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correct the general assumption Of-a lower
yield of lint in proportion to seed-cOtton.
Only Arkansas and Texas report larger
proportion than in 1874. The Atlantic States,
which have previously made low estimates
of the aggregate production, all return smaller
yield of lint seed in comparison with pre-
vious crops, and none of them over thirty
pounds to each hundred pounds of seed.
The average decrease in all the States is four
per cent. This reduction is attributed in
most eases to excessive moisture and the re-
suit of imperfect development of the boll
and in some to the effects of early drought
in preventing full maturity. Cotton grown
in the fields heavily dressed with commercial
fertilisers is found to have a greater proper
ton of development of seed than of lint
The average quality of the fiber is somewhat
lower than Fast year. Arkansas and Texas
furnish the only exceptions to this state
ment, though the average depreciation is
slight in Louisiana and Alabama. 1t is
greatest in Mississippi and the Atlantic
States. The proportion of the crop gathered
on the first of December was 30 per cent,
reported as follows; North Carolina, 80; /;
SOulh Narollna, 10; tIorlua, VI GeOfSla, oZ;
Alabama 81; Mississippi, 70; Louisiana, So
Texas, 81; Arkansas 76; Tennessee, 81. In
announcing the monthly cotton reports of
the season, the average condition from June
to October is made 9315 per cent, against SO
in the same period of 1874. This would in
dicate a crop of about 100000 bales. With
an equally favorable autumn and an equal
proportion of lint, the loss of 4 per cent. in
the yield of lint makes reduction of 176,-
900 bales, and the difference in maturing and
gathering since October points to further
reduction of . to per cent, with a margin
of 100000 bales for contingencies after the
first week in December. The seasons re-
ports, taken together, indicate a crop of not
less than 4,O50O00 bales, nor more than A.
10000.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

Speaker Kerr has issued ain order for
bidding the admission of newspaper cores
pondents to the lobby of the House.
The concentration of naval vessels at
Port Royal is in pursuance of the general
plan of the Secretary of the Navy to make
that place the headquarters of the North At
lantic station, as it presents many advantages
over any other port on the Atlantic coast.
The climate is very healthful and the harbor
offers every facility for the exercise of naval
tactics. The vessels rendezvoused there can
reach the Cuban waters an gulf, where our
interests most need to be looked after,
within forty-eight hours. 1t is the policy of
the Secretary of the Navy to have the home
squadron larger than any abroad. He be-
lieves in being pref ared for any emergency
which may arise.
The report of DIR. Linderman, director
of the mint, as to the establishment of a
branch mint at some point in the Mississippi
valley recommends Indianapolis as a location,
for the reason that in that city there is a
government building no longer required for
other purposes, which can he utilized without
the delay or expense attendant on the con-
struetion of a new ediice.
The following is a statement of the
United States currency outstanding at this
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the interests of his pride or his selflove,
or in a moment of passion, he would have
faced death with unbroken fortitude and
calmness. But to be the victim of an
accident; to be the lamentable sequelof a
logical succession of chances, without
motive or purpose TO be sacrificed for
nothing proving or disapprov-
ing anything; to be trampled to death
by idiotic beasts, who had not even the
instincts of passion or revenge to Justify
them to die the death of an ignorant
tramp, or any negligent clown--a death
that had a chastity ludicrousness in its
method, a death that would leave his
body shapeless, indistinguishable, unrec-
ognizable clod, which affection could not
idealize nor friendship reverence-all
this brought horror with it so keen, so
exquisite, so excruciating, that the fas-
tidious, proud, intellectual being, fleeing
from it, might have been the veriest
bastard that ever turned his back on
danger. And superadded to it was
superstitious thought that, for its very
horror, perhaps it was a retribution for
something he dared not contemplate!
And it was then that his strength sud
denly tagged. His senses began to
reel. His breath, which had kept pace
with the quick beating of his heart, in
termitted, hesitated-was lost Above
the advancing thunder of hoofs behind
him, he thought he heard a woman's
voice. He knew now he was going
crazy; he shouted and fell, he rose
again and staggered forward few steps
and fell again. 1t was all over now! A
sudden sense of some strange, subtle per-
fume, beating up through the acrid,
smarting dust of the plain, that choked
his mouth and blinded his eyes, came
swooning over him. And then the
blessed interposition of Inconsistencies
and peace.
He struggled back to life again with
the word Phillip" in his ears; throb-
bing brow, and the sensation of an effort
to do something that was required of
him. Of all his experience of the last
few moments, only the perfume remained. |
He was lying alone in the dry bed of the |
arroyo on the bank horse was stand |
ing, and above him bent the dark face |
and darker eyes of Donna Dolores.
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The seven states of Florida, Iowa, Min
nesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon and
WISCONSIN have also taken censuses this
wear. and with results only partially
known to us. We estimate the increase
of population in them at 685,OOO. The
total increase in fifteen states would thus
be a little over 1000, 900 since the gene
raj census of 1870. The fifteen states
named had in 1870 little more than one
third the population of the United States.
If we assume common average progress
in all. the increase in all should, at this
time, be upward of 5000, 900, swelling
the population of the United States 70
44,000,0 900.
The figures above given, for the eight
states. have been definitely ascertained
and announced since the Superintendent
of the United States Census Bureau pre-
pared his last annual report to congress.
The superintendent in that report took
a gloomy view of the comparatively
small results to be derived from the an
ticipated state census of 1873, and erred,
we think, in expressing the opinion that
enough is already known 70 indicate
clearly that the progress of our popula-
ton has received temporary check "
The figures do not show it.
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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A company has lately been formed to
introduce new invention, called the " Bray
ton Ready Motor" 1t consists, concisely
speaking, of an engine deriving its power
from the explosive energy of a mixture of
the vapor of crude petroleum and air
The pope is preparing to manufacture
several more cardinals. The college lacks ten
of the requisite number (70), and these dis
tinguished princes of the church have been
dying off so rapidly that it is necessary for
his holiness 70 make frequent nominations
The commissioner of education in his
report states that the school children of the
United States pay $50, ,OOO, 900 year for text
books, and the publishers and brokers
pocket 66 per cent. of this sum, or $53, ,OOO,-
OO0 per snnum.
The direct United States cable has
been repaired and communication with Eu-
rope re-estabIished.
Moody and Sankey are doing -four
ishing business in Philadelphia. Thousands
attend their meetings daily.
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How CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES
Mr.. Albert Rhodes, writing on " Wo-
mans Occupations, in the Galaxy,
says: q The moral sense takes different
forms IN different countries. The Greek
pilgrim, having bathed in the Jordan,
where Christ was baptized, believes him
self sure of Heaven and entitled to a
large license in the conduct of life. In
Sparta it was not 50 much the crime of
stealing as the discovery that was culpa-
bic. IN France bankruptcy is social os-
tracisnl, and in the United States it is
an event which hardly affects the social
position. The married woman of France
who distributes her favors to others than
her husband may possibly be regarded
with indulgence, but if she attempts to
cheat her creditors she is hurried before
the tribunals of justice. In America she
may connive with her husband in evad-
ing creditors by having property trans
ferred to her, but she may not put stabs
in the marriage contract. 1t is well,
therefore, not to assume moral SUPERIOR
ty, for virtue is more or less relative or
conventional,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

\ DIVORCE WITH A TERRIBI.E < ORIGIN.
There is in this city, however. one most
amusing low comedian who has a reason
for never smiling. In his youth he was
the father of a little girl of a refractory.
obstinate disposition. One dav. TO punish
her for something, he locked her in a
bedroom, and with his wife went down
stairs to dinner. Soon the child began
10 scream in terrible manner. which
the parents considered was only tenner
but as the shrieks continued the wife he,
came alarmed and desired to 20 to her.
He, however, forbade her doing 50. rs
he said the child must be taught obe-
dience, and that she should not gain her
end by screaming. They went on with
their dinner, the fearful shrieks con-
timing for awhile and then ceasing. As
they were about leaving the table, smoke
began to pass through the house. There
was IRE somewhere. Rushing to release
the poor little girl, they found her dead.
Her clothes had evidently caught fire
from the CRATE, and while the parents
were eating the child was diving. The
comedians W fe took a horror and hatred
OF her husband after this, as she believed
that If he had allowed her to go to the
poor infant she might have saved her
life. They were divorced. No wonder
that man never smiles off the stage.-N
J. Cor. Baltimore Ne7rs.
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VOL. XXI. NO. %.

which, if you examine closely, exhibits a
suspicious sea-green tint. The william
takes up the water-pitcher, and, posing
it carefully, as if he were afraid of being
discovered, let's the water fall in drops
into the green liquid. The first drop
produces milky cloud, and in aRoment
all the liquid is clouded, and begins to
overflow into the large tumbler. Slowly
the water is poured in, drop by drop, or
in a small stream, until the clouded ap-
pearance is gone from the small glass.
He then lifts Oat the small glass, sets it
aside, and proceeds to drink the milky
contents of the large one.
THIS Ls ABsIETHE.
Then he rises, buttons the lower button
of his coat in such way that the lapels
puff out in an aggressive sort of way, and
strides gloOmily away TO play Pin-po
or roulette in some Hoaston street resort
dear to his countrymen. The people who
are found here are poor, but still have
sufficient income to enable them TO
eschew the still more economical practice
of dining in their lodgings There are a
great many italian restaurants in the
city, which are very popular among the
Americans, who have learned to like this
mOOc OF Qln1ng. 1ne 0lHeTence between
them and the French is hardly percepti-
bic without close observation. Indeed,
most of the French restaurant proprie-
tors endeavor to break down the distinc-
tion as far as possible by establishing a
certain day, or certains days of the week
as " nacanoni days" The tables are sure
to be filed on these DAYS, tor they are
singled out by such patrons of each place
whose weekly income only allow one or
two Estate dinners" per week. At an
Italian restaurant the cooking is often
quite as good as at a French res
taurant, but the uniniated American is
apt TO find each dish as it is brought on
an interesting problem. 1t appears to be
the aim of the Italian cook to prevent
the diner from becoming acquainted with
his dinner, except through the process Of
digestion. The Germans appear in this
matter as well as in other national pecg-
liariiies to take their cue from the Ital-
ians instead of their traditional enc
mics across the Rhine. OF German
in general, except those
which have been so transformed as no
longer to be German, it may be said in
brief that they combine the heayiness OF |
the English style with the ambiguity of |
the Italian, and are original only in the |
presence AID prevalence on their tables !
of lager beer and soured meats.
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failure in California. The San Francisco
Post says: Nobody seems to want either to
pass or to receive them, and in some mysterious
uRanner they disappear and go back to the
mint and though destitute of such coin,
we r7ill reckon in bits for all our small trans
actions.
Utah has one Gentle to i've mormons.
Nevada has a population of 5O,54O.
Taxpayers in Chicago are perfectly
frantic over their rates, which are six per
cent on full valuation for city and state
Everything of taxable nature is taxed in
Chicago, and man who does business there
is kept chrOnically on the ragged edge.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

A GENTLEMAN residing in st. Louis has
lately had sent him by friend from Cal
ifornia two beans resembling in shape
beech-nut, which are possessed with re-
markable power of animation which they
show in advancing, retreating, and turn
ing somersaults. Their antics are indeed
wonderful to witness. They are known
in the state from whence they came as
the jumping bean. He keeps them in
small box, and if left at night in the
bedroom upon a table they make such a
racket he is obliged to shut them up in 4
drawer so he can sleep.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

The treasury department decides that
under the law domestic spirits cannot be
transferred in bond from the bonded ware
house TO the manufacturing warehouse,
there TO be manufactured into an article for
expectation, with the rebate or drawback of
the internal revenue tax.
The secretary of the treasury has be-
fore him the decision Of the supreme court
affirming the award of the court of claims in
favor of the Union Pacific railroad company,
but before taking final action awaits the
opinion of the attorney-genersI, as to whether
he has complied with the clause of law re-
lating to three per cent net earnings.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Edward c. Billings, for
United States District Judge for Louisiana,
rice Durell.
Statisticians of the department of ag-
riculture have completed the compilation OF
official returns for the past month, and find
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

This table is uncommonly eloquent.
1t shows at the first glance that the coun-
tries where civilization and prosperity in
the mass of the people are at their low
est, the consumption Of both ten and col
fee is also the least. These countries are
Austria, Spain, and Russia.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

Mr.. ARTHUR Give, in the Gentle
mans Magazine, falls into lofty extraya-
gances about Wait Whitman's poetry.
He calls him the noblest literary pro,
duct Of modern times" electric and
vitalizine." and preserving a balance
of mind and sanity" Per contra, the last
Fortnightly Review declares Walt Whit
mans writings TO be reproductions OF
the thoughts Of other men, spoiled by
ohtuseness or exaggeration," street
swcepings of lumber land, and much
more 10 the same effect.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

THE only comment Seward made on
his defeat at Chicago in 1860, was,
Well, power has departed from the
Atlantic States, to rest hereafter in the
Mississippi Valley" Recalling this, the
New York Commercial Advertiser asks
mournfully: Have not the events of
the last fifteen years made Mr.. Seward's
prophecy true? What do we see F? Presi-
dent, Vice President, Chief Justice, and
all the chairmen of the late leading COM
nittees in the house Of representatives,
from the west; none from the Atlantic
states New England, New York, New
JERSEY, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas ignored"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

LAST week the Postal Union, arranged
several months ago, went into effect
throughout Russia, Turkey in Asia,
Egypt, the United States and France,
Germany, Austria, England, Spain,
Italy, Switzerland, etc, the rates of post
age being fixed at five cents for each half
ounce. on letters; two cents for postal
cards; two cents for newspapers, not ex-
eeeding four ounces; and two cents per
two ounces of other printed matter and
patterns Of merchandise.
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THr mystery which has from the first
surrounded the explosion of dynamite
on the quay at Bremen grows denser with
every new dispatch concerning it. The
confession of the suicide Thompson has
not been born out by the facts yet dis
covered. \ careful search of the cargo
of the ship Salier has resulted in the dis
covery that there are no cases OF dvna-
mite on board that vessel, as Thompson
asserted that there were. Stranger still,
investigation utterly fails to confirm his
assertion that improper insurance had
been effected upon the cargo of the
Mosel, and hence the motive which he
said actuated him in seeking to destroy
the steamship appears never to have ex-
isted at all. There is every reason to
suppose, therefore, that the confession, so
far at least as its details are concerned.
was simply the rawlings of an insane
man. Yet the fact that the dynamite
was on the quay ready for shipment re-
mains, and there can be no doubt that
Thompson meant to destroy the Mosel.
although there seems to have been no
motive whatever for the crime other than
that which a diseased imagination was
capable of furnishing. The whole story
is puzzle which is to be hoped that the
authorities in Bremen will spare no pains
to solve.
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FROM the report of the surveyor gen
eral of California, among other items of
interest we find that, of the 1924, 900
acres cultivated, $780, 900 are in wheat (;
492, 900 in barley $4,000 in oats; and
10000 acres in Indian corn. They have
25, 800 acres OF common potatoes; and
l 300 acre0of sweet potatoes are raised.
There are $50, 900 acres in grass for hay.
Other products are--peas, 5000 acres;
beans, $500; fax, 1,730; hops, LIPS;
tobacco, 9e7; cotton, $50; onions, $50;
buckwheat, $50; and peanuts, 155 acres.
Among the products Of the yea, were
752, 900 tons of hay; $4,000 of cotton
5000 of sugar beets; 10000 of wool;
3,463 of butter; 1,700 of cheese 673 OF
hops; 621 of tobacco; and 448 tons of
honey produced. The state has ), AGA, 900
sheep; 81, 900 neat,cattle 242,O 900 hogs;
$780, 900 horses; Al 600 Angora goats, and
$1,000 mules. There are 144 grist mills,
and 1913 saw mills in the state.
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FOREIGN rNrELulGENCE.

A cable dispatch represents fearful
financial and general business panic in
Odessa.
The Carlists are again concentrating
ON the Spanish frontier
The Corn Trade Association of Liver
pool publish the following statement of the
estimated stock of breadstuf there on 31st
of December 1875, as compared with the
same time last wear.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21
TIM Ely roPTcs

DYEAAuTR THOMAS. or THoMPsEN,
according to Berlin dispatch, was born
and educated in Germany. He was not,
therefore, fruit of American civiliza-
tion.''
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

THE Philippine Islands, which the
cable Just reports were visited by a de-
structive hurricane on the Both of last
month. BY an earthquake in 1868
Manila, where the Americans ON the
island mostly live, was laid in ruins, and
a thousand lives were lost; fire dos .roved
ten thousand of her huts in 1882. and
many parts of the island have suffered
greatly from volcanic eruptions.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21
Ten and Coffee.

The researches made by Maurice Block
show that the leading European nations
consume tea and coffee in about the fol-
lowing proportions per annum and per
head of the population:
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

BY inadvertence Mr.. Simon Sterne,
member of the municipal society, was
alluded to as being an ex-commissioner
of charities, instead of Myer stern, VINO
really held that office,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

THE European situation is not as prom
ising as many journalists and correspon-
dents would like. 1t is believed by
many that the failure of Turkey to sub
due the Herzegovinians will result in an
Austrian and Russian invasion, in the
alleged interest of peace. Once within
the provinces, they will not 20 out, and
Turkey will be curtailed in her domin-
ions If this happens, other Turkish de-
Tendencies, where the Christian popula-
tion is large, will rebel, and thus the
partition of the empire be effected.
Should Turkey declare war against the in
vaders, other great powers besides those
directly attacked could hardly keep out
Of the fray. The English purchase of
the Suez canal stock looks like resolve
to keep marine communication with
India open at all hazards, and it certainly
is a most important precautlon against
any Russian movements toward Hindoo-
stan from the northeast, which an out
break of war might suggest. We can
not fully believe the prediction of the
London correspondent OF the Toronto
Globe, that a war over the eastern Ques-
tion will certainly break out during the
coming year. but the sky is not wholly
free from Clouds Cincinnati Gazette.
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State Foundations in 1875.

Fifteen States of the Union have made
a census of their inhabitants in 1875, and
we have the results of eight states, as fol-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21

PARsoN NEwMAN's book of travels
locates the Garden Of Eden in place
where fig trees don't grow. How's that,
Mrs Eve
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21


iThs following quaint, but forcfble verses. are "
Bobart SouthWs9s Catholic poet of the reiRn .
Ena beth executed at Iyburn for his religion IN 20
year l6o8.
6hun delays, they breed remorse,
Take thy time, while time u lent thee;
Creeping snails have weakest force,
81 Ely their FAULT, lest thou repent thee;
food is best when soonest wrought,
Lingering labor comes 10 naught.
Hoist up sail while gale doth Last
Tide and wind STAY NO mans pleasure;
Seek not time Aeu time is past
Sober speed 4 sisdon's leisure
After wits dearly lOUght
Let thy torc-wit guide thy thought.
Time wears all his locks before,
lake thou hold upon his forehead;
When he hies be tuTns more,
And behind his scalp i naked:
Works ad djOurned have many stays,
Long demurs breed new DELAYS
Seek thy sslve while sore Is green,
Fester'd wounds Ask deeper lancing;
After cures are seldom seen,
Often sought, scarce ever CHANGING:
Time and place give best advice.
Gut Of season. out Of price.
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-. Whatever" said preacher.
comes from the hand Of nature is con-
plete She forms everything perfect. >
One Of the congregation. very much de-
formed. aud having very large hump.
went up 10 him at the close Of the dis
course aud asked, What think ye 81
me. minister am / perfect r To
which be replied very eoolly: Yes.
for a hump hacked man. quite per-
feet