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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
ScOIding.

Scolding is mostly habit. There is not
much meaning to it. 1t is often the result
of nervousness and irritable condition of
both mind and body. a person is tired or
ANNOYED at some trivial cause, and forth
with commences finding fault with every
thing and everybody in reach. 1t is As
tonishing how soon one who indulgcS in
it at all becomes addicted to it and con-
firmed in it. Persons who once get in
the way Of scOlding always find some
thing to scold about. If there is moth
ing else, they fall to scolding at the
mere absence of anything to scold at.
1t is extremely contagious. Once intro
duced into a family, it is pretty certain
in short time, To affect all the mem
bers. People in the country more read
lily fall into the habit of scOlding than
people in town. Women contract the
habit more frequently than men. This
may be because they live more constantly
in the house, in a confined and heated
atmosphere, very trying to the nervous
system and the health in general; and 1t
may he, partly that their natures are
more susceptible and their sensitivcness
more easily wounded. The proper rem
edy for the habit, if formed, is to ex-
periencc an endowment of that divine
love shed abroad in the renewed heart by
the Holy Ghost, the characteristics OF
which are that ii is not easily pro-
voked," "thinketh no evil, and :" beareth
all things"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

Moody and Sahkey, in eighteen Sun
day meetings held in Philadelphia, addressed
225,OGo persons, or an average of i2,50e e.
each meeting.
The officers of the direct cable COM
pany in New York announce their cable
| broke again about one hundred and fifty
miles from TOrbcy, Nova Scotia.
The Chicago TribHhe's crooked whisky
( editor has made the discovery that the waste
beer from the saloons in that city is ,,sa.iph-
lated in SUCH WY as to produce 1s7, 800
/ gallons OF excellent distilled spirits, and OF
I-eOurse the government is defrauded out of
the 90-cent tax.
| The San Francisco Alta of the Sd inst.
| says; During the tear 1879 the rail
! brought us Fi,7i2 persons, and took away
! ej,s35, leaving gain of 44,937. The sea
| brought 55,827, took away 1852, leaving
1925, total gain of G9,172. One hundred
| and eighty thousand FIVE hundred and nine
ty-nine arrivals in enc year indicate GER
taihiy growing interest in the Pacific states
and territories, particularly in California, for
she retains the most of them. The net gain
to our population by exeess nj ssE::t.ais over
departures has been, during the past six
years, 212,702 persons. Should we ever have
an enumeration of our pOpulatiOn-which
has never yet been done, each census having
been very imperfect, the state will probably
show greater number of inhabitants than
has generally been supposed. The Chinese
immigration has been, during The past year,
1914, and during the thirteen years lest
past, 119,OS7. OF these 4,4O6 were females"
Special dispatches from Bismarck con-
tain glowing accounts from the Black Hills.
A party carrying the mail between BiGmarck
and Black Hiiis had returned, and gave
I wonderful reports of the richness of the
country. The report is vouched for as thor
oughly trustworthy. Twelve hundred men
are now in that portion of the Black Hills
through which Rapid creek runs. The aver
age diggings are 81 per hour to each man,
and they saw $i37 taken ont IL six hours by
four inch. next day the same force in the
same time took out $1I2. California joe u
person of renown among the gold miners, saw
$3i taken out of one pan, there being one
nugget worth 500. Al OF the returning
party brought specimens of gold of splendid
quality. They all agree in the statements re-
garding the beauty and richness of the cOun-
try, and say Clusters report was not at all
exaggerated. a large raft: !, preparing to
start h0m Bismarck for the Hills and will
take large amount of goods.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
Ice Prospects.

So far this winter no ice has been gath
cred along the Hudson river, and as the
season has advanced considerably, with
continued untavorable weather, the pros
poets for full crop are considered poor.
The season for storing ice generally COM
mences about the end of December and
ends when the houses are filled, carly in
February. All the large ice companies
and dealers were about TO commence the
harvest at the usual time this season,
when the mild weather came and de-
stroved the ice which had formed up to
that time.
There are probably from 5000 to 5000
men along the Hudson waiting for the
work of gathering ice, and considerable
suffering is reported among some OF
them. The ice dealers of this city have
on hand a considerable quantity and In
the poorest season manage to obtain
good supply, although obliged to secure
it from remote points.
The ice business has gone up from
small beginnings to be one of the largest
minor industries OF the country. 1t
EMPLOYS a capital of over $2O,OOO,OOO,
and the aggregate sales of ice are more
than $50, 900, 900. Forty years ago the
capital invested was less than 100000,
and the aggregate sales not more than
$125,0O0.
Over one hundred thousand tons arc
exported to southern cities and foreign
countries. As many persons are aware,
the ice-houses are huge buildings, from
one to two hundred feet in width and
from two hundred to four hundred feet
in length, generally of wood, though
sometimes Of brick, with double, triple,
quardrupIc walls, the interstices packed
with some non conducting substance,
such as spent tan bark, saw dust, etc,
with doors closing tightly on each floor,
but no windows, and with incline planes
movable and adapted to each story,
without as well as within, and in the
case of the larger houses steam elevator
is employed to drag the blocks up the
inclined planes and lower them on the
inside. During the harvest season the
work of gathering ice is pushed vigor-
ouslv, and at some of the large ice-houses
600 tons are harvested in an hour
AIbnnu E1ey1inO ,JOrundL.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
FROMwASHINGTON,

The investigation OF the Alaska Com
meYciai company will result, it is said, in an
nulling the existing contract and leave the
secretary of the treasury free to advertise
for new proposals The Alaska purchase
cost the government, at currency rates, S1O,-
900 900, for which less than three per cent,
interest is obtained in the letting Of the seal
fisheries, Responsible parties are willing to
pay.six per cent. on the amount invested for
the privilege of taking seals on the islahds of
st. PAIL and St. CieHrge.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
EAST.

The Philadelphia coal exchange has
decided, in consequence of glut in the
market, to stop all mining from the 9TH of
February to the 11th of March, inclusive.
Winslow, the Boston forger, was an
army chaplain in the war, and afterwards
dealt in boots and shoes at Sedalia, Mo-,
where he sometimes occupied the pulpit.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
mentions formidable movement" of the
French people of New York and Montreal to
Brazil. The people propose to settle in the
country adjacent to the headwaters of the
Amazon river, who're the Emperor Dom
Pedro has offered thirty-three acres of land
to each actual settler, together with stock
and houses, rent free, until they can support
themselves
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
Ltberfa-Emigration Statistics.

The financial report of the secretary
of the American colonization society
states that the resources for the past
wear have been $24, ,230.23. The receipts
during the last twelve months have been:
From donations, $6,971.32 from legacies,
81. .O32. So; received for education in LII
IBERIA, 81, ,66525; and from other sources,
S12,87S.29. The balance on hand was
S672.J2. The disbursements balance
the resources, 81 400 having been eX-
pended for the passage and support OF
emigrants; S2,70S.50 for education IN
Liberia; S13, ,278.66 in payments OF
debts and interest, and 81, ,S34.O7 for
other purposes. The report refers to the
safe arrival, on the thirteenth OF Decem-
cember, 1874, on the shores of Liberia,
of bark containing twenty-scven emil
grants from America, not one having
died on the passage. Since the last an
nual report there have been sent to LII
IBERIA twenty-three emigTants. The an
nual expedition was dispatched by the
bark Liberia, from New York, January
I3, 1876, containing among Others, two
licensed ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal church, who expected 10 gu
ter the Liberian annual conference. For
the last ffty-five years emigration to
Liberia had been uninterrupted. Those
now reported make the number colo
nized since the war, 3110, and total
number from the beginning of 1908,
exclusive of 5,725 recaptured Africans,
whom they have induced and enabled
the government of the United States to
settle in Liberia, making a grand total
of 2O,S23 persons to whom the society
had given homes in Africa. Several
thousand persons are at the present time
earnestly soliciting passage, and other
thousands might be colonized during the
current year, should means be provided
for the purpose.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

IT would seem from the following that
there is much need of school board nj
Weardale A doctor there was lately
summoned to cottage at Harwood in
Teasdale, and found a boy patient IN
need of his services. Put out your
tongue" said the doctor The boy
stared like an owl. MY good boy"
requested the medical man, ''let me see
your tongue. Talk English, doctor"
put in the mother. and then turning TO
her her SON ona she Dn.1 said ,ht hHoR{Fgp R{dF thy COB
boy rolled out his tongue in a moment.
-LirerpO0l Times
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

AN English paper says that it is thought
in many quarters that the Jews are going
TO purchase the Holy Land of Turkey,
with view of going there in a body.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

Wild the spring the fresh leaves theyii laugh upon
the trees,
And the birds they'll nutter back wid their songs
Bat ri bSFer Test Ia viii ny head on fattisk's
knes5-
a nd for me twill be winter,
Wild. wild winter,
Wild the lonesome wind sighin' forever through the
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

PROF. TAYLOR LEWIS says that an
adea of God who merely started the
universe and then left it to evolution
- is exceedingly attenuated."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

THE success of the new harmonic
system of multiplex telegraPhy "a
charmingly simple name, by the way
cxcites the suspicion that our knowledge
of the powers and Uses of electricity is
merely in its infancy. 1t suggests, more
over, an immediate application of the
fluid in a manner which will benefit i'm
mensely all those large cities and towns
of the country which are gifted with
musical taste. If the telegraphic aPpa-
ratus can be 50 constructed as to produce
notes it would seem an easy matter to
connect an operatic company or Thomas
orchestra by wire with every town which
las telegraphic facilities, and make one
concert answer for all. 1t would he a
,rrat saving to the performers, and the
wholesale character of the ps rformsnce
ould undoubtedly cheaper it consider
ably.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

The school children of America an
nually ray $4,000, 900 for schools books,
of which it is said the publishers pocket
$33, 100000.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

has accepted the American challenge for the
championship Of the world.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

Ia is now ascertained that Winslow,
the Boston fTger, sailed from New York
for Rotterdam, Holland. He laid his
plans well, as there is no extradition
treaty with that country.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

The Northampton, Mass, bank rob-
berry, turns out to have been a tremen-
dous haul for the cracbsmen. 1t is esti-
mated that over 100000 in money,
stocks and bonds were gobbled by the
robbers.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
A Tnnchlng Incident.

Not many wears since certain miners,
working far under ground, came HPon
the body of poor young man, VINO had
perished i'm the sufocating pit forty years
before. Some chemical agent TO which
the body had hcvu suDJectId--ln agent
nrepared i'm the laboratory Of nature
had efiectually arrested the progress OF
decay. They brought it up to the sur
face, and for while, till Thoroughly eh-
poscd 10 the atmosphere, it lay-the
image of fine young man. No conyul-
sion had passed over the face IN death
the features were tranquil; the hair
black as let. No one recognized the lace;
a generation had grown up since the
miner went down into the shaft ior INC
laft time.
But q tottering old woman who had
hurried from her cottage at hearing the
news. came llp, and she knew the face
which. through all these long years, she
had not forgotten. The miner was to
have been her husband the morning
after that on which he died. There
were no dry eyes when the gray-headed
old pilgrim cast herself upon the youth
full corpse, and poured into his deaf car
many words of endearmeut unused Iof
forty pears. u was . touching contrast
the one 50 old and the other 60 young
They had both been young these loEg
years ago, but time had gone on with the
living and stood still with the deau'
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
TIMELY TOPICS.

New ORLEANS receives nine-tenths of
the immigrants to the southern states.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

THE late postmaster Of Boston bears
testimony As follows to the excellence of
The service rendered by the much ma
iigncd feminine clerks in his department:
The women have proved far superior to
men in looking up mis-scnt and mis-
directed Letters, and in making returns
20 the dead-letter Office. They have also
proved entirely reliable. There has not
been single instance in nine years
where the accounts of any woman have
shown deficiency of one dollar in the
Boston postOiiice."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

The " hanging" question is being in
vestigated ia Great Britain in the inter
e'stS, i'oto the condemned criminal alosse,
but of humanity. Prof. HaughtOn, of the
university Of Dublin, who has given the
subject good deal of attention, repro
bates very strongly the use of any method
which fails to produce instantaneous
death, and recommends a long drop with
the knot under the chin.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

THE petition from the Murmon Women
was fraud. Numbers ct those whose
names appeared therein deny having
signed any s'Ich paper, but admit that
they did sign petition to grant the
FTomen OF Utah free admission ia the
centennial exposition.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

CHINAMEN stand by each other in
Hhis country. Those employed in shoe
making in North Adams have contri-
buted out Of their scanty earnings S947
10 defcad one who is entangled in law in
Nevada.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

How green the leaves were springin, how glad the
birds were singin'i
When rested in the meadow wild me head on Pat
riek's knees.
And oil! ! twas sprinS-time,
=, Sweet, sweet spring-titne.
Wild e aatsies all danein' before ME In the bTbeze.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

East INDIAN ANGELS.-At Baroda
bridge over which the Prince oi wales
was to pass was adorned in honor OF the the
occ,sion Among the ornaments were
ongeIs which the Indian decorators pro-
JmScd by Transforming the ugly young-
.tars of that land. Ten boys were fixed
~ different points Of the bridge, and
"eves right" once obtained the angel
maker proceeded. With n great brush
such as is used by bill-stickers he whit
cncd each young Barodian from top to
toe. Then to white cords passed around
their breasts he attached golden wings
of the most approved pattern. On their
half-shaven crowns he fixed long, flow
ing auburn wigs, and surmounted this
piece of decoration with gilt coronets.
In each hand he placed a long, white
wand, and the picture was complete.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

4 PHILADELPHTA expcrimenter has
been emulating the example of Dio Lewis
in respect to economical living and
vegetable diet, and communicates to the
public the result OF his effort to feed a
family of three on dollar a week. lie
tried corn-meal and found it insipid.
Buckwheat soon followed, and potatoes
soon failed to sustain bodily strength.
Then oatmeal was tried, and at the ex,
piration of two weeks, says the expert
menter, Il found myself four and a
quarter pounds heavier. My wife had
rained three pounds, while the lad had
gained over five pounds. Our food out
Law fer fourteen days was exactly two
dollars and eighty cents, or less than
seven cents per day for each person. We
are now pursuing the same course. with
an occasional mix=d meal
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
IRISH SONG.

The white blossoms on the bog and the leaves are
off the trees;
And the siiigih' birds have scattered aersss The
stormy seas-
And oh it's winter,
Wild, wild winter,
Wild the oaesofue wind Sighh' forever through the
trees
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
The Rush for the Black Hills.

Already the mass have begun to move
towards the Black Hills. Yesterday a
big partv left this city bound thither,
and many more will leave within the
next four weeks All those going from
here 90 by the way Of Cheyenne, which
is considered the quickest and best route
at this time of the year, on account OF
the difficulty Of crossing the Platte on
the Sidney route, which would be other
wisc the best way to go. A Herald re
porter Yesterday interviewed a man just
from Cheyenne, who says that town is
perfectly alive with people going TO the
hills. and that all kinds of business there
is consequently brisk. Everybody who
has anything in the shape of team is
fitting it up to carry out the people who
are pouring in from all quarters, and the
prospects are that by the 1st Of May
there will be more people in the Black
Hills than there are in Omaha to-day.
Mr.. Ward, who married a daughter of
Mr. Hayrod, proprietor of the Atlantic
House, in this city, left Cheyenne yes
terday for the Black Hills, with a saw
mill, and many other persons are on the
way with everything that can bo needed
to help the miners to make themselves
comfortable Omaha Herald.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

Mr.. MENzIEs, whc has just published
"A valuable work OH forests in England,
says that lightning never strikes dead
trees, but always selects the strongest,
and those full of sap. 1t is well worth
knowing that the ivy often acts as a
lightning conductor,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

SEVERAL years ago a noted highway
man was arrested in the south Of Ireland
and curiosity drew numbers to the Jail
to see the man loaded with irons who
had long been terror to the country.
Among others was a banker, whose notes
at that time were not held in the highest
estimation, who assured the prisoner
that he was very glad to see him there
at last. The highwayman, looking up,
replied: "Ah, sir, did not expect that
from indeed, l did not, for you
know well that when all the country re-
fused your notes, took them
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

DURING leap year the girl who counts
all the gray horses she sees, until she
has got up TO 4 hundred, will be married
within a year, to the first gentleman
with whom she shakes hands after count
ing-the one hundredth horse.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ir., con-
zributcs an article to the Atlantic Month
ly, in which some interesting statistics
are given, showing that the deaths by
rail are lower than from almost any other
cause. For instance, he shows that more
deaths occur from falling down stairways
an the city of Boston in proportion to the
population, than occur on the railroads
OF Massachusetts, in proportion 10 the
persons travelling.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

The ladies OF England are not dis
posed to allow their sisters on this CONT
nent to have monopoly of honors won in
intellectual contest with the lords of
creation" Miss Issbella G.. Clark sue,
cessfulIy passed the major examination
OF the English pharmaceutical society
and wa thereupon duly admitted as
pharmaceutical chemist Her perform
ance in passing the examination is the
first on record of a lady doing so.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

\ RECENT visitor to the Dismal Swamp
describes it, i'll Forest and Stream, as
having lost none of the characteristics
which gave it its name. Bears are not
~ plenty there rs when the region was
rarely penetrated by man, yet they still
afford sport for hunters. Lake Drum
mond, once believed 10y the ignorant to
he bottomless is really not in any place
more than fifteen feet deep. Its water,
impregnated with the juices of juniper
and gum leaves, is of the color of wine,
and is drunk as a remedy by consump-
tiyeS
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-02
Mr. Hahn-The Governor supported

Mr.. Hahn-The Governor supported
me after had told him that did not
want the position.
On motion of Mr.. Witt. the chair was
empowered to appoint n committee OF
five to lay the Impeachment before the
Senate.
The Speaker appointed Messrs. Du-
pre-, Scales, Murrell, Levisse and Bailey
the committee to investigate the affairs
Of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas
Railroad. IN e.nt aiDg7 .aa
At half-past five a recess was taken
until half-past seven. -'5f
EVENING SESSION.
The House reassembled at the expira-
ton OF the recess, seventy-four men,
bers present, the Speaker In the chair.
The only measure of importance that
came up was the general appropriation
bill, and that was yet under considera-
ton when the reporter left, at few
minutes before midnight.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-02
Reynolds Iron Works.
Corner Delord and Fulton streets.
W. II. REYNOLDS, Proprietor,

Postofflce Box 1890, Mechanics Exchange
"b Box 100,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
ELEVATORS = Timpe's Patent Hand and
Steam Power Elevators for Stores. Warehouses.
etc. Il nd .rl. ltll
WIRE ROPE-For Elevators kept constantly
on hand. ',3
REYNOLDS Celebrated Revolving Wrought
Iron Screw, Plantation Cotton Press.
CAREY'S-Patent Ground Anger for Wells
Fen 70 Posts. etc.
ESTIMATES-Made on application for Iron
Fronts. Ornamental Columns. Ratings. Fences.
Galleries. yerandahs. and every description OF
Wrought and Cast Iron Work for Bridges. Flat
and Box Cars for Railroads. Plant alton. Steam.
beat and Machinery In General.
Send for Circulars. fe2 6m
OUEYROUzE 4 BOls.
(LEoN QUEYRouzE OSCAR BoIs)
WHOLESALE GROCERS AND IMPORTERs
OF WINES. BRANDIES. ETC.
At THE BLUE STORES
Corner O.d L Voc and Bienville streets.
d24 sm q New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS LAGER.
CASPIAN LUSSE,
NOSs TO anu TO OndItKco SWcet1
Announces to proprietors OF beer saloons and
to the public, that having completed hts I'm
mense apparatus for manufacturing
LAGER BEER.
he is prepared to sell the same at lower price
than any other homemade article. and Of as
good quality rs any similar article produced in
the limited States. iILd eE+ fe4 I'm
NOR SALE. ..-................. ....FOh SALE
10000 az bushel Burlap Bags to arrive; also.
30 600 Sample Patches, La
~ ~ rla G. j. SHEPHERD d CO.,
feb4 lw lo5 Grayier street.