The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-10-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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ONE-QUARTER of the houses on the
island of Malta are hotels. o
THE six Methodist branches in England
have 642, ,822 members. vffs
A FIRM in Leipsic lately celebrated the
completion of their five thousandth piano
In Leicestershire there is a lunatic who
has been kept in chains for sixty years.
In 1867 the number of arrests for habit.
ual drunkenness, in London, was 10O,351
THE North German army contains 172
ministers, 113 of whom are Protestants
and 90 are Roman Catholics.
In 1869 the English Chancellor of the
Exchequer received, as conscience money,
the sum of $20,97O.
THE largest crop of cotton ever pro-
duced in the South was in 1860. 1t stood
in the market at $160, ,000, 600 in gold.
TIE Moravian statistics show 1895 COM
municants are in Germany, 3,208 in Great
Britain, and 6,76S in North America.
STATISTICS show that about six thou
sand vehicles and three thousand pedestri-
ans go through the Washington street
tunnel, in Chicago, daily.
THE amount of the peach and black
berry crop at st. Joseph, Mich, this year,
is estimated at 100000 baskets of the for
mer, and 10000 bushels of the latter
AMONG the bridal presents received the
other day by young lady in New York
the daughter of a milliopaire-was a $70,-
900 house, with $4,000 worth Of furni-
ture.
MD'LLE CARLorrA PATTI has an En-
| glish sparrow that accompanies her on all
her travels. She picked it up on the road
side, several years since, with both its legs
broken.
1T is estimated that about $500,0O0 of
the new issue of ten and fifteen cent frac-
tional currency is kept out of circulation,
by people keeping one of each for sam
pies.
THE Charleston Courier says the NOR
tality of the negro population in that city,
since the close of the war, as compared
with that of the whites, has been more
than two to one.
WILLIAM TRACEY is the name of an es-
timable keeper who has recently been dis
missed from Yorkshire insane asylum,
because when it was his duty to give pa
| tient a warm bath he deputed the task
to two lunatics who boiled the man to
death.
THE one hundredth anniversary of the
death of George Whitfield will occur Sep
tember 30, 1870, and will probably be
commemorated at Newburyport, Mass.
He was buried there under the pulpit of
the church where he had recently
| preached.
A SHORT time before Judge Fosters
death he went the Oxford circuit in one of
the hottest summers that has been remem-
bered, when his charge to the grand jury
| was as follows: Gentlemen, the weather
is extremely hot, am very old, and you
are very well acquainted with your duty.
Practice it."
FROM return recently made by the
British and Foreign Bible Society, it ap
pears that by means of that agency there
have been distributed, up to 1869, 81 ,210,-
4S5 copies of the Holy Scriptures, the ex
penditures incurred during the sixty-ive
years of the society's existence having
been $685. ,464.
For the last ninety years .Christ's
Church, Philadelphia, has had practically
but two rectors, Bishop White, who served
from 1779 to 1886, and the Rev. DIR. Ben
jamin Dorr, who died a few days ago. The
Rev. John w. James, who succeeded
Bishop White and preceded DR.. Dorr,
survived the former but one month.
WILD OATs.-A crop that is generally
sown between eighteen and twenty-five.
The harvest sets in about ten years after,
and is commonly found to consist of a
broken constitution, two weak legs, bad
cough, and large trunk filled with walls
and patent medicines. We can hardly say
that the yield pays for the time and labor
expended in the cultivation.
THE Cleveland Herald says: ave saw
in O street car in this city, a few days
since, an extensively dressed woman not
only tell stranger to give up his seat, but,
upon his doing so, tender him five cents
and loudly insist on his taking it. She
said she was rich enough to pay for
everything she had, and didn't ask no ia.
vors from nobody without paying for it.
In England, recently, the pedestrian,
Mountjoy, who is over GO years of age,
undertook to travel $50 miles bv foot in
three days. He started from the Bellevue
Hotel, Clapham-common. On the first
day he travelled so miles in 13 hours and
40 minutes; on the second he occupied IA
hours in the so miles journey and on the
third he finished the 80 miles, and per-
formed so miles in thirteen hours, and at
Z o'clock he came to the winning goal and
accomplished his feat.
THE movement in favor of woman suf
frage has reached more advanced state
in England than in this country. Women
now have the privilege of votingin muni-
cipal affairs, and there are already be-
tween two and three thousand female vo-
tiers on the municipal register at Leicester,
the total number on the roll being only
about sixteen thousand. There is astrong
woman's rights party in Leicester, and the
new voters are forming associations so as
to make the most of their lately acquired
privilege. -..,-e,
THE official statement of passengers ar
rived in the United States during the year
ending June 30, 1869, has been compiled
at the Bureau of Statistics. The total
number arrived was 3S9,651, of whom
240,477 were males, and 149, 174 females
OF these, 81, 3,342 were cabin, and 336, 300
steerage passengers. The actual immi-
grants numbered 3J2, $50, ofwhom 214, ,74S
were males, and 137, 7,S21 females. Of these
immigrants, 132, ,537 came from Germany,
&C, ,236 from England and Scotland, "a ,93S
from Ireland, "a, ,224 from Sweden, 16,06S
from Norway, and 1854 from China
BRANDrNe TEXAS CATTLE-The Shoe
and Leather Dealer says: "On the large
ranches there are many thousand head of
cattle, and about twice year the ranch
men go out with the branding irons of the
owner, to drive up and brand all the calves
of the herd. 1t is curious fact that these
herds all run together, and yet seldom or
never become united. The stock raiser
may have dozen herds, with as many diff
ferent brands, all grazing together, but
each retains its separate individuality.
We do not know that this peculiarity has
ever been accounted for, but it is often the
case that all the cattle of particular brand
will be sold, and then the herdsmen viii
go out on the prairies, and by aid of their
glasses, find the particular herd, and drive
them in, when there will he found no cat
tie of other brands in the whole herd.
The common law in Texas seems to be
that any cattle found roaming without be-
ing branded become the property of the
finder"