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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17

promised to pay gold to any one what
ever. All that while she extended and
contracted her currency without any
regard whatever to gold. Her enormous
trade and expenditures were all paper
and only paper. resting on credit and
nothing else. We had similar prosperity
during the war and after, on the same
terms. In 1920 England, yielding TO
theorists and dreamers, tried to put
this new wine into old bottles, and
dragged her business back to methods
century old to specie. Bankruptcy,
the very history of which makes the
blood cold to day, blighted the empire.
It took half a generation to recover
from the mistake. No man can to-day
begin 10 show that such suffering
was necessary; that it ach eyed
any good, or that it affected any changes
which could not have been as we'll
valley of the shadow of death when,
in 1865, McCulloch began contractrac-
tion. We are hurrying fast TO EGG
lands 1920 property sunk to half its
former value; the streets crowded with
criminals; grass growing on the wharves,
maCuIueFy ruSGlnS, W0dl6u dIdImeuI
poverty starving. Woe to the political
party which the nation shall finally pro-
nounce responsible for this fatal mis-
take. No previous merits will avail for
its pardon. Its leaders will be buried
in curses, as men whom neither history
nor their own experience could make
wise.
We lament, as we'll we may, the
widespread corruption of busines men
and effice holders. But where such
corruption in high places steals a dol
lar, contraction-this well meaning ig-
rorance of bullionists- the people
of thousands. If this generation is
ever bankrupt, its bankruptcy will not
be the work of knaves, but of honest
men following jack olantern and
dragging us to ruin. Yours,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17
ChiIdren's Fears.

The objects that excite the fears of
children are often as curious and un-
accountable as their secret intensity.
Miss Martinau told me once that a
special object of horror to her, when
she was child, were the colors of the
prism, and thing in itself so beauti-
full that it is difficult to conceive how
any imagination could be painfully i'm
pressed by it; but her terror of these
magical colors was such that she used
to rush past the room, even when the
door was closed, where she had seen
them 4efe ted from the chandelier by
the sunlight on the wall.
A bright, clever boy of 9, by no means
particularly nervous or timid, told me
once that the whole story OF Aladdin
was f-ightful to him; but he never
was able to explain why it made this
impression upon him. A very curious
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17
About Swimming.

When deaths from drowning and
narrow escapes are 80 frequently re-
ported, seasonable hints are valuable.
An instance, not of marrow escape"
but of perfect self command, is given
in the papers, which is well worth
noting. The stewardess Of an English
steamer plying between Newcastle and
Copenhagen, was pitched overheard 10y
a iurch OF the vessel. The steamer
was slowed down to a standstill, and
boat lowered and sent in the direction
whence the woman was last seen. She
was found comfortably floating on her
back, waiting for the assistance which
she knew would be sent 10 her, and
was taken on borrd very little the worse
for her immersion. She is said 20 be-
long to a famous family Of swimmers.
Yet, according TO her own account,
however. she made one mistake. She
took off her boots, which is right
enough IL one can do II. But she kept
up active swimming for some time,
which in a case like hers was all wrong.
II person is thrown overheard, and
has skill enough 30 float, the sooner
that attitude is taken the better. lt
saves fatigue and furry, and keeps the
person nearest the place 10 which the
recurers will naturally pull. III only
everybody had presence OF mind ncci-
dental deaths from drowning would be
much less frequent. In leaning to
swim the leading object should bo 10
acquire confidence and not so much 20
perform feats either Of daring or OF
endurance. To a perfect swimmer,
floating is calm Tepose. DIR. Franklin
tells the rather remarkable story that he,
at the age of eighty, floated on his
back. in a warm salt bath, fell asleep,
and slept ,ar an hour, by his watch,
neither sinking or turning, Water,
the doctor writes in his diarv, lis the
easiest bed that can be-" Floating in
the open water is OF course easier than
in a bath, however large the bsth-tub
or reservoir, if only one could feel the
same security. To attain this conf
dence is the great object in learning to
swim.
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instance of strong nervous impression,
net, however, ia any way connected
with supernatural terror, occurred 10 a
Young glrl about Syears old, the daugh-
ter of a friend of mine. The mother,
the gentlest and most reasonably in
dulgent of parents, sent her upstairs
for her watch, cautioning her not to let
it fall : the child, by her own account,
stood at the top Of the stairs with the
watch in her hand till the conviction
shat she should let it fall took such
dreadful and complete possession of
her that she dashed it down, and then
came in a paroxysm of the most dis.
tressinR nervous excitement to tell her
mother what she had done.--MrS. hem-
Die. in Se11teDaber Atlantic.
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Vagaries OF Animals.

Gale Scudder's black horse, the mate
TO the one that died several months ago,
is said to be actually dying from glief
at the loss of his associate. The ami
NAL has been for some time on pasture
t Corey's farm, south of the city. Its
ppetite seems to be good, though it
eats little, and seems to be continually
wasting away in flesh. It will have
nothing whatever to do with other
horses in the pasture, and seems to be
continually on the lookout for another.
In addition, it every few moments, day
and night, whinnies as it used to do
when the other horse was alive, and the
two we're separated for time. MIR.
Scu lder proposes bringing the horse
back to the city in the hope OF curing
it of what can not be otherwise than a
genuine case Of hearth break at the loss
of a mate.
We have several times read accounts
of animals committing suicide to all
intents and purposes, but never, until
recently, has an actual case come under
the notice of our reporter. While stand
ing on the canal bridge at the foot OF
Ferry street, the reporter saw large
black cat slowly approach. The animal
walked to the edge of the brio ge, gazed
moment into the pond of water under
meath, and then deliberately plunged
in. 1t made not the slightest effort to
swim, but on the contrary seemed
desirous of keeping its head under
water, which it did until death ensued.
1t is as clear case of suicide as ever
was perpetrated and the motiv for
the raeh act can be only coDieotured.
Whether it was in consequence OF failure
in business, blighted affections, or the
stings and arrows ct guilty conscience,
can only be guessed at. Suffice it to
say, the facts are just as stated.-LG-
fayette (l1ad.) J01t7aGt
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Four Burton KIDs-Then, after n
pause. he informed me Of another way
they had of making the French horse
available. During the early autumn
months the rats appear about the prem
ises in tremendous numbers. They
would soon overrun the establishment
but for plan long since adopted and
which not only rid the company OF the
pests, but returns an income ns well.
When Montfaucon swarms with rats
the carcass of horse is placed IN
room into which the rodents gain ac-
cegs through openings in the hoor oon-
trived for the purpose. AT night tho
rats, lured by their keenness OF scent,
enter the room through these artificial
rat hcles by thousands. While they are
in the midst of their feast these open
ings are closed, and they are prisoners.
Then the slaughter commences. AS
high as $4,000 have been killed in hve
weeks in one room. The dead rats arc
skinned. and the skins are sold to faris
furriers for from one to four francs
each. They are then made up into
"four-button kids and shipped 70 the
United States. - Paris Lettcr.
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FEcKLEs-THEIR CUBE.-What shall
a Young and otherwise handsome lady
do to got rid of freckles on the skin
Answer Freckles are not easily washed
out of those who have tlorid com
plexion and are much in the sunshine'
but the following washes are not only
harmless, but very much the best oil
any we know Crate horse-radish hne,
let il stand n few hours in buttormilk,
then strain and use the wash night and
morning. Or squeeze the juice OF a
lemon into half n goblet Of water and
use the same way. Most OF the RENE
dies for frickles are poisonous aud can
not be used with safety. Freckles In
dicste a defective digestion, and con-
sist in deposits OF some carbonaceous
or fatty matter beneath the scurt skin.
The diet should be attended 70, and
should be Of nature that the bowels
and kidneys will do their duty. Daily
bathing with much friction should not
be neglected, and the Turkish bath
taken occasionally. il il is convenient.
-Herald of Heath.
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been wasted. The Moonsiff who heard
the case thought that the cause of the
action was good one, and gave the in.
suited host a decree for the amount
claimed. The high court took more
rational, if less sentimental, view of the
matter. The Moonsiff' g decision was re,
versed, the presiding judge remarking
with grim humor that if the law laid
down by the lower court were correct,
then" the risk of accepting invitations
Roufd be very serious inde
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17

A CITY UNDER The SEA.-In the
latter end of the last century old Port
Royal disappeared beneath the waves
in an earthquake, leaving no other
memorial behind than those few patches
of reefs. In calm and clear evenings,
when there is not a ripple on the CLASSY
surface of the sea you may look down
into fifteen fathoms of water and see
submerged houses, towers and churches
with sharks swimming quietly in and
out of the open windows of
their belfries. The work of
centuries was destroyed in a few
moments by one single convulsive throb
of the thin film on which man has lived
and speculated for ages past. An
American diving company, instigated
in their enterprise by tales of untold
wealth buried beneath the sea by this
sudden shock, rescued no treasures but
the big bell suspended still in the bell
tower, and donated the same to the
museum of the island, where it may be
seen, with many puzzling inscriptions
upon it, which nobody has, as yet, been
able to decipher. er.-Kingston JaneaiGc,
Correspondence.
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Personal Habits of the Japanese.

A national prediction for the bath
may mislead the reader into the belief
that the Japanese are the cleanest ma
ton under the sun. This is far from
being the case. They are the most
Tubing people, but while, among the
petty trading and lower classes, they
pay every attention to the cleanliness
of their bodies, they pay none what
ever to that of their clothes, The
thickly padded winter garments will be
worn without being washed, not for
dave, or weeks, or years, but generations.
The patched and wadded garment cover
ing the body of small urchin in the
street probably has descended to him
from his grandfather, through n suc-
cession of uncles and bigger brothers I;
and next winter, if ne grows out OF II
by then, it will pass on to smaller
of the family. As long as they will
hold together ale these clothes kept.
From constant patching there may be
at last but little of the outer garment
left but the thick cotton waddiDg is the
same that for day after day Though a
winter, winter after winter
through generations, has been worn
without once being cleaned. But this
is not the worst. While the clothes are
being worn, they are, at all events, ex-
posed to the purifying influences OF the
fresh air but as the cold season passes
away the entire wardrobe of a family
is packed away, all togCtler, in some
room, and there all through the heat OF
the summer it lies in a foul heap OF
frowsiness and impurity. Smallpox is
the scourge of Japan, and there III no
doubt that to this practice 1t owes IN
great measure its yearly appearance
and its virulence. temple Bar.
TIE other day a Detroit husband went
off on fishing excursion with small
party of friends. Returning at midnight
he pounded on the door and awoke his
wife. As she let him into the hall she
saw that something allied him, and she
cried out
"Why, Henry, your face is as red as
paint"
"Guesser MT" he replied, feeling
along down the hall.
"And 1 believe you have been drink
ing" she added.
"WhazZer mean by That ne IN
duired, trying to stand still.
ION henTyS your laCo mO"A"
look like that il You hadn't been drink
ing"
"Mi to blame ?" he asked, tears in
his eyes. "Sposen big bass jump up'n
hit me in tn face an make it red-mi to
blame ?"
Aud he sat down on the floor and cried
over her unjust suspicion.
He was smoking cigar on Marke {
street car where there were ladies'. OF
course he was a gentleman(O. A lady
took out her purse, got ten cents and
handed it to the smoker. whats this
for ?" said he. "It's TO buy you good
cigar when you smoke in the presence
of ladies'" He threw the cigar out Of
the window, the scrip into the lady's
lap, jerked the strap and jumped out.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17

A NATIVE of Calcutta recently asked a
number of friends to a dinner party.
His guests accepted the invitation, but
when the day came they for some rea-
son best known to Themselves did not
attend, nor did they send any apologies.
Thereupon the host promptly sued them
for the price of the food which he had
nroyided for the banquet, and which,
through their want Of courtesy, had
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17

ONE OF 'EM.-The Boston Traveller
tells this:
A lately appointed postmaster of
western Massachusetts town came down
to Boston the other day to equality"
and have his bond for 5000 approved.
The bond was all right and the regular
question was put to the P. NJ:
How much are you worth, sir ?"sE
WAL" he replied, "I don't tell
how much I'm worth. Bradstreet sets
me at $4,000. 1 guess you'd better
put 1t down at that fgger."
at?"
Wal, the assessors don't set me at
quite so high figger but (in a conf
dental Whisper tween you'n me, I'm
one Of the assessors"
JOHN PAUL fixed those Saratoga wait
ers. He put a new fifty cent scrip un-
der a goblet. 1t was magnifed until it
looked like SIS bill. The waiter was
the most active man in America. John
Paul never before enjoyed such gor-
geous dinner. When he arose he coolly
put that scrip In his vest pocket, and in
a fatherly way told the expectant waiter
MOTTO sink any more money which others
might give him in French pools.
A LOCAL contemporary reads one of
its colun rs, "After Thoughts. That's
what its readers are after in vain,
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JAY GOULD NEXT.

Writing from Saratoga, where he has
been hob nobbing with the bulls and the
bears, "Gath" thus refers to the lion
of Wall street
Wall street operators here are expect
ing Jay Gould to go to wall next. He
is loaded down with stocks and has been
bulIing O breaking market for months.
It was he who held it up after the fail
ure of Duncan & Sherman, and is now
buying whatever is offered to stay a
break which should have followed Rails
toms failure. His newspapers are seek
ing to disguise this fact, but here is a
bit of conversation I had with recent
alley of Gould in a great movement Of
the year.
cts Gould alone who holds up the
market" said this gentleman; " and if
this feeling of uncertainty goes on he
will fall with a crash. He has to buy
everything offered, being loaded up with
stocks and carrying of Union Pacific
alone (T think he said) 225, ,000lsshares.
There is no sale for anything and Gould
fixes the daily quotation by little per-
sonal trade with himself. The people
have no confidence in anything he
touches. Nobody is operating in the
-
where Gould is in control. But there is
a good deal of stock which Gould con-
trolls but does not own which will be put
on the market presently. He must buy
If. But meantime, how is he to keep
control of the money to pay for it ?"
"That's what we want to know, "
said I.
"He has had great accommodation in
many banks by corrupting their cash
iers," said my informant ; "that Is.
Gould will carry certain number of
shares of stock for such a cashier, or
affect to do so, and send him a check,
as if that protected stock had earned
the money. Ihave had to do that many
time to get accommodation. The
cashiers generally administer the treas
ure of a bank. For example, l have
said, Enclosed please find So, ,24O %,
earnings on 1,O00 shsresof Lake Shore. "
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17

DIR. NEWMAN believes in missionaries,
60 he says, and that the moral elevation
of the pagan must come through the
women, and by Christian women. He
enumerated various things in which the
burdens of pagan women were grievous
to be borne, one of which was that they
are of so little account as to be simply
numbered instead of having names, and
that they are only known as such mans
wife, or daughter, or mother, ETC., a
statement which, at the close of his liq.
uid rhetoric, was followed by most
significant incident. A list of women
composing the missionary society was
read, and not woman was mentioned
by her own name, but by that OF her
husband. It was Mrs. Bishop So.and-
so, Mrs. DIR. A., Mrs. Rev. B., Mrs.
John c., and so on.
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A LOCAL contemporary reads one of
its colun rs, "After Thoughts. That's
what its readers are after in vain,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-12
following statement of his alleged offepse.

following statement of his alleged offense:
'That there are two sides to every
story is always true, and although the
statement that truth compels me to make
is not entirely complimentary to myself
still l desire that the people shall have an
opportunity to hear what | have to say be-
fore passing judgment upon the late occur
renee with which my name has been
so prominently connected. I have
been acquainted with Mr.. and
Mrs. Trott for long time, my first ac-
quaintance with her dating back some fif-
teen years, when she came before the
board Of school inspectors for the town.
ship of Muskegon for examination as a
teacher, then being member OF the
board. have known her since that time,
and have always regarded her as person
against whose character not word could
ttruthfully be spoken, and have always re-
parded her and her husband as my friends.
Mr., Trott,for several years, has received a
salary from G. Davis & Co., whose office is
in the same building and on the same iool
with mine, and on coming for money, az
she sometimes has, on passing my office, Il
the door was open or met her in the hall
she would occasionally stop and chat mo
ment. This occurred last Friday, my Of
kfce door at the time being open. During
conversation called her attention to &
large vase filled with plants. telling he
that it had been standing there through
the winter, and that they had not frozen
although there had been no fire in the of
fee, excepting occasionally, since the Is
of January. While standing there talking
about the plants / leaned forward as if t
kiss her, at the same time putting my hanc
upon her shoulder. She said something
in the way Of refusal. and after few min
utes left the office without any effort to de
tain her. I made no remark, and diC
nothing further than have stated tina
could by any means be construed as an i'm
propriety. l regarded the matter at tn
time as joke, and intended nothing fur
ther. This is all there is ont of whicl
these occurrences have arisen, and no on
can regret more than I do that so much a
l have stated is true"
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-12
A PARoxYsMAL THRAsHING.
Administered to the Lieutenant Gov
eLnor of Michigan--theR Result
of Inspecting Chromos and
House Plants.
From the Detroi. Free Press

from the Detroit Free Press.
A dispatch was received at the Free
Press Office from Muskegon Monday even
ing, to the effect that
Lieut.. Gov. Holt was assaulted by Levi
Trott for the alleged cause of Hollis insult
ing Trott's wife in the afternoon. In the
threatened to shoot him, but was arrested
and gave bonds for his appearance for
trial. Trott atterward struck N. A. Bar
ney and two other gentlemen. The affair
created great deal Of excitement in the
CITY,"
Such was the substance of the dispatch,
but we refrained from publishing it with
out further confederation, Yesterday af-
ternoon two letters were received from
Muskegon going into the case more In de-
tail, leaving no doubt that Mrs, Trott has
charged the lieutenant governor with Of
fering her an insult, and that the husband
gave Holt thrashing on account of the
alleged offense. According to one letter
the alleged insult was offered on Saturday,
and not on Monday, as stated in the dis
patch
ION Saturday" says the letter, which
comes from undoubted authority, Lieut..
Gov. Holt invited the wife of S. l.. Trott, a
gentleman in the employ of Hon. Chauncey
Davis, and lumber agent for G.B Warren
OF Troy, New York, to his Office to show
her some chromos, and while there offered
her an insult, as she says, which she re-
ported to her husband. On Monday after
noon, he being out of the city on Saturday,
Mr.. Trott went to the office of Holt and
gave him a severe thrashing with a four
foot stick, one inch in diameter, aud drag
ged the lieutenant governor about the
room plying the stick briskly on his per-
son. Trott is powerful man and usually
quiet This evening lat writing) Trott is
at the Occidental Hotel, where Holt
boards, with pistol in hand threatening
to shoot Holt. A crowd of several hund
red are witnesses OF this affair"
The other letter has the following in re
laiiJn to the difficulty:
Holt had been very intimate with Mrs
Trolt in childhood, anu Holt lit is claimed
used language to her which she did mol
like and she spoke to Trutt, who became
perfectly Infatuated, and found Holt anc
gave him several blows He subsequent,
got revolver and went tn the Occidental
hotel determined t. shoot Holt, but en-
trance being refused at the hotel by the
proprietor, Irott struck the proprietor
Trott was then arrested and the revolver
taken away from him. Walking towarC
the Justices Office they met the proprietor
of the hotel, when Trott again struck al
him. Trott was released on $500 bail t.
appear Tuesday morning. The matter i,
causing considerable excitement and is
sad affair, as all the parties are well known
and highly respected Trott afterwarC
got another revolver, saying he was de
termined to shoot Holt. Trott is lum
herman and very powerful man."
Nh. Holt, in his own behalf, makes the
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-12
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