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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01

That the republic is daily being frmer
established in France is proved by the reso-
luton of the chamber of deputies on the
22d of July, that "the chamber, expressing
its confidence in the minister of interior, re-
quests the cabinet in appointing public
functionaries, not to forget the duties i'm
posed upon it by the decree Overthrowing
the empire" Gambetta eloqueDtly stigma
tized the system pursued by the Bonapart-
lists in seeking to make the country believe
that marshal MacMahon was hostile to the
constitution, and said he had perfect con-
fidence in the Marshal's good faith. Turn
ing to the Bonapartists, Gambetta concluded
by exclaiming: "YOu VIII never smother
the cry of the I'd of Decemberl" Amid
tremendous applause, three hundred and
seventy-One ayes were recorded in favor of
the resolution; the Bonapartist deputies did
not vote.
Lunacy is still increasing in Ireland.
At the close of last year the number of pa
tients under the supervision of the inspec-
tor general was Lillian increase of one
hundred and ninety-four on the preceding
year.
Prince Milan has received from several,
if not from all, the powers congratulations
upon the birth of an heir, all ef which con-
tain expressions leaving, no doubt, in the
mind of the prince that the powers are de-
sirous of seeing an end of the war, which is
dangerous to the general peace OF Europe.
The result is the Servians are ready to treat
for peace, but will not consent to the depO-
sition of prince Milan or the sacrifice of any
territory, nor will she submit to the Turkish
administration.
In reply to speeches made in the Eng
lish house of commons lately, TO the effect
that Russia was stronger in 1858 than now,
the CALAIS shows that Russia in 1858 had an
army of 100000, and now, $4,000 as a
peace armament and 100000 in time of
war.
A dispatch from Belgrade saws it is re-
ported that the Turks have advanced be.
yond Banja, and that the Servians evacuated
that important pass without firing a shot
1t is quite possible that the constant rumors
of Turkish advances and Servian retreats
are exaggerated, but it can not be denied
that the prospects of the Servians is becom
| ing gloomy. The rumOr of their evacuatinl
the defiles leading from GurgugOvntz t
Delegrade, and from Saitschar to Parakin
though unconfrmed, S highly probable. /
the Turks push forward, it is more thar
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

The postal-card mandatory is rum
ming ten hours a day, turning out about
100000 cards per day, and is 3,5OO000 be-
hind its orders. The number of cards print
ed during the quarter ending July 1st, was
3S,OOO,OOO, an increase of nearly 100000
over the corresponding quarter for 1875.
The senate confirmed the following
nominations: II. F. Finlay, United States
attorney for Kentucky, vice G. c. Wharton
removed; Wilford L. Wilson, appraiser of
merchandise, st. Paul, Minnesota; w. w.
Standifer, United States marshal of Arizona.
The new four and-a-half per cent. loan
for three hundred millions will be brought
out in a short time. There is competition
for the control of it among foreign and do
mestic bankers, and it is thought all the par
ties in London and New York will be
brought together by the administration.
Neither The president nor the secretary of
the treasury will favor an extensive negotia-
tiOn
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
LATEST NEWS.
aOUTH AND WEST.

Austin, Texas, manufactures twenty
tons of ice per day.
There are thirteen North Carolinians
in the house of representatives of Texas.
Speaking of the Texas penitentiary,
the Galveston News says of a once noted
character: Old SanJanta, on hearing of the
slaughter of Custer and his command, could
scarcely contain himself with joy, and said
he, too, like Sitting Bull, wanted to go on
the war-path.
Ex-Gov. Henry A. Wise has no hope
of his own recovery. In reply to an invita-
ton to attend reunion of confederate sol
diers, he sends word that sickness will pre-
vent him from being present, and add: al
never expect to leave my room again until
am carried to my grave. The weather is
so excessively hot here that l would gladly
leave this griddle of a town, if for no other
object, to get on the great Shenandoah
mountains, where could get pure air and
meet nay old friends"
The recent reports of the ravages of
grasshoppers in the northwest were gross
exaggerations. The wheat, which is nearly
all harvested, is good crop, and the corn
crop is excellent.
This is about the tenor of the harvest
report from Wisconsin: Harvest is nearly
over, and while the chinch bug has done
some damage, yet wheat will be nearly an
average crop. Oats were never better, rye
good, and a splendid outlook for corn. AL
together, the farmers have no reason to COM
plain.
1t is now reported that the prospect
for an abundant cranberry crop in the st.
Croix Valley, Miss, was never more prom
ising. 1t is stated that the crop this year
will pay tor all the improvements made on
improved marshes. The berry crop this year,
so far, has been good.
The Nashville American says: "Three
hundred and sixty barrels of Irish potatoes
were forwarded to New York city in one
day for shipment to Cuba, where there is a
good demand for them. One of our David
son county farmers cleared $4,000 on forty
acres of potatoes, which he sold in June.
This gentleman came here two or three years
ago without a cent in his.pockets."
The south pass jetty company has au
official report from f. L. Carthell, chief as
sistant engineer, mt the south pass jetties,
stating that careful and exhaustive survey,
in which more than seven hundred sound
ings were taken on the very crest of the bar,
was made on the 14th, showing clear chan
mel twenty feet deep at average flood tide,
with at least IA width of forty feet. When the
width of the channel reaches two hundred
feet, the company will be entitled to their
first payment from the government.
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
TIE END OF QUARREL

Two dear little sparrows went flying about,
In a terrible hurry there wasn't doubt,
For SAYS he, and says she, must sertainly roam,
Some distance before we decide on home.
Some birds fancied this, and some birds fancied
that,
And some wers contented with just "French
hat.n
Right under the caves but says he, and says she,
there Is nothing cozy and nice as a tree.
But they were behindhand in seeking nest,
And earlier corners had chosen the best, 81
And says he and says she, IL is queer, declare,
hat for two little birds there to spare
Now this way and that now high and now low,
Through the soft balmy air did the wanderers go,
TIL at last they beheId nice house and said he,
1t Is just what we're looking for-urder tree v
But never will live in so shabby nest
The rooms are too small and far worse than all
that,
It's rather too handy, I think, for the cati"
You're fooish and full of queer notions" said he
AS they paused for a chat a branch of the tree,
" We'll find nothing better, though farther we
roam,
And you know we've not seen SO inviting home"
More stubbornly he and more spitefuIIy She
Continued the quarrel they woHldn't agree;
And party, whose hearing Is very acute,
Thought how he might settle the angry dispute
Chip, chip chip, chip, ehipl still the contest arose.
Beginning with words, it soon ended In blows,
And neither looked into the garden where sat
A hungry, impatient and confident cat.
The end of the quarrel came shortly to pass
When bird tumbled suddenly into the YIass,
What happened what happened, my dears, after
that
Perhaps YOU had better inquire of the cat.l
Josephine Pollard, ts Youths COn'PaR-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01

rifotia, resembling wax work Jamaica also
exhibits necklaces of the seeds of the gree
gree palm.
A very singular, yet, quite pretty exhibit
is one from Rio de Janeiro. Coifures made
of flowers, and from the province of Sancta
Catharina, Brazil, we have a boquet made
of fish scales, eggs skins, shells, wood and
feathers. 1t is certainly work of great in
genuity, exhibiting skill and taste, and
speaks well for the artistic merit of the
misses Silveira de SOuza, the Industrious
young ladies who are entitled to credit for
their efforts to make a display of Brazilian
industry. From Barana, Brazil, is a boquet
made entirely of fish scales. also handsome
boquet made entirely of feaIhers-Her inn
perial highness, the princess d. Isabel, Rio
de Janeiro, sends splendid piece of work.
manship, a crown of flowers made of cereals
ALI honor to the gifted lady for her interset
in the centennial
The orphan girls of the Immaculate Con-
ception school, of Brazil, III Rio de Janeiro,
send an exquisite piece of work, a towel
cut in sieve and labyrinth lace with small
squares, each square with design, and exc
euted by a different girl. Idelvira Flum-
inense, a little girl of ten years of age, from
Rio de Janeiro, furnishes beautiful piece
of tapestry. The little girl has taste and
skill. and deserves enriching in the interna-
tional temple of taste and progress. J.B
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
A Silent BenefactOr.
PHILADELPHIA Bnlletin.

Mr.. Cooley suffered a good deal last
winter from rheumatism in his breast,
and his wife was badly frightened about
it for fear it should end in consumption.
Cooley could not be induced to try any
remedy for the trouble, and Mrs. Cooley
was nearly worried to death about it.
At last she determined to try strategy.
She made up dry mustard plaster, and
one night while he was asleep she sewed
it upon the inside of his undGrshirt, 80
that it would Just about cover the rheu-
matte place. Cooley dressed himself in
the morning, wholly unsuspicious of the
presence of the plaster, and went down
stairs. At the breakfast table, while he
was talking to his wife, he suddenly
stopped, looked cross-eyed, and a spasm
of pain passed over his face. Then he
took up the thread of the conversation
again and went on. He was in the midst
of an explanation of the political situa-
tion. when all at once he ceased again,
grew red in the face, and exclaimed:
81 wonder what in the-no, it can't be
anything wrong"
Mrs. Cooley asked what was the matter,
and Cooley said:
"Oh. it's that Internal old rheumatism
again-come back awful. But l never
felt it exactly the same way before.
Kinder stings me-" Mrs. Cooley said
she was sorry.
Then Mr.. Cooley began again, and was
Just showing her how the ravages of the
grasshoppers in the west last summer and
the potato bug in the east would affect
the political result next fall, by making
the people discontented, and SO likely to
strike at the party in power, when he
suddenly dropped the subject, and, jump
ing up, said:
"Thunder and lightning what's that ?
Ouch! o Mosssl feels il / had shovel
full of hot Goals inside my shirt"
"Must be that rheumatism, getting
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
e." said Mrs. Cooley, sympatheti.

cally.
"Oh, gracious, mol Its something
worse than rheumatism. Feels like fire
burning into my skin. Ouch Ow-wow-
wow Its awful. / can't stand it a
minute. / believe it's cholera, or some
thing, and I'm going TO die"
Do try to be calm, Mr.. Cooley"
Calm How can man be calm
with volcano boiling under his shirt
Get out of the way, quick, while go up
stairs and undress MuJder-rr-r-r, but
it hurts. Let me out, quick"
Then he rushed up'to the bedroom
and stripped off his clothes His chest
was the color of boiled lobster; but he
couldn't for the life of him tell what was
the matter. Then his eyes rested upon
something white on his shirt. He picked
up the garment and. examined it. Ten
minutes later he came slowly down stairs
with dry mustard plaster in his hand,
while thunder clothed his brow
Going to Mrs. Cooley he shook the
plaster under her nose, and said in sup
pressed voice:
clothes 2''
"I did it for the best, John" she said.
" thought -"
ooh, never mind what you thought,
you idiot Never mind what you
thought! You've taken the skin off my
bosom, so that Pm as raw as sirloin
steak, and I'll probably never be well
again as long as live. That lets you
ont. Yeu play any more tricks like
that on me, and I'll put you in the coal
bin and keep you there till you starve to
death. Now mind me-"
Then he slammed the door and went
out. Mrs. Cooley doesn't know to this
day exactly what effect the grasshoppers
are going to have on the fall election.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
Sims Reeves's Advice to vOcallsts.

Mr.. Sims Reeves gives the following
pertinent advice to vocalists who are adj
dcted to dosing themselves with all
manner of confections and beverages:
at is impossible to say how much mis-
chief has been done by the absurd ac-
counts of the variety of beverages indis-
pensable to our former great singers.
Whatever may have been the practice
in the past, such notions as that the
drinking of so many bottles of beer or
stout per evening will give voice are as
obsolete, am happy to say, as is the
idea that no man is a hospitable gentle
man who allows his guests to 90 home
sober. BY long experience / find it
much better to do without them entirely.
a glycerine lozeng is preferable; on yer :
rare occasions small quantity of claret
and water may be necessary, but all alco-
hOic stimulants are detrimental. |
Olmerly, and for many years, used beef
tea, tut that was too heavy. If one
could limit ones self to a tablespoonful
at time, the latter might be the best,
but large 1raught clogs the throat
and produces more saliva than is neces-
sary, and induces the desire to swallow
Osten."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
Saratoga Turf GOSsiD.
G. A. Townsend in CincInna ii Enquirer.


Tom OchiItree is considered the fastest
of strong horses now on the turf, Parole
the best three year old, and Leonard the
best two year old. Leonard has weak
eyes and hole in his back. He is the
son of LOngfellow, the son of bennington
through Roxana. He is nobly formed,
particularly in the forequarters, and,
like his fathrr, is black, with a white
streak in the forehead. He won the Sar-
atoga stake in time not equaled since
1S72-one minute and seventeen and a
half seconds, carrying the weight of one
hundred pounds. We can calculate the
distance per second required to Jump
three-quarters of a mile in seventy-seven
and a half seconds. The rider of this
horse is the well-known Bobby Swim, a
manikin thirty-fve years old, who weighs
ninety-fve,pOunds.stripped, and is, of good
proportion for such broom of a man.
In the saddle, covered with silk colOrs,
he looks large and is master of the situa-
ton, ready to take advantage of any
body's error.
"They say / drink and gamble" said
Swim, after | get off the horse. don't
sneak away like Sharling, who rides for
Lorillard, and guzzle out of a Jug all to
myself. l drink with gentlemen. No
man ever lived who could accuse me o
throwing off a race"
He is considered, generally speaking,
to be the best American rider, but he
would leave more respectable Dame on
the turf if he took for his model such
English jockeys as Fred Archer and
George Nordham. These men go around
in their coupes with their liveried Wallets
and are as well known in England as the
prince of Wales. LOrillard recentlyd dis
charged his English jockey, Barbee, for
winning with the wrong horse of his two
entries. Had the inferior horse come IN
first, the superior of the pair would have
had no bars or penalties tor subsequent
Iaces for which the latter was entered.
Jockeys receive about 81 900 year and
allowances for winning, mounts"
Swim charges a turfman ten dollars TO
ride, and twenty-five dollars if he wins
he would charge an amateur fifty dollars
to ride. This jockey and his employer,
McGrath, both hold that Tom Bowling
was the greatest Tace-horsc that ever
took the turf in America he was Grip !
pied for life by falling in a railroad car
Pierre Lorillard has had his great sue
cess on the turf by the sagacity with |
which Col. johnson, his buyer, picks out |
the yearling colts at sales. Yearlings
cost from $500 to $1,000. They are
chosen not only by their form, but by
their extraction, the great sires of Amer
lean yearlings having Ibeen Lex
ingtOn, Australian and bennington. The
most celebrated runners we possess are in
bred with two or more of these mighty |
parents. At least nine races out of sew !
enteen run here at Saratoga were won by |
LeamingtOn's sons or grandsOns, and |
Lexington's and Australians sons. No !
crowned head Of Europe is of such purity |
of blood as these thOrOughbreds, and the !
stud books are kept up with all the par
ticularity of a county registers deeds.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
Where Nickel Comes From.

1t may not be generally known that
the nickel deposit near the Gap, Lancas-
ter county, Pa, is considered the largest
vet discovered in the world, and the
only deposit of the ore worked in Amer
ica The mine is on the high dividing
line between Chester and Pequsa valleys
Besides nickel, copper, iron, and lime
stone are found in the same lOcolity.
Nickel was discovered here about the
year 1856, though copper, which is taken
from the same mine, was known in this
locality seventy years ago. The ore has
a gray color, is very heavy, and 80 hard
that it is mined entirely by blasting.
After the ore has been broken into small
fragments it is put into kilns holding
eighty to ninety tons, and subjected to a
heat produced by the burning of small
quantity of wood and continued by the
conversion of the expelled gas. 1t is
then put into smelling furnace snd un-
dergoes a treatment similar to that of
iron ore.-Hdrtford Post.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
Women of SerVIa,

The correspondent of the London
News SAYS: "The women to-day wore
on their heads red kerchiefs with ends
hanging down their backs, embroidered
with coins, in which were often stuck
flowers, chiefly of red and white. They
were generally dressed in white, but in
variably with the brilliant apron sewed
down to the skirt, and often with gaud-
ily embroidered stomacher, or perhaps
breast-plate would be the most descrip-
tive term, studded with coins on black
velvet. The working dress of the women
in the fields is a short jacket, braided
and slashed in the fashion and of the cut
of that worn by the men, a red and vel
low kerchief passed over the bosom,
pettiCOat striped mostly in the parallel
stripes of Moorish pattern, but occasion
ally in checkers, which make the pattern
a tartan, n tapestry-like apron of brighter
colOrs than the petticoat, and bare legs
and feet.
The men are a fine race, tall, with a
certain stateliness and self-respect in
every gesture their faces are almost al
ways good, and often quite intellectual
and chivalric, but IN muscular develop
ment the peasant women of Servia can
give their husbands a stone and a beat
ing. l took the trouble to-day to meas
ure the waist of a lass who was lounging
against the pillar of tavern where we
were having some refreshment. Her
waist was a good inch more in circumfer-
ence than mine, and am by no means a
small-boned man. | noticed, as we
came further south, how the ruddy COM
pleXion and fair hair, bleached almost to
the hue of shabby brick, were being
left behind and giving place to faces of
an oriental type-a blending of the
Greek and Arab, with clean-cut profile,
straight nose, black hair and eyes and a
noble carriage. Occasionally among the
women a face of pure Egyptian type was
to be noticed-a trace probably of the in
fusion of Gypsy blood, which is far from
uncommon in eastern Europe. One wo-
man noticed leaning dreamily over a
garden fence with face cast in the very
mold of the Sphinx"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01
The Indians as Fighters and Athletes.



The practical experience of the recent
Rosebud battle has about exploded the
idea that a white man is the equal of
five Indians. The daring and reckless
ness shown in, this first pitched fight of
the campaign proves how much they
had staked on the result. Those who
claim that the Indian war will be of
short duration disregard the fact that
the Sioux are among the very best fight
ers in the world. They possess union
and strength, cunning without an equal,
a personnel in which every man is an
athlete, capable of supereminent feats
of endurance, horsemanship and agility.
Further, they possess the vast advantage
of fighting on ground of their own selec-
ton, in their own country, and with
whose resources, either for supplies or
defense, they have perfect familiarity.
1t affords them, too, at every step, natu-
raj Notifications equal-for purposes of
concealment or defense-to the most
elaborate work possible to engineering
skill. Well mounted, armed with the
very best of modern small arms, ever
alert and tiIeless, regarding death in
battle as an honor to be sought rather
than as a calamity to be avoided, they
are practically as effective as a civilized
army of twenty thousand men operating
in an open country and according to the
rules of modern warfare.
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OF A DRAMATIC TURN.-Of the good
things floating about just now in the
French papers the following is very
good specimen:
A bussar is sitting on the summit Of a
hill overlooking a garrison town. His
horse is picketed near by. lie is smok-
ing leisurely, and from time 10 time
glancing from the esPanade to a big Off
cial envelope he has in his hand. A
comrade passes and says:
What are you doing there ?"
al SIN bearing the kings pardon for
our friend Flichmann, who is TO be shot
this morning"
"Well, then, hurry along with il"
" Not much see, there is hardly a
soul on the esplrnade. and the firing
platoon has not yet been formed. You
surely would not have me rob my APP
pearance OF all dramatic effect p-BOst0H
IotrUU/
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Treatment for Ulcers.

The dry-earth treatment for ulcers is
found quite successful. LARGE, sloughy
ulcers, after being washed, are covered
with a thick layer Of earth, over which
wet paper is placed as a support, the
whole being neatly bandaged. In few
days the ulcers begin TO clear, and when
the surfaces look healthy and granulat-
ing, dressing made as follows is used
a niece of muslin the size Of the ulcer is
immersed in carbolic oil in the pro
portion of one part Of acid TO ten parts
af cocoanut oil Il; with this the sore is
covered. and over it dry earth is placed,
and then mOistencd earth and bandage.
In a short time the healing process man
ifests itself satisfactory while all Odor is
entirely removed.