The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-16
VOL. XVL.---NO. I.
sUNDRIEs.

n The last sell of the New York Sun
is Russell.
Among the dead at Specheren wer,
found two Sisters Of Mercy.
= The richest gold mine in California
. last year yielded profit of $4,000.
: The Rev. Horace Cook has turned
/ salesman, and is operating i'm New
!, York wholesale clothing store.
The Duke of Argyll is said to be
i spending all his spare cash i'm expert
e menting with flying machines.
! A worlds wonder-a lawyer has fail
ed, and in Boston, rumor says, for
$4,000. ~
1T is reported that Chief Justice Chase
is suffering from the result of a paralyt-
ic stroke, at the residence of Senator
Sprague, in Rhode Island.
Augustus Hemmenway and David
Sears are the heaviest taxpayers in
Boston, being assessed respectively this
year s., ,653, 900 and 8, 5000.
Fifty-eight cadets, recently gradua-
ted from West Point, have been ap-
pointed second lieutenants, and assign
ed to regiments. =. -...
Miss Esther Hedge, a Switzerland
county, Ind, farmers daughter, reads,
writes and speaks readily seven differ
ent languages. ..... .... .
1t is a rule among the German Jews
that every male shall learn some man.
ual art or trade, by which, in case Of
necessity, he can earn his living.
Chicago is Inundated over the fact
that the population is much less than
anticipated. 1t will not reach 1900,
although 400, 900 were claimed.
Since the foundation of the govern
ment 10000, 600 acres of public lands
have been disposed of-2O0, ,0OO, 600 to
railway companies.
Foreigners say that American girls
are the only women i'm the world that
are equal to the task of entertaining
more than one man at time.
1t appears more and more certain |
that the cutting down of forests in
France is rapidly decreasing the annual
rainfall.
The ladies (God bless 'em) keep faith
fully in mind that clause i'm the Con- |
stitution, and their own, which declares
the right to bare arms shall not be in |
fringed. e-
Mrs. Williams, late Mrs. Senator
Douglas, has commenced an action
against the executors Of the Douglas |
estate, alleging fraud in the manage
ment. She seeks to recover Sl5O,WO
wrongfully held.
There is man i'm New York who
has lived ninety-five years, though his
name is ID. Wemyss JobsoD. He is
employed as Translator, but will prob
ably get a job soon at something more
in keeping with his protuberance.
The New York Herald says: "Na-
poleon may at last be said to have
found friends in knead. Bakers I'm
Brooklyn are making hard tack bis
cult for his armies and working night |
and day in the business with steam
machinery"
The property of Gen. Sterling Price,
nearly all of which he left to his widow
and son, Is valued at Sl,OOO,0O0. The
widow and son were appointed execu-
tors, and have been required by the
County Court at st. Louis to give ST.
OO0, 600 bonds.
A writer complains that the waiter
Of the period has the decidedly unpleas-
ant habit of treating his forehead, du-
ring the warm weather, as though it |
were plate, and causing his napkin
to perform those services which are
generally entrusted to the confidence
of a pocket-handkerchief.
A wild cat attempted to take baby
out of its cradle in q cabin near Man
kato, Mimi, but little black-and-tan
dog attacked the catamOunt and fought
it until the mother came in and drove
the wild beast out with brand of fire.
"You don't work enough to earn
your salary" said the head of a depart
ment in the New York custom house
to one of his clerks. "Work :" ex-
claimed the young man, II worked to
get here; surely you don't expect ME to
work any longer"
In Indianapolis, dry-goods clerk
has fallen heir to million dollars. He
was tearing offa piece Of calico when
the news reached him, and he left it
half torn off, and said he would have to
be excused from further attendance at
the store. |
The question whether polygamy af-
fects the proportion of the sexes in the
births, has been carefully studied by DIR.
Campbell, of London, who concludes
that the proportion of males and fer
males born are just the same under po-
lygamy as under monogamy. II
Gen. Moltke, itappears, is another of
the men VINO have learned how to set
bride upon their tongues. Just before
he started for the war, great specula-
tor in stocks met him, and desiring to
get hint or two for future use. said
"Well, General, how are things getting
on?" "Thank you, Sir" was the re-
ply; "my rye crops are getting on
beautifully, but my potatoes are very
backward"
A curious and painful scene was wit
messed at the burning of a mill, on
Battle Island, near Oswego, a few days
ago. The mill was the home of great
fiOcks of pigeons and swallows. While
the flames were raging the birds would
circle above them i'm fiocks, and then
dash into them i'm a body. Hundreds
of them were found dead on the ground
after the fire. The birds had nests in
the mill, filled with young ones, which
they sought to defend. |,
A California paper tells the following
story to illustrate the knack of the Chi
nese to do whatever anybody else can:
" Not far from San Jose q gentleman
wanted fourteen houses built. A Chi
naman took the job, and hired an Ame-
rican carpenter. to build one of them.
While he was doing so, the Celestials .
laid around and watched every move
ment he made. As soon as he finished
it, the Cinnamon discharged him, and ,
erected the others themselves. When
they were done, the best judges could
not tell which was built by the white
man."
A MINTED JOKE.-In the year 1870,
the Danes advanced with a large force |
upon Hamburg; but after q siege of I
duration, seeing little hope {
of ultimate success, they finally with {
drew and marched back. ThereupOn |
the Hamburgers caused medal to be
struck i'm commemOratiOn of the event. |
On one side of this numismatic curios- [
ity was the inscription: "The King of
Denmark came before Hamburg. I
What he gained by it will be found on q
the other side" On the other side was G
q total blank.
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTs.-The
following is from late copy of the st. 9
Joseph (Mo.) Gazette: "One day last I
week a widow and four children, who
live near Linden, Carroll county, took ID
her children and went to a creek near a
by to do some washing. After being .
thus engaged for short time, her dog
began to bark q short way OFT, which p
n atfroofad tho attention of two of her =