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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
FACTS AND FANc1Es.

APRoPos of nude art at the centen-
NAL: Boswell once asked DIR. johnson
If certain classical picture was indie
cent. No, sir" replied the doctor,
but your question Is"
This Is sample Of the arithmetical
problems proposed at the Storey county
(Nev.) Teachers Institute:
A man puts down a certain sum of
money on the corner of the ace, TO take
the tray, in a twenty-five dollar limit
game. They both win through. At
the end of the deal he finds he has S57.
How much did he put down, and how
much did he win ?"
THE petition offered up by the believer
who abides in Christ, and has Christs
words abiding in him, will be in har-
mony with the will of God. The
spirit maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will Of God" The
spirit. taught breathing of desire, there
fore, on the part of the believer are the
very breathings of God within him, and
surely God on the throne in heaven will
not be Indifferent to the breathings of
God in the human heart Rather these
breathings are themselves fulhllment
of the promise, and preliminary step on
the part of God towards richer, fuller,
grander fulfllment of it.
WAIT NY LITTLE ONE.
Wait my little one, wait
When you get TO the beautiful land;
Tarry little, my darling,
Ere you Join the heavenly band.
Stand close TO the shining gates Of pearl,
Look out on the narrow way,
For l want the first glance Of my heaven
borne sight
On my little babe to stray.
Watt my little one, waitl
When you reach the courts above;
Look down with the light of thy beautiful
eyes,
On those that you used to love-
Whisper sweet dreams in our earthly ears,
When we lie down to sleep;
Paint bright pictures before your eyes,
When we wake up to weep.
Wait! my little one, wait!
When you reach the celestial strand,
For thy mother may be tOiliDC up
To the heights of the better land.
For the years that fall like IN often lead,
On the hearts this side Of the sea,
Will pass like the light of beautiful dream,
My little babe, DER thee.
MOTHERS, let every daughter that is
borne to you be given equal opportuni-
ties with your boys Let her physical
education be attended TO with the rest
let I'LL 0tI IOWtIS bt HlitIlBlhtnIu dllhts
let her learn a trade, or study a proies-
sion to fit her for the battle of life; and
if marriage does not come TO her, let her
know and feel that she is an independent
woman, free to take her place in the
proud ranks of those who use hands and
brain for support. She will not spend
her davs in idleness, nor will her mind
be filled with thoughts of dress, but with
nerfect health which will be hers when
she is taught its supreme Importance,
and the means for its preservation, and
with her time fully occupied, she will be
strong and well balanced, and assuredly
none the less fitted to be wife and the
happy mother of immortal souls. Then
too, when our women are thus trained
our papers wilnOt be disgraced with such
as this:
A lady of refinement and education
desires the friendship Of a gentleman of
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
The Balance Sheet.
Albany Argus,

The various states are to he classified.
politically, into three divisions; first,
" democratic" containing the states
which have given democratic maiorities
in elections in which the largest vote ev-
er cast in the state was pOlled second,
" anti administration" being states
which have voted against the admins
tration on test occasions; third, "admin-
istration," or states which have never
faltered in ther allegiance to Grantism.
The following table is arranged Oh this
system of classification:
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
Democratic.


OF these states Ohio is conceded to the
republicans and Florida and Oregon to
the democrats The democracy, there
fore, have the pro pect of polling one
hundred and ninety six electoral votes,
or eleven more than is necessary to elect
The doubtful states of Tndiara and
Wisconsin are also likely to be demo.
cratic; but if both shall fail us victory
is certain.
A sturdy and heroic struggle is sure to
bring success.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
SECOND DAY.

The convention was not called to or
der until little past l l o'clock, the COM
mittee on resolutions not being prepared
to report.
Mr.. Meredith, from the committee on
resolutions, stated that he was instructed
by the committee to inform the con-
vention that they had agreed upon a
platform and resolutions, and had re-
terred the resolutions to a committee for
final revision. He asked leave of the
convention for the committee to sit
longer for that purpose
On motion OF Mr.. Herman, OF New
York, the convention took a recess until
two o'clock.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

We hardly think it fair thing for our
lady friends to stop at the age OF thirty
nine, as there are few ladies who ar
rived at the age of singleblessedness from
whose hearts have been extinguished
hopes of seeing the chosen one. No,
indeed, so long as there is still an old
batchelor left, we say give the old maids
a chance, and don't blame them for still
clinging to Cincinnati Enquirer.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

AMONGST the contributions to the CEN
tennial is a peculiarly shaped canoe.
fashioned by the Indians of Vancouver's
Island, on the extreme northwestern
coast. 1t was placed in the United
States government building. Although
measuring sixty feet in length, and eight
in breadth not a joint is discernible in
the entire boat. The government Off
cials promise that remarkable specimen
OF this peculiar class will soon be exhib-
tied in a totem post from Cape Flattery.
It is to measure forty-fve feet in height
and contain various forms, combining
frogs, beavers and bears, with human
brms in such delightful pOstures, as to
Iival the ugly totem post already set up
on the south side of the government
building.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
A Young Moman,s. Chances.

A very sweet young lady of the West
End, who has evidently been giving the
subject serious reflection, gives the
following table as showing a woman's
chances of marriage between the age of
fourteen and forty years. OF one thou
sand women, taken without selection, it
is found that the number married at
each age is as below. Or if (by an arith-
metical license) we call a woman's
chances of marriage in the whole course
of her life one thousand, her chances in
each two years will lie shown in the ta-
hIn
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
future welfare.

THE Economist states that from Janu-
ary to May every English railway except
two shows a decrease in earnings as COM
pared with the corresponding period in
1875. The net decrease of receipts dur
ing four months and three weeks is about
1925, COO. All the roads show some
decrease, which during the last week,
amounts to about $6SO,OOO. The latest
American railroad returns are muck
more encouraging. Only nine out of
nineteen roads show any decrease.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
TIMELY TOPICS.

A sUBvENTIoN of $4,000 has been
offered by the state of Mexico to any
person who establishes a wooden factory
in the state with capital OF one hun
dred thousand dollars.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

EX-MAYoR EASTMAN, of Poughkeep-
sic, has given five hundred of the stSeet
boys of that city a straw hat, with this
advice pasted in the crown: "Don't
drink, don't swear, don't chew, don't
smoke. Be industrious, work hard, study
bard, play hard, and you will never be
hatless.' With the best wishes for your
future Melfare.n
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

AMONG the pottery exhibited in the
Chinese department at Philadelphia is a
shallow soup bowl made of bronze metal
and enameled, which is four thousand
years old. There are four hundred pieces
of chinaware dating back one thousand
wears
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

LIEUTENANT CAMERON, in his recent
travels in Central Africa, came to a
country where the iron trade was in a
f1ourishing condition, there being many
tounderies, about fifty feet long by thirty
feet wide, where they frequently got one
hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds
of metal in single smelling. Here he
saw pieces of iron worked simply by the
hammer, and nodded into various shapes,
including the human form, as completely
finished as if manipulated by the most
skilltul English artisan.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

Mr.. TILDEN. if nominated, would
prove powerful candidate. He would
receive a large but quiet support from
the Independent voters. 1t is not likely
that Mr.. Hayes will excite much enthu-
siasm; the party men will acquiesce in
the nomination and make the best of it,
Fr0Rois adams
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

WE observe that the republican press
boasts dd Gbifuna about Gov. Hayes war
record and his claims on the party He
may have claims on the party. We know
nothing about that, but we do know that
he has no claims On the country. The
country paid him in dollars and cents all
claim he had against it. If the party
owes him anything he should look to the
party for his pay 1t is highly unjust to
make the people at large pay the claims
of party. We have seen the folly and
the error of giving places of trust TO men
who claim to have earned the right to
them through party service. And hav-
ing seen this error we should not fall into
it again. No man has any claim to office
under the shadow of our flag unless he is
mentally and morally competent. A de
parture from this truth has led to all the
shameful frauds of the past eight years.
Troy Press.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

A SAFETY rail has been put down on
the several trestles and important bridges
on the New York & Long Branch rail
road. 1t consists of an additional rail
on each side of and about four inches
from the main track.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

WE regard reform as the paramount
issue. 1t means everything. 1t en-
braces all other issues. 1t comprehends
the solution of financial difficulties, not
an abrupt and forced resumption of
specie payments to the injury of every
industry and interest, but the develop
ment of the resources of the country,
the removal of the shackles from honest
labor, the accumulation of the means
beforehand to pay, the return of pros
perity and of peace. 1t embraces hon
esty and retrenchment in the public ex-
penditures. the prompt and faithful col
lection and appropriation of the public
revenue, the dismissal from Office of
thieves and political spectators, the
publication of the civil service and the
pacifcation of the whole country. 1t
means the preservation of the constitu-
ton intact, the separation of the judi
ciary from executive control or legisla-
tive interference, the establishment of
law and order, the punishment of official
knaves and robbers and the administra-
ton of justice.-.S. Paul Dispdtch.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

Dress suits for girls just in their teens
are shown in colOred grenadines, sum
mer silks, and in white lawn embroidered.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

At this point the chair announced
that delegates from the national wo-
mans rights organization were present
and desired to address the convention.
No objection being made, Miss Cozzins
then stepped forward and deliverd an
ad lress.
Accompanying this address was the
following plank for the democratic Mat
form, which was referred to the commit
tee on resolutions
WHEREAS, Inc democratic party was the
first to abolish the property qualification and
extend the right of suffrage to all white men
of the older states; and,
WHEREAS, 1t was D democratic legislature
that extended the right of suffrage to the wo-
men of Wyoming; therefore,
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to secure
the right of suffrage to the women of the
United States on equal terms with men,
APPOINTMENTS OF COMMITTEES.
The secretary then proceeded with the
call of the roll for the appointment of
committees on credentials and permanent
organization.
The secretary then called the roll for
the appointment of committee on reso-
lutions, with the following result:
Alabama, Leroy p. Walker; Arkansas L.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

LoNGLEY is grieved because Hugh
McMiIlen insisted on the nomination
of Henry Welsh, for Commissioner, at
the recent Convention. Long before
the meeting of the Convention he was
advocating the nomination of Mr..
Welsh. The fact is that Messrs. Welsh
and McMillen have long been personal
friends, and Mr.. McMillen's adhesion,
to his friend, was through entirely pure
motives; knowing the fitness of the
man for the place, he was conscientious
in the advocacy of his claims, and it
does not lie in the power of such be-
trayers of the public confidence as
Longley 10 besmirch him. After the
boilers, followed by Longley, went out
of the Convention, Mr.. McMillen de-
clined to withdraw the name of Mr..
Welsh, and urged as an additional rea-
son for his nomination that it was good
policy, and without any intention of
throwing the mighty "sop" of a Com.
missionership TO Mr.. Welsh, who he
deemed was superior to taking that
view of the case or throwing ''sop" to
the miserable communist who attaches
himself TO the tail end of every dissat.
isfied element In the county, and inn
pugns the motives of honest citizens.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

THE "Silver BILL" which has now
passed both Houses of Congress, au-
thorizes $20,000,000 silver change, or
token currency, over and above the
sum required to redeem the fractional
paper currency. There is limit to the
whole coinage of $50, 100000. The Sec
retary of the Treasury is left free to
purchase the bullion with any money
in the Treasury at his command, and to
pay out the silver change in the ordi.
nary course of business, or exchange it
for Treasury or national bank notes,
without being required to hold or can
Gel the greenbacks thus received.
Where the exchange is made for or in
redemption of fractional currency tie
latter Is to be covered into the sinking
fund. The limit of so, ,000, 900 is based
on the calculation that of the S43, ,OOO,-
900 or $45, ,000,000 fractional currency
when the operation began
in April, about $50, ,000, 900 will come in
for redemption, and adding the pres
ent authority for $50, 900, 900, will reach
the required volume of token silver
There was desire on the
part of the Representatives of Califor-
MIA and Nevada to repeal the legal
tender Ito the amount of S5) of the
Trade dollar, but it was deemed better
10 let this stand than to revive the less
old dollar, done away with in
Iolo. l.., ii oifaW feLt kET SD ~ sr
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

On the 4th of Julya band of TiIdens,
Georgia followers, committed a most
barbarous and cold blood massacre of
Colored Militiamen at Hamburg, South
Carolina.
The sole "provocation" given by the
negroes consisted in parading in honor
of our Centennial Independence day,
and in refusing to disperse at the order
of two white men who drove up in a
carriage. The militia had a perfect
right to their arms, and the subsequent
slaughter was so fiendishly atrocious
that no attempt at defense is made by
the local papers. 1t seems to have
been reserved for the Democratic press
of the North to attempt to palliate the
infamy. The plain facts are that reg
ularly Differed crowd of white Georgi-
ans invaded the sovereign State of South
Carolina, interfered with his militia,
attacked them in their own armory,
captured them, and then butchered
them in cold blood.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago
Inter- Oceaa, writing from Bowling
Green, Mo-, on the 4th, says: "All is
quiet in our town, except, as 1 write, I
can see from my window the CCnfed-
crate flag floating from the county
building, with Tilden's and Hendricks
names inscribed on It. The resolution
of 1864, the Confederate flag and TiIden
and Hendricks make a strong trio in
this part of Dixie" "The old war
spirit is dead" "The hands are clasped
firmly across the bloody chasm."
Massachusetts militia mingles its fra
ternal greeting with that of the veteran
Grays of Charleston" and yet while
these shouts are gushing up from many
parts of the land we see a rebel flag,
bearing the name of Tilden and Hen
bricks, unfurled to the breeze. The
old spirit is not dead enough. 1t yet
shows itself too plainly in flying rebel
flags and assassinating negroes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

TIE New York Tribune publishes
the following extract from private
letter il has received from Carl SchurZ,
as al evidence that that gentleman
is all right on the Presidential ques-
ton:
"There is striking contrast between
the hard-soft-mOney mixture in the
Democratic platform and candidates,
and the strong, fearless assertion of
moral duty in the financial paragraph
of Governor Hayes letter of acceptance.
The views he expresses about the civil
service form the most comprehensive,
most clearly defined and in every re-
spect most satisfactory civil serve re-
fern programme ] ever saw uttered in
few words; and that programme is
accompanied by the pledge of an hon.
est man that, il he is elected, it shall be
faithfully carried out in its complete
ness, and that no personal ambition
shall interfere with the work. Never
had civil service reformers a better op-
pOrtunity to fight with a chance of real
success-I mean the success of candi-
date or party. l shall support Gov
ernor Hayes heartily and actively, and
have never felt more clearly conscious
of doing the right thing for the best in
terests of our country
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

EVERY one must have noted quietly.
for himself, what has never yet been
noted publicly, that the Democrats, no
matter how badly theyare beaten in
their campaigns, always begin them
with blow and brag. In 1860, 1864,
1868, 1872, and every year since, they
started out with grand blast and end
ed with grand fizzle. They come up
to the scratch, every year, fresh and
vigorous, with the lungs of chanticleer
and grand hurrah as TO what thew
are going to do, and they end with an
acknowledgement that they have been
badly beaten. There is something es.
sentially gaseous in the party; and that
is why Horatio Seymour let himself
out in this style in his style of speech
of July 10, 1868, accepting the Demo-
cratic nomination
~ have been caught up by the over.
whelming tide that i5 bearing on us to
a great political change. / congratulate
you upon the evidences everywhere
thai we are to triumph at the next
election" sI7 : > :.
ltis exactly in this bombastic man.
ner that Tilden is now talking; and the
boastful bearing Of his supporters, who
have been so often whipped and so
rarely successful, reminds US of the ad-
vice which the King of Judah once
gave to his boastful' brother of Israel:
LET not him that putteth on his ar
NOR boast as ne that putteth it OFF,
Pits. Com. - Z
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

THE beginning. The Democrats OF
Denison, Texas, got up torch-light
procession on hearing of the nomiDa-
lion of Tilden and Hendricks, and
went about the town cheering Justify
for JEFF. Davis. Throughout nearly the
entire South, also, the common toast in
bar-roorns is there's to the next rebel
tion," and the late massacre at Ham
burg, South Carolina, is but an illustra-
tion of what is in store for the blacks
and Union men of the South should
Tilden be elected. The universal opiD-
ion among the rebel Democracy is that
Tilden, if elected, will prove another
Buchanan. and in that hope they are
leaving no stone unturned to secure his
success.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

A SPECIAL from Saratoga to the Com
naercial Advertiser says: 1t has leaked
out that there is an irreconcilable differ
ence between Tilden and Hendricks,
and hence the non-appearance of Tit
den's letter of acceptance. 1t is very
evident from the hurried manner Til
den and Hendricks left Saratoga that
the meeting was not harmonious one,
and that there are wide differences be-
tween them on the currency question
which may oblige Hendricks to repudi-
ate Tilden or peacefully withdraw from
the ticket.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. july Is. 1875.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 10, 1876.
1t is gratifying to be able to chronicle
a most desirable change in the temp er-
ature. A steady'rain which commenced
last night and continues to fall this
morning has impaired coolness to the
air that Is very refreshing. The rate of
mortality among our infant population
during the long hot spell through
which we have just passed has been
alarming. The intense heat, indeed,
in greater or less degree seemed to
affect all classes. But with the hope
that it is now ended energy revives
again.
At the usual hour yesterday the
journal was read in the Senate, and the
impeachment trial resumed. A state
ment from the Sergeant-at-Arms was
read, to the effect that one Cf his officers
had reliable information from Evans
that he would probably be in Washing
ton on Tuesday next. On motion of
Mr.. Sherman the Senate, as court,
adjourned to Monday, and legislative
business was resumed. In the House
Mr.. Williams, of Delaware, from the
committee on Naval Affairs, reported a
joint resolution in relation to the
wreck of the Monitor Tecumseh. The
resolution sets forth that the said mon
itor was sunk in Mobile Bay with all
on board; that trace of the said wreck
had been aScertained and marked with
a buoy so that it is not an obstruction
to navigation; that under the law of
1870 the said wreck was sold by Mr..
Richardson, the late Secretary of the
Treasury, for the sum. of $50; that the
purchaser proposes to break up the
wreck but has made no provision for
the removal of bodies of the officers
and men. The committee, therefore,
recommend the adoption of a resolu-
ton directing the Secretary of the
Navy to take such measures as will se-
cure the removal of the bodies of the
officers and men before the wreck is
broken up, and ii the purchaser will
not remove them, the amount he paid !
for the wreck is to be rendered him |
with legal interest. 1t is impossible to
see by what rule of law Congress can
compel the purchaser to forego his bar
gain while it is certainly proper to
make such disposition of the remains
IS sense of propriety would dictate.
Still there is no propriety or shadow of
Justice in making the purchaser Of the