowers grow
FLOWERS d snowy innocence and peace;
And there We sport and bssk beneath the glow
OF childhood1s sun-reIuctant 70 release.
And there are streams u pleasure sndof love
Flowing from out the siyery fouut Of Ifuth
on which our barl<s delightedly We move
This is the time Of ioy-the time q yOath
Butthere are eaycrns dark within this Isle
In which the rays Of inuocenee ne'er shone
And crags q crime, Of Wretchedness and guile,
Der which to deeper woe the soul is thrown.
The spirit backward wings its flight when there,
ORR moment pause de but 20 weep;
For even within those depths 30 gloomy. drear,
A sieepIcss sprite her vigIls still doth keep.
And with a gennevoIce shewhlspers sweet
Rsturn and bathe within the founi OF Love -
But Oh IN vain this warning doth repeat
Some hearts like adamant can never move.
THOU KNOWEsT.
ArsTfE October 1874
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EoR SALE.

Fourteen hundred and eeventy-sx acres Of land IN
Houston county, on Hurricane bayou, about one mile
from the Trinity river and about nine miles west Of
Crockett There is lake situated on the land, which
affords abundance OF water. Place well timbered; an
excellent stock farm From 80 to 800 acres have been
in cultivation. Some 800 400 acres prairie land
Several beautiful sites for buildings from eight TO ten
cabins on the place. The land Is said 70 De very pro
dnctve In order 70 make quick SALE viii take for the
place the low price OF $500. Double this price has
been offered and refused for It. The owner wants
money now, and viii sl ~ the price named. Apply TO
n. B. SWEENEY, Agent.
sei5 W.T. p. o. Box 107, Austin Texas.
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CURE FOR THE BITE OF Poisonous SER
PENTs.-According to Mericourt, in a COM
munication before the Academy Of Medicine,
in Paris, the only effective means of coun-
teracting the bite of poisonous serpents,
and which should be generally and popu-
larly known, are those which prevent the
absorption of the poison Immediately after
the bite, namely, ligature above the part
bitten, suction, lotions, conformation by
means OF white hot needle, or of small
heap Of gunpowder placed on the wound
and ignited, or the application of some
coagulating caustic. II these means have
been neglected, or have been applied tard-
lily and Intellectually, hot alcoholic drinks
should be given gradually and in a meth
odical manner, so that sweating and the
elimination of the fluids by the kidneys
may be induced as freely as possible.
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Miscellaneous.
GROCERIES

Miscellaneous.
GROCERIES
WHOLESALE
CHEAPER
THAN AM oruEr
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Miscellaneous.



FOR SALE.
One of the finest stock farms in the State Of Texas
and for health and beauty of situation not to be
passed This valuable propertyis in Hays county, on
the Blanco river between Mountain City and San
Marcos on the San Antonio road, about twenty-five
miles from Austin This estate contains $3.50 acres Of
land with all the stock and improvements; 5000
well incloeed with stone and cedar fence for PASTURE
the Blanco runnin nearly through the centre. None
equal to in the ate -Four hundred acres splendid
land in high cultivation, not surpassed in production;
abundance Of timber-elm, blackberry, live oak and
walnut; and hundred and fifty acres not enclosed.
There fifty buildings the premises; various pens
cattle from one-haf to full-blooded Durham; from
two hundred and fifty to three hundred head Of Texas
cattle; fifteen to twenty yoke OF exen 100 head OF
American horses and Mules two fine jacks; ten TO
fifteen work mules and horses; wagons full and COM
pete stock Of agricultural implements reapere corn
and cotton planters, threahers, ETC.; saw and grst
mills single machine, two cotton gins turning lathe,
etc. by water power afforded BY the Blanco river.
The man dwelling house, with cistern, out houses
and every convenience and comfort is situated on
high hill; has commanding view Of the surrounding
country, and has but to be seen 10 be admired.
II any or more persons wish 70 engage In the
stock business, with all the advantages now is the
time to get 9 hrst-cass stock farm, where may be
raised the finest blooded stock In the country and
enterprsing who would engage in Il could get his
own price in this and the neighboring States, ae
Amy person wishing to purchase this place viii COM
municate with me by letter or in person, and viii
take great pleasure In showing the property. For
terms apply 70 NJ. B. SWEENEY,
q ! I-ft5l- Real Estate and Collecting Agent,
ans II POstofdce Box 107. Austin. Texas.
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Miscellaneous.

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