The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-09-29
John Gilgan & Co.,
TRADE PALACE,
1iPUBLlC sQEARE,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Nevada has saloon named tie
"Hearse."
There are S0,O45 post-oflices in the
United States.
Oregon, as well as Missouri, has all
"iron mountain"
They have discovered a fish, with
four eyes, Oh the coast Of Mexico.
The Emperor Napoleon is about to
remove his residence to Croydon.
There were S2S deaths in Paris the
past week. Six were from cholera.
The deaths in New York last week
We're 537, a decrease of 80 from last
week.
The great Ring Hotel, in New York.
on the site of the late METROPOLITAN.
will De opened Eext week.
Florida claims to have better having
crops this year than during any year
since the war.
The population of New Mexico is
l2O, 900, of whom 5000 are Mexicans
and half-breeds, and 10000 Indians.
The Duluth canal vas opened on
Friday. The large steam-propeller
Norman passed from the city to the
bay.
The municipal council of Paris has
resolved to issue, in the form of lot
terry, three per cent. loan for large
amount.
Thirty Thousand young shad have
been safely transported via the Pacific
railroad from the Hudson to the Sac
ramento.
The Secretary Of the Treasury is
about to issue stringent circular eau
tloniDg manufacturers against the i'm
proper use of trademarks on watch
works.
1t is estimated that the receipts Of
cotton in Memphis, Will amount To
80, 400 bales by September |, placing
that city third in rank in the cottoa
market.
Striped snakes eat potatOe bugs.
which, in turn, poison the snakes, and
the people of Van Buren county,
Iowa, are in high glee at the mutual
benefit society.
The cotton growers of South Africa
had q cotton show at King Williams
Town, August 10th, to illustrate the
growth of their industry.
There is walnut tree in Addison
VT, five feet and ten inches in circum
ference, one hundred and twenty feet
high, and it is sixty feet to the first
limb.
There are already O,0OO cO2e. vi vo-
tiers registered in Texas, and the Aus
tin Journal thinks the number will be
increased to $4,000 before The election.
The hop harvest in Northern New
York is now in progress. Some two
hundred girls left Syracuse on one day
last week to engage in picking the
crop.
The California fig-crop is ripe, and
some of the growers will dry consid-
erablequantities. Last,year one grow
er sold 2,0O0 pounds OF figs from one
tree.
Tweuty-three thousand of the in
habitants of Strasburg are said TO have
emigrated TO France and America
since the cession of that city to the Ger
mans.
Ninety thousand Immigrants came
lAC OulbCu bOldttS year IlOfn
British America. Many of these We're
Europeans, but the majority were Ca
nadiaDs.
In Richmond, Va, many birds are
said to be going blind; every day dead
birds are picked up in the streets, hav-
ing been killed in their flight by strik-
ing against buildings and other OBJ
structions.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia is
the modern Utopia. They have no
lunatics, blind, deaf or dumb, and no
paupers or poor law. There is no tax
alton.
Canada boasts the discovery of an
ancient burial-place containing some
two hundred gigantic skeletons with
the clay of departed pipes in their
Liberia, last season, produced 3OO,- v
600 pounds of sugar; 81, 600 pOunds
coffee; 10000 pounds Of ginger az
tons of white arrowroot-tb>
being prepared for market.