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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-05-15

We are happy to see Mr.. Hindman out
again. This gentleman has been confined
to the house with rheumatism for many
weeking, being at times entirely helpless
The warm sunshine of May has enabled
him to come out once more, and he will
soon be we'll. The sick generally over the
town are growing better.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
rhG Rio Graude.

A special to the News from Corpus
Christi says a letter from the postmas-
ter at Neuces, who was robbed and had
his house burned by raiding Mexicans,
says: On the 26th instant, about four
o'clock, p. M, while conversing with a
man named Smith, I discovered three
Mexicans approaching my store. went
into the sitting room for rife. Smith
rushed in, with a Mexican following
him with a gun pointed prepared to
fire. My wife interfered, and prevented.
He then pointed the gun at me. I
saved my life by taking his. I then
aimed at the nearest of the cut-throats
in the store, when discovering about
fifty outside, did net shoot, knowing
the only chance for my life was to Sc
crete myself, which I did in the sub
terranean passage, where I found Smith.
The robbers sacked my store, packing
valuables in wagons. About this time
the mail rider from San Antonio ar
rived. They took him prisoner, and the
mail never reached me.
Smith now left his hiding place and
ran. They gave chase and murdered
MIN. The store was fred and I was
forced to leave my concealment, which
I did unnoticed and remained near and
witnessed the destruction of my home.
The Mexicans left, believing me con-
sumed in the flames. My children were
shot at twice while they lay FRUSTRATED
on the ground from fright. The Mexi-
cans had several American prisoners,
stripping some and compelling them to
go bare footed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
MeteOric Stones

One of the most rational theories,
based upon chemical and physical data,
yet propounded concerning the nature
and origin of meteoric stones, is that
which attributes the light emitted from
such bodies not to incandesceuce, but
to electricity or some other cause.
This theory also asserts that the noise
attending their fall is not that arising
from the explosion of a solid, but that
it is by conclusion of the atmosphere,
arising from the rapid motion of the
body through it, or IN part due to the
electric discharge; that meteoric show
ers are not the results of fragments
from the rupture of one solid body, bnt
the separation of small and distinct
aerolites that have entered our atmos
phere in groups; and, finally, that the
black coating is not of atmospheric
origin. but is already formed when
these bodies enter our atmosphere-the
fact being we'll known, in respect to the
latter, that observers at distance often
see these bodies in a luminous state,
while those located where they fall do
not perceive this luminosity.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
EngIand's Standing Army.

When the army bill was before the
house of commons for consideration,
Sir MILFORD Lawson made an amusing
speech, prefacing it with the resolution:
g That in the opinion of this house the
assurances of friendship from all for
eign powers, mentioned in her majesty's
speech, warrant reduction in the land
forces of the British army" He didn't
know but that it was out of place to
talk politics in the house, but he would
ask of the honorable gentleman if all
nations were friendly to England, of
whom was she afraid? Not France,
surely, for she was so full of her own
affairs that she had no time to think of
her neighbors. It was, in fact, rich
Frenchman who instructed his new
valet that his three principal duties
would be to wake him up every morn
ing at nine, to let him know as to the
weather, and to inform him under what
form of government he was living. Not
Russia or Prussia, for England has
married into the royal families of each.
Nor Spain, since it was only the other
day that they were compelled to back
the kings train into tunnel to save
him from the bullets of his subjects.
England had no power to fear but the
pope aud the potato bug. Gladstone
would be able to take care of the former
"a conservative government was surely
competent to prevent an invasion by the
latter. If the standing army was to be
kept on it's legs the country would be
obliged some day to use it for the rea-
son that induced an African chief to go
to war-he had barrel of gunpowder
on hand and it would spoil If he didn't
use it. The wit of the Factions Sir
Wilfred did not avail. The army esti-
mates vera adopted. They show that
for $73, 1886, 600, England will have dur
ing the next year an army of 129, 600
regulars, exclusive of $4,000 in India,
1880 militia, 1928 effective reserves,
$4,000 enrolled pensioners, and l61, 900
efficient volunteers and some yeomanry
in all. an army of $50. 900 men.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
UtOpias.

While Mr. Ruskin, in England, is con
tributing practical good money TO Yards
the establishment of an impractical in
dustrial Utopia, where the steam engine
is to be ignored, the railroad banished
forever, and "none wretched but the
sick, none idle but the dead" Mr..
Lauson, also of England, has published
book entitled ''Ten Years Of Gentle
man Farming at Blennerhasset with
Cooperative Objects" in which he
gives an account of his remarkable and
costly experiment of farming with the
aid of steam ploughs and all other APP
pliances of machinery, together with
ideas both of scientific agricultural ex-
periments and full cooperation of cap
ital and labor. His experiment, he con-
fesses, was failure, and has resulted
IN sinking thousands of pounds and the
absolute abandonment of the enter
prise.
Nor are we without instances in our
own country of various attempts, with
various degrees of success or failure,
to construct industrial associations
which, in comparison with the general
condition of life, would be denominated
Utopias. Mr.. NoIdhoff has recently
published a volume Of over four hun
pred pages, concerning the existing
communities in the United States, and
included in the volume biography Of
the subject as an aid for those of his
readers who would desire to farther
prosecute its study. His conclusions,
on the whole, are favorable, and yet
NalcOur-the latest experiment of the
klnd-has come to an untimely end,
and broken up in a most prosaic lawsuit,
IN which charges of quite worldly dis
honesty IN money matters are made by
both sides.
That UtOpias have their use, though
they are never practically realized, no
one will doubt to whom the study of
the method of progress is a subject of
interest. As Comte says, in his "Phil-
Osopby Positive, " ID" Utopias are for So
cial art, properly so called, what geo
metrical and mechanical types are
towards their corresponding arts. Be
ing recognized as indispensable, in the
least construction, how shall we avoid
their use IN the most difficult Z? Thus,
despite the empirical condition of pol
tiles, very great change is preceded by
century or two of an analogous
Utopia, inspired by the aesthetic genius
of maukiRd, by a confused instinct of
its situation and it's needs.
Now, too, that the scientific move
ment of modern society has, in the
person of Professor Tyndall, justified
It's Utopias Of theory under the phrase,
the scientific use of the imagination, we
may safely predict in all departments
of investigation an era of UtOpias as
prelude to the practical changes which
every one IN some manner would claim
to be necessary.
The recognized laws of chemistry to-
day surpass the widest Utopias dreamed
of by the alchemists, and though in
their discovery the scientific use of the
Imagination played an important role,
let us remember that it was insignia
ton in the hands of science. The very
definition of Utopia is, from etymology,
that which as yet exists nowhere as
soon, then, as it does exist it ceases to
| be Utopia,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
The Old Man with the Saws.

On Congress street car, the other
evening, was very quiet lot OF passen1
gers, and among them man about
sixty-fve years old, having foul or i've
hand-saws under his arm, apparently a
saw-fler. Opposite the old man sat q
woman with a young babe in her arms,
and presently broad grin covered the
old fellows face, and he nodded to the
child and said: sr
&c never loved anything as I love
children! I can hardly keep from
biting his little ears p
3 He waited moment ar then asked !:
Z" How old is that beautiful child,
madam ?" --
eight months, . she replied.
"Only eight months? Why, I've
seen children twenty-five years old who
didn't know as much as that child doesi
j had child drowned in bar1 once,
and you don't know, madam, how it
fioored me!
He looked around the car for a mo-
ment, and then said, reading from the
card: Ha ss
"Change to the amount of So will be
furnished by the driver. Well, that's
liberal enough. He hasn't offered me
any yet, but I suppose old customers
are served first"
The driver counted noses, saw that
he was one fare short, and he jingled
the bell. -al f a-a
. care we near some station ?" asked
the cid man, standing up and looking
out.
He sat down after awhile, looking
around, and, his eye falling upon the
baby, he asked of the mother
"Couldn't you let me hold him lit
tie while? See him look at mel I'll
bet $40 he thinks Tn his father I"
She refused to trust the infant off her
knee, and the old mans face grew sad,
and he sighed as he said
"Just think of it-that innocent child
has got to be buried in the ground and
be eaten up by worms, like the rest of
usI''
He wiped his nose on ono of the saw
handles, held his hat in his hand and
his eye catching sign on a grocery, he
exclaimed:
"SWeet milk for sale here That
make me think, madam-do you bring
that child up on the bottle ?"
Her face grew very red, and she made
no reply. The old fellow looked his
saws over, one by one, laid them down,
and walking to the front end of the car
he picked up basket containing meat
and asked
Does any one own this meat?
A woman made a motion to signify
that it was her property, and he uncov
cred the basket and called out:
"Pork chops and small piece of
veal. People who want to eat veal can
gnaw away, but [ don't want any !
What are pork chops pound, MADAME?
She did not answer, and the old man
picked up his saws, and asked
:" Does any one here know the name
of the man who invented saws ?"
There was no answer, and he pulled
open the car door and continued:
"Yes, I do love children. I was q
child once myself, but didn't have any
fun"
As he stood on the platform he went
at will be just like me to fall down
when step off, but of course I can't
stay on this Car forever. Well, good
by, everybody, and pleasant dreams to
you"
He stepped off the car, slipped and
fell fiat in the ditch, while his saws few
in every direction. AS the car passed
on he was heard saying:
"They ought to have machine to
lift people off the cars. "-Detroit Free
Press,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
splendid Wheat Crop Prospects.

A gentleman who has travelled extern
sively through Tennessee, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio
and Southern Illinois, informs the st.
Louis Democrat that the winter wheat
crop now in the ground in all that
region is in excellent condition. Some
farmers suppose the broadcast sowing
would prove failure in such states as
Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and
Maryland, where the snow did not lay
long on the ground but examination
of the plant proves the reverse. Not
only is the growing wheat in excellent
condition in these states, but the area
put in is large. In the more northerly
portion of the winter wheat belt the
earth has been very steadily covered
with snow, and there can be no doubt
that when a'thaw comes it will be eud-
den. Spring will be skipped and sum-
mer will begin. The weather will be
hot and forcing, and the growth of the
wheat plant will be rapid. Another
thing seems to be pretty certain, and
t at is, that there will be a big corn
crop in 1875. Corn is now bringing a
Price that will insure a large profit to
the farmer, and hogs are high also.
Thus there are two incentives to pro-
duce corn largely. IF the crop should
be so large as to force prices down, it
can be fed to hogs, and made to pay
good profit that way.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
Hospital for Sick Animals.

The Medical Press and Circular says:
"The Brown Institution in the Wands-
worth road is a curious feature in Lon
don at present. Lame dogs, sick
horses, and donkeys form the outdoor
patients of this hospital. 1t was estab-
lished by a gentleman who died twenty
years ago, leaving over 100000 for this
purpose, bequeathed to the Chancellor,
Vice Chancellor, and fellows of the
university of Condor for the purpose
of establishing and unfolding an insti-
tuition for investigating, studying, and,
without charge beyond immediate ex-
penses, endeavoripg to cure maladies
dIstempers, and injuries which any
quadrupeds or birds useful to man may
be found subject to. During 1873 there
were about seven thousand animals,
chiefly horses and donkeys, receiving
treatment at the Brown Institute. Many
of the horses, it was found, were the
property of rich proprietors, SO that
the trustees have lately restricted the
benefits of the charity to the poor.
Hence last year not more than four
thousand animals attended as out
patients. OF these 800 were dogs, and
among these about twelve cases of
rabies. The endowment of the charity
gives only some 600 a year, which,
after all expenses are paid, leaves moth
ing for the purchase of diseased or in
jured animals or their carcasses for the
promotion of science"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
new No. 6 SEWING MACHINE.

We, manufacturers of boots and
shoes. are using Wheeler & Wilson's
New No. Sewing Machine in all kinds
of stitching on our work, and conf
IDENTIFY believe that it will supersede all
others in this branch of manufactures,
for the following reasons:
l. The work done by this machine is
superior to that of any other in variety,
amount, excellence and beauty.
2. This machine is more durable than
any other of its class, requiring much
less outlay for repairs and reneaOGL of
parts.
3. It does the cording or staying of
button holes in most elegant and sub
stantial manner, without the expense of
royalty.
In short, because by the use of this
machine we can turn out superior GCOrk
at less cost than with any other.
Signed by many.
SIT is fast supersediDg all other ma
chimes for leather work.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09

HERBALIsTIC REMEDIES. former
days, if member of the household
became indisposed, the family head,
under instructions from the gray
haired dame, went to the forest or the
field, to gather herbs or berries, from
which were quickly made invigorating
extracts, which ere many days brought
the patient safely around, and saw the
family gathering once more without a
missing member. How is it now?
The slightest indisposition brings the
"family physician" with his hand
some carriage. He feels the pulse,
examines the tongue, looks very grave,
writes a few lines of hieroglyphics,
charges big fee, and leaves, only to
return the next day and find his
patient mercurialized sufficiently to be
really sick. A week or two of attend
ance follows, and therein lies the Sc
cret OF wealthy physicians /" Com
pare the physique of the present age
with the past, and the story is com
pleta P""A"~ discard chemicals and
try herbs. If you are i'll, try the great
herbalistic remedy, DE-. j. Walkers
vinegar BltterS. ..a
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
The Railroad War.
Freight Down to TTvO-thirds of Cent
Per Ton Per mile.

Freight Down to TyyO-thirds of a Cent
Per Ton Per mile.
Only 80 cents per 100 lbs. from Chi
cago to New York! Six dollars ton
for 900 miles, or two-thirds of cent
per mllet At this rate, supposing the
actual cosfto be the lowest ever attained
in this country, about 2 mills, the
profit is only one mill per ton per mile,
and in order to earn per cent. interest
on the capital, the road costing $50, 600
per mile, and two-thirds of the earnings
coming from freight, a traffic amounting
to 900, 900 tons over every mile of
road, or ,8O0,OO0,000 tons one mile,
must be secured. No road in the coun-
try ever has had a traffic anything like
as large, nor has any road ever attained
as low a cost of transportation as six
mills, except in coal. It follows that
the competition between the Baltimore
and Ohio and the other roads to Chicago
has now driven down the rates below a
living price, and the roads are doing
their low class freight business at a
loss. The only question now is, which
can afford TO lose most?-St. Louis
Democrat.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
Pimples. Eruptions, Rough skin.

The system being put under the influence
of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for
a few weeks, the skin becomes smooth, clear
soft, and velvety, and being Illuminated With
the glow of perfect health from within, true
beauty stands forth in all its glory. The eff
feCts of these medicines which operate upon
the system through the medium of the blood
are necessarily somewhat slow, no matter how
good the remedy employed. While one to
three bottles clear the skin of pimples
blotches, eruptions yellow spots, comedones
or ''grubs," dozen may possibly be required
to cure some cases where the system is rotten
with scrofulous or virulent blood poisons. The
cure of all these diseases, however from the
common pimple to the worst scrofula is, with
the use of this most potent agent only a mat
ter of time. Sold by dealers in medicines.
COVERED WITH ERUPTIONS. CURED.
CLAvERACK, Columbia county, n. Y.
DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N Y:
Dear Sri am sixty years of age, and have
be m afflicted with salt rheum in the worst
I'm for great many years, until, accidently,
l saw one of your books, which described my
case exactly. bought your Golden Medical
Discovery and took two bottles and half, and
was entirely cured. From my shoulders to my
hands was entirely covered with eruptions,
also on my face and body. was likewise af-
ficted wi h rheumatism, so that walked with
great difficulty, and that is entirely cured
May God spare you long life to remain a
blessing to mankind. With untold gratitude,
Mrs. A. ". WILLIAMS.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
bis back against the door. mvon have

his back against the door; lyon have
shown yourself in possession of secret
the custody of which may prove
dangerous u
81 am not unprepared for your
threat" replied. g In the first place,
Ildid not come here unarmed in the
next, have prepared a full written
statement of the facts to which I have
alluded, with information, besides, of
my present visit to yourself. This
piper will be delivered to the friend to
whom it is directed, unless within an
hour l reclaim it from the messenger,
who has been instructed for that length
of time to retain it.
His face grew livid. His frame quiv-
cred with mingled fesr and rage, and
his eye cleaned like that of wild
beast at bay. ~
g What Is your purpose ?" he ex-
claimed IN a voice hoarse with sup
pressed passion.
sfTo keep your secret while you live"
I answered, son one condition"
"Name 1t. ess.
"That you write instantly to Julia
Parsons, rencuncing all pretentions to
her hand, and absolutely withdrawing
your proposal OF marriage.
After a moments pause, he hastily
penned brief note, which he submit
ted to my inspection it was quite sat
isfac'ory.
Be 50 good as to seal and address
it, said.
He did so.
1 will see that it is delivered" I
remarked, taking it up and bowling my
self out.
When I met George Dickson that
evening. his old college look had come
back. He had great news to tell me.
The next thing was to tske me to see
Julia; and il is needless to tell what a
happy evening we three spent together,
ana happy marriage followed not long
after.
Eldridge Parsons, have Just LEANED,
emigrated for Australia, on board the
London, and went down in that Inflated
ship.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
AN EPISODE.
By BARTON GREY.

! And so the hour comes at last
When 81 the dream is over.
Toe distant, psssion-hauuted MAST
Ine rapture of the lover
could not tell that vould cbon,,o
That fair and fragrant fancy.
ana yet, ah, me VINO counts If sfranga
q mat time should kill the pansyI
Our love was but a summer flower.
tnlng OF rings and posies:
"A Iraiir sweet bud that bloomsd an brYrr
Ihen dled-hke other roses.
a dreamed ne'er had seen a face
80 exquisitely tender,
ana al my life TO your desr ersce
Bent down in frank surrender,
Aud now what need of VOWS and sighe.
and passionate pretensee,
10 us who are so sadly wise
IN lordship of the senses2
II wAs-It is not-let il pass
Though there has gone forever
Inc image from the magic glass,
Inc ripple from the river.
Your life shall flow absve this shock
In truer, stesdier fashion,
with inst that culver DER the rock
Ihat marks buried passion;
And If sometimes look behind.
IL will not be in EOrrow,
For to the heart the heart is kind
Loves Eden blooms tomorrow!
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09

The conspicuous triumph of Messrs.
George Steck & Co of New York, at
the Vienna Worlds Fair in 1873, at
which their pianos obtained the highest
award-the only gold medal-has begun
to yield them substantial fruits. The
increased popularity of the Steck in
struments is noticeable not only in New
York, where their excellence has long
been acknowledged, but throughout the
country, and more especially in those
communities that lay special claim to
cultivated musical taste.-NeaO York
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