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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-03


The new constitution of Alabama has
been ratiged by a majority of over fifty
thousand.
Six Italians were arrested in New Or
leans last week for passing counterfeit
nickIes, and jailed.
The failure of Wallace & Co, whole
sale dry goods, of New Orleans, is reported.
Liabilities S75O,OOO; assets half a million.
Mrs. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, the widow
of Gen. Stuart, of Virginia, has taken po-
sition as assistant manager of the southern
female college at Richmond.
Gen. JEFF Thompson is credited with
the prediction that by January l, the Missis-
sippi will have cut new channel near Vicks-
burg, leaving that place two miles inland.
1t is estimated that the sugar crop of
Louisiana this year will be $4,000 hogsheads
greater than for any other season since the
war
Kentucky paid $9,O22, $50 government
taxes last year, which places her fifth in the
line of states. Illinois paid the largest
amount, S17627,65
The bonded debt of ST. Louis at the
beginning of its present municipal year was
S25, ,992, 900, and is now S16,270OOO. With
the floating debt added, tho entire liabilities
of the city foot up Sl7, All, 900.
The Alexandria committee appointed to
examine the books, papers, wheel and tickets
belonging to the Montpelier Humane Assc-
citation, reported that a most glaring fraud
has been practiced On the ticket holders.
The committe cannot designate the guilty
parties.
Over fifty additional arrests have re-
Gently been made for Illicit distilling ia the
Virginian mountain region, and the frauds
against the government there are in fair
way to be completely checked, as they have
already been in the west.
The Gainesville (Ga) Southron re-
ports that the mining news in Georgia is
very encouraging. Nearly all the companies
are vigorously mt work and doing well. I'M
proved machinery and great deal of new
capital is being invested. and the prospects
for a larger gold yield than for years past is
reported.
The receipts of cotton at Norfolk, last
wear, were 393,672 bales, but this year they
will be much greater, on account 1ef the facil-
tiles for handling and compression. The
cotton-shipping season commences Septenl-
ber l and ends april 1, and the receipts this
year for two and half months have already
reached 14052I bales.
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Natural Gas Furnaces.

The constantly increasing utilization
of natural gas for industrial purposes,
throughout the oil region of Pennsylvania
and its neighborhood, is attracting much
favorably comment The success of the
pudding and heating furnaces at Erie,
Leechburgh, and elsewhere in Pennsyl-
vania, where the experiment has been
thoroughly tried, seems to have attracted
a widespread interest to the subject, and
we now learn of the schemes on foot to
utilize the gas upon the larger scale.
Near Beaver Falls, the gas issuing from
a well one thousand one hundred feet
deep is employed in file factory at that
place. 1t is also reported that the pro-
duct of the great gas well in Butler
county, Pa, will be brought to certain
iron works in Pittsburgh. The work of
laying a pipe, six inches in diameter and
seventeen miles long, is said to be con-
tracted for, to be finished within a
month. 1t is further reported that a
project is being mOoted to purchase all
the gas wells in Butler county, and bring
their product to the Pittsburgh manu-
factories This last scheme, if success
fully realized, would work quite an in
dustrial revolution. But, whether feasi-
BILE or not, the agitation of the subject IS
an indication that the. question of utiLiz-
ing the enormous volumes of valuable
heating gas which have, until the present,
been allowed to go to waste, IS at length
receiving the attention it deserves.
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How the Wise Woman Work..

A lady in Science Of Health says
Monday she rises at the usual hour,
which II fixed 10 suit both personal needs
and Surrounding circumstances. rho
looks 0tkf her work for q week, and, 30
far - Dssible, she arrangcs a certain
amOllnNbf sedentary work II baking
or churning, or both must be done on
Monday, she puts of her washing until
Tuesday, which gives her the OppOTtu-
nifty Of putting her clothes asOak Oytr
night. Then she has the ironing FOR
"Wednesday, baking for Thunslay, sweep
ing for Friday, and cleaning and sofne
baking, and perhaps churning ON satur-
day. Then the next week she can wash
on Monday, If she prefers. II possible,
she has the same jobs for each day every
week; but If not, she finds some WAY VI
changing, that she does not get much
more exercise than a fair proportion each
day. If she gets too much any way NJ
much the more need Of careful manage
ment Her sewing is selected, and the
wants Of her family ~ well fOre.ecn tiat
She has that done first that will D. most
hteded, though many a time she lcis aD
old garment BE- worn rather than break
in upon her hours Of nightly rcpose. She
has sOme light work (if any) for the
evening, has her hour for retiring, and
keeps.if, allowing herself the time for
rest which she knows from experience b.
be bece@ary. She gets some time out Of
doom every day, even IL she has 10 take
her work with her She takes thing
calmly, does not waste her nerve p0wcr,
stops and rests il she feels exhausted,
and lets the extra jobs go 10 the wall
rather than make herself sick with try
ing 10 do them. II she really has 100
much 10 do, she studies devices iOr
" sighting" her work especially that
part Of IL Disguised from show. II still
thers il too much 10 do she hires help
for the heaviest jobs or for the sewing
and saves money 10 pay for IL out 0f the
next doctors bill She puts some Of "
vitality into vivacity and companion.
Less for her family and friends, instead
of laying il all out ON their hacks az
for their palates. She gives them hcr
wise and kind companionship during .
long, pleasant llfe She makes them
wiser and happier than they would have
been without her she bcqueaths vitality,
calmness, and power 10 her children,
who rise up and call her blessed. Her
husband also praiseth her, and at last in
a ripe old age they 60 home together.
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The Grange Means Peace.

In late circular the Executive Com
mittee of the Missouri State Grange very
truthfully say:
"There are many professional and
trading men, and even some of our own
brethren, who seem to think that the
mission of the Grange is 10 fight every
thing and everybody. Never was there
a greater mistake If any body Of men
on earth mean "peace on earth and good
will TO men," it is the Grangen We
desire the prosperity Of all good men.
We have no antagOnism 10 any honest
calling, trade or profession. We want
all to flourish and prosper, but we do not
want them 10 be our masters. While
other trades and professions are prosper
ing, we want the farmers 10 prosper also.
We want the 'man wh0 holds the bread
to reap the fruits of his bwn labor, and
not TO have them go mainly into the
pockets Of the drones of society.
We want agriculture TO flourish and
the tillers Of the soil 10 be elevated finan-
cialIy, socially and educatiOnally. And
why should we not try to build up our
selves, if we do not aim TO pull down
anybody else who ought 10 prosper?
There is no agrarianism in the grange.
Every Patron wants all the property lac
can get honestly by his toll.
We do not wish 10 injure the lawyers,
though one Of our cardinal doctrines
takes away great source Of their profit.
One Of our prOudest achievements is
to stop strife and lawsuits among farm
crs. Where Oranges flourish lawsuits
diminish, and the little breaches that
arise between brethren are healed with.
out litigation.
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LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
WEST.

The population of Kansas, as taken by
a recent census, is 5SS,37S, an increase of
S,OOS since last year.
Cincinnati has the smallpox badly.
Two hundred and sixty-four new cases have
been reported to the health officer since
November l.
Reports from the west show a heavy
fall of snow, and very severe storm extend
ing from Laramie City on the east, to beyond
COrinne and Elko on the west, during the
past week.
The official count for members of the
Colorado territorial Legislature shows that
the republicans will have four and the dem
Oerats nine members of the council, and
that the republicans will have sixteen and
the democrats ten members of the house.
Disastrous prairie fires are sweeping
over portions of Kansas. They can be seen
in almost every direction every night, and
the damage bids fair to be enormous, proving
more disastrous to many than-the drouth.
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IninrIes Of The Brnln.

Delicate A. the organization Of the brain
must be, IL j. surprising tO read Of the hard
knocks il can bear, not only without in-
jury, but even % IL advantage. Ono
man who lost half his brain through sun
puratiOn Of the skull, preserved his intel
iectual faculties 10 the day Of his death.
and the brains Of soldiers have been known
30 carry bullets without apparent inc0u-
veniencc, and tO undergo operation iur
the extraction Of the foreign bodies with
out the loss Of power. A physician who
WIS afflicted with an abnormal cerebral
growth which pressed upon the cavities n
the brain, 10 as tO paralyzc ono side 0
his body and render him speechles, fc-
tanned possession Of hi- reasoning aud
calculating powers until he dieu. Oncoi
three brothers, al idiots, after recoiviug
a severe injury on the head, gHined h's
senses and lived tO be- q clever lurfisier
A stable boy Of dull capacity, and suli-
iect a. fits, had his wits -harpcned by ihs
kick Of horse, which neccs-iiatcd the
abstraction Of portion Of his brain and
no less q parsonage than Pope Glcmcnt
vi owed the improvement Of bis memory
tO slight conclusion Of the brain. bl
the other hand it j. q fact that the brains
Of persons with thoroughly diroricred
minds, a. q rule present no abnormal ap
pcauincc after death. which h not tO o.
won Tered at, DIR. Wynter declares, uhcn
il II found that symptoms Of disorlend
brain are often produced by q very slight
in the constitution Of The blOCsl
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FOREIGN.

The Madrid senate has elected Romero
RubiO, president, and Senior Saavedra vice
pesident. The lower house has elected
Vidal CaStaneda president, and Sebastian
Damacho vice-president The compulsory
edubation bill hUs been introduced in con-
greSs.
The Spanish minister has been ofici-
ally advised from Madrid, that his govern
ment has conceded that in future, American.
citizens on trial before court-m;rtial in Cube,
shall have the privileSe of selecting counsel
for defense. The treaty OF 1895, in the opin-
ion sf the Spanish government, was not suf-
ticiently definite to meet the case of courts
martial in the event of war or insurrection
in the Island, but the present arrangement
settles the question in accordance with the
desire expressed in friendly note addressed
by secretary Fish to the Spanish government,
and disposes Of the exaggerated reF orts on
This Subipct
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CURIOUS AND scIExfItIc.

Il
THE FORcE or EXPANSION. - The
boiler stack (sixty feet IN height n The
Ohio Iron company, ~ ZanesVilie, re-
Gently feII viii sudden and beayy
crIisb, killing one u the furnace men
instantly. The boiler bad just been
heated up, after haSihg beet cold, when
| the sack gave away. II appears ulaf
| the rs fame had DESTROYED flle inside
lining Of fhs stseks and hai partly De-
gtrOyed some Of the brick and ssesksnssI
the bnekwOrk, - that, when the stack
beczs1e sssdlienIy heated again. the ez-
pafIsion resulted in The demolition Of the
whole structure.
THE EJgzTgfc ITGfT 81 4 MILITARY
GIGsAL.-'fhe rsJf II fbe eiomeBs-H -Halgke
factory at Berlin was recently the -ceDe
Of a series Of experiments with the cleo
tTic light, which filed all the streets iB
the vicinity with cf0Sd staring witb
astOnishment At supposed WODderfgl
natural phenomenon, up IN the clouds.
The apparatus, which gave light 20
powerful that ordinary writing could be
read by it. illumination ~ > mile dis-
tanoe, STas arranged with an inciOsed
nliriGf, ~ fiist the rays were projected
against the clouds, Whics; served a.
screen. In front Of the mirror the sig
mails we're made, and thee were repeated,
of course, on a iafge, sesle jn the clouds.
The light Is to be adopted ~ the Ger
man army for night signaling.
EFFBCTs OF HEAT ox STEEL WIREs
ASb Rofss5- Pt9fesser. w. y. Barrett has
found that if steel Of ah5 .l'iekuess be
heated by any means, at certain tenn
peratune, the wire ceases to expand, al
though the heat be continually poured
m. During the period, also, the wire
does not incfease ID tcuirierstHfe. The
length Of the time during which this ai-
normal condition lasts varies with the
thiCkness Of the wire and the rapidity
with which it can DC hsstsf through.
1t ceases TO expand, and no further
change takes place till tho heat j. cut of.
When this is done, the wire begins 10
c9Ol down regularly till it has reached
the. critical pCibt az which the change
took place on heating. HeTe . second |
and reverse change Ocetfs At the mo-
ment that the expansion occurs, an ac- 4
tual increase in TEN mpefEtDTe takes place, 4
large to cause the wire to 4
glOw again with red-hOt heat. 1t il 4
curious that this after-glow had not been
noticed long ago, for it is a yefy con /
spicuOus object in steel wires that have 1
been raised to white heat and allowed /
to cool
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back to get either the money or the tai
sman. OF course the Edpaess In her
exile, when she heard Of this. imagined
that the money and the falisman both
must be given up for lost, and with the
taIisman the fortunes Of the NapoleOne,
the more particularly ~ II was made
known 10 her By the public journals that
the apartment Of the official 70 whom she
had con6ded them hid been repeatedly
ransaeked, both befOre, during, ana aflef
the commune. Fancy her establishment,
then, and delight, when this official at
last, returning to Pans aid hss lJng-
abandoned apartments. found the map Of
the fOrtifcatiOns, dusty, indeed, but un-
disturbesl and the contents Of the GgBs-
orie precisely as he lid ieit thel1 II
can hardly be thought strange that this
should be regarded not only bv the ex-
ETnpres herself, but bT her s0n and by
not few Of their pafiisans, a. an omen
of unquestiOHable promise for their now
fallen cause.
The lady through whom we learned
this curious little incident Of the great
catastrophe Of the second empire, speaks
If the sF-Efnbfess ~ eniOVing Unusual
good health at tine preseiit, aid aS having
gained greatly in afl the most wonlanly
s.+ristfes Of bearing and Of character
from the discipline Of sorros aEd mis-
fortune. The young prince imperial she
describes as very charming and gympa-
thetie in manner, short in stature like
his eitlier, aid, Ike his father, singularly
kind ana aifaay,s. Ne Frsenibles his
father as to the brow and eyes, but nas
his mothers mouth and chin. AssiduOus
devotion TO his studies at WoOIwich has
weakened his eyes 80 far as to make it
peeessarF 10 Protect them at night by
wearing shaded glasses. But his siif-
geons state this to be only a temporary
trouble, and his general health is 50 ex-
ceiient that he Is i15e5 seri0uslS rneditat-
ing trip around the world. Should |
this intention be carried out he will of
course include San Francisco and New |
York in his tour.
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Don Carlos in a Desperate strait.

The Basque Provinces and Navarro.
with the exception Of the pugnaciOus
fanatics atrd HiereenaFies who compose
the army, lOtg FIR peace. The devasta-
tiOn Of their lands, the burning N their
villages and farmhOuses, widespread NOR
tality and physical suffering, exile and
ruinOus contributions, have st lat
broy0bt home 20 them the error they -
reckiessly Ccff,piitted when, in the midst
Of prosperity and munsipal liberties
which made them the envy Of The ret
Of Spain, they wantOnly threw away 10
much happiness, and plunged into a cap
iciOus and iHeXsUsable war. Exhausting
cOnseriptiOns in the Basque Provinces
and Navarro have been unable 20 rise 20
more than 10000 men the Carlist army,
weakened as IL has been by desertiOns
aud the retreat Of entire battsliOns across
the frontier into France. On the other
hand, the exertiOn Of tbe Spanish govern
ment TO bring overwhelming forces
against its formidable opponent are being
crowned with success. Besides the Ordi-
nary increase in the army by the last two
conscriptiOns, Gen. Martfnez Canine
will, to all appearances, be able in q lew
days to detach twenty-fOur battaliOBs
from the army Of Catalonia 10 cO-Operate,
under his own command, perhaps, with
the army Of the North, directed by
Quesada while another division, with
Gen. MOriones at its head, win also enter
Navarro 70 desolate il with fire and
sword. The final pacifeatioB orcoBquest
of the Basque provinces b 20 De reserved
to the last, If their complete submission
does not follow that ~ Navarro. Thus,
unless some extraordinary and unlikely
event occurs, political or military, in the
shape of a revolution or a defeat similar
to that which the ill-fated CoDcha suf-
fered before Estella, the collapse Of the
Carlist cause must be at hand.-LOndoH
Times. n
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FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS.


The regular session of the National
Legislature viii begin ON Monday, Dec.
6, and the following list Of Senator'S and
Representatives viii be convenient for
reference.
All the elections to the Senate have
been made, and the list published, and
all seats, except one (PiRchbacks) for
Louisiana, disposed ef IN the House
there IS a vacancy in the Fourth Tennes-
see District. caused by the death of Hon.
John w. Head. Hon. Samuel VI. Fite,
who was then elected to the seat, died at
Little Rock, Ark, few weeks since, and
there is still a vacancy; but as there is
no lack of candidates it L expected the
seat viii be occupied early in the session:
THE SENATE.
Republicans (marked Z, }, "A; Demo
crats tD.6 IS: Independents (sNALL
cAFsl, 2
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..The Ninety and Nine.''

One Of the most celebrated of Ar San
keys collection of hymns is The Ninety
and Nine" 1t was favorite in Eng
land, and is much admired here. Seve-
raj statements concerning its origin have
been published, which conflict with each
other, and no one of them, Mr.. Sankey
says is correct. TIE facts in the case
are these: Some time in 1873, Mr.. San
key, being then in England -yith Mr..
Moody for the frst time, bought a copy
of the Christian Age, London religious
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paper. publishing Bfr. TInage's sermons.
Jn one corner was EyuDd iiils byDn. BE
bad never seen HOr heard ~ ID lefOro.
II pleased him. afsd seemed adapted t0
religious work He caf IL gfft ~ tiie pa
pr, arld, three days aft~rwanl, saBg u at
q meeting IN the Free heembly Hall at
EiiBburg, having cDuDyed the musie
himself a short time after be- reoeiyed
letter from a lady thanking bin fOr
having sung tsfe byH,s, and stating that
the author wa her sisieT, Hiss Eliza q.
CiaphaBc, n Neir0se, -oJiland. Hbe
had written tlJe hymn in 1868, and,
shortly after. died. 5he and her whole
family we're members NJ tlse church u
Scotland, and were not Unitarian. A.
stated ~ tbis country. Mr. EaBkey ~.
piled ~ The Eldy's ietteF, asking N hor
lister bad ever written any 0ther hymbs.
and vas told tlIat she bad written seye-
raj other. which we're sent b. TIE Family
Treasury, q religious paper, n which Ne
late DR.. ArnOt Wa the editDT, bat only
"1be EiselS and Nine" wa ever pub
lisbed. JGr. sankey Communicated with
him and received several piece ~ manu-
script. The only other hymn by the
author IN pr. Sankey's collection j. the
forty-third, - BeDeath the CrOsn u
Jesus" lie has beer gallJsriRg hymns
for the past eight years, keeping scrap
book fOf thst pHrpOse. Many VI them
are found in the eJi1mng SuBday-scbOOl
collections, and were known In England
bCfyFs Moody and sankey introduced
them. Since tlist iine they have be-
come the most popular fitp1fs IN Great
Britain. While the evangelists Eefs IN
they at first found difficulty in
inducing tI,s people 70 sing these hymns,
a. the Presbytehahs tErterred their YER
sion Of the Psalms. The evangelist
were accustomed q ling the one hun
dreth, twenty-third, nd fortieth Psalms,
Or the fitst, ,tss hundred and seventh, !
and one hundred aid twenty hymns I
1f the collection, and then ask Pfesby-
.erians to sing Hold the Fort, which |
they 0s,IslIy did, and, at length, sang
any Of the hymHg
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THE report of the commissioner of ed
ueatiOn furnishes some statistics which
are fair test as showing the activity of
the various religious denominations in
the matter Of theological education. The
Catholic church leads with Is sefiihafies,
LA professors, 1,2Ss students. The Bap-
tist denomination has Is schools. 50 pro-
fessor-, and 6SS students; the Presby-
terrain has 10 schools, with "A professors
and 6I7 students; the Lutheran church,
Is schools, 52professors and i26 students;
the Protestant Episcopal, II schools, 56
professors and 294 students; the Cengre-
gational has schools, 80 professors and
392 pupils; the Methodist Episcopal has
z schools, 5S professors and 321 scholars;
and the Reformed church has schools,
II professors and 50 students; the United
Presbyterians, Christians, Free Baptists
and Methedistshave- schools each; and
the Unitarians, African Methodist Epis-
eOpal, Cumberland Presby terrain, German
Reformed, Methodist Episcopal South,
Moravian, Swedenborgian, Union Evan
gelical, United Brethren, and Universal
lists have each. a
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\ Boston merchant, who imports near
ly aid the gutta percha which enters the
United States, writes to the Scientific
American to say-that "the- only region
of production thus far discovered is the
East India islands in the immediate vi
cinity Of Singapore The principal use
made of gatta pcrcha is for insulating
teIegfaph cables and Or seenienths
India rslbber i collected N Iocafities al
around the globe between the tropics
The best comes from the banks CT the
Amazon river fBFasil produces annually
about =. .ooe, ,BO0 pounds, and the Central
American States, Africa, and the Fast
Indies together about :, ,ecc, GOO pounds
The FpHsuFREtiVh of India rubber Is about
divided between the United
States and Europe.
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By HoRsLBY & co.

of aIbuminOid material; beef contains
2S7 per cent. of fat, and 20.75 of album
inoid matter; and =heat contains I2Per
cent Of fat, and lac per cent of albunn1i
mold material. i'm addition, cocoa con-
tains starch, which is absent IN milk and
beef, and present in bat small proper
ton in wheat.
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-" How are you getting on at your
new place." asked a lady of a girl whom
girl, Pm glad to hear it." said the
lady ''your employer is very nice
person, and you cannot do too much for
ner" ." don't mean TO ma'am," was
the innocent reply,
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MISCELLANEOUN

New York has 45O miles of street rail
way, 800 rars, drawn by 1900 horses, ard
carving annually l60,QO0,OO0 people.
The trunk railroads between the cas-.
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"A Detroit lightning-rod man says
Zach Chandler is the meanest man who
could have been made Secretary. When
the agent called on him he at once yelled
cut: "Tum-us! Tum-us. bring that pair
Of boots with tOrpedoes in the toes"
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To the above number Of twenty-one
contested seats, may possibly be 8dded
others of which we have no present
knowledge. Some of the above, also.
may not be brought before the house all