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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-17
Echoes OF the Past.
(E. A. POE, LoQU1TER.)

Many midnight dark and dreary
Have wandered, weak and weary,
Tossed tumultuously in spirit,
Which temptations pillows bore;
All my brain within me burning
Nameless hendish forms discerning
While with horror from them turning,
Help from Heaven TO implorel
Still, these sightless monsters meeting,
Help In vain did implore
In the streets OF BAltmore
Der the past mourned IN meekness;
God was gracious to my weakness:
PlncRing out the tempter's arrows,
Ranking in my spirits core!
Youthful love awoke from dreaming
Hope again was brightly beaming-
Life was lit with golden cleaning:
i She would shun me nevsrmorel
She, the shining star, would guide me,
Loyeless, lonely nevermore;
Blest and happy evermorel
Ere my sweets swallowed sours;
ALI my hopes were fading flowers
Crushed by some destructive demon
That the guise Of friendship worel
In the bitter bowl o'erAowing-
In the goblet golden glowing
Happiness he pledged me, knowing
~rc, I1fahtol kl,.,a LoHoxnf
Cruel custom, cursed while tempting,
AS it did in days before,
Pledging friendship-nothing morel
An inhuman, hellish craving,
tPast the power OF reasons saving,)
sprang from sleep within my being,
Like tiger tasting gorel
Then it was some human devil,
Midst Of some exciting revel,
Shrinking not from deadly evil,
Drugged me dastardly and sore!
Heaven saw and stopped in kindness
Der my spirit sad and sore;--
Earth had vanished evermorel
Deep despair-that Ravens shadow
Faded fast; an Eldorado
Burst upon my startled vision,
With flashing star-lit floor!
Then, the death-bell's doleful ringing
Seemed seraph sweetly singing
To my spirit, upward wingingi-
Earthly struggles now are DER;
Wandering through the realms Of beauty,
With thy sainted love Lenore:--
Love shall languish nevermorer
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-17
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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-17

A farmers toes
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-17

II is said that the Prince OF Wales has
RENTED twenty per cont. Of his Cornish
rents. This means some $40, 600.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-17

A Waterloo, Iud., man ships carload
Of butter every week TO Germany.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

trOtRthc DcslOlneS Leader.
Jacob Hash ~ Co., of De Kalb, Ill.
have in their possession, and under thci
control the oldest patent on barb wire il
existence dated April 81, 1867, No. G3
492, issued to Alphonso Dabb. This pat
cnt dates back OF all the so called bottom
patents. 1t is the first and oldest on rec
ord, showing spur or prickcr for the pur
pose specified.
1t ante-dates anything and everything
yet offered and leaves the mOnopoist.
completely distancel and gaping in open
mouthcd wonder and dismay at the folly
and stupidity which they have hitherto
displayed. We are sorry for the awkward
position in which they find themselves
placed, and the desperate measures tC
which they are driven to regain their for
mcr rcnown, yet without avail. They
have been ballled and foiled at every point;
like a gored OK they below and roar in
rage. The dcspairing cry comes over the
wild waste Of waters, Help! Help! or we
perish! The Barb Fence MonOpOlists are
at sea without chart or compass. Mr..
Broad-caim, their hclmsman, has been
washed overheard and drowned, leaving
them 10 the mercy ofthc fierce blasts when
drive them thither and yon with reckless
speed. Their shattered bark strikes
against the Rocks of Court Decisions,
strainmg the timbcrs from bow-sprit to
keelson They fly the signal of distress as
the Breakers of Evidence and Popular
Opinion hcayc in view, inviting them to
swift and sure destruction. Hence their
cry of Help! Help! or we Perish!
The help needed is that which will de-
feat the evidence taken and IN our posses
sion of showing the Use of barb wire be-
fore any patent was issued; to accomplish
which these immaculate Bdrb Fence con-
spirators, who, like Geo. Washington,
cannot lie, have sent their hlrclings
through the country, as tree pedd!ers, for
the Ostensibc purpose Of doing legiti-
mate business in selling nursery stock,
but in reality to interview those farmers
and others who have given their sworn
deposition in regard to their knowledge
of barb wire twenty years ago, long before
patent was granted for this purpose, and
if possible get them to deny the fact Or in
some way have them stultify themselves
by simply signinga statement These un-
derlings tell these parties the Broad Claim
is kicking, and the Interest," of Mr.. Hash,
for whom they are working, and the farm
er for whom they have deep concern, de-
mands another statement or affidavit to
what they previously sworc to, as the
former testimony given by them has been
lost and thpy need il 0t once to bring into
court Some of these parties were offered
money to commit themselves. When it is
known that the scamps engaged in this
disreputable business are adopts in the
art OF bunko Steering and kindred vices,
the reader will readily perceive the kind
of work done and the scheme laid to trap
the unsuspecting witness; it also exhibits
the straits to which Barb Fence monopo-
lists have come, and the contemplate
measures adopted to prevent a miscar-
riage of their pet plan to monopoli2e the
Barb Wire Fence interests of the country.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

IiuH GlV bVtl"lb rluN IIeoo-
The other day muscular young fellow,
having the odor of the stables about him,
entered a Detroit photographers estab-
lishmert and explained that he would like
to have about one photograph taken, but
on learning the price he concluded to IN.
vest in a tin-type. After taking his seat
in the chair, he shut up ohe eye, drew his
mouth around one side, stuck up his
nose and patiently waited for the opera
tor, whose astOnishment caused him to ex-
claim:
"Good gracious! but you don't want to
look that away to get picture. Nobody
will know you from Sitting Bull"
"You 60 ahead" was the reply.
"Do you want me to take such phiz as
that?"
"a do"
The artist took it. 1t beat Sol Smith
Russell all to pieces, and was highly salts
factory to the sitter, who paid for 1t and
said:
"You see, had sort of object in this.
Came here from Allegan county six
months ago-engaged to a gal out there
found gal here | like better-got to- sever
old tics-seeP"
"But what has that picture got to do
with old tiesp" asked the artist.
"Lots-heaps! I've writ to her that !
was blode up here on a boat and disfg-
gered for life. She's awful proud. When
she gifts this and sees how that explosion
wrecked me, she'll hunt another lover
quicker'n wink-see? How do you like
that plot? Just gaze on this picture once
and tell me that Mary Ann won't send
back my love letters by first train"
He posted the picture. The letter was
brief, but explained all. 1t said; my
Ever Dear Curl inclose my picture
that you may see how awful bad | was
hurt, tho | know yon will love me just
the same.'
Ever see that game worked afore?" he
asked of the artist as he licked the stamp
on the letter.
'No-never did.
Course you never did. It's nine. 1t
struck me the other day while | was greas-
in wagon, and think it's boss. Blode
up-seel Disfggered for life-seep Plct-
ure right here to prove it, and she'll write
back that she has at last concluded to
yield to her parents wishes and marry o
young man out there who owns eleven
steers, 100 sheep and an eighty-acre lot.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05
TREASON.

John Sherman's letter Of May 10, 10 d
New York war Democrat, signifying his
willingness 10 become presidential can.
didate next year and asking Democratic
support, foreshadows the reasonable dc,
signs Of himself and his hackers, and what
he will feel himself justified in doing
should he be elected on the issue he has
made up.
With the financial issue he SAYS that
Irrational supremacy in national matters
will be paramount in the next campaign
There is hidden concealed meaning in
the national supremacy" issue.
Fit means national supremacy in the
exercise OF powers specifically and definite
ly delegated to the national government
by the constitution, there can be no Issue
made up.
But il il means that the national gov
crnment shall assert its independence oI
popular sovereignty, that it shall not be
bound by the popular will, that the crea,
ture shall dictate and control the creator,
and that it shall usurp those powers
reserved to the states, it will be an issue
with the people on one side, and treason
and imperialism on the other.
This is the old Hamiltonian theory ol
strong centralized government, "a gov
ernment in the hands of a permanent body
composed of the rich, and well born," in
order to check the independence of dem
ocracy. "a government based on an aris-
tocracy Of wealth." To talk of national
supremacy, other than that conferred by
tho constitution, is high treason against
popular sovereignty.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

A wag of lawyer, says the Iowa Stat
Register, was sitting in his Office the Other
day deeply engaged in unraveling somc
knotty question, when a gentleman enter
ed and inquired; rs this Mr.. Z.?' The
student of Blackstone, raising his eyes
from the legal book before him replied;
IF you owe me anything, or have any
business in my line, then u. is my name;
if you have claim to present am moi
the man. lfyou called simply for a social
chat, you can call me any name.
II propose to present you with some
business in your line. have note o.
twenty-five dollars want you to collect,
and handing the lawyer a note, departed
to call the next day. As soon as he was
gone the lawyer ascertained that it was
one of his own promises to pay,
The next day his client appeared and
inquired, "Well, what success?"
"All right; | have collected the money,
Here it is, less my fees" handing him fif-
teen dollars.
Good" said the client. 81 have made
two dollars and half by this operation.
"How SOP" said the lawyer.
"Well, replied the client, 81 tried all
over the city to sell your note for twelve
dollars and half, but couldn't do it. i"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

r. ON Cases Magazine.
This question may be htly asked and an
swered at aseason when thousands Of fam
lilies are thinking about deserting their
homes for a few weeks to enjoy themselves
at the seaside or in travel. 1t is asserted
that houses that have been shut up for q
time may become breeders of disease when
they are reoccupied, and that such disor-
ders as typhoid fever and diptheria have
occurred under these circumstances. The
cause is considered to be in the disuse OF
cisterns, pipes and drains, the putrefac.
ton that is engendered by the impure air
in them, the unimpeded access Of this foul
air to the house, which is at all events not
interfered with by the closing Of doors and
windows against the fresh air. There is,
fortunately, very simple remedy in such
cases. On returning to town, pater-fami-
lias should take care to see that the pipes
and drains are in good order, that the eel
lars and closets are freed of rubbish, and
that the whole house is thoroughly well
aired before the fat for repossession goes
forth. Carbolic acid plentifully used in
the cellar is both cheap and valuable dis
infectant. II these straightforward pre-
cautions are observed, no personal harm
can result from the home coming ofthe
pleasure-seekers.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

backwoodman's hut over in Whites val.
ley. 1t was Rush. He told his story in
a few words as he rested on a stool. He
had found no traces of his child, but he
had killed the bear. 1t was Old Two
Claws. He had left him on the hills, and
come to the settlement for help.
'The hunt had taken him roundabout
course, and he was then not more than
seven miles from home. The next day,
gun in hand, with the bear skin strapped
to his back-the carcass had been given
to his friend the backwoodsman-he
started to return by an easier way
through the woods.
at was Il sad revenge he had had, but
there was grim sort of satisfaction in
lugbing home the hide of Old Two
Claws.
"As he came in sight of his log house
out ran his wife to meet him, with-what
do you suppose?-little Johnny dragging
to her skirts, and the lost child IN her
arms.
"Then, for the first time, the man
dropped, but he didn't get down any fur,
ther than his knees. He clung to his
wife and baby, and thanked God for the
miracle.
but it wasn't much of Il miracle, after
all.
Little Johnny had been playing around
the door, and lost sight of the baby-and
maybe forgotten all about hIm-when he
strayed into the woods and saw the bear
Then he remembered all that he had
heard of the danger of being carried off
and eaten, and of course he had Il terrible
fright. When asked about his little broth
er, he didn't know anything about him,
and ] suppsose really imagined that the
bear had got him.
"But the baby had crawlcd into a snug
place under the side of the rain trough,
and there he was, fast asleep all the while.
When he woke mp two or three hours
after and the mother heard him cry; her
husband was far away on the hunt.
"True-this story | have told you?"
added the one-eyed hostler, as some one
questioned him. Every word of it"
But your name is Rush, isn't it?' |
said.
The one eye twinkled humorously.
"My name is Rush. My mclc's broth
cr-in-law was my own father"
And you?" exclaimed a bystandcr.
II, " said the one.cycd hostler, "am the
' cry man who wan't eaten by the bear
when was IL baby"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

Lester Wallack said the other day to a
reporter for the New York Herald, who
asked him:
"How was it that the School for Scan
dal," which has been revived to such
enormous houses in London, did not do
well here, especially as you have not
played 1t for several years?"
THAT is difficult question to answer.
| had the best London Charles Sucfaca,
the best Sir Peter Teaze on this or any
stage, and a charming Lady Teazle-a
cast, indeed, that have been told by an
eminent London artist, was superior tO
that of the Prince of Wales Theatre,
London. Therefore am at a loss for q
reason why it did not run from fifty To
100 nights, especially in view of the fact
that a generation had grown up who had
never seen the play. The truth is that
burlesque has almost driven intellectual
acting off the stage, for you IAN nowadays
represent no thought, no passion, nc
feeling that may not be turned into
ridicule by the utterance Of some Of the
current catch words. If say Never,
you will hear Il ripping through the
audience. We'll, hardly ever, and if the
lines compel reference to somebody Z
relations, you will be sure of some side
remark about the inevitable sisters and
the cousins and the aunts. tell you it's
all wrong, and it's demoralizing. | believe
that Shakespeare himself would not be
exempt from just such infamous interposi-
tions fthey were not sacrilegious."
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

There is colored man here in Rich
mond writes a correspondent of the BOs-
ton Transcript, whose history might inter.
est those who are giving any thought to
the NEGRO question" He was freed be-
fore the war, and hired as a butler in q
private family, where he saved one thous-
and dollars. This sum, which was 10 him
Il great fortune, he hid in his house,
where he passed the night. Every morn.
ing, before going to work, he counted
over his gold. One day, being in q hur-
ry, he left the bag upon the table and
locked up the house. When he returned,
the gold, the accumulation Of years, was
gone. The poor man was almost mad
with grief, but the next day he began
anew to make his fortune. Selling his
furniture for thirty dollars he began buy
ing up secondhand household goods by
auction and retailing them at large
profit. This was at the end of the war,
when people were coming back to Rich
mOnd, and the city was in state of great
confusion, everything selling for double
its value, so that this enterprising negro
often made as much as fifty dollars day.
He soon bought market and built $3,-
900 house, into which he moved. He then
married, and bought house for his wife's
destitute family, educating her sisters,
and sending them provisions from the
market every week with his own. He
now owns several hackney coaches, which
bring him a good deal of money; his mar
ket is well patronized, and he is held in
high esteem by all-whitc and bla"k-who
know him.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

| From Bnrdetta
Starlight and silence. Comparative
silence. No sound disturbed the quiet o.
the long thoroughfare of Jefferson stree
save the conversation of people as they
tramped back and forth, the ringing Of
the engine bells, and the rumbling of the
stIeet-cars, and the rattle Of wagons or
the uneven street, and the howls of boys,
and the tireless clack. clack Of an auction.
eer or two, and an Italian band on the
corner, and man playing trombone up
in third-story room, and boy beating q
fiUraain the back yard, and baby in the
be Quense uncertain whether to 60 ia
ItoeII or Stay awake and have the collie,
and man falling down flight Of stairs,
and somebody making an open-air tenn
perance speech on the corner.
All else was silence. Silence how deep
Quarter less twain.
And darkness how profound.
Adown the street they walked walked
in the busy crowd, and yet alone for each
to the other was all, or all to the other
was each.
AT any rate they liked each other. Kind
of.
Teandcr," she said, and there was
tremulous intonation in the tender voice,
''the summer, the long, bright summer
days, and the starry summer nights, filled
with the voiceless glory Of their love-lit
beauty, will soon be here.
Hero" he made her answer, "they
are here now. Did you read in the Hawk
eye last Sunday morning, love, of the FIVE
young people who died so recently, and in
such a heart-renGing manner, poisoned by
vanilla layOring love? NJ. SChweringh-
hanptiklechmisSer, who has investigated
the subject very thoroughly, says the ma
tiyes of South America poison the vanil-
la bean for the purpose Of increasing the
strength and delicacy of their peculiar
navoring. II is terrible, love. tremblc
when | think how many times and how
narrowly we escaped death last summer.
Hero shuddcred and cung more closely
to his arm, but she said nothing, and Le-
ander went on
And Prof. Doremus says the lavoring
extract Of the lemon is almost identical
with the active principle Of yellow fever,
and he thinks the government ought to
plOulDlJ lJo Manufacture anu uH'' Dub
will stand between you and danger, my
own, with my very life. "
at is too good of you, Lcander, " she
said, cheerfully; 81 amnot worthy of such
devotion. But do not grieve for me- dear,
for they have anew ilavorlng for ice cream |
this year, saw it advertised yesterday
that is not only harmless, but healthful, |
and far more pleasant than these old and |
dangerous fayorings. Donot weep, dear,
she continued, as Leander caught his
breath and shuddered, "iOr we can have |
all the ice cream we want this summer and |
still be happy"
And Leander? Oh, yes, he did not say
but he looked as though he
thought they might be happy. Most ever
astingly happy, he seemed to think, Too
happy, oh too happy. He could not speak.
lie could only gasp and feel his pockets
md sigh and kind of choke up and kaze
lown toward the river and oh, so mighty
blamed happy. Oh, yes.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05
Aoean.
BOPIS,

| lay in grief,
And Hope drew near to where tossed alone
Without relief,
And paused moment when she heard that
moan;
Then raised her glowing eyes and met my
own.
Never a word she said,
Yet still gazed and still was comforted.
Then bending low with word'rous grace
She laid her hand upon my eyes,
Her cool hand on my burning face,
And at her touch bright visions rise,
Fresh woods and streams and uuimagincd
skies.
In sOftest tone
She sang the song that has no close,
That deathless song which no one knows
Save she alone;
The song that leaves no memory,
The song of endless victory
And future love;
And as l listened to the voice above
felt as one returning from the dead;
Slowly rose and raised my dropping head.
All hc Year RguHd.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05
Morbid Curiosity Among Ladies

From the new 1Otk urapnle'
There is report current that certain
fashionable ladies of New York are in the
habit of visiting the lecture rooms attach
ed to some of our medical colleges, at the
invitation of some of their student friends
there, to witness surgical operations per
formed on patients, ''and those sometimes
Of the most painful description. Our elite
are not studying medicine, but, according
to the rumor, attend, influenced by GER
tain morbid curiosity, il not enjoyment, Ia
witness these painful spectacles. After
this Paris may no longer claim 10 be the
head centre Of iaded pleasure seekers aft
er new excitement.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

The careful tidy housewife, when she is Civ
ing her house its spring cleaning, should
bear in mind that the dear inmates of hei
house are more precious than houses, and that
their systems need cleansing by purifying the
blood, regulating the stomach and bowels tC
prevent and cure the diseases arising from
spring malaria and miasma, and she should
know that there is nothing that will do II sc
perfectly and surely as Hop Bitters, the pur'
est and best of all medicines. See other col
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

Joseph A. Gouldmed died in Enfield,
Me-, lately, and an autopsy showed that
death was caused by splinter Of bone,
about the size of amatch, which had pene-
trated his brain from wound received
during the civil war in 1865, and remained
there ever since.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

The national party to the people,
Greenbacks and safe financial basis for
every worthy working man and woman.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

ZACH CHANDLER has furnished the
backbone for two presidential vetoes.
When it comes to the silver bill, John
sherman will provide stiifening.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

PLATO, four hundred years before Christ,
taught that domestic currency should not
possess merchandise or commodity value.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

ARISTOTLE, a student and disciple of
Plato, declared money to be "Thc creature
of law, regardless of the material of
which It is made"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05

If business wero good, the people could
use what little money they have to bet,
ter advantage than four per cent. securi-
ties.