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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-02
NOTICE


or Limited Copartncrship and Its Terms.
W Il, Palmer having purchased the stock aud
business OF Ed. Mtny as Wholesale grocer
Houston, Texas, has taken into said business,
us special purtnerS II, T. Mllby and H. II. Pal.
mcr both OF Houston, Texas; the former ha,
paid In ten thousand dollars and the latter three
thousand dollars, and they win be Interested IN
the profits In proportion to their capital SO paid
Inland their liability limited TO their interest In
said business, w, II Palmer will he the general
partner and the business will be conducted In
name of W II Palmer successor TO Ed. Milby.
The partnership begins 10th October 1851, mud
Is TO continue i've years from date,
W. II PALMER
H. 4. MlLBl,
Il. II, PALMER.
Itn,ytnp 10Th Oplnhpr 1881
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-02
New Millinery Store !
MRS. JENNIE RowLEY

Has opcncd her store of millinery and fancy
goods nj q22 Main street. She has been IN the
guarantee satisfaction. Her friends win do well
10 call.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Uncle Sammy II,

The New York correspondent Of
the Buffalo Courier says: Speak
ing of bachelors suppose there is
no other bachelor in New York who
takes more solid comfort than Mr.
Tilden. 1t seems rather odd that a
man without family and no appa
rent probability of changing condi-
tion in that respect, should crave sc
large and sumptious home. Mr.
Tilden is credited in newspaper par
agraphs with an income of 81, 900 q
day. l doubt that the figures &c
so high as that, but Mr.. Tilden Ger.
tainly needs large income to live
and entertain as he does. His
mansion at Yonkers is an expensive
establishment. but he spares no
money to keep it in the best of or
der. As aibachelor's home it would
be pretty hard to equal in any part
of the country. The alterations now
going on his city residence at Ora.
mercy park will cost a sum that
would at one time have been consider
ed a nice fortune. The whole interi-
or'of the building he bought last
spring adjoining the one he occupied
has been torn out. The handsome
grounds in the rear are all torn up
for new water and sewer connec-
tions. The two buildings will be
run into one and the grounds again
handsomely laid out, and when all
is done the Gramercy park home
will be as fine a mansion as any
milliona aire could wish to live in,
even with large family. Mr.. Til
den has lately enjoyed unusually
good health, and he shows it in his
looks. .
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
A Cheerful Woman.

What blessing to a household
is merry, cheerful woman--one
whose spirits are not affected by
wet days, or little disappointments,
OF whose milk of human kindness
does not sour in the sunshine OF
prosperity. Such a woman, in the
darkest hours, brightens the house
like little piece Of sunshiny
weather. The magnetism of her
smiles and the electrical brightness
of her looks and movements infect
every one. The children go to
school with q sense of something
great to be achieved; her husband
goes into the world in conqueror's
spirit. No matter how people an.
noy and worry him all day, far of
her presence shines, and he whis-
pers to himself, cat home I shall
find rest" SO day by day she lit.
orally renews his strength and encr.
gy; and if you know man with Q
beaming face, kind heart, and 6
prosperous business, in nine cases
out,of ten, you will find he has {
wife of this kind.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Calling on the Sick.

l. Only call at the door, unless
you are sure your friend is able tc
see you without harm.
2. Enter and leave the house,
and move about the room quietly
3. Carry a cheerful face and speak
cheerful words.
4. In order to cheer you need moi
tell lies.
5. Ifyour friend is very sick, dc
not fall into gay and careless talb
in the attempt to be cheerful.
6. Don't ask questions and thus
oblige your friend to talk.
Z. Talk about something outside
and not about the disease and cir
cumstances of the patient.
s. Tell the news, but not the lis
Of the sick and dying.
8. If possible, carry something
with you to please the eye and re
lieve the monotony of the sicl
room. a flower, or even a pictur
which you can loan for few days
10. If desirable some little deli
cacy to tempt will be we'll bestowed
IL. The perfume of some flower
is poisonous, and they should neve
be carried into the sick room. Es
pecially is this true of the tuberose
heliotrope, hyacinth, orange, lilac
syranga, and lilies.
II. Stay only a moment, or a feS
minutes at the longest, unless yol
can be of some help.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
A Rare Ole Bible.

There is an old Bible up at the
Congressional library at Washing
ton which is we'll worth a walk to
the Capitol to examine. 1t is OF
Italian origin, and is supposed to
have been written in the thirteenth
or fourteenth century, but the ac-
tual date is unknown. tits written
in Latin upon vellum, in clear, bold
characters, and extremely uniform.
The writing is in two columns,
about three inches wide, and a mar
gin of two inches. 1t is embellish-
ed with one hundred and forty-six
miniature paintings and upward OF
one thousand two hundred illumi-
nations, which are beautifully exc
cuted, and are as brilliant to-day as
the day they we're done. The ini-
tials of books and prologucs are tive
and half inches in height, and
those of the chapters one, inch in
height. 1t is contained in two large
volumes, and cost the Government,
50, 900 in gold when gold was al
high premium, and was purchased
at sale of the library of Henry
Perkins. Hanworth Park, near Lon
don, in 1873. The skins in the first
volume have all been repaired, ex
ccpt five; in the second volume they
are nearly all perfect.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Franklin Pierce.

From Rise and Fall of the Confederacy.
The ADMINISTRATION of Franklin
Pierce presents the only instance in
our history of the continuance Of a
Cabinet for four years without a
single change in its personnel.
When it is remembered that there
was much dissimiliarity, if not in
congruity of character, among the
members of that Cabinet, some
idea may be formed of the power
exercised by Mr.. Pierce. Chival-
rous, generous, amiable, true to his
friends and to his faith, frank and
bold in the declaration of his opin-
ions, he never deceived any one.
And if treachery had ever come
near him it would have stood abash-
ed in the presence of his truth, his
manliness, and his confiding sim
plicity.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
,BROOKHAVEN, MISS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER l, IL
Grave ofsargent s. Prentiss.

John Sargent, who was a distant
connection of Prentiss, was one OF
Misslssippi's Territorial Governors.
He built d beautiful residence two
miles below Natchez, and lived un-
til his death Immediately upon the
bluff, and near the river he was
buried. BY his side reposes all that
wa, mortal of S. S. Prentiss. 1t is
a romantic and beautiful place.
The primitive forest has there been
preserved and consists of enormous
oaks, black walnut and magnolia
trees. Towering far up towards
the heavens, they spread abroad
their immense branches, shading
completely the tombs below. Over
and above these the roses and flow
ering creepers intertwine in gor-
geous festoons. Grandly this bluff
rises from the margin of the great
river to the height of more than
three hundred feet, and seem to
look defiantly upon the turbid river.
How sublimely does the bluff, the
river and the great old trees typify
the genius of him who is sleeping
there! . .--
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Chlldren's Playthings,

Playthings that children make for
themselves are great deal better than
those which are bought for them. They
employ them much longer time, they
exercise ingenuity. and they really
please them more. a little girl had
better fashion her cups and saucers of
acorn, than to have set of earthen
ones supplied. A boy takes ten times
more pleasure in little wooden cart he
has pegged together. than he would in
a painted and gilded carriage bought
from the toy shop; and we do not be-
lieve any expensive rocking horse ever
gave so much satisfaction as we have
seen child in the country take With o
cocoanut husk, which he had bridled and
placed on four sticks. There is pe-
culiar satisfaction in inventing things
for ones self. No matter. though the
construction be clumsy and awkward,
it employs time (Which is a great object
in childhood) /; and the pleasure the in
vention gives, Is the first impulse to in
genuity and skill. For this reason.
the making of little boats, and mechani-
cal toys. should not be discouraged; /;
and when any difficulty occurs above
the powers of a child, assistance should
be cheerfully given.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01

The instinctiye feeling of great
people is often wiser than its wiset
men,
There is nothing more disgraceful
than that an old man should have moth
ing to produce. as a proof that he has
lived long, except his years. -. -
The code of society is stronger with
most persons than that of Sinai, and
many a man who would not scruple to
thrust his fingers in his nelghbor's
pocket, would forego peas rather than
use his knife as shovel.
There is no moro absurd cant than
that the culture of the mind favors the
culture of the heart. What do operas
and theatres for the moral elevation of
society? Does sentimental novel
prompt to duty? Education seldom
keeps people from folly when the will
is not influenced by virtue.
We must patiently suffer the laws of
our condition. We are born to grow
old, to grow weak, 10 be sick, in spite
of all physic. 'Tis the first lesson the
Mexicans teach their children. So soon
as they are born, they thus salute
them: Behold. thou art come into the
world TO endure, suffer aud say moth.
ing" 'Tis injustic to lament. That
what has befailen any one may befall
every one.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
!Thf9ireside.
Life's Brightest Hour

Not long since l met gentleman
who is assessed for one million dol
lars. Silver was in his hair, care
was upon his brow, and he slightly
stopped beneath his burden OF
wealth. We were speaking of the
period OF his life he had reached,
the most perfect enjoyment, or
rather when he had happiness to be
nearest unalloyed.
.I'll tell you," said the million ;
aire "when was the happiest hour
of my life. At the age of twenty
one, 1 had saved $500. was earn
ing $500 year, and my father did
not take it from me, only requiring
that should pay my board. At
the age of twenty-five / secured q
pretty cottage just outside OF the
City. / was able to pay two-thirds
of the value down and also to fur
nish it respectfully. l was married
on Sunday Sunday in June-at
my fathers house. My wife had
come to me poor in purse, but rich
in the wealth of womanhood.
The Sabbath and Sabbath night we
passed beneath my fathers roof,
and on Monday l went to my work,
leaving mother and sister to help in
preparing my home.
On Monday evening, when the la
bors of the day were done, / went
not to the parental shelter, but to
my own house-my own home. The
holy atmosphere of that hour seems
to surround me even now in the
memory. 1 opened the door of my
cottage and entered. l laid my hat
on the little stand in the hall and
passed on to the kitchen-our
kitchen and dining room were all
one then. Ipushed l open the kitch-
en- door and was in heaven! The
table was set against the wall-the
evening meal was ready prepared by
the hands of her who had come to
be my helpmeet in deed as we'll as
in name-and by the tea-table, with
a throbbing and expectant look up
ON her lovely and loving face, stood
my wife. l could only clasp the
waiting angel to my bosom, thus
showing to her the ecstatic burden
of my heart.
The years have passed-long,
long years-and worldly wealth has
flown upon me, and l am honored
and envied-but as true as heaven
I would give all-every dollar, for
the joy of that June evening, in the
long ago. ,.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Little Fun at Home.

Do not be afraid of q little fun at
home, good people. Do not shut up
your houses lest the sun should fade
your carpets; and your hearts, least
laugh should shake down few OF the
musty old cobwebs that are hanging
there. If you want to ruin your sons.
let them think that all mirth and social
enjoyment must be left at the threshold
without, when they come home atnight.
When once home is regarded as only
a place to eat, drink and sleep in, the
work is begun that ends in gambling
houses and reckless degradation.
Young people must have fun and relax.
alton somewhere; if they do not find it
at their own hearthstones. trey Will
seek it in other and less profitable pla-
ces. Therefore let the fire burn bright.
ly in winter, and let the doors and wins
dows be cheerfully thrown open In
summer, and make the homestead de-
lightful with all those little arts that
parents so we'll understand. Do not
repress the buoyant spirit of your chll-
dren. Half an hour ofmerriment with
in doors, and merriment of home blots
out the remembrance OF many a care
and annoyance during the day; and the
best safeguard that they can take with
them into the world ia the unseen IN"
fuence of a bright little home sanctum,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
The South.

A deserved prosperity is that OF
of the South. There was term OF
years that they served an abject
slavery to bossism. They were
goaded to the quick with laws that
drove asunder all pleasure and de-
light Of happiness; loaded with
taxes until their homes were ruined
and their State sunk in almost ire
trieyable ruin of debt.
The hatred of the North was oft
visited upon them in the way of an
aggravating spleen, even by men
who were in our halls of Congress
and Senate and would like to make
claim to the honor of craftsmanship
but who show a partisan narrow
ness below the dignity OF decent
school boy. But Notwithstanding
all this degradation into which they
were cast, they have constantly,
steadily and surely grown to the
most prosperous of any section up
on the continent. .'..'
They have fully and carefully
shown that they accepted every re-
suit of the war; that they accepted
them, to come back into the Union,
be part of it, help to protect it and
enjoy their share of its fruit. While
the jibes and jeers have been cast
at them, they have attended to
their business pursuits, which by
their industry and the great frugal
ity they have learned to practice,
they stand at the head of prosperi-
ty,. a happy, industrious people.
To-day the hum Of the spindle in
the constantly busy factory is heard
all over the South, while fields of
cotton sends the glad tidings abroad
that there is room for millions more.
Industry Is full of progress in the
South, and the harvest that is being
borne from it is golden and such as
the South deserves to the fullest ex-
tent. We grant it to them and glo-
ry with them that they have and
enjoy it. Missouri is full of the
prosperous condition known as good
luck, and is broad guage enough to
wish the world the same.--Massoari
ENTERPRISE.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Immigration to the South.

We do not expect to see any con-
siderable tide of immigration to the
South. The change must be wrought
slowly. and gradually. 1t is not
probable that manyimmigrants will
go there in the next few years, al
though the Atlanta exposition will
exert strong influence in favor Of
immigration by showing to the i'm
migrant, as we'll as to the capitalist,
the great resources of the South and
the change that has come over it.
But the signs are unmistakable that
in due time worthy immigrants will
seek the Southern States with ad-
vantage to themselves and that part
of the country.-NeU York Her.
aid.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Steering Ships by Electricity.

A patent has been recently taken
out for a means of steering q ship
by electricity. The apparatus is
the invention of Mr.. w. f. King,
an Edinburgh electrician, and was
recently tried on board steamer
sailing between Glasgow and Lon
don. Its object is to dispense with
a helmsman and make the compass
itself steer the ship. For this pur-
pose the compass card is fitted with
an index which is set to the true
course, and one degree on either
side of the true course two metal
contact pins are adjusted; each pin
is connected to single Daniel cell,
and when the ship deviates as much
as degree from her course to one
side or the other the index comes
into contact with one or other metal
pin. The result is that a positive
or negative current flows and actu-
ates hydraulic apparatus which
works the helm,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Space
The Mistake of Mothers.

Thousands Of mothers slave. grow
prematurely old, forget and neglect
their own accomplishments, and drag
themselves about as mere appendages,
something between nurse anda house.
keeper, TO adaughter too young to real-
ize or appreciate the sacrifices made for
her. 1t is every persons business to
make morally, mentally and physically
all of themselves possible. and this set
ting down at thirty-fve and forty into
an old woman and taking back seat,
that the daughter may shine, is mis-
take, and defeats the very end sought.
There's often altogether too much done
for children, and the chief result is that
of making them helpless, dependant
creatures.
Mothers to-day are saying. II don't
care for myself now. 80 that Effie and
Nettie get their full quota of accom~
plishments;" when, IN that mother went
on building herself up on the basis Of
her own matured experience, and ceas-
ed to sink andfabsorb herself 30 com.
pletely in Nettie and Effie, the world
with which she came in contact might
be profitted. Society needs matured
women as live. potent factors, and the
shining should not be left entirely 70
fledoeiings. We're there time and
space. q word would be said here in this
matter, for the old man, too, though he
is more apt to take care of himself.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
,s.Mis.;l.:e:naIhg.
Mllllons at the Mint.

Over $5,0O0,0OO in broad, salmon
colored bars or bricks Of gold. occa
sionally darkly tinged with cop
per like coating. arrived yesterday
morning at the United States mint
They came in one hundred wood.
en- boxes, about two feet square and
a foot deep. An express wagon,
with several custodians, carried
them, and they were rolled and
dumped into the weighing room like
so much lead. To'tte men ia the
mint the daily handling of fabulous
sums of precious. metal bcgets an
indifference that puts it on = par
with the commonest merchandise.
Not an ounce of it, however, is free
from the closest scrutiny while
within these walls. Although a
man may walk in from the street
and stand at a step before the open
door of the weighing room vault,
where $500, COO, 0OOO is stored, with
but a single official in sight, it
would need but the slightest alarm
to have 3 score. OF men, with loaded
weapons in their hands, standing on
the spot. Unlike foreign mints, no
display of armed protection of the
treasure is made, but the precau-
tions are nevertheless complete.
The large consignment yesterday
came from the .assayer's office in
New York. Each box contained a
"melt," or, in other words, the en-
tire crucible, each varying in guam
tity, and every brick was numbered.
The men who do the heavy work
opened the boxes, took off the paper
wrappings, and piled the bricks up
on the scales. Then the clerk
weighed them and carried the bricks
into the vault. The entire weight
was 266.O6O,7S ounces, Troy, or
over eleven tons. The actual net
weight valuation was IS, l04 .466.31.
If any one could count $50 every
minute and keep it up without stop
ping it would take within q fraction
of four months to count this amount
in coin. In the mint all the count
ing is done by weight and measure.
Piles of various kinds Of coin are
measured, and if they are in the
requisite number and value is set
down far more accurately than if
the money had been counted by the
deftest fingers. -.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
WATT WEMYSS'S RIVAL.

Theirs had been stormy court
ship. Watt Wemyss was one Of
your fidgety, self-tormenting sort Of
lovers, and so jealous-why, had
Miranda been his sweetheart, ten to
one he would have scented a rival
in the "freckled, hag-born" Call
ban. But his sweetheart was
Diantha Drew, of a temper widely
different from the gentle Miranda's.
Her moods were as capricions as
an April day. Seldom or never was
hapiess Watt allowed to bask over
an hour at once in the sunshine OF
her smiles. Her theory of keeping
a lover to his work was to keep him
constantly up to the rack-not quite
to drive him to despair, but tho
nearer to the verge of it the better.
More than once had Watt serious
ly debated the pros and cons Of
turning his back on the freaklsh
beauty and seeking some gloomy
so itude wherein to sit, like . love-
sick Volney, amid the ruins of his
hopes, and sigh away his days in
melancholy broodlngs. But just at
the critical moment Diantha would
vouchsafe a gracious look--one so
full of tender meaning, so irresisti.
bly, enchanting, that before he knew
it he found himself again at her
feet, and more than ever her sub
missive slave.
One day Watt, after longer
than usual season of calm between
Diantha and himself, resolved to
make an end of the worries that
were wearing him to skin and bone
bodily and to green and yello "
melancholy mentally, or know the
reson why. He would pluck up
courage and ask Dianthq to name
the day. 1t ran in the family, he
had heard it said, to be shrews be-
fore marriage and angels afterwards.
He could himself avouch what a
loving, gentle wife, Diantha's Aunt
Elinor had been from the day Alb
dicl Melgs led her to the alter till
death did them part; yet many
could recall the woes of Abdiels
wooing, and how he confessed that
he had gone at last, with a dose oi
ratsbane in his pocket. determined
|if the froward fair one didn't put
an end to his suspense. to end il
for himself.
Diantha Drew lived ut Eliuor's,
and it was thither that Watt We
myss hied his steps, big with the re-
|solve already mentioned.
| Could he see Miss Drew? he in.
lquired of the servant who answered
his ring.
| Miss Drew was engaged just then
the girl believed, but if he would
wait, she would carry in his name
He would wait, and for that pur
pose was conducted to the from
lparlor.
| He picked up q book, but haG
hardly opened it when the sound Of
voices through the door that led te
the library arrested his attention.
In an instant the fire of jealousy
rose to white heat. One of tn.
ivoiccs was Diantha's. as softly
modulated as a cooling doves; thu
other-it maddened him to hear it,
was Ichabod Bligh's. deep-toned
aimpassioned, earnest, like that OF I
pleading lover on his knees.
Watt had long suspected Ichabof
of being none too good to seek to b.
his rival; but, good heavens! had i
come to this? Had the villain pre-
isumed--
i But bark!
A Perhaps there is anotherf
hoarsely queried the voice Of Icha
bod.
] aNo, let me assure you there i