The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-31

palntef anu wealthy man, an0 Out
of gratitude to his benefactor he chris
tened his first born son Edwin Leigh
ton Winchester.
SUNDRIES.
Mrs. Clara Nash is Justice of the
Peace at Columbia, n. III.
| A New York inventor has achieved a
pocket umbrella.
Delirium tremens is the prevailing ep-
| idemic in Terre Haute.
A tail-holder for milch COWS is the lat
est Yankee invention.
| Several colonies of self-expatriatcd Al
satians are settling in Missouri.
Mrs. Woodhul is interviewing Penn
sylvania politicians, o Ia PleasantOn,
DR.. Lawrence. travelling qlack, died
lately from the effects of indianapolis
whisky.
A Bullard has been made postmaster
| in Massachusetts, Instead of Il Coward
who resigned.
The citizens of st. Joseph, No., cele-
brate as a gala day the canonical ami
versary of their patron saint.
Gov. Lindsay, of Alabama, is on his
| way to New York ON an important mis-
sion connected with the credit of the
State.
w. i. PrOsser, defeated by Mr.. Cola
day in the last election for Congressman
in that district, is to be appointed post
master OF Nashville.
There is a man i'm GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
who hilton hy rof 10 N 1914
and he is still taking whiskey to avert
the evil effects of the poison.
Two OF the jurors in the Perkins in
quest at New Orleans, were of the opiu-
ion that he was murdered, and three that
he had committed suicide.
Peppermint is extensively cultivated
in Knox County, Ind, and is said to be a
better crop than corn.
VIM. X. Davis, said to he an American,
fell or leaped from the top of the Pyra-
mids lately, and broke his neck.
Miss Edine I. Howard has been elected
Worthy Patriarch of Scotia Division,
Sons of Temperance, in New York.
Nearly the whole of the lemon crop i'm
Sicily has been attacked by a pa: asite,
which renders it almost valueless.
Barney Hand left Andover with anoth-
er mans wife. The other unwisely pur-
sued, and overlook the seducer AndOver
Hand.
Detroit has found lot of pieces of
hashed man laying around loose, and
they are going to take the census again
to see who is missing.
Benjamin f. High was knocked into
the bay at Baltimore by the maindoom
of schooner and drowned. How was
that for high:
Winnie Ream is said to have commence
ed a new work entitled sadness" It will
epresent Grant listening to dispatch
from New Hampshire.
A minister OF the gospel in Boston
told his flock that they were ''Over-cere-
brated.' WhereupOn they burst into
tears, and said they would stop it.
At Mckinney, Texas, Mr.. Stiff was
was sky-larhing with one ofhis boarders
named Goodwin, when the latter drew a
dagger and made a '.stiff" of his land
lord.
The fine elm trees around the church
in which Shakespeare is buried at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon, have been felled and sold.
Their decayed state rendered it necessary
to cut them down.
Minister Washborne has sent to the
President a fragment of she which
dropped within one Square of his resi-
dence during the bombardment of Paris.
The shock of his fearful peril turned the
Minister'S hair as white as snow.
a pledge is being circulated i'm Milwau-
kee, the signers of which pledge them
selves to total abstinence from beat
ing. Five or six men have already sign
ed it. and the howling of whipped wives
is not heard as much as il was.
Henrietta C. Paddon, beautiful Dung
woman from South Carolina, died sud-
denly in Washington a lew days ago.
under circumstances which indicate med
ical malpractice. The deceased had been
divorced from man named George
Welles.
Mrs. sam. Pingleton committed sur
S;de by hanging herself near Belleyiew,
enn.. on Monday last. She had been
lffering for some time past with mental
berratiOn.
A man who killed another i'm 1856 on
Nickajack creek, i'll Cobb county, Geor-
|gia, fled to Texas, and remained until
recently. when he voluntarily returned
|llu lIltO
dy of the sheriff.
Suits for a million of dollars have been
brought against the city OF New Orleans
by the heirs of one Madame Delibizarre,
a Creole lady of the last gene ration, for
the recovery of property said to have
been obtained by fraudulent deeds from
her.
Only rough board with his name in
Iscribed marks the grave of Gen. Albert
|Sglney johnson, in the cemetery near
Muslin, Texas. Further hOnors to the
lead were forbidden by the Federal au-
horities at the time of his burial, and
he matter has been neglected since.
A woman created some sensation at
he Methodist Church, in Shieldstown,
renn., on Sunday nj yht last, in an attack
pom gentleman ard lady as they were
eaving the church. She struck him
kith both fists. and threatened the lady
18th a whipping too, but did not carry
er threat into execution.
A very diminutive specimen of the ge-
us homo, calling himself General Lit
efinger, and claiming to be smaller
han Tom Thumb, Charley Decker, or
lny other man. has been visiting Nash
lille. He is said to be lively little fell
Ow, twenty years old, thirty-one inches
Ugh, and weighs only twenty pounds.
On being Informed of the conviction of
er husband by the Chesterfield court,
h Virginia, the wife of Warwick Gray.
plored, convicted of stealing shoes, was
gaken very i'll and soon expired. She
had long been sufferer hom heart dis
ease. Gray paid the penalty of his crime,
receiving thirty stripes.
Augusta, Georgia, has running race
|pn the 3lst of May, for purse of -, 600,
arranged between Col. L. G. Bacon and
~. Crawford, the former running his cell
Febrated horse Corsican," who has made
the best mile and quarter OIL record,
and the latter bringing out his we'll
known horse John kendrick dis
tance three-fourths of mile.
The Public Ledger thinks that among
the public amusemenis of Memphis may
be classed the ludicrous submersion of
colored people, (which take place every
Sunday afternoon in the river at that
point. As these affairs are conducted
without dignity, it says they attract a
large crowd of scoifers and testers. and
are injurious to religion, because they
east ridieule upon its most. sacred forms.
Among the 'loyal" citizens and pa
triots (?)Of South Carolina who have
been tortured by the Ku-Klux is one
f. NJ, Rose, who is County Treasurer,
residing at Yorkville. To get him and
the county fund out of harm's way, a
military escort was furnished hin, and