The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-07
sUyDRIEs.

Painted. candy has caused the deatl
ofa New Jersey child.
General Trochu left the calf of one O
his legs at Sebastopol.
| Connecticut cider mills are overrur
with apples at Is cents bushel.
A butcher in Russia gets a Govern.
ment whippingifh he cheats his custom,
ers. ,..t r. ~
The last survivor of the Wyoming
massacre died in New Hampshire the
other day. 80 - .sg ''''i
A London letter says the Emperor
Napoleon had invested S30,0OO,O0 in
that city.
Vineland, New Jersey, has a distil.
lery, but no liquors are allowed to be
sold In the township. -l-sl
Somebody has discovered that in Al
years a nuff-taker devotesS26 months
to blowing his nose.
1t is said that the census will show a
falling off in the population of nearly
all the Southern cities. 81 arri &
u Over two-fifths of all the starch man.
ufaetured in this country is manufac-
tured in New Hampshire.
Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. Howe and Mrs.
Lucy Stone, are tG. canvass 'Massachu-
sets for Wendell Phillips. rrss
A nephew of Baron Won Moltke is
said to be a soldier i'm the United States
army, at San Antonio, Texas.
Good Health remarks that what
people call "bile'' is generally Holsters,
clams, or indigestible food. -, eo-. =
Kentucky mOurns because the pro-
duction of whiskey in that State is only
about five-eights of what it was last
year. ; .-lrt a. lg-.
A Terre Haute, Ind, paper makes
mention of a man in that place who
gives his wife So q week to keep her
mouth shut.
I Fort Wayne has a sewing school i'm
which misses from seven to twelve
years of age are initiated into the mys-
teries of the needle.
The average wages of all thu laborers
In the coal mines of Belgium,
including women and children, is SO
cents day. r 4,
The census i'm Indiana reveals the
fact that in a.msjority of eases where
twins are returned the husband is
younger than the wife.
The United States have about 5000
miles Of railroad, almost enough i'm con-
tinuous length to put two girdles round
about the earth. Il
Appleton's Journal thinks that Anne
ricans are generally more familiar with
the history Of Napoleon /. than with
their own annals.
A cargo of tea Is now sent from
5hangh@ or Foo Chow to New York,
via San Francisco, In 80 days, Mt a cost
Of S9.25 per 100 pounds. l..
James w. Marshall, the discoverer
)f gold in California, at Suffers Mill,
s writing book of his experiences.
He is IS years old and very poor.
In Prussia, while the men are at war,
The women perform field and farm la
Dor, and are gathering the crops, guard
ng the fiocks, and doing field work.
g. G. Gibson, of Hanniker, N. H.,
OWNS q violin made by Pruger, of Gre
mona, and supposed to be about 250
years old, for which he has been offer
ID 5000.
Coffee leaves are now extensively |
old in London for tea leaves, and af- |
ord not unpleasant inpocuous bey-
rage, very grateful to the palates of |
he poor. -i r...---.. .i |
There is young lady in Gloucester,
Massachusetts,, who boasts that she |
lever saw the sun rise. The local edi-
or there thinks that she, not the sun,
) the loser thereby.
A Southern cepsus taker says that /
hey generally have to guess at the ages
( the negroes. The freedmen date
heir ages by the family events, the
ime of which they cannot recollect.
There is a negro woman in OgIe-
horpe conuty, Ga, 106 years old who
aised fifteen children, and is now in
OOd health.