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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
Running in Debt.

The Philadelphia Ledger has this to
say about running in debt:
The man who believes in debt. and cites
plenty men of genius who run in debt, is
either silly enough to suppose himself
genius or to mistake folly for genius.
Men who write wisely against running
in debt, may also, like many other
preachers, fail utterly to practice their
own preaching. Thus, lord Bacon wrote
on the wisdom of business, and ran des-
perately in debt. Men of genius are
not alway ninnies in their expenditures,
though we can recall thousands who are,
from Bacon to Webster. Men of genius
may always he able, like Pitt and Web
ster, to have the most correct ideas of
public finances, and yet fail utterly in
managing their own affairs Pitt received
never less than equal to $4,000 a yeaer
sometimes equal to $35, 900, and died
equal to 100000 in debt. Sheridan
was another spenthrift, and spent all his
first wifes fortune in six weeks, and the
fortune of his icond wife in a few
months. Fox was great gamester, and
at one sitting of twenty hours lost equal
to $50, 900. 1t is just this kind of genius
which should have no imitators, and
which has proved the misery of thou
sands of families, and the dishonor of all
th5 men who indulge in such personal
extravaganza and plunder of other peo-
pies property.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
Tricks Of Indian Servants.
NIL Nh E..otso

Domestic servants in India occasion
ally display an amount of ingenuity in
dealing with their employers which
would not discredit their European
brethren. A Calcutta paper relates that
khitmatgar in the employ of gentle
man in that city, having the other day
completed his month and feeling disin
clined to remain i'm the service of his em-
ployer, probably because he had better
engagement elsewhere feigned illness at
the end of his month and took leave ear
lier than usual. The following morning
his employer was waited upon by host
of people, men and women, who claiming
relationship with the dead servant, at
tired themselves as if in mourning, and
exhibiting the deepest emotion an
nounced, with tears in their eyes, the
death from cholera of the unfortunate
man, at the same time begging the mas
fer to pay up his "dues," which were
urgently required to defray the funeral
expenses. The master, sympathizing
with their distress, paid up and even
offered to meet the charges attending the
demise, when it was ascertained that the
man reported dead was in perfect health,
in good spirits, and employed elsewhere.
The ruse was discovered by one of the
native servants observing a woman, rela-
ative of the alleged deceased, wearing
her ornaments. which, if his death had
been fact, she would, according to ma
tive rites and ceremonies, be prohibited
from using.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

by the trail twenty-five, followed them to
Hay Camp, but the Indians were there in
advance, and taken everything but a grind
stone. The place where these men were
ambushed was at the head of a long canon
running eastward; the Indians, hiding in
the rocks, watched for their approach, al
though all we're not killed at first fire, as the
bodies of two men were found in the rocks,
whittier they had fed. The complete CEN
sus of the Indians present at the Red Cloud
agency, to which the rations will be issued
in future, falls short of 5000, and of the
grown males, 1000 recruits for various regi-
ments in the field are daily arriving at fort
Russell
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

tainly suffice to induce the southern
states to place good men in Office and to
enforce the laws. While of the opinion
that federal interference should never be
resorted to, except in the cases provided
for in the constitution, / also think that,
if any Outrages are committed upon the
rights, persons or property of any citi-
zen, whatever his race, whether white or
black, and the state authorities neglect
or hesitate to do their duty, the general
government should urge and aid them in
every legal way to enforce order and
Justice, and should use all its legitimate
influence in that direction. But / have
sufficient faith in the honor and ability
of our southern brethren to believe that,
when left to themselves, they will we'll
know,how to enforce Just laws, and Sc
cure the rights of the humblest of their
fellow-citizens In Mr.. Tilden l am
confident that we have candidate pos
sessing all the requisites that the exi
gencies of the times demand. In long
career he has given the surest proofs of
ability and integrity. 1t is a very easy
thing to preach reform to an opponent,
but a very difficult affair to carry it out
in ones own party. This Mr.. Tilden
has had the rare courage and ability to
do. Against great obstacles he COM
menced and carried through the hereu-
lean task of fighting corruption and pur-
suing the plunderers in his own party,
and it is almost superfuOus to say
that the courage, energy, untiring per
severance and acumen he displayed in
those memorable contests, prove that he
possesses, in a most eminent degree, the
qualities so much needed in our chief
magistrates in the present crisis of our
affairs. In regard to all questions OF
finance and reform, we have the sure
criterion of his past to enable us to form
positive convictions as to his future. In
his hands may be safely left the task of
awarding liberal justice on the south,
while jealously awarding the rights of
the north, and the issues decided by the
great struggle ended, trust and believe,
forever When elected / believe that he
will enter upon the duties of his high
Office with the single purpose of serving
the country faithfully, and with no low
er ambition than that of devoting every
faculty to the glorious task of rendering
the nation prosperous at home, honored
and respected abroad. / would like to
appeal to those who in civil life have
honored me with their friendship and
support, and,especially and most earnestly
to those men to whom have never APP
pealed in vain-my comrades of the
war-and to ask them TO stand once more
with me in our country's cause, in civil
contest now, as formerly in a deadlier
struggle, and support to the uttermost
the election of Mr.. Tilden to the presi-
dency. 1 believe that the issues now at
stake are similar to those for which we
fought-the honor and well-being of the
nation. am very truly yours,
GEO B. MCCLELLAN.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

MAGNIFICENT in it's dimensions and
very laudable in its purpose is the Phil
delphia exposition, but there is an exhi-
bltion in progress on the other side of
the ocean, at Brussels, which, though
smaller, is well entitled to the worlds
attention. 1t is an international exhibi-
tion of all the known forms of hygienic
and life saving appliances, and is in
agreeable contrast, therefore, to those
exhibitions of the past where life-destroy-
ing implements have been prominent
features. The plan of the exhibition
cOntemplates IL division of life saving
apparatus into ten classes. In the first
are comprised all known methods of saw
ing life from fire, including plans for con-
structing fire-proof buildings, for safe
storing of explosives and combustibles,
preparation of timber to resist fire, and
the manufacture of lightning conductors.
The second class includes all protectives
against death by water. The third
is devoted to the exhibition of the
means of preventing accidents to travel
er5 by land over railways and ordinary
roads. The fourth class covers appli-
ances for alleviating the sufferings of
those wounded in war, and the fifth is
devoted to a display of the means by
which the public health is preserved.
The sixth embraces the sanitary measures
and means of saving life adopted in the
various industrial operations, including
models of workshops and factories, and
plans for lighting, heating and ventilat-
ing them, as we'll as protecting life in
mines. The seventh class is devoted to
domestic hygienic, the eighth to plans for
improvement in the construction of
artisans houses, the ninth to the public
core for the welfare of the laboring
classes, by the establishment of evening
schools, lecture courses and asylums for
children, and the tenth to protection of
life from the dangerous incident to the
pursuit of agriculture.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

THE Irish are threatened with a visit
from her majesty, the queen, but the
emeralders are not dismayed. She will
be received cordially, of course; there
is sufficient funkeyism in the ariste-
cracy, for that, and the middle classes
and Peasantry would not 90 out of their
way to do anything that would be un-
pleasant, but the enthusiasm is not likely
to he unbounded. Still, it may be re-
called that year ago some rattle-brained
Irish member engaged the attention of
commons by claiming that a royal resi-
dence in the green isle would be a pana-
cea for every political and we don't
know how many other ills. Her majesty
has never been over courteous to her
Irish subjects. During the nearly forty
years OF her reign she has visited the
island but twice, and then for only a few
days, whereas a third of her reign has
been passed at Balmolal, in the high
lands of Scotland. OF course the illogi-
cal Hibernian points to this as an out
rage on the sod, proclaiming it simulta-
neously good radiance to bad rubbage.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
The Well at Cawnpore.
Calcntta Cor. Of the CINCINNATI Gazette

Never, while life endures, will the
British soldier forget the sight that met
his gaze as he entered the city of unut-
terable horrors. on the sunny morning of
the 18th of July, 1857. l was there.
When that atrocious devil, the Mana
Sahib heard of our relief approaching,
and of our carrying the bridge, he order
ed the butchery of every white man,
woman and child. For weeks, and even
months afterward, might be seen in Cal
cutta, ladies who had escaped with lips,
or ears, or noses, or tongues cut off,
whilst others had suffered such horrible
and unimaginable degrading horrors that
they refused all identification Chill
dren were there with eyes gouged out
and feet cut off One. touching Instance
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
EAST.

The sentence of Jesse Pomeroy, the
Boston murderer, has been commuted to i'm
prisonment for life.
The Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern Pennsylvania and Delaware and Hudson
canal companies will reduce the wages of the
miners ten per cent
The Offenbach garden, a very costly
ceiver, three great centennial "side shows
have ended in disaster.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
;FRIENDSHIP.

FrienshIp is not that brittle tie,
Which merely has its birth to die
As many write, and poets sing,
IT'S false that tits brittle thing
As many do. cannot sigh,
That friendships only born to die,
Who thus treats friendship is to blame,
Not worthy of her holy name.
Friendship has lasted, ard will last,
In woes to come-in troables past,
And is forevermore the same,
When we prove worthy Ct her name.
That which we call the brittle thing,
Is but the shadow of her wing,
Not friendships self, for one bright ray,
From friendship, drives the shade away.
Friendship we court-the prize we gam,
Then treat her basely and profane,
Mourning, she bids us tnen adieu,
We call her false, then, and untrue.
Would we prove worthy of her name,
We'd find she always is the same;
Who says her ties are brittle shows,
That he of friendship nothing knows.
In hard, base, envieus hearts, or cold,
She never will herself unfold,
But honest hearts, warm true and just
Are only worthy OF her trust.
Charles Chester
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
Past and Present Prices of Cotton.

London Correspondence of the Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser.
Manchester man writing to one of
his local papers gives some curious facts
with regard to cotton which will be inter-
esting on your side of the Atlantic. The
price of cotton cloth is now lower in
worcestershire than it has beenf for twenty
wears. while the raw material is lower
than it has been for sixteen years, and the
manufacturers complain that they are now
sellingI heir goods manufactured at less
than the cost prices. Yet at the retail
shops extravagant prices are obtained
for cloth of the most inferior quality.
II Is not. therefore, wonderful to read in
the trade circulars particularly concerned
nno demand from the home trade" Cot
ton is now as cheap or cheaper than it
was in the year of your wonderful crop
(1S6O). and while the finest quality
American and Egyptians that which is
most abundant, the consumer fails to
benefit either in quality or price. These
verv significant and instructive facts are,
we may fairly presume, attributable
solely to increased cost of production.
The wages of spinners and weavers have
been steadily advancing from sixty to
seyenty-five per cent. during ths period
mentioned above, while rents, fuel, ma
chinery, etc, have also increased in cost.
All through Lancashire manufactures are
reducing wages and scheming to bring
down the cost of production.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
A Pitched Battle Among the Bees.
Augusta, Ca, Constitutionaiist.

The bees are very much disposed to
rob each others hives, too. They don
know what fear is and will fight any
thing. A swarm gets cut of honey, or
finds that it has not enough to last
through the winter, and 1t organizes it
self into rading party and sallies out on
the war-path, ready to attack the first
hive it finds. A party of these robbers
came and set in one Of my Italian hives
the other day. A good many of my bees
were out gathering honey, and the ma
rauders affected a lodging on my hive
and fought their way inside the hive,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

THEY are taking evidence in divorce
case for cruelty; the husband is under
examination; his wife, Frustrated with
grief, is weeping bitterly, covering her
face with her handkerchief. "Now,"
says the judge, care you not ashamed to
have thus brutally treated your wife. A
tender young woman of twenty-five ?''
The wife suddenly raises her head. 81
beg your pardon" she sobs; twenty
four only" And she again gives way to
her grief--Pdris paper.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
TIMELY TOPICS.

NEAR Schoeneck the owner of vine
yard destroyed nearly all the bees in that
region. Noticing that the bees were
eating and destroyinghis grapes, he made
a trap, consisting of two large planks
These planks were raised by means of a
prop foot apart, and baited with mo
lasses, ,land afteria large number of the bee
had congregated he sprung his "infernal
machine" and destroyed thousandr at a
time. In this manner the bee colonies
near by were SO weakened that one
apiarist lost eight of twelve colonies.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

THE Dutch cure a lazy pauPer byPut-
ing him into a deep cistern, letting in
the water, and providing him win
pump that, with hard work, VIII JuS'
keep him from drowning.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

CoLNHILL says that all the best men
are bachelors, and the best women
wives,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

DANIEL MCFARLAND, the slayer of
Richardson, turned up in Chicago a few
days ago. After his release from the
Penitentiary he went to Colorado, where
he has been living for the past two years.
His friends have tried to assist him, but
he seems. to be unable to do any thing for
himself. Since his arrival in Chicago he
has been living on the charity of some of
his old friends and acquaintance. Last
evening he wasdiscovered bya policeman
crawling into a window of law office at
ninety Washington street. He was taken
to the Armory on suspicion of being a
burglar, but he produced the key of the
Office, and said he had been sleeping
there for the past few nights, but that he
could not open the door. He was placed
III the witness-room to sober off, Chicago
Times
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

AN extract from the proceedings
lie Providence, r. l., police court: The
next victim was an old colored woman
named Halliday. She stood at the bar
with tears rolling down her cheeks, to
answer to the hideous crime of keeping
an unlicensed dog. She had paid his IL
cense for seven years, she said, but this
year it was such hard work to get msney
that she thought perhaps they would let
him go. "Ten dollars and costs" said
the judge, in his affectionate way. "Oh,
STRIP said the old woman, haven't got
but just seven dollars. If you would
take that, and let me bring the rest Sat
urday night, l could sell some of my
things and get little more money, SIR"
Upon this condition the old woman was
released.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

A MAN only five feet and three inches
in height may become a United States
soldier now ifhe wants to. If he is bald
headed, 90 much the better,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

I saw a pigeon making bread
| saw girl composed of thrend
1 saw a towel one mile square
/ saw a meadow In the air.
I saw a rocket walk a mile
] saw pony make file !
I saw a blacksmith in n box;
/ saw an orange kill an OK;
[ saw a butcher made Of steel
I ea,y a psu-knife dance n reel.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15

Frienship is not that brittle tie,
Which merely has its birth to die,
As many write, and poets sing,
'Tis false that tits a brittle thing.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-26
RADWAY'S REMEDIES.
OVARIAN TUMOR
OF TEN YEARS GROWTH
CURED BY a
DR.. railways RBMVIIBs
RADwAY'S REMEDIES.
L tor" had an Ouarian Tumor IN the Ova-
rieS and Bo,oels for Ten Years.

ANN ARBoR, Dec. 81, 1875
DIR. RADwAY:-That Others may be benefited
make this statement:
have had an Ovarian Tumor in the ovaries and
bowels for ten years l tried the best physicians in
this place and Others without any benefit 1t was
growing at such rapidity that could not have lived
much longer. A friend of mine induced me to try
Railways Remedies. | had not much faith in them
but hnally, after much deliberation, tried them
Ipurchased six bottles of the Resolve-t two box
es Of the Pills, and two bottles of the Relief used
those without any apparent benefit. determined
TO persevere / used tw I've more bot les OF the Re-
solvent, two OF the Relief, and two boxes OF Pills
Before they were gone had lost % pounds
L continued 10 Use the medicine until was sure
thatl was entirely cured. took the medicine about
1--WE months, and during that time lost IS pounds
In ali took three dozen bottles of the Resoyent,
six bottles Relief, and six boxes OF the Pills.
feel perfectly well, and my heart full OF graf
ltude TO God for this help in my great action. TO
you, Sir, and your wonderful medicine. feel deep
ly indebted, and my payer is that il may be as
much of blessing to Others as 1t has been to me.
LSigned] MRS. + q. BIBBINs
Mrs Bibbins. who makes the above certificate, is
the person for whom requested you to send medi
cine in June, 1875. The medicines above stated
were bought of me, with the exception of what was
sent to her by you. may say that her statement
Is correct without qualification.
[Signcdl L. S LERcH
Druggist and Chemist, Ann Arbor, Mich
This may certify that Mrs Bibblus who mai ef
the above certificate, is and has been for many
years well known to us and the facts therein stated
are undoubtedly and undcnlably correct. ANY ont
who knows Mrs Blbbins will believe her statement
IStgnedl BENZ. d. COCKER, MARY B. POND.
MARY COCKER, E. b. POND.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-26
DR.. Radw Ry's
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-26
BLEEDING KANSAS"
Samples of the Republican Party
THE WAR CLAIMS FRAUDS,

THE WAR CLAIMS FRAUDS,
ST, LOUIS, Sept, % COLE. F Rogers,
of Kansas, another of the parties indicted
a week ago by the u. s. grand jury lai
Jefferson City for completely in the war
claims frauds, was placed under S., 200
bonds to-day,
AN EMBEZZLING CANDIDATE FOR COVER
NOR.
LEAvENwoRTH. Sept. 25.-The Re
publican state central committee will
meet at Topeka tomorrow to consider
certain charges against Geo. L. Anthony
candidate for governor of Kansas. One
of these charges is that Anthony while
one of the loan commissioners of tine
school fund of Orleans county, New
York. appropriated part of that fund
and that the supreme court of New Yorl
rendered judgment against him and
his boudsmen iu the sum of SO 800 AlsC
other matters affecting the personal in
tegrity of Anthony. which will be brought
before the committee.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-26
CATHOLIC JOY.
Over the Arrival of Bishop oConnor and
his Conservation at Omaha Yesterday.

OMAHA. Neb. Sept. 25. The right Rev.
James O'Connor, who was lately conse-
Grated bishop of this Catholic diocese, ar
rived here Saturday night. All the pub
lie Catholic institutions of the city were
illuminated. bells were rung, and many
other manifestations of welcome and joy
were indulged in. Bishop OConnor was
Yesterday installed 10 the cathedral. LIN.
mense crowds thronged the building, and
outside priests from all parts of the diocese
were present. Bishop Ruan, of st. Louis,
conducted the services.