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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
Telling one of the Mammoth Trees.

Bayard Taylor, in his interesting work
entitled Home and Abroad" thus de-
scribes the telling of one of the largest
specimens of the Sierra Nevada:
CATER a steady labor of six weeks the
thing was done, but the tree stood un-
moved; so straight aud symmetrical was
its growth, so immense was its weight,
and so broad its base, that it seemed un-
conscious of its own inhabitation, toss
ing Its outer branches derisively against.
the mountain wind that strove to over
throw it. \ neighboring pine of giant
size was then selected, and felled in such
way as to fall with full force against it.
The top shook little, but the shaft
stood as before: finally the spoilers sue
ceeded in driving their wedge into the
cut. Gradually, and with great labor,
one side of the tree was lifted; the
mighty mass poised for a moment, and
then, with great rushing sigh in all its
bOughs, thundered down. The forest
was ground to dust beneath it, and for
a mile around the earth shook with the
cOncussion.'
The mere telling of it cost, at Califor-
MIA prices for wages, the sum of $3.50.
The smooth top of the stump of the tree
which Mr.. Taylor saw fall is floor nine
ty feet round.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
Scientific,

The only satisfactory detective of
blood-stains, and the animal from which
they have been derived, is the micro
scope. When a very hin film of human
blood is pressed between two plates of
glass, as in ordinary microscopic work,
and examined under a tolerably high
power of the instrument, the well known
red fluid is seen in reality to consist of a
perfectly colOrless liquid, known as the
serum, and of an immense number of
minute solid particles floating in this
liquid. These latter particles are the
blood corpuscles; the vast majority of
these bodies appearing of a reddish-yel-
low hue, while few are seen to be of
white color. Thus, the color of the
blood is entirely due to the presence of
these little globules, which exists in such
numbers that the fluid presents to the
unassisted sight a uniformly red appear
ance. The blood of all animals contains
corpuscles or globules of one kind or
another; and it is from the different
characters presented by the blood glob-
ules. of different animals that the micro
scopist is enabled to distinguish the vital
fluid of one from that of another.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
Mormon Nomen,s Walls.


The walls Of Mormon women continue
to come from Salt Lake City through
the trumpets of occasional correspOn-
dents. There was once a prevailing idea
that the women were perfectly content
under the domination of the saints, and
happy in the domestic circle of polyga-
my. Probably they were as happy as
married women usually are, and would
have remained so had it not been for the
efforts of correspondents to unsettle
them. Agitation appears to have made
them as miserable as their worst ene-
mics could wish them to be. Their
hearts have been educated in the theory
that a woman can truly love only one
man at a time, and that a man has no
business to love as many women as he
can. This wrecks the peace of every
pOlygamous household. Multiply the
trouble one woman can make in home
when she sets about it by five, or twenty,
or thirty, as the case may be, and an ap-
prOximate estimate of the domestic woe
of Mormon may be made. The ablest-
bodied man cannot stand that sort of
thing forever, and it looks as if polyga-
my would drop out of the Mormon creed
of i5s own oppressive weight. When
the women object to becoming party to
it, and the men who know the terrible
consequences, the thing is dead. The
Mormon women are beginning to talk it
out and say that Mornonism is a very
good religion for the men, but mighty
hard on the women who do not believe
any more that the old love remains Just
as strong as ever when the new love
comes into the house. That theory is
exploded, and now when loving woman
is obliged to lead a new wife to her hus-
band, as she is in duty bound, as a
pledge of peace in the family, she does
it without a whimper, but often finds
solace in a cup of cold poison. Several
OF these cases have been reported, and
they mean that women are instinctively
opposed to polygamy, which is its death.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
The Bishop and the Bees.

We find the following good story in a
foreign journal: "a French bishop.
being about to make his annual visita-
ton, sent word to a certain curate, whose
ecclesiastical benefce was extrcmly
trifling, that he meant to dine with him,
at the same time requesting that he
would not put himself to any extraordi-
nary expense. The curate promised to
attend to the bishops suggestion but
he did not keep his word, for he provided
a most sumptuous entertainment. His
lOrdship was much surprised, and could
not help censuring the conduct of the Gu
rate, observing that it was highly ridicu-
lOus in a man whose circumstances were
50 narrow, TO launch out in such expense,
nay, almost TO dissipate his annual in
come in single day. Do not be Unea-
sy on that score, my lord replied the
curate, 'for can assure you that what
you now see is not the prudence OF my
curacy, which bestow exclusively upon
the poor - Then You have patrimony,
sir p said the bishop. Now, my lord
You speak in riddles, rejoined his lord
ship; how do you contrive TO live in
this manner?' My lord, have con-
vent of young damsels here, who do not
let rue want anything How you
have a convent? | did not know there
was one in this neighborhood. This is
all very strange, very unaccountable,
Mr.. Curate.' You are jocular, my lord
But come, sir, entreat that you would
solve the enigma / would fain see the
convent So you shall, my lord, after
dinner; and promise that your lordship
will be satisfied with my conduct Ac-
cordingly, when dinner was over, the
curate conducted the prelate to a large
inclosure, entirely occupied by bee
hives, and pointing to the latter, OBJ
served, This, my lord, is the convent
which gave us a dinner; it brings me in
about eighteen hundred livres a year,
upon which live We y comfortably, and
with which l cOntrive to entertain my
guests genteelly.' The surprise and
of the biskop may be i'm
apined -
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
When Men are at Their Rest.

DIR. Beard states that from an analy-
sis of the lives of thousand representa-
tive men from all the great branches of
the human family, he has made the dis
covery that the golden decade is between
forty and fifty; the brazen between
twenty and thirty; the iron between
fifty and sixty. The superiority of
youth and middle life over old age in
original work appears all the greater
when we consider the fact that all the
positions of honor and prestige-profes-
sorships and public stations-are in the
hands of the old. Reputation, like
money and position, is mainly confined
to the old. Men are not widely known
until long after they have done the
work that gives them their fame. Por-
traits of great men arc dclusions, statues
are lies. They are taken when men
have become famous, which, ON the aver
age, is at least twenty-five years aEer
they did the work that gave them their
fame. Original work requires enthusi-
asm. If all the original work done by
men under forty-fve were annihilated,
they would be reduced to barbarism.
Men are at their best at that time when
and experience are almost
evenly balanced. This period, on the
average, is from thirty-eight to forty.
After this the law is, that experience in
creases, but enthusiasm decreases.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The Ant and the Cricket.

ne AMI anu the CGlcReN
A silly young cricket. accustomed TO sing
Through the warm sunny months OF gay summe
and spring
Began TO complain when he found that at home
His cupboard was empty and winter had come.
Not a crumb to be found
On the snow covered round
Not a flower could he see,
Not leaf on a tree,
"OhI what will become" says the cricket, " o
me2"
At last. by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet and trembling with cold,
Away he set OFF to nisPrly ant.
To see if, TO keep him alive he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
A mouthful of grain;
He wished only to borrow
He'd repay Tomorrow
II not, he must die of starvation and sorrow.
Says the ant to the cricket: " your servant and
friend
But we ants never borrow, we ants nev-r lend.
But tell me, dear sir, did you lay nothing By
When the weather was warm ?' Said the cricket:
"NOtIi
My heart was so light
That sang day and night
For all nature looked gay"
=" You sang, sir, you sayY
Go, then" says the ant, and dHnce winter awayl''
hUs ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
nd out of the door turned the poor little cricket.
Though thisiS fable, the moral is good
u you live without work you must 90 without foed.
- PROF. III. IL.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
Cause of the Yellow Fever in Savannah.


DIR. White thinks that the present eri-
demic is different in very mYnv essentials
from yellow fever, as that fever has here
tofore come under his medical observa-
ton. That it is mixed largely with the
type of malarial fever, and assimilates
to what was known years ago in Charles
ton as the neck fever. He is satisfied
that the ordinary treatment for the yell
low fever cannot be pursued with effect
In the fever now ravaging our city, and
that the good result following the qui-
nine treatment pursed generally by the
profession indicates that malaria enters
largely into the diagnosis of the disease.
The doctor, alluding to the sanitary con-
dition of Savannah, said that he found the
city proper remarkably clean, nothing ap-
parently presenting itself to account for
the toxic poison by which the city was
enveloped. That the source of this poi
son was not found in the Springfield plan
tation, on the western part of the city,
but that from an examination of Biblo's
canal he was satisfied that that was the |
of the poison which had devas- |
tated our city. 1t was in a very foul |
numerous bars formed by |
the action of tide and water created so |
many reservoirs, as it were, for the poi |
'On; the extreme hot weather experienced |
in July and August had acted as a gen
orator, and the east winds had scattered |
The poison to every part of the city. DR..
White thinks it would be suicidal policy |
% disturb one spadeful of earth at the
present time, and was very emphatic in
he condemnation of any measure which
ooked for relief from the influence of
he toxic poison by attempting to clean
,ut the canal. He is satisfied that it
would result most disastrously.
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the Turks corns, may be taken a broad
challenge to anybody who wants to "main-
tain the integrity Of the Ottoman empire "
to prepare for a war of large dimensions"
In Cuba the winter campaign is open
ing with fair prospects for the insurgents,
who We're recently so daring as to enter
the city of Las Tumas, and hold possession
of part of il. The troops upon whom the
Spaniards rely to conquer this willy enemy
are for the most part disaffeeted, having re-
ceived no pay for over six months. The
captain general has even declared that no
more soldiers should be sent him, unless he
receives money to pay them. Gen. Jovel-
lars's willingness to return home indicates
still further the gloominess of the Spanish
prospects.
A dispatch from Constantin0ple SAYS
the following are the conditions on
which the Porte expects an armis-
tice: That Servia be prevented from occu-
pying positions now in possession of the
Turkish army; thet the introfuction of arms
and ammunition into Servia and Mcntene-
gro be prohibited; that the passage of for
eign volunteers into Turkish provinces be
positively put stop to; that Servia and
Montenegro be prohibited from giving any
assistance to Immigrants to adjacent prov
inces. The Porte proposes that the armis- |
tice shall extend to the fifteenth of March, |
1877, and requires the powers to appoint |
delegates for the settlement of details. 1t !
has ordered Turkish commanders TO come to /
an understanding with these delegates and |
with Seryian and Montenegro commanders
the line of demarkaticn between the oppos-
ing armies to be regulated by the positions
they now hold. Turkey, however, is ready
to evacuate her positions in Servia if Servia |
engages not to occupy them.
A Berlin dispatch says the old report
is revived that the czar thinks of abdicating
if a war is decided upon. The Russian resi-
dents in Austria and Germany, who are liza
BILE to serve in the army have been ordered
home. The Black sea squadron is ready to
carry 100000 men from the northern to the
western shores of the sea. A detachment of
officers has been sent to equip these vessels
The Persian government has been asked by
Russia to cooperate. Persia, in obedience,
S sending troops to the Turkish frontier.
The reserves are being called out in some of
he western provinces of Russia. Troops
ave been moved toward the northern and
astern frontier of Galecia. Twenty thou ,
and horses have been placed on a war foot !
ng in Russia Poland. These measures are t
elieved to be intended to force Austria and | I
turkey TO cOncede the independence os the
oU'uer1 Sclavonians without war
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scattered right and left with confusion
that turned the whole business into a
laughing stock. The exhibitors fail to
prize their medals, and no incentive to
Improvement has been offered. They are
all in lump together.
Another thing the centennial COM
missioners were not bound to give the
awards as recommended by the judges.
They did as they pleased about it. If
they didn't wish to give q man medal,
he didn't get it; if they did, he got it.
If they wished to give an exhibitor three
medals, two of them on his own report
as judge, they did it. even in spite OF
protest.
The exhibition, therefore, in its awards,
has done nothing to stimulate competi-
tion and encourage excellence. The
whole thing has been made perfectly
ridiculous at Philadelphia.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
Dull Boys.

Don't be discouraged. Slow growth
Is often sure growth. Some minds are
like Norwegian pines. They are slow in
growth, but they are striking their roots
deep. Some of the greatest men have
leen dull boys. Dryden and Swift were
dull as boys. So was Goldsmith. So
was Gibbon. So was Sir Walter Scott.
Napoleon at school had so much diff
Guilty in learning his Latin that the
master said it would need gimlet TO get
a word into his head. Douglas Jerrold
was so backward in his boyhood that at
nine he was scarcely able to read.
Isaac Barrow, one of the greatest
divines the Church of England has ever
produced, was 50 impenetrably stupid in
his early years that his father more than
once said that if God took away any of
his children, he hoped it would be Isaac,
as he feared he would never he fit for
any thing in the world. Yet that boy
wa hs genius of the family.
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ALEssoN IN TRUSTING.

NV friend went over the sea one day;
My thoughts were full OF the saddest tales
0f sudden storms in the little bay,
of roaring tempests and rushing gales.
l could not look at the smiling sea
But / thought of an enemy's fair false lace,
And all the summer it seemed to me
A cruel thing, and devoid OF grace.
But prayed to the God of the sea and land
To keep my friend from its hurtfnl might
To care for the little sailor cand,
Nor once forget it by day or night
Yet feared TO trust him l thought my love
Was more than his. and strove and prayed
With strong wild words to God above,
And all the time l was sore afraid.
He was not angry. He bore with me,
So patient is he in tenderness;
He kept my friend on the far OFF sea,
He showed us both how the Lord could bless.
And think when l see the faces sad
those who are anxious and full OF care,
If they trusted the Lord he would make them gli
For ne loves to answer his children's prayer.
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THE UTES.
General Uprising Feared in the
ISOuth est.

General Uprising Feared in the
5SOuth~est-
A special from Lavenworth to the ST.
Louis Globe-Democrat saws reports re-
ceived there indicate that there are fears
of general uprising among the Ute In
dians in Colorado, as the warriors of that
tribe have been for some time in Goubt-
ful attitude, and some fear of an out
break has been felt in New Mexico The
Indians of that section have made sew
eral warlike demonstrations, and have
cOllided with the United States troops
more than once. From information re
ceived from New Mexico, it is extremely
probable that the Indians will indulge
in Il general insurrection as soon as OPP
portunity offers, As they are without
doubt one OF the most treacherous tribes
on the continent. Sheriff Richard Coles,
of LaPiatte county, telegraphs from
ParrOtt City to Gov. ROutt, asking for
assistance, saving that the Utes
number fully two thousand. and are
about to make 3 raid Col Hatch, COM
manding the New Mexico district, also
telegraphs to Gov. Routt from Santa Fe,
saying that if he 50 authorized him he
would issue arms to the citizens, as the
inhabitants of LaPlatte, Las Animas and
Parrott City were afraid of animmediate
outbreak. Gov. ROutt telegraphed Gen.
Pope at Fort LeayenwOrth, informing
him of the state of affairs, and asking
him to authorize Col. Hatch to issue
arms to the citizens, but received a reply
to the effect that only the president could
him to do so, Gen. Pope stated,
however, that Col. Hatch had enough
troops at forts Union, Wingate and Gar
land to suppress the outbreak should
any occur. This is the way the matter
stands at present.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27

Mr.. EZEKIEL's colossal statue of " Re-
ligious liberty" is nearly finish, and
will soon be shipped from Rome to the
United States. 1t was ordered by the
Jewish order of B'nai Birth for present.
alton to our government as n centenu ial
offering in commemoration of American
tolerance. Its principal figure is fe-
male nearly eleven feet in height, repre-
classic costume, and bearing upon her
breast shield with the stars and stripes
in relief. Her left hand rests UPON a
bundle of tightly bound rods, suggestive
of the union of the states, the scrolls of
The constitution, and wreath of laurel.
The right arm is extended forward in
torbidding gesture as if commanding no
approach from aught that would in
fringe upon the liberty of her people
On the right, and partially sheltered by
America, stands nude boy, symbolic
ing faith, with his head and one hand
lifted appealingly to heaven, while the
other sustains a vessel in which is shown
the urdying flame of religion. On the
other side, and at the feet of the central
figure, Is an eagle with talons buried in
the neck Of monster serpent, Intoler-
ance, whose body is coiled partially
around the bundle frods, and'extends to
the rear Of the group, finally protruding
from beneath the flowing garment of
America. Italian journals speak of it in
terms of the highest praise.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
The Mortality of Savannah During
SeDtembnF,

During the month of September the
number of deaths in Savannah from all
causes was seven hundred and thirty
five. OF these five hundred and thirty
eight were caused by yellow fever. The
number of deaths caused each day by
the infection was as follows:
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
1 curious feature Of she health of the

A curious feature of she health of the
city is found in the fact that. although
the colored population is within thou
sand or two OF the white, only one hun
dred aud ffty-four negroes have died
during September, or little over one
fifth of the whole number of deaths.
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year.

NATURALIsrs of the Meteorological
society of Scotland noticed last year that
herrings in fresh water rose to the sur
face only when the temperature had fall
len below twelve degrees Reaumur.
Fishermen now, when they do not find
the fish near the surface, drop their ther-
mometers until they fall to the required
point, and lower their nets in accord
ance, with great success.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
T,r New Orleans RuIletin

The New Orleans Bulletin says he
now thinks it is unsafe to leave bIOtting
paper around the Office. His wife
found this on piece:
:euS tseraed
.sevolg 70 xob dnes lliw
.FILLIW.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27

a WIDOW in Poughkeepsie has oh.
tanned damages, under the civil damage
law, from a liquor seller at whose bar
her huq+qud -becametdrurL Eve times
iust before dying of congestion of the
brain. The jury gave her $500 instead
of the $4,000 she sued for, as he was a
rather poor specimen of husband. The
civil damage law is theoretically a per-
feet law, and ought to be enforced
good deal oftener than it is. Temper.
ance societies, instead of wasting their
breath in singing aud exhOrting, could
do much practical good fby finding cases
in which families have been ruined by
liquor dealers and then "going" for
damages.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

EXPLOSIONS of threshing machine
boilers have been more frequent this
year than ever before, and have been the
cause of many deaths and a vast loss OF
property. The boiler makers have en-
tered into such ruinous competition that
a poorer quality of iron must be used in
order to leave any margin for profit.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27

FRANCE launched her most powerful
iron-clad last month, the Redoubtable,
at Lorient. This vessel, which has been
three years building, is three hundred
and fifty feet long by seventy feet beam.
She has an iron ram at the bow weighing
thirty tons, and her armor plates weigh
twcuty-four ions each. Her armament
is eight pivot guns, capable of being
pointed in any direction, and her decks
are bomb-proOf. Her six thousand horse
power engines work a screw twenty-one
feet in diameter, and there are smaller
engines for working the helm, the wind
lass and the pumps. The displacement
Of this monster war vessel when fitted
FOR sea is estimated at nine thousand
tons.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27

The manufacture of iron in the west
is rapidly increasing in amount. In
Chicago alone there are two of the ten
Bessemer steel works in the United
States, and these made $4,000 tons Of
the 291, 900 tons of the Bessemer-steel
rails manufactured in this country last
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27

THERE are about seventy-fye religious
newspapers in this country, having a
united circulation of some 100000. The
Catholic papers have more than one-third
of this, the Irish World and Boston
Pilot printing as many as any four other
religious weeklies. There are four OBJ
servers, SIX Christian Advocates, four
Presby three Churchman's, two
Registers, two Watchmans, and one Tele-
scope. The Hebrew papers are $5
year and have total circulation of
$4,000; the other papers range from
$3.50 to 81
IN his lecture on England, the Dan
bury News man says: The London
boy is slim in body, with spindling legs
and a pale face, and has an appearance
of having hoarded with maiden aunt
who had had an early disappointment.
The terms of endearment among the
common people we've dear and 'deary,'
love- and lovely and similar express
sions, and theywer heard with distress
ing frequency. Still, he didn't know
but on the whole they were preferable 20 |
old man. and 'old woman or even |
to old muttOn-head.'