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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-01-05
Totals...2 .9Os, ,489 2,776,9S7 2,lI5,63O 22so,Is,
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Maiorities. ASP l64.553
In view of this immense vote and de-
cisive majority, the republican party
ought to fOrtify itself exceedingly strong
before undertaking to override it.
FRAUD enough to vitiate the action of
the South Carolina returning board have
been already discovered by the committee
of congress now at Columbia. 1t has
been admitted by a member of the board
that the contents of thirty ballot-boXes
not counted at all, while evidence of the
outrageous swindling of the Chamber
lain gang crops out on every hand. The
scoundrels are industrious1y trying to
cover their tracks and to run off wit
nesses of their villainy, but the proof is
conclusive and its production certain
Chicago Times.
THE shipments of freight west and
south have fallen off greatly since the
conspiracy of the republican ofice-hOld-
| ers to seize the government has been de-
veioped. We fear that before the mid
die OF February the republican merchants
in New York who have tacitly encour-
aged this criminal attempt to subvert our
free institutions, will have deep cause to
regret that they did not take a more
manly stand against the revolutionary
movements of their political leaders,
Ne.O York Sun.
THIS information concerning the Lou
isiana count is brief, exact and con-
yenient for reference: "The Louisiana
returning board was composed exclu-
siyely Of republicans. Although the
returns were opened in the presence of
the two committees, they were can
vassed in secret session, from which all
democrats were excluded"
A PREVAILING impression in this city,
saws the Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, is that both
houses will decide that each has the
power vested in il to go behind the face
of the returns. If such a construction
is agreed upon the election will be
thrown into the house, and the result
will be that Tilden will be elected presi-
dent by that body, and that Wheeler will
be elected vice president by the senate.
This would, of course,be robbing Hen
bricks of his legal rights, but it would
be an outcome calculated to bring peace
and harmony out of what threatens to
be chaos and disorder. IF such is to be
the result, it is predicted that Hendricks
will be a member of the next cabinet.
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Mark These Facts.
The Te1imOny of the Whole World.

HOLLOW A VS. PILIS
81 had no appetite; Holloway's Pills give
me hearty one"
'Your Pills are marvellous"
az send for another box, and keep them in
the house."
'Dr. Holloway has cured my headache that
was chronic"
81 gave one of your Pills to my babe for
cholera morbus. The dear little thing is now
cured"
"My nausea of morning is now cured"
"Your box of Holloway's Ointment cured
me of noises in the head. rubbed some of
your Ointment behind the ears, and the
noise has left"
''Send me two boxes; want one for a poor
family"
"I enclose dollar; your price is % cents,
but the medicine to me is worth a dollar"
"Send me five boxes of your pills"
'Let me have three boxes of Pills by re-
turn mail, for Chills and Fever"
l have over 200 such testimonials as these,
but want of space compels me TO conclude.
For Cutaneous Disorders,
And all eruptions of the skin, this Ointment
is most invaluable. 1t does not heal exter-
nally alone, but penetrates with the most
searching effects to the very root of the
evil.
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Intimidation in Louisiana.

Mr.. 1hurman's Speech in the Senate
Sir, I can tell you that these charges
of intimidation will not cease as long as
under the mere pretense of intimidation
you can overthrow the votes of the peo-
pie of state. As long as you have this
machinery of a returning board, a per-
iectly irresponsible returning board, ac-
cording to the present claim that on
vague notion of intimidation you can
change the result of an election, as in
the case of this very same James Madi-
son Wells parish in the count of 1875,
who disfranchised his whole parish on
his own affidavit, deprived it of its three
members whom it had elected to the leg
islature, and put in three men who had
not been elected, on his own mere afi-
davit, alleging intimidation when he was
not there, his affidavit not made in pub
lie, not submitted to the inspection of
the public, but filed after that board
went into secret session, and was never
seen by the men who were elected, never
seen by their counsel, never seen by the
public-as long as such things as that
can be done there will be claims of the
votes of these states being controlled by
intimidation. Why, Mr.. President, it
is a new feature introduced into the
American constitution and the American
system of government. We did think
once that the only question about an
election was, who has a majority of the
votes? That is what we thought that
is what our fathers thought when they
made our constitution; but that is not
the question any more. The question is
not who has the majority of the votes,
but who has the majority of the men
who count the votes?
If you have returning board with a
majority ready to count out democratic
candidates, they have a power as great
as the tribunals of the Roman people had
to veto the voice of the people; not
simply to veto what the people have
done, but to determine what the people
ought to have done, according to their
Judgment of what they think to be best.
That is it, sir
And now my colleague, in the very
impassioned and very eloquent speech he
made to-day, says that this results, as
understand him, from the color line.
tell him that / stand prepared to prove
that the responsibility for the color line
rests on his party. tell him that ]
stand prepared to prove that millions OF
the peoples money have been expended
to establish the color line. know very
well why the right of suffrage was given
the colored man. 1t is not matter Of
speculation; it is not a matter of infer
ence; it was openly avowed when the
fifteenth amendment was under consider
alton; openly avowed in this senate, that
the republican party needed 100000
negro votes that could be given if the
fifteenth amendment were adopted; that
the republican party needed them, and
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pered an invocation, but no one APP
peared, nor did Hall ever make himself
present to his last earthly friend. The
latter was wont say that GHOSTS were
not kind to him.
Benjamin Franklin mentions a similar
agreement which he made with a friend
named Osborne, when he was a young
man living in Philadelphia. He says in
his autobiography, eve had seriously en-
gagged that whoever died first should re-
turn if possible and pay friendly visit
to the survivor, to give him an account
of the other world" and, he adds, COS
borne never fulfilled his engagement"
This desire for such mysterious knowl-
edge is so natural that it has been a mat
ter of discussion for ages, and Blair thus
alludes to it in his poem "Ihe Grave:"
Tell us, We dead Will oone Of you in pity
10 those you left behind disclose the sccaet?
y that some courteous ghost would blab II out;
W hat tbs you and we must shortly be
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-01-05
TRAINS GOING NORTH.

TRAIN No. 2 connects at Nashville with
N c. & st. Louis R'y West for Memphis; at
Lebanon June. with Knoxville and Rich
mond Branches at Cincinnati June with l..
&. q l.. r. r. for the North and East; at
Louisville with U. S. Mail Boats for Cincin-
natl and with O. & VI. R'y and J. NJ. d |. r.
r. for the North, East and West.
TRAIN No. 4 connects at Glasgow juno.
to and from Glasgow; at Cave City to and
froIn Mammoth Cave; at Cincinnati juno.
with l.. c. & L. r. r. for the North and East
at Louisville with o. & NJ. and ]. NJ. & l. r.
r. for the North, East and West, and with
q. S. Mail Line steamers for Cincinnati.
TRAIN No. 6 connects at Glasgow juno.
to and from Glasgow; at Cave City to and
from Mammoth Cave; at Cincinnati juno.
with L., C. L. r. r. for the North and East;
at Louisville with 9. & NJ. and J. NJ. & /. K,
R. for the North, East and West, and with
u. S. Mail Line steamers for Cincinnati.
Tourists will find this route offers great in
ducements to those going to the Centennial
Exposition. Direct connections are made in
Louisville with through cars, running direct
to the Centennial grounds.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-01-05
BENT ON BURNING.
The city of Little Rock Sends News Of
Another RIE Blaze within Her
COrp0Eats. Limits.

The city Of LtttIe Rock sends News Of
Another RiE BIaEe within Her
Corporate Limits.
Another fire occurred on the evening
of the 10Th in Little Rock, Ark. II broke
out in the house of joiner, Mcdowell q
Co., cotton factors and commission mer-
chants, in the Miller & Pencil block. on
the corner of Markham and Sherman
streets. Considerable powder was stored
in the building and the whole city was in
peril for time. The powder was quick
1y removed, however, and also the goods
in Miller d Pencils grocery store.
Three brick buildings on East, between
the Miller Il Pencil block, and two
story brick occupied by Mr.. VOlmer as
dry goods house, and +. Elman as
liquor house, were razed, and the flames
tapping over and graphing this building,
the steamers played on the large wooden
building on East, and prevented its
spread in that direction. The general
office of the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad was in danger. 1t is owned by
Judge Jones, Mcdonnell q Co. The
neighbOrhood known as "Fighting Al
ley" comprising about twenty FIVE wood
en- buildings, occupied a. saloons etc,
on Levee and Water streets, had narrow
escape. The fire was confined to the one
block, although those in the vicinity
were badly damaged by both fire and
water. The delay in moving the engines
from the cisterns to the river gave the
fire headway, which could not be checked.
Jones, Mcdonald & Co. is a branch of
the houses Of Bussey & Co. of New Or
leans and Memphis. Thus goes the largest
house in Arkansas. Loss eau
not fall short of S15,O 900. The third story
of the Miller & Pencil block was the lodge
-oom of the Masonic lodges of the city,
md also the office Of l.. +. Barber, secTe-
,ary of the grand lodge. The rooms
we're elegantly furnished and all the
odge's papers, regalias, furniture, etc,
we're DESTROYED
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-01-05
Political TOPICS.

WE reproduce our table of the vote OF
the central states in order to give the
correct vote of Delaware, and to make a
comparison of the vote of 1868. 1t will
be seen that the net democratic gain is
296, ,005. A larger gain would be shown
by making the comparison with 1872,
but in such case it would be properly
held that that election went so largely
by default as not to afford a true test.
The following is the table:
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TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

Memphis & Charleston r. R.; at Calera with
s., R. & D. R. R., at Guthrie with St Louis
& Southeastern R'y; at Mckenzie with
Nashville & Northwestern R'y; at Montgom-
cry with Mobile Montgomery r. r. for
Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans.
TRAIN No 3 connects at Decatur east and
west with Memphis & Charleston Railroad ;
at Birmingham with Alabama 4 Chattanooga
Railroad: at Calera with Selma, Rome d
Dalton Railroad; at Montgomery with West
ern Railroad (of Alabama), Montgomery &
Eufaula and Mobile and Montgomery Rail-
road.
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IMPORTANT CAUTION,

None are genuine unless the signature of
]. HAYDoCK, as agent for the United States,
surrounds each box of Pills, and Ointment.
A handsome reward will be given to any one
rendering such information as may lead to
the detection of any party or parties coun-
terfeiting the medicines or vending the same,
&s@Sold at the mandatory of Professor
HOLLOWAY & Co., New York, and by all
respectable druggists and dealers in medi
cines throughout the civilized world, in boxe
at % cents, 62 cents and 81 each.
~-There is considerable saving by ia kin
the largest sizes.
N. B.-DirectioDs for the guidance of pa
tients in every disorder are affixed to each
box.
n0z..a 40 EHhartx S.-aet Nev KorIr
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SYMPT0MS on WORMS.


THE Ecountenancei is paleand leaden-
Acolored, with occasional flushcs, or
circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks the eyes become dull the pu-
pills dilate an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eyelid the nose is IT.
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds /;
aswelling of the upperlip occasional
headache, with humming or throb-
bing of the ears an unusual secretion
of saliva; Shiny or furred tongue;
breath very foul, particularly in the
morning.; appetite variable, some
times voracious, with gnawing SEN
sation ofthe stomach, at others, entire
lygone fleeting pains in the stomach;
occasionalnausea and vomiting vio-
lent pains throughout the abdomen;
bowels irregular, at times costivc;
stools Shiny not unfrequently tinged
with blood belly swollen and hard
urine turbid respiration occasionally
difficult, and accompanied by hic-
cough cough sometimes dry and con-
vulsive uneasy and disturbed sleep,
with grinding of the teeth; temper
variable, but generally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DIR. c. MCLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
1T DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
IN any form /; tits an innocent prepara-
ton, not capable Of doing tile slight |
est injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine DR.. MCLANE's YER
bears the signatures of G. |
and FLEMING Bros. on the |
UraDDer
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OLLOw Y'S PILL 5,
Invariably cure the following diseases
Disorder of the Kidneys.

U1SOfQer O1 the A1Qu6yS.
In all diseases affecting these organs,
whether they secret too much or too little
water; or whether they be afflicted with
stone OF gravel, or with aches and pains set
tied in the loins or over the regions of the
kindnevs, these Pills should be taken accord.
ing to the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small
of the back at bed time. This treatment
will give almost immediate relief when all
other means have failed.
For Stomachs Out of Order.
No medicines will so efectually improve
the tones of the stomach as these Pills; they
remove all acidity occasioned either by in
temperance or improper diet They reach
the liver and reduce it to healthy action;
they are wonderfully efficacious in cases of
all disorders of the Liver and stomach.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS are the best known
in the world for the following diseases:
Ague, Asthma, Bilious Complaints, Blotches
on the Skin, Consumption of the
Bowels, Consumption, Debility, Drop
sy, Dysentery, Erysipelas, Female Ir-
regularities, Fevers of all kinds, Fits, Gout,
Headache, Indigestion, Inflammation, Jaun-
dice, Liver Complaints, Lumbago, Piles,
Rheumatism, Retention of urine, Scrofula or
Kings Evil, Sore Throats, Stone and Gravel,
Tie-Doulourex, Tumors, Ulcers, Worms of
all kinds Weakness from any cause. etc.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
s'Bijah.''

II was rather mean in the boys, but
they like Biiah and feel that he will for
give and forget. He had just commence
ming around the corner and excitedly
inquired:
"Where's Bijah-where's the old
manr
81 am here" was the dcep-toned re-
ply. "IIave you discovered pug
nosed boy on somebody's doorstep?"
"IIere's telegram for you-charges
thirty cents" said the boy, as he hand
ed it out.
The old man turned shade paler and
his chin began to culver as he held the
telegram between his teeth and hunted
for change. When he had raked up
four nickels and ten coppers he sal
down TO open the envelope, musing:
81 know it's bad news. Idreamed OF
walking in a green meadow with an an
gel last night, and thought her breatl
smelled of lager and she'd lost off hel
hustle. guess my sister is dead
The dispatch read:
| BOSTON, Aug. 10, lS77.-Bijah Joy The Mavo
of this city leaves for Detroit this morning To hay
look at your feet. Please natten them out a
1
lie read it over three times withou
stopping, and when he finally realized
its full significance, he slid up to tn,
corner to look for the boy. The DO,
was half a block away, waiting for al
explosion. They stood and looked a
each other for long minute. The,
We're like two statues. Neither smile,
a smile. One could have heard an ON
nibus drop. Bijah at length forced
CHASTITY grin and called out:
"Aren't you the dear, good DO,
whom l promised six figs, ten yum
gums, and pound of candyY"
"Yepp," was the ready reply.
"Then come and get them, darling
come and feast and be happy. Oh
how / do love the boys!'
"Pll see You later. Please call a
my Office" retorted the lad.
Bijah made rush, struck an awning
with his head, knocked down som
, clothing and fell against n rack, and a
he limped back TO his den the clothic
came out and said:
"If was an elephant I'd eat hay an
, have u regular stall in some barn r'-
, detroit Free Press.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
Birds and Observation-Disclosures.

Birds, like savage men, build with
the material which comes readicst to
hand. The kingfisher uses the ilshbones
which are the remnants of his feast !:
roots and fibers line the nest of the field
haunting rock; while its cousin, the
crow, which frequents warren and
shcep-walk, finds suitable material in
fur and wool. A nest of chaflinch,
taken in the ncighborhood of house,
was shown at meeting of the Zoolog-
ical Society, which had been partly con-
structcd out of blotting- paper, frag-
ments of visiting-cards, and notices
from crackers; and naturalist of emf
hence stated that he knew of more than
one instance of nest being built with
the wires from saltwater bottles.
The tools, moreover, as well as the
material determine the architecture of
the birds. The delicately-woven nest
of the wren is associated with long legs
and a slender beak, while the pigeon,
heavy in body but weak of foot and
bill, contents itself with merely arrang-
ing sticks on a well-chosen branch; but
the fern owl, with far clumsier tools,
must perforce lay eggs OH the bare
ground
1t appears that there is natural law
which connects or correlates the mode
of nest-building with the color of the
female bird. When the nest conceals
the sitting bird, as a rule, both sexes
are adorned with gay colors; but when
the male bird only is conspicuous, while
| the female is obscure in hue, the nest is
open, so as to expose the sitting bird to
view.
AS color is more variable than struct-
ure or habit, it is generally the charac-
ter which las been modified, though
sometimes the modification of the nest
and of the color act and react on one
another The end of all this is the pre-
servation of the female, upon whose
safety the future well-being of the
young depends. This "protective re-
semblance" is not confined to birds, for
ii may be witnessed in insects and 9TH
er animals.
A bird builder who constructs not
for mere coquetry, but for the more Sc
rious business-of life, is the red-breast
hornbil. Its nest is generally con-
structed in the hollow of a tree, and
Immediately the period of incubation
begins the male bird deliberately sets
to work to wall up the aperture in the
tree, leaving the female bird small
slit through which it can receive air
and nourishment, which the male bird
supplies. In this confinement it re-
mains until the young birds are fit to
take wing, when the opening is broken
away by the powerful beak of the lord
and master, and his mate and young
ones liberated.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
Ayrshires for Reef,

have long regarded the Ayrshires as
n sort of miniature Short-IIorn, and
formed very good opinion of their
feeding qualities. There is, no doubt, a
Short-Horn cross in the breed, although
this cross has not enlarged the size of
the teat as much as would be convenient !;
still it is quite properly regarded now
as a fixed breed, with very valuable
milking qualities. They have not gen
orally been considered as economical
pondents of the London Agricultural
Gazette have been discussing the merits
of milking stock lately; and one, 81.
b." gives the figures upon some Ayr
shire steers and also grades (Short-
Horn cross on Ayrshire) which seem to
show that they feed well as well as milk
well. He fed eight grade Ayrshire
steers till about thirty-two months old
that averaged seven hundred and eighty
three pounds in the carcass, which
would give live weight of ,424 pounds
each. And he fed with the same lot
two high grade Short-IIorn steers, and
these at the same age had weight of
carcass of only SO7 pounds and live
weight of ,467 pounds, all having the
same food and attention i'll winter and
summer. This shows but a slight diff
ference in favor of the Short-IIorn as a
feeder. He says: "These cattle We're
left on pasture till November LIST be-
fore being put in boxes TO fatten. They
had no cake or anything else but grass
till then, and the previous winter they
ran in straw yard with a few roots''
They were all sold on three months
stall feeding.
Then he mentions three pure bred
Ayrshire steers sod, one at two years
old, having live weight of 1910 lbs.
the other two had the foot and mouth
disease and were kept ten months long
er, and when ready for the butcher
weighed about l $50 pounds. And {
fine bred Ayrshire heifer, three years
old, happening not to be in calf, was
put up and fed and sold at weight o
300 pounds. He finds them to feed Al
well as the Short-Horn, in reference t.
early maturity and quality of flesh
The cross of the Short-Horn on tn,
Ayrshire makes larger weights but no
better quality.-[Country Gentleman.