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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
TIE LEISURE CLASS.

UEsnsrAKABLE SYNPToMs.-Ragged
Ralph guess I'm going to be sick,
pard; feel all out of sorts" Tattered
Tom-"Wot's the matter with you?''
Ragged Ralph-''I feel like workin'.'' -
Yankee Blade.
WEARY WATKINs-''W'at an outrage
it is that people has to work so hard. Z"
Hungry Higgins - You're talking
through your hat. If people didn't
work where would our grub come
from? Eh?''-Indianapolis Journal.
ST ALWAYS did despise yeast" lam
guidly remarked one of the members
of the Sons of Rest to another member
as they .reclined in the shade upon a
roadside bank. ''Why?'' was the Ian
guild response. do you ask me
whyP' the first speaker languidlv re-
piled. 81 despise anybody or anything
that yearns to work. "-Somerville Jour
nal.
LOOKING HARD ENoUGH.-''Why don't
you look for worl<?" asked the philan-
thropic old gentleman WHO had just
given one dollar to one of the Sons of
Rest. "I've been lying on my back
under an apple tree looking up into the
sky all the morning after work." said
the member of the noble order plain
lively, "but haven't seen ny."-Som-
erVille Journal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

JUDGE RIDLEY, of the Davidson
Circuit Court, has hit upon a most
reasonable and sensible way of saving
the people large amount of unnec-
essary taxation in the way of officers
fees. He instructed the grand jury
that where a raid had been made on a
gambling house and a number ar
rested at the same time, charged with
gaming, they should all be returned
in the same indictment. The practice
has been in Davidson-and in this
county as well to make separate pre-
sentiments against each individual.
1t is estimated that this ruling of the
Judge would red Ice the fees of the
Attorney General of Davidson county
to about 81, 800, whereas now he makes
about $4,000. We commend this
action to Judge Patterson.
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Will Some Member Of the MaUry
Rifles Answer,

EDITOR HERALD:-Will you be 81
kind and find out if there are any of The
boys left OF a company that was raised
up in and around Columbia, known al
the Maury Rifles. $50, you can say t.
them that / have found their old flag
which was captured from them somt
time during the war, and it is in gOoC
condition. And say to them that
Il ink can get it for them as the LADY
that has it is a sympathiser of thu
South although her husband was
Major in the Federal army. If you cal
learn anything of any member of tn
company, please show him this lette
and say o him or them that l will d.
any thing towards getting the flag 70
any man that has a right to it; pleas
| let me hear from you or some member o
the company, if there aIe any i'll you
county. Hoping to hear from you soon
l am Respectfully Yours,
ED. r. JONES.
Lancaster, Ky.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
THE OHIO-INDlANA BOUNDARY
1t is a Zig-Zas Line and Not Over Mile
Wrong at Any Point.


Wrong at Any Point.
COLUMBUS, o., Dec. Professor T.
G. Mendenhall, of the United States
coast and geodetic survey, and Secretary
A. Graham, of the Ohio Historical So
ciety, who have been investigating the
question as to the true location of the
boundary line between Ohio and Indiana,
Monday submitted their reports to At
torney General Watson and Governor
Campbell. Professor MendenhaH has
been acting under instructions from his
department at Washington, while Secre-
tary Graham was appointed by Governor
Campbell to look up the records in be-
half of this state. The reports were not
made public, as Professor Mendenhall
desires to show the Indiana authorities
the courtesy of an official notification be-
fore the matter is given to the press.
Enough was learned, however, to dis
prove the sensational statement made a
few weeks ago that the present line w"s
SO far out of the way as to take Fort
Wayne and other Indiana cities as far
west into the boundaries of Ohio. The
reports will show, however, that the
line is somewhat crooked, and probably
a mile too far east at some points and a
similar distance too far west at others.
None Ever Established.
A peculiar fact was developed by the
investigation. 1t was that no line di-
viding Ohio and Indiana was ever
established. The accepted boundary
was partly made in 1887 by a survey of the
western boundaries of the extreme west
ern townships of Ohio. This survey be-
gan at the mouth of the Miami river,
near Cincinnati. and extended due north
eighty-seven miles. A year or so later l
survey was made by a company of
settlers from the Michigan line south to
the northern terminus of the line estab-
hshed by the survey of 1877. The pen-
pie living along the supposed boundaries
Of the two states accepted the line
established by these surveys as being
genuine, and as such it has ever been re-
garded until the people of Union City
lat winter 5vived an old tradition to
the effect that the line was too far east.
The calculations of Professor Mende :
hall show that the line, which is the az
cepted boundary, is only incorrect in so far
as the crude instruments in those days
deviated from the proper direction: It
is said that the needle in an old-timc
compass would occasionally slip sidewise
far enough to cause an error of several
hundred yards within the distance of
twenty or thirty miles. Taking this IL
to consideration the present line may be
mile or so out of~place. AS Union
City is divided by the present line, it
may be taken into either state when a
true line is established. Professor
Mendenhall's report will recommend
that the legislatures of the two states
act in conjunction in taking proper ac-
ton to re-est-IbliSh boundary line.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
such base uses once, he

such base uses once, he 1T
again.
We know from your personal
knowledge you could not m-.k a
statement based upon fact that "Mor-
ton was q defeated candidate for the
position of Registrar of the National
Standard Pacing Horse Breeders Co."
! Morton was never candidate for
said position, as was publicly an
nounced at the meeting at Cincinnati,
also in public print afterwards
Your informant, we would beg leave
to say, was also ignorant OF the facts
or desired by false statement to injure
me and my business. At the Cincin-
natl meeting when Col. ThOs. g
Parsons was elected Registrar, l, with
a majority of the Tennessee delega-
ton, opposed Col. Parsons election !;
not however from personal motives,
| but we all believed the Registrar
! should be resident of Tennessee, az
we claimed for our State the home of
the PAGER and thought this great in
terest could be best subseTved by
having the headquarters of the Pac-
| ing Association located In Tennessee.
We have long since given up our
wishes in this matter, and feel that
the action of that meeting in the Sc
lection of Col. Parsons as Re gistrar
was eminentlY wise and proper. The
gentleman has not only shown great
industry and thoughtfulness in t..
compilation of the first volume of the
Pacing Horse Register, but an un-
usual enthusiasm and able advocacy
of the Tennessee PAGER on all OCCASIONS
Tue suggestion in another editOria.
in same issue of the HERALD that,
"the Association had an inefficient
Secretary" MAY injure TO more or
less extent the Fair Association" was
certainly foreign to my thoughts.
Without any reflection whatever up
on the worthy President, it is well
known that the efficient board OF
directors of the Maury County Farm
ers & Breeders Association could run
a successful fair without either presi-
dent or secretary. Yours truly,
JNO. w. MORTON.
| No Doo 1901
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
Railroad Freight DiscrImina-
tons.

Just now Nashville Is engaged in
a fight with the railroads before the
United States Interstate Commerce
Commission, in An effort to reduce
the cost of coal. The people allege
discrimination against Nashville.
This is q subject that vitality inter-
ests every man in Columbia or the
County of Maury. Citizens of Nash
Vile buy a drsy load of Kentucky
hians pay 10 cents for the same arti-
Gle. 1t costs from 10 to 20 cents per
Darrell more to deliver potatoes from
Columbia to Southern cities, than ii
does from Nashville, and yet COlum.
bla Is about so miles nearer those
cities. Columbia pays largely more
than Nashville on all imports and eX-
ports.
To illustrate, Nashville pays 20
cents per barrel freight on a Darrell
OF -four from Ohio River cities, and
Columbia 4s cents per Darrell; while
the Ohio cities ship to Birmingham,
Montgomery, and Mobile for 40 cents
per barrel-and goes right by Column
bia.
The loss to this county aud the city
of Columbia, by reason OF these dis
eliminating rates, in a few years
will amount to q million Of dollars.
Is it not time for the business men of
Columbia to take this question up,
and make 9 fight before the United
States Commission for their legal
rights? To petition the railroads for
redress, would be q waste OF time.
The fight must be made before the
Commission, and fought to finish.
Some men are willing to "bend the
pregnant hinges of the knee where
thrift may follow fawning," but the
law gives every man the legal right
"a prosper, no matter where located.
Then demand your iights, and APP
neal to the only tribunal that can
and viii vindIcate the law, and give
the city Of Columbia her just rights.
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the WORLDS FAIR
May Give Canada an Opportunity to Sc
cure What She Has Long Desired.

May Give Canada an Opportunity to Sc
cure What She Has Long Desired.
LONDON, Dec. LIN an interview IL
The Daily Graphic the Hon. Charles h
Upper, of Canada, says that the Chi
cago worlds fair will afford an excellent
opportunity for beginning Canada's pro
posed new mail service in swift steamer
across the Atlantic. The Canadian ser
vice would be able to deliver mails more
rapidly in the western states of North
America than the steamship lines by
way of New York, and the Americans
would doubtless be glad to avail them
selves of the opportunity to get their
letters quicker. He had no doubt that
the imperial government would add a
substantial amount to the e33, 900 q
year to which the Canadian fast line
yvOuld bo entitled
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
Population of Alaska

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The census
Office has issued a bulletin giving the
population of Alaska by race and also OF
six of the 800 villages and settlements
enumerated during 1890 and 1891. The
population of Alaska 81, 1859 as based
upon the enumeration, Is classified as
whites, and mixed Russian and native.
Indians, Mongohans with a grouping OF
all others, while the Indians, numbering
70 per cent. of the whole population, are
classified as Eskimo, Thinket, Atha-
baskan, Aleut, Tsimpsean and Hyda.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

Now that hog killing time has
come, we desire to call the attention
of our farmers to the manner in which
they trim their hams. Long shanks,
ragged and rough trimmed hams,
will not bring by cent pound, as
much as weIl-trimmed hams. Trim
clean, well rounded, after the manner
of the pork house hams. Tennessee
country cured hams, in quality are
unsurpassed, and if properly cut
would bring the highest market price.
Another thing, Maury County farm
ers are remiss in. Nearly all the
corn raised in the county is tiDged
with yellow, and does not make first
class meal. Plant only pure white
corn, and it will command the high
est price in all the Southern markets.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
YOUNG AMERICAS.

LITTLE Willie Hawkins, while In
swimming in the mill pond near his
home at Burrowtown, Ia, caught four
minnows in his mouth and SWAN ashore
without swallowing or losing them
Four boys of Birdseye, Ind, found an
old coat near the railroad and began
tossing it about and beating each other
with 1t. A bank note Slipped from be-
meath one of the patches. The boys
ripped the coat to pieces and It Planned
but seventeen hundred and eleven dell
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

THE State has expended 5000, IL
recapturing convicts turned loose by
the Briceville miners. And the
Governor Its idly by while this
depletion of the States treasury is
going on, and makes no provision to
prevent a recurrence of the same
trouble and expense.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

MONEY is the highest priced article
on this market. There is plenty of it
here, but it costs 10 per cent, and no
man ought to pay that who can
"bridge over" without it. Money at
that price is more of a disadvantage
than an advantage to a community.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

THE first official announcement for
Sheriff is made IN our columns this
week by Mr.. Henry Ragsdale. THE
HERALD does not propose-this early
at Ieast-tO take choice between
Democrats; but we do beg to remark
that we like the way Mr.. Ragsdale
talks. He says he ais subject to what
ever the Democratic Executive Com
mittee may do, and will abide their
action, whether a convention or pri-
mary election be called" There is
no milk and cider business about
that, it is straight Democratic talk.
1t is the way all the candidates who
claim to be Democrats ought to talk.
The Democratic party made q
straight, clean cut fight last year and
won decisive victory. The fruits
or the sPolls, just as you choose toput
Unjust be given to DEMOCRATS
no Mugwumps need apply.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
PENNY POSTAGE WILL SOON COME
POstOfHce Inspectors Place 1t at FOu
Years at FurThest.

POstOffice Inspectors Place It at Four
Years at Funniest.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The PROPOSE
ton of the postoffice inspectors, who
have been in session here for some days,
TO reduce letter postage by furnishing
one and two-cent stamped envelopes at
the par value of the stamp, making the
envelope free, is well received and will
be presented to congress. 1t is conceded
ON all hands that penny postage cannot
be had yet and free envelopes with
stamps is regarded as very wise and
conservative step in the direction of
penny postage and will be the best COM
promise for the present. 1t is thought
that penny postage will be a fact within
four years at the furthest.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

IT is gratifying to note the con-
tinued and growing confidence the
public has in the new bank-The
Mauly Bank and Trust Co. The capt.
tai stock has been increased to 500,
600, the deposits are growing every
day, and the Bank is doing a large
and prosperous, but at the same time,
a conservative and safe business.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
A Lengthy and Important Document.
Soon he Ready for the Printer.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 80. = President
Harrison denied himself to all callers
Friday and abandoned the usual Friday
meeting of the cabinet for the purpose
Of giving some finishing touches to his
message to congress. He made ma
terial progress. Heretofore his work
has been confined to the writing of
rough notes, but now he has put good
portion of the document into definite
FORM Secretary Blaine was with him
for some time Friday morning, and it is
presumed the president is completing
his reference to the diplomatic work ac-
complished during the year, stating the
condition of our negotiations with Chill,
Italy, C!:ina and one or two other conn
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

tries wn1cn nave caused us trouble,
and reciting reciprocity progress. The
president intends to have his message
in tie hands of the printer before next
Saturday. 1t is probable that part of
it Will go to the government printing
Office in day or two. 1t is understood
that this will be one of the most lengthy
and important messages sent to congress
since the days of reconstruction.
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Card From Editor Morton, OF the
Tennessee Farmer.

EDITOR COLUMBIA HERALD:-My
attention has just been called to the
following clipping from the HERALD
of November Goth inst:
"The election of Bob Williams as
Secretary of the Maury County Farm
ers' and Breeders Association, seems
to disturb the editor of the Tennessee
Farmer nearly as much as did the
election of Thos. G.. Parsons as Regis
trar OF the National Standard Pacing
Horse Breeders Co. Morton was o
defeated candidate in that instance,
and used his columne to vent his
spleen. II he will put his paper to
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

AN inquiring member of the Clarks-
Vile bar, polled the vote of the bar, as
to the choice for President and Gov
ernor. The vote was almost unani
nous for Cleveland for President and
Judge Peter Turney for Governor.
Clarksville has a very level headed
har
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
HE SEES NO MORE.
Poured Powder in His Pipe ''tO See
What 1t XOuld Dn.O

CLARKsBURG, w. Va, Dec. 10. D.
Matheny, of Mineral Springs. this coun-
ty, attempted to pour powder from bot
tie into lighted pipe, "just to see what
it would do" He saw, but he sees no
more, as the bottle exploded, tearing his
hand and arm badly, and burning his
face and eyes so severely he may posi-
bly, lose his sight.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
CONDENSED NEW S.

A Collection of Interesting Items on Vari
GUS Subjects, Especially Prepared fol
the Hasty Reader.
General B. F. Butler is seri ously i'll.
A great boom is on in the West Virgins
oil field
St. Louis is making hard Aght for tn
Democratic national convention.
A test case is before the supreme cour
to test the constitutiOnality of the Nc
Kinley tariff law.
Secretary Foster is improving and ex
poets to soon resume his duties In tn
treasury departm emit
Professor Britton confirms the story o
brierless blackberries growing in tn
mountains of interior West Virginia
The strike Of the Indiana coal miner
has become national affair now that tn,
United Mine Workers of America hav,
rendered them their aid and sympathy.
The United States steamship Yorktown
has arrived at Valparaiso The Balti
more will now return to the UniteC
States to be Overhauled, as her bottom Il
supposed to be very foul
A project is on foot to levee the Mis-
sissippi river from New Madrid, Mo-, tt
the mouth of the St. Francis river. z
Is estimated that 1 800 600 acres in Ar
kansas and 10000 acres In Missouri
would be reclaimed and made very valu
able.
Factoryville, Pa, claims to have a man,
Michael Fernan, who has been asleep for
over four years. Previous to falling into
his long slumDer, it is alleged, he did not
sleep for years, working on his farm in
the daytime and acting as a railroad
Waterman at night. He was never found
asleep on duty. He is in robust health
and takes only liquid food.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
Dangerous Paintings.

RUsHvHLE, Ind, Dec. IA son of
James Olden, aged fifteen, living near
Richland, while fooling with a shotgun,
playfully pointed the weapon at his
younger brother, aged twelve, saying:
''I'n shoot you" when the gun was dis
charged, the load of shot entering his
eyes and head. The boy will lose his
sight and has a slim chance for his life.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
Mrs. Parneu Going to ireland

New YORK, Dec. Mrs. Della Par
nell, mother of Charles Stewart Parnell
will sail for Ireland. She will be accom-.
panied by her son John. Mrs. Parnel
and her son go to Ireland to settle up the
estate of the late leader of the Irish
party.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

THE New York Legislature is safe
ly Democratic. The state will be
fairly redistricted and Gov. Hill will
have Democrat for his colleague in
the United States Senate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

Gov. BUCHANAN is in Washington
City in the interest of Benton Nc
Millin. He ought to be in Briceville
earning his salary by attending to his
duties
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
Foreign.

Chancellor Caprivi of Germany denies
the report that he is about to resign.
Between twenty-five and thirty lives
were lost in a Russian railroad accident
Thousands of Christian women and girls
have been stolen by the Kurds of Ar.
menia.
1t is said unless the factions in Ireland
soon unite, physical force will be re-
sorted to.
Russian peasants besieged the czar on
his railroad journey with petitions for re-
lief from starvation.
Rio Grande do Sui is not satisfied with
Fonseca's successor, Peixotto, and an
other revolution is probable in Brazil.
Thanksgiving afternoon, Queen Victoria
listened to Italian opera the first time
since the death of the prince consort over
thirty years ago.
1t is reported in Berlin, on diplomatic
authority, that China is unable to over
come the various forms of instruction
that confront the government, and is
about to beg the active assistance of En-
gland, Germany and America in the res
toration of order.
With Minister Phelps making the Ger
mans acquainted with the beauties of
bacon and cornbread, and Consul
Knowles, at Bordeaux, writing dissel
tation on truffles, it will be seen that a
knowledge of gastronomy has become es-
sential to an Amecican diplomats sue
cess.
Foreign diplomats and Europeans at
Pekin are much excited over the reported
horrors of the recent Chinese massacres
Some of the deeds enacted are absolutely
f1endish. Children are butchered and
then roasted at great fires; nuns outraged
and then Drained with clubs; priests
cruelty tortured before being put to death,
one having had his tongue and heart torn
out and then burned with savage ferOcity.
The news from the revolt in Mongolia
shows that the seriousness of the situa-
ton is rapidly increasing, and that the
rebels are advancing with their forces
constantly increasing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispeIs colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Doc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. nv
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
ONLY to Cover SmugcIinp.

CRY OF MEXICO, Dec. 1.-The So
called Garcie raid or revolution has not
become ma ter of any importance yet.
1t has no prominent backing, and is sim
ply to cove. smuggling schemes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04
Mails.

A sure indication of this increasing
interest is shown by the difference
the weight of the mails carried between
the United States and Central and South
America and the West Indies. The
weight of the letter mails for 1891 was
%, 1000, 900 grams, against $4,000, 000
grams for 1889. The difference in the
weight of printed matter carried, princi-
more marked, the total for 1889 in this
class having been 5000, 900 grams,
while in 1891 the weight reported was
5000, 600, an increase of more than 80
per cent in two years.