The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-12


done by the Richings Troupe.
There was big Conservative meet
ing i'm Savannah few nights ago. 3
The travel to Canada from the South
has been very large this season.
Chas. p. Knighton, one of the pris-
oners of Caddo parish, La, is dead.
The work of repairing the wharves
Tom and Jerry Lindsay, two notOri-
Gus Texas cattle thieves have been
killed.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis and Mr.. Robt.
Toombs have become rccOnciled after
fifteen years. Ets gn1 {
The crops i'm Virginia have never
looked SO well since the war, and eve
rybody is pleased. Hh { ll'f ~
The Southwest Virginia Agricultural
Fair will be held at Wytheville on the
18th of September.
A hose mandatory in Opelika, Ala
hama, turns out 500 dozen excellent
pairs per week. go
Lynchburg, Va, will have an agri-
cultural fair, commencing on the llth
of October and lasting four days.
The body of q young man named
Foster, OF Chicago, has been recovered
from the river near Memphis.
The Carleston papers record the death
of Captain Chichester, late commander
of the ill-fated Tennessee.
A band of CypSies have recently APP
peared and set up their tents near
Montgomery, Ala. One Of the wol,len
died on Sunday. -t.s t.
The police force of Augusta, Ga,
have been supplied with forty-hye
Enfield rifles, and are to be drilled in
the manual of arms. ..
A woman, named Lily West, twer-
ty-eight years of age, born in Alabama,
died in New Orleans of jelirium tre-
mems on Monday.
Simon Cameron, Senator and ex- Sec
retary of War, is said to he one OF the
charter stockholders Of the Ge,>rgia
Banking Company of Savannah.
A negro is teaching a mixed school
| i'm Columbus, Georgia. He has thirty
pupils, the oldest of whom is forty and
the youngest nine years of age.
Up to Sunday the subscription in
| New Orleans for the Germany soldiers
who i'm the war with France may be
wounded or MANNED amounted to Sl's
75. III hf-t
Gen. Lee was i'm Richmond Monday
"looking rather fi,tigucd and jadcd, re-
sulting, perhaps, from his hot and dusty
ride, but otherwise in good condition.
The revenue collections from manu-
factured tobaccoin i'm Virginia for the yeal
ending June 80, amounts to S2,6i3,59
Negro troops have arrived at Calves.
ton to keep the Indians off the from
ticrsmen, and the Texas papers are
making merry over their being thus
protectod."
The citizens of Water Valley, Miss.
; are making extensive preparations 10
the reunion of the Fifteenth Mississippi
late G. S. A., at that place Oh the sou
inst.
General Wcitzel, u. S. ~, writes E
the Governor of Tennessee that he lla
, been ordered TO survey and eXamin
the Cumberland and French BrOa'
rivers. .,.
ii J.J. Clayton, charged with the mul
der of S. M. Myers, in Augusta, Ga
|, the other day, has made a voluntar
statement, i'm which he says the KILN
. was done in self-defense.
a Applications for permission to bur
v letter Phillips remains in Oaklan
Cemetery, Richmond, was refused, an
d the body was buried in Surry count.
ON his fathers land. l4Ir ~
oil The trustees of Washington Collee
II have received official information I
IF the rcceptance by Hon. John Randolp
Tucker of the professorship of law,
which he was recently elected.
,r Lieutenant Colonel James Tottel
0, Inspector General, tried before cour
martial at Louisville, for disobcdien'
TO of orders, neglect of duty, etc, Ii:
T. been found guilty and sentenced to
nj dismissed from the service, which SCI
nd tence has been approved 10y the Pres
d, dent.
m Wallace. one of the Georgia neg
ne Senators, is before the civil authoriti
lie of Atlanta, charged with having us,
TO BENTLEY, colored Messenger of q
Is, House, opprobriouS words, tending
=, cause breach of the peace. Tf3 ?
"a The Staunton (Na.) Spectator say
es, 9 There has been some complaint abo
u, the wheat not being generally nile
We have inquired and find that
"a threshes out more than was eXpecte
" Wheat from Southwestern Virgin
To- and East Tennessee is pouring in
H. Richmond via the Virginia and TIE
A.. ncssoe Airline railroad. The Danvi
.ts depot is crowded, and the cry is "sl
les it comes"
nus Peaches. watermelons, cantelop
he armies, and other fruits are so plenti
en-, in Georgia towns that they can he h
at OPTIONAL prices. a forty.-pound m
ons. however, has astonished the
sys tives at Columbus.
IA Julia Blancett, an unfortunate mo
IN er, has been sentenced to two yea
ap- Imprisonment in the penitenilary
me the circuit court of Schuyler coun
;au Mo, for abandoning her infant ci
W. W. on the commons.
Tive mon, bathing In the MissG
river, at Kansas city, on Saturd
hat caught box that came floating
Upon opening it they found the arm
tis man in perfect state of prcser
,;,-o J ton They Were nVStiticd, and -