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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
Course of the Cotton Market.
New York Bulletin.

Operators have had nothing really new
to work from during the past week, and
found it necessary to make the most of
old influences in their manipulations of
the market from day to day. At first
matters looked rather tame, but subse-
quently the "bull" gained the advantage
of the position, and by constant and
strenuous efforts held grounds fairly, with
values on the whole probably averaging
well up to the preceding week. The
damaged and shortened crop" has
again been daily ventilated. and to this
was added rumOrs of the spread ofyellow
fever through southern ports not hereto
fore affected, the latter report naturally
generating the fear of retarded deliveries
of cotton on the seaboard and consequent
disappointment in the amount received
here this month. Sufficient alarm was
CT lated to cause pretty free demand to
cover from the more timid shorts, espec-
tally as the stock here was moving out
with some freedom; and on this basis,
assisted by an occasional purchase to
" stimulate" operators for rise managed
to increase values. The more confident
bears" however, were by no means
quiet lockers on, but have stubbornly
contested the improvement fraction by
fraction, making a somewhat sharper
fight than the market has passed through
tor several weeks; and some of the Op,
orators on this side of the question claim
that considering the demand prevailing
and the full amount of business actually
accomplished, their opponents have made
4 remarkable small gain and can show
but a barren victory at the best. Ac-
counts from abroad have shown an alb
sence of really cheerful features, and a
general sort of indifference has been the
most Characteristic indication obtained
from our exporters, while some have re-
ceive6 private advices of a really tame
nature. On the home situation, the
central point now is the movement of
supplies, and this seems to have been
gradually gaining in volume at the in
terror, with corresponding tendency
toward the seabord. There, however,
a temporary check seems likely at the
moment, in view of the fever at the
southern ports, and a strengthening in
fuence is generated on the market in
consequence.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
The Planet Saturn.

An examination of the planet Saturn
at the Dearborn observatory, with a
rather high magnifying power, resulted
in the witnessing of a very interesting
and somewhat rare phenomenon. On
the western limb of the planet, in 'qti-
tude 400 to 45o north from his equator,
there was an enormous protrusiOn, or
buIging out, from the generally elliptic
outline, and a corresponding one, though
not so large, on the northern hemisphere
was very easily noted, even by an un-
practiced eye, when compared with the
contour of the southern half of the
planet.
The phenomenon is described in the
books as 4" the square-shouldered aspect
of Saturn. 1t appears to have been first
noticed by Herschel in the early part OF
the present century; but that eminent
astronomer was so much puzzled by il
as almost to doubt the evidence of his
own senses. But it has been observed
on several occasions during the last
seventy years and astronomers, or some
Of them, now think they know what it
means.
Such n change of form would be i'm
possible without a general disruption, il
what we see Of the planet were solid
crusts like that of the earth. But we
have very good reason to believe that we
see only his atmOsphere-very much
more dense or cloud-laden than our own.
Comparing his volume (700) with his
power to disturb the other bodies of the
system (92.4), that of the earth being
unity in each case, we find that his aver
age density is only about one eighth part
Il. Il 4 10
density of water The difficulty of con-
ceiving how a solid body 80 vast in size
could be composed of such light material
vanishes if we suppose that the planet
itself is very much smaller than the disc
we see, and is surrounded by very deep
atmosphere. This is the view now gen
orally adopted by those astronomers who
reason on the subject; and it furnishes a
sufficient explanation Of the phenomenon
known as the square-shOuldered aspect.
We do not find it necessary To believe
that these occasional changes in the shape
of Saturn, great enough to be visible at
a distance of 800, 900 900 miles, are
anything more than vast tidal move
ments in his atmosphere, to which the
rise and fall of the waters in the tides OF
our oceans furnishes faint parallel.
And truly very faint one. Our
ocean tides nowhere range more than 2
few yards above the mean level; while
the change in the outline of Saturn last
Tuesday night indicated an atmospheric
tide of not less than six hundred miles.
The magnitude of the forces at work on
that planet to produce such tremendous
results, even in his atmosphere, can
scarcely be imagined, much less de-
scribed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
How They Manage These Things in
China.

Chinese elopements are well managed
None but the lazy deserve the fair !;
there is neither ladder nor trellis to be
scaled and the old gentleman is easily
persuaded thai whatever is, is right.
There was Ho, the LATEST wight of Hang
chow, who lived by odd jobs, and never
could get regular employment. One
night, while he was drinking tea at
wavside inn, he boasted that he would
never do another days work, unless he
could find a rich employer with pretty
daughters. An old screw named Tsiang,
who overheard the remark, was so en-
ragged by it that he engaged all the labor
ers who were present except Ho, and re-
fused to give even a nights lodging.
Poor Ho went to sleep in Tsiang's back
ward. and verv mournful washe. Sudden
ly a great bundle of clothes was thrown
out Of a win@ow. Thinking there were
thieves in the house, and not being in
mood to protect the farmers household,
he put the bundle on his back and
trudged down the road with it. Soon he
heard steps behind him. The inturiated
farmer? Not so. It was only a pretty
girl. She joined him and walked by his
side without saying a word or looking at
him. On they went through the dark
night, mile upon mile, and just as the
day was breaking they reached the viii
lage inn. Then she looked at him and
shrieked. 1t was not the young cousin
who had wooed her to pack up her
clothes and meet him at midnight. 1t
was only poor, lazy Ho. "Well, well, +"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
MiSCELEANEOUS.

The largest and handsomest specimen
of corn at the centennial was grown in one
of the river bottoms of Walker county, Geor-
gia. 1t weighs, bone dry, twenty-fOur
ounces. Both kernel and cob are white the
first deep and considerably dented; the Sec
ond comparatively small and not remarka-
BILE for its density or strength. 1t would be
quite contribution to agricultural litera-
ture if the growers would furnish to southern
corn growers the particulars of the soil, MAJ
nur1ng and cultivation of this most surpris-
ing exhibit of Georgia grown corn.
The Canadian yacht, Countess of Duff
ferin, has been libelled in New York for va
rious small debts, amounting in all to about
seventeen hundred dollars. Her owners in
tended, after winning the cup from the Ma
define, to sell her for a large sum, as was
done with the Canadian yacht, Ina, in Chi
cago Failing in this, they are likely to let
her go for half the estimated value in order
to pay off the debts.
The erection of the much talked-of
statue of Liberty in the harbor, at BedlOe's
island, seems likely t. be referred. After
raising, by individual effort and without any
government aid over two hundred thousand
francs, with which the cost of great part of
the work has been betrayed, the French peo-
pie are waiting to see what the Americans
propose to do toward aiding the project, and
meanwhile the work is temporarily sus-
pended.
General Newton did his work on He'll
Gate thoroughly. An examination of it by
divers reveals the fact that the reef was
thoroughly broken up, and that there are no
rocks that can not readily be removed. All
New York is delighted with the job, and it is
proposed by influential gentlemen to give
the great engineer a complimentary recep-
ton at Gilmore's garden.
We have 100000 farmers, 200, 900
trades people, 100000 mechanics, 2,6oO,-
600 professional men, 900 clergymen, 49,
600 lawyers, 12S, 1922 teachers, $1,000 doctors,
?, 900 actors, 6,1OO journalists, 100000 Ia
borers and $4,000 domestic servants.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
THE TwO MYSTERIES.

In the middle of the room, in its white coffin, lay
the dead child, nephew of the poet. Near it, il
great chair, sat Walt Whitman, surrounded by
little ones and holding beautiful little girl in hi
lap. The child looked curc usly at the spectacle
death and then inquiringly into the old mans face
" You don't know what it is, do you, my dear?'
said he, ''We don't either.'
We know not what it is, der, this sleep so deer
and still;
The folded hands, the awful caIn the cheek SO pale
and chill;
The lids that win not lift again, though we may ca
and call;
The stranse, white solitude of peace that settles
all
We know not what 1t means, dear, this desolat e
heart-pain;
This dread to take our daily way, and walk in it
We know not te what other sphere the loved who
leave us go,
not know.
But this we know: Our loved and dead, if they
should come this day
Should come and ask us, What is life ?' rot Of
us could say.
Life ie mystery as deep as ever death can be;
Yet oh how sweet it is to us, this lie We live and
Beei
Then might they say-these vanished ones-and
blessed Is the tnOughtl
' So death is sweet to us, beloved! though we may
We may not tell it to the qriek-this M stery of
Ye may sot tell us, If ye would, the mystery of
breath"
The child who enters life comes not with knowI-
edge or intent.
So those who enter death mus go as little children
sent.
Nothing is known. But believe that God is over
head;
And as life is to the living so death is to the dead
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
EAST.

The desperate war that has been waged
for the past two or three months by the
trunk lines of railway to the interior from
the Alantic seabord does not abate. The
New York and Erie, the New York Central,
the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio
and the Grand Trunk Canada railroads have
reduced their charges on some of the classes
down to ten cents per 100 pounds to Chica-
go, which is said to be the lowest point ever
reached. What action the New York Cen
tral will take is not yet known, but it is gem
orally expected that they will make a simi-
lar reduction.
New York is getting its full share OF
centennial trade. The hotels are literally
crammed, the various places of public amuse-
ment, night after night, have every seat oc-
cupied, the horse cars and cabmen are taxed
to the utmost of their ability, and the mer-
chants, wholesale and retail, for once, admit
that they have as much business as they can
well attend to. Many of them are obliged
to keep open their stores until late in the
evening to accommodate customers. Never
since the war have the streets and avenues
presented so busy an appearance. Broad
way looks like the old times, and the boule-
wards up town, as well as the parks, are not
less full of life and animation.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
Drawing the Long Bow.

The Philadelphia Chronicle says: The
most interesting of all centennial expert
ences is to go into the Egyptian depart
ment and listen TO the talented young
exhibitor, who is drawing upon his imagi-
nations for facts to instruct inquiring
minds. When the exhibition first open
ed, he says he tried to give visitors all
the information in his power, but he soon
found that the American mind was not
satisfied with dry details, and it was
necessary to invent little. They have
in this department huge stuffed crOco-
die, and also some spoons, vases, etc,
made of rhinoceros horn, inlaid with
ivory. These spoons are sold for two
dollars, and Mr.. Fritz is instantly asked
what makes them so dear. He explains
the cause as follows: In order to catch
a rhinOcerOs, you must first secure
crocodile, the latter is trained to pursue
the former in the water; when the rhi
noceros sees the crocodile coming he
plunges into the water beneath him and
thTusts his horn through the crocOdile's
body. As the crocodile is secured by
rope, the bOatmen step on his body, cut
off the horn of the rhinOcerOs, and take
their hunter home, where he is nursed
up until well enough for the next chase.
One of the most serious trials of Mr..
Fritz, however, arises from the fact that
a multiplicity of visitors come in pur-
suit of mummies, of which they have
none, this being an exhibit of modern,
not ancient, Egypt. He manages their
opportunities by leading them to mir
ror and telling them, There is the only
mummy in the department. Several
rather skinny individuals have felt them
selves considerably agrieved by this re-
ference so their personal appearance.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
"GirIs, Don't Do It."

"Don't do what?' our fair readers
will ask. There are a great many things
you ought to do, and a still greater num-
ber that you had better not do. Fore
most and prominent among the latter is
to reform a drunkard by marrying him.
Depend upon it, if you cannot keep
him sober during those days OF the
average woman's strongest influence
over wayward men, the season of court
ship, the chances will be against success.
Some women have succeeded in this
labor of love, but there are 10000 fail
ures to one success. 1t is field of mis-
sionary labor that few of the sex are fitted
to enter. If John gets drunk once a
month while he is billing and cooling,
depend upon it he will require semi
monthly seasons of Eacchanalian recrea-
ton when he becomes a benedict. A
man who gets drunk is necessarily q bad
or foolish man when he is under the in
fuence of liquor, and is very apt to soon
become a bad man whether drunk or
sober. The romantic idea, that woman
who can reform a drunkard is deserving
of a crown of glory, is all the veriest
bosh. They would he shocked by the
suggestion that a man who marries a
fallen woman and restores her to a life
of virtue would be deserving the praise
of all mankind. The latter would be a
much easier task than the former, and
more likely to succeed. The debase-
ment in one case is generally incurable,
and scorns the influence of kindness or
affection, while in the other the op-
portunity to escape from alife of degrada-
ton would in most cases insure hearty
cooperation with the missionary in such
a field. But the drunkard, as is gener-
orally the case, may be addicted to a
number of other vices, each one of which
ought to be considered as repulsive as
that of drinking.
Still, the experiment is tried by new
votaries, who think they can succeed
where Others failed. 1t is a terrible de-
lusion. Love and devotion are power
less on a drunkard. Nothing but an
| iron will and firmness that few women
possess can check the career of a man
who has once taken hold of strong drink.
He must become subject to her will, and
| be restrained from his evil courses by a
power stronger than love or kindness.
| There are enough men who become
( drunkalds after marriage for all reason
able purposes of experiment, without
taking them fully trained in career of
vice and debauchery Therefore, we
| say: ''Girls, don't do it J"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
Fashionable English Dances and
Dancers.

Prior to the introduction of the waltz
and the uadrille-and these twin dances
arrived in England so nearly together
that there is some difficulty in deciding
which was really the elder-born-the
dances at Almack's had been confined to
the old English country dance, cotillions,
Scotch steps, and an occasional Highland
reel, the orchestra being from Edinburgh,
and conducted by the then celebrated
Neil Cow. The graceful minuet, and
the more vivacieus gavotte had already,
it would seem, disappeared from the ball
programme.
If Capt. Gronow be correct in assign
ing 1915 as the date at which Lady Jer-
sey introduced from Paris the quadrille
at Almack's, why then the waltz GER
tainly preceded it by some two years.
Byron sapostrophic hymn, "The Waltz, F"
was written at Cheltenham in the au-
tumn of 1912, and published anony-
mously in the spring of the following
year.
In the course of time, however, Lord
Palmerston might have been seen de-
scribing an infinite number of circles
with Madame de Lieyen. Baron de
Neuman was frequently seen turning
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

The Jewish Herald states that the las
four or FIVE years have witnessed rettirn o
the Jews to Palestine from all parts, bu
more especially from Russia, which has beer
altogether unprecedented. The Hebrew
population Of Jerusalem is now probably
double what it was ten years ago. Great ac
cessions will continue daily; and whereas
| ten years ago, the Jews were confined tc
theirown quarters in Jerusalem, the poorest
and worst, they now inhabit all parts of the
! city and are always ready to enter every
house that is to be let.
Work was begun in August on the fair
to which the city of Paris invites the nations
for May /, 1878. The edifce is to be COM
posed of the now generally accepted mate
rials OF glass and iron, with the exception of
the two extremities, or two grand facades,
will be constructed in dressed stone, on the
grandiose design, ornamented with statuary.
1t is to be erected on the grand Champ de
Mars, of which it will occupy two hundred
and forty square metres, or nearly thirty
hectares. One of the facades will look to-
ward the Seine, the other toward the militia
ry school, and there viii be the shorter sides
of the parallelogram. There will be no res
taurants or cafes, theaters, concert hals-in
abort, no establishments whatever of catch
penny nature within the limits; but every
enterprise of that nature may spread itself
on the Trecadero just over the river.
The admiralty has letter from Allan
Young, commander OF the steamer Pandora,
making voyage to South Sound to bring to
England dispatches deposited there by the
Arctic expedition under Capt. Mares. 1t an
nOunces his arrival at Upper Narim on the
18th of July. He reports all well on board,
and says he would proceed northward an
July 10. The winds during the sumner had
been from the southwark, and were there
fore not calculated 10 clear the ice from
Melville bay, but as far as visible from Up
per Navik the sea was clear. There was no
news of the Arctic expedition.
The statistics presented by Prof. Vir-
chow, of Berlin, at the recent anthropologi-
cal congress in Jena, upset the popular no.
ton that a majority of the German people
are blondes. He showed that in the central
regions of North Germany about one-third of
the school children are blonde, in Prussia
thirty-fve per cent and III Bavaria only
twenty per cent. The population grows
darker southwark. OF the German Jews
eleven per cent. are blonde.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
Tales of my Grandmother.
Boston Sunday Courier.

Hoogley's boy has been spending his
vacation with his grandfather and
grandmother, down east. He got home
this week, and few evenings ago, while
sitting on the curbstOne adjusting a rag
on his sore heel, he was telling Squeaky
Zone of his chums) what a good time he
had. The following is his story: "Pve
got the old boss grandmother for tellin'
stories, and don't you forget it She is
as much as two hundred years old, with
a great, long, crooked chin, and her face
kinder looks like pork-scraps, but she's a
bully old gal, and can't she tell some aw-
full injun stories. She says she's got
three mattresses stuffed with iniun's hair
that my grandfather killed and scalped
when he was a young man. All my
grandfathers pillers is stuffed with injun
hair, too, she says. My grandfather he's
got an old fintlOck gun that guess was
made when Noer cum out in the ark.
My grandfather use to shoot bears'n I'll
gers'n elefunts'n crockerdiles'n n all kinds
of birds and everything. My grandfath-
er shot his gun into a lion or wolf one
day, and the wolf grOwed mand'n run
out of the wOods'n run inter a naber's
house'n swallered three little children.
My grandfather runs'n grabbed the
VIOLIN skinned Hmm saved the children
fore they's ct up. Piruts used to sail up
the river in front of my grandma ther S
house'n they used to rob folks and muir
der 'em and git their mummy; they used
to murder a thousand folks day some
times, and bury the gold in cave. My
grandmother was all alone one day, and
some pirutq cum and set the house afire,
and my grandmother throw'd bilin' wa
ter on the piruts, and they left four mil
ions of gold and ran off You ought to
see my grandmother and hear her tell
things"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
FOREIGN.

There are seven hundred working
mems clubs in England, with an aggregate
membership of 10000. They are said to be
the most powerful adversaries of the gin
shops thus far discovered. The club rooms,
of course, are kept open on SUNDAY, ,',and thus
meet the licensed victuallers on their own
ground
News from Panama states that an en-
gagement, Aug. 81, at LaSchaneSS, in the
Canca, between the rebels and the govern
ment forces, the rebels lost more than a
thousand killed, while the government
forces lost two hundred killed and three
hundred wounded. TAe rebels engaged
numbered sixty-fve hundred men, and the
constitutional forces thirty-two hundred.
The London Times says the wheat
crop OF the United Kingdom this year is far
from abundant This arises chiefly from the
fact that the land devoted to wheat is now
67S,OO0 acres less than the average acreage
of 1874 and the seven preceding years. An
eminent English agriculturists says that the
gross product of the present ,crop is 1O,6OO,-
o. quarters. Deducting $4,000 for seed
VII leave 10 $4,000 for consumption. This
will be the fourth year in succession in
which America will be called upon to sup
ply wheat for English consumption.
Austria's fear of losing the Hungarian
portion OF her not well cemented empire
leads her object to the crowning of Milan as
king. The act would look TO the Magyars
on the other side of the Danube, in Hun
pCry as tine nueh talked of ScIavic emDire
was really in process OF development, and
they would, with their anti-sclavic procliv-
tiles, undoubtedly prepare for death-strug-
| gle with both Russia and Austria, both OF
which powers they dislike, although permit
ting themselves to nominally incorporated
| in the Austrian empire