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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The United States, it is SAID, is now
the second copper producing country in
the world.
Mr. Drur mer j. Adams, a me.
chanic of Bittery, Me-, ella ms to have
discovered q process by which he Yields
copper as perfectly and securely as
iron. libi Ed HEa tiafHE
"A boating man has invented row.
ing car in which he can row races
around room UPON tracks. Ii is said
that the contest can be made We Y excit-
ing IN " Herald. sy3 xsGa4, IS
The latest us devised for paper is
the making of carpets. A Connecticut
mantis reported 10 have taken out pat
ents for processes by viii h beautilul
and substant al carpets can be made Of
paper at very low prices. Hartford
Post. s.s t.l... gf
AT meeting Of the Academy OF
Science in It. onis few days ago,
there was exhibited a specimen OF nat
ural coke taken from q mine of Ignite
coal in Utah The coke had ben made
it is stated. by volcanic action two OIL
nmes of volcanic rock having passed di.
rectly through the mine.
Baseball making is becoming 4 very
large and remunerative industry. Last
year oter 5,000,C0J balls we're manu-.
featured in this country, and as the
makers have larger number Of orders
than ever before. it is estimated that
r7,U00,00 base balls win be In use the
coming season. Oh 'cGgO Hcrdl1. Us
1t is related that a professor of Bot.
~, A.
taken into IA conservatory where the
most of the tiowe and shrubs were
artificial, and asked II he thought there
were any bogus flowers there. AT en-
making hasty examination, without
touching them, he pronounced them all
genuine except one. The facts were
that this one was natural, and those
that he pronounced such perfect spe IL
mems were all made of paper and wire.
so perfect were some OF the paper
specimens that when they were placed
beside the natural one the latter could
not be distinguished from the other
Boston Herald.
MIR. G. Menelas, a cotton exporter
at Savannah and large planterin Mis-.
sissippi, who has experimental for sew
eral years in the cultivation of tea, ex-
presses the opinion that this industry
win in time become so extensive as to
do away almost entirely with the i'm
portatiOn of teas. He says tho greatest
trouble in tea culture in this country is
not its growth but its manufacture.
The various processes of steaming,
firing, asserting and tanning employed
in e tea-growing countries will have
to be learned by experience, and when
this is accomplished there will be moth
ing to prevent the preparation of a tea
as fine as the finest from China or ia
pan,-M y. Times.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21
A Muscular NJ. d.

There was very good story in the
papers of the day of oke which was
played by old Dr. Caldwell, formerly of
the University OF North Carolina.
The old doctor was small man, and
lean, but as hard and angular as the
most irregular of pine knots.
He looked as ii he m ght be tough,
but he did not seem strong. Never
theless he was, among the knowing
ones, reputed to be as agile as "a cat, =
and in addition, was bV no means de-
ficent in knowledge of the "noble
science of self-defense. Besides, ho
was cool as cucumber. Well, in the
freshman class of certain year was a
burly beef mountaineer of eighteen or
nineteen. This genius com eived q
great contempt for old Bolus' physical
dimensions, and his soul was Mortified
that one so deficient in muscle should
be so potential in his rule.
Poor Jones-that's what's we'll call
him-had no idea of moral force. AT
any rate he was not inclined to knock
under, and be controlled despoticaIly
by man he imagined he could tie and
whip. He at length determined to give
the gent man genteel thrashing some
night on the college campus, pretend
ing to mistake him for some fellow
student.
shortly after, on dark and rainy
night, Jones met the doctor crossing the
campus. Walking up to him abruptly:
Hello, Smith, you rascal-is this
youP"
And with that he struck the old gen
tleman blow on the de of the lace
that nearly felled him.
Old Bolus said nothing, but SQUARED
himself. aud at it they went. Jones'
youth, weight and muscle made him
an "ugly customer" but after a min
ute or two the doctors science began to
tell, and in a short time he had knocked
his beefy antagonist down and was
astradd 9 his chest, with one hand on
his throat, and the other dealing vigo-
rous cuffs on the side OF his head.
"Ah! stop! ! leg pardon, doctor
DIR. CALDWELL mistake for heavens
sake, doctcr!" groaned Jones, who
thought he was about to be eaten up
I'll really thought it was Smith,"
The doctor replied with a word and a
blow alternately:
ut makes no difference; for present
purposes consider me Smith,
And it is said that old Bolus gave
Jones such a pounding, then and there,
as probably prevented his ever making
another mistake as to personal identity,
at least on the college campus.~-Er-
change.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21
Wind as a Motor.

An Incl dent which we believe has
never had parallel in railroad history
occurred on the Burlington u Missouri
Railroad between this city and Denver.
Were it not that the story comes from
the most reliable source we would un.
hesitatinglv pronounce it canard. But
we have it from q source which is a
guarantee of its correctness. At any
rate, it is matter OF record, and can
easily be verified if true and dlsproven
if it is false.
1t will be remembered that on Thurs
day there was wind which amounted
almost to tornado here, and was worse
west of us. At Akron it unroofed the
round-house and did some other dam
age. About five o'clock in the evening,
wh@ the wind was at its strongest it
starved train of eight box cars, loaded
with coal, that were standing on the
side-track at that place. Two brakes
were set, but they were not enough to
hold it and it ran through the split
switch without being derailed and start
ed east.
The track was nearly level where the
train started, but there was down grade
this side of Akron. The wind was so
strong that it took the train more rap
IDLY than the passenger trains over the
line move, even on the level track, and
when 1t reached a down grade of
course the speed became something
fearful.
The operator at Akron noticed the
runaway train soon after it broke loose,
and sent the alarm down the line.
Everything was ordered side-tracked,
and the crazy train had the right Of
way The cannon-ball train, going
toward Akron, was only two stations
away when the message to side track
came, and it had only been on the side
track short time, varlou ly estimated
at from two to five minutes, when the
engineless train came laundering bv.
Marvellous as it may seem, those run
away cars ran 100 miles, passing eight
stations, over track which Is for a
great art of the distance almost per-
fectly level, with no propelling power
but the wind and their own inc tia.
They ran the 100 miles in less than rec
hours, and station agents and Others
who witnessed tie strange train held
the breath with awe as it whirled bv
at the rate o. nearly a mile a minute.
It passed Haiger at the rate of forty
miles an hour, and is said to have run
the twenty miles of down grade this
side of Akron in eighteen minutes.
At Benkleman, ninety-iive miles this
side of Akron, a freight was standing
on the sde-track. AS the runaway train
passed. the engineer passed ran his en-
CINE out with a brakeman on the tender
to make the coupling. and gave chase.
1t was an exciting chase, but the en-
CINE, which brought to the a.d of the
wind t. e power in the steam chests,
soon closed the gap betw / itself and
the flying train. About half way be-
tween Benkleman and Max the fugi-
tive was overtaken. the coupling sue
cessfully made, and the cars, after pull
ing the engine some distance, brought
to standstilL
1t was certainly remarkable runa.
away, and we do not believe the annals
of any railroad will show parallel to
it.-Linc0Ln (Neb. Stale ,JOLrg7a
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21
VOLUME XII.
HOW WILL YoU THINK OF MEq


OH ov will you think of me, love,
when you are far away,
ana what will your tancies be, love,
What will you think or sayY
viii you think of me as bird, lore?
And ask 9 Is she sitting alone,
with warbling hushed and wearied wings
while the winds of the autumn moan p
Or will you think of flower, love.
That'plooms in q garden gay,
But Is dropping hour by h our, love,
In tire heat of the summer day 2"
No soft south win comes woo;ng there
IN whispers teLder q d free.
ana say, MY oAn true 1--we doth fare
Like this for the want of me-" ~
Will you think of me as star, love,
Al, That's shining pale affair,
"hile lco'dng off to the purpling west,
mile lh9 days last glories are
hlqlng away in loud, and will
NOT shine for love of the sun?
VIII you say, such is the g ieving still
VI my love when am gone 2"
UT will it be Gs vine love,
That fans neglected down
And reaches her clinging tendrils out
For something to Irvine upon2
ana searches away until she finds
Inc sturdy old oak tree,
and say, so doth my trIe love wait
With open arms for me- e@
Think not of me as these, love,
They change " 18th sun or shower;
The bird for another viii sing its song,
The rain will WOO the flower; sr
Thestars will shine when the clouds are
gone,
The vine VIE tn as,oae or a tree;
But say: "She waits with her woman's
And her deathless love for me-"
-ADDe Kline.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21
PITM AND POINT.


"A man in Texas raises goats fol
their flesh, but when the festive crea,
lures grow up they raise him just fol
the fun of the thing. -New Yors Jour,
nal. T9t
Wing Fun fell victim last week
to a San Francisco car-driver's careless
ness, II was piece of mi, taken kind
ness, however, for local editor to al.
Jude to the event as Folly on the
Fly"
-"How In the world did they come to
name you Susannahp" asked Mrs. In
terrogation point. "Really, don't
know how precisely" replied the young
lady, very demurely ''busI suspect Il
vas because l happened to be girl. "
-''lt is grounding day again,
see, remarked the red-headed boardcr,
casting his eye over the breakIast.tabe.
why, no it Isn't contradicted q fly
telegraph operator. Then what Is
that sausage doing therePn rejoined the
red headed boarder. - Boston Post.
The lovers lamp, an English nov
city, is capable of burning eighteen
hours without replenishing. What this
country wants is a lamp that will stop
burning a few hours and then flare up
bright and clear when the step of the
old gentleman is heard on the top
stair. Fhttu ietphid Cali
Never be inflicted with cold, white
walls in the parlor or nursery. 1t
should be the effort OF tho housewife to
give color and brightness toe cry ROOM
! thirteen cents worth Of colored chalk,
in the hands Of the children, will trans
form the bleakest panel into a maze Of
bewlldering designs, in one morning -
Ch,ca7o Herald.
There, Frances, you've caught
another cold, and I'll warrant YOU
caught it when you were out walking
with Joe last night "Oh, no motherl
| couldn't have caught it then, cause
we didn't go fast enough to catch any
thing, in fact, we just sat down on the
stile and studied astronomy sand did
you have anything around you, my
dearp'' "Oh, yes, indeed diul Joe
always part 'cular about that; he won't
allow me to sit down anywhere in the
evening air without putting something
around me. ~ Yoakers Gazette.
They were in the grocery store.
Said Bromn (seeing blind man about
to enter), Were you aware how deli
cate the touch Of blind person lisp
When Nature deprives us of one sense,
she makes amends by bringing the
other senses to extraordinary acuteness.
let me illustrate by this gentleman.
I'll take scoop OF sugar and lot him
feel of it, and you see how quickly he'll
tell you what 1t Is" The blind man
having entered, he was put to the test.
He put his thumb and finger into the
scoop, and without hesitation said.
THAT is sand Everybody laughed
but the grocer. He made three several
attempts at blushing, and then went
into the back shop and kicked his dog.
Boston Transcript.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21
A Prophetic Remark.

II have never seen printed, said the
Washington broker, "a prophetic re-
mark made by A, I. Stewart fifteen
years ago. You remember that Stewart
was appointed >ecre airy of the Treas
ury by Grant in 1869, but he was never
confirmed by the Senate because he
coul ID not give up his own business to at
tend to the business of the country. W hen
he was appointed. however, he came on
to Washington, and it was when he was
riding along + street on his way from
his hotel to the capitol one dav that he
remarked This will be the Wall street
Of Washington That showed the re-
markable sagaeity of the man. + street,
running from the Treasury past the In
terror and Post-oflice departments, not
exactly the kind of street to attract gen.
eral business, was just the place for
the brokers and bankers offices, and
you can see that 1t is filling up with
them. The pro. hecy is being rapidly
fulfilled. -NGtionGL Republican,.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21

AT a ball some one took it into his
head to stand in the ante-room and
count the number of gentlemen who
would straighten their hair by passing
their fling rs through it before entering
the ballroom. 1t was found that out
OF thirty gentlemen TWEEN y-nine went
through this little operation of
them people with very little hair on
their heads.-Reho50th Sunday Herald.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21
COMMERCIAL Law.

Brief Digests Of Late Decisions.
Compiled Specially for the Midland Yndua-
trial Gazette. 81. Louis, Mol
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-06-21

In the case of Lee VS.. James the Court
of Appeals Of Kentucky decides that q
widow is entitled to the use of one-third-
of the land only for life, and when the
land is ndiv sable she is entitled to
one-third the rents. The property can
not b sold, although indivisable. al the
instance OF the widow claiming dover
against the consent Of the owner Of the
land.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-06-17
The Rev. Allen Curr.

| This distinguished lecturer and divine, &C
cording to previous announcement, preached
| on Sunday morning, from the words found IN
Matthew xii ch., and 81 verse, on the Unpar-
donable Sin. He began by antagon1z1ng the
views of the Rev. Dr. Talmadge of Brooklyn,
| who, in o recent sermon on the same subject,
asserted that in this day there is no Unpardon-
able Sin. This view Mr.. C. emphatically de-
MED, and maintained from the reading of the
Word that man may, though oft wooed by
the Holy Ghost, sin away his day of Grace un-
til, finally, the Spirit may take its everlasting
| flight. and the soul LEFT to its own momentum
of guilt, hurries with accelerated speed to us
final and never ending despair.
This awful sin was the better understood as
the learned Scotchman elucidated as far as
any man could do. the wonderful doctrine OF
the Glorious Three in One, of the Godhead. SO
vital to every true believing christian, setting
forth the distinct personality and the peculiar
functions of the third person in the Trinity, and
showing that it works wholly by love. gently
and kindly, and yet the awful danger to which
every living soul subjects itself anywhere and
at any time by banishing it. and thus sitting
the convictions of truth itself.
Unquestionably this was Mr.. CTS finest EFFORT
since he has been with us. For more than an
hour he held his audience firmly riveted as he
discoursed upon this confessedly mysterious
and awfully solemn theme.
AT night he preached upon the glorious sound
of the Gospel of Christ, and the joy it brought
to every one who accepts it. 1t was based on
the 18th and 10Th verses of 89th Psalm.
Mr.. G. announces his subjects in advance,
thus giving every person an opportunity to
choose from his themes those they wish to hear
commented upon, by one SO earnest and
thoughtful as he has proven himself to be.
&
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-06-17
"Turn the Rascals Out"

Tho thick and thin Republican press claim
| that this Democratic slogan is senseless
CRY. taken I'D for want of other issues. The
Dem ocratic party in this fight will not lack
issues. but, in view of the unparalleled cor
ruption in high and low public places fol-
the last twenty years, the war-cry of "Turn
the Rascals OUT ought to be sufficient to
command success.
Let us see The Republicans have had
four Presidents since the war first, Grant,
who, after inaugurating and maintaining a
perfect carnival of corruption, unprecedent-
ed in the history Of the civilized or pagan
world for eight years, retired into Wall
street, where his operations were SO I'M
savory that the best thing the last Repub-
lican Convention two of the predecessors of
which had nominated him for the Presidency
by acclamation,) could say for him was the
prayer of its chaplain, ''that this cloud may
pass away, and that honor may come back
to him."
Second, Hayes was the willing and eager
recipient of the fruits of the great fraud of
the century.
Third, Garfield was convicted by COM
mittee of his own party friends of receiving
money in the Credit Mobilier swindle, and
afterward swearing he had not.
Fourth, Arthur was dismissed from the
New York Custom House by Hayes and
John Sherman Sin order that it's affairs
might be honestly administered"
The Republican party has had three
Speakers of the House since the war-viz:
Colfax, convicted in the Credit-M obilier
scandal by his own party friends of theft
and perjury and driven from public life
Blaine proclaimed throughout the land by
Republicans as the "Tattooed Statesman"
and guilty of all kinds of fraud and eorrup-
ton; and lastly, Keifer very recently con-
victed of fraud, corruption, SANDER and per-
jury.
The Republican party has had in the last
five years half dozen Cabinet officers (such
as Belknap, Williams, Robson, Blaine,
Sherman, &c., either convicted of or be-
lieved to be on strongest proof guilty of
theft, fraud and malfeasance in Office. Of
the malefactors in lower grades of office I'M
der Republican administrations, the mere
giving of their names would fill two or three
issues of the Chronicle. With such an ex-
hibit, is it strange that the people-not the
Democratic party alone-should raise the
cry of ''Turn the rascals out" and 'the Re-
publican party must go?''-C Charlottesville
Chronicle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-06-17
Virginia Female Institute.

At the closing exercises of the recent session
qf the Virginia Female Institute, the following
Qistinctions, medals, and prizes were awarded:
DISTINCTIONS.
Honorable Mention.-The following pupils
clinot receive demerit during the entire ses-
SION: M. Booth, L. Booth. B: Buford. j. Evans,
Ia Halle, M. Hardy, Nj Holcomb, L. Kinney,
Johnston. A. Miller, l.. Risher, K. Stribling,
N. Watts.
Observation-Disclosures following pupils were
distinguished, having made general average
If IS $40 and upwards on all studies, taken to-
gether: M. Atkinson, M. Boothford, L. Booth,
Z. Brener, B. Buford, M. Crimp, ]. Evans, N.
Holcombe, L. Kinney, NJ. Pierce L, Wierman
In Music-Prof. Webb specially commended
B. Buford, H. Kyle. K. McElroy, S. Nets, M.
Mills. K. Stribling. L. Wierman.
The prize in Mathematics was awarded to
Miss Laura Fisher.
Languages-to Miss Bessie Hunton.
Calisthenics-to Miss Fannie Frey.
English Scholarship-to Miss Mamie Hol-
combe.
Music-to Miss Sudie Nets.
For excellence In Painting-a handsome en-
craving. Miss Sudie Shedding.
For greatest improvement in Elocution-Ten.
ayson's Poems, to Miss Jennie Evans.
MEDALS,
For General Excellence among boarders-tc
Miss Kate Stribling.
For General Excellence among Day-pupils-
to Miss Carrie Johnston.
PRIZES,
For excellence in Observation-Disclosures
Poems, Miss Bessie Hunton.
For greatest Improvement in Penmanship-s
handsome gold pen and staff, to- Miss Hessit
Kyle.
awarded to second class, copy of Lucille, to
Miss Emma Nelson.
For excellence in Drawings handsome stee
engraving, to Miss Gertrude Waddell.
GRADUATES
Miss Laura R. Fisher.
TnyyQ
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-06-17
Engineer Alex, T, Hall Killed,


On last Thursday night, Mr. Alex. T
hall, OF Richmond, an Engineer on a pas
senger train on the Ches. & o. Railway,
was killed by a collision with cars standing
on side track, the passenger train being
diverted from the track by switch being
ie1t open. MIR. Hall was caught beneath
the dome of his engine which had been over
turned. The inquest was held on Friday.
The jury found the following verdict:
The undersigned jurors find the follow
ing verdict That Alexander Hall. a rail
road engineer, running passenger train on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, came to
his death on the evening of June 18th, 1884,
about twenty minutes past 5 O'Clock, by
reason OF collision of the train he was run
nlng with standing cars on side track,
about one-half mile from Richmond, and
that to the best of our belief the switch at
the time was unlocked through gross care
lessness OF the said railway company or of
their employees.
Signed by all the Jurors.
1t seems quite certain that Mr.. Hall put
down the air-brake before the engine came
IN collision. To that prompt act-to his
standing steadfastly to his post of duty-all
the passengers on board the train owe the
preservation of their lives They felt the
shock but slightly, and none were injured.
The funeral of Mr.. Hall took place Satur-
day morning at 81 o'clock from his resi-
dence, and his remains were taken to his
parents home at Dawson's, in Hanover
county.
Deceased leaves widow and three chill
dren-all girls-the oldest five years old and
the youngest babe. He had been in the
employment of the road fifteen years; COM
menced as brakeman and for eight years
had been freight and passenger engineer.
On the 18th of October last he took charge
OF the engine in which he met his death.
He was member of the Knights of Hon
or, and from that source his family will re-
ceive $4,000.
Mrs. Hall had been in the custom of eve
nings of sitting with her children on the
back porch till she heard her husband
whistle his approach to the city. Night
before last she heard the whistle and told
the girl to put the supper on the table, but
after waiting good while, and the children
getting sleepy and he not arriving, she fed
the children and sent them to bed, suppos-
ing that Mr.. Hall had to do some work on
his engine at the yard. She herself was at
the table when a lady neighbor came in
with the news Of her husbands death. Be-
fore the lady had spoken Mrs. Hall said:
"You needn't tell me a word-Mr. Hall is
doad ,,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-06-17

Won BoRckE AT "JEB' STUART's GRAVE.
-Richmond, Va., June 12.-Count Heros
Won Borcke, of the Prussian army, who is
visiting his old comrades of the Confede-
rate army, will go up to some point on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, where he
will take private convenience and 60 over
the route which Stuart took in his famous
raid around McClellan's army. The first
place Col. Won Borcke visited after his ar
rival here was the grave of his commander,
General ] E. B. Stuart, at Hollywood.
On the way out Col. Won Borcke, accom-
panied by Gen. Thomas T. Munford, stop
ped at Morton's flower garden and procured
large quantity of beautiful flowers, which
they carried to Hollywood and strewed over
the grave of Gen. Stuart. Gen. Munford
says that it was very affecting to see Col
Won Boreke at the grave of his old chief.
After strewing the flowers he stood over
the grave in silent prayer for several min
utes