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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03
DEPRESSION OF THE. ENGLISH

DEPRESSION OF THE. ENGLISH
CoTroN INDUsrRY.-The publish
ed accounts of the Oldham limited
companies show that hardly any
of them have made any profit for
the last two years, and with some
the adverse balance is so heavy
that even with good trade it is al
most impossible for them to make
a profit, perhaps for years to
come. In limited companies alone
s2,OO0,OOO Of capital have been
lying unproductive for three years.
A hundred and twenty thousand
pounds Of debt, twenty per cent.
reduction in the operatives wages,
mills running short time or closed,
numerous failures, a decrease OF
fifty per cent. in the value OF
house property-these are some
of the leading facts connected
with the history of the Oldham
cotton trade.
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EDITORS WoRK.-Some people,
ignorant of what good editing is,
imagine the getting up of selected
matter to be the easiest work in
the world to do, whereas it is the
incest work done on any paper.
If they see the editor with scissors
in his hand, they are sure to say:
EEh! that's the way you get up
original matter, eh?' accompany
ing their new and witty questions
with an idiotic wink or smile.
The facts are that the interest,
the variety and usefulness Of a
paper depend in no small degree
upon the selected matter, and a
few men are capable Of the posi-
ton who would not themselves be
able to write many Of the articles
they select. A sensible editor de-
sires considerable selected matter,
because be knows that one mind
cannot make so good paper as
FIVE or six.
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AN OLD-T1ME DUEL.-Among
the many bloody duels on record
as having been fought BY Con-
gressmen was one Of which James
jackson of Georgia, who had been
and who was afterWard a United
States Senator, was the challenged
party. He was AN Englishman,'
like the hero Of :Pinafore,' by
birth, but he went to Savannah
when a lad, studied law, was
leading Freemason, and fought
gallantly in the revolutionary war.
He killed Lieutenant Governor
Wells in 1880 in a duel, and was
engaged in several other affairs Of
honor until be finally determined
to accept a challenge on such
terms as would make it his last
duel. So be prescribed as the
terms that o.on party armed with
a double-barreled gun, loaded
with buckshot, and with a hunting
knife, should row himself in a
skiff to designated points on op-
posite sides Of the Savannah river.
When the city clock struck twelve
each party should start and row
bis skiff to a small island in the
middle of the river, which was
wooded and covered with under
brush. On arriving at the island
each party was to moor his skif,
stand by it for ten minutes: and
then 60 about on the island until
the meeting took place. The
seconds waited on the mainland
until about one o'clock, when they
heard three gunshots and loud
and angry cries. Then all was
still. At daylight, as had been
agreed upon, the seconds went to
the island and found Jackson lying
on the ground insensible from the
loss Of blood, and his antagonist
lying across him, dead. jackson
recovei cd, but would never relate
his experience on that night, nor
was be ever challenged again. He
died in Washington, serving his
second term as United States
Senator, March 19, 1906.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03

A STORY TELLER VANQUIsHED.
when [ was a young man,
said Col. B., we lived in Illinois.
The farm. had been well wooded,
and the stumps were pretty thick.
But we put the corn in among
them, and managed to raise a fair
crop. The next season I did my
share of the blowing. We had a
'sulky' plow, and 1 sat in the seat
and managed the horses, four as
handsome bays as ever a man
drew rein over. One day l found
a stump right in my way, I hated
to tcc''c out, so l just said word
to III - IN, and, you'll believe it,
they just walked that plow right
through that stump as though it
had been cheese Not a soul ex-
pressed surprise. But Maj. S.,
who bad been a quiet listener, re-
marked quietly: Its curious, but
l had similar experience myself
once. My mother always made
our clothes in those days, as we'll
as the cloth they were made OF.
The old lady was awfully proud
of her homespun-said it was the
strongest cloth in the State. One
day I had just plowed through a
white oak stump in the way you
speak of, colonel. But it was lit
tie too quick for me. 1t came to-
gether before I was out of the
way, and nipped the seat Of my
trousers. I felt mean, l can tell
you, but I put the string on the
ponies, and, if you'll believe it,
they just snaked that stump out
roots and all. Something had to
give, you know
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03
A PRIZE ESSAY ON WOMAN.
Alter man came woman,

After man came woman.
And she she been after him
ever since.
She is a person of free extrac-
ton, being made Of a mans rib.
l don't know why Adam wanted
to fool away his ribs in that way,
but l suppose he was not account
able for all be did. s..
1t costs more to keep q woman
than three dogs and a shotgun.
But she pays you back with in
terest-by giving you house full
of children to keep you awake at
night and smear molasses candy
over your Sunday coat.
Besides a wife is o very con-
venient article to have around the
house.
She is handy to swear at when
ever you cut yourself with a razor,
and do not feel like blaming your
self.
Woman is the superior being in
the State Of Massachusetts.
There are about $4,000 more of
her sex than male in that State.
This accounts for the terrified
hunted-down expression of the sim
gle men who emigrate from the
East. .....,..
Woman was not created perfect.
She had her faults-such as false
hair, false complexion. and so on
But she is a great deal better
than her neighbor and she knows
it. -. ......: -..@.-...-l
Eve was a woman.
She must have been a model
wife, too; for it cost Adam moth
ing to keep her in clothes.
Still I don't think she was hap
py. ..: .
She couldn't 60 to sewing cir
cles and air her information about
everybody she knew, nor excite
envy Of other ladies by wearing
her new bonnet to church.
Neither could she hang over the
back fence and gossip with her
near neighbor.
All these blessed privileges were
denied her.
Poor Eve; she's dead now!
And the fashion she inaugurated
is dead too. ~. .->.-.
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MISS DBXTRR'S PUPIL

Teaching is a thankless calling,
said a gentleman standing neal
me on the piazza of a popular sea
side hotel, last summer.
That is true replied his com
panion, 'and so is the work Of
experimenting school committee,
This dealing with ignorant and
conceited parents who want to
dictate what their children shall
study, who often have some petty
spite against the teacher or com
mittee to crafty, and who will
not stop to break up a school,
could they carry out their misera-
bic schemes, is utterly disagree
able. No, my friend, there is not
money enough to tempt me to
have anything to do with the
management of the schools in our
good town of Marshton ; and the
two men descended the piazza
steps and walked on toward the
beach.
A lady near me, with whom [
had formed a pleasant little &C
quaintance, looked up and smiled.
The conscientious teacher who
loves her work. she said, docs not
always look forlmmediate fruition
Of all her works and hopes. She
is now sowing good seeds, know
ing not just when or how the har
vest will succeed. l taught school
many years, and am far from call
ing it a 'thankless calling I meet
my old scholars everywhere, and
the thanks | have received from
them, orally and by letter, are
the pleasantest spots in my life
experienced
Just then the owner and pro-
prietor Of the great hotel, Land
lord Strong, passed by the bluff
before US, glanced up and smiled
and raised his hat. Although he
was very shrowd business man,
with great executive capacity, be
was at the same time large-heart-
ed, gentlemanly and courteous to
every one, and a universal favorite.
l knew that this charming wo-
man, who had been known in
her teaching-day as Miss Dexter,
had the best room in the hotel,
was waited upon with extra at
tention, had the most stylish
horses and carriages at her bid
ding, and that the landlord never
passed her without raising his hat
and bowing as if to a queen.
The gentle little woman by my
side returned the bow and smiled,
and then turning to me again,
said: You are gathering facts
all the time; let me tell you
story for your notebook, to be
used at some future time-not
here, of course I thanked her,
and she went on:
I began to teach when l was
fifteen, with a great many enthusi-
astic ideas in my little head, in re-
gard to my high and noble calling,
which l have kept with me till
this present hour. After teaching
a number of terms, was employed
here in this town to teach the
village school in the very same
little building, around the corner
yonder, now repaired and used for
the primary scholars. [ boarded
at this hotel, a very small estab-
lishment then, but we'll kept by
the Widow Rugg.
The committee had hired me
entirely from my reputation as a
teacher in an adjoining town, and
when they came to see me face to
face, and noticed my youthful ap-
pearance, they evidently had some
misgivings as to my ability to
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03

True wisdom is to know what
is best worth knowing, and to do
that which is best worth doing.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03

The seeds Of repentance are
sown in youth by pleasure, bat the
harvest is reaped in age and pain.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03

There is no friend to man so
true, so kind, so real, and so good
as woman.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03
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For THE HERALD.
New York Fashions.
Costumes Belts and Parasols-New Fall
Dress Goods.
BUNTING COSTUMES.

Genteel poverty finds nothing so
convenient just now as bunting. Rich
people wear it freely, and just for that
reason the tired school mistress, or
the clergyman's wife may freshen up
in a bunting costume without the
feeling that they are assuming badge
of any kind. The pastors young
daughter too in her toilette of bunting
may try her small coquettish airs
unfettered by the thought that Mrs.
Grump over the way is calling her ex-
traVagant, Or that Miss Muggins is
whispering awful things to Deacon
Sparse. Then too, bunting unites so
well with the varied silks and ribbons
Of the day can be made grave or gay
just as one wishes, and is suited to
morning or evening; rainy weather Or
sun shine. And, as has been said, it is
worn by rich as we'll as poor. Mrs.
Marshall o. Roberts appeared the
other morning at Saratoga in cos
tune of white bunting combined with
yellow and black striped satin. The
same evening Mrs. Edwin Booth wore
pale ecru bunting adorned with black
velvet bows, and Marie Litta as in the
recesses of her rooms at Congress Hall
she ran scales to her Weber piano
preparatory to her evening concert,
wore charming morning toilette of
white bunting trimmed with blue
satin bows. The Weber indeed seems
a favorite instrument at Saratoga, for I
have observed it in leading hotel par
lors, and is selected for concerts given
by prominent musicians.
BELTS.
Fancy a delicate young lady strap
ping around her waist a circingle Of
coarse CANVASS, red, white, blue, or
yellow, fastened with yellow leather
thongs and you have whatis regarded
as ''sweet" at the present time. The
wider the more stylish. An epidemic
of belts has certainly broken out and
is spreading. Exclusive houses are
making up more refined specimens IN
silk of varions colors which are fast
ened by expensive straps Of alligator
skin is one Of our RACES and permeates
the entire world of satchels, pocket
books, belts, bags and the like; moth
ing being thought as lovely as the
crimpled yellowish, mottled surfaces.
The real is quite expensive, but imi-
tations run riot and are cheap. What
is left of the female mind after belts
are exhausted runs to parasols, and
bills are brought in not as formerly
for one, two, or three parasols, but for
a wine colored one to match wine
colored costume; blue and ecru to
match blue and ecru toilette, and so
on indefinitely.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03
.ALSTON DINNER IIOUSE.

Passengers On both the up and down
trains have the usual time for DINNER at
Aston, the junction of the G. & c. +. r.,
and the S. y. & C. R. R.
Fare we'll prepared, and the charge rea-
sonable. MRS. N. 4. ELhINS.
Oct. 9, 4l-tf.
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THE OLD GRAY HEN.

THE OLD GRAY HEN.
Here comes the old gray hen,
With downy chickens three;
She calls them by name,
A proud old hen is she.
"Puddock, Muddock, Duddock,
Ohio, see!"
Scratch! scratch! What nice fresh earth
To get their breakfast from!
She spreads for them feast
With many dainty crumb.
"Puddock, Muddock, Duddock,
Oh, GOMEZ
When sinks the sun to rest,
And shadows longer grow,
Then, underneath her wings,
The downy chickens go.
'Puddock, Muddock, Duddock.
Lie lew!"
Wide Awake.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03
COSTUMES.

VIVA
But going back to belts what do
they signify? They mean the final
departure of the princess costume and
the establishment of the panier style
of dress. Bunched on the hips and
boufant in the back. For do you not
see that a belt does not harmonic
we'll with an expanse of close fitting
corset like whalebone extending be-
low !? Something bunchy and boufant
is much more to the purpose. So
here is a reason not only for belts,
but for sashes which this summer have
suddenly come to life again. Another
evidence of the approaching reign of
bunshiness q cant find any other
word) is the display of bustles which
dismal to- tell are On the increase. l
hate to write this, for Of all odious
things they are most so, yet what are
fashion writers put in the world for if
not to tell the truth, then again there
are prophecies of small hoops to keep
out the untrimmed skirts, but We won't
indulge in horrid anticipations. Be-
fore leaving the subject of costumes |
will mention a pretty blue cameps
hair and satin costume worn by a
young beauty Of fourteen at Saratoga
made Lucille Skirt and Floy basque.
This would be suitable for a miss Of
sixteen or girl Of ten or twelve.
FALL DRESS GOODS.
Of course it will be quite a while
before these are shown but [ have had
admittance to sanctum where only a
few of the chosen are allowed to enter,
and so I can prophesy. Striking nov
elites appear. What is called "silk
shot" effects are very noticeable. Here
the goods which often are wrought in
small armure squares diagonals, or
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-09-03
ADVERTISING RATES.

Advertisements inserted at the rate OF
Sl.00 per square Zone inch) for first insertion
and IS cents for each subsequent insertion.
Double column advertisements ten per cent.
on above.
Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes
OF respect, same rates per square ss ordinary
advertisements.
Special Notices in Local column Is cents
per line.
Advertisements not marked with the num-
Der of insertions will be kept in till forbid,
and charged accordingly.
..-sa
Special contracts made with large adver.
tlsers, with liberal deductions on above rates.
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4 big sproad-A lady's fan.
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JOB PRINTING
TERMS CASH,

'NE WITH NEATNEss AND DISPATCH
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-25
Instinct or Reason,

A small English terrier belonging to
friend has been taught to ring for
the servant. To test if the dog knew
1OhV it rang the bell, he was told to do
so while the girl was in the room. The
little fellow looked mp in the most in
telligent manner at the person giving
the order, (his master or mistress, l for
got which) then at the servant, and re-
fused to obey although the order was
repeated more than once. The servant
left the room, and few minutes after
ward the dog rang the bell Immediate
ly on being told to do so. 1 give the
following as told me by my wife now
dead, who personally witnessed the
transaction on various occasions. At
her sisters house in Kent a donkey
which when not employed by the chill
dren, grazed in field with some COWS
was in the regular habit of acting as
follows: At the usual hour for the
cows to come home to be MIXED the
donkey lifted the latch of the field gate.
opened and held back the gate, (Which
would otherwise have swung close
again. till all the cows passed out,
then allowed the gate to shut, and
went home with the COWS. Of course
no one taught him to do this, but the
quadruped gave the biped a practical
lesson, from which / am not aware that
they drew the abstract verbally formu-
lated conclusion that reason may be ex-
ercised without Observation-Disclosures.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-25
How a Toad Undresses.

A gentleman sends to an agricultural
paper an amusing description of "How
a Toad Takes off His Coat and Pants. y"
He says he has seen one do it, and q
friend has seen another do the same
thing in the same way:
About the middle of July l found a
toad on hill of melons, and not want
ing him to leave, hoed round him; he
appeared sluggish and not inclined to
move. Presently observed him press
ing his elbows against his side and rub
bing downward. He appeared so sim
gular that l watched to see what he
was up to. After few smart rubs his
skin began to burst open straight along
his back. Now, said /, old fellow, you
have done it; but he appeared to be un-
concerned, and kept on rubbing until
he had worked his skin into folds on
his sides and hips; then, grasping one
hind leg with both his hands, he hauled
off one leg of his pants the same as
anybody would; then stripped the other
hind leg in the same way. He then
took his cast-off cuticle forward be-
tween his fore legs into his mouth and
swallowed it; then, by raising and
lowering his head, swallowing as his
head came down, he stripped off the
skin underneath until it came to his
fore legs, and then grasping one oi
these with the opposite hand, by con-
siderable pulling stripped off the skin
changing hands, he stripped the other,
and by slight motion of the head, and
all the while swallowing, he drew il
from the neck and swallowed the whole.
The operation seemed an agreeable one
and occupied but short time.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-25
The Goal of the World,

The Government of Canada having
appointed q Commissioner of Cape
Breton to write up the coal question,
he reports that the coal deposits of the
world are distributed in square miles
as follows: 10000 in this country
(the largest deposit in the world)
10000 in Canada; 81, 900 in Russia; "a.
900 in Australia; 11,000 in Great
Britain; 5000 in Japan; 3,501 in Spain;
2,086 in France; 1904 in India; 1,770
in Germany, and $40 in Belgium.
The Commissioner presents in his
report tabular view of the coal pro-
duction in the world in 1866 and 1877.
In the former year the general output
was about 1856, 1856, 1853 tons, of which
103, ,069, ,804 were mined in England. In
1877 the general yield was 287, 900, ,604
tons, of which England mined 1856, Gil, =
788 tons. From this it will be seen
that the drain upon the coal mines of
England was excessive, and it may be
inferred that the supply is now run
ming short. Between the ten years
named the production increased in
Germany from over 28,000,000 tons to
48, 900, 900, in France over 4, ZOO, 900, in
Belgium about 100000, in Austria
over $1,000, 900 and in Russia more than
500 per cent, though in the last year
the output was less than 2,000,0 900
tons; in this country it rose from 2l,-
$50, ,844 to AZ, 273. 447 tons, and in Aus
tralia from 774,000 to 1,390,000 tons.
The production in Canada in 1873 was
1,150, ,467 tons, and four years later
only 927 ,426 tons-a very serious fall
ing off.
The coal exports from Nova Scotia
to this country are shown by the Com
missioner for period of eighteen
years. In 1850 they were 90, 173 tons,
and in the last year of the reciprocity
treaty they had risen to 465, 405 tons.
Last year they were only 89, 405 tons.
The annual coal capacity for Nova
Scotia is estimated at 100000 tons,
which is 800, 1000 more than the present
annual consumption of the Dominion.
The Commissioner, with patriotic
zeal, lauds the coal of his province and
maintains that the first quality is equal
to the best bituminous coal of this
country, but we have seen opinions
given from disinterested sources in con-
travention of this idea. Indeed, it is
uOG lung SIlC0 S6lll-OluCldl report
was published from an English source,
in which Nova Scotia coal was put
third or fourth for steam purposes,
contrary to the cherished idea that
Nova Scotia coal is the best in the
world for any and all purposes; but it
is plain that there is plenty of it still in
the soil of the province, while in this
country the quantity unmined is
enormous, which will give our manu-
factures an advantage over those of
England that may in time tranfer to
Americans the supremacy now welded
by the English. England, now truly
old in her products, may soon have to
draw her supply of coal from Canada
or this country, as she is already draw
ing. her beet and much of her cheese.
Meantime, the people of Canada, with
all their firewood and coal, need not
shiver with cold for many years to
come.-N Y. Graphic
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-25
April.

The month of April is the seventh
month of the year. 1t was originally
the thirteenth, but in 1902 Augustus
Caesar changed the calendar because he
had note to meet in the middle of the
month, and didn't have cent to pay it
with, and so he dropped that month out
entirely, and April thus became the
third month, as it now is. 1t was
named after Aprilis, the god of spring,
who used to get up on the last day of
March, and taking paint pot and a
marking brush, go around the country
painting Latin mottoes and moral pre-
cepts and bursts of poetry on the rocks
and trees, among others the following
gems which have come down to our
own day:
Takibus livermus correctore for the
Bloodibus."
"Dulee ct ducoram est to take rye
and rock in the
Honey, tar, rumque cano, for colds
and coughs"
"Nox populi pro Bolus' corn pilaster
"Gissipius W. Achates, ear and lung
DOCTOR"
Chew only optimus nave plug, ten
cents hume"
In hoe cough syrup vinces. Sign
of the big mortar"
"Try Browns magic lotion for
freckles."
Now thousands of people used to
read these things, and they actually be-
lieved them and tried them on. They
all died miserably and were called
among men "April's fools" This is
the origin of a custom that has lasted
even unto our time. The cussed 'em is
most vigorously observed by the man
who kicks the hat full of bricks.
The motto of April is "Dum eripuit,
erump," which means, " Do not go out
of the house without an ulster, a duster,
a chest protector and palm leaf FAM
1t is a month devoted to and by the
immortal gods set apart for weather,
and sometimes. in good April, that
its business and can get up
and bristle around, there are eight |
kinds of climate in one day.
The jewel of April is the sardonyx,
and 1t is said by people who have |
studied meteorlogy ever since the time |
Of Augustus to be the sardonickest
month in the whole lot. The Fourth
Of July used to be April, but after they
Lried 1t few years it had to be
changed, on account of the weather.
Perhaps, however, in the whole
history of the month, the best thing