The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-29
SUypRIES.


Savannah sent ~, 900 shad North this
season. f -r q
Almost every college in the country
now has its newspaper.
Ohio has twenty-five different female
suffrage associations.
The aggregate debt of the cities AID
towns of Massachusetts is nearly Ss5,-
0O0, 200. .e.-- . -
I Napoleon calls the 5000 schoolnlas-
ters in his Empire "the pacific army
of France"
One hundred and fifteen women are
ut present suitors for divorce i'm the In
diana courts.
/ Farmers in North Carolina are plan
ting corn with a view of making
b cad by the first of August.
Alabama has 916 miles of railroad,
the total assessed value of which is Sl1,-
095, ,701.
l About twelve hundred persons visit
the New York pneumatic tunnel un-
der Broadway, daily.
The Odd Fellows in the United States,
according to q late enumeration, are
somthing over 25O, 600 strong.
There is a stone house at Dunsback
ferry, Saratoga county, n. Y, now oc-
eupied bya family, which was built in
1717.
A hotel building i'm Meadow Lake,
Nevada county, CAL, which cost origi-
nally SIC, 600, was sold at auction a few
days ago for 81.
The Chinese laborers on the Texas
Central railroad drink no water during
the day, but keep one hand busy hand.
ing around tea. II
Reuben Miller, of Springfield, Ohio,
who is seventy-five years old, has kept
diary in verse for the last half centIi-
ry-and it contains over eighteen thou
sand items.
A maiden lady, ninety-tliree years
old, appeared as defendant in a Massa-
chusetts Court few days ago, and
when it was decided that she must nav
q servant S11 SO, claimed as wages due.
seemed not all disconnected.
One of the passengers on the Golden
City at the time she was wrecked on
the coast of California, has sued the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company for
SIG, 600 for the privatiOns he endured in
consequence of the disaster
An Eastern paper says that the verb
"tointerview,o denounced by purits as
an American, was so employed i'm En-
gland in the Elizabethan era, and can
claim higher antiquity than the noun,
which is used without hesitation.
A Cincinnati paper insinuates that
the officers of ferry-boat made no ef-
fort to save man who fell overheard
the other night until they found out he
had not paid his fare. They made a
desperate dive for him and the two
cents, then.
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist |
Episcopal Church, gave the following !
advice to a class Of deaeons ordained |
by him in Philadelphia on a recent |
Sunday: "DOn't eat late suppers. / |
have found that nine out of ten minis
tiers who eat after preaching die early.n
"How much water do you put in
your milk?' asked Pittsfield, Massa-
chnsetts, man of a boy who delivers
milk on one of the milk routes. ave
don't put any water in it," replied the
Toy. What do you put in it, then ?,
W said the candid youth. |
The Minneapolis Mimi Tribune
says shoemaker of that city. "has re.
ceived an order for a pair of boots, the
measure sent being Is inches in length
by IL across the slab of the foot. If
made up. in size, they would be about
No. -. The dealer was unable to fur
nish them from the store, but is nego-
tiating for a contract"
A man in England, named Gilman.
has been fined ESQ for kissing a widow.
He admitted that he had often kissed
her. This, however, he averred, could
mean nothing, as he had kissed the
daughter at the same time, and had
been in the habit, indeed, Of "kissing
the family all round" II
The English Society for the .Suppres-
sion of Tce has destroyed 129, ,6Sf fnde- .
cents prints, 16, 222G illustrated books, /,
hive tons of letter press of the same
sort, 10, ,OO5 sheets of songs, besides COP ,
perplates, printing presses, &c. The |,
funds of the society are contributed by ,
private individuals, and each prosecu- |,
ion cost $50.
The Detroit Tribune says: " A very :
suit has just been decided in !
The Circuit Court at Adrian, Mich. 1T Z
s the recovery, by the wife of drunk ,
lrd, OF the money paid by her husband,
turing the past six years, to a saloon |
keeper, judgment being entered against
he unlawful seller under the provis- 9
us of Prohibitary Liquor Law of the ,
state. This is the first suit of the kind
hat We recollect of, but, under the law,
he recovery of all money so paid by
he parties to whom it originally be-
onged is unquestioably possible, the
ground being that it was paid without Z
consideration, liquor not being proper G
y" .~-t
The San Francisco AHd is RESPONSE
Die for this statement: "a crab, meas r
iring thirteen feet from point to point
If claws, and weighing some forty
pounds, has been brought to this city
rom Yokohama, by the last steamer. /
Z was obtained by gentleman from G
ome japanese fisherman, who cap
llred it last month upon the wreck Of S
he United States corvette Oneida, re- d
emily sunk in the Bay of Kanagawa, /
y collision with the steamer Bombay. q
I'he formation of the legs claws, cara r
,aX and mouth presents marked differ '
nee from those of the common crab, {
laving prOtruding tusks, and the ends q
'f the claws being armed with rows of
eeth." I
Rev. A. G. Byers, Chaplain of the
ohio Penitentiary, in q sermon before +
he convicts on recent Sunday, gave q
he following interesting statistics of q
hat institution: "Since October o, Is
4, 2, 120 persons have been received at I
he penitentiary, and 1884 discharged: r
~ were pardoned, and 81 had died 81 7
,er cent. of the men received were un- !
Ter p years of age; 81 per cent. were
Ineducated; . per cent. were men 1
vho as boys, had run away from home Il
4 per cent. had never learned a trade o
r useful employment; 90 per cent,
Fere intemperate, and q per cent. $
Tere habitual drunkards; "a per cent. s.
ever attended Sabbath School, and 8 d
er cent. were In regular attendance. o
" the 1884 discharged men, very few 0
ad returned re-cOnvicted felons. q
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