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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-02

day and Sunday, protracting the ser
vices through the week following.
Mr.. Jas. Ramon and family of Hur-
ricane and Mrs. Clark Kinzer of Saw
dust, visited the family of DR.. A. M.
Allen here last week.
Mrs. B. s. Allen has returned from an
extended stay with her son John t.
Allen of Pulaski.
Messrs. John Cummings ana Iheo
Nichols, of the Lewisburg Institute,
made flying trip home during the fair
| week.
Messrs. Robert Bibb and Hardy Har-
| bison, left recently for Los Angeles,
Cal, to "seek their fortune in the
West"
Miss Earle Baker is at school in
| Hillsboro.
Miss Gertrude Newcomb, left again
| for the Lewisburg Institute last Mon
day.
Mrs. w. N. Bobbett, who spent last
year in Columbia, has now an estab
lishment here for dress making, and is
having liberal patronage.
Mr.. W. ID. Miller left "Shady" last
Monday morning for Cincinnati and
other cities, To purchase the fall stock
for Miller ~ Evans.
DIR. G. A. Forgey and sister Miss An
ME, of Water Valley, attended the de
Mrs. John V. Gray, Mr.. and Mrs. Zeb
Hassell, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Stanfill, AID
IA host of others from the Centreville
country, took i'll the discussion last
week. Also Miss Cora Norris, Messrs.
Pace. McLaren, Russell ami others OF
Cen!r 9ville.
We deeply sympathize with the re-
manning members of the family of MIR.
Polk Hutchinson of Gracy's Branch.
In very short time he has lost four
members of his family, including tn,
wife and mother. The disease is pro
nOunced typhoid fever, and it is feared
is extending in to other families.
We were made quite sad on reading
diphtheria at Mt. Pleasant. Why do
they not use the sulphur treatment for
the suffering little ones? 1 have meyer
known it to fail, even in the most ag
gravated cases, when given fair trial.
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Cnrter'S Greek.

EDITOR HERALD:-We have been alb
sent so long from the family circle
"HERALD family'-that we hardly feel
that our return will be a very welcome
one. However we have framed an eX-
cuse which may be accepted. We spent
three weeks visiting "lOved ones at
home" near Andrews, and since our re-
turn, the weather has been so warm
that we have had too severe an attack
of laZiness to even scribble few lines
to the Herald.
The meeting at Beech Grove closed
with three additions to the church.
The elder pupils of r. p. Stegall have
organized Literary Society" Their
meetings will no doubt be instructive
to themselves ard entertaining to the
visitors whom they admit.
Do VoH think it will ever rain again?
is the Off repeated question asked now
whom friends meet. Many springs
have ceased to give water to the thirsty
and branches are as dry M Texas
there. The creek at this place il said tn
be lower than it has been for great
many years.
Last Lords Day was made lively for
while in our "Burg" by the wool
pulling and boisterouS conversation OF
some dusky female inhabitants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Jordan have re-
turned from weeks visit to relatives
at Eagelville.
Miss Verta Jones has returned from
the home of her brother, John l.. Jones.
She attended the fair while there. Her
neice Emma, Hattie and baby Nerta
came home with her.
Mrs. Hughes (nee Miss Holly Jones),
of Williamson, who has been with her
parents for two weeks, will return to
her home in a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Blackman, of the
Bear Creek vicinity, with their bOunc-
ing boy, Frank Evans, spent few days
in our midst last week with Mr.. BIS
mother.
Mrs. JAS. Polk and Miss Matte
Combs went to Nashville last Saturday
to he gone several days.
Mrs. Columbus Merritt, who has been
very sick, has about recovered.
Mr.. Geo. Kittrell is dangerously Ill
and his death is hourly expected.
Mr.. Childress, a travelling Photographs
er took pictures of the white and colOred
schools here last week. We Will add
for The benefit Of the curious that he
took them separately.
We doubt if MIR. Sam NichOl is as
proud of finding his gold watch as
might be supposed, for now when he
makes his weekly calls to his best girl,
he must bid her adieu by watch time
instead of waiting to be notified by
chanticleer, which time he thinks is
always too fast.
RIPPING WAVES.
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AN EGYPTIAN FIND.

Hundreds of Numlnies Dating Back Near
ly 5000 Years Discovered in a Pit.
A discovery was lately made in the
metropolis of Thebes second only in i'm
portance to the discovery of the royal
mummies at Dehr-el-Bahari by NJ. Mas
pero in 1881. About half a mile from
Dehr-el-Bahari, says the London Aca-
deny, a pit has been found containing
several hundred magnificent mumm1es.
These, like the royal mummies, had
evidently been removed from the tombS
and concealed in this receptacle, as
precaution, by the servants of the
priests, probably at the same time and
for the same reasons which caused the
royal mummiea to be placed in the recep-
tacle where tllSy were found by M. Mas
pero. This removal Is believed by NJ.
Maspero to have taken place in the
reign of Aauputh, son of Shasang, OF
the twenty-second dynasty (circa 300
B. c..
The cofins hitherto found all belong
to the twentY-frst dynasty, and are
those of the priests of Ra-Amun and
their families. The pit Is forty-fve
feet In depth, at the bottom of which
are two corridors filed with cof1ns and
treasures of every description. In the
lower corridor-which as yet has only
been explored is computed that there
are some two hundred coffins, and the
second corridor is believed to be not
less extensive.
The shaft is forty-five feet deep, its
mouth is about twelve feet in diameter,
and its sides are of rough limestone.
One of NJ. Grebaut's native assistants,
who was experimenting the work of
hauling up the mummy cases, told me
that he had been the first actually to
enter the corridor y:hcrc the mummies
and treasures l:c. The shaft had then
been eXcavated only as deep as the
mouth of the corridor, and he crept in
on his hands and knees and stood in
what he describes as being like palace
of enchantment.
The corridor, he said, is some ten or
twelve feet high and two hundred and
fifty feet long. 1t runs in a northerly
direction from the shaft toward the
Theban hill. At the end there is a
short corridor branching from it at
right angles, and at some height above
the floor at the end is the entrance to a
second very long corridor, full of treas
ures, which has been sealed up for the
present by M. Grebaut.
Groups of rnurnmies are placed at in
.tervals in families. The number in
each group varies from two to six or
seven-father, mother and children
and around them, exquisitely arranged,
are vases, models of houses, models of
dahabiehs, cases and boxes full of
ushabtis, statuettes, and every conceiv-
able treasure of ancient Egypt. With
out even a speck Of dust upon them,
this profusion Of treasures had remained
unlocked at by any eye for nearly three
thousand years. He said that photo
graphs had been taken of the place in
its undisturbed state, which he declared
to be that of a perfectly kept and well
ARRANGED museum
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Maury County People on the ''POOr"
Farm in Texas.
waxahachie. Texa

Waxaha chic, Texas, Sept. 20, 1891.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I will write you II few
lines from this part of the country, anG
1t is with you whether they tird space
in your paper or waste basket. Ihr
cotton and corn crops in this and sur
rounding counties are good; the most Of
our county will average half bale of cot
ton per acre. The grain crops, oat and
wheat, are very good, what little wa
sowed.
We notice quite number of people
arriving here from your State, Tennes-
see. Mr.. w. ID. Simpson arrived in our
town few days ego and reports him
self we'll pleased and expects to make
this his future home. Also the MesSrS.
John and Jim Sealv who visited this
part a fow days previous t. Simpson.
They both landed here sick, and l am
sorry to say had no means ana no on"
to care for them and were taken to orr
poor farm, where they were cared for.
In four days after they We're taken to
the poor farm jim, the oldest of the two.
died. John il still VrTV sick.
Mrs. Cornelia May johnson, known
as Miss Cornelia May Vincent, from
near your town, hns been very sick
with the slow fever for two mouths.
w. II. IOII%SON.
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OVER THE STATE.

Judge Cantrell has indicted the editor
of the Cannon Courier for libel. The
Courier has been criticising the Judge
very severely.
The Dickson County Press has been
moved from Charlotte to Dickson. j..
NJ. Bowers and w. B. Leech will edit
and manageit.
Jackson felt the earthquake Sunday.
Jackson is to have a free letter
delivery.
Suit has been instituted at Knoxville
to test the legality of the Penitentiary
lease contract, and at a mass-meeting
the miners decided to wait the action OF
this suit before going out on another
strike.
Some boys at GalIatin built them a
mountain and arranged for "Last
DAVIS of Pompeii" show. The noun
tain went off too quick and the boys got
themselves all blackened with powder
burns. SO much the more fun for the
boys.
Will Peoples, who had been clande s.
timely married, and whose wife's par
ents refused to allow her to live with
him. attempted suicide last Monday,
in Nashville. He failed to die but scared
tho old folks into submission. "The
course of true love ne'er did run
smooth
Maj. J. w. Hopkins, for many years
prominent business man of Nashville,
suicide at Red Boiling
Springs, Tenn. He had been despond-
ent because of continued il-health.
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COUNTY CULLINGS,
CuIIed by OurCorrespondonts
Mt. Pleasant.


The fair is over; it is still oppressivrly
irY and warm; the preparations Tor
erecting several business houses is GO
| ing OH nicely; the excitement over the
recent wedding has almost subsidized.
consequently we are at quite loss as
10 what 40 write; nevertheless We viii
make an attempt to send you lew
items. Well ''tO be sure" there is to be
another wedding here in the near fu-
Jure and according to promise we we'll
rive YOU more minute details, after IT
aas been recorded ching of the past"
Rev. Il. W. Seay and daughter, Bes-
sic, Of College Grove, are visiting Mr..
Tup Howard s family.
Miss Kate Jones, of your city, Is the
guest Of Miss May Ingram.
Mr.. Will Elicit has returned from a
few days stay with Bachelors Joe and
George Jones, at Parks Station. He
took in" the races at Lewisburg.
Mrs. Gordon Cecil and daughter Miss
GordIe, of Muncie, Ind, are here on a
visit to many relatives.
Mrs. f. i. Sowell and three interest
ing children, of Lawrenceburg, are
spending the week at Mr.. Henry Good
lOe's.
Mrs. Amelia Ingram and Miss Min
ME, of Lebanon, KY, are visiting Mrs.
J. G.. Ingram.
Miss Fannie Marshall went up to
College Grove last Friday and returned
Miss Sarah KOhn and brother Her
man, spent several days of last week in
Nashville, selecting a full and select
stock of fall goods. Miss hohn has
everything in her store now that can be
desired; from paper of pins, to a hand
some dress pattern.
Mrs. J. f. Walker has been consider
ably indi spOsed this week.
Miss Nora Brooks has returned from
Sandy Hook, where she has been for
several weeks. While out riding with
Mr.. Alex Orr his horse become fright
ened and threatened to run; thereupon
Miss Nora leaped from the buggy and
sustained the injury of broken bone
in her foot; she is now able to walk
some.
Mr.. Polk English, of Giles county, is
in this neighbOrhOOd buying cattle. lie
also has other important business nego-
tiations on hand. Says he is trying to
induce certain lady not to join the
tide of migration to Lawrenceburg.
Last Tuesday night Manuel triers0n
had the misfortune of losing his new
residence and all it's contents, by fire;
origin unknown.
We wish to correct a mistake in our
letter of last week, in which we stated
that MIR. and Mrs. j. w. Kings little
son died of diphtheria. No one seems
to know what was the matter with it as
il died rather suddenly. ATHENE.
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DEBIT AND CREpIT.

EACH of the 1900 street cars of New
York earned $50 day last year.
THE mayor of Philadelphia receives
S12, 900 year, the mayor of New York
receives $4,000.
PHYSICIANS of this country are paid
annually nearly S1,5OO,0O0 for medical
examinations for life insurance compa-
MES. Three companies pay over $780,
900 each.
THE coins struck in the mints of the
world last year were of less value
than those coined in 1889. According
to a statement just issued England
coined the greatest quantity of gold
and the United States the most silver.
IT is estimated that at least $50, 900, 600
of the governments paper money sup
posed to be in circulation has been lost
or destroyed. By the sinking of one
vessel off the Atlantic coast some We ars
ago 81, 900, 900 in greenbacks was lost.
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Inoportant Notice,

The following is copied from the
Farmers Home Journal, published
at Louisville, KY, the erstwhile
official organ Of the Kentucky Ali
ance. 1t appears like our noble order
there is all split to pieces.
"The Farmers Home Journal an
nounces with this issue its voluntary
resignation as official organ of the
Kentucky State f. IL l.. Union. 1t Will
be remembered that this paper opened
its columns to the Union last winter al
the request of the State Executive Com
inittee. The Committee then thought
that harmony would exist in the Or
der all over the State aud that the mem
beers would willingly lend themselves
10 the earnest work of Strengthening
ard building up the Order in accord
n1ICe with its constitution and declara-
tions of purposes. 1t was not long,
however, before it was manifest that Il
considerable minority was in favor OF,
and openly advocating, separate politi-
cal action, Notwithstanding the forbid
ding clause in the organic law. Believ-
ing that harmony might prevail after
the State election no action was taken
at this office before that event. The
smoke of the battle has cleared away
and there still seems to be a determine
ton on the part of this minority to rush
headlong into political party and drag
the order along with it. They are able,
in some counties, to commit the organi-
cation to their policy. In others the
Order is as strongly opposed to it.
ain this divided condition of the
Order the Farmers Home Journal does
not believe that any paper can be TIL
true official organ of the Union and,
unless there was reasonable hope of
having a united Order it declines /"
occupy the position longer. No paper
can consistently represent both fac
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The FIRST EABY.

Mrs. BRowN-"My baby is the pref
test In the town" Mrs. Black-"Why,
what a condolences! So is mine"
THERE is something radically wrong
about the man who can have exactly
the same opinion of his own baby that
other people have.-Somerville Journal.
A Circus OF HIS OwN.-Wooden-''
you go to the circus?" Bu1lfnch-''NO,
1 didn't need to-" Woodcn-"Why?''
Bullfnch-"We had twins at our house. 4"
Boston Courier.
PRIDE may go before destruction, but
the young father is going to express his
feelings just the same as ii it didn't, and
it's no use to try to stop him.-Somer-
vile journal.
An INDIsCREET REMARK. - Young
Mother-"What in the world makes the
baby cry SOP" Young Father-''I guess
he heard me say managed to get a
little sleep last night. Pittsburgh
pVsacc
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GOOD QUEER VIC.

QUEEN VICTORIA is fond of oatmeal
porridge, and is Scotch enough to be-
Geve in its virtue of being strengthen
ing and having no bones in it.
QUEEN VICTORIA L oyy rules n popula-
ton of 357, 900, 0O3-a greater number Of
people than ever acknowledged the SOW
erignty of any other one person in
either ancient or modern times.
QUEEN VICToRIA's daughter, Princess
Christian, employs n woman as her
physician when her nerves trouble her.
Her attendant at such times is we'll
known specialist-Dr. Julia Maitland
QUEEN VICTORIA still clings to the
black dress which is the symbol of her
widowhood. Indeed, black was always
her favorite wear, even when she was
young and unmarried, it being an eX-
pressed opinion that she Cooked best
IN bl-~l1 -
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HE INDJSTRlES.

OF 1O,757 firms il Utah 9,724 are
made fertile by irrigation.
TIE production Of a1t,lracite coal
this year is 18,0o).0}) tons, or 2, 800, 900
tons over the first half OF last year
IT is reported that vein of coal three
miles wide and fifty feet thick has been
discovered in the Flathcad country in
Montana.
A TEXAS cattlcman says the outlook
at present is that the supply of cattle
from that state viii fall short 1000, 900
head as compared with the number last
year.
THE honey crop this season will be the
lightest California has ever known.
The bees can't find nectar enough,
and hives that yielded twenty-nine tons
last year will not produce a pound this
season.
THE exports from the city of Charles
ton, S. c., increased from $751; SO, Isl in
the year ending June 50, 1890, to S21,-
940,006 for the year ending June 80,
1891. The largest item Of increase was
that of cotton.
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INSEPARARLE TWINS.
They Were Born In bohemia FOurte
Years ApO-Thelr Diverse Tastes,

They Were Born In bohemia Fourteen
Years Ago-Thelr Diverse Tastes.
A remar kably interesting phenom-
enon was shown recently at the Office
of the Figaro newspaper to a very
limited number of specially invited
guests, comprising the most distin-
guished medical men of the metropolis.
Among the laymen present We're Lyt-
ton, NJ. Mun1acsy, Senior Ruiz Gorilla
and NJ. Clemenceau. The phenomenon
consists o twin sisters joined together
at the lower part of their bodies. They
were born in Bohemia and are fourteen
years of age. They are not united by
a mere ligature, like the Siamese
brothers, but resemble rather in their
formation Millie-Christine, some years
ago exhibited all over Europe.
Millie-Christine, however. had only
one stomach, so that the two sisters
and thirst at the same time 4 is not
so with Rosa and Josepha who, having
two stomachs, have distinct tastes in
the matter of food and drink.
NJ. Maurice Lefevre-a member Of
the Figaro staff who introduced the
young ladies in few brief and bright
remarks-told an amusing story of how
after they had tasted champagne for
the first time both were i'll Josepha
made up her mind she would not touch
the dangerous wine again. and she has
kept her word, whereas Rosa still in
dulges in the beverage she prefers
When one was i'll the other was very
angry at having to go to bed, and in
sisted on feeding in her usual way.
They are thus quite different beings so
far as sensations, inclinations, mind
and heart are concerned. The
children are quito pretty; they are
healthy in appearance, and they appear
to be very amiable and good-tempered.
On their way to Paris a curious ques-
ton was raised. The officials wanted
to reckon them by heads, whereas the
manager insisted on an opposite decis-
ion, and he gained his point, SO they
came for a single fare.
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A ROYAL Racer.

Kaiser Wilhelm is regular story
book monarch-he is up to imperial
doings all the time. The other day he
happened to be at post where regi-
ment of the guards were practicing
athletics. A foot race was on The
emperor unbuttoned the lower buttons
of his generals coat and shouted out to
the astonished subalterns: Now, gen.
tlemen, let us see how many can dis
lance your emperor" Then hckety-
split they all took to their heels, the
kaiser footing It like a good fellow. The
kaiser was beaten, but it was not bad
beat, for he came in second, only yard
benfnd n vO11nD sl1b-lieutenant-
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FAIR AND BUSY MAIDENs.

A GIRLS baseball club has recently
been organized in Georgia.
A COLORADO girl broke her arm while
trying to ride calf bareback.
Two DEAF mute sisters in Texas edit
a paper called the Sunny Cline.
A GIRL at Morenci, Mich, picked one
hundred quarts of strawberries in one
day recently.
In Pittsburgh young lady makes q
living by manufacturing pottery. She
has had an oven erected in her house,
and makes, finishes and decorates her
own work.
WHEx an Addison Me woman called
recently on relatives living only q u1tas
away whom she hadn't visited for
twenty years, they thought the world
nusa 6e coming 10 en- end ...-..
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pboroob,s Subtreasury.

Proctor Knott, the Kentucky Demo
cratic statesman and humorist, says
that tbe first case of subtreasury Cd
record is where Joseph interpreted
Pharsoh's dream and told him that
followed by seven bad ones, and ad
,,isad him to "build barns and buy
,arn ,; Knott saws that Pharaoh is
sued paper certificates to buy corn,
the Farmers had lots of money Tor
while. but the, seven years famine
ended. Pharaoh had all the corn ana
the money was no good ana mar
aoh owned them, body, soul anu sued
tss I,S b 81 for 600, years, and
haven't got out yet.
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A Valuable CONSIGNMENT.

A little oblong steel box, opening
with combination lock, passed through
the Chicago custom house the other
morning consigned to an Illinois watch
company. This insignificant affair con-
tanned diamonds and rubies by the hun
dreds, that were intended for settings
for watches The value of the stones
was placed at one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and the duty on them
was a small fortune. The goods were
delivered by special messenger.
"Solomon's Temple was thirty-six
feet broad.n
mo wonder he was wise. What q
head he must have had"
jury.
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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 efactually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers aud cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
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 see
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
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Shady Grove,

After a silence of several weeks we
will again endeavor to jot down the
items of our Happy Valley" (shade
of Dir. Johnson, forgive usD and the
surrounding country.
Firstly and foremostly. everybOdy
and his kinfolks are "fuIl'' of the very
Interesting dges-Ratliff debate,
which begun at this place on Tuesday
the 23nd inst, aud continued four DAYS.
The interest, as well as the heat WAS
intense throughout the whole time.
Bro. Black " ood held quarterly meet
ing at Leatherwood Chapel last Satar-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-02

THE @ and Jury continues to ffud
bills against merchants for selling
cigarettes to minors, and to pass I'M
noticed the notorious gambling at
South Side Park two weeks ago.
This il justice, blind i'm one eye.
Such mockery of justice is why SO
many have lost respect for the law.
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THE "Rev." Joe Munday, the &C
tnr-preacher, who few years ago
"eVangt lIzed" in Columbia, has bob
bed up i'm Morganfield, Ky, as >
"dead game sport" Sunday he
preached to about fifty dollars at
Henderson and Monday he wanted to
play pool at ten dollars side. He
handled his cue too deity for tn.
Morganfield boys, however, and lief,
the place for lresher fields, glOriOusly
drunk.