The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-17
SUNDRIES.

Ex-President Johnson and famil,
will sail for Europe in June.
| Tartar-emetic pie detected Iuncl
thief in Vermont school. IT, .
A drove of 10, 900 sheep recently pass
ed through Stockton, Cal. an ITsy
Mrs. Fernando Wood wears the mos.
superb diamonds Of any lady In Wash
ington. f o. r@"oj 9'iE'1'','' hcgu
Over sc, 900 copies of lhe report of the
Richardson Mcfarland trial have been
sold. - t....,... ,.---.... -,
The total number of cattle i'm the va
rious European States is not less, IL is
said, than "a, 100000. 'f'
Horse-racing is dying out In Virgin
la. and the Richmond papers mourn
the degeneracy Of the times. r....
A Sacramento hen has taken charge
tof a nest Of kittens, and won't allow the
mother to come around. I .IaL
There were over 10000 convictions
for offences against the game laws i'm
Great Britain last year. ............
Tennyson is said to be jealous of
Longfellow's reputation in England,
where the latter has many warm adj
mirers. ta1-ff e 80 iI.If
The Society for the Suppression OF
Cruelty to Animals in Paris has made
a movement against frying small fish
and eels alive. 1fai
A man living on Dennis Lake, Flor
ida, aged 81 years, is the the father of
81 children the youngest of whom is 10
months old. iioli ii'. Pr" D.. Dr..
An Indian woman in California, 100
years old, has declared i'm trance that
San Francisco Is to be destroyed by an
earthquake in 1873. O.. :. .'i.
The Empress Eugene has for the
past is or 16 years annually paid up
ward of $50, 600 from her private purse
to Catholic churches i'm Paris. ..
A society has been formed at Paris,
the members pledging themselves to
bequeath their bodies to the medical
colleges for dissection. r..5 r. ....
General Lyman Beeman, who was
made Major General i'm 1s45, is still
hale and hearty at the age of 50. He
resides in Neosho,J Mo. -..I .-
1oGerrit Smith said before large au-
dienee at the Cooper Institute, q few
days ago, that wars would never occur
if rulers drank water instead of wine.
Over 10000, 900 persons have died Of
the small pox in Russia since the be-
ginning of the century. Vaccination
is not compulsory in the Cars domin-
ions.
Boston has had over 58o, 900 bushels
oysters from Virginia and Maryland
within six months past, and has plant
ed $50, 900 bushels In her harbor for
Summer use. Il. ----,,-,--.......
At the Wowan Suffrage Convention
in New York the other day, Mrs. Haz-
lit, Of Michigan, said that but few
wives married their husbands because
they loved them.
Several mice came out, a few evenings
since, in a house on Fourteenth street,
New York, while canary bird was
singing, and rivaled the bird by the
sweetness of their notes.
In Alaska, if native murders his
wife, her relatives won't be satisfied
until he gives them lot of blankets.
They think wife is worth Is blankets
in the Summer and % in the winter.
Vanderbilt is said to be be distribut-
ing his property to his heirs. After
the manner Of John Jacob Astor. he
has lately transferred SIS, 900, 600 to one
of his children for the nominal consid-
Grafton of$1. -i s'h
In the IdahoP Penitentiary the prison.
ers occupy their time with Bible classes,
whereupon local newspaper says that
the fmoral atmosphere inside the walls
is of a much higher tone than that of
the rest of the Territory"
One of the oldest defences on record
has Just been made at Hamburg by q
man who had murdered his wife from
motives of Jealousy. According to his
own account he had not murdered her,
but aha | killed her In fair and hon.
orable duel" as he had placed q pistol
in her hand and told her to shoot at
him. a-'
The American public Is not general
ly aware that for each half ounce of
written mail matter it is now paying
just six times as much to Paris, or any
part Of France, as to London, or any
part of England. This is owing to the
rupture of our postal relations with
France, of the mending of which there
seems to be no immediate prospect.
Omaha has a man who lives with his
family in one of the large iron tubes
used in the construction of the bridge
He was too poor to buy or rent even
the humblest frame cabin. so he adopt
ed this singular expedient. He has
constructed a neat stone fireplace i'm
his house, and here the wife and two
children manage to live and get their
frugal meal. q
Bismarck is a tall, elderly, awkward
person, clad i'm military uniform, with
the star of authority hung upon his
breast, and plain sword dangling un-
gracefully beside his long legs. His
face is q curious mixture of humor and
sadness 1t is In perpetual unrest, the
the eyes sparkle and burn, and the lips
are now compressed, now wide open,
with an air of humorous satisfaction.
A man went up In balloon at Nc
Gregor, Iowa, on the evening Of the 23d
ult., and sailed of in the direction of
Prairie du Chen. When about half
way across the river the balloon drop
PCA W ShO WooCig anu Oalc 0cIUll6ut
coming frightened, left the car and
struck out for the shore, but soon gave
out sank and was drowned within 90
feet Of a boat that had started out to
his rescue.
In a history ofIabor, embodied In the
report Of the Massachusetts Bureau OF
Labor Statistics, it In stated during the
reign Of Henry VIII-thirty-eight
years-the number Of robbers, thieves
and vagrants executed In England was
about ~, 900, or about 2, 90 per year, and
in the reign of Elizabeth "hardly q
year passed by wherein 300 or 400 of
them were not devoured and eaten up
by the Gallows. in one place or anoth-
err ytl-.- f 'f,E
LADIES, JUST THINK.-We clip the
following from The Richmond ESenins
Nescs: How astonished some of our
fashionable ladies would be il q certain
law passed in England, in ITO, just a
century ago, We're re-enacted! ANY
person who shall, by means of ofrouge or
Of blanc, OF perfumes, of essences, of
artificial teeth, of false hair, Of cotton
Espagnol (whatever that may be), Of
steel stays or hoops (the crinoline of
ITO, of high heeled shoes, or Of faI
hips (can such, things be), entice any
Ofhis Maieatv,s rnaIe a,rhjacfa into mar