The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-24


Lynchburg, Va, has Judge Of the
Federal Court whose name lie
Lynch.
There is a colored youth, seventy
five years old, attending school at
Americas, Ga.
Pensacola (Fla.) dogs roam about the
streets In gangs ofthirty and forty IN
number.
A Charleston Us. CO hen has laid &
revolutionary egg, with three KS dis
tinctly printed on its shell.
Thursday last was the anniversary Of
the birth Of the great South Carolina
statesman, John c. Calhoun.
A correspondent Of Jacksonville
Courier offer five hundred dollars to
any one who will prove that Kuklux
Khan exists in Florida.
a citizen of Etowah county, Ala
bama, has lately invested $97 In New
York counterfeit money, and now has
small box of shavings for sale.
The New Orleans ice factory runs
six machines, each costing $4,000 in
gold, an freezes sixteen tons of ice dali
ly. The water is pumped from the
Mississippi, purified, and frozen into
blocks three inches thick and twelve
by twenty-four inches in area.
AT Platte City, No., recently, ne.
gro minstrel show was given, the pro-
ceeds ofwhich went to purchase YES
sells for the communion services at one
Of the churches. "Shoo Fly" was
lately played on a wind instrument at
a church concert in Kansas City, the
proceeds of which went to buy an
organ.
A pet goat, belonging TO an Hishman
in Macon, Ga, eat up seventy dollars
| in greenbacks, which he found In an
open trunk in his masters room. The
Irishman gave the goat sound beat
ing and dosed him with castor oil, but
didn't get back his money.
In q town not far distant from At
lanta, an offender against the munich.
pal laws was sentenced to imprison
ment in the Jail. A young man who
was indebted to him offered to pay the
debt by taking his place in the Gala.
boose, but the Mayor wouldn't accept
the substitute.
There is tree planted in the capitol
square in Richmond which is real
curiosity. One must not judge of it by
its appearance, for it consists Of but q
stem and two branches, the whole in
shape like pitchfork, and is an ugly
looking product of the forest. Its bark
is rusty, crisp, aud curly like nigger's
wool. This tree is wonderful prodrc-
ton of the forest, nevertheless. 1t was
brought to Richmond from Montana
Territory, and in the summer time
throws out leaves of extraordinary size,
and bears fruit not unlike an egg in
shape, but as large almost as mans
head. 1t is wonderfully oderiferous,
and throws out sweet perfume for a
large space around.
The Floridan says, "Most if not all
the farmers of our county have finish
ed planting their corn crops, and We
are pleased to learn that there is a
somewhat larger area devoted to this
crop the present year than last. With
favorable seasons, then, we may count
upon an ample harvest. One draw
back, and it may prove q serious one,
is that the Ilanters generally are from
two to four weeks behind hand with
their planting. Some few were SO
much SO that they planted corn with
out previously breaking up their land.
This has been caused by the Incidence
of the freedmen, majority Of whom
We're, with much difficulty, induced to
go to-work at all for white employers.
They have been told, too, by mean and
contemplate demagogues, that they
could commence work a month or two
later than usual, and make justas much
during the year. From this and other
causes not within the control of plan
tiers, farming.