The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-03-25

Queen Victoria is said to he writing
her autobiography. -l 3r1 :.
The surest way to lose your health is
to keep drinking other peoples.
England paid over SS5, 600, 600 to buy
the telegraph lines from the owners.
Pockets are like clouds once again
they have silver lining.
The Canadian Government is issuing
25 cent fractional currency notes.
The wife of the Peruvian Minister at
Washington weighs 800 pounds.
An inexperienced farmer tried to
make corned beef by giving his oxen
whisky.
The Connecticut Radicals are levy
ing on small postmasters. If they
don't come down they go up.
An exchange wants the Government
to issue stamps for kerosene, inscribed
Prepare to meet thy God"
Twenty-Five thousand Mormon wo-
men i'm Utah have given public express
sion to their partiality to polygamy.
New Orleans relieves the Puritan
quiet of Sunday afternoons by base ball
matches. -eH M
Jobs cash account footed up $3.50, ,0O0,
according to religious paper. We
had supposed him rich.
A moral debating society out West
is engaged i'm the discussion of the fol-
lowing question: "If q man deserts
his vile, which is the most abandoned,
the man or the woman?"
An old farmer whose son had lately
died, was visited by neighbor, who
began to cOndOle with him on his loss.
"My loss ~ exclaimed the father; mo
such thing; it was his own loss-he
was ofage."
What contrast there sometimes is
between the adjective and its adverb !!
Reflect, for example, ON the wide diff
ference that exists between the man
who is constant in love and the man
who is constantly in love! r
A Salt Lake letter says Brigham
Young, with several prominent saints,
will soon start with a large train and
camp equipage on three months tour
at the South. His motive is unknown,
but it is conjectured that he goes to
seek new Zion. i.H '--
Asiatic cholera now RACES at Mos
cow in its worst form. People are sud-
denly attacked by the epidemic while
walking in the streets, and there have
been several severe cases i'm which
death was instantaneous.
Mr. Cowen, one of the most industri-
Gus members of the British House of
Commons, says that the majority of
his colleagues regard Parliament as a
genteel club house and drop i'm only, In
a aleisurely manner, late at night, after
returning from dinner parties and So
cial entertainment.
A WIDOW in Parkersburg, w. Va,
ran away with fellow the other day,
leaving four children at home, the old
est nine, and the youngest one year.
1t was three days before their abandon
ment was discovered, when all their
feet were found frozen.
In - years, since gold was first found
in California, it is estimated that one
billion of dollars have been gathered
there, or about 45,OOO,OOO annually,
the maximum having been $50, 900, 900
i'm 1858. The yield declined steadily to
So, ,OOO, 600 i'm 1869, and this was the
minimum. -
"The Last Man Brotherhood an
association composed entirely of prin-
tiers, held its fourteenth anniversary i'm
Philadelphia, few evenings since.
The Brotherhood now numbers -
members, ii having died since its or
ganization. No new mem5ors are ad-
mitted and, as its name implies, it
will exist until the last man is gone.
A gentleman of Monkton, Vermont,
is engaged in raising poppies, from
which he produces opium. In 1868 he
raised $40 pounds of the article, which
he sold to druggists and physicians at
the rate of from 50 to SO per pound.
The increasing demand for this drug is
a sad sign. Druggists tell us that i'm
the country the farmers wives use it
largely.
The bill to enforce the Fifteenth
Amendment imposes fine and impris-
Onment on any person who fails to reg
ister any colOred voter, or to receive
his vote, or to assess the requisite taxes
to enable him to vote, or to prevent
him from having the same privileges
under civil regulations as are given to
white voters.
One of the life insurance companies,
in Hartford, has in its office an arith-
mometer, a calculating machine re-
Gently obtained i'm Europe, and the
only one in use i'm this country. 1t is
comparatively small, about twenty
inches in length, and looks, when
closed, like German music-bOX. The
wheels, gearings and and dials are of
steel and brass, and it is so contrived as
to perform the operations of addition,
subtraction, multiplication and divis-
ion with speed unattainable bO men-
tai process and an accuracy absolute
though mechanical.
\ Washington correspondent of the
jamestown Journal tells this: "a gen.
tleman went into the lobby and asked
the dOorkeeper to call Senator Fenton
out. He did so. 1t was evident that
the gentleman was one that the Sena-
tor did not wish to see, but with his
pOliteness he took the gen.
tleman by the hand, and in the bland
est manner possible commenced shak-
ing it and bowling; and backing him to
the outside of the door, babe him good
turned and left him. The
gentleman looked somewhat astOnish-
ed for moment, but turned to the
doorkeeper and remarked: Wall, III
be ID if ] was ever put out Of a
house so politely BEFORE"
a ST Paul paper says: "a lone wo-
man passed through the city yesterday,
with an OX-team conveyance, on her
waytO q homestead, seventeen miles
above Alexandria, Douglas county,
some 800 miles from this city. She had
previously gone up and pre-empted a
farm under the Homestead law, and
built Il house, and went back to Red
Wing for her aged mother :She found
her mather sick, and, after waiting sew
eral weeks for her recovery, it being
necessary for her return to look to her
she started alone. with her
goods on sled, hauled by
an oX.team, a cow being tied alongside.
The woman, who is a Swede, did not
appear to he at all appalled, by the pros
pect of her many days journey to her
lonely home.r
n VERMONT paper says that Miss
Louisa Bradley, of Peacham, died re- !
Gently from the effects, as supposed. Of
a fall on the ice. In the post ns0rtcm
examination of her lungs, however, the |
lower parts of both organs were found
TO be ossified to a certain extent, and
in a manner never before Observed
There were a great number of small
bones, the longest about an inch i'm
length, and varying i'm size and shape.
It would be only a slight exaggeration