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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
A Case OF Spiritual Communication.


The Lendon Daily News adds another
to the apparently well authenticated
cases of spiritual communication between
widely separated persons-a class of
phenomena which the materially inclined
dismiss as simple coincidence" while
the greater part of mankind is ready to
accept them as mysterious psychological
facts. This last instance will excite all
the more interest since it Is connected
with the death of Mr.. George Smith, the
famous Assyrian scholar. That gentle
man died at Aleppo on the 10th Of
August, at or about the hour of six in
the afternoon. On the same day, and
between three-quarters of an hour and
an hour later, says the News, a friend
and fellow-worker of Mr.. Smith's-Dr.
Delitzch-was going to the house of a
third person, the author of the account
of the labors of the departed scholar
which appeared III the academy. In the
course OF his walk DIR. Delitzch passed
within stones threw of the house in
which Mr.. Smith lived when in London.
and suddenly heard his own name
uttered loud in "most piercing crv,"
which thrilled him to the marrow. The
fact impressed him so strongly that he
looked at his watch, noted the hour. and
although he did not mention the cir
cumstance at the time, recorded it in
his note book. Although the moment of
DIR. Smiths death does not exactly coin
eide with the time when DR.. Delitzch
heard his name called, the incident is
sufficiently extraordinary TO strengthen
the faith of all who believe in the posi-
bility of a mysterious sympathy between
individuals, which may manifest itself
without regard to the space thatseparates
them.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

A TURKISH PREDICTION.-It is an old
belief amongst the Turks that they are
to lose ConstantinOple, and there are not
wanting some who think that their
power in Europe will pass away with the
present sultan. A rival to DIR. Cumming
has appeared in the person of a vener
able gentleman at BeyrOut, who fixes
the duration of the empire at four years.
A maronite from Beyrout says that the
mans prophecies have had a wonderful
effect upon the mussulmans of Syria.
He foretoId the fall OF Abdul Aziz several
weeks previous to that event, and is sure
that his words will prove equally true
with regard to Murad. The seer is said
to obtain his knowledge of the future,
like DR.. Cumming, from the book of ST.
John.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
FOREIGN.

NJ. A. Rouilet, the French political
economist, has made calculations as to the
increase of population in European countries
from 1860 to 1870, and finds that Servia
comes FIRST, after which follows Russia, Switz-
erland, Norway, Prussia, Great Britain,
Denmark, Saxony, Holland, Baden, Wurtem-
burg, Austria and Hungary, Belgium, Greece,
Spain, Italy, Bavaria, Roumania, Portugal.
and last of all France.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

A MILL FOR THE GoDs.-Canon City,
(Col) Avalanche: A camp of pilgrims
were preparing breakfast under a cotton
wood tree yesterday morning, and a
small boy to whom the task of grinding
coffee with a worn-out cofee-mill had
been assigned, after twisting away until
he got plumb sick Of the job, startled the
camp by the assertion:
:" This ought to be the gods coffee.
mill"
What do you mean by such nom
sense ?" asked the head of the family.
Why" he replied, "they say the
mills of the gods grind slowly, and if
lows any object, they'd better come
md get this'n"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

birth or its being artifcially produced in
the manner to which he had referred
It was remarkable that horns were pc
culiar to the male sex. The subject was
very obscure and had not been sufficiently
investigated by anthropologists, be
cause there were great prejudices to
taking it up.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
By HORSLEY & HEMPHILI
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND VyExT.

James Lick, the San Francisco million
eire. died. He had become famous for his
magnificent public donations and his eccen-
tric revocations of his various trust deeds
and changes of trustees to carry out his be-
quests, which amounted to five or six mil
lions of dollars.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

INDIANS IN OREGoN.--There are up
wards of two thousand Indians at Silver
Lake, Oregon and vicinity, ,consistingofthe
Warn Springs, Snakes, Piutes, klamath
or Yainax, and others. They are there
with numerous race horses for the
purpose of having match races, ano also
gambling-a favorite pastime among the
Indians The Warm Springs have about
eight hundred loose horses for racing, and
about five hundred which they ride,
while all the others have large bands of
horses.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

ARTIFICIAL DEER HUNTING 1t is no
longer necessary to go to the Adirondacks
to test ones skill at deer-shooting
Some inventive genius has constructed
an artificial running deer, life. size,
which, by an ingenious contrivance, is
carried aSout one hundred yards at the
speed OF the living animal. 1t appears
TO produce the "buck fever" as easily
as the genuine article, for very few
Priz' are won by the sportsmen who
shoot at it. 1t is one of the side-sbows
at Creedmoo-.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

A SEA SERPENT.-A California paper
cows that an infant sea-sernent basP n IT,, p1I
to fort fowl send, Oregon, whence it
win be sen, TO the centennial. 1t is
seven feet long, and its head is twenty
two inches in circumference. 1t has a
pair Of formidable looking jaws thickly
set with powerful teeth, and has prom
inent in, alove and below, running the
entire length of the body.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

THE cost Of lager beer is computed by
the Chicago Tribune at Sl.80 keg, for
which the brewer gets $3.50, and the re-
taller about ST.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
TIMELY TOPICS.

THE Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
will not allow negro children to attend
their schools.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

NJ. TALLEYRAND PERIGORD, centen-
nial commissioner from France, writes TO
his people that the Americans have sadly
deteriorated, socially, and intellectually.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

KATE FIELD is also mad AT Joaquin
Miller. She says she can't respect man
who sleeps with his head at the foot of
the bed,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

CoNNUBIAL BLIss-A henpecked hus-
band declared that the longer he lived
with his wife the more he was smitten by
her.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

ENGLIsHMEN have patented something
even more humane than the gyro or
steel pigeon. 1t is an artificial hare for
greyhound racing, mounted oil a sort of
shuttle that runs in a deeply grooved
rail four hundred yards long, and is op-
Grated by two men with windlass. The
dogs chase it just as eagerly as If it were
a real hare
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

A certain bird in a certain wood,
Feeling the sprng-timc warm ana 5000
Sang TO IL, in melOdiOus mood.
on other neghbOring brat ches stood
Other birds who heard his song:
Loudly he sang and clear ana str"iGj ,
Sweetiy he sang and II stirred Their gall
There should be voice 80 musical. ~
They said to Themselves, 90 We mus siop that mid'
He's the sweetest voice was ever ltafc
That rich deep cbest-note, crystal Iear,
Is a mOrtifying thing TO hear
We have sharp beaks and harder u8s,
Yet we but croak this fellow ing
so they planned and plaIned, ara lu'o the ORA
With the sweetest voice vas ever lizard.
Passing his grave one happy May,
brought this English daisy away.
ThOmds Bafisy ami h in atlantic.
AT the distance Of twenty miles from
Carter station, on the Union Pacific rail
way, is situated a remarkable coal-miu".
1t is about four miles in length, and cor
sists of sixteen veins, lying one above
another, with a thin layer Of sandstone
intervening. The bottom vein is the
thinnest Give feet), while the one next
above is over seventy-fve feet in thick
ness. A few feet above this is vein OF
sixty feet, another of forty succeeding,
and 30 on, making in all about four hun
dred feet Of coal. The veins solpe at an
angle of about twenty-five degrees, and
are very easy of access.
A GENTLEMAN Of immense proper
tions entered a crowded car at Emlen-
ton. Pa. leading by the hand a very
small woman. whom everybody supposed
10 he his. daughter, judging from appear
ances. At Scrubgrass, a Titusville oil
producer stepped aboard the train, and,
finding all the seats occupied. stepped up
70 the man, and said: "Will you be so
kind as to allow me TO occupy a part OF
tbis seat? I'll hold your little daugh-
ter on INV knee " He retreated when
the other rose up in a threatening man
,,ar ond fairly screamed: " Daughter
Shes nv wife, and I'd like TO catch you
holding her on your knee! !" A peal OF
iangbter followed this announcement,
and the Titusville man went out on the
platform for air.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

We can only live once and deaths tCTrors
With lifeis bowers and roses eutwine,
And our lives would be darkened by errors
Did we even, like cats p sscss niuel
They would De perhaps all oi Them Wasied'
And be recklessly squandered away,
And not half Of the joys would be tasted
That one life can embrace In day.I
Let the lives that We live be worth liyingi
let the DAYS that spend DE well spenti
Let us save for the pleasure OF giving.
And not borrow at fifty per cent
Let US never cease loving and learning,
And use life for its nOblest OF ends,
Then when dGst 10 It's dust IL returning
We shall live in the hearts Of our friends.
A WELL known author was about to
read new piece in the greenroom Of
West End theater, when, before com
mencing, a Young ard charming actress,
who is always remarkable for the elegance
of her toilets, smirkingiy said: my
dear Mr., is the part you have written
for me we'll within my power - Per
feclIy," replied the author. "GOu have
to change your dress seven times"
TOMMY is fond of sugar, and asks his
mother for some to eat with his straw
berries. She refuses. He appears re-
signed, but adds gravely: " You know,
mamma, what happened round the cor
ner2 There was a little boy, and his
mother would not give him any sugar on
his strawberries, and -" " And"
a. And next day he fell into we'll"
ABOUT nine o'clock the other morning
one of our most active business men was
heard to say: " l am going to be worked
to death again to-day. Pve got to get
that letter in The postofiice before night,
and it isn't directed yet, and there IL no
stamp on it either. That will take an
hour, and then it will be too late to 90
to the postoffice, except in a hack, and
there is nobody about TO help me into
it.-iSt. Louis Globe Democrat.
Too MUCH FOR ENDURANCE.-An
English visitor TO the centennial. says the
New York Herald, wandered into acheap
in Shanty Town and ordered
a steak. After desperate efforts to over
come its toughness he next called for
napkin. The landlord came out from
the kitchen in his shirt sleeves and ad-
dressed the astonished guest in indignant
terms: "Sa-ay young feller, this amt
no centennial. The next thing you'll be
wanting, 1 suppose, is grand Pianer''
Fable
A certain bird in a certain wood,
Feeling the spTng-tmc warm ana ho"''
Sc ng TO IL, in melodiOus MOOD.
ON other neighboring bTat chcs stood
Other birds " no heard his song:
I oudIv be sang and clear and strOTg;
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

COLE YOUNGER, one of the ruffans
Of the bank robbing gang who recently
came to grief in Minnesota, has written
a letter, in which he says: al am proud
to say we were raised by religious pa
rents and attended Sunday school regular
in our boyhood, and, too, had charge of
a bible-cl&ss while in Texas, at Seyne,
Dallas county. l have ever respected
christianity. I have known the right,
and indorse it. condemn the wrong,
but yet the wrong pursued me"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

q" Twas moonlight night" the trapper began,
As we lay by the bri. hit camp fire
- Come fill up your pipes and pile on the brands,
And draw little higher.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20

A BARREL of 1861 Johannisberg, from
the famous cellars of Prince Metternich,
has just been knocked down for the
highest price ever given for even that
wine. The purchaser is the recently
deposed sultan, who, after attempting
to jump into the BosphOrus, seems de-
termined to drown his cares in the bowl.
The piece contains 400 bottles-about
g3 IS. bOttle-so the Sultan Murad
will have something to console him for
the sword of Osman, now worn by his
brother.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04
The zinc Arts.
PICTURE .FRoVf THE sTUD1o OF q. L. TAT.
NALL.

A PICTURE .FRoNf THE STUDIO OF q. L. TAT
NALL.
Mr.. Fl. L. 'Catnall, having resumed his
has completed within fortnight what
many Of those who have watched with in
terest his artistic career regard as his very
best picture. 1t was on exhibition for few
days in i.he window of @. f. Rudolph, and
there attracted much attention, and is now
in Mr.. Rudolph's gallery, until it may be
framed aud delivered to the gentleman for
whom it has been painted. The picture is
landscape study, of scene that may be
located somewhere on the upper Brandy
wine. The stream is in the foreground,
wsth trees to left and right, whose foliage
u, colored with the rich hues Of autumn.
An the middle distance hills rise and form
the background. We cannot go into mi
mute description of the many good points of
the picture, but they are such as to call
forth very enthusiastic praise for it, and a
common Judgment is that Mr.. Tatnall exhi-
bits in it u remarkable strength and vigor, of
treatment, especially of color. The picture
is nowhere feeble-it shows that it has
grown under the touch of a master. Those
who love the arts we suggest should call at
Mr.. Rudolph's gallery and see it,
PICTURE BY MR.. HERR.
One of Mr.. Homer A. Herr's landscapes
has been in Mr.. Rudolph's window for a
few days. The subject is "Spring after
noon on the Brandywine." The solitude of
the scene is unbroken, except by boat
with two occupants, apparently floating in
to the domain of sentiment, and pair of
lounging fishermen ON the bank. Mr.. Herr,
whose studio is at Masonic Temple, room,1O,
shows progress in his art, and is meeting
with encouraging marks of appreciation.
He is now engaged on landscape for one
of our prominent and wealthy connoisseurs,
and is painting the portrait, amongst 9TH
ers, Of Mr.. V. e. Holmes, Of the "Boston
Clothing House."
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04
A NebraaIxm skirmtsh

The Democrats in Nebraska are attempt
ing to defeat the Is, 900 Republican ma
jority in that State. and have rssorted to
the Courts to prevent the Republican cleo
tors being commissioned and casting the
vote for Hayes. There is some difficulty,
because the new Constitution, adopted IN
1875. reu1ires that the votes for Plaside1-
tial Electors shall be canvassed in the same
manner as those for members OF Congress
that is, by the Legislature, It also speoi-
fies that the first Legislature Hereunder
shall meet in January, but the laws of the
United States require that the Electors in
the several States shall meet on the first
Wednesday in December TO vote for Presi-
dent aud Vice President. The Governor
has called special session Of the Legisla-
ture, but the Democrats are trying to pre-
vent quorum from being present.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04
THIRD EDITION.
New Castle Items.
Correspondence of az Comnlereial

Correspondence Of the Commercial.
New CAsTLF, DEL, Dec. 4.-The steam
ship Ohio passed up at p. M, yesterday.
The present spell of bracing weather has
put an end to those evening conferences
over the front gates. They must now be
held elsewhere, if at all.
/. ]. Taggart will begin in few days, the
erection OF number Of dwelling houses in
Shawtown.
When is the new Engine or Hose Oompa-
ny to be organized, or is it to be sclassod
among the many things which have been
strangled before fairly taking shape
Where are our dramatic amateurs, with
long winter evenings at hand A few en-
tertainments would be very acceptable to
the public Come, Withdraw your lights
from beneath the busheL
Gen. y. S. Brooks, U. s. A., paid ovr city
q visit, prior to making an inspection Of
Fort Delaware.
Chief Justice Comegys and Associate
Judges Wootten and Houston, together
with Attorney-G General ]. B. Pennington.
are registered at the Gilpin House.
The committee of City Council having
the especial charge of the street lamps
would do we'll to see to the burners on the
lamps at the corner of South and 9th, cor
ner Of Orange and Delaware streets and
there are several others which should be
looked after.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04
Mr. speaker IEandalI.

From The Eoery Eoening, NoU. IS, 1876
For a party protesting to desire economy
and honesty II = \ y to start out by
electing the salary. grabber and Philadel-
phia politician, Sam. Randall, as Speaker of
the House, would be an insult to the intel
ligence of an idiot asylum.
From The Same, Nou. "a, 1875.
We are astonished at the countenance
given by the respectable independent, and
other, newspapers to the effort to elect Sam
uel j. Randall Speaker of the House.
From The Same, Dec. 8, 1875.
II the party can never rise to any higher
ideas OF principle and character than Ran
dali represents it had as we'll dismiss its
hopes, for the men who have the will and
the power to change the political manage
ment of this country are men who believe
in principles in politics, aud character in
officers, and party which elects Penn
sylvania politician, (meanest of all politi-
clans, representing neither high character
nor fixed principles, and backed by John
Morrissey and the other allies af Tilden's
canal thief enemies in New York, can pre-
sent no valid claim to the support of inde-
pendent voters. q
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04
"DepOsIt TO our credit"

In answer to correspondent the money
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger Gays: A
cheek endorsed for deposit, if paid by the
bank, is done so at its peril. Appended to
the rules and regulations of the Clearing
House Association Of this city is the follow
ing, directed to depositors "That you
write or stamp over your endorsement, upon
all checks which you send to be deposited
to your credit in bank, the words, For de-
post TO our credit, which will prevent their
being used for any other purpose" This
recommendation is alike for the security of
the depositor and the bank, and should be,
therefore, the more cheerfully observed,
although it should result in some little in
convenience.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04
Personal AND PERTINENT.

California has $4,000 farms and $4,000
farmers.
A colony is being organized at Tama-
qua, Pa, to go West.
The gold yield of California this year
is estimated at $40, 600, 900.
"A New York sign reads: "Sewing ma
chimes bought, sold, rented and taught"
-Carlotta, Maximilian's unfortunate
widow, continues in hopeless melancholy.
The man who registered as living in an
open lot was left out in the cold at the
election.
-Wilkie Collins new story is to be pub
llshed at Christmas. The scene has been
laid in Scotland.
There are no less than one hundred
and sixty different religious denominations
in the United States.
-" A cast-iron grandmother" is not a
term of reproach, but only a new machine
for darning stockings.
Shakespeare in horticulture" That
which we caulfiower by any other name
would smell as sweet"
There is to be an International Horti-
cultural Exhibition on very grand scale
in Amsterdam next year.
"A Lancaster county milk dealer has
been four times indicted for watering it.
Let the good work go on
The recent lord mayor Of London had
to pay about eighty-five thousand dollars to
support the dignity of the office.
The great cafe of Venice, Florisn's, on
the piazza of St. Mark, has never been
closed, night or day, for one hundred and
fifty years.
AT Hansboro', Miss, fifteen attempts
have been made to kill certain man, and
the last shot fired in his direction killed
boy instead.
On the authority of DR.. Decaisne, an
eminent physician OF Paris, typhus fever
has not for many years been so prevalent
in that capital as now.
"A little girl of Elizabeth, N. J., lost
cent in the early evening twilight. Her
companion proposed to buy three cent pa
per Of matches and hunt for it.
Since an Arizona man was saved from
dying by the bite OF tarantula by being
kept drunk for six days, the fate of all
tarantulas is regarded as settled.
The Boston training school for nurses
has been in operation during the past
three years, and it now has twenty-five pu-
pills and one hundred and twenty-seven pa
TENTS.
When, in social life, man performs
an act of politeness, not from a cI,ivslrous
sense of obligation, but in order to exhibit
some peculiar grace or style, we feel that
dignihed motive has been exchanged for
paltry one Saturday Reuis1c.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04
SECOND EDITION.
noses,s new Usarpation.

WHAT Is THOUGHT OF IT AT wAsHINGToN-
THE DESPERATE PURPOSE TO COUNT SOUTH
CAROLINA FOR TILDEN.
Special Dispatch to the Neto Pork Times.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-There is a good
deal of excitement to night about the con
dtion of affairs in South Carolina. 1t is
understood here, from the action of the
State Court, that the intention is to pre-
vent the Electors from meeting on We'd
needay to cast their votes according to the
direction of the law. The purpose of the
court is supposed to be to raise an issue
and put the Electors in jail for contempt.
1t is certain that, whatever may be done
about the State Legislature the Presiden-
tial Electors will be protected There is not
a dissenting voice among the most con-
servative Republicans against any action
that may be requisite to prevent
the conspiracy of which the
the State Court is the agent. 1t is held
that the Electors having been appointed
and commissioned are now Federal officers,
deriving all their power and rights from
The Federal Constitution and Federal law.
No tribunal of the Sta Q has any more right
to revise their elections than to revise th 2
election of Senator. The court has Just as
much right to call on Senator Robertson or
Senator Patterson to show cause why they
hold seats in the United States Senate, as
to ask for the warrant of power claimed by
the Electors. If the State Court should
commit the Electors or any OF them, there
can be no doubt that Judge Bond will inn
mediately order their release, and his n,an-
date will be enforced. 1t is remarked
among the Senaters to night who never
sustained the action of Judge Durell in
Louisiana, that the action of this court has
far less basis and is more infamous in its
pretexts and purposes than the action of
Judge Durell was ever claimed to be.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-12-04

A watchman on the Pennsylvania Rail-
early yesterdav morning by passenger
train, at the upper end Of Harrisburg.
A large quaIAity of white-fish eggs from
the Government fish-breeding establish
ment at Ontario have been sent to England
for the purpose OF introducing white-hsh
into the watersOf Great Britain.
On inquiry sT to the accounts OF Jay
Cooke, McOullo,h & Co. with the Govern
ment, it is ascerained that their accounts,
as the fnancial agents in London OF the
Navy Department, have been settled in the
Treasury, and pad in full.