The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21

Fn1okTEMPLE Is thirty years old.

FL1uHTKMPLK Is thirty years old.
GARrB4LDI is reported to be completely
restored to health.
TaK Danville (Cal) Aduersissr boasts .
Chinese printer.
THE New York police comprises force
of 2,679 men,
PARIS makes little watches no bigger
than q three-cent piece.
NAPOLEON III now goes to bed every
evening at 10 O'Clock.
BERaH thinks that five hundred New
York babies die every year from the use
of swill milk
A NEPHEW of the Hon. John Q. Cal
houn is a street-car conductor IN the city
of Charleston, 8. G.
A LARGE sheep, harnessed to scraper,
does good service in clearing the sidewalks
in Montpelier, Vt, of snow.
Miss JELF, of Elizabeth, N. j., owns up
to being an old maid. She has passed her
one hundred and fourth birthday.
A COUPLE of Schenectady On. Y.) chill
dren were frightened into fits by the ap-
pearance of "made up" Santa Claus.
Two servant girls in London recently
iumped from a !hird- story window on q
wager. and on the following day they
were decently buried.
IT is claimed that, at Eureka, New,
deposit of clay has been discovered, i'm
pervious to fire, which is just suited TO
lining furnaces.
A MAN in Lewis county, Va, had his
wife brought into court on a warrant for
slandering his character, but the court
dismissed the case.
A WOMAN at Mansfield, Ohio, brought
suit against a saloon-keeper for damage
done by selling her husband liquor, and
she obtained verdict for $3.50.
THERE are six free libraries IN Manches-
ter, England, containing 81, ,355 volumes.
During the year ending September, 1859,
these libraries had 2, IL, ,046 readers.
DURING the year ending October I,
1869, the New York Post-of1ce sent to
Europe 5,OO6,012 letters, and received
from there 4,354,597 The force in the
office numbers about 800 men.
AT marriage ceremony in WEXFORD,
r. l., lately, the groom became impatient
during the extended prayer, and inter-
rupted the clergyman with Elder, amt
that 'beout 'noughs"
WE are warned by recent writer
against the use of Opaque envelopes which
are green on the inside and white on the
outer, as the analysis proves that the
green is produced by an arsenite OF cop
per.
In 1752 the first church in West New
bury. Mass, was compelled TO deal with
Richard Bartlett, who refused communion
because his pastor, Rev. Mr.. Hale, wore
wig, which he declared to be anti-Chrts-
tian.
As A result of the continual strikes
among the London cabmen, they are to be
allowed to charge what fares they please,
the only condition being that the rate
adopted shall be legibly advertised on the
cab itself.
A YOUNG man in Lewiston, Me-, recent
ly applied for a divorce because his wife
would steal cloth from the mill In which
she was at work Search was rewarded
with 1850 worth of the stolen cloth
REV. Mr.. CoENs, a missionary of the
Presbyterian Church at Yokohama, ia
pan, stated to Bishop Kingley, on his late
visit, that he did not believe there were
more than eight Christians in the whole
empire among the native population.
IT has transpired that the Hartford
youth who, much to the disgust of the
lady in the case, postponed his wedding
day by swallowing laudanum, was driven
to the act by the refusal of his tailor, in
whom he trusted, to trust him for his we'd
ding suit.
THE losses by fire in the United States
during the year including only those
fires in which the loss at each was $20,OOO
and upwards-amount to $4O,64, 4,ooo,
against $34, ,757 900 in 1868. The total
losses in the past fourteen years
to 1885,, ,299,OO
In our large cities ~
as follows: Balt