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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
An Enterprising Young Journalist

Some time since the editor of the Col
orado Herald had occasion to leave
town for few days, and intrusted his
organ to the care of novice in journal
ism, instructing him to pile it on as
thick as he could whenever he had a
chance to advertise the Herald. He
then went away, and the following
night his wife died very suddenly.
This is how the assistant editor men
toned the circumstances
GONE, BUT NOT FoRGoTTEN.-We are
compelled this morning to perform a
duty which is peculiarly painful to the
able assistant editor who has been en-
gagged on this paper at an enormous ex-
pense, in accordance with our determ-
ination to make the Herald first-class
journal. Last night death unexpected
ly snatched away from our domestic
hearth (the best are advertised under
the head of stoves and furnaces, upon
our first page). Mrs. Agatha P. Burns,
wife of Rufus P. Burns, the gentleman
ly editor of the Herald. (Terms, three
dollars year, invariably in advance }
A kind mother and exemplary wife.
(Ofice over Coleman's grocery, up two
flights of stairs; knock hard. 'Weshall
miss thee, mother, we shall miss thee. .
Job printing solicited.) Funeral at
four and a-half, from the house just
across the street from the Herald Office.
Advertisements inserted for ten cents
persquare.)
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Curious Norwegian Dishes.

Still, in most countries there is some
thing to be learned-some peculiar
dish (not unfrequently the queerest-
looking) which will reward investiga-
tion. Occasionally, indeed, the in
quirer will meet with rebuke but is
not this the case in all original research?
Never shall we forget our first and last
acquaintance with that northernest and
nastiest of foods called stockfsche. We
had arrived at a settlers hut far away
in the Arctic regions of Norway, hum
gry as starved wolves, and 10 one set
before us what looked and felt like a
large splinter of pine wood. As we
raised it to our lips, however, we be-
came fully aware by the perfume, which
can only be described as noisome, that it
consisted of animal matter still un-
daunted, we managed to bite off por-
tion. At fret it seemed tasteless, but
as it became slowly reduced by actively
working Jaws, such a sickening flavor
unfoldeI itself that in horror and
amazement we fed from the food and
the hut that could harbor it. Our feel
ing on first tasting the plum soup of
Norway, served at the commencement
of dinner, was one of indignant sur
prise, not much interior to that of the
bucolic gentleman who bit into an olive
under the impression that it was pre-
served green-gage; and though it Is not
in itself absolutely nauseous, we con-
fess we could never abide it. There is,
however, one excellent dish which the
Norwegian traveller meets with at ev-
cry little inn. 1t is called " carbo-
nado," and consists of minced meats,
eggs, and fine herbs made up into a
kind of cake, and then fried or baked.
The meat, probably, if cooked in al or
dinary way, would defy mastication, but
thus treated it is really dainty plate.
Equally common at the post stations is
salmon dried and prepared in some sub
lime manner, far superior to the kip
pered salmon of commerce, and eaten
raw in the thinuest possible slices =
FrQSeT'S MQ01zi71e.
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eve the average. The sea which
nearly surrounds Spain, ssand the rug
geo mountain chains that cut eff inter
course to a great degree between the
provinces, have given them almost in
s1lar preludices, and afford another
Illustration of the truth tha. those who
NIX least with others have the highest
IDEAS OF their own Importance.
a Spanish gentleman once, in CONVEX
sat!on, claimed, what had beeL so often
claimed for other languages, that it
could express more in small compass
than any other. asked him to quote
the most striking illustration he could
recollect.
Why, said he, when a man is pre-
pared to meet any consequence, and,
stretching out his arm, says, 'OjaIa, no
other language can express that idea
so condensedly."
told him he was mistaken, for we
could say ''Be it So" and thus express
the same idea in the same number of
syllables.
The Duke of Wellington used to say,
10 boast of Spain's strength is th5
national weakness
Castilian preacher went so far, on
one occasion, as to remark to his con-
gregatlOn that when our Saviour was
tempted by Satan, who showed him all
the Kingdoms of the earth, it was very
fortunate circumstance that the Pyre-
nees hid Spain from his view, or we do
not know what might have happened.
One OF their common proverbs says
C9ulen dice Espana dice todo "-s'He
who says Spain says everything"
Another says: German is the Ian
guage of hogs; English, of horses
French, of the ladies'; Italian, of the
angels but Spanish is the language of
God"
Another one goes still further, and
says: Isl Dios no fuese bios seri rev
de las Esponas, y Ell de Francia su CO.
cinero p" If God were not God he
would be King of Spain, and the French
king his cook /"
Further than this it is difiult for
human pride to go.
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All About the Redemption Reserve.

In reply to various inquiries Treas
urer Spinner has issued letter declar-
ing that national bank notes should not
be cancelled before being sent to him
for redemption. Redeemed notes will
be cancelled in the treasurer's Office.
Second, that national bank votes will
be received to make good the five per
cent. redemption fund, but the first de-
posit of five per cent. must be made in
legal tender notes. Any excess over
the amount requir d to make good the
five per cent. fund Of the bank, for
warding the same will be remitted in
legal tender notes forwarded from the
treasurer's office. Payment for the pro-
cess cannet be made in drafts.
Third, that the assistant treasurer
sheuld receive an account of the trans
fers of deposit Of such bank notes as
are redeemable at their full face value
at the treasury department.
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Knowlndre and Reliaion.

Coleridge, whose eyes are always inn
perfectly open TO the practical, after
making a journey through Germany and
France, declared rs the result OF bis
observations, that general education
and the concurring spread OF cbristian-
ity, we're the only true conditions OF indi-
vidual and national amelioration. Know
ledge is dangerous without religion, and
religion is dangerous without knowledge.
knowledge without religion leads 10 IL
centiousness, ms shown by the history
of Greece and Rome, and religion with
out knowledge leads TO superstition, as
is shown by tho history of Italy and
Spain. Knowledge and religion are tho
Siamese twins Of a true political aud
religious civilization, and they should
be bound together by the bonds OF an
indissoluhle matrimony BY their beau
tiful and healthful association they
save and Banctify each other, and by
their common dispensation in the aca-
demic halls Of our country, they snnctify
and save the generous youth and null
tiply the seeds Of a higher public NOR
ality, and SOW them all along down tho
eternities to come. II We can but
make the fountain pure, the stream cam
not possibly become corrupt,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
The Irish as a Conquered Race.

Mr.. Oisraeli, in the course of his
speech on Home Rule in Ireland, de-
livered in the house of commons, June
| I'd said "I must say there is nothing
more extraordinary than the determine
tion OF the Irish people to proclaim to
the world that they are a conquered
race. 1 have been always surprised that
a people gifted with so much genius, so
much sentiment, such winning quail
ties, should bel am sure they will
pardon me saying il, my remark is an
abstract and not personal one-should
be so deficient in self respect. [Great
laughter. The honorable member for
Louth was quite elated when he spoke
of the subjection of his people. He
seemed almost inspired when he talked
of the Irish being still in chains, L
must enter nay protest against course
which appears to me so extraordinary.
And first of all, deny that the Irish
are an ancient nation that have been
CONQUERED more than all the ancient
nations have been. Laughter. de,
nv that the Irish have been conquered
more than, or even as often as the Eng
lish, Laughter. You never heard an
Englishman going about and boasting
having come over with William the Con-
aueror, of his relations having done so.
The Irish have been conquered by the
Normans and so have we, and in mod
ern times I will not deny that Oliver
Cromwell conquered Ireland, but it was
after he had conquered England.
Laughter. William Ill. could not
have succeeded in conquering England.
6
this state of affairs of which the hon.
orable member from Louth and the
school he represents are always so
proud. Allow me to point out to the
house that this mere bit of sentiment
is the only real foundation for tins vlo.
lent change which is now proposed. Ii
they are not subject ace, they have no
argument at all according to the honOc-
able member from LOuth. would most
respectfully remark to my Irish irlends
there is something, think, lmpoIltlc IN
the boastful manner in which they WI l
remember the disgraces and disasters |
of their people. 1t is peculiar to them, |
but I would recommend them not to be |
too fond of indulging in It. a laugh. |
We have the advantage of living in an
age when people are not remarkable for |
a superstitious veneration for history |
or acquaintance with it. Laughter
We can not spare SO much time
to the past as our fathers did, and L
have no doubt when all the various sys-
tenn of education now afoat are ma
tured, and the consequences are really
accomplished, the great body OF the ma
ton will not be acquainted with any
thing but the information of the cur
rent hour. Laughter. If, therefore,
Irish gentlemen would only hold their
tongues I don't believe that in the
course of a generation any body would
remember that they had been subjuga-
ted laughter for in the course of a
generation they will turn out to be the
of contented and pros
porous people. Cheers.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
MISUNDERSTANDING

Our peaches, plums, cherries, aud
other fruits suffer so much from curcu-
lios in the south that we keep a sharp
lookout for some invention that will
give fruit-growers a new and decisive
advantage. Caleb Brown, of Norwalk,
Ohio, manages bis orchards with con
trivance which is thus described : It
consists of a large cloth hopper, on
o-wheeled barrow, which is driven
under the tree, the different branches
of which are Jared with a FOUNDER on a
pole, and consequently, may be used
for any tree, however large. The in
sects drop into the hopper, which is
made of polished rubber cloth, and roll
or slide down its smooth surface into a
box at the center. The touch of lever
closes this box, and holds all the insects
securely until the orchard is finished.
The chief advantages of this contrivance
are the smooth rubber cloth over which
the insects roll freely, and which does
not become wet with dew; the jarring
with a pole-handled mallet, and the
ready closing of the box which holds
the insects. Apple, pear, peach and
plum orchards may be rapidly cleared.
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How they Waltz.

A Put-in-Bay correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times furnishes the follow
ing lively description of the style IN
which girls from different states and
localities waltz, as shown by the hops
at that pleasant resort:
"People may say that waltz is q
waltz, but it is mistake; as much as
to say that dog is a dog, for there are
dogs and dogs, and there are waltzes
and waltzes. With one person 1T is the
poetry of motion; with another it is
about as awkward a performance as
putting yourself upon level and going
through the motion of running up
stairs would be. A Kentucky girl is q
natural waltzer, and she does 1t with
charming chic and abandon. An Ohio
girls waltzing is easy, graceful, and
meldious. If she happens to come
from Cincinnati, and across the Rhine,
she swings dreamily round and round
the endless Dutch waltz. LII she
comes from Chicago, she throws her
hair back, jumps up and cracks her
heels together and carries off her aston
ished partner as though simeon had
struck him, and knocks over all inter-
vening obstacles in her mad career
around the room. If she is from lnd1-
ana, she creeps closely and timidly up
to her partner, as though: she would
like to get into his vest pocket, and
melt away with ecstacy as the witching
strains of the Blue Danube sweep
through the hall If she is from Mis-
souri,, she crooks her body in the middle
like door-hinge, takes her partner by
the shoulders and makes him miserable
in trying to hop around, with her with
out treading on her No. 9 shoes.
If she comes from Michigan she
astonishes her partner by now and
then working in a touch OF the
double-shuffie, or bit of pigeon-wing,
with the waltz step. And if she comes
from Arkansas, she throws both arms
around his neck, rolls up her eyes as she
floats away, ana is heard to murmur,
"Oh, hug me, John "
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The Cost of Sunday Opera in New
York

A first-class quartette, with an organ.
lst, costs from Sc, 900 to $19, 900.
Lit costs something to have fashiona.
BILE choir. An ordinary quartette costs
81, 500.
A good tenor singer, soprano or con-
tralte commands readily $1,000 Some
sopranos are paid S., 900.
Warren, of St. Thomas Church,
stands at the head of choir leaders. He
has $40, 900 year salary and a. house.
Grace Church pays its musical con-
ductors Sc, 900 year. Out of this sum
he hires all the help he needs, and pays
himself
One female singer has $4,000 for
morning and afternoon service, and
81, 900 extra for singing in the evening
in another church.
Trinity Church, though very econom-
ical, pays $40, 900 year for its music
1t has boy choir of thirty m mbers.
These are paid salary, and receive a
complete musical education.
Many of our fashionable congrega-
tions are dispensing with choirs alto
gether, and are calling in the aid of a
preceptor. But this style of music has
its drawbacks.
The First Presbyterian Church has
never had an orgon or instrument of
music. The spirit of Robert Lennox
still abides. It was considered great
innovation when d quartette choir was
introduced.
st. Bartholomew is just now the rage
among fashionable church goers. It is
the newest and most elegant Episcopal
Church in New York. It's singing is a
speciality. Men crowd the aisle to hear
the music. When the sermon comes on
they leave in droves.
TIE elegant little church on Fifth av-
enue known as CHRIST Church has been
famous for its music. Run down by
Mr.. Ewer's ritualism, a New York
broker proposed to tone this up by
brilliant singing. The broker paid in
one year 500, 900 for the music of this
church.
Plymouth Church has congregational
singing, led by full choir. Inside the
chair is paid quartette. The trustees
set apart ST, 500 for music. To this is
added $500 more, bringing it up to
So, 900. Fifteen hundred of this is paid
to Mr.. Zundel as organist. The balance
the leader uses at his discretion.
Many churches tire of the present
mode of conducting the services of
song IL the house of the Lord. In some
singers hardly get the brrnt cork
off their faces in season for the morn
ing worship. Italians and Jewesses
who sing at the theater until midnight
on Saturday, at a heavy salary, appear
in the church to praise the Lord.
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TROUT-EISHING.

'Tis twenty years. Do you remem er
When, boy and girl, we stole the I'm
And went a-fishing one Septembe
Inc lake so clear, IL was as If,
Opborne on loves delicious leave
We hoated in pure mid-heavenr
With clouds Of lilies for borde.
Inc fragrant summer seemed to -
In blossoms for dear passions sl
Excessive with its sweet disorde-
In you, too, was that fond distre
Of flush and fear and happiness,
Caresses by caress unhanded,
Till fingers mated on the reel,
thought the very trout could fos
His double spoil was caught ana Fded'
Alas that love which we rememb
Blush-ripe as all those wanton We 8,
Should be a blossom of Septembl-l
Born guiltless Of the promised seeds-
Sweet dying things, whose only duty
Is clothiI Z iIfe in forms of beauty
For though l held you in my arms,
As full of honey in your charms
AS when the trefoil holds the clover,
Your fingers, tutored in a thimble,
In playing trout wsre found so nimble
You hooked the fish and cast the lover.
But often, since we slipped the books
To play for life with baited hooks
In pools less pure, do remember
The fragile blossom of September,
Born guiltess of the promise seeds
dying thing, whose only duty
Was clothing life in forms of beauty,
With heaven above aud heaven below II.
Though life has grown to other needs,
Our boat lies rotting in the weeds,
And We can neither raise nor row u.
-HdrpeT's Mdgdzine.
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seven-barreled revolver, and pulled the
trigger once behind the counter, with
out the cartridge exploding, he then
came round the edge of the counter,
and presenting the pistol at his mother,
who was sitting facin2 him at the sew
ing machine, before any one had time
to notice him or to be made aware of
what he was about, pulled the trigger
a seconed time and shot his mother
through the heart. The poor woman
could only calculate. Was that load
ed?' before she fell dead upon the
Aoo,.
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u.-CUCHILLos.

The national weapon of the Span.
iards is the knife, ard certainly hev
know how to use it. Talking o. day
with a young man VINO seemed lii to
know, I asked him what there pc
culiar in the management of the luife.
"Why," said he. with a smile, 81
could kill you, and you couldn't kill
me-"
WE'LL" said I, "please point out
the difference between us. What would
you do first %
Why, I'd make you wink, and stab
you while you winked."
How would you make me wink?"
Why, so" said he, throwing up his
left hand near my eyes.
"Weli, I could do the same"
"Try it," said he.
tried, and found it impossibI. to
make him wink, though I passe nv
hand up aud down several times u as
almost to touch his eyelashes.
His bright, black eyes looked or5 at
me unfiinchingly all the while. ] vas
clear that his eyes were educated md
that mine were not.
1 then asked if there was any pos bill
ity of an unarmed mans defer ing
4LLuSt4l dBdiHb one dIul0u WIFI u EGlfe,
"Oh, yes" said he. "Ill show you"
and in an instant whipping on his coat,
he held the end of one leeve firmly in
his left hand, wrapping the rest of his
coat rapidly around his forearm, and.
bringing the end of the other sleeve
also into his hand, where it was frmlv
held, binding together the whole mass
which formed a sufficient defense
against the thrust of any ord arv
knife.
| then recollected that one OF the
marks of the men of Puerta del S. at
Madrid-which answers to our Borery
was a slashed cloak, evidently LIT SO
honorable In its origin as "sl he'd
doublet," of the olden time.
The use of the knife appears to be so
ingrained into Spanish history and nab
its that ono mode of expressing the
idea of being "lord of manor was
"tener horca Y Gu chillo"-to hold
gallows and the knife.
IH.-sPANIsH PRIDE
National pride is very general, but
that of the Spaniards seems to tower
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Our Demand upon Spain not Yet
Answered.

No reply has yet been received to the
peremptory demand made, some time
ago, upon Spain for indemnity to the
families of American citizens who
formed part of the officers and crew of
the Virginius, and who were executed
by Spanish volunteers in Cuba, 1t is
understood that the Spanish authorities
are waiting to consult Admiral Polo de-
Barnabe, who was Spanish minister to
the United States at the time the pro-
tocol with regard to the Virginius affair
was arranged. A member of the cabi.
net states that it was the purpose of
the administration to press this matter
upon Spain and obtain an early settle
ment. 1t is held that, under the proto-
col agreed " the Spanish minister, there
can be no question az to the right of
our government TO enforce this claim.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Little Sherman w. Smith a,

Little Sherman w. Smith accom-
panied his mother to Boston auction
store. The Globe says "He soon ran
behind the counter, out of sight, and
climbed on chair got hold of a pistol
that had been placed on a shelf. He
began playing with this dangerous
weapon, which was a Smith 4 Wesson
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Said tbat Detrcit Judge to Henry

Said that Detroit Judge to Henry
Mellus, the other day: "This affair
Will wrench a so bill from you unless
you want to go up for ninety days. Be
careful how you sling your fists around
after this. John @. Heenan gained
something of a reputation By blowing
his uscIe up, but public apzRAon has
changed. If you want to be famous
you must discover a comet or hang
around a reservoir and look out for
breaks,
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Tn the new university AT Newbu,

In the new university at Newbury-
port all the students acquiring any
special tongue are to be domiciled as
boarders with family speaking that as
their native language; and all foreign
professors are to be natives of the coun-
tries to which their particular langua-
ges belong,
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"A marine editor at Cincinnati dares
to say that there is not a steamboat
man on the western rivers who would
not die rather than tell the truth,
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the shovel, and be- sure to keep your
own and Paddy's feet of, for every
pressure will destroy the natural posi-
Iion of the root below.
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In.-sPANIsH PRIDE

National pride is very general, but
that Of the Spaniards seems to tower
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-23
AN ORDINANCE
To Establish Markets.

Section !. Be it ordained by the city coun-
Gil of the city of Dallas, That from and after
after the passage of this ordinance ii shall be
lawful for any person or persons, firm or
films, to establish market shops or houses at
any place or places, within the corporate
limits of thecity of Dallas, not hereinafter eN-
pressly prohibited.
Section =. Be it further ordained, That no
market shop or house shall be established on
the public square, or on jackson, Commerce,
Main or Elm streets or Pacific avenue, at
any place west OF the houston aud Texas
Central railroad, nor wthintw hundred
and fifty yartls OF Pacific avenue or Jackson
streets.
Section 3. BE 1t further ordained, That so
much of section GID of the printed code of
ordinances as relates to the keeping of stores
or stalls for the sale of butchers meats or
game be so amended as to read two hundred
dollars instead of twenty-five dollars for
each and every stall.
Approved May 70, 1874.
w. l.. CABELL, Mayor.
Attest w. III. PRATHER, Secretary. l09d7t
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-23
The following paragraph, which we

The following paragraph, which we
clip from an article in the Houston
Telegraph, of Sunday, is applicable as
well to other ATTITUDES as TO Houston
Those people who stand ready to
loceliHe every general remark, and to
fancy anapplication to themselves indi-
vidually, worry themselves needlessly.
II is time to take oilense when ofiense
is intended and when there is room for
doubt, it is always best to give the doubt
o chance. Those persons who watch
the utterances of these columns for
some hidden allusion to persons whom
they think they know, are informed
once for all that when individuals are
intended, individuals are mentioned,
and when not mentioned they
have no right whatever to appro-
pirate the discussion of general princi-
pies to their own or any case,