The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-11-26
Ages OF Some Living Authors.

Appleto1s's Journal gives the following
list of the ages of some of the best known
living authors:
The following list of the ages Of living authors
will, doubt prove OF interest to our readers. IL
has been compiled with care and Will be found, we
think, entirely correct Gulian c. Verplanck 81;
Richard II. Dana, 81; George 1fcknor and Charles
Sprague, IS; John Neal IS; John P. Kennedy, 20 :;
Sarah j. Hale, "a William Cullen Bryant, 13; Ste
phen ii. Tying Francis Eeber, and George Ban
croft, 20; William III. Seward and Catherine E.
Beecher, 80; Lydia M. Child and Leonard w. Ba-
con. IS; William H. Furniss and Ralph Waldo En-
erson 81; Horace Bushnell and George D.. Prem
tice Is; William Gilmore Sims and M. +. Maury,
81; Theodore =. Fay, John g. Whittier, Louis Agas-
Clarke, Isaac Mcclellan, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes, 60; Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, and
Alfred B. Street, 50; Harriet Beecher Stowe and
Samuel Osgood. 50; e. r. Cranch and John :, 3.
T. Tuckerman, Henry w. Bellows, Henry Ward
Beecher, and E. II. Chaplin, &c; Richard II. Dana,
Jr., and John Lothrop Motley 53; John g. SAKE and
Goodwin, 81; james T. Fields, John Bigelow, and
Arthur Cleveland Coke, 81; William T.
Chanting Henry Giles s,o, Mrs e; D. cGsoen1 South
E; P. WhiPPle, and James R Russell Low
A. Bristed, and Herman Melville, so; T. B. Read
Samuel Eliot, j. G. Holland, and Edward Everett
Hale, 4s; Alice Cary, William r. Alger- James
Parton, and Donald g. Mitchell, a.; Francs Park
man and George W. Curtis, 49, Richard b. stod-
u, IL.
G. Leland, IS; Mary A. Denison and Charles L;
Brace, 43; Paul H. Hayne, and William Crosweli
Doane, 80; William Swint0n, 81; Ellen Louise
Aldrich and E. s. Band, Jr., 80. Eagtish and
Fresch-Francois P. G. Guizot, 49,: Charles
Knight and Victor Cousin, q; Sir John Browning,
Theirs 73 Emile de Girardin. Victor Hugo and
Barry. s.; Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Lytton Bulwer,
Harriet Nartineau, and Alexander Dumas, 6' Mary
Howitt and George Sand, 66; W. Z. Gladstone, 6i;
Alfred Tennyson 60 Louis Blanc, Charles Dickens,
Robert Browning, and Charles Mackay. 81; Charles
Reade, So; William ii. Russell and Anthony Troll
,oIe sgS % R1sha Ro% naEo % We II cons G Matthew
Arnold, "A; and James Hannah, AZ.
AN Eastern paper has the following
"A few days ago we chronicled the dis
covery of the great Shenandoah diamond.
1t was picked up to throw at a rabbit, sup
ing it to be worthless stone, but after
ward discovered to be e gem of great
value. And now a son of MIR. Robert
Davidson, in Montgomery county, Mary
land, has picked up another stone to some
purpose. He did so to throw at some in
truding cows; but lol the pebble was
found to be gold nugget weighing nine
ounces, and worth $50. OF course, the
cows were permitted to depart in peace.
The nugget was carried home, and since
then an experienced Californian has pros
pected the entire farm, finding numerous
pieces of virgin gold the size of grain of
wheat The surrounding farms are to be
prospected, and the whole county and
State are to be searched. The philoso-
piers stone is now discovered to be the
stone which Southern boys pick up to
throw at rabbits and cows"
1t is rumored in England that state
ment in Lord Byron's handwriting viii
shortly be published, which will settle for
ever the unhappy question which has late
ly been raised in the papers relative to
Lord and Lady Byron
The Canadian schooner Kate Burley
was recently lost on Lake Michigan. Six
of the crew, including the captain and first
mate, perished.