The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-11-05

MAINE boasts Of 10000 discharged SOL
diefs and sailors. -s + s.sssa 8 sai-s
The Unitarians have s15 societies and
303 ministers In the United StateA
THE Prussian Bible Society has distrib-
uted three million Bibles since 1914.
HELENA, Montana, claims $500 inhab-
itants, and an annual business Of 81 CO.,.
Tn wife Of mail clerk in The Louis
vile Ooasisr, Journal Office has fallen heir
to $300yO00. assissI trs s -
In its forty y-seven years Of existenee the
Yale theological School has sent out $40
PSussIAN distilsries last year consumed
$3.50, 900 bushels of grain and nearly 40,-
000, 900 bushels Of potatoes. ~
THE city Of New York consumes an
nually fully 100000 sheep; Boston
about 10000; and other cities In proper
ton. Il. 49,, .-....-. s.'.. -,
PRoF BGHM, one of the most eminent
men of Berlin, died recently of q slight
wound on the finger, inflicted while he was
dissecting. $50 s:,s,s
! The mail carriers at Cleveland deliv.
cred, during the month Of September,
rs, ,050 mail letters, II, ,6Q local oneA and
63, 1876 newspapers - .at .
VERMONT is the only State that was un-
represented at the session Of the United
States Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows at San
Francisco.
TIE Old and New School Presbyteri.
ans have synods, 16 presbyteries, 189
ministers, 26S churches, and 13,1H COM
municants in Iowa. "A
Ex-PREsIDKNT PIKRCR's estate is esti-
mated at 1,000, 900, the bulk of which
viii probably 60 to asnephew, who is be-
ing educated at Princeton College /
AN English servant boy pretended to
have murdered his master for the sake of
making q sensation, and would have been
hanged had not science proved him to be
q liar. -
A NEW YORK jeweler gives his opinion
that nine out of ten of the s0-called sets OF
diamonds worn by fashionables are mere
paste, not worth shilling peck.
81. M. CRITFRNDRr, Of Waterloo, Iowa,
exhibited some sweet potatoes at the Fair,
ten of which weighed thirty pounds, and
three of the ten weighed three and half
pounds each.
BURTON II. CARTRIGHT preached the
1924. He broke prairie on week days,
among the early settlers.
NELAToN, the famous French surgeon,
often receives, in the course of single
day, the visits of between two and three
hundred persons who desire to consult
him personally. .-t- ...
DURING the Mechanics Exhibition at
Boston more than 5000 individuals were
weighed, whose aggregate weight was
ATE, 700 pounds The average weight Of
the %, 900 was 1873 pounds.
In 1867 Italian statistics show out of
no, ,456 marriages there were 81, 159, con-
siderably more than one-haf the whole
number, in which neither the bride nor
bridegroom could either read or write !
A GENTLEMAN recently left at the Office
of the Vincennes, Ind, 1Suaes four ears Of
corn weighing seven pounds Each ear
contained % rows, each row IS grains of
corn, making in the aggregate 4,S40. .
BISHOP CLARKsoN has ordained three San
tee Indians in the northwest corner of Ne
braska, to the ministry of the Episcopal
Church. They will be employed as mis-
sionaries among their own people, of
whom more than three hundred are COM
municants in the church.
THE Troy Wing has made calculation
from which 1t appears that enough rain
fell in Rensselaer, and Albany counties in
two days during the recent heavy storm to
supply every man, woman and child upon
the face of the earth with two and half
gallons of water per day for year.
EXPERIMENTS made in the Botanic Gar
den, London, showed that leaf Of the
Victoria Regia" would support four
hundred and twenty-six pounds before it
sank. The leaf selected was the lightest
of eight on the plant, and it is estimated
that the entire plant could uphold weight
of ton and half.
In 1885, Sir Robert Peel presented q
farmers club, at Tamworth, withtwo iron
plows of the best construction. On his
next visit the old plows with the wooden
mould. boards were again at work. "Sir,"
said q member of the club, we tried the
iron, and we be all of one mind that they
do make the weeds grow"
MADAME x, an avaricious dame of
Paris, not long since, had an oak stair
case torn down, 8 segment Of solid wall
ruined, a cavern excavated beneath the
floor, and spent finally so, to get Eve
franc piece which her careless grandchild
had dropped into chink-and didn't find
it after all. So
The English are very liberal in their
support of Christian missions. The fol
lowing are the receipts of some Of their
missionary societies: The Church Mis-
sionary Society received last year 3766,
coo; the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, $4,000; the Lonoon Mis-
sionary Society, $555, 900 and the Wes-
leyan Missionary Society, $750,000.
THE singular fact is related Of Mr..
Willitts, who was recently murdered In
Detroit, that, on the day on which he was
killed, he obtained an insurance on his
life for five thousand dollars, for which he,
not having the money by him at the time,
gave his note. He put the policy In his
pocket, where, after his death, q few hours
later, it was found. ..,.-,
TIE Marquis ID Orches offered prize
of 10000 francs to any person who would
discover practical and cheap method Of
actual death. This prize has
been gained by DR.. Caniere. His method
is to place the hand Of the subject before .
lipht In a darkened room; If the subject is
not dead the light win make the hand
with rosy hue; but II
dead it will be perfectly opaque.
THE Board of Missions Of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church recently held its
annual meeting in New York. Two
hundred and eleven clefgymen are en-
rolled as home missionaries, of whom one
hundred and seventy-eight are now In the
field. Total receipts for domestic missions,
for 1869, were $127,71O The report OF
the Foreign Committee was read, show
ing the mission force to be thirty-seven.
An ingenious calculation has been made
in England, that an average human being,
after deducting the value Of what he con-
sumes, adds about e100, or $500 in gold
value, to the wealth Of the community,
during his or her lifetime. "If Il Is true"
said Robert Coningsby, "oyer 81, ,000,000
per day drop into the American exchequer
from this one item of human machinery
during several months Of each year."
A npDLE-AeRD widow woman Of Sun
cosk, Mass, named Mrs. Lindsey, has, for
some time past, refused to pay her high
vay tax. She was not actuAted by any
Inconvenience in the payment Of her
ratea, for she is worth coasiderable prop
erty. but she expressed dislike to the
principle of the tax She was told BY the
Surveyor that she must pay her tax IN
money or work it out on the roads. Her
reply was that she would work It out Ac-
cordingly, the other day she boughe q new
hoe, Joined the gang Of men who were ct
work on the highway, and labored until
sundown, doing good days work. She
said that she would be on hand the next