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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
SUPREME COURT DOCKET.
udge Turney Again Calls Attention to
the Necessity OF Relief.
O. The American:

a't Aite AllGfASdhs
I desire to call attention to the con-
.'ltlon of the Supreme Court docket:
When we came to Nashville we FOUND
ara Increase over the docket OF twelve
..ouths ago of about 100 cases; about ~
% cent.
If we are able to average the hearing
of six cases per day we Will hnlsh the
work about March 20, giving recess OF
just two weeks before the term at ack-
son; so far we have not been able 10
make that average and the prospects
are by no means flattering that we WILL
The Davidson County docket is large
and the questions to be tried are us9AIly
troublesome. So far we have had no
easv cases, seldom finding any that
could be disposed of without going TO
the consulation-room.
The LEGISLATURE has recognized the
necessity of increasing circuits and
divisions in order that the lower courts
might keep up their business. The
natural result has been to increase the
number of appeals TO the supreme
Court, because more causes have Deen
tried in the lower courts
Unless something is done il must in a
very short time result that the dockets
of the Supreme Court Will be beyond
the MANAGEMENT of the bench with all
the efforts in its power to keep up with
the current business. 1t is absolutely
necessary to the prosperity of the state
that the courts be abreast with the
times, | hope the bar and the press
will constantly agitate the question ana
bring il clearly before the people that
thew may demand of the next Legisla-
ture the proper reliet.
Unless something is done another
wear or two will find us in a condition
similar to that of five years ago. The
law docket is of comparatively easy
control, as 1t mainly presents questions
of law The chief trouble is with the
equity docket, which presents both
questions of law and fact.
suggest that we create superior
Court of Chancery, to consist of three
iudges, one to be selected from each oil
the three grand divisions fthe State TO
hold their terms at the same place as
the Supreme Court but at different
times. That all appeals in chancery be
to that court, whose finding of facts
shall be conclusive, and when an APP
neal is taken from il to the supreme
Court it shall be only on questions
of law TO he certified by that court and
only 30 much record as is necessary To
raise the legal questions shall constl'
tute the transcript for the Supreme
Court. This 1 think will enable the
Supreme Court to control its dockets
l merely make suggestions to give the
matter notice. Something must be
done. Jan. 5, 1892.
p TIrRNEY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15

In some of the schools of Chilli when
a boy becomes boisterOus he is sent to
iail, and for this purpose there are mln=
iature prisons. They are dark vaults.
each just large enough for a person TO
stand in, where the student is locked
and left to mediate. After remaining
six hours in one position he is general
lv tractable; if not, he is left until he
is. A large corner room is fitted up as
a chapel, with numerous shrines, con-
fessionals, images, etc. There is also
a theater, with elevated stage, NOV
able scenes, footlights an green-room.
AS coeducation is not permitted, and If
q young lady should associate on the
Itage with the other sex she would be
Eisgraced for life, the boys are COM
pelled to don petticoats whenever the
exigencies of the drama require. And
great fun they seem to consider it
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
Revealed by an Accident.

An Interesting and instructive tab
leau was witnessed the other day in
Brunswick, Me-, in the very heart OF
the "strict" prohibition section of the
state. The fast express train struck Q
havrack containing two men, demol-
ished the vehicle and somewhat injured
its occupants. The train was stopped
and the passengers, pouring out, sur
rounded the unfortunate farmers, who
were unconscious. Some one asked IT
there was any liquor in the crowd A
drummer passed out neat little mask
of old bourbon, another drummer fol-
lowed his example. and soon there
were hands stretching forth from all
directions with pints, and half pints,
round bottles, fat bottles, and square
bottles of all dimensions, from gill
to quart, and containing everything
from imported brandy TO Portland
rum. There was enough there to start
a Lewiston drug store, and the only
man in the crowd who didn't have
bottle ran off to farm house and soon
returned with two-gallon jug OF some
mysterious liquor.-N. Y. Sun.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
HOW TO CARRY NEW YORK.
HIPS Slick scheme.-Will 1t. WOrk2
Why NOt2

HARRISBURG, p j Ian. 5.-An after
noon paper here is responsible for the
following story, which Is given for
what it is worth:
The inside history of the meeting
between Senator Quay and w. w.
Dudley at the hotel Duquesne, in this
city, on Sunday last, was related to
reporter this morning by gentleman
who came from New York to attend
the conference, which concerned
national and not local politics. Not
withstanding the endeavOrs of some
of the leading coterie of Democrats in
the Empire State to keep the matter
quiet, it was made known to Quay
and Dudley on Sunday that q scheme
will be carried through within six
weeks which will jeopardize any pos
sible success OF the Republican party
carrying the state of New York in
the presidential election next year.
The plan of the Democrats is this:
Acting under the powers conferred
by the CONSTITUTION of the United
States and theiI. State laws, Senator
IL ". with the consent and assistance
: -of The Democratic Legislature, has
determined that the neXt-pTesidential
Z electors shall be chosen by the Leg
islature, and not by the popular vote
of the people. Another feature of the
proposed scheme is that the enor-
, NOUS sums of money spent in the
usual State campaign for the election
of the electors 10y popular vote can be
l reserved for distribution during the
canvass in other doubtful states.
When it Is remembered that both
houses of the Legislature in New
York are to be controlled by the
Democrats and the strictest harmony
prevails between the majority and
Hill, the feasibility of the plan in
question is at once apparent. Both
Quay aud Dudley admitted that it is
among the most serious matters OF
political fact and the hardest question
that has stared at them in any pre-
liminary presidential campaign since
the Tilden-Hayes struggle in 1876
They are nonpIussed about it. With
the exception of West Virginia,
which is usually classed under the
head of Southern States, they Quay
and Dudley and other prominent
leaders and members of the Nationa
Committee) agree that there IS prac
ticaIly no hope of carrying a single
Southern State next year for the Re
publican nominee. The meeting on
Sunday was intended to be strictly
sub rosa. Col. Dudley stopped at thu
MOuOngahela House. Col. Quay a.
The Duquesue, aud their confreres die
not register at any of the hotels bu
we're the guests of personal friend
n the city.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
Cats as Bird Catchers.

M. Raspail has lately called atten-
ton. in the Geological Society of France,
TO the serious diminution of birds in
that country through destruction OF
their nests. Some insectivorous species
are becoming very rare, while the raw
ages of parasites on useful plants are
extending. Boys, of course, do great
deal of the mischief; and of the varl'
ous animals which attack nests 1.-THE
squirrel, the hedgehog, the dormous'
the magpie, etc NJ. Raspail regards
the cat as the worst offender. On q
recently wooded property of about
seven acres he observed, last year. as
follows: Out of thirty-seven nests.
carefully watched, only eight succeeded;
twenty-nine were destroyed, fourteen
of these by the cat, though efforts had
been made to ward off this Unsuitable
marauder On large property in the
center of a village the owner had about
eighty cats annually caught in traps
The place having lately changed hands,
the gardeners estimate that more than
one hundred nests were destroyed last
wear. three-fourths of these by cats.
M. Raspail advocates a rigorous appli'
cation of the law for protection OF in
sectivorous species, the disqualification
of the cat as a domestic animal, and
the giving of prizes to foresters and
others for destruction of all animals
which prey on eggs and young In the
nest-Pall Mall Budget.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
0ur Rook Differ

We invite the attention OF our readers
to the book offer the HERALD makes its
subscribers. By giving away two col
umns of our advertising space, we are
enabled to offer our subscribers seven
teen books for one dollar. Turn to the
page and read the names of the books
aud you will find ten of them to be the
best works of ten OF the greatest aa-
thors. You will also find the familiar
Misunderstanding Tales" and then you
find six practical books about farming,
Housekeeping, poultry raising, cook,
ing, etc, All for 81. II you are at all
fond OF reading, or II you know q good
thing when you see it, you Will not let
this Opportunity pass
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
EARLY RISING.
How to Enjoy Nature in Her Brightest
Aspect,

How to Enjoy Nature in Her Brightest
Aspect,
Every circumstances contributes TO
render early rising advisable to those
who are in the enjoyment of health,
There is no time equal in beauty and
freshness to the morning. when nature
has lust parted with the gloomy mantle
which night had flung over her, and
stands before us like young bride,
from whose aspect the veil which COW
cred her loneliness has been withdrawn
The whole material world has q vivify-
ing appearance. The farmer is up at
his labor, the forest leaves sparkle
with drops of crystal dew; the flowers
raise their rejoicing heads towards tie
sun; the birds pour forth their anthems
of gladness, and the ,,Yide face OF
creation itself seems as If awakened
and refreshed by mighty slumber:
All these things. however, are hid
from the eyes ii the sluggardi 9atgre
in her most glorious aspect is to him
sealed book, and, while every scene
around him is full of beauty, interest
and animation, he alone is passionless
and uninspired. Behold him stretched
upon his couch of rest! In vain does
has commencedi In vain does the
morning light stream fiercely in by the
chinks of the window! He hears not,
he sees not, for blindness and deafness
rule over him with desperate sway and
lay deadening spell upon his facul-
ties And when at length he does
awake, far on in the day. from
the torpor of his benumbing
sleep, he is not refreshed. He
does not start at once into
new life-an altered man, with joy in
his mind and vigor in his frame. On the
contrary, he is dull, languid and stupid,
as if half-recovered from paroxysm OF
drunkenness He yawns, stretches
himself and stalks into the breakfast
parlor to partake, in solitude and with
out appetite, of his uprefreshing meal,
while his eyes are red, his beard un-
shorn and his clothes disorderly and III
put on. Uncleanliness and sluggishness
generally go hand in hand, for the OBJ
tuseness of mind which disposes man
to waste the most precious hours of his
existence in debasing sleep will nat
urally make him neglect his person -
! n. Y Ledger.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
COUNTY CULLINGS.
;ulIed by ourCorrespondents

HlHtS U OOTIcSpOhuOhOos
Write on only one side of the. paper
DO not refer to people by their Initials.
Be brief; do not abbreviate any words.
Write legibly, especially all proper
names.
Get news, the whole news and moth
ing but the news.
Bo not write an item that will be I'M
derstood by only few of our readers.
Always sign your name, not neces-
sarily tor publication, but Tor the pro-
lection of the publisher.
Persons going to or from neighbor-
hood just for one day, is not OF sufh-
cient interest to mention.
Mail your letters so as to reach TINS
office not later than Tuesday night.
Never write to fill up; when you have
given the news. stop.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15

- was coming down from the noun.
tains the other day on the Ontario and
western road. All the cars were
crowded. There was a child in a scat
near gentleman. The conductor see
ing ladies standing, went to the gentle
man and told him, loud enough for
those around him to hear: -
you'll have to take that child On
your lap, sir--rules of the road
81 know of no rules of the road that
can compel me 10 travel Withsa child on
NV lap" replied the gentleman, in
dirnantly. That child Isn't mine
And the owner of the young vagrant,
fast then taking in the situation. led
he child back 20 her seat whencS y
hna wandered. amid The langhsse q
the AAAissFa ~. Y HSrAla
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
What He Wanted.

els there any thing you want, WI
lieY' asked grandma.
Eyes; I'd like to have some jam or
my bread. P"
''Who gave you bread2"
"No one yet. 1 thought perhaps yos
might udge-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
p-.,.---.- --:1.-,.1rS

Plumber-Why do yon go on using
this old well with an old-fashioned
hosting apparatus, when for few dol
lars you could get city water put in
your house2
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. when this APP
paratus gets out of order can get II
axod By = carpenter. M Y. Weekly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
Established
Facts:


That the ROYAL BAKING POWDER is the Oldest
and purest baking powder, and the greatest
in leavening strength.
That it is free from every injurious substance
That it makes lighter, sweeter, more nutritious
and healthfu food than any other.
The Royal Baking Powder Company retnes its
own cream of tartar in its own mammoth re-
fnery, and thus insures its unvarying quality
There is used in the manufacture Of the Royal Baking
o. of
IN the United States for all purposes. This IS required
andmu be chemically and chemically cream
otaar not n markets of this
Europe, necesitated the building OF special
works, and the employment of special processes
All other baking powders, when analysed, show
traces of lime and sulphuric acid, which arse
from the impurities of the materials bought
in the market which their manufacturers use
This is why the Royal Baking Powder is the
only absolutely pure baking powder made.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15

II wish hadn't eaten that apple, /"
said Fatty ruefully. "Why, was 1t q
bad one ?b a'WeIl, believe it was
spelling for . fight" and his face
took on look OF rain.a-st' JOSEPH
News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-24
OLD MAIDS ALL RIGHT.

There Are Hundreds OF Ladies Who De
Not Marry Because They Don't Wish
To.
There never was a greater mistake
than the prevailing notion that because
a woman passes the first flush of youth
without joining hands at the altar with
some lord of creation she must be in
evitably an undesirable creature that
from henceforth will be called an old
maid and made the subject of silly jest
and thoughtless ridicule.
AS q woman talking to women, and
men as well, we give as our candid
opinion a rather pronounced statement,
but one nevertheless that we believe in,
namely, that no woman lives to the age
of IS without at least having one offer
of marriage; therefore the silly notion
that is coupled with the term 'old
maid" is entirely wrong.
A woman has her own reasons for re-
naming single. It isn't because no
man wants her. but rather because she
does not perhaps choose to ally herself
with such ones that have done her the
honor to ask her, or maybe there has
Oceu Id utE iilc SOiuc kTcdt ulb6pPOiut-
ment. or finding out before it is too
late how much better it is to be even
called an old maid than an unhappy
wife.
Charming, attractive women, many
there who are still classed among the
sour-visaged. vinegary. elderly maidens,
whom we are accustomed to seeing on
the comic valentines, yet who, perhaps.
instead of being. according to the gem
eral notion, mourning over their fate
because they are not matrons rather
than maids. could unfold many heart
story of love and romance to the gush-
ing youngsters who. just starting out
in life, think that to be an old maid is
to be on the human bargain counter
waiting for any chance purchaser
Philadelphia Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-24
a Big shark In the Ohio River.

A Jeffersonville Qnd.) dispatch says:
A jreSh water shark was one of the
curi0sities seen by fishermen in this
harbor to-day. For several days the
fish, which is estimated to be fifteen
feet in length and to weigh eigh hun
ored pounds, has destroyed great . I'M
bers of perch, buffalo and channel cat
cGught on trot-line hooks This morn
ing the shark nipped twenty-pound
perch which had been caught on one of
the hooks Of trot-line opposite the
city and destroyed one-half of the fish at
the first bite. Returning for the re-
mainder, it swallowed the hook, and
when an attempt was made by fisher
man to run the line the shark splashed
the water similar to the way young
whale would. The shark is described as
having a mouth like an alligator, teeth
two inches long, and nose resem bling
d pug dog. Fishermen have procured
strong tackle and are batting with ten
pourd fish in the hopes of catching the
aharS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-24
THE DEATH RATE.
Statistical Facts In Reference to Mortality
In tho United states.

bC6IlStlCal Facts In he!ercDce TO MORTALITY
ia tho United states.
On the fst of June, $780, the registra-
ton states had population of Ii, 394,-
347, of which :, 2545 34. or little more
than half, We're living in cities of 5000
population and upward The average
death rates for these states was 10 "a
per 1. 900, being for males 20.6S, and for
females 1862. As usual, it was the
highest in the cities-being %. So, while
in the rural districts it was only IA. 49,
A little over 5000, 900 of the people in
these states were native born whites Of
native born parents, and the death rate
among these was II. About $3.50. 600
were native born whites having one
or both parents of foreign birth,
with a death rate of "a AZ; about
5000, 900 were foreign born, with
death rate of 1885; and
951, 407 were colored, with a death rate
of 1857. The reason why the native
born whites of foreign born parents
have a higher death rate than the
Others is because this class includes an
unusually large proportion of young
children of recent emigrants living in
cities
In the cities, the death rate of the
colored people is 1882, while that of
the whites is % %. In the rural dis
tricts of the southern states, where the
relative proportion of the colored popu-
lation is greatest, the death rate of the
whites is from Is to 16, and that of the
coiored from Is to 30 per 1,000.-John
5. Billings. NJ. D., IN ChautauGuan
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-24

Take . Glasgow audience. and .
speaker must have his feet well planted
on the platform. or he will be over
mastered by the sympathy of the popu-
lace They are not ashamed TO cry.
with their broad palms wiping away
the tears, and they make no attempt
at suppression of glee. They do not
shipper, or smoker, or chuckie
Throw a joke into q Scotchman's
ear and IL rolls down TO the center
of his diaphragm and then spreads out
both ways, toward the foot and brow.
until the emotion becomes volcanic. and
from the longest hair on the crown of
the head to the tip end of the nail on
the big toe there Is paroxysm Of cachi-
nation No half and half about the
Scotch character. What he hates. he
hates; what he likes, he likes. And he
lets you know 1t right away He goes
in for Lord Salisbury or William T. j
Gladstone, and is altogether tory or
liberal His politics decided, his rcIi-
gion decided; get him wrong and he in
awfully wrong. A Scotchman seldom
changes. BY the time he has fairly
landed on his fee. in this world he has
made up his mind. and he keeps IL made
up. II he dislikes fiddle in church ycu
cannot smugglc il in under the name of
q bass VOL And like this persistence
Life is so short that q man cant afford
TO change his mind in La
dies Home Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-24
GEATS THE E,FEEL
rho Devils Tower. . Strange Wonder
Work OF Nature IA Wyoming.

Ehe Devils Tower, . Strange Wonder
Work OF Nature IA Wyoming.
One Of natures strangest freaks, one
Of the greatest wonders of the wor'a is
the Devils tower, or. as the Sioux In
dams call it. the mateo tepee, or the
bears lodge, which stands on the banks
Of tho La Fourche river, in a northeast
ern county Of Wyoming. says the Port
land Oregonian. The country for fifty
miles around consists of high table
lands, deep canyons and narrow fertile
safeguarding to indicate the posi-
lie existence of any such freak of ma
tire.
The tower Is gigantic column. q
monster cbelisb of lava, which rises to
height of 1,72T feet, almost twice the
height Of the Eiffel tower. At the base
to huge shaft measures Sa6 feet
through ia enc direction. Hugh crys
tails OF the volcanic rock, measuring
from l to feet through. start at the
base and run unbroben to the top. Civ
ing TO the column peculiar ibrous ap-
pearance, even when viewed from the
tablelanlis forty miles away.
Aic" ViA 40 RCt biiciSs i2o" " dS IL
made? Once Ia awhile, in the present
age, we have heard how portions of the
bottom of one of the oceans have been
pushed up by volcanic forces, and
even new island added TO the
charts. Ages on ages ago similar vol
canic forces started a jet of lava up
from the bottom @f the ancient goolog-
toal ocean that covered all tho north
west at that time. The squirt of molten
rock evidently did not break through
1t into the waters above, but froze, az
an iron man would say, in tho hole it
had made. This slow cooling of. the
gradual less of its fiery energy. proba-
bly, lasted for many long years. and
gave time for the particles to arrange
themselves in the huge crystals that
arouse all of our establishment to-day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-24

from afar it is possible to recognize not
only the calling but likewise the rank
and principles of dignitary of the
church. No mere curate, for instance,
would ever think of oonning the broad
brimmed and tasseled high hat affected
by some of our Episcopal bishops, and
no one has ever behold a prelate tiled"
with an ordinary derby or pot hat. In
deed. every profession, even down TO
the baker, the cook and the mechanic,
has his own particular and easily dis
tinguiShable etiquette in headgear.
Clerks in banks and in the Offices of
great financiers, brokers and merchants,
may generally be recognized by the
fact that their hats, although inmacu-
late, are generally several weeks be-
hind the fashion. The town season for
hats lasts about six months of the year.
and during that time the style of hats.
especially of the high silk hats, changes
about four times 1t is custom which
we have imported from England
whence most of our fashions with re-
gard to masculine attire are derived. A
London clubman usually requires half
a dozen high silk hats to get through
the season; and SO does his disciple in
New York The young clerks whom
have referred to do not venture to keep
altogether abreast of fashion In this
respect. They fear that il might have
the effect OF creating in the minds Of
4 hef- ,rs-pioalS tha iJo~ th,% %box -
unduly extravagant, or else that they
are endeavoring either to give a lesson
in good form to their employers or TO
rival the latter in the matter of style
The consequence is that their hats are
always just few weeks to the rear.
just as when a field officer and a sub
aitern arc walking together the junior
will always remain few steps 20 the
rear of his superior.