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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
Ten BrOeck.
Louisville Courier journal, Sept. 27

| Louisville Courier Journal Sept. q.
The great race yesterday of Ten Brock
against time will in all probability not
be equaled for many a year to come.
| Not only was the time of Lexington and
| FellOwcraft beaten by several seconds in
the wonderful time of seven minutes
| 152 seconds, but Ten Brock surpassed
his own former time, and that of all
other horses, on the fractional parts of
| his distance, excepting, of course, the
| first mile. The first mile might have
been run faster, and the total time pro.
portiOnately reduced. 1t was intended
| that it should be made in LAG, but the
rider managed his horse cautiously, and
brought him found in 1;52a, and the re-
mainder of the distance was therefore
made in less time than had been calcu-
lated upon by Mr.. Harper. The second
mile was made in 1:454 and the third in
1:464, making together 1921, the fastest
two-mile time on record. The fourth
mile was made in 1:503, making the last
three miles in 5:23; which is 81 seconds
faster than Ten Broeck's three miles on
Saturday, which was itself Il seconds
better than any time ever made before.
AS to other points of comparison between
Ten Brock and his illustrious grand
sire, it must be remembered that Ten
BIoeck is four years old and carried one
hundred and four pounds weight, while
Lexington was at the time of his famous
race five years old and carried one hun
dred and one pounds. Ten Broeck's
average in four miles, made in 7:153, was
one mile in los 1916 seconds, which is
at the rate of about thirty-tbree miles
per hour. Those who have noticed the
fences and trees dash past them as they
are whirled along on the lightning ex-
press train, can form some idea of the
tremendous pace at which this noble |
animal passed over the course. Yet, |
notwithstanding this great speed and the
effort necessary to keep it up for such
distance, Ten Brock came down the !
home-stretch and under the string with
out any Over-efort, and afterward walked |
about without any signs of distress.
The knowing ones were very confident
many, indeed, so confident that they
backed their judgment by three to one
that Ten Broeck could not beat the time
against which he ian. The management
Of the race, a we'll as the merits of the
horse, came into his calculation, but in
both grounds of judgment they made
serious mistake, which they are now
doubtless repenting. The management
was entrusted to Mr.. Lewis Clark, the
president of the jockey club, and his
were admirable, and served
N no small degree to assure the favorable
which the splendid animal
only needed to place himself foremost in
he list of great racers.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

A Cambridge youth, old Ryder's boy,
says the Boston Courier, is the author of
the following interesting effusiOn. Hos
ses is useful ter draw hacks an milk
wagons an hearses an a great many other
useful things. They eat hay an oats for
fodder an don't eat up linen busters az
door mats like marsh goat does. A
hoss will kick awful with his hind feeC.
Balzie SOurs tried to hitch close line
round mold car hosses huff once an the
old hoss kicked him soz his folks had ter
hav funeral for him. Its fun ter ride
on a hosses back. Ingins is the best
riders in the world. They skim over per-
raries an shoot buffalers an peace COM
missioners. l wish | was a Ningun. Id
scalp my school-teacher awful quick.
When hOss gifts scarf he'll sometimes
run a thOusan miles an smash thunder
out of everything. A hosses tail is the
usefdllest thing in the world ter keep
flies off ov him. Their tails is also handy
to make fiddle-bows out 0v. When a
hoss gets sick soz he can't-dO work he is
sent ter Wards bone factory an made
inter toilet soap an ivory an a lot of
things Mean mother feller throwed a
lot of red pepper into ole Aliens hosses
nose one day. while he stood in front of
the fish market. He snorted an run an
throwed some fish out of the wagon, clear
down ter Fort Washington. I'd like ter
own q hOss.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

the mud, biting, wrestling, and growing
till they gave up the fight out of sheer
exhaustion. But for her instructive care
of her cubs the old bear might easily
have got away; she would not leave
them and she was lost. Their gratitude
if they had any, did not prevent them
from making a hearty meal on part of
her remains, as the party from the yacht
were engaged in the operation of remov-
ing her skin. The young bears at length
found their way to the Jardin des
PIantes in Paris: and there, it may be
said, Nemesis overlook them in revenge
for their unnatural appetites During
the late siege of Paris the exigencies Of
the times called for victims, and the
arctic bears became the food of Partisan
citizens when the commoner kinds of an
imal diet were exhausted. Thus the
four-foOted cannibals became the prey of
the foreigner, and no doubt frequently
served at second hand, as food for Pari-
sian powder.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
Female Management.

lAuieI "oilus
Many families owe their prosperity
fully as much to the fact OF
female management as to the
knowledge and activity of the
father. The managing woman is a pearl
among women; she is one of the prizes
in the great lottery of life, and the man
who draws her may rejoice for the rest of
his days. Better than riches, she is a
fortune in herself-a gold mine, never
failing in its yield. The woman who is
able to sympathize and carry on smoothly
the work of an ordinary family illus
trates higher sagacity than is called for
by seven-tenths of the task done by men.
Men take one trade and work att; moth
er's and housekeeper's work requires
a touch from all trades. A man has
his work-hOurs and his definite tasks; a
woman has work at all hours and an in
cessant confusion of tasks; his work
brings the money, but does not so tax
the head, heart and hands, as woman's
work does. Every wife should know
her husbands income. That knowledge
should be the guide of her conduct. A
clear understanding respecting domestic
expenses is necessary to the peace of ev-
cry dwelling. 1t it be little, better is
palmer dinner where love is than
an overloaded stomach, and hatred
Herewith. If it be ample, let
it be enjoyed with all thank
fullness. When the wife, seeing her duty,
has made up her mind to thia, she will
brighten her home with smiles, which
make it a region of perpetual sunshine.
A saving woman at the head of a family
is the best savings bank vet established,
one that receives deposits daily and
hourly, with no costly machinery to
manage it in. The idea of saving is a
pleasant one, and if the women would
imbibe it once and adhere to it, before
they are aware of it they would lay the
foundation for competent security for
a stormy time and rainy day, but it is an
excess in saving when we deny ourselves
of every thing that will make us COM
Portable, Oursurroundings convenient and
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
A MISSOURI STORY.
The Man Who Always Respects "a Cattle
Marx.

| new 1ork Mercury.
After strolling through the Kansa,
City stock-yards the writer went into 8
place near by for a glass of lager. The
room was full ofcattlemen from the west
Wild, rough fellows were they, vet there
are far worse for this writer himself re-
members with pleasure some old DAYS OF
that exciting life on the plains. 1t seemed
to be sort Of cleaning-up day. A pic
ture of child had been taken from its
| place on the wall, and now stood on the
| floor. A great burly fellow noticed it,
and pointing to it sand, with a laugh:
That little cuss leaning up there re-
minds me of laugh the boys had on me
last spring when we were herding Tow
ner's cattle on the Upper Platte. We
rode down to old man Cooley's one DAY
to fill ourselves up with st. Louis
crooked When we got there we found
the old woman sick. the old man eros
and squaw, who had captured two dol
lars somewhere, drunk and asleep lust
outside the door. We went in and took
drink, and then the boys wanted to fix
some kind of fireworks to the squaw
that would scare her little and make
her show her speed across the prairie
Just then happened to look into a cor
ner, and there was an Indian baby, that
squaw's, lashed to its board and leaning
up against the wall just like this fellow
The little black thing looked thin and
pinched and hungry; but Indian-like, it
wouldn't squall and mako fuss about
1T. 1t only stood there watching us
till the big tears went rolling down its
cheeks, and it trying its level best to
swallow tears and everything down. The
boys all laughed at my getting tender
over an Indian, and laughed, too, when
saw the wicked eyes it made at me.
But the old man brought some bread
and milk and l filled it up with one
square meal, anyhow. You may laugh,
now, but good dinner civilizes them
aeathen quicker than half dozen mis-
sionariss. You ought to have seen the
mouth the little cuss made at me when
he had enough. The boys whOoped over
it and said he wanted to kiss me for my
mother. | didn't care what they said;
it didn't make no difference to me how
mean and dirty and thievin' its father
and mother was. the little black heather
was human, anyhow, it couldn't talk,
but it said thankee, and that was enough
for me. 1t had the mark of God Al
nighty's finger on it plain enough, and
was bound to respect all plain cattle
marks, you know"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

VIcroR EMMANUEL's GUARDs.-Al-
though Victor Emmanuel is physically
vigorous, rising every morning at hye
and takiLg stroll in his garden before
breakfast, he is not without superstition;
He had not been long in the Quirinai
palace before be discovered trap door
in his bedroom. communicated WIN a
vast gallery, in which the king ana DIS
attendants walked for twenty minut' :
without finding an outlet. IL SCENE
however. TO lead 10 the castle OF 81.
Angelo. His majesty declined to inyes-
t;gste the matter, and ordered the trap
door TO be bricked up. Soon Afterwards
he discovered a secret door in the wall
wbich communicated with a narrow
staircase leading to the roof. 1t, too,
was bricked up, but since this discovery
we are informed that whenever his maj
esty sleeps at the Cuirinal two huge
black dogs also sleep at the fort ct be
Ioyal bed. They obey no one but the
King, never bark, and wou d strangie'
without any parleying, the first person
who entered the room.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
The Three lModernl Bears.

As an English steam yacht was cruis-
ing in Spitzbergen waters one night in
1859, the watch on deck obrerved three
bears going along the western shore of
the ford or narrow bay. The sportsmen
on board, who were fast asleep, were
quickly aroused and gave chase in a
boat. After rowing several miles up the
ford against a strong ebb-tide the party
described the bears seated on a strip of
land-an old mother with her two cubs.
They did not observe the hOat until it
was within five hundred yards of them !;
the mother th"n stood on her hind legs
to reconnoiter, and at once turned tail
and ran off at full speed with her young
ones after her. They ran so much faster
than the boat could follow along the
edge of the ice that it seemed as it they
would get clear off. But they by-aud-by
reached the end of the ice, and had then
to plunge into a space Cf soft mud, cut
up by the little channels of water, and
with a good deal of rotten ice scattered
about, as the tide had left it. Here the
progress of the bears wss at once i'm
peded. The cubs were unable to jump
the channels, but had to scramble over
them as best they could; and the old
bear, after taking her Jump, invariably
aited tor them and helped them to
scramble up the steep places among the
ice. The poor young ones were much
distressed and were heard growing pite-
ously as they struggled on after their
dam. The delays enabled the boatmen to
come up with them, and the chase became
exciting, when all at once the boat ran
aground in narrow channel about two
hundred yards from the bears. A long
shot from a rife stopped the running
powers of the mother; the sportsmen
then scrambled through the mud and
dispatched her. Her cubs, covered with
mud and shivering with Geld, were lying
ON her body, growing savagely, and
were secured by nOoses formed of walrus
lines, which coupled them together like
a.brace of dogs, which in size they resem.
bled The moment they found them
selves bound they attacked each other
with great fury, rolling over and over in
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

THAT Is THE QUEsTION.-What We
want 70 know about this tetralogy, Wag
ner's artwork. says the Burlington
Hawkeye, is, if the Walkure who bears
such a prominent part where the Nibe-
lungen gets the Tarnhelm, on the Got
terdammening and Brunnhilde kills the
duke, when Wotan discovers that Sieg
tried, if we catch the rat, is the uncle of
Sieglinds, the man who played it on
Hunding by swallowing the Father of
Walnalla while Alberick held his head,
and Fricka wattles the Mine with the
sword of Nothung. All this we can un-
derstand perfectly well, but what we
want to know is, if this Walkure is Yves
ton the Walkure2
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
Religion Declining.

Well, uncle, how is the cause of re-
l;gion getting on IN your neighborhood? ?'
" Mighty poor. mighty poor" No new
converts, eh ?" " Not a single one-not
de sign of one" "What seems to be
the matter" asked the citizen, after a
lengthy pause. de matter is dat some
enc has stolen four big watermelons out
g. my cart dis afternoon, an l feel in my
ZONES dat religion is gwine down hill all
fcOo dis locality. ~ RaLeiqh Ne1Ds.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

with the Princess Esterhazy; "and in
the course of time," the captain con-
cludes pleasantly, the waltzing mania
having turned the heads of society gen
orally, descended to their feet, and the
waltz was practiced mornings in certain
noble mansions in London with unpar-
alleled assiduity."-AH the Year Round.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

The Amazon river is navigable for
Ehree thousand miles by vessels Of large
size. 1t has four trlbB taries, which are
iInlted by netwerk Of natural canals.
Two thousand miles from its mouth its
rehannel has depth of three fathoms,
md foc two thousand six hundred miles
chcre occurs no fall to interfere with the
smooth passage of shipping.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

THERE are not above three or four
brands of California wine deserving of
any serious consideration at present.
whatever the cause, it is certain that
our grapes produce very crude and heavy
ana earthly favors, as unlike the light
"ihes otSouthern France as shaYk-meat
IS un6&e halibut.-.Saordment Record
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

A PARIS STREET CAR.-Judsing from
. cut in the Railway Gazette, Paris has
heaten us in our own field in applying
,team to street cars. The Paris idea is
10 house up the locomotive like a street
car, with almost no smoke, and with
none of the frightful properties which
prove so Objectionable to horses. The
Locomotive looks like a car about five
feet square, pannelled and painted, and
with an almost invisible smokestack.
This apparatus draws a car with a capac
iiy of forty persons about ten miles an
hour; the train stops within five feet by
the brake, turns very sharp curvature
and can be run at cost, for attendance
and fuel, of about 81 per day.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
VOL. XXI. NO. ID.

she said; "there is no help for it. We
must get married as soon as possible. -
Married they were; the old gentleman
behaved nicely; dowry, $500, 900 cash.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

n REMEDY 'or ~ poison, which many
reoPie COM act from handling poison
IVY ~ lis season Of the year, is given by
9" agricultural paper. 1t is simply bath
ing the effected parts in water in which
II small piece OF LINE has been dissolved.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

DIsRAELI thinks that social trials
await England, so that it will take me
united patience and virtue of the Country
to meet them.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

1T Is sad story that Terry's march
might have been traced by empty cham
payne bottles.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

A LAW has been passed in Germany
forbidding the construction OF school
rooms with windows on both sides of the
loom. 1t is said to be proven that rooms
81 light ed are injurious to the eyes.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

IL the recent outrage on the French
Catholic mission in China several
priests and attendants were murdered,
and property to the amount of sixty
Thousand dollars destroyed. The French
minister is taking active steps to punish
those concerned in it and between chat
and the difficulties with EaglanI the
China outlook is somewhat grave.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

THERE is gratuitous and obligatory
instruction in nineteen of the Mexican
schools. They have S,1O3 schools, and
$4,000 pupil. The instruction con-
sists ofreading; writing, Spanish, arith-
metle, grammar, the system of weights
ana measures morality and politeness.'
IN auo'tlo'i, they teach in nearly all the
''ch"SGs ne duty and rights of citizens.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

PROFESSOR HUXLEY, the distinguished
scientist, who lectured in New York
Monday night, is described by the New
York Herald as an elderly gentleman
medium height, with the stoop of an
habitual hard student and step which
indicates want of muscular frmness-a;
man, in short, whose mind has overtaxed
his body. His face is good. hair dark
brown, unsprinkled with signs of ap-
preaching white; beard gray, consisting
only of side whiskers of the English cut
brow ample, but not immense nose
pointed and projecting, and his general
air and address more like that of a rot
very we'll fed evangelical clergyman than
ola strenuous intellectual athlete who
is shaking the old beliefs of two con-
tinents. Huxley is not so pleasing in
manner rs Tyndall. The latter has the
Stronger and clearer voice, an easy erect
ness of bearing and speaks without notes !;
while the former bends forward restingly
rPon n small reading desk, as if for sup
port, during the greater part of his
cture
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

.1AYARD TAYLOR, writing to the Gin
-cinnati Commercial, says: The orthodox
clement has been largely represented in
Prof Huxley's audiences here. 1t Is
more than a personal triumph for him
IT is triumph for science-that Chicken
ing hall, which will seat 1,2OO persons,
has been crowded for three nights at the
prices paid for the Mighty Dcllar' or
the Black Crook There is hope for the
future, when oneot the greatest scientific
'nen Of our dsy attract is as much interest
us the caArsest farce or ballet"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

The yellow fever appears to be in
'creasing at Brunswick, Ga, and the
MestitutiOn is becoming terrible. At
Savannah the disease holds its own, and
a few cases are reported at New Orleans,
but there is always little yellow fever
IT New Orleans at this season of the
year. Other southern cities are taking
the necessary sanitary precautions, and
If we should have good frost, not an
Improbable thing at this season, the
Iayages of the scourge would be arrested
THE following anecdote of honest Thad.
Stevens comes from the Baltimore Ga
zette: "IIe was employed to defend two
bank officers indicted for conspiracy
When the trial was opened Mr.. Stevens
@se and, addressing the court, said: If
St please your honors, presuming there
are different degrees of guilt attached to
ihe prisoners, my clients, move they be
tried separately. The motion was
granted and so recorded. Waiting some
lime for Mr.. Stevens to go on, the judge,
at last becoming impatient, said inn
petuously: Proceed, Mr.. Stevens, pro-
Ceed' Stevens rose deliberately, and
said: Did your hOnors ever hear of one
man being tried for conspiracyP Then
waving his hand to his clients, he said:
You can 90 home; you can go home
And they did go home. The jury were
DISCHARGED and the court adjourned
And for this piece of legal strategy Thad.
stevens received $4,000"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13

BUFFALO BILL, the Indian scout, who
has reached his home in Rochester, n. Y,
speaking of Gen. Crooks and Tefry's
difference in temperament, said to a re
porter few days ago; "Gen. Crook
slept on his blanket, made his own coffee
and boiled his own bacon. Gen. Terry
sad bed brought with him. a portable
cooking range ard an extension table.
We could not travel fast enough to
catch the Indians, as we would break
the Dishes
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-07

z J KEzET. 4ftEzrT ~ Mortgage
DE-ss Ma 50 ls-G. .xswH
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-07

A case of chronic laziness is re-
ported at Washington. A young
man appointed to clerkship in the
Treasury Department was conduct
ed TO desk and informed what his
duties were. The chief of the de-
partment discovered him, a short
time after, comfortable reposing in
his seat, with his feet characteristic
cally resting on the desk. "Hello !"
said the chief; "don't you expect
to do any work" "Work be hang
ed" exclaimed the astonished
youth IL had to work hard
enough to get here"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-07

- HERIFF's sALE.-By virtue Of an execution
, issued out Of the Superior Court Of Detroit
Wayne county, Michigan, bearing date Of October
II, A d. 1915, and 20 me directed at a certain suit
wherein Harvey w. Burr is plaintiff vs.. Edward
7. Campbell, defendant, have this day seized
and levied upon the following real estate. as the
property Of Edward +. Campbell. the within nam
ed defendant, 10 wit All his right title and in
terest in four Of land, described as follows
Commencing at a point in Thunder Bay river
where the south line Of section twenty-one al,
town thirty-one 81, north Of range eight sj east
strikes the river the east side thereof running
thence down said river twenty -four ga rods,
thence east and parallel with said section line
about twenty-six % rods 10 the town road, thence
southerly twenty-four ga rods 10 said section
line, thence on said section line TO the river the
place Of beginning; and the north half of the
northwest quarter Of section seven III. town thr-
ty-one 81, north Of range five i5l east, which
will offer for sale AZ public auction 10 the highest
bidder, on Wednesday. the 18th day June next at
o'clock IN the Afternoon Of said day.
The above sale will be held At the front door Of
Pottsr's Brick Block on Second street in the city
and county OF Alpena, that being the building |
in which the Circuit Court for the county of Az
pena and State OF Michigan il holden.
THoS. b. JOHNSTON, Sheriff
Dated at Alpena this 10th day Of May, 1876.
23sws
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-07

r. J. KELLEY,
Attorney for mortgage.
Dated Alpena, April 2ith 1876.