The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-10
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
A man In Columbus, Miss, "suicid-
ed' the other day with pair of scis-

] A man In Columbus, Miss, "suicid-
ed'' the other day with a pair of scis-
sors.
A man in Moore county, North Ca
rolina, at the last August election,
went to the poll with seventeen of his
own sons-all of them voted the Con-
servative ticket. He claims twenty
four children of his own, most of them
were born twins.
A gentleman in Knoxville, Tenn,
has in his possession a cabbage stalk,
cut by his father i'm Florida, while a
soldier in the war of 1872, and used by
him for years as walking stick. 1t is
in good state of preservation, and
makes a handsome and servicable
cane.
The negro is still in the well at Nor
| ris' station Ga, on the Southwestern
railroad, and alive after weeks con-
finement, the by ISLANDERS preferring to
| see him starve to death rather than
run the risk of attempting to remove
the earth and debris above him.
A lady returning, after long alb
sence, to Columbus, Miss, was delight
ed at the attention she received from
the courteous railroad conductors and
the hospitable proprietor of one of the
city hotels. They didn't recognize her
Her old master did the next day, and
her upon her good looks.
She had been bleaching in Boston.
The letter-carriers of Memphis deliv-
cred within the last month $3.50 mail
letters, II ,065 local letters, IA, 4S0 news
papers; number of fletters collected, 75,-
$50; newspapers collected, $40.
Twelve carriers did the work of distrib-
uting and collecting. 1t will he seen
that good many more thousand let
tiers and newspapers were received than
sent.
About fifteen months ago. little
James Keesee, child living in Wy
theville, Va, swallowed needle,
which was full an inch and a quarter
long, and which gradually worked
through the body of the child until it
protruded from the abdomen. A few
days ago physician extracted it, the
child not seeming to have experienced
any ill effects from it.
The Alexandria Gazette reports
peculiar case: "Mr. S. HI. Watkins,
while supervising the distribution of
meal from his wagon this morning,
came across house, the inmates of
which had just killed and cooked two
canary birds, all they had in the world
to eat. In response to the question
why they had not sold the birds, they
said they could not sell them for cash,
and credit sale would not have bene
fitted them. Mr.. w. gave them BUSH
ell of meal and drove on"
A revenue officer, supported by a
squad of soldiers, deliberately Destroy
ed toll-gate to a bridge over the Ches-
tatee, in Hall country, Ga, because the
proprietor thereof refused to allow him
to pass without paying the usual fee.
Not content with this, the officer Or
dered the proprietor of the bridge, who
is represented as being one of the most
respectable and highly esteemed citi-
zens in that section, to be handcuffed;
and he was dragged from his home
without being allowed to speak to his
wife and children.
There are now in operation in Virgi :
ia fifteen hundred public schools, and
by the first of April there will he two
thousand. This statement, says the
Richmond Enquirer, does not include
the public schools in Richmond, Peters
burg and Norfork, which as yet have
not been Incorporated into the State
system. This surprising result is not
to be accounted for solely or chiefly by
the character of the law and the adj
ministratiOn, but by the fact that the
public free school system, having met
distressing want among the people,
was jOyfully adopted in the great ma
jority of the counties of the State.
The Mobile Register says of the late
Bishop Andrew: "Bishop Andrew
was native of South Carolina. He
had passed sixty years i'm the ministry
which he entered at the age of rs. and
was cOnsecrated in 1881. Fer some
time past has been feeble, and gradual.
~ declining, and week ago last night
he was brought over from New Or
leans, paralyzed in side, and conveyed
to the parsonage of the st. Francis
street Methodist Church, to the family
of his son-in-law, Rev. j. w. Rush.
Here he sunk, away day by day and
hour by hour, and expired at 15 min
utes past eleven o'clock last night, the
1st tinst."
AT the examination in Mobile on |
Friday of the recent railroad Iiot i'm |
that city, in reply to a remark made |
by Col. Stewart, that the road had |
expended already S7,000,0O0. Admiral !
Semmes stated that it was in bad taste |
for men to come South in q tone of |
defiance and boast of bringing North |
ern capital and North enterprise for |
the development of that section in the |
face of the fact that they had got out |
of two States under Radical rule al |
ready Sll 200, 900, and are entitled to |
5000 per mile more for every foot of
road laid in his own State. The claim |
of expending Northern capital is not !
sustained by facts.
Miss Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, |
age ~, granddaughter of Thomas Jeffer.
son, was buried at Monticello OH Mon
day last, being the fourth of the Ran
dolph family who have died within |
the past few weeks. The late Gov. |
Randolph and his wife Maria, daugh-
ter of T.hos. Jefferson, reared eleven
six daughters and five sons,
all of whom lived to mature age: James |
Lewis, DIR. Benz. Franklin, late State
Senator, Geo. Washington, Secretary /
of War in the Southern Confederacy, |
Mrs. Bankshead and Cornelia are de- |
ceased; one son, Col. Thos. j., now in |
his 10Th year, Mrs. Coolidge, of Boston,
Mrs. n. p. Trist and Miss Mary, of /
Alexandria, aud Mrs. MeikeIham,
formerly of New York, but now of that /
county, are still living; an instance of
remarkable longevity In one family.
They have in Jackson, Tennessee, a
society of young men called the Broom |
corn Serenaders." They array them- |
selves in a calico or homespun dress,
and by moonlight call upon such young
ladies as are known to be adverse to
domestic work, quietly sweep out the
porch, gallery, hall, etc., to appro pri-
ate music and then reiire Carving