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The Southern herald., 1889-03-30
AWoman's influence on e Nations
Destiny.

From London Lifs; Marshal
Mcmahon is finishing bis memoirs,
and will no doubt supply fresh food
sor that craving scr sensational
revelations and personal accusa-
tiOns, which seems to be the disease
Of the present decade. He has sent
proofs Of the chapters relating to
military operations Of the Austro-
French War Of 1856 to the Archduke
Albert, inspector Of the Austrian
army, and those relating to the war
Of 1901 to Marshals Won Moltke
and Blumenthal, reQuestingin each
case to be informed whether be has
stated facts accurately. Theinterest
Of the memoirs will centre on two
points: First, the influence political
considerations had in preventing
the retreat Of his army on Paris
after the defeats of Worth and For
bach in 1870, and secondly, the part
which the Marshal played in as
sisting and afterward frustrating
the attempts at monarchical
restoration in 1884, 5. The
Marshal, as was we'll known,
thought the Comte de Chambord
acted very fooliShly. The crown
was ready to his hand, and be had
only to make move to grasp it.
Mastery inactivity, however, was
his motto, and the result was total
obliteration forever of any chances
of Legitimist restoration. The
explanation, however, is as usual
to be found in the application Of
the old proverb "Cherchez la
femme" The Count was, in fact,
dissuaded from it by the Comptesse
de Chambord, who, having no
children and hating the Orleans
princes, loathed the idea of raising
her husband up on high, simply to
make the throne secure for his
cousins.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30
Curious Birtlimark.

Philadelphia American: James
Rothermel, who lives in Fayette
county, this state, has a strange
birthmark, which makes him an
object ofsuperstitious regard among
his neighbors. According to a
correspondent Of the PittsburgPost,
on the back Of Rothermel's head,
just below and little to the right
of the base of the brain, is small
excrescence, blush in color and
crescent shaped. The moment the
moon begins to turn the first
quarter Of her pole the mark be
gins to undergo a startling change.
Its blush color turns to a brilliant
red, and the flesh below it and ex-
tending diagonally across his neck
to the left shoulder begins to swell.
As the moon grows older the birth
mark gets redder and redder, and
the flesh swells more and more,
until, when the moon has reached
the "full," the crescent-shaped
mark is Of a fiery scarlet, and the
flesh extending from the mark to
the left shoulder has swollen into a
horn-like roll, two or three inches
in thickness at the largest point,
and gradually tapering to point
near the shoulder.
As the moon gradually begins to
wane, in like manner the scarlet Of
the crescent-shaped mark becomes
less fiery, the horn-like roll across
the neck to decrease in size, until,
when the moon is dark again, there
is nothing 10 be seen but the small
blush crescent-shaped mark. For
over twenty-eight years these
changes have followed monthly
with the moons phases, and SO
marked are they and regular that
Rothermel can tell by simply
placing his hand on the back of his
neck exactly what stage the moon
is in.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30


Dispatches fromsi Louis indicate
shs reorganization of the jute
bas giug combine, and = great sensa-
tion has been caused among cotton
fartozs and Southern shippers.
The opinion was expressed among
these people that. while the combi-
nation does not partake Of a regular
trust 50 much as last year, it is a
great deal more perfectly formed,
and will have more absolute control
Of the market than its predecessor.
The following article on this sub
iect is taken from the Times
Democrat, Of Monday last:
Lat August, after having been
repeatedly informed by the press
OF the formation ofthe Jute Bagging
Trust, the cotton planters failed to
take any steps TO endeayor to defeat
the Jute monopoly. They had
actually commenced picking the
cotton crop Of 1888 before they
seemed to learn the fact that the
price Of jute bagging had been
doubled by the trust-lifted from
6to ~ cents a yard.
There was great outcry raised
against the combination all over
the South, and inventive genius,
by necessity, devised a
great many substitutes for iute as
baling material for cotton. The
cotton mills of New Orleans pre-
pared a substitute better than jute
itself, which was largely used in
the Gulf States.
But steps we're taken too late TO
prevent the Jute Bagging Trust
from baling the great bulk of last
years cotton crop and that greedy
monopoly managed to fleece the
planters of at least ten States.
A warning now comes from st.
Louis that another jute bagging
combination has been effected, fully
as formidable as that made against
the planters last year, and that the
combination is already putting up
the price Of their material. The
heads of this organization are
Messrs. Gratz, Jones and Warren,
the same men who engineered and
directed the operations of the
bagging trust last year.
There is a surplus Of Il, 900, 900
yards Of bagging over last years
demand (about the usual amount),
the mills are already shutting
down, though 50, ,OO0, ,OOoyards more
are needed, and the heads of the
combination say they would not be
surprised to see the price go much
higher than ten cents a yard before
the season closes.
Southern mills have their notice
and Southern cotton planters their
warning in time. They can beat
the jute bagging trust if they profit
by the warning sent out by the
heads Of the monopoly. If they
are caught and squeezed again it
will be their fault.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30
The Negro Exodus.

The negro exodus from North
Carolina, considering the extent to
which it is carried, is as remarkable
as it is unaccountable. Every week
they are leaving in companies rang
ing from so to 200. Already 5000
have left the State for Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa and
Kansas. II is said that 10000
more will go before the 1st of June.
In the eastern part of the State
farmers are left without a hand to
work the crops. It is said that the
agents are making all sorts of false
and fabulous representations to
gull and deceive the poor credulous
dupes, who are so easily victimized.
They are promised a brick house
10 i've IN, q COW, corn at ~ cents
per bushel, meat at quarter of a
cent per pound, and are told that
the trees are Of such enormous size
and full Of sap, that they only have
to be bored with an auger to get as
much molasses as they want. Be-
sides all this, their transportation
is to be free, their wages increased
and they win be landed wherever
they desire to stop. It is said that
nightly meetings are being held,
and the negroes are SO enthused
with the idea of bettering their
condition, and so complete and
universal is the injection that they
say they are going until the last
one leaves. Alasl the poor negro.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

also Mr.. Washburne, at that time
Minister 10 France, and also the
Senate Of the United States. The
President was informed that tho
nomination would be rejected un-
less withdrawn. Blaine cabled the
fact 10 Schuyler, who is in Europe,
and the latter declined the nomi-
nation.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

The Supreme Court Of Louisiana
have refused to grant bail to Jack
Afford and Hardy Strickland,
charged with the wilful murder Of
Capt. ]. X. Womack, at Grange
vile. ST. Helena parish, La, on
the 25th Of January last.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Gov. Lowry commuted the death
sentence ofLee Harris to imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for life.
He was sentenced to be hung in
Harrison county on the 18th Of
April next for murder.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Rev. Samuel Giyens, the oldest
man 10 Lowndes county, this State,
died On The 23rd, at the age Of 81.
He had been a minister in the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
for about 20 years.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

The engineer in charge Of the
train that caused the collision at
Mud River, Pa last year, by which
sixty lives were lost, has been
tried and acquitted.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30
Notable Events.
Cincinnati Times-star: First

Cincinnati Times-Star: First
ury go.
Pins made, 1850.
Needles used, 1916.
First cast iron, 1914.
Matches made, 1929.
Surnames used, 1902.
First newspaper, 1894.
Coal used as fuel, 1884.
Lead pencils used, 1894.
Window glass used, 6o4.
First gold coin, B. C. 2O6.
Tobacco introduced, 1888.
First steam railroad, 1880.
First postage stamps, 1910.
Kerosene introduced, 1926.
First illuminating gas, 1872.
Electric light invented, 1874.
Iron found in America, 1915.
First insurance, marine, 5SS.
First wheel carriage, 1866.
First American express, 1921.
Musical notes introduced, 1888
Latin ceased to be spoken, $50.
Bible translated into Saxon, 6,7.
Gunpowder used BY Chinese. so.
Bible translated into Gothic, S72.
photographs first introduced,
500.
OldTestament finished, B.C.490
Emancipation proclamation 1863
Paper made by Chinese, B. c. 80
Bible translated into English.
SS4,
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Judge Allen Thurman, aeeompa
MED by Judge Patton, of Defiance,
visited the Ohio House Of Repre-
sentatiyes on Tuesday, and we're
most cordially received, and made
briefspeeches Of acknowledgement.
Judge Patton is eighty years old,
and was Territorial Judge under
Andrew Jackson.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Justice Stanley Matthews, Of the
u. s. Supreme Court, died in
Axashingtoncity on the 22nd, after
long illness.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

1000 applications per day are
receited at the PostofHice Depart
ment for appointment as post
masters.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Senior MOreI, Minister Of the In
terror Of Spain, in reply to a
question, said that the government
had no knowledge Of a scheme 10
sell Cuba to the United States. He
declared that there was not enough
money in The whole world TO buy
the smallest portion Of Spanish
territory, and that ii necessity
should arise. .SpaniaFds would know
how 70 defend their country.s soil.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Lewis Edwards, colored, was 10
BE- hung in East Feliciana parish.
L., on Friday, 29th Of March
Yesterday.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

The Caplain.G General Of Cuba
gave 4 dinner 10 honor OF ex-
President Cleveland, in Havana,
on Tuesday.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

A famous horse, named "Prince
Wilkes, was sold in New York
On the 25lh for $50, 900.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

A fire occurred in Chicago on
Tuesday morning last, and property
10 the amount Of 81 SOC, 600 was
destroyed.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Yazoo county Democratic con-
venllon has instructed for Barks-
dale for Governor.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

A ''tackey party" was given at
the residence Of Mr.. and Mrs. C. H.
Rice, in Summit, one night last
week, and a blue ribbon awarded
the person who was dressed the
most tackey.n Miss Katie Sample
received the prize among the ladies,
and Mr.. w. 7. sparkman was de-
cided to be the ''tackiestn gentle
man, and the blue ribbon was
ninned upon him.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

IL Japan man must be thirty
years old 70 Be eligible to Office.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Gabriel Montegut, superin-
tendent Of the mint at New Orleans,
has forwarded his resignation TO
Washington. When asked his rea-
son for resigning, Col. Montegut
sisted that four years ago he be-
heved that Ito the victors belong
the apoils, Z and be is still Of the
same opinion.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

Rosanna Mccormack, aged 65,
On eccentric character, who has re-
sided By heFsslfneaFJordan's
Sulphur Springs in Virginia for
many years. and who was we'll
known By thousands Ofpeople from
she north and south who have been
patrons Of these springs, was found
dead At home on the oath. lying on
fertilizer sacks and sheep skins.
She had . number Of feather beds
but never slept o. them. She al.
ssTs soss long heavy boots, with
pistols IA them foF protection,
rarely ever taking them Of, and
died ID her boots.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

MARKETS. New Orleans, March
rs. Low middling cotton 8 SIG,
middling 9 1916, good middling
10 z-l6- Sugar a. Molasses S3.
Flour IS 90. Corn 46. Pork s133.
Bacon, shoulders g, clear sides 7s.
Hams liz. Lard u. Coffee 2O4.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

GIN. Scott, Of Okolona, Miss,
wrote to DR.. shallenberger: "YOur
Antidote for Malaria is certainly
the best thing for chills and fever
thathas ever been sold in sheSouth.
! have been selling it for twelve
years, and know it to be the best
medicine / have ever dealt in. 1t
Is perfectly harmless, and a sure
cure in every case" Sold by
Druggists.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

laI Congress IL Georgia.
The Southern herald., 1889-03-30

-iNeftg Mlaa ah 80. 1883
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-05-24
FERTILIZERS,

Purchasers to pay freight in all cases.
Maximum Fertilizer,
Dunlop's Ammoniated Bone
Super Phosphate,
Dunlop's Ammoniated Dissolv-
ed Bone,
West India Island Guano,
Dunlop's Acid Phosphate, s. G..
Rock, Dissolved, KANT,
Potato Fertilizer,
Dunlop's Alkaline Bone,
Fine Ground Bone, (pure,)
Ground Plaster, lin bags.)
Corn and Oats Fertilizer.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24

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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24
Let the Stock Have 1t.


Much Of the earlier apples, and peach
es especially. are often allowed to go to
waste, and when there is full crop in
many sections this is a considerable
item. Many prefer TO evaporate the later
apples, and, as they viii not bear keep
ing, and in many cases cannot be shipped
proftably, it is often the case that they
are left to rot on the ground rather than
TO be fed to the hogs. Considering the
fact that there must be kept up a con-
slant warfare against insect pests of all
kinds, the benefit that can be derived in
this respect alone from gathering up and
feeding 10 stock will, in many cases.
prove profitable. By this plan large
number Of insects and pests that damage
not only the fruit but the trees, can be
destroyed. They make good healthy
feed for hogs and sheep, and especially
if the hogs are confined, and what can
not be used TO good advantage in other
ways should by all means be gathered up
and fed, rather than to be allowed to lay
and rot, breeding disease as well as pests
of different kinds. Keep the orchard
reasonably clear Of fallen fruit as well as
of weeds.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24

During the civil war the Federal sol
diers suffered severely at times for want
Of fresh vegetables. and the sanitary
commission made il part of its business
to supply tbs lack Appeals for anti
scorbutics. such as potatoes and onions.
were sent far and near, and finally came
to be spoken Of Familiarity as ''seurvy
circulars
The response was immediate and
hearty. and soon the agents OF the com
mission were distributing the precious
stores-fire potatoes to man. perhaps,
or three potatoes and an onion. How
welcome they were may be judged from
the fact that. after eating them. the
troops were exhilarated very much rs il
they had been taking stimulants.
4 German lieutenant came into the
commissions depot at Nashville.
'Do YOU keep sauerkraut for the sol
diers.~ lac asked.
The attendant pointed TO an open bar
rel The lieutenant graSped some OF the
precious preparation, and gazed at it
with moistening eyes.
You Germans eat sauerkraut. don't
yous- said the agent.
NO" he exclaimed, the tears by this
time dropping from his checks; I'VE
swallows itf'
Probably few Of the men ever real
lied before that few onions and pota-
toes. or q little sauerkraut. might make
all the difference between living and
dying. Whatever we may think Of the
theory that men should live altogether
upon vegetables. it Is very certain that
they cannot live altogether without
them Youths CompaniOn.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24

Coffee is more generally consumed in
Brazil than in amy other part Of the
world. The coffee fields Of Brazil cover
100000 acres. with s00.000.OG0 trees,
each tree averaging about one pound per
annum- Tie industry there employs
500. 600 hands. The consumption Of
coffee in Brazil averages yearly "a pounds
per inllabitant: in Belgium and Holland,
II pounds. in the United States. Z
pounds. in Germany, ) pounds. and in
Great Britain very little more than half
a pound Britons drink five times as
much tea as coffee. while Americans
drink eight times rs much coffee as tea.
Down TO 1890 the only source Of coffee
supply was Arabia. but the berry is now
cultivated throughout most regions of
the tropical world Java and Ceylon are
the principal ceHters of production after
Brazil. and the total output Of the world
has been estimated 20 amount to rot less
than 1000. 100000 pounds.-New York
Telegram.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24

The cigarette is 4 miserable apology
for a manly pleasure. Nothing shall
ever induce us 10 believe that a man who
really likes tobacco for tobaccos sake
prefers cigarettes. lAnd the proof Of this
Is that the more precious the cigarette is
the less pure, invariably, is the tobacco.
We do not want to enter into the endless
controversies as TO what the loading
really Is. or into the other endless ficht
about cigarette smokers throat" But
If any one with some faculty Of taste and
smell will enter (the only way Of juds-
ingl room where some few whins of
any fashionable brand Of cigarette have
been smoked. himself fasting from to-
bacco. lie viii perceive at once that the
favor and odor are Of tobacco plus
something. Never mind what the some
thing Is; il is there. Il is not the smell
OF the taste of the very best Turkish to-
bacco tsuch rs makers would have US
believe Is used) smoked IN 2 clean pipe
l;y itself Its not the smell OF any other
kind Of tobacco mingled with it. The
perfSme and flavor Of, say. the best gold
en- leat smoked ~ a pipe, or the best
Havana cigars. OF the best tobacco, and
cigars unadulterated of any other kind
and country, are different enough, but
they differ like the flavor of different
wines-sll distinct, but all vinous. The
favor and odor Of the cigarette. al least
the popular manufactured Turkish or
Egyptian cigarette (wc know, Of course,
that vast quantities Of ordinary Ameri-
can tobacco are smoked as cigarettes).
are. in great part, not those of tobacco
at all. but Of something quite distinct
from. and added 10. tobacco: and we
believe that all honest persons gifted
with discrimination will add that it is
a deleterioGs something--a something
provocative Of "bead" and -throat" and
stinula'ive Of a great desire % er:.t--
Saturday Review.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24
What Base Ball Does.


"The other noon," said down town
merchant yesterday, at was quite dull
at the store, and set out to make sew
eral business calls that | had neglected
for some days
II went first TO my lawyers / found
in his door card saying that he had
gone to court, Tor an hour. Then | went
to see my family physician. His slate
bore a notice that he would be back at
2, as he had gone TO attend serious
case. My wood dealer left word with his
office boy that he had gone home to look
after sick child and couldn't find any
one in.
81 hated to go back to the sore, so ]
decided TO take in the afternoon base ball
game. In the grand stand at the grounds
saw my lawyer yelling at Compan, my
doctor keeping score on a prescription
blank, and my coal man sitting over in
the smokers section. On what they call
the bleaching boards, saw three OF my
own clerks who had gone home at noon
with sick headaches. Is base ball de-
generating? Well, guess not"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24

Central Asia. and more particularly
central wesiera Asia. has undergone
revolution during the past quarter Of
century. Railroads are being built and
telegraph lines connect all important
towns Roads are being macadamized
and European costumes and customs are
adopted Education. especially. Is foster
ed where it was unknown. and there are
ten times the schools there were. besides
colleges established by foreigners Re
ligious freedom is quite general in the
place Of bitter fanaticisIn. and all classes
are waking up 10 new intellectual and
moral life. The lower classes look UP.
Asia. n the present rate Of progress
will lac rcgcner.ited during the Twentieth
century 10 cooperate with Europe and
America st Louis Globe Democrat.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24
Four Ancient "Chestnuts, .

In Dean Burgeons account Of Dean
Mansel, it is said the metaphysician was
once driving out with Professor Chandler
and Others, incluling a little girl, who
suddenly exclaimed, apropos of a donkey
by the roadside; Look at that donkey.
He has got his head into barrel and
can't get it out" Mansel was heard TO
mutter, then it viii be a case ofasphyx-
ia. "
Equally good was his suggestion on see
ing the figure of Neptune in ST. Paul's
Cathedral, that the only christianity it
had to do with would be "Tridentine."
On a students stumbling vaguely
through an answer in the class he is said
to have addressed him with the words /:
"Really, sir, if you canno, be definite you
had better be dumb in it. "
But best of all for neatness and brevity
was his remark on the appearance of a
candidate having for Christian names
Field Flowers.p
THAT man, said Mansel, "was born to
be either plowed or plucksd," only he
was neither, and is said to be now CO.
lonial bIshOp.-Lond0a b'guireT.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-24
The Ice-Water Habit.

A famous physician has said that
more ice-water is drunk in the United
States in one year than the people Of the
rest of the world drink in len years" lie
also declared that paralysis has in some
cases been followed 10y death from too
free indulgence in ice-water, while in
other eases the action of the heart has
been seriously affected, and even cancer
Of the stomach traced to this cause that
in addition, thousands have dieted them
selves on bread and Cruel in the belief
that relief might thus be afforded from
the pangs Of dyspepsia, while the source
Of their trouble has been simply coPlous
draughts Of ice-cold water; and that
even the origin Of neuralgi and the fatal
Bright's disease may in some cases be set
do yn 10 this pernicious habit.
In the torried regions Of the earth
cake Of ice is as scarce as a blanket or an
oyercoat, while III the frigid zones, where
ice is always in harvest, the natives never
minlle it with their drinking potions.
In England, France or Germany ice-water
is a rare luxury, while in Norway and
Sweden, and even among the glaciers Of
Switzerland, drinking water Of icy cold
ness is never INDUCED in. But in the
United States ice seems to be an article
Of daily necessity. Among rich and poor
n our cities aud town it enjoys equal
popularity, while the thrifty country
folk who dwell amid babbling brooks
and gushing springs no less regard it as
indi spensable to their comfort.
And the irrepressible American, of
whatever degree, sex OF condition, may
be expected to 20 on drinking ice-water
whenever it may be obtained In storms
or in epidedmics it is the most peculiar
phase Of human nature that every one
expects the lightning or the plague to
strike some one else. And so the thirsty
soul in these United States, confident in
personal immunity, will continue to mix
ice with his or her drink, and fearlessly
run the risk of disease and death from
such cause. In fact, the scarcity in the
ice supply is at present a source Of more
trouble 10 the American citizen than is
the possibility that danger may lurk in
the cooling draught.