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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
AN ENGLISHMAN'S OPINION OF Us.
WHAT Bull Run Russell Thinks Of the Tinted
SIntcs Now.


states Now.
While the welfare and prosperity of
this republic do not, in any manner,
depend upon what our English cousins
think of us, yet we never object at all
tohearing them express their opinions,
and we can take them for what they are
worth. DR.. William II. Russell, the
English correspondent lbetter known
in this country as "Bull Run" Russell
from his remarkable departure from the
scene and description of that battle, J
having finished his tour of the United
States with the Duke of Sutherland and
his party, has now given expression to
his views upon some of the things he
has seen, aud they are not uninterest-
ing reading. He pats Americans on the
back trife, or rather, gives them a
back handed compliment by saying that
they have improved greatly. "Their
traditional inquisitiveness," he says,
"either never existed or it has disap-
pPared, and have seen no evidence Of
the self-assertive manner that was once
attribute d to Americans. No one shows
an impertinent curiosity as to your
business, who you are or whence you
come. find no offensive self-assertion
among the American people now, what
ever may have been the case years ago."
While Americans may feel more or less
complimented by these views, yet we
fear DR., Russell has not had an oppor-
tunity to interview Mr.. Conkling or he
might wish to take back some of his
words about the disappearance of the
self-assertive feature in the American
character. In addition to this Dr.
Russell said "Where you can't raise
wheat you raise gold, and where you
can't raise gold you raise lead, and
where you can't raise lead you raise
silver. It's something everywhere-a
country of wonderful resources. OF
course, border life was expected to be
little strange and rude and when
people asked where Sutherland was, or
crowded to see the Duke, it was all
accepted as part of the play. But
when you come, as you will by-and by,
in the great West, to separate the vice
and the crime from the industry and
Bteadiness and to settle into a crystalline
social body, it will be a great country,
with a great future before it. 1t did
seem q little unusual, however, that
every spot in the West the party visited
should possess some legend of how some
person was shot. But these things, l
suppose, are inseparable elements of
life on the border, and as the ciyili2a-
tion of the East pushes. westward,
furtherand further, they will disappear.
DR.. Russell does not tell us anything
striking that we did not know before,
but he seems to have learned lesson
from. Dickens, and to have resolved not
to say anything about this great land
of ours and its inhabitants, which in
after years he would be compelled to
ask our pardon for.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Hungarians would rather go hun
CRY than touch American hams, bacon
lard. The importation of all hog
products is now prohibited.
1t costs us more to be miserable than
would make us perfectly happy, How
cheap and easy is the service Of virtue,
and how dear we pay for our vices
The libel suit brought by Governor
Bishop, of Ohio, against the Cincinnati
Gazette has ended in a verdict for $500
damages.
He is very ordinary man who never
finds fault with himself, and a very ex-
traordinary one who never has reason
to do so.
Matches carried into a nest by birds
at the corner of the roof'of a cottage in
Shropshire, England, became ignited,
and the building was destroyed.
A man has invented a chair that can
be adjusted to eight hundred different
positions. 1t is designed for boy to
sit in when he goes to church.
Blind musicians from the Perkins In
stitution, at South Boston, have kept
in tune for five years past all the pianos
-130 in numDer-in use in the public
schools of Boston.
Mrs Myra Clark Gaines, the noted
litigant, is petite in stature, attractive
in appearance, and possesses a full suit
of yellow hair which is all her own.
Her age is about t- But let that pass.
The Baldwinsville GA Gazette adj
vertiscs the opening of drug store next
to an uudortaker's shop in that village,
and says that "tho two institutions will
be conducted in conjunction one with
the other.
1t is claimed that the excursion
steamers in Massachusetts, harbors and
on the little strip of New Hampshire
coast last year carried more than II, ,O00,
900 passengers without accident to any
one of them.
While Mr.. Abby, of Umatilla county,
Oregon, was driving flock of LILO
sheep over the Blue Mountains, they
stamped and leaped over precipice, by
which $50 were killed outright.
Hope is the last thing that dies in a
man; and though it be exceedingly
deceitful yet it is Of this good use to us,
that while we are travelling through life
it conducts us in an easier and more
pleasant way to our journeys end.
Most Of the United States senators
draw their salaries once month, but
some draw small amounts almost daily.
One senator-Mr. Anthony, of Rhode
Island-drawn his salary at the end OF
every year through his banker
Naturalized American citizens who go
abroad should not fail to obtain pass
ports without such certificate Of their
identity and citizenship they cannot legi-
timately claim the protection of the
United States legations in foreign coun-
tries. The State Department gives
notice that much trouble and annoyance
may be avoided by this simple pre-
caution.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
A Cannon TO Shoot Ten Miles.

The making of the patterns for the
Lyman Haskell accelerating or multi
charge gun, at the Scott foundry of the
Reading pa Iron Works, was begun.
The gun will be twenty-five feet long
and have bore six feet in diameter.
Along the bore four pockets will be
located, in each of which charge of
powder will be placed, with the view of
accelerating the speed of the ball after
lit leaves the chamber of the gun and
during its progress through the bore,
Experts who have seen the drawings and
have given the subject of the manufac-
ture of heavy ordnance study have ex-
pressed the opinion that the gun will
throw ball distance of ten to twelve
miles, whereas five miles is q good rahge
for the best cannon. The charge OF
powder will be 1870 pounds and the
weight of shot $50 pounds. 1t is calcu-
lated that q shot from the gun will pen.
citrate through two feet Of solid wrought
iron.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
SUBJECT FOR THOUGHT.

Words are little things, but they strike
hard. We utter them so easily, that we
are apt to forget their hidden power.
Fifty spoken, they act like the sunshine
the dew and the fertili2ing rain, but
when unftly, like the frost, the hail,
and devastating tempests.
Prosperity shines on different persons
much in the same way that the sun
shines on different objects. Some it
hardons like wax.
The gold Of the sanctuary must be
tried before it is accepted; and is
thrown into the fire not because it is Of
no value, but because it is so precious.
1t is better to wear poor vest with a
royal heart behind it, than to wear a
royal vest with beggar's heart inside
Many complain OF their memory, but
none complain of their judgment.
We always find wit and merit in those
who look at us with admiration.
What appear to be calamities are
often the sources of fortune.
Youth should be patient, because the
future lies before it.
The heart ought to give charity when
the hand cannot.
Whoever learns to stand alone must
learn to fall alone.
Our charities and indulgences should
be mutual.
Report is quick traveller bat M I'M
safe guide.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
Fashion Notes.

Turquoises are the favorste jewels.
Velasquez red is the last new color.
"Bilboa" is a charming blue-grey
neutral tint.
Marguerite blue and Faust red are
new tints.
Nymphe emire is a shade of delicate
| flesh color.
Chessboard or damier patterns are
almost fureur.
An exquisite shape or coral pink is
called "disparn" it is so soft and pule
Nearly every corsage, fchu, and bon
net has its spray or cluster of flowers.
Valois fraises of lace are very elegant
with fulldres midsummer toilets.
Florentine grenadine, beaded in
stripes, is used for deep collars and
shoulder capes.
Pretty breakfast caps are composed of
a tiny square of null edged with a deep
lace ruffie.
Canton crepes in Egyptian patterns
are very handsome for the midsummer
full dress toilets.
Certain combinations of yellow and
green are said to resemble an omelet
with lettuce.
Gilt and steel stripes, star and rain
bow stripes are all to be seen on bonnet
ribbons and scarfs.
White Leghorn hats, covered with
rows of pearl-beaded Spanish lace, and
trimmed with four or five short ostrich
tips and cluster of jacquenminot roses
to brighten the whole, are exceedingly
stylish for summer wear. A few of
these hats just imported have a ruffle of
pear-beaded Spanish lace dropping from
the edge of the hat.
Camel's hair or Indian shawls seem to
compose many of the most elegant and
costly outside wraps while satin, plain,
embossed and brocaded vies with plain
INIndian cashmere for others. The latter
material is shirred all around the neck
so as to form deep, round yoke, and
looks quite pleasant with the addition
of fifty yards or SO of lace plated around
the neck, sleeves and bottom.
Parasols are more elaborately trimmed
than ever, especially in the Innings, and
are carried so that the lining may be
seen as a background for the face and
hat. Fans of feathers embroidered in
silk, of cretonne, with figures outlined
with insel thread and of several rows Of
lace, are larger than those used last sea-
son. Those of point lace and hand
somely painted are about the same as
before.
No fashion introduced for years has
had o greater success than the recent
one of dressy independent jackets and
bodices. They are found so exceedingly
useful, so convenient in wearing out
half-worn skirts, or giving touch of
elegance to what would be otherwise
plain, dull toilet, that they are likely to
hold the field against newcomers for
some time. Old gold and red brocades.
in small figures look exceedingly well
with dark or light skirts. Ruby satin
OF velvet quite lights up a white muslin
skirt, and brocade of any color into
which gold is introduced looks rich and
effective.
Spanish lace scarfs and shawls are az
ranged for open air occasions at water
ing places in the genuine Spanish style,
with the high comb, usually of shell or
Jet. Real amber back and side low
combs are effectively arranged with
black lace. An overdress of black Span
ish lace or brocade grenadine, with am
ber-colored satin brocade or moire skirt,
and amber combs, necklace of amber
beads and bracelets of the same with
yellow flowers, is most stylish dinner
dress for brunette.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
Alexander Dumas

Rises at six o'clock, and Immediately
proceeds to warm a plate Of fsoup, which
has been prepared for him the night
before. He swallows the soup, and with
this rofreshment devotes his hours to
composition till noon, when he break
lasts. He seldom reads French litera-
ture, knowing the gayost part of it by
heart. He has very slight acquaint
anco with English books or in any other
language except French.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05

Ease is the last thing in the world for
Christian to long for. But it is quite
right for him to wish and pray that he
may be easy in his sphere, and do its
duties easily. Not rest from toll, but
peace in toll, should be our craving
not less work to do, but more strength
for it's doing. Ease is the paradise Of a
shirk, not soldier, in the Christi IN
warfare.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
June Sweetness.

Grandma sits by the window,
And looks with pensive eyes
The birds arc trilling softly,
There's new moon in the skies.
Red roses bloom in the garden,
The vines creep over the wall,
And girl leans over the gateway,
Like lily, fair and tall.
And the girl is listening softly
To the man who is standing there;
Grandma can soc tho bushes
That color her check SO fair.
She can guess the words he is saying,
For her eyes the lashes hide,
And she wonders if he be worthy
Tho womanly feet to guide.
The twilight softly deepens-
The stars como ont in the sky
A night-bird, swooping darlly,
Gives out complaining cry.
The roses, heavy with sweetness,
Sway idly here and there,
The night is full of fragrance
Like Eden rich and rare.
The man goes on with his story,
While grandma listens and waits
And now she hears through the darkness
The click of the garden gate.
Two forms come up the pathway
Lettering, side by side,
And the roses are red with bushes
As he whispers, my bonny bride -
The stars shine on together,
The moon goes down in the west.
The winds are sighing softly,
The birds sleep in their nest.
And grandma murmurs blessing,
Lifting her tear-dimmed eyes,
While the two hearts beat together
Under the summer skies.
-WdUGiy Magazine.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Regular rates OF advertising, sl per square
fret insertion, and 50 cents each subsequent
insertion.
Special contracts will be made for all Adver-
tlsements for four insertions or over.
Transient advertisements always payable
quarterly in advance.
Marriages and obituary notices, over one
,quAre, chEged for at half regular rates
All local news 10 cents Ih.1 for each in
Isrtion.
No notices inserted for Iess than fifty cents
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05

Il husbands are out late of nights
about this time, their wives wiki, Of
course, understand that they have been
taking observations ofthe comet through
u glass.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05

New York editors arc learnedly dis
cussing JIM Boston Post And
they know. what they're talking about,
90.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-08-05

We have as fine Presses as any office in the
South. and will guarantee all our work to giTs
satisfaction. We print in i've colors when de-
sired, al but small extra lost.
Justices and ClerkB OF Courts furnished
Blanks on short notice as cheap as any Office.
Samples of Job Work and Prices sent on
application. Address
w. s. TLPTON, Proprietor,
Cleveland, Tenn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-21
STATE ITEMS.

Swarthmore college has just been sup
piled with new heating apparatus, whicl,
cost S, 200.
POttstown has swelled to such an extent
that is citizens want the Legislature to
oxtend the borough limits.
The annual encampment of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of tho Grand Army of
the Republic adjourned at Pittsburgh yes
terday. F. Fl. Dyer, of Washington, Pa,
was elected senior vice commander !; DR..
Harris, Of Bellefonte, junior vice COM
mander, and w. F. Aull, Of Pittsburgh,
E. C. Sellers, A. J. Speeso and Edward
Walton, of Philadelphia, were elected
members Of the council of administration.
J. NJ. Vandcrslicc, of Philadelphia, was
appointed for the sixth term adjutant gen.
eral, and Governor Hoyt was elected dele
gate-at large to the grand encampment at
Philadelphia.
Out near Laurel Hill, Westmoreland
county, they had fall of black snow last
week. The snow fell to the depth of half
an inch and instead Of the usually white,
faky element it was dark and sooty in
color. Immediately following the descent
Of the snow families residing in the neigh
borhOod were attacked with sore throat
and the younger portion with measles.
The theory advanced is that the smoke,
SCOT and other impurities from the hun
dreds of coke ovens in the vicinity had
been collected in the atmosphere and by
an unusual direction of the wind had been
driven to Laurel Hill and fell mingled with
A snow storm.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-21

THE members OF the Legislature would
exhibit great good sense if they would
decide at once whether or no they will
elect United States senator at this ses
sion, and 10y promptly doing it if they in
tend doing it, or by as promptly adjourn
ing the joint convention sine die if they
are determined not to elect anybody. AT
present the Republican factions are loud
ly declaring that they intend to stick to
their choice Nobody believes that the
Grow ..nT will do Sd, and few believe it
OF tie Olivcr de. They do not believe
it themselves. or they would promptly
adjourn siae die, since it has become per-
fectly clear that neither Grow nor Oliver
can I've chosen. Why then vote for them
day after day, like children ? Should we
see any member voting for an adjourn
mert of the convention. without day, we
would Lelieve his assurance that he
meant to stick to his candidate to the
end. But as long rs he is willing to ap.
pear daily, to feiterate his useless vote,
we shall take the liberty Of Judging his
backbone TO be at least rs weak as he
considers that of his feliow-nembefs,
w.o protest like himself and whom vet
he heiicv.sto he lying.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-21

take place, the conspirators Gnd some
body to "enjoin them against doing
what they never really intended to do.
The Herald, speaking of the injunction
proceedings as though they We're in good
faith, says they will fail, as $ a remedy
against monopoly does not lie in the re-
suits of any such action. The ex-
perience of the cable companies settles
this point. Under the charter of
the French cable company it was
specially provided that all its privi-
leges on these shores would be voided by
the company's amalgamation with any
rival corporation. Yet means have been
found to get around this by pooling ar
rangement which practically divides the
work and the profits on basis agreed
upon in London But the legality of
such union of the cable companies has
never been tested. Should it he it will
appear that the law will not sanction
what is union in fact, by whatever de.
vice it is sought to he covered up.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-21

press train, which left there at 9:20
Wednesday.night, proceeding:with unusual
care, ran into the rear of the Lib
ertyville express train ON the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad at Oak
Glen. telescoping the palace sleeper of the
latter train. Mrs. A. B. Cook, of Chicago.
was severely scalded about the head and
arms and three Othere were slightly
wounded. A train Of the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern railroad last
night ran over and killed William
Piper, switchman, at the Thirty ninth
and Halstead street crossing. The victim
was unable either to see or hear the ap-
preaching train. J. J. Laughlin, while
partly intoxicated, lost his bearings in the
fog and wandered off from Chicago avenue
upon the lake, where he fell into an air
hole. He was only saved from sinking by
the fact that his mittens froze to the ice
and held him up for nearly an hour, when
he was discovered and rescued.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-21
SEIGhBURHOOD NEWS
Events Across tho County Line


It has been ascertained that Squire w.
X. Haag, who mysteriously disappeared
from Upper Bern, Berks county, about
the 9th Of January, eloped with Il good
looking grass-widow named Caroline
Machemer nee Siegentlial. The woman
has been shcard from in Chicago.
In case in court in Reading on We'd
ncsday one OF the witnesses, Elhannan +.
Bertolet, gave testimony that contradicted
that given by him before the arbitratOrs.
He said that at the arbitration he had per-
jured himself through inducements made
by his brother Charles, one OF the ad-
ministrators of his fathers estate, who said
that it would improve his condition and
he would earn large wages ~ doing
so. and if he should be convicted Of
perjury they would render him as
sistance, and if he were imprisoned it
would be for very short time. The
witness said that he knew he was per-
jurinG himself at the time he testified be-
fore the arbitratOrs, but since then he
learned more Of the nature of an oath, and
aided. ''In fact I have learned some
thing every day since.
Jacob Andrews, trackman Of the West
Chester branch of the Pennsylvania rail
road has put up snow fences along the
road where the snow would be likely to
drift and blockade trains.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-21
THE DRAMA.
"Salviati; OF, the Silent Man." at the Ope
House.

"Salviati; or, the Silent Man" at the Opera
House.
A beggarly array of empty seats and a
small audience made up with heavy per-
centage of "cOmps" greeted the appear
ance Of Mr.. Frederick Pauldins, the
"young American tragedian,' ut the
opera house last evening in Saiviati !;
OF, the Silent Man, Mr.. Paulding
is an entire stranger 70 our theatre
goers, and has only recently ap-
peared on the stage of New York as a
claimant for honors as tragedian. The
New York papers, some Of them, during
his appearance there last week, bestowed
rather adverse criticism upon his efforts,
while others, more charitably disposed,
chose rather to keep silent where they
could but condemn by faint praise. He is
quite youthful in appearance and figure,
rs well as in voice, too much so i'll
fact for the roles he assumes, al
though in his performance last evening lie
"worked hard, and really did some very
creditable acting, notably at the end of acts
II and III, though not nearly so ''heavy'
as the piece clearly demands. The play is 1.
melo drama in prologue and four acts, Ill
adaptation from the French, by VIM. Sey-
ter, disguised as Lazarus, the Herismaa,
is supposed to be poisoned by those who
seek his destruction, as is also his cousin,
who dies Jhclefi iOm, though Raphael re-
covers. The prologue closes on the death
of Giacomo and the discovery by RAPHAEL
that lie also is poisoned and he sinks in Il
death-like swOOn. On returning to con-
sciousness, in the drama, he finds that he
is supposed to be bereft of the power Of
reason and speech ;he accepts the situation,
with the formed purpose OF future revenge,
and clad in rags, and apparently bowed
down with age, sorrows and affections, he
assumes the character Of Lazarus, the
Dumb Han. During a supposed lapse
of eighteen years, he keeps his enemies in
ignorance of his powers of speech and rea-
sOning, suffering in the meantime trials
and even imprisonment, until at last cir
transpire to give him his re-
venge, the prison doors arc opened, he is
free, and his adversaries are afterwards
dealt with in a very dramatic manner. Of
Mr.. Paulding's support, the less said the
better though they contrived to make the
play run smoothly, their acting was, as
whole, decidedly ''tame,' and almost en-
tirely devoid of the spirit and acting the
parts are susceptible Of Miss NJ. Loduski
Young as Natira, and afterwards Duchess
Natira Pazzi, has a pleasant voice, but
like Mr.. Paulding himself, is Of too small
stature for the role, and certainly either does
not possess or fails to display abilities as an
actress. OF the others Mr.. Hamilton Har-
ris as Julian, Mr.. Raymond Holmes as
Galeotto, Mr.. Milton Rainford as Duke
Cosmo de Medici, and Mr.. J. L. Ashton as
Judal de Medici were peU-read in their
parts and filed the bill.