The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25
SuNDRIEs.

tiOi by Sh'S"siON .o VIZ f~''>
year.
The moment man is satisfied with
himself everybody else is dissatisfied
with him.
The present debt of the city of Paris
is S2lO, ,0O0, 900, which is to be paid Oft
in go years.
The japanese colonists in California
are said to be much more clean and
neat than the Chinese.
Prince Arthur declared Mrs. Secreta-
ry Fish to be finished lady-the peer
of any i'm the world.
One hundred and ninety-two persons
were killed in the streets of London,
last year, by horses or vehicles.
Josh Billings says that publishers
would not notice his communications
until he adopted Wards style of SPELL
ing.
A well-knOwn dancing woman in
New York is said to make $4,000 a
year, working only eight months of the
twelve.
Two colOred men, sentenced for rape,
were hanged in Newcastle, Delaware,
on the 9Th list, in the presence of 600
persons.
A Duchess county, n. ", farmer
had nothing but handful of pepper to
repulse burglar with, but it worked
like charm.
Tobacco culture has been tried in
San Diego county, Cal, with complete
success. The product is superior to
most of the Virginia leaf.
A Utah letter says that the Mormon
army is %, 900 strong, well drilled but
poorly armed, and is imbued with i'll
tense hatred to the United States.
Some indorsers to note in Mary
land claimed that they Were not liable
because the note was signed on Sun
day, but the Court thought otherwise.
In the last week but one of Decem-
ber there were 1858 more paupers in
London than i'm the corresponding pc
riod of last year. The total number
was 152, 543.
There are 12S Roman Catholic mon
asteries i'm the United States, where
men live under vows of celibacy and
poverty, and 800 nunneries of various
grades.
A two-headed child was receL tly
born in Tazewell, East Tennessee. The
father was ftlll-blooded negro, and
the mother white woman. The child
was still born.
No year has seen fewer eXpulsions
at West Point than the present. The
result of the late examination, in every
branch of studies, has given universal
satisfaction.
Adam Clark, i'm advising young
Wesleyan preacher, told him on no
consideration to hold interviews with
women, especially youthful ones-un-
less in presence of witnesses.
The Jealous man is always hunting
for something he doesn't expect to find,
and after he has found it he Is mad be-
cause he has. He is always happy just
i'm proportion as he is miserable.
A South Carolinian who lost his wife
lately, married another while friends
We're making preparations for the fune-
raj, and with his bride followed the re-
mains sorrowfully to the grave.
The House of the Missouri Legisla
ture, on the 10th inst, passed a bill de-
barring officers having control and dis
bursement of school money, from dis
eliminating in salaries on account of
sex.
A new door has recently been open
ed to women-that of ticket agent in
the country railroad offices. Several
roads have adopted the system, and
are making the changes as quietly as
possible.
Statistics show that the Quakers in
Pennsylvania, hitherto the stronghold
of the sect, are decreasing in numbers.
Since 1880, but few meeting houses
have been established, while 30 have
been abando led.
A monster lobster has been caught
off the coast of Scotland, measuring
two feet eight inches from the tips OF
the claws to the tip of the tail. One
claw measures eleven inches and three
quarters i'm circumference.
In a case recently tried in Maine,
witness incidentally stated that there
were three posts i'm his hog yard. Be-
ing asked what they were for, he re-
piled with some hesitation that his
three children were buried there.
The Hon. r.. S. Hefiin, member of
Congress from Alabama, was lately
found i'm his room at Washington al
most suffocated by gas. When brought
to, he said he " tried to pinch the light
out, but found that somebody had sto-
len the wick"
In Cherokee county, Ala, a lad nam
ed William Dickson killed a play mate
named Wilcox, by filling pipe with
powder and tobacco, and giving it to
him 10 smoke. The explosion forced
flame and tobacco down the poor ooy's
throat.
A young man i'm Indiana worked all
last Summer to clear an eighty-aere
tract ofland belonging to a young wo-
man who had promised to marry him.
When, Just as the weather began toget
cold, he went to claim his reward, she
married another fellow who had looked
OH while the victim was working.
A delegate from Alaska has arrived
at Washington to urge upon Congress
the organization of a Territorial Gov
ernment for that Territory. He brings
with him memorials, numerously sign
ed by American residents there, pray
ing that they may be accorded the
same right that other Territories of the
United States have.
A report from Benton, Montana Ter
ritory, on the 7th inst, says: "HaIf-
breeds just i'm from the Indian camps
on the Maras, report that the Indians
are dying at the rate of . per. d.y Of
smallpox, and are begging the whites
h. 4I,ns ,lNa hot tl,s,
Mountain Chinos bonds and others
have declared war, proves wholly un-
true.
A mysterious deaf girl has been agi-
tatiug San Francisco. a reporter went
to interview her, and while taking
down the points, INDUCED i'm remarks
which would not have been compli-
mentary to her if she could have heard
them. She stood it for some time, but
finally emptied the coal scuttle over
him and pitched him down stairs. He
doesn't believe she is deaf.
A Woman's Suffrage Convention as
sembled i'm Springfield. ILL.,, OH the
Sth instant, and closed on the 9th.
Among the resolutions adopted bv the
Convention is the following: "Resol-
we'd, that Congress take immediate
steps for the adoption of the Sixteenth
Amendment to the United States Con.
stitution, to secure Suffrage for women
on the same terms as men,"
A new remedy is announced for the
cure Of chronic lung disease The pa
tient is to place the skin of cat upon
his chest every night. This remedy
induces easier respiration, and finally
cleauses the lIInps Az these nafienfs