The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23


and seemed to battle the very coils o.
the serpent. Gradually he drew closer
until, just as he was almost within thu
reptiles reach, he fell, feeling, as ht
said afterward, as though he had beer
struck by stone. When he became
conscious his head was in friends lap
His first words we're: "Wbo strucl
me ?" "No one struck you, doctor.
saw you were charmed by the snake ani
I struck it with a stone" He haC
struck the snake and the doctor had fell
the blow.-Hon1e Journal.
The American Changers and TIL
English CO-OpPratOrs.
1t appears that the English coop
erative societies, whose Representatives
are now negotiating with the executive
committee of the national grange. are
not secret bodies. Hence it will be
impossible, under existing circum
stances, for them to unite with The
patrons. But this difficulty has beer
met by the formation of trading com
pany, having the Endorsement and sup
port of the united cooperative bodies
in England, and fully organized under
the English laws. The propositions
are to have two branches of the society
one in England and the other in the
United States. The board in each
country is to have the absolute control
of the funds ST. bscribed therein, and all
| to be used for the purpose of the inter.
national exchange of commodities. The
capital is $25, 100000. All transactions
are to be for cash or its equivalent.
The British co-operators number 500,.
900 members have over ZOO stores,
| some so or so cotton spinning mills,
about 20 Touring mills, an agricultural
and horticultural society. and number
of manufactures ; and, of course, con-
sumo large quantity of American pro-
ducts. The funds subscribed by the
English branch of the company will be
employed in the purchase of ships, the
erection of warehouses, and the manu-
facture of such articles as are in con-
slant demand among the patrons OF
husbandry. These ships will bring the
goods to New Orleans and other south
ern ports, and to eastern ports if neces
sary. They desire the patrons to en-
ploy their portion of the capital in carry
ing American staples and products to
meet these ships, and thus to make the
necessary exchange in the most direct
and simple manner. The co-operators
have a large surplus capital, which is
constantly on the increase, and which
they think can be proftably employed
in this trade. While each branch of
the company will have control of its
own affairs, the two boards will form a
council who will, by joint action, de-
eide what branch of business will be
engaged in, and define the method of
conducting the same. An American
will be sent to Liverpool to watch the
interests of the grange branch of the
company, and the English board will
have a like representative in New
Orleans, while the general supervision
will be in the hands of a managing
director already elected, and who,
though an Englishman born, has been
twenty three years in America.-ET.
A New York Domestic Tragedy.
One of those frequent city paragraphs,
relating an inquest upon the body of a
woman who had died suddenly while
visiting friends up town, was followed
up the other day by a reporter whose
time hung on his hands. He evoked a
tragedy, whose final details he gives at
length in the New York World, while
it's secret is left to be coniectured. The
mother of six children, just turning
forty, goes out one afternoon and does
not return. After l in the morning she
is brought in, feet foremost, dead,
accompanied by a doctor and by ga
friend of the family" The friend tells
his story. He met her on Broadway at
6; she said she was exhausted; she ate a
chop and an ice with him they started
to such a park she was taken i'll he
took her into a house-the nearest ;
when the doctor came she was dead Z;
that was $50. The women, her neigh
bors in the house, want to know if she
died at $50, why it is 80 before she
is brought home, and why her limbs are
still warm ? The friend listens with a
nervous patience but says nothing. The
next day the bustling coroner, an au-
topsy and a verdict-congestion. But
what, says the neighbor who lays the
body out, do these marks on her neck
mean, and that purple spot on her
shoulder? Four on one side, one on
the other. The husband would not
hear of investigation. He would rather
not know how that afternoon passed.
The friend was not his friend he Wis
tied his wife, the dead woman they
had been seen in each others company.
The house she was taken into had on
the door-plate a name banded loosely
by loose men, the reporter finds, and
gets no news there. The doctor has
been handsomely paid by the friend of
the family; that individual does not
deny intrigue, but scouts the idea of
violence. All parties think the matter
had better drop. And it does drop.
The World says that these events have
happened within ten days, and that this
is a common story.
The Way the Ruin is Wrought.
When one has arrived over night, has
drunk the waters, breakfasted, glanced
over the arrivals in the books of the
hotel in which one lodges, the next
thing is to hear the band play at one of
the great hotels, and nine times out of
ten one goes to the Grand Union.
Sometimes the band stations itself IN
the parlor, but oftentr on the inner
piazza, overlooking the beautiful
grounds. If the former, the audience
is composed, for the most part, of ladies,
and of ladies' men, that is of males
who are so far subjugated and overcome
by female charms as to be willing to,
give up their own ideas and habits.
The men love to listen to the music
when the musicians are on the piazz",
which enables them to indulge i'll tFat
never ending companion of male lips,
the cigar And those who are still de-
voices to the practice abominated by
Mrs. Trollope are enabled to enjoy the
waltzes of Strauss without rising every