The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Texan Treasury is empty
There are 5000 miles Of railway in
Russia.
Ohio has a very large crop Of
grapes.
l London is to have "children's
theatre"
Snow storms arse reported from va
rfous quarters.
Already the prophets are predict
ing a cold winter.
The latest about Koasuth Is that he
is studying botany.
Champagne Is said to be q perfect
antidote for sea-sickness.
st. Paul, Minnesota, claims TO have
had a case of Asistic cholera.
"Prussion blood' Ii announced So
| the name of another new color.
Mothers-in-law in Terre Haute, are
known as collateral relations"
French railways were damaged by
the war in the extent Of SIG, 600, 900.
The Charleston Daily Republican
suspended publication recently.
The Confederate powder works, neal
Atlantis, Ga, have recently been sold.
King Louis, Of Bavaria, has prohib-
tied his officers from becoming Free
masons.
Steam carriages are said to have
recently appeared on the bOulevards
Of Paris.
The fall trade IL said to have re-
vived in New York with more thau
its usual vigor.
The town Of Wickerville, Al.bama,
is announced for sale at the rate OF
81 per acre.
OF the 3,4s7,9A people in New
England, $4,000, or nearly one-fifth,
are foreign born.
The Pennsylvania clerks In Wash
ington are to have ten days "to come
home and vote"
The onion crop is reported from
various localities as one Of the largest
for many years.
The owner of Goldsmith Maid, Mr..
II. N. Smith, is said to have $3.50, 900
invested in horse-fesh.
President Grants stock, from his
st. Louis farm, will fill seventeen
stalls at the fair in that city.
A feet Of eighteen steamers Is con-
stantly employed in transporting cot
ton from New Orleans to Europe.
The Newfoundlanders are said to
be very happy this season over an
extraordinarily large catch of seals.
Louis Napoleon is reported TO de
rive his greatest solace in exile from
listening to Ethiopian minstrelsy.
The Connecticut tobacco crop being |
so large, the Boston Post hopes for a |
large reduction in the price Of "real |
Havanas.n
Philadelphia 10 the leading manu-
featuring city of the Union, the sta
tistics showing her to be far ahead Of |
any other.
Great initiation IL noted In German |
finances, and twenty-nine new banks |
have been established In different |
parts of the empire.
A Chicago newspaper Indignantly |
refutes charge made against the
people of that city that they do no.
drink water as a beverage.
Oregon claims that Its lumber busi-
ness is now its most important trade.
1t has grown to enormous proportions |
during the past few years.
In Boston there are 14S churches
of which 27 are Unitarian, % Metho-
dist, IL Baptist, II Catholic, Is Epis-
copalian, and Z Presbyterian.
A tract Of $4,000 acres of land has
been obtsined on the Canada side of
the st. Lawrence, above Quebec, for
a colony Of Alsatians.
Last year 14,000 tons of the South
Carolina phosphates were shipped to
and Holland, and II, 600 tons
TO American ports.
The Princess Mary Of Holland, re-
Gently married to the Prince of Wied,
Is said to have made her OWL we'd
ding cake.
Wales and his Princess, during
their just completed continental tour,
stopped for a week in the cottage OF
\ wood-chopper at Oberammergan.
The number Of Odd Fellows In New
York State Is "a, ,274, and the total rev.
,nue of the Lodges last year amount
ID to 500, ,498, Of which $74,713 was
paid out for relief.
In England, on October 5tL, new
postal lates 60 into effect, by which a
etter weighing one ounce will 60 for
! penny, equivalent to two cents in
,ur currency. |,
In consequence Of bequeAth made
u will dated March ii, 1915, . ser
non Is preached In one of the churches
# London every year at the begin
ling Of August, to commemorate the
lefeat ofthe Spanish Armada.
Two years experimenting has de-
that the poppy culture In
California IL q success. The opium
contains an unusual percentage Of
norphia, and Is considered far supe-
ior to the ordinary opium of COM
nerce.
There is gentleman now living In
Ohio, at the age of 81, who
vas born when his father was IS years
ID. He is anxious to know IL there
8 another person living whose father
vas born 165 years ago. II
John G. Breckenridge is said to be
me of the hardest working lawyers
II Kentucky at this time, and is
making good deal Of money at his
He seldom now discusses
politics.
Butler. In one of his speeches, hsv-
ng promised the people, if they
would elect him Governor, to reform
he railroad system and prevent scci-
lents, the Springfield Republican
links the people would prefer the
accidents.
agricultural Wealth Of the Cniied
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