The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-14

NEW JERsEY's debt is 1904, 800.

Two young Tennesseeans recently took
out licenses to marry the same girl.
IT is noted in New York as a para.
doxical fact that the recent fat mems ball
was slimly attended.
THE army chews and smokes $4,000
worth of tobacco per month. The
weed" is furnished at cost.
A GLOUCESTER, Mass, barber has q
pianoforte in his shop for the benefit of
his waiting patrons.
ANinstitution to educate colored preach
ers has been opened in Macon, Ca, with
twenty-five in attendance.
IT is reported that the production of
salt in Michigan during 1868 amounted to
577, $50 barrels.
INLondon 1 ,0O0, 900 of men, women, and
children profess no creed and never enter
place of worship.
As q sort of poetical justice, London
conyicts are put at hard work making
boots for the Metropolitan Police.
TEE latest plan to draw custom is pla-
carded in Boston store: Ten dollars
presented to every tenth customer"
VIM G. JONES, q Wilmington, Delaware,
undertaken, has buried 6,S76 persons in
half a century. He saw Washington
once.
IT is authoritatively stated that the loss
of life by kerosene is greater than by rail
road and steamboat accidents combined
A sPUNKY bride in Port Hope, Canada,
married the groomsman because the bride
groom was too drunk to stand up.
joseph RAAETTA has played the flute
at the Boston Museum for the past twenty
six years, without being absent from q per-
formance.
A GAME of chess, lasting ten years, h
recently been concluded between DR.. Karl
Brenzinger. of Germany, and his brother
in New York.
THE recent paragraph going the rounds
that little Minnie Warren was dangerous
ously ill, grew out of a malicious remark
in California paper that she could not t.
live "long."
IT is estimated that within i've years
$12n. 900, 900 will be invested in factories
in Maine, employing 100000 annually.
ST. PATRICK's CATHEDRAL, which has
been building in New York since 1888, is
to be the largest church edifice in the
United States, affording ample room for
14,O00 people.
A MAN in Concord, N. H, on being told
a few days ago by his counsel that his
wife would probably succeed in her sp-
plication for q divorce, Became insane,
and he is now an inmate of the State
Asylum
HARPER shows figures to prove that in
fifty libel suits instituted against newspa-
per during the last ten years, the gross
amount of money collected is only three
thousand dollars.
THE Louisiana Penitentiary has 341 in
mates, who make every week day 1900
yards of cotton and wooden goods, 400
pairs Of shoes, 20 barrels, and 10000
brick The machinery employed cost the
State 100000
A YOUNG lady at Sioux City, Iowa,
whose father was accidentally shot, sup
posing it was premeditated, dipped her
fingers in her fathers blood, swearing not
to ,wash it off till she had avenged his
death.
WATTS composed six hundred and nine
ty-seven hymns, and Wesley six hundred;
and about tenth part of them live to
this day, and are sung in every Christian
church where the English language is
used.
THE Nantucket IaqHirer recently re-
ported that venerable citizen OF that IS
land, IS years of age, was moving salt
grass on the meadow. where can this
be beat" it asks, cutting hay in the mid
die of December by man of S5?"
THE women of Georgia have reinterred
1,027 fallen Confederates in the Confede-
rate cemetery at Marietta, Ga, and appeal
for further aid to gather up the soldiers
whose remains lie scattered over the
fields of corn and wheat and by lonely
roadsides."
Ar Cincinnati, $4,000 barrels of saloon
washings" are re-distilled every year,
Welding about two and half gallons new
spirits each The slops bring about two
dollars per barrel, and whisky guzzlers
drink the stuff distilled from them with
out being able to tell it from new.
GEORGE LUMB, q Paducah, KY, dray
driver, recently inherited $4,000 by the
death of relative in England. He i'm
mediately went over after it, but found
he would have to wait year or two be-
fore touching the money, so he prudently
returned to Paducah aud resumed his old
business.
A SAN FRANCISCO Chinaman was caught
by his queue, as he jumped through the
batchway to escape the police in pursuit
of him. He dangled for an instant, and
then drawing his knife he severed his
precious pig-tail and dropped in safety,
while the officer tumbled over backward,
with handful of hair.
CARRIE DIAMOND was pretty San
Francisco milliner who made over $780,
900 worth of property to 8 friend" before
falling in business After making sue
cessful failure she wanted the money back
Her friend wouldn't agree to that. Soon
after she fell sick, her friend watched with
her, and one morning early she was found
dead. fumes of chloroform in her lungs
and prussic acid in her stomach
OF 1,777 Protestant missionaries, 533
are in India and Ceylon, 27I IN South
Africa. PIT in Guiana and the West indies,
1876 in the Pacific Islands and the China
Sea. 1873 in China and Japan, 15s N West
Africa and so in Western Asia The large
numbers in South Africa and other British
colonies include many pa-Gors OF feeble
churches of English settlers who are not
properly foreign missionaries.
PoRr SAID, the terminus OF the Suez
Canal on the Mediterranean, is the mari,
time capital of the Isthmus. With its tall
chimneys of brick and stone and its iron
stacks. Il looks as if part of Pittsburgh
had been planted in the Isthmus. III al
readv contains &c, 900 inhabitants, but not
a vestige of dwelling existed within
miles Of the spot when NJ. de Lesseps and
his few adventurous companions nrst
pitched their tent upon this barren coast
THE United States pensions paid during
the wear ending June 80, 1859, according
to the report of the Third Auditor OF the
Treasury, amounted to $27,619,345, OF
which $1s,343,054 were paid TO WIDOWS
and orphans, and 80, ,536, ,29S TO mvaiias; I
The principal amounts palS N t1e Wse seSelsi IN
1890; Pennsylvania, s3.227, ,159; Hi
no;s 20 366. 259; Indiana, $2,262,4 ,456;
Ohio, s, S5a,s76; Massachusetts, $1,e45'-
439: Maine, $f,277, ,752; Michigan, ST.
19O064; Missouri, s1,0s5,0O6, and WIS
consin, $962. 1856.
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