The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-21

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Bold Robberies are frequent in Sa
f vanah. ~ 1eiiiai ~ .ii
A huge wildcat has been caughtnea
} Greensboro, Georgia.
Rome, Georgia, is doing a liyel!
real estate business.
Several large bears have recent,
been killed in Craig county, Va
The Chattanooga Times threatens L
suspend for want ofpaper. The South
ern mills are overrun with orders.
!. Jacksonville, Florida, still hopes fol
z direct line of steamers with New
The buzzards are feeding on the car.
cass OF . mule in the capitol yard O
Jackson, Mississippi.
i One establishment in Ohio has sent
sixteen thousand pounds of machinery
to the Mississippi State Fair.
4 There were aetween twelve and fif
teen houses taken on from Columbia,
Va, by the Hood, and five lives lost =
two negroes and three white men.
Kinds county, Mississippi, has to pay
under the new order Of things, 500, ZOO
in taxes against 10000 paid hereto
fore ~ III 'aoIs e-o-I $500
+ Judge Angood, Of Floyd county, Ga,
raised 112 bushels Of Early Rose Irish
potatoes on less than one-fourth of an
acre. They are All-good. 1g's
Veins of coal are struck in digging
wells In San Augustine county, Texas.
There are In the county eight grist and
saw uills run by water power.
4 A large piece Of gold was found in a
well near Fredericksburg, Virginia, re-
ing for the purchase Of the property.
1t Is thought the low price of cotton
will have the effect, next season, Of IN
ducing planters to devote more land to
the cereals and less to the great staple.
+ A Texas cattle-trader was decoyed
into holise of ill-fame, by a woman
in Kansas City last Tuesday, where
three men seized him and robbed him
OF N,500 = 1aql& go 1..s t--f
b The Richmond merchants did not
lose so much by the food as was at
first supposed. Investigation proves
that they reported thousands instead Of
hundreds. aozfRelr .1fr --f-i-s
Some eight hundred colored people
from North Carolina have applied for
passage to Liberia, in expectation to be
sent out by the American Colonization
Society on the 1st of November next.
The town of Natchitoches, La, has
contributed s., 900 toward the erection
of telegraph between Alexandria,
passing through Natchitoches, to
Shreveport. Only 81 600 more is need
ed to start the enterprise. 81.
The negroes in Holmes county, Mis-
sissippi, puffed up with the advice of
their loyal league leaders, have held
meetings and resolved that they would
not work for white people next year on
any account or in any capacity.
The Newbern, N. e., Journal of
Commence says that woman of that
village recently gave birth 10 twins
which, though dead, had each COM
plete set of teeth.
There were. three hundred and
twenty students at Washington Col
lege, Virginia, on Friday last, thirty
more than were present. at that lime
last year. 1t is believed there will be
four hundred matriculates the pres
ent session. i.i5 .
+ On last Sunday night, while Mr.. Pill
grim and family were at church, some
negroes entered his residence, at Mari
eta, Ca, and distracted from the
trunk of Mr.. Wheelan $1,000 of reve-'
nue. fund, just collected in the upper
counties. - Z =. ,.'.. - Ii
u A negro girl, employed as servant by
Professor Woodfin,' at Penefield, Ga,
was shot and killed on, Monday night
by her gay Lothario, David McWhor-
ter. He escaped to the woods, although
the shooting is supposed to have been
accidental. JED TIE p. t i
Sunday, as James Watson, g colored
school-teacher in Cuthbert, Ca, and
Lewis Maxwell, also colored, were ait-
ting together in a small house on the
premises of John Rhodes, from some
cause, the former shot the latter through
the head with pistol, death ensuing
almost instantly. rJ -.-
General. Chalmers, of Austin, Mis-
sissippis planted about forty scres of
broom corn after the hail storm kill. d |
out his cotton last spring, and now
says he will make splendid crop. He |
believes that the CULTIVATION of broom
corn in that county will pay as well if |
not better than cotton. 'a.'. - !
The apportionment of the school fund |
for the parish of Orleans, Louisiana,
shows 81, ,S93 to be the number of school
children, and the census returns give
the population of the parish as only |
184, ,6SS. According to the usual meth |
DDS of calculation, this number of ofschool
children would indicate that New Or
leans has population of at least
800, 700. H re-
-s 1t Is the opinion of many persons
that the late unprecedented freshet in |
the James and Shenandoah rivers was
not caused by a continued rain, but by
something like the bursting of water
spout ON or about their head waters,
and their sources are not very great |
distance apart. The flood came down
in the Shenandoah in great waves sue
ceeding each other rapidly. /
About sundown on Friday evening
of last week two young men of Alex
andria, Va, i'm order to settle diff
Guilty that had arisen between them,
armed themselves with knives, and,
accompanied by some of their respec-
tive friends, repaired to the grounds
around LOckabef, across the canal !
locks, where, having aoffed their coats,
they fought according to the rules in
force in Western Texas previous to the
war. After prol0ngea conflict, during
were cut and slashed to anil
extent that satisfied their friends, they
were separated and carried To surgeons
to have their wounds dressed. Neither
of them was mortally hurt. h"Ql1
This Is the latest snake story. The
Nashville Union and American tells it:
our acquaintance, who Is entitled to all |
credit, that the following is a snake
truth: The gentleman says that re-
Gently, while clearing the weeds along
his fence on q small branch, he came |
in contact with q large-sized snake. !
He cut the monster in two near the |
middle. The head end, with great te-
nasity of life, crawled to the branch
with rapid movement, and from the
tail, which wiggled and squirmed
awhile where it lay, there issued four
teen young snakes about the size of
wheat straws. They Immediately
made fight and protrudei their lancet
like tongues until the whole batch were
Of Our informant is q gentle
man Of unquestioned yefacity, and
gives the above - the truth from an
actual occurrence. - sir3 10 H8HfdsI
The Baton Rouge Courier ssys:
"On Sunday last. the 18th inst, COL
ored man named Pomp Narcisse, liv-