The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

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The crops in Georgia are suffering
from the drought.
The arrival of the cotton worm is
chronicled in Louisiana.
The Russian army numbers over q
million.
A fly bit q man in California and
killed him.
| Ireland paid f27,Oi2 for dog Iiccn.
ses last year.
| Cucumbers thirty-six inchc. long
are exhibited at Wyandotte.
| The prospects of the Te1a. crop.
has been improved by rains.
The products of the Lake SUPERIOR
iron mines for 1871 arc estimated al
S1,250OOO.
| Professor Watson, of the obserya.
tory at Ann Arbor, Michigan, la.
discovered new planet.
The university of Munich celebra-
ted its hundred end ninety ninth ami
versary June 26.
Armies of fleas and cohort. of mos
quitoes make sleep in Louisville an
Invention of no practical use.
Wachtel is to pursue the even ten
or Of his way to this country. Musi-
cal people can watch till he comes.
A newspapers is to be established in
London to give information to per-
sons contemplating emigration to
America. .-.0,..... '.....
The Apaches have a white captive
who amuses them SO greatly with
comic songs and dances, that they
will not ransom him at any price.
AT the University of Leipsic four
teen and at that of Berlin sixty-seven
Americans, both North and South
Americs, are study at present. -
Col. Jerome Bonaparte, grandson
of Prince Jerome Bonaparte, has
married Mrs. Newoold Edgar, nee
Miss. Appleton of Boston, grand
daughter of Daniel Webster.
A man and his wife who had not
met for eight years, recently found
each other in q Chicago police court,
both charged with drunkenness.
An Illinois agricultural society Of
fers a premium to the couple who
will bring to the fair ground. the
largest number of children, grand
children, and great ditto.
While in Germany General Spin
ner, the other day, made a pilgrimage
to Worzburg, where his people wero
born and whence his parents esigra-
ted TO this country.
Mr.. Charles Hoffman, the poet and
novelist OF the past generation, is
still living, an inmate Of an insane
asylum in Pennsylvania, where he
has been for 20 years.
The California Silk Companr."
factory at South San Francisco was
started q short time ago, and thou
sands of silk-growers are visiting 10
see how the machinery works.
1t is stated that the total amount
of the bequests of Horatio Ward. the
wealthy American who died in Lon
don recently, to soldiers homes in
this country, will be about 100000.
Lord Courteney has achieved an
Indebtedness scarcely less than that of
his lordly boon-companion, the
Duke of Ham tok ge.was declar-
ed bankrupt, wIa fr'.-~cceding
S4,l15,0O0.
Fashion rctircs from the brown stono
and Philadelphia brick of West
Eleventh street, New York, and the
voice of the milliner is heard in the
stores into which fine residences have
been converted.
1t is estimated that within The past
hundred days not less than one mil
lion dollars in gold has been expend-
ed in Texas, west of Colorado, for
bccves, stock cattle and horses.
A young lady named Lee, Of Cas-
Teton, VT, was so seriously stdns
few days since by honey bee in the
back of the neck, that her life was
despaired of several hours.
In Kansas, wife who purchases
personal property from her husband
in good faith, and for good and
sufficient consideration, is in equity
the owner Of the property.
There are places in New York
where pet canaries, cats and dogs arc
boarded together at the sum oftwen-
ty-cents week, while the families
to whom they belong are out of
town.
Mrs. Colt, the pistol-maker, at |
Hartford, Connecticut having built a
100000 church in memory Of her
husband and in behalf of her work
men, is building q 100000 school,
house on her armory grounds for the
children other employers.
The compiler of Thcmas Jcflerson's
private life relates of the great ply
sical strength of Jefferson that stand
ing between two hosshcads Of sugar
lying on their sides, he could at the
same time raise both upon their
heads.
Kcntucky-brcd horses have been
winning all the great prizes this year,
the Belmont Travers, and
Ladies' Stakes, the Jersey Derby,
and the Westchester, Monmouth, and
cups. The Blue Grass men
are in high glee.
The capital ofthe Bank of Montreal
Is TO be raised to 100000, which
will make the bank the third largest
in the world, coming after the Bank
Of France and the Bank Of England;
is the largest capital OF
any American bank.
Those who do not feel inclined TO
believe that the Paris insurrcction
was formidable one have only to
notice the number Of arms tax ken
i03, ,G9l gnns 1,007 field carnon, and
| $40 artillery wagons. The cannon
On the Notifications, amounting 100.
ire not counted in this statement.
Morgan county can boast of the
largest hog in Illinois, and probably
in the world. This monster animal
is owned by Capt. Wright, of the
Franklin presinct, and weighs Mirc
teen hundred and fttytice pounds.
The Captain is preparing to exhibit
the huge creature through the coun-
try.
The cx-cmpress of Mexico, CarIot-
Ia, it is positively stated, can not live
through the coming Sautumn, as she