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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-12-15
Watches, CLOCKS, syeaCes''y.
DIERCkS 4 DAVIS
NEW JBWELRY SrORl,
Corner Richardson and Taylor Streets,
COLUMBIA, s. G.
Now open full and splendid assortment
JEwELRY, WATCHES, CLOCKS, SILVER
AND PLATED WARE, SPECTACLES,
FANCY ARTICLES, GUNS, PISTOLS,
CANES. spoRTMEN'S GOODS. &c,

The proprietors are well known, and have
an experience of many years in the ousl-
ness-Mr. Diercks having carried on the
JEWELRY BUSINESS on his own account
in this city for many yeras past. Mr.. Davis
has had long experience in the old and
popular house Of Radcliffe & CO., ,and for the
last four and half years in the employ OF
Mr.. VIM. Glaze.
We respectfully invite our old friends and
customers and the public to call and inspect
our stock before purchasing elsewhere:
WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY Re
PAIRED in the best manner. Also, EN-
CRAVING done at short notice. Work war
ranted.
Sole agents for the celebrated SPENCER
DIAMOND SPECTACLES.
MR. DIERCKS respectfully informs his
friends and customers of the up-country
that he has removed his GROCERY DE.
PARTMENT to the rear, where he has one OF
the largest and best tassortments OF FAMILY
GROCERIES to be found in the city.
Attached to this branch is my REsTAU-
RANT, where all kinds Of refreshments are
served in best styles day and night.
Oct %, 42-3m. u. D1EhCho.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-12-15

UNDER THE CoLUMBIA.-Attention
IS so often called to that model estab-
lishment under the Columbia Hotel,
Columbia, S. c.. that the readers OF the
HERALD are by this time pretty well
posted ia regard to what Messrs. Kings
land & Heath, the proprietors, can do
in their line. It is right, though, and
in the line of business, to keep the tact
before the people, that in China, Glass
ware, Crockery, Fancy Goods, and a
thousand and one Housekeeping artl-
cles, they cannot be excelled either as
to variety and excellence or in prices:
As everybody wants something at TINS
season, our advice is to try them. oO-tI
@ IF YOU WANT TO SEE
something nice, call at John F.
Speek's. and you will not regret
your visit. Ladies are particular
y invited to call. No charge for
looking.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-12-15
miscellaneous.
NOTICE..

NOIlCEs
Ny wife, Ann Gary, having left my bed
aud board, all persons are hereby forbidden
to hire, harbor or give aid or comfort to
her in any manner whatever, as will pros
ecute any person so doing. And, further,
l will not be responsible for any debts she
NAY contract. WILLIAM GARY.
Dec. 6, l875-49-3t*.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-12-15

P-ER-F-lC-T F-I-T-T-l-N-
sH--R-T-S at PHIFER' SHO.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-12-15

AND CLoTHING STORE. MEA-
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-12-15

= A FINE DIsPLAY.-The stock exhib-
tied by Messrs. Geo. Lane & Co.. in
Confectionery, Fruits, Canned Goods,
&c., is unusually large, and the sight OF
the well-flled shelves is a refreshing
one. They are certainly prepared for
the holidays, and can supply every de-
mand in their line which can be made
on them. They will in a few days make
such display of Toys as will run all
the Youngsters in the land wild.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
Anew Jersey Girl Sells Herself.

A somewhat eccentric though wealthy
gentleman named Gates has recently
been creating quite sensation in and
about Somerville. He is well advanced
in years, being upward of seventy, him
self widower and cripple, with one
married daughter-an only child. He
moved into Hillsborough township over
year ago and bought considerable
real estate, giving one farm to his daugh.
ter. He is said to have been quite lavish
with his money-to such an extent that
his family became alarmed and an effort
was made by his daughter and son-in-law
to have him declared insane and placed
under guardianship, but this effort
proved failure.
Among his other eccentricities was his
evident fondness for the society of young
ladies. On the 9Th of July he became
acquainted with young lady from the
West, who, with her mother, was tempo
rarily staying in Somerville, and who is
not yet out of her teens, to whom he
made proposals of marriage. The girl
took one hour to consider the matter,
and then accepted, although, it is said,
against the wishes of her mother, and on
Monday of this week the parties were
united in marriage, the ceremony taking
place i'm Plainfeld, the mother i'm the
meantime having become reconciled
Fifteen thousand dollars was the mar.
riage portion of the bride, which sum
was at once placed at her disposal-Son,
! erset Messenger.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
Women You Meet In the Cars.

There is the woman that nearly drives
you mad by never being discomposed in
either manner or dress. Her hair is as
smooth as though it had been ironed her
face is as clean as though cinders and
dust was an unknown quantity; her
boots and gloves are new; they fit so per-
fectly that you are quite sure her hands
and feet were poured into them. She is
not without wisdom in being bien chaussee
and bien gantee. When people have moth
ing to do or think about, they are re-
duced to extremities! But when this
Immediately y-attired woman emerges
from her section, after sleepless nights
journey, as calmly unrumpled as on her
first appearance, endurance ceases to be
virtue. She is reproach to earth and
man. People have no business to go
through life without coming in contact
with it. The macu'ately-attired wo-
man has no wrinkles. She never will
have. She sheds feelings precisely as
she sheds dust. They slide off her. /
don't approve of her at all, but / do
wish my boots and gloves looked like
hers. Then there is the frowsly woman.
The longer she travels the more
scratched up" her general appearance
is. Her children, between the ages of
three and seven, browse upon every
thing in general, making night hideous
by crying, and day hideous by permeat-
ing the atmosphere with their uneasy
selves. Her husband wears paper collars,
puts his boots on in public, and reads
violently illustrated papers.-Kdte Field.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19

and springtime of youth-if he should
trample upon repentance and toss lightly
away a soul, noble and brave, but err
ing?
There was pathos in his tones-a
great depth and tenderness. Oh, how
great and good he looked, standing there,
with love, and pity, and tears in his
eyes! He finished his appeal, he turned,
he held out his arms.
Robert, my boy, cheer up! There's
long life before you. Be honest, be
strong, be hopeful. Never despair, and
never throw away life because of sim
gle false step"
Miss Lucretia and Miss Penelope sat
with downcast eyes, struggling to regain
their ancient pride. buried my head
in the window curtain and cried heartily.
When 1 looked up Robert was in God
father Vivian's arms, and sobbing upon
his brave, broad breast. Jenny was there
too, with her hands clasped about his
neck and her bright hair hanging down
around him.
And the tide of blossoms, and fragrance
and sunshine kept swelling and gliding
into the grim library, keeping pace with
the round, murmuring, mellow voice.
Noble, generous, brave-hearted Godfather
Vivian!
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
How Governor Allen Looks.

A. G. Buel, in letter to the st. Louis
Republican, thus describes Governor Will
liam Aliens personal appearance:
Governor Allen is about six feet two
inches in height, and as straight and
symmetrical to-day as he was when his
voice rang through the arches of the old
Senate chamber forty years ago, sounding
in consonance with that of Benton for
hard money and the removal of the
deposits by Andrew Jackson. His shoul-
ders are broad and square, and above
them rises one of the best shaped heads
in the United States, crowned with a
thick growth ofcreamy white hair, which
is kept combed and brushed as neatly as
if it belonged to some pet of the home
circle, intent upon conquest of the
feminine heart. His face shows scarcely
furrow, and his complexion is of that
peculiar clear red which bespeaks good
living without excess, and clear con-
science. The most remarkable of Gov
ernOr Aliens features are his eyes. They
are dark blue, and, when he gets warmed
up in conversation, snap and sparkle like
the orbs of boarding-school miss just
out for q vacation romp. The tout
ensemble is that of fine old gentleman
who, like the good wine he always drank,
improves with age.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
How Coffee Came to be Used.

1t is somewhat singular to trace the
manner in which arose the use of the
common beverage of coffee, without
which few persons in any half or wholly
civilized country in the world now make
breakfast. At the time Columbus diG-
covered America it had never been
known or used. 1t only grew in Arabia
or Upper Utopia. The discovery of its
use as beverage is ascribed to the Supe-
rior of monastery in Arabia, who de-
sirous of preventing the monks from
sleeping at their nocturnal services, made
them drink the infusion of coffee, on
the reports of shepherds, who observed
that their focks were more lively after
browsing on the fruit of that plant. It's
reputation spread through the adjacent
countries, and in about two hundred
years it had reached Paris. A single
plant, brought there in 1714, became the
parent stock of all the French coffee
plantations in the West Indies. The
Dutch introduced it into Java and the
East Indies, and the French and Spanish
all over South America and the West
Indies. The extent of the consumption
now can hardly be realized. The United
States alone annually consumes it at the
cost, on its landing, of from fifteen to
sixteen millions of dollars.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19

LADY ANNE BLUNT, says the Graphic,
protests against the proposed monument
to Byron. Was he not refused burial in
Westminster Abbey fifty years ago? And
did not his relatives have to bury his
body at their own expense? And if his
bones have slept so long unhonored,
to the disgrace of England, why disturb
them now? Lady Blunt is Byron's
granddaughter, and has the true
Byronic temper. But because the ortho-
dox Dean Of Westminster refused to
bury in the old Abbey man whose career
had been notorious for its prohigacy, it
hardly follows that the English people
half century later deserve castigation for
Injustice to the memory of man who
grandiloquently wrote that when he died
he wanted emo heightened scroll, no
praise-encumbered stone" to mark his
resting-place, and demanded that his
epitaph should be his name alone.
Furnishing enc generation for the short
comings Of its predecessor may be poetic
and Byronic, and all that, but is neither
sensible nor just. As for Byron, Childe
Harold is his monument and Don Juan
is his epitaph. His genius is unques-
tionable, and so is his character, and the
two have been wrestling with each other
for sixty years, and it is uncertain which
will win in the end. There would be no
difficulty in immortalizing the poet in
brass or marble or anything, If 1t were
not for the man. But then he is one of
the men who need no superauous stone
to keep his memory alive, and the pres
ent movement for amemorial does seem a
waste of sympathy that could find much
worther objects TO spend itself upon.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
Sad Death of an Inventor.

A lamentable accident occurred at
Toulon, on July 8, by which M. Leon
Jacquemim, Sub-Lieutenant in the
French navy, and two men, lost their
lives. That young officer, who had
highly distinguished himself in the
service, and who fought in the campaign
of 1901 under General Faidherbe, and
received terrible wound at the battle of
Saint Quentin, had, since his recovery,
invented projectile torpedo. This ter
rible missile was to be fired from mortar
and to explode by simple con actwith the
water. The sensitive substance which
was to fire the charge is phosphuret of
calcium, which ignites simply from the
moisture in the breath. On the day in
question the deceased was preparing one
of the missiles for decisive experiment,
and large number of officers were
collected to witness the result. He, with
his two assistants, was in room of the
arsenal completing his preparation,
when suddenly terrific report was heard,
and the building fell in heap of ruins.
When the rubbish could be cleared away
only a few blackened scraps of burned
flesh could be found, except the head OF
Lieutenant Jacquemim, which had es-
capped injury.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
The Virtue OF Asparagus.

A medical correspondent of an Eng
lish journal says that the advantage of
asparagus are not sufficiently appreciated.
Those who suffer from rheumatism are
cured in few days by feeding of this
delicious esculent; and more chronic
cases are much relieved, especially if the
patient avoids all acids, whether in food
or beverage. The Jerusalem artichoke
has similar effect in relieving rheuma-
tism. 1t may be well to remark that
most plants which grow naturally near
the seacoast contain more or less iodine,
and in all rheumatic complaints iodine
has long been a favorite remedy. One
who has been in the drug business told
the writer some years ago that many of
the popular patent nostrums which some
disinterested people" for the good of
their fellow creatures "-sold at two dol
lars bottle, consisted simply of few
cents worth of iodine in solution.
Iodine is dangerous, however, in over
doses, affecting especially the eye.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
The Black Hills Miners.

Only small per cent. of the number
of emigrants at present in the Black
Hills are experienced and skillful min
ers. This fact is surprising, considering
the wide advertisement which this re-
gion has had, and the sort of passion
which afflicts old gold hunters to try
fortune in new fields. There are now
about six hundred white men, aside
from those comprised in the Government
expedition, in the Black Hills. Four
times as many are already organized at
various tewns and settlements along the
Pacific railroads and the Missouri and
Platte rivers, either moving in that di-
ton, or awaiting favorable indications
from Indian councils now holding for
the cession of the gold country to the
Government. The majority of these
people have been drawn from various
occupations by the enthusiasm prevalent
throughout the States and Territories
regarding the new discoveries of gold.
Many of them have invested their all in
an equipment suitable TO the venture.
Hardly man of substantial financial
resources can be found engaged in the
gold hunt,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
Atmospheric Phenomena in Italy.

A Rome letter to the London Echo,
dated July 10, runs as follows: Padre
Secchi publishes an account of the sim
gular phenomenon which occurred at
Velletri during the violent thunder
storm of June %, and which is to be
ranked among the hitherto unexplained
caprices of nature. Just as the tempest
was at its height, and the rain torrental,
six persons taking shelter in stable,
which was also occupied by three horses
harnessed to as many wine-carts, wit
messed the following extraordinary ap-
pearance: A luminous mass rose from
the threshold of the door, entered the
stable, glided from one cart to another, at
tracted, probably, by those fringes of bells
characteristic of the Roman wine-carts,
and then passed through an iron-grating
into the street. The bells rang, the
horses plunged, woman and man felt
a certain giddiness, but no accident hap
pened. Outside the stable carpenter,
at his shop-dOor, saw the luminous mass
(Which some of the witnesses compared
to fiery club as thick as mans army
issue from the grating, strike the pave
ment, and disappear in a dazzling flash.
However, the meteor visited several
portions of the large house with which
the stable was connected, flew through
large chambers, blackening slightly
ments of plaster in another. Strangest
of all, this extraordinary visitor, after
completely destroying the new ceiling of
room leading into II vast kitchen,
danced round woman who was stand
ing at table. She described the meteor
as a fiery serpent, which she first saw
standing uprigh int on the floor within two
metres distance of her. Then it flew
toward her, whirling several times round
her knees with great velocity. She felt
a sudden blow on the head and fell to
the ground; but the husband, who saw
the whole apparitiOn, on rushing to what
he supposed was the corpse of his light
ning-destroyed wife, found that she was
only stunned little. On recovering she
complained of pain in the scalp, and her
hair had become and remains dry and
rigid. After this last caprice the meteor
disappeared and from the quantity of
SCOT which fell from the chimney, it is
supposed to have found vent in that di.
rection. II was accompanied by loud
detonation, but whether OH its first ap-
pearance, or when it vanished, no one
can say. These details are gathered
from letter written to Padre Secchi,
from the Meteorological Observatory at
Velletri, and published in the Voce della
Verita, of July 8. After this one may
believe that Tranquil really did see a
"lambent flame" play around the head
of Servius Tullus in his cradle; nor can
the tale of the stars, playing on the river
Moldeau, OH the Prague, over the body
of st. Jean Nepomus, be so certainly set
down as pious fancy of the Middle
Ages, unsupported by natural phe-
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
cANro Iy.-AyENGED AT LAST.

Now, Smith had been for dozen years,
In the practical plumbing line.
And the bills of Smith did not grind slew,
And they ground extremely fine.
Terrace by terrace, house by house,
The lands of Jones he took,
And heavier still the balance was
Writ in that fatal book.
At last no property nor cash
Had he, so he did fail,
And the avenginp plumberlocked
Him up in Ludlow Jail.
His heartle3s creditor hebesought
For mercy in his need;
Nay, nay, no mercy; lie and rot,
Quoth he, in Jail like Tweed.
For have sworn avenged to be
On thee, thy kin and kith;.
Remembered thou Belinda JaneF
1 am tho son of Smith
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
cANro 1.-THE YOUNG AvENGER.

Young Walters to the plumber gone,
A boy with smut on nose,
Furnace and carpet sack In hanu,
With the journeymen he goes.
Now grown a journeyman himseii,
In grimy hand he gripes
A candle-end, and meath the sink
Explores the frozen pipes.
His furnace portable he lights
With smoking wads Of news
Papers, and smiles to see withih
The pot the solder fuse.
He give his fiat: They are froze
Down about sixteen feet;
Ifyou want water ere July
You must dig up the street.
practical Plumber, now Is ne
As witnesseth his sign,
And ready to ~ 1ertake
Repairs in anv iine."
One day a housvmaid, as he sat
At the receipt of biz. .,,..,
Sir Jones's pipes is frizr'
He eirt his apron round his loins,
His tools took from the shelf,
And to the journeyman he said,
IN see t. this myself"
" Would" he said, as he drew the bill,
" My father were alivel
10 ID. of,solder at l6c.,
81 75."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
THE PLUMnERs: REVENGE
BY @. T. L.
oAsro 1.-THE DEATH BED OATH.

cANro 1.-THE DEATH BED OATH.
II was some thirty years ago,
An evening calm and red,
When gold-haired STRIPPING stood beside
His fathers dying bed.
% Attend. INV son !" the sick man said,
"Unto my dying tones,
And swear eternal vengeance 10
The accursed race OF Jones.
For why9 Just nineteen years ago
A girl sat by my side,
with cheek OF rose and breast OF snow,
NV peerless, promised bride.
A viper by the name oi Jones
Came In between us twain
With honeyed words he stole away
My love, Belinda Jane.
For he was rich and was poor,
And poets all are stupid
Who feign the god OF love Is not
Cupidity, but Cupid.
Perchance tits well, for had wed
That maid of dark-br0wn curls,
You had not been, or been, instead
or boys, pair OF girls.
Now. listen to me, Walter Smith
HE to yon plumber bold, -
And thou would'st ease my dying pang,
His prentice be enrolled.
For Jones has houses many ON
The fashionable squares.
And thou, perchance, may'st pe caiieu III
To see to the repairs.
Think of thy fathers ravished love,
Recall thy fathers ills,
Remember this, the death-Ded oath,
And then make Jones's pills"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19

The PAPAL TfARA.-Of the modern
crowns of continental Europe, perhaps
the most remarkable is the well-knewn
triple crown or papal tiara, or perhaps we
should say tiaras, for there are four of
them. The tiara Is seldom worn by the
Pope il Is carried before him in process
sion, but, except on rare occasions. he
wears mitre like Bishop. OF the ex-
listing tiaras, the most beautiful is that
which was given by Napoleon / to Plus
VII in 1905. IL is said TO be worth up
ward. of $4,000. It's three circlets are
almost incrusted with sapphires, ,emeralds,
rubies, pearls, and diamonds; and the
great emerald at its apex, said to be the
most beautiful In the world, is alone
valued at 10000 francs.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
cAsro In.-THE TRAITORS DOOM.


The Jones had horses many on
The avenues AZ 4 squares,
And hired the } Jung avenger smith,
To see to the repairs.
And Smith put faucets In, and COCKS,
And meters exc, aud taps,
Connections, T-joints, sewer-pipes,
Basins, and water.traps;,
He tore the walls and ripped the hoors
To reach the pipes beyond,
And excavations in the street
And meath the sidewalk yawned;
And daily as he entered up
The items in his book,
The plumbers face wore serene
And retrospective look.
And Jones would wiring his hands and cry:
|" Woe, woe, and utter woel
All me, that taxes should he so high
And rents should be so 1ow"
Then he would give the Smith the house
As installment on account
or its repairs, and notes OF hand
For the rest of the amount.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19

LITTLE FALLS, N. Y, has wonderful
dog-not "mine dog Schneider" but one
owned by Henry Snyder. His principal
occupation is to carry his masters mail
to and from the post Office. He appears
regularly at every mail delivery, and
likeall other patrons Is politely waited
upon by Postmaster Stafford or one of
his clerks, after which he Immediately
returns to his master. The business-like
manner in which this is done Is really
wonderful. The dog never stops to read
the postal cards.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19

In the annual banquet given by the
Lord Mayor of London to Her Majesty's
Ministers, Disraeli, responding to the
toast to the government, declared the
country was prosperous and the people
content. Alluding to foreign affairs he
said peace prevailed, and in his opinion
it would continue to prevail. If the
foreign relations of Great Britain were
scrutinized he believed it would be found
that they had been conducted with pru-
dence and frmness. The colonial en-
pire would be developed and consolidated.
It's interests and sympathies ought to be
assimilated with those of the mother
country, and ultimately the colonies
prove source not of weakness but OF
strength and splendor. Reviewing the
work of the present session of Parlia.
ment, he adverted at some length to the
incident of the shipping bill. He stated
that in proposing a new measure the
government had been assisted, not
coerced, by public opinion. In conclu.
sion, he repeated the opinion which he
once before declared here, that the peo
pie of Great Britain were better off thar
the nobility of other countries. TIL,
speech was received with enthusiastic
cheers. Other members of the Cabine
spoke in similar strains.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19

The Paris Figaro asserts that there are
many American women in that city
living freely i'm the mud and mire of the
denli.monde, and acting as spies for Ger
many. They are said to extract informa-
ton from the official French gentry,
who are drawn into the circle of their
fascinatiOns.