The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-07-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

IT costs $4,000 apiece to kill Indians
in Arizona.
TOLEDO clerks have formed Z protect
i've association.
A 7. STEWART has devoted sfx millions
to hotels Tor working women and working
men.
TIE Vermont Agricultural Society was
organized in 1860, with ninety i've cor
poratora None are now living.
TEE Daniel Webster farm and home
stead, in Franklin, New Hampshire, has
been sold for $4,000
MAINE has 1856 Congregational churches,
representing $1,000 population, contribu-
ting $46 900 for charitable purposes.
ADoLPHE THEIRS. it is said. has deter
mined to write history of the Revolu-
ton of 1S4S and Of the Second Empire.
THE Russian Railroad Gaset1 says that
Russia has already paid upward Of 200,-
600, 600 roubles to American railroad con-
tractors.
A PHILADELPHIA, travelling in South
America. has found at Cartsgo, State of
Cancs, some of the prettiest women in
the world.
TIE authorities of France have recent
ly obtained indisputable proof that three
persons executed for murder in 1855 were
entirely innocent
M RoCHEFoRT's father has written to
the Rapp& to say that his son, who was
in receipt of large income derived from
the sale Of La Lantsrne, had LEFT him in
distress.
THE increase of the number of horses
in the Unite1 States since 1860 is estimated
at 1.750, 900, or 25 per cent. The whole
number is said to be about s, 100000, valu-
ed at $2es8, 100000.
A PECULIAR feature of the Fourth Of
July procession in San Francisco was
procession of boys, more than ten years
of age, who were born in California since
the discovery Of gold.
JOSEPH KERR, q cabinet maker Of Lsn-
caster, Pa, Q man of some so years Of
age, has not had half an hours continu-
Gus sleep in years. Opistes of almost
inconceivabls strength fail to have any
effect on him.
THE King of Sweden recently said to q
gentleman who complimented him on his
efforts as q poet and littersteur: my
dear sir, my merits as an author cannot
amount to a great deal. I never yet re-
ceived altogether $500 for my literary
productions"
SOME citizens of Savannah, Ga, who
bought o lot Of rubbish at an auction sale
of unclaimed express parcels" threaten
to bring suits against the auctioneer, al
leging that the packages were never sent
by express but were packed up for swind-
ling purposes.
PETER CUMMINGS, of Tonswsnda,
who was drowned q short time ago in the
Erie canal, aged about seventy years,
drove the first team that towed q boat
after the completion of that canal, on the
26th of October, 1925. He has driven on
the canal every year from that day until
he was drowned. making in all forty
seasons in succession
A CONTRACT has been made in San Fran
cisco for the supply of 10000 Chinese Ia
borers, to be employed as plantation hands
in the State of Tennessee. 1t Il under
stood that the passage of these laborers
will be paid by their employers, and they
will be paid $50 per month. Another
force of 25 600 is being contracted for TO
proceed to the State of Mississippi.
A BAND of wandering gipsles in the
State of Delaware have been detected in
attempts to kidnap handsome young girls.
The object is supposed to be ransom IL
is q dodge resorted to by the robbers OF
Italy and of Mexico, only they do not
confne their kidnapping operations to
children, but grab anybody whose friends
can raise money.
A NEW monthly paper, entitled the d.
GORGE, is about to be started in Paris, with
the object of legalizing divorce. The
prospectus states that there are not fewer
than 5000 separated men and women
living in France, that the Courts have at
the present moment 1,533 demands for
separation, and that, moreover, the num-
Der of couples separated voluntarily Is
immense.
TIE total value OF the real and personal
property in the city and county Of New
York, for the year 1869, according 10 .
recent official statement, is $964, ,1OO, ,597,
against $9OS. 43Sy y327 in 1868, being an in
crease of S55. 1854, ,270. The separate items
are as follows, in 1855: Real estate. $6S4,-
140. .76S, and personal estate, s279, ,959 $40;
in 1868, real estate, $685., 236, ,555; personal
estate, $2S5. .199, ,772, Sd that the real es-
tate has increased $50, ,904, ,213, and the
personal estate has decreased $5,239,943.
Among the items of personal estste, the
bank shares are valued at $74, 547. .14 in
1859, and $75, ,99S. .019 in 1868, being de-
crease in 1869 of 81, ,450,SS5
An American, some time ago, arrived
at the conclusion that leaves turn red se
the end Of the season through the action
of an acid, and that the green color could
be restored by the action OF an aIkah.
The conclusion has been verified, the
London Atheneuns now declares. BY ex-
pertinent. Autumnal leaves placed under
q receiver with vspor Of ammonia In
nearly every instance lost the red color
and renewed their green. In some, such
ss the sassafras, blackberry and maple, the
change was rapid, and could be watched
by the eye, while others, particularly GER
tain oaks, turned gradually brown, with
out showing any appearance Of green.
THE numerical strength of the Pres
byterian Church in the world is stated By
the Protestant ChurchnaGn as follows:
United States. ------..-.--.-..-.5uHsW
Great Britain. -9,s1-oIS
Holland ..-....---.....-..--.-...-. ...-..s-1~oSy-yy
France ..-.-............-----....- I-29U1
SUf zerisnu - &c = - 49, 49,
Austria and Russia. .1s..y-t<0
British and Dutch Colonies. 5o.o9
Total .is.oo.ooo
These fourteen millions constitute one
seventh of the entire Protestant popuia-
ton of the globe. But if to these are
added the fourteen millions Of the United
Evanoelical Church of Prussia and Tie