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Paisley Shanls.

The union of Scotland with England
in 1907, was the moving power which
first developed the energies of Paisley,
exhibited first in the manufacture of
coarse checkered linen cloth; then i'm
itations Of striped muslns, called
Bengals !" and then checkered linen
handkerchief After a time lighter
style Of fabrics was introduced, such as
plain lawns, lawns striped with cotton,
and others ornamented with figured de-
vices. Rather more than century ago,
the making of sewing thread, known
by the name of "ounce thread and
nuns thread" was commenced, and
carried on for many years TO a very
large extent When cotton made its
astonishing advance ~ our manufac-
turing districts, the Paisley linen
thread gave way to cotton thread,
which is still largely manufactured
there. About the commencement of
George III. s reign the Paisley weav-
ers introduced kind of silk gauze,
which was SO admirably wrought as to
supersede for time everything else of
the kind. The trade prospered greatly;
companies came down to London to
establish new firms ut Paisley, and
these firms not only employed the wea-
vers OF Paisley, but those also of
all the villages in it's vicinity, as well
as establishing warehouses aud aeen-
cies in Dublin, London, and Paris
But the article manufactured was
one peculiarly dependent on fashion.
and fluctuations took place so suddenly
and completely as to bring it to ruin.
Under these circumstances the men of
Paisley, instead of Responding, took
themselves to the muslin trade. which
they raised to great eminence, and
opened field for the employment of Il
great number Of females in tambouring
or embroiGering mUslins. About thirty
years ago the game trade again revived.
and, together with the plaid OF tartan
trade, is now carried on to some extent:
but all OF these yield at present to the
shawl manufacture, which, introduced
forty years ago, now forms the staple
product Of Paisley. The general char
acter of the processes of shawl-weaving
bears much analogy to that of carpet
weaving. In both cases the worsted
yarns and the silk and cotton yarns for
shawls are dyed before being used in
the loom or the shuttle in both cases
draughtsmen are engaged to prepare
patterns, which are divided into squares
to facilitate the adjustment of the loom
in both cases the wooden fabric passes
through a shearing-machine to cut and
level the surface. One of the most
marked differences between them, how
ever, is this-that the shawl has some
times a plain centre, with a figured
border at two or four of its edges and
i'll such case the border is woven as a
broad web, containing several repeti-
tions of the pattern, which is afterward
cut asunder, and is sown on to a shawl
edge.
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AN OLD RAILWAY LAW APPLIED.

4 woman was arrested IL Buffalo a
few days ago for walking on the track
Of the Central railroad. This is the
first case brought, at least for a long
time, under the almost forgotten law
of 1850, which provides that - il shall
not be lawful Tor any person, other
than those connected with or employed
upon the railroad, TO walk upon the
track or upon the railroad, except
where the same shall he land along
public roads or streets The penalty
Is n fine of not more than $3.50, or one
years imprisonment The Central
Company propose 10 see that the law
is enforced, and great many "acci
dents would bc avoided If other COM
pauies would follow their example.
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OHIO RIVER DISASTER.

The steamer Pat Rogers was burned
ON the Ohio river, on the morning of
the 9TH inst, near Aurora, Indiana. The
Rogers was a passenger steamer. and
there were one hundred people aboard
at the time of the disaster, twenty of
whom We're either burned to death or
drowned. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary, a negro
thief, who had been detected 10y watch
man on the boat few days before, and
fred upon.
Following is a partial list of the lost
Mr. Madden, of New Orleans Charles
Pullman, of Newtown, Ky. j. II. Stew.
art, of Madison, Ind, boat builder
Mrs. Smith, of Madison; G.. II. Orley,
Snider, Jacob Light, Mrs. futile and
child, VIM. Brown, of Cincinnati, are
missing
Known to be lost
Miss Lizzie CORNER, and Jacob Cor.
mer, OF Madison; Miss Tlckerrock. one
German lady not identified, one child
taken out on mattress, not identified,
Chas. Besunger, striker, j. Il. Stewart,
Madison; Chas. Diltman, pilot,
thought drowned also Jacob Mum
schaicher and Rudolph Drucher.
Eleven passengers and five of the crew
cannot be found.
Latter accounts report that Professor
Plato and DIR. White Of louisville,
have both been found.
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AN IMPORTANT DECISION

The Supreme Court OF Maine has
just rendered a somewhatimportant de-
cision relating to the liability of tele-
graph companies for errors in the trans
mission of dispatches. Some four
years ago business firm in that state
telegraphed to firm in Chicago by the
Western Union line for ten thousand
bushels of corn, but the dispatch was
made TO read tone thousand" and be-
fore the error could be corrected, corn
rose, and the firm lost nine hundred
dollars. II was a night message. and
the usual agreement that the telegraph
company shall not be liable for blum
ders was signed, but the court decided
that such contract, beingagainst pub
lie policy, is void, and therefore award
ed the amount claimed.
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THE NEWS.
The Ea st.

THE Pennsylvania state insurance commits
sioners have given the Safeguard Insurance
Company, of Philadelphia notice to discon-
time Business in that state, until re-examina-
ton of its affairs
FRANK WALwoRTH, the New York paricide,
has been placed in the state asylum for insane
convicts.
THE reservoir which supplies the city Of
Trenton, New Jersey with water gave way on
the 3rd inst, and sert 80, 900, 600 gallons Of
water over the city There was no damage
dcne beyond filling cellars and carrying away
fencing.
ANOTHER body, a victim Of the Pittsburg
disaster, has been found among the runs Of
Butchers Run-tha Of female child, found
in the cellar OF house, where it had been
washed by the water.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-08-14
japanese Tradition of the Milky Way.

The japanese believe that the Milky
Way is a river in the heavens, and they
have this tradition In the age when
only deities occupied the earth Shio-
kula was the wife of Keniin. They are
now the stars which we call Castor and
Pollux. He had box which he COM
manded her never to open. She dis
obeyed, and as she took off the cover a
cloud of five colors spread from it and
rose up to heaven. He summoned the
cloud to come to him, and having
mounted on it he assembled to heaven.
His wife followed after him. But he
had already crossed the river. Know
ing that she could not follow, she fell
on her face aud cried, confessing her
disobedience to his command. Then
he appeared on the opposite bank, and
said they could not live together as be-
fore, but would be seen together in the
evening of the sixth day of the seventh
month in every year, and then the river
would be in condition To be crossed.
Thus they always live ON the opposite
sides of the river, and can meet only
once year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-08-14

An important meeting of Western
railway managers was held in Chicago
the 4th inst, which was attended by
representatives from the Chicago and
Alton, Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific, Chicago and Northwestern, Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy, Illinois
Central, Hannibal and st. Joseph. Kan
sas City and Northern, and several St
Louis roads. There were also repre-
scented in the session the agents of the
Mississippi steamboat lines located in
that city.
The object Of the conference, as ex-
planned by those in attendance, was to
raise the grain rate from Mississippi
ant Missouri River points and cities in
Iowa and Missouri to that charged one
year agq. Some time previous to the
panic, the farmers were receiving only
ID cents a bushel for corn, which
would not pay thecharge for transport
ing it to Chicago, and the railroads re-
duced the rate then imposed five cents
per hundred pounds. Considering the
present prosperity of the Changers, and
the high prices they are receiving for
their grain, the companies have placed
the tariff back to where it stood twelve
months since. The revised tariffs have
not yet been completed, but the fol
owing are the rates announced from
he. II 4. 4 4
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ANOTHER COMET

A new comet was discovered mt Mar.
seilles, France, CA Sunday morning
last, in the constellation Of DRAGON, the
announcement OF which reached me
this morning by the New York Herald.
| commenced searching ioritat early
darkness, and in a few minutes /
caught a glimpse OF the stranger |
found 1t quite large aud bright for 4
telescope comet. II has a strong.
central condensation. but ms far ms /
could Judge 10y observing il In both
solar ami lamar tWilight.it wasdestitnt,
OF both nucleus and tail.
1t Is in the fourth coil Of praco. and
about one-iaurth the distance from
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lota Draconis to Gamma Ursae Mino-
ris. II has moved some five degrees
since it's disc very, or about one de.
gree day, toward Alpha Ursae Major
j., the brightest of the pointers. and
the one nearest the pole-star. It is
going 10 be brighter, but how much
cannot be known at this wiring.
But little is known about ii, there
fore it is wisdom to say out little.
LEWIS SWIFT.
Rochester, N. Y, July 80, 1874.
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Loves Choice.
By KATE H1LLARD.

bh M MI AAN u
Do you remember, dear my love,
our parting in the twlght-lane,
When brighter than the stars above
Your eyes shone through their dewy rain,
And made me say goodbye again,
And held me- that I could not move?
Too fond to grieye, too sad to smile,
yielded 10 their silent power; -
And was it but breathing. while,
Or was il through spell-hound hour
kissed your face, an upturned flower,
Whose sweetness did my soul beguile?
And then | said, " Farewell my SWEET
The hour has come and we must part;
But, through the long years ere we meet,
Which viii yoa bear within your heart
To eomfortyou when depart
Remembrance, or oblivion fleet?
"A memory of all the bliss
That made the flying hours so bright,
From the first timid, trembling kiss
dared to give You one dear night,
Lost in vision Of delight,
Down to the perfect joy Of this?
-Forgetfulness of all the pain
That happest lovers learn to know
The doubts that come and come again,
The haunting fears that will not CO.
The vague, faint chill presaging woe
Unconquered by loves proud disdain?
which would you have sweet? Now decide,
Forgotten pain, remembered ioy?"
"Ah, dearest, then you said, and sighed.
Loves pain is but brief annoy,
But rich delights that never cloy
Are to his memories allied.
Then bid my heartloye's Joy retain.
And sum felicity in this,
That all its treasures still remain;
And, till we meet and live again.
You shall forget loves passing pain.
And III remember all its bliss.
LifpiHcot's Magazine.
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IOWA AND GEORGIA.
Correspondence Atlanta GA Herald.

''IifHlNHhfutr AihhtA iNtsh Herald.
When yen talk Of coincidence. com
mend me to the fullowing In pryiug
into some statistics, which have come
20 regard MS the true eyc-sight Of the
state. | found this puzzler in table
published 10y authority of Illinois. IN
1870. This paper says that the popula-
ton Of Georgia is l,lSi,0OO: that of
Iowa !, IS, 933. The insane in Georgia
were LIS; of Iowa, l,lS3. Georgia
had 200 idiots: Iowa, 7Sa. Georria's
deaf mutes numbered 671; Iewa's. 676.
Georgia's blind, ~: luwa's. i73 To.
tai for Georgia. l,l26; for Iowa. I. 12l.
The difference in the population of ia,
two states is 2,OG7. and their insan,
just two; ia their idiots lust one. In
their deaf mutes just one; in THEN
blind only one.
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, principal points to Chicago.
All points on the AIissississi River
l.nH.n Lnnla rniaal 2 ..n..L 80. 90

All points on the Iissississi River
have been raised 5 cents per 100 pounds
over the old tariff This, of course,
applies to all grain, in car loads, ex-
cepting wheat and other millstuff.
The three pooling Iowa roads in
creased the grain rate from Chicago
west uniformly 5 cents per 100 pounds
several weeks since, and it was then an
nounced that the present action would
be taken.
The proposition to raise the rates on
live stock from southwestern points to
Chicago has also been discussed, and
the probability is that such action will
be taken. The new rate will enter into
effect Immediately.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-08-14
GORDON GORDON.

The notorious Lord Gordon Gordon
came to tragic end by his own hand
ut TT. Garry, Manitoba, on August i.
1t appears that one Monroe, n detec-
tive from Toronto, arrived there on the
steamer International with two war
rants, issued by Police Magistrate Nc
Nab, OF Toronto; one was on the in
formation of Marshall & Son, jewelers.,
of Edinburg, Scotland, charging Cor
don with obtaining goods under false
pretenses; the second warrant charged
him with bringing stolen goods into
Canada. Monroe had the warrants in
dorsed by the Stipendiary Magistrate
Gilbert McMicken, mt TT. Garry, aud
accompanied 10y two of the local police
and Mr.. Balm, lawyer, acting for Mar
shall Il Son, started Saturday afternoon
for Headingly, where they arrived in
the evening. They proceeded 10 Mrs.
Corbett's, where Gordon boarded, and
Monroe made the arrest in the presence
of the others. Gordon seemed calm and
self-possessed, but asked if il was an.
other kidnapping affair. On being as
sured it was not, and hearing thenature
and regularity of the arrest, he begged
that he should not be taken through
the states. lie also asked the priv
ilege of changing his clothes for
heavier ones, and the handouts were re-
moved for that purpose, Monroe fol-
lowing him closely. lie went TO the
foot of his bed, pretending to look for
his Scotch cap. when he seized pistol,
and, declaring 81 will not 60 i step
further, placed it 90 his right ear and
fired, killing himself instantly. The
tragedy created much excitement.
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Two Confederate soldiers we're talk
ing together, when one asked the
other "Where was You enduring the
WARP The other replied, Il was
tweoty-four months in the army, sir. -
"Yaas. wal. where was You enduring
that time 2" II was twenty-three
months in hospital. "And where
were you enduring the other month";
" was locking for the hospital
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Power Of the Mind.

Some one has said that a man who
can play good game of che.s has all
the menta requisites necessary for a
great general. A professor of the manly
art of fencing and boxing says the man
who can spar well has attained the high
est point of physical Development In
this exercise every nerve and muscle is
brought into simultaneous action mt the
command of the brain. Dancing and
fencing are graceful; sparring is more
graceful than either, because il de-
mands both body and mind. Moreover
no man can spar well unless he has his
temper in perfect control. A common
objection is made 10 sparring on the
ground that IL makes men pugnacious,
more ready 30 seek than 10 evade n
quarrel. in order that they may display
their superiority. On the contrary, it
is almost invariably found that the con-
suiousness Of power makes man more
forbearing 10 an opponent, calmer in
disposition, with larger mixture of
that perfccts self possession, which is one
of the best tests OF true manhood.
Gov. KELLOGG, Of Louisiana, has
signed the death warrants ordering the
execution, on the Dist Of August,in the
parish of Assumption, of the five men
who, in April last, murdered and
robbed Elisha Eastwood, an old hat
boatmau, in that parish. The names of
the condemned are Anderson Perry,
John Ross, Antoine Monroe, James
Williams and James Robertson. one
is white man, two are 30 light as 10
pass for white, one is mulaito, and
one q negro.
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THE royal family of Great Britain
costs the treasury -, 377, SO in gold az
nually
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Talk more 10 the Children.

a woman writing TO the Lawrence
Home journal says:
bul II Is In our homes that thl,
speechlessness tells most fesrfully, on
the breakfast, dinner and tea tables, At
which u silent father or mother sit
down IN haste and gloom TO feed their
depressed children, This Is especially
true OF men and women In the rural
districts They are tired; they have
more work TO do In q year than II IL
easy TO do, Their lives are monotonous,
Too much so for the best health Of either
mind or body.
II they dreamed how much this mo.
notony could be broken and cheered
by the constant habit Of talking with
Others, they would grasp at the slight
est chance OF conversation. Sometimes
II almost seems rs II complaint and an
lagonism were better than such stag
nant quiet But there need not be
complaint and antagonism; there Is
no home 30 poor, so remote from AZ
fairs, that each dry does not bring and
set ready for family welcome and dis
cussion, beautiful sights and sounds,
occasions for helphlness and gratitude,
questions for decision, hopes, fears, re-
grets.
Many wife goes down to her grave
q dulled and dispirited woman, simply
because her good and faithful husband
has lived by her side without talking
to her. There have been days when
one word Of praise, or one word Of sim
pie good cheer, would have girded her
up with new strength. She did not
know very likely, that she needed
anything; but she dropped, Many
child grows up hard, unim-
questionable, unloving man or
woman simply from the nun
cheered silence In which the first ten
years of life were passed Very few
fathers and mothers, even those who
are fluent, perhaps, in society, habit
ually talk with their children. 1t is
certain that this Is one Of the worst
shortcomings of our homes. Perhaps
no other single change would do 50
much to make them happier, and,
therefore to make our communities
better, as for mon and women TO learn
TO sneak,
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YESTERDAY being holiday ut all
the offices in the country, We received
no press dispatches from any quarter,
MANUFACTURER.

Enthused with the dovelopingnature
OF manufactures, the Houston Mercury
In u we'll considered article on the sui
ject, skirts the material advantages
which our State oilers for their estab.
lishment as follows.
No country Il more highly favored
In the way Of water power and build.
ing material, than Is Western Texas.
There are the San Marcos Comal, San
Antonio and Guadalupe rivers, all bold,
strong, rapid streams, filled with innu,
merable falls and rapids Just suited for
mills and manufactures with the
most elegant building stone In the
world, the beautiful Texas marble,
some pure white and some straw col.
Ored. The lands along and adjacent TO
these streams are rich and productive,
80 that the cotton can be grown with
little or no trouble, and the broad acres
OF pasturage all over that country
affords the grazing for millions OF
sheep TO furnish wool
All over Texas natural facilities are
offered for manufactures Of all kinds.
In the east the timbers that grow, tall,
massive heavy bodied trees OF every
variety offer the most enticing induce
ments for the wood workman. Saw
mills, planning mills, tonguing and
growing mills, coopering establish
ments, bucket and tub manufactures,
furniture, wagon and carriage enter.
prlses, In fact the manufactures for all
the known materials made OF wood, are
needed In the State and can readily be
carried on In the eastern part of the
State. Not only this, but all through
the extreme eastern portion OF the State
there is a range of iron hills, filled to
overlooking with the richest iron ore
known to the world 1--WE say overflow
ing. for II often crops out in the sur
face, and we say richest, for the
ore has been tested and pronounced
by competent Judges Judges too inter-
estcd in saying otherwise---as the rich
est, best quality Of ore known to COM
merce). These hills Of iron, we may
say, are inexhaustible, and will fur
nish work for ten thousand foundries,
furnaces and rolling mills for genera
tons to come. The wood and the coal
for running these foundries, furnaces
and rolling mills are right with the
iron. The wood grows oil over the
earth, and where God in his wisdom
and mercy to man put iron, He always
put coal also. Eastern Texas is well
adapted to cotton and wooden manu-
factories also, steam power taking the
place Of water power, and the finest
tlmbered country God ever smiled Oh,
is better adapted for tanneries.
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RESIDENCE FOR SALE,

situated ut the Dallas Springs, about hall
mile south OF tho Court House. For farther
particulars Apply :" JOHN BARBER
I'LL. On the premises.
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FARM FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.

Four and quarter acres Of land, with hne
improvements, n. miles southeast OF Court
il suse, near Central depot Price low and
terms easy. Apply to
JOHN HENRY BROWN & son.
ALSO,
Lots improved and unimproved, In all
parts OF the city.
Valuable lots ON Elm street cheap-one"
half cash-One half on time.
ALSO,
Ten paid up shares of City Rrilroad stock.
Apply 10
JOHN HENRY BROWN & SON.
oanItf
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Corrected weekly for the HERALD by School
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FOR SALE.

Beyeral beautiful lots ON Main street, near
the Market. Price low-half cash, half In
si1 or twelve months.
ALSO,
Five and one-half acres one and q hall
miles Northeast of the Court housed nice
post oak land--half cash, half on time. This
Is an admirable place for an orchard OF
dairy. Apply Mt once 10
JOHN HENRY BROWN Son
Nidu
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FOR SALE.

A nice residence, seven rooms, &C., six
miles from Dallas.
Also, a small farm Ave miles from Nc
kinney.
Also, four hundred and eighty acres Oh
land. Timber, prairie and water, on Muddy
Creek, Dallas county.
2l3d&w2m
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Hide and Leather Market.

The highest price paid was 1870,
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W, D. Howell, Laura c, Redden,
anl Henry Morford, a notice OF chIl.
Iren's books, and Of the new medical
work by DR.. J, V, c. Smith. subscrlp.
t non price 70, including Chromos "The
MhlIe Mountains and the "ClIns Of
hreen Rlvern James sutton 4 Co,
publishers, 6S Maiden Lane, n. Y,
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

VOfTON,
Receipts At Tompkins Little
peceints nj n. r. Luce 4 Co, s,.... 81 bales
Receipts at Boulwere& Co.'s"""..," n bales
Total 80 bales
nv haut WHOA ma ia wng 1880.
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Old IyRe Metal.

XITAHTED-rurehase for o lot Of old
w type mstal-rsn excellent substitute foi
labNu Petal. fSiss low, Apply ~ me