The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-12-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS
Ar Springfield, Mass, persons dying o.
smallpox are buried ct night.
IDA LEWIS has had her history printed
in pamphlet of sixty-six pagea
A BooTBLAcK stand in New York ho
tel is worth seven dollars day.
In forty-one regiments. Of the Russian
army every private can read and write.
THE Baptists of Illinois haye 4,00o
teachers and $4,000 scholars in their Sun
day schoola
THE Havana papers predict that brown
sugar will be worth forty cents per pound
before another year.
AN Eastern editor tells his disappointed
contributors: If we want stupid articles
we can write them ourself"
Four bachelors at Westford, Vt, have
bought church pew together, the one
first married to become sole owner.
A WOMAN is captain of canal boat run
ming into Cincinnati, and trsnsacts busi-
ness, says the HnQuirr, as well - man.
THE Jews have three hundred syna-
gogues in this country, thirty -nine Of
which are in New York and Brooklyn.
NEW YoKK surgeons have nEads . chin
for an unfortunate young man deprived Of
that ornament taking the material hom
his chest.
SrRANeERs cannot dwell in Barcelona,
Spain. without previously Purchasing .
permit to do 20 from the civil Governor.
A RzsDRNT, of McKeesport, Pa, fell
face downward intoA mudhole, while drunk
the other day, and was smothered to
death. ia'
ABLAcKsfoNE, Massachusetts, miIkman,
sick with the smallpox, called Oh seventy
five families in his rounds before he knew
it
Two of the men pardoned out Of the
Massachusetts, Penitentiary for innocence,
are going to sue the State for wages for
the four years Of their Incarceration
TIE Congregational churches of Hss-
sachusetts have entered solemn protest
against the increasing profanstiOn of the
Lords day by railroad and steamboat COM
panies.
OREGON was 30 mild the last week in
November that the strawberries and peas
were ripening, blackberries in bloom, oak
buds bursting. into Leaf, and fresh pork
spelling. hi
An enterprising church in Boston 10 to
have "reporters' pew" fitted up with
every convenience for the use Of ofnewspaper
when they visit the church
on business or otherwise.
A WITNESS in Richmond (Va.) court
the other day, told the Judge to "hueh his
as he couldn't talk to two men at
once" he had an opportunity to reflect
upon his rudeness in Jail.
In India the elephant is made service
able before a gigantic pillow. The i'm
plement is guided by two men and turns
up a huge ridge and forms furrow three
feet deep by four and half feet wide at
the top. ---
BISHOP THOMPSON tells the Hethodists
that unless the members subscribe this
year 25 per cent over the sum subscribed
last year-$650, ,000-it will be impossible
for the missionaries to maintain the ground
already gained.
The Episcopal Church has in this ooun-
try: Bishops, At; priests and descons,
2,6S7; parishes, 2,472; baptisms during
the past year, 5,702; combinations, b.
958; commandments, 194,692; Sunday
school scholars, 194,046; contributions,
$4,457, 1888.
A FEW weeks since missionary preach
ed in Cheyenne on the street. with ory
goods box for q pulpit. The choir was
seated in buggy, when the horse became
frightened and ran away with the choir.
MATERIAL prosperity is not generally
thought to be provocative ofsuicide, but the
wife of Q London coke merchant, who had
drowned himself testified that "Ae had
been much depressed Of late on account
of the great increase Of his business"
A POOR woman in Worcester, Mass.
who for twenty weary years had waited
to hear from her husband, has just re-
ceived letter from him, saying that he
has smassed fortune in California, and Is
waiting for her to enjoy its advantages
with him. ....
A LIGHTED clay pipe filed with powder,
but with light covering Of tobacco. was
nut to the face of little boy named Ksva-
nsueh, by another boy, at India1opolis,
Z few dsys since, when 1t exploded, I'D
the little fellows eye was put out.
A CANADIAN Postmaster had Key Of
damaged powder, and one night thought
he would see il it was good for anything,
by throwing lump into the ire The
lump jumped back into the keg, and the
building was without q roof In very
short time.
A YOUNG man who was recently killed
in Webster, Mass, had received, . few
days before, letter from . lady in Maine,
to whom he was engaged to be married,
in which she said that she felt somothing
was about to happen to him, and that she
did not believe he would ever come home
again
TIE house of the editor Of the ITALIA
hassee Neridian was blown up the other
day. In preparing for . hunting expedi-
ton, he provided . three-pound can OF
powder, which little negro boy thought
was something to eat, and put On the stove
to warm. The boy was killed The other
inmates escaped unhurt. IL
A YOUNG lady of Dubuque, Iowa has
been imprisoned - insane in the State
Lunatic Asylum for fourteen months, &C.
cording to the Dubuque Hrot4 because
she was unwilling to accept lover wnom
her parents prescribed on account OF ms
supposed money, and left home for refuge
among friends.
A STAGE robber, recently arrested In
California, has made confession reveal
inc the fact that there il an Organized
band. with code of laws, grips, signs and
passwords, operating from Oregon to An
iona. and into Nevada The band was
Originally organized ct Portland, Oregon,
and has for months pursued . career OF
robbery and murder.
THE New York Ebening Po9 says:
"Mr. Richardson left no viii He was
worth about seventy five thousand dollars.
His interest in the Tribune alone was
valued at forty thousand dollarA" The
New York Commercial Adcertiser says:
"Mr. and Mrs. Mcfarland we're married
by Theodore Parker. All of the Witnesses
to the ceremoney are now living.
THERE is an amusing paragraph In Treas-
urer Spinner's report. he does nos IKE
the law which compels him. in al cases
to write his frank He says: :" A fac-simile
of my official signature seems stlli TO an
swer very well on athousand dollar green
back note, but under this law, It u moi
good to certificate that serves the afi1x'
ing of three cent stamp"
SHORT time since Mr.. Gideons and {
.on were deer hunting In fernando Coun
tv. Fla. Mr.. Gideons discovered Q pair ol
cvea He ordered his son to hold the dog
While he went in the direction Of thu
markling orbs. The eyes. however, dis
appeared, and, after searching for them
for some time Mr. Gideons started to re
turn to his son. On his way he DISCOVERIES
another pair of eyes, which he took foI
the ewes of a deer. He fired, and in Z
moment discovered that he had shot hi
own son dead.
THE total number Of white officers and
soldiers. known and unknown, buried 4
the National Cemeteries il nearly 900, 000
N -.-L.- of ro0vo aoldiers nearly so.