The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

4 :
Texas is rejoicing in an unusually
heavy wool clip.
The month of May in Montana was
the coolest ever known.
New YOrk's beer consumptiODi;
l5,555, 800 gallons yearly.
There are over eleven millions OF
horses in the United States.
A Virginia paper last week report.
ed hail-drifts four feet deep.
4 1r,---l.ivation of beet sugar Is tC
be extensively carried on in Texas.
The prices of improved farms in
California are lower than they were
three years sgO.
The olive crop this year on the
Mediterranean is said to promise but
an Indifferent yield.
Countless millions of gra%shcppcrs
pass through st. Joseph, Mo, seeking
homes in the far west.
It's said that Phil Sheridan was
made an LII. ID. on account. of his
knowledge of cannon law.
The Nebraska Constitutional Con-
vention raises the Governors salary
from 1000 to $1,000 year.
About sixty millions of shad have
been Matched at HOlyOke, Mass, on
the Connecticut, this season.
Empora, Kansas, has three banks
and several wholesale stores, three
newspapers, and no saloons
One COW in ten years in Texas,
with ordinary attention, will produce
from fifteen to twenty head of cattle.
The grandfather Of George ii Pen
dleton was the second of Alexander
Hamilton in his duel with Aaron
Burr.
Herring river, Fairhaven, Conn,
is being ID for mill purposes.
Mr.. Greeley is not engaged in the
work.
The cultivation of cotton and to-
bacCO has been very successfully in
troduced in some of the Italian pro-
vinCes.
The cattle-traders of Chicago arc
making attempts to secure the i'm
mense cattle trade ofTexas now COM
ing northeastvard.
SaratOgians are beginning to ind
out that each one can have the mine
raj spring water in his own house
by boring about % feet.
Col. Thomas Rhett, of South Caro-
lima, is chief ordnance of the E2yp-
tian army, and is now engaged in
constructing powder works at Cairo.
In Duluth there are five miles OF
graded streets, five churches, two
hotels; all the rest is prospective
But the inhabitants think it is a great
deal
They have the meanest man at
Bellevue, Ohio: he pays sixty cents
for q quart of pOtatO-bugs and irri-
gates his neighbOr's pOtato-field with
them
The building of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad has induced the farmers
and stOck-raisers of Washington Ter
ritOry to greatly enlarge their farms
and herds.
The Emma silver mine of L tab is
turning out 100 tons of ore every
twcnty-tour hours, realizing a net
profit of 1880 per day, or 1921
800 per year.
Ex-Minister Motley will return to
the United States, in September, ac-
cOmpanied by his wife. and his SON
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Brinsley Sheridan.
One of the White Mountains has
been named Hoffman, in compliment
to the Governor of New York State.
Ii is situated between Mount Madi-
son and Mount Clay.
DR.. Livingstone has again been
heard from. He has now penetrated
TO a point two hundred miles west of
Tanganyika, but does not say when
he expects TO return.
But two applications for gold
banks have been made since Congress
passed the law authorizing their cs-
adjustment, one in San Francisco
and the other in Boston.
One hundred convicts in the Ten
ncssee pCnitcntiary have been con-
tracted for, to work on General For
rests Selma and Mississippi ROsd,
commencing September l.
OF the heavy circulation among
weekly journals published outside Of
London, that Of the peoples Journal,
published at Dundee, Scotland, takes
the lead. 1t has 1910 subscribers
The virulent and contagious horse
plague is still raging in New York
city, where the horses are dying In
such numbers as to interfere with the
running os the street cars and omni-
buses.
The Cincinnati Commercial wants
Henry Ward Beecher for President,
and analyzcs his character to show
that he Is the only man on the Amer
lean continent who is entirely lit for
the place.
"Active negotiations" says the
Paris Journal, ''arc going on between
the Minister of Foreign Affairs aud
Mr.. Wa5hburne relative to the ex-
tradition of the Communists who
may succeed in landing in the United
States"
The latest revised tables of the
census Offices make the aggregate
poptsatiOn of the United States to be
as follows: White, 33,5SI, ESQ; Col
ored, i,719,323; Indian, 25,733; ia
pancsc, 50; Chinese, 63I96. Total,
3S,549,9S6.
1t is said, il all that the dogs of
this country eat was given to hogs,
it would make SJ0,0O0,0O0 worth of
pork Add to this the value of the
sheep they destroy, and something
of an idea of the curse of dogs can be
obtained.
EX-Secrctary Fish has definitely
given up his house in Washington.
and removed to his residence on the
Hudson river. Why does the Presi-
dent still delay to announce his resig-
nation and the appointment of his
successor
Ex-senator Richard Yates has re-
ccived and accepted an offer of The
American Literary Bureau, of New
York, for fifty lectures, for $4,000,
to be delivered by him in the princi-
pal cities of the United States, during
the next fall and winter.
Leprosy is spreading in Honolulu
with the rapidity of an epidemic,
and the local papers say that unless
the law for the isolation of lepers is
vigorously executed the Hawaiians
are doomed to become q nation of
lepers in a very short time.