The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-08-04
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The manufactures at pittsburg
and Allegheny city are said TO en-
ploy 35,635 hands, who arc paid an
nusAy Sl7, 1856 wages.
Mobile, Alabama, has found new
material for street paving, in cypress
shavings. Ii is said this road-bed
will remain firm ard solid from eight
10 ten years.
Mr.. Vallandighm's intimate per-
sonal and political friends are to
meet in Dayton, Ohio, about the LIST
of August, TO take measures TO raise
funds for a monument TO his mem.
ory.
The editor of the London Specta-
tor declares that no toll fatigucs like
reading manuscript.
Roast anaconda i said to be the
Fashionable dciicacy among the ma
tivcs at AreqUpl, Peru.
4 storm in Texas Travelled 80
uilcs in two bourS. This beats Yves
tons time hy upwards of conSidcra-
bile. aud he Shon!d hand over the
belt.
1t is said that ground acorns and
horse chcstuuts enter into tie COM
position of large portion OF the
cheap maccarOni and ycrmicelli man
uiac,urcd in New York.
Alvia Adams, the founder of The
express business in this country, who
wa~ a poor man - years ago. now
.cslacS in WStcrtown, Mass, and is
one of ;hc wCa.tli"st men in New
England.
The rriuccs Joachim and Achillc.
>Dus of Lpricu Nurlt. who have
been released irom imprisonment.
have gnrc to Versailles aid placed
themselves at the disposition of The
French Government.
The sun, shining through slightly
convex pane of glass, igniIcd a box
of matches in house in Canandaigua,
y. y, few afternoons since.
The English diyiacs engaged in re-
wishing the New Testament have held
their eleventh session. aud got rs far
IN their work as she end of the six
chapter OF 81. Mark Gospel.
Lightning struck the gas pipes
in a church and exploded the street
mains al over Iowa City, tbs other
day.
New England complains OF want
Of rain, ana euyicS tie Middle States
their recent drenchiug showers.
DR.. Livingstone is the only trav-
c.lcT Of rcnown who does not write
letters, or make speeches.
Pittsburg sold ssh, 800 worth of
llostciter's Bitters last year, and vet
the smoky city isn't happy.
y ballOonist, who, last week. made
an ascension from Ogdensburg,
passed through several snow squalls,
and at one Time had two inches OF
snow in the basket. lie suffered
greatly from the cold.
The Hing of Belgium is described as
nan b or 30 years Ofagc, over & feet
IN height, and a very graceful form.
Ills complexion i fair, bis features
regular, and extremely gentle in cX-
preston, Though llUm enough to in
dicatc character and to insure re-
~pect.
Medical authority SAYS suustr0ke
Hay be avoided by CARRYING certain
tiE-o IN the ist. Almost ANYTHING
damp viii ID, hur 81 should never be
d brick.
The Lsud"u Spectator declares
r.sat dislike al % defined aud con-
-picUOUs position. Is one of the most
cacgva,ing OF She results of modern
culture"
The populations OF Utah has been
nearly doubled since the first OF
Janugr. l,si, i'm consequence of the
discovery and Development, in dis
tirt- a1iaccn; 10 Salt Lake, % a
number of vastly rich silver quartz
veins.
BenC.actor- Of the human race are
disseminating the culture OF the cas-
tor hcan in California, and that State
viii produce $1,000 gallons of the oil
which doesn't either cheer or incbri-
ate, this season.
Virginia papers say that the pow
der tanks found Uy the wrcckcrs in
the Confederate irOn-clad Richmond,
row living in thirty or forty feet OF
water. are in good condition, and the
powder as dry and ready for use as
before its -ubmcrsion six years ago.