The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-11-03
SUNDRIES

storm.
A runaway horse in New Orleans
dashed into church.
A chalybeate spring has been discov-
cred at Amherst, Va.
Weddings at church in the evening
are not the fashienable idea.
Shark bones have been exhumed in
Minnesota.
It is said that Mr.. Spurgeon has drop
ped the title of ''Reverend."
It is said that Mile, Nilsson has S70,-
600 invested in real estate in Chicago.
A Frenchman is said to have inyen-
ted lamp-wick that will burn for five
years.
Some one has discovered that mice are
used as All article of food in Louisville,
Ky.
Atan Indian wedding last week, both
bride and groom were on the shady side
of70.
The school teachers of Austria have
recently held a congress at Linz, 20
which 20O0 attended.
The bullion production of the United
States amounts 10 about S9O,O00,0OO,
year.
The subscriptions for the Chicago
Fund are believed to now aggregate
81 100000.
Two girls, ten and twelve years old,
got tito fight at Charleston, and one
was killed.
All Sang, an ex-minister from China
mas -et up III tine Ies. business at Bridge
port, Conn.
Sam Houston jr., is district school
supervisor in Texas.
Why il the letter 5 like a sewing ma
chine? Because it makes needles need
less.
Japan numbers nearly thirty five
millions of inhabitants, according to the
last sensus.
The Louisiana State Fair at New Or
leans begins November 18th and con-
tinues until the 26th.
Louisville complains of short sup
ply of coal and high prices, owing TO
the low water in the Ohio river.
Secretary Stewards nurse, "aunt
Chloe" has appeared in the interior of
New York State. aged %.
\ Memphis paper announces that the
young ladies of that city are preparing
for married life by practicing in gym
nasiums.
The election laws of Rhode Island
require that a foreign born citizen must
own Sl3l worth of real estate before he
can vote.
The Oneida Indians on the Green Bay
reservation have abandoned the tribal
form OF government and adopted the re-
publican.
The Duke of Wellington, shrewd
business man as well as General is cred
tied with the saying that high interest
is but another name for poor securi- |
ty.
A contemporary suggests there !
should be added to the Faculty of some |
of our American colleges, professor
ship of common sense"
Under the New post-oflice money or |
der regulations, the American postal !
is already transmitting |
money order TO all the parts of the |
world.
4 citizen OF Cincinnati recently ap- |
piled for marriage license, but being |
entirely unable to recall his intended's |
name, he did not obtain the document. |
The drainge system OfNew Orleans, |
when carried out will increase the |
limits of that city to the size of Phila- |
delphia. The space will be large |
enough to accommodate a population |
of two million.
Hon. Henry J.. Dawes, of MaSSachu- |
setts, it is stated. will be made Chair /
man of the Committee OF Ways and |
Means of the House whenCOngrt IS as
Sembles, General Grafield and Hon. Will
liam ID. Kelley being placed second
and third on the committee
\ young man, aged twelve, in Gin
cinnati recently stole trunk full OF his
sisters clothing and 500 of his fathers
money and elOped with his sweetheart,
aged eleven. ...-
4 monument of white marble twenty
feet high, with appropriate inscriptions,
erected at Charleston, Jefferson county,
West Va, to the memory of the Confed-
crate dead, buried in that county, was
last week, with Masonic and
other ceremonies.
There arr said to be two classes of po-
litical orators just now in Massachusetts,,
one of whom are in favor of the pro-
hibitory liquor law but against the en-
fOrcement, whilst the other opposes the
law but favOrs its enforcement. Posi-
bly, both classes manage to get their IL
luOr regularly.
The London Times says: "The Amer
can war has shown how prOdigious are
the resources of the L nited States, which
emerged from the struggle with a credit
md renown placing them in the front
rank of nations"
Russia prldes herself on her agricUl-
.ural fairs. Three hundred thousand
people visited the one held at NovgOrOd,
ately, ana the sales of cOmmOdies dur
ng the eight weeks the fair lasted
70 over Sl25.0O0,OOO.
Somebody read aloud the other day
.he announcement that two well known
Connecticut politicians were delivering
addresses on Temperance. An enthus-
astic person sitting by exclaimed:
I'm glad of it," but checked kimsclt in
IN instant, and inquired, = which side
.hough:"
4 man recently came TO his death in
curious manner at Venice, Italy. lie
was standing near the bronze autumaton
on the ST. Marks bell tower, which tells
The time OF lay, with his head between
the bell and hammer. The hour came
round without his notice; the automa-
ton struck one and knocked his brains
put.
Some OF the spoons which General
Israel Putnam had made of the silver
he received for his services in the Revo-
IutIonary war have recently come into
the possession of Col. !. Ware Butter
field, OF Concord, n. III. They are four
table spoons, about eight inches long.
perfectly plain, and two troy ounces in
weight. The marking is of rather
primitive character, within an oval on
The handles. II i. B. ~ the latter
standing 'or Betsey Dana, Mrs. Putnam's
maiden name.
The Pullman sleeping-car Crescent" |
was blown up last Friday evening while
standing on the track of the Central
lepot in Detroit. This car was heated
by steam, but whether there was a
lack of water in the boiler or whether il
more steam than it could
bear, is not known, but it exploded
without warning. The car was COM
pletely shiyered, the conductor, who
was asleep on one of the coaches, mar
escaped any injury, beyond a
few slight scalds.
Hon. James Brooks writes thus to
he New York Express OF sleeping
apartment in Japan: ave had a whole
loor to ourselves, and on that floor per-
lapS dozen roomS-all one, though, il
he paper screens were removed. Such
as these, you see, are not
very favorable for private life, or secre-
", or dOmesticity. One cannot whis-
per at night without being heard all
over the domicilc. A husband can't
jaw wife, or wife 'Caudle' husband,
without every bOdy's hearing them. |
Flirting is impossible, and courting
would be, il ,eourting was ever heard OF
n JAPAN"
The San Francisco Bulletin says the
number of Chinese in the shoe trade in
hat city has doubled within the year.