The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-10-29
FACTS AND FIGURES

NeD York Post.
FACTS AND FIGURES
IT cost the Dominion $5,06S to convict
Whalen.
COMMODORE NUTT's other name is Lewis
Dinger.
A TERRIER in Bristol, England, was
lately sold for $500.
In Salt Like City $ts is the price paid
for a cord of pine wood.
A HARTFORD lady has Just had 1000
watch sent her by express.
By new law in Italy the clergy be-
come liable to conscription.
IT has been calculated that sixty persons
per minute die in this world.
ANEW Irish paper, The Irish West, has
made its appearance in Cincinnan.
The lady who knit her brows is now do
voting her attention to pair OF SOCKS
THE Catholic Publication society has
printed, $4,000 tracts during the pa@
year.
| ONE hundred and seventy mine thousand
dollars have been raised for the American
College at Rome.
SIX women were recently admitted to
the University of London, having passed
satisfactory examinations.
SWITZERLAND has about 900,0o0 cattle,
worth $42. .0O0, 900; $50 900 cowsyield $780,
| 600 900 worth of milk year.
THE Society for the Prevention of Cruel
| tv to Animals in New York average two
arrests of cruel teamsters per day.
THERE have been three Popes besides
| Plus TX, who have celebrated the fftieth
| anniversary of their first mass.
A'BosrnN letter-carrier was recently
made the recipient of $3.50 from the well
nleased citizens whose mail is entrusted to
his care
JAMES HALL, the famous Aberdeen ship
builder. is dead 1t is said that there ls
not a norton of the world where Halls
clippers are not known
In one of the French departments 8
poster adorned the walls. inviting the
voters to cast their ballots for Jules \.
the drunkards' candidate"
AFATAL quarrel in Jersey City arose
from the refusal of barkeeper to allow
teamster to water his horses from the Ice
pitcher.
| ALApY in Rhode Island subscribed for
a Newport paper, the other day, to be sent
tn a ueiphbor who worried her by borrow
ing her own.
A Texas paper claims that there are
more newspapers published in that State,
in proportion to the white population,
than in any other State in the Union
BY singular coincidence, the first day
Of the Peace Jubilee fell upon the date OF
the commission tn George Washington a.
Commander In Chief Of the American
armifa
LORD BYRoN's valet, Swede, named
James P. Lindberg, sixty four years old, II
now an inmate of the National Military
Asylum at Mil saukee. BE was present
at Byron's death.
DURING the year 1868, there were 49,
S4S male persons, charged with crime,
taken before the police magistrates OF tne
metropolitan districts of Londen. Of tnis
number, So were ticket OF leave men, anu
5,544 had been previously convicted.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York tn bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas The entire hold OF tnen
vessels is lined with non-conductiug felI;
and by chemical means cold below the
freezing point viii be kept up.
AwHIrE baby was picked up a few days
ago on the Dan river, near South Boston,
Va It was in 8 metallic coffin, with
bottle of milk at iss mouth, aud q roll OF
greeubacks under its head, while newly
plucked roses decorated its strange cradle.
THERE is a man living in Northampton.
within three miles of the railroad, 80
wears Of age, who has been In but iour
different towns in his life. has never been
inside of a railroad car, and has never
, slent in any house except the one IN wnicn
, he was born, has never been counting and
never kissed girl
IT is recorded of Catholic lacy, OF
J Northumberland, England, IN the last cen.
: tury. that she married thrice, her nrst
{ husband being 8 Quaker, her second
, Cburch of England man, and her tniru
Catholic; aud what Is more curious still,
, ON each occasion she married man twice
!. her own age; at 16 a man OF ~ st oo
/ man of so; and at AZ, q man OF "a.
THE champion strawberry has been ex-
d b;hited in New York. II measured ~
: inches around, and weighed one ounce
Q and seven pennyweights. 1t was raised
u INV Nathaniel Niles, at Madison, N. !, ana
!. is a cross between the Wilson ana tne
J, Aoricflturist. Governor Randolph. Oh
New Jersey, has christened 1t the Nues
!, Seeding"
u THE report of the Inspectors OF Com
stabulary in Scotland for the year ending
3 March Is. 1859, states that the NUMBER OF
= tinkers. pipsies, vsgrsnts, and otneI per
sons who have no spparent means OF sup
3 mort has increased in Scotland TO the ex-
= tent of 1s 600 within the last two years.
~ The number of vagrants now amoonts v
ga O3S. or SO. 3.696 men, 20, 756 women, anu
1854 children.
Ap.pyR WAS recently read before TIM
n Academy of Sciences, at Toulouse, France
T. To nroye that the trunks of trees are not
a. a circular, but of an elliptical form, th'
IL axis from east to west being longer snal
y that from north to south The names
o. eight distinguished observers OF the ope
a. raIious of nature are given as supposuns
VI the fact mentioned.
!. TgE other dav q seam In the foci
- :, cutting ON the Ridgefeld Branch rsii
% road. in Connecticut, was charged WI VIZ
Il forty-two kegs of powder and qnansis,a
n of nifro-gIycerine, the whole costing 45Vl
"a The explosion shook the windows In hidge
"A fi.Id. two miles away. and removed cart
"A and rock, the displacement OF when .
ed the usual course would have COST $s'"V'
,s A CHEMIST in England has discovered
Iv f1uid preparstion which he amrms WI
ar cause bodies plunged into it to petfiiy an
ne become stone within five years um'
er The secret of this process is known oni
DiI to himself. He throws out the suggesno
he that. in time, if persons will only pres ~
oh their relatives and friends with his nuit
of thew will be able to construct dwelling
no with them, and thus live in residences su
oil rounded by their ancestors.
he The one hundredth birthday. OF Mr
At Ruth Hemphill, of Henniker, N. ht " "
nd recently celebrated. She was the nr
er- female born in the town. Her fatne
er- Deacon Ebenezsr HartshorD, built the nf
ter frame house in Henniker, and it now STAN
in good CONDITION. 1t was in this noq
hat Senator Patterson was borp.s II
father, James Hemphill, served in the he
olutionary war. She is the mother OF y
children, four of whom are now livin
IA ~ and among her descendants Is one OF u
ich sixth generation
~ ~ WHY He CoULDN JOIN THE CHUEc
NC AT a recent meeting Of rhe stocknolders cf
by Iowa Falls d Sioux City Rsilrosd Company. . .
ere Blair. Of New Jersey. the President OF me e.
md pany told the following story, reportee IN !.
- Dubuque Times, illustrative OF morais o' PiA1