The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-11-19
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A CLERGYMAN the other day took o
5000 wedding fee in New York.
BELLE BOYD, the noted Southern spy,
has been sent to the California State In
sane Asylum.
PARIS will have, on the 1st day of jan
uary, 1870, dry goods store employing
200 salesmen-
NEW HAMpsHIRE has astage-driver who
has held the lines for thirty y-seven years
on one route.
IT is estimated that over million BUSH
els of peaches were shipped from Alabama
during the past season.
THERE are three times a. many men en-
gagged in selling liquor as in preaching the
Gospel or teaching school.
A New BEDFORD marble worker has
an order for couple Of tombstones for
the tombs of two hens.
A WEDDING guest in New York esti-
mates that out Of 80 marriages which he
attended last season, only 10 were "love
matches"
BISHOP KINGSLEY, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, expects to ordain nine
native Chinese ministers on his reaching
China.
KATKoFF, the most eminent journalist
of Russia, was, fifteen years ago, an ap-
prentice in house-painter's shop in Mos
COW.
VERMoNr's funded debt is 81, ,075, 600
net reduction during the past year of
$157, ,042, and since the close of the war OF
$6O2, 800.
TIE total number of voters on the Eng.
lish parliamentary register last year was
1905, 40, and the number who voted was
825, 5,519.
A YOUNG lady, who has been studying
finance for some time past, wishes to know
whether the day rate of gold affects the
nitrate of silver.
VICTOR HUGO is 81, Alexander Dumas
66, George Sands 65 years old. The three
great French authors have sons who are
celebrated authors themselves.
A FAMILY of seven brothers and sisters,
the youngest of whom is sixty eight, have
resided together all their lives, In Knox
county, Tennessee.
A NOVEL feature of the Danville, Va,
pated in by a number Of young ladies,
Miss Ella Yates taking the premium
In McHenry county, Ill, there are II
cheese factories, which use the milk OF
about 8, 400 cows, and the past season have
made about 100000 pounds of cheese.
LORD PALMERsroN never visited the
most important seaport of the British En-
pire, Liverpool, which the railway had
brought within four hours of Broadlands,
his country abode, until the year before
his death.
WRITER in the Providence Journal,
addressing Senator Sprague, says: "Gov-
ernor, you have no idea how much money
one ab1e-b bodied, industrious man can lend,
in the course of day, if he is so dis
posed"
SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts,, has an en-
thusiastic Christian who attends eleven
religious meetings q week, works at his
trade every day, and goes twenty six
miles by rail to his work, and finds time
to read his Bible and his newspapers.
| THE new Roman Catholic Cathedral in
Boston will probably be finished in 1871.
It will cover an area of 5000 feet. 1t
will have a chime of bells, and its chief
tower viii be 800 feet in height The style
of architecture is the early Gothic.
| In bayou near Natchez, short time
since, two field pieces, loaded with slugs,
! stones, balls, etc, were discharged INTO q
crowd of aIligators fighting over the car
cass of sheep, and twenty-one Of the
reptiles were killed.
| FALL BTvKR, Mass, has bank with
$4O0, 900 capital and only eleven stock.
holders, q majority of whom are named
| Brayton. There are four thousand shares,
and of these one gentleman owns twenty
nine hundred.
AN eccentric capitalist in Buffalo offered
a man, presumed to be lazy, seventy-two
dollars and some groceries If he would
wheel barrow containing one hundred
day for twenty-four days The ofer was
accepted and the contract faithfully exc
cuted.
ABAR of iron one inch In diameter
viii sustain weight Of % tons, bar oi
steel 80 tons; and, according to computa-
ton, based upon the tact that fiber only
1-4O0Oth of an inch in diameter VIII sus-
tain "a grains, bar of spiders silk an inch
in diameter would support weight OF "a
tons. E N
TIE statistics of the last General Con.
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church shows: 80 dioceses; Bishops ana
clergy, 1862; candidates for Holy orders,
$40; total number Of baptims, W,IzO;
confirmations $3.50; communicate,
1888; Sunday School teachers. 21, AS
scholars, 1SS, ,132; amount ofcontributions
for three years, 81, 100000.
| WISE men are puzzling themselves to
account for the fresh water which comes
up through an iron tube, sunk fifteen feet
through the constantly shifting sands Of
Cape Cod, from sixteen 10 twenty feet
from high water and not more than three
feet above it. The water in this tube
rises and falls regularly with the tide, yet
more than 100 barrels have been pumped
from it at one time without finding the
SLIGHTEST trace Of nliue matter. Il is OF