The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-07-21
GENERAL ITEMS.

| cents peck.
Property in and around Norfolk,
Va, seems to be rapidly appreciating
in value.
Virginia and South Carolina ex-
changes generally furnish very cheer
ing reports of the crops.
The spread of hydrophObia has be-
come truly alarming at Nashville.
A sun-stroke resulting in death, oc-
| cured at Knoxville on last Mon
day.
Dickson, Alabama, has quarries
from which the best paving flag
stones are cut.
Gen. A. B. Bradford, of Mississip-
pi, the hero of Buena Vista, was at
Memphis last Wednesday.
Leasburg, n. c., has twenty wal
nut trees in a row one hundred years
old, and they all beaf.
The Supreme King of Slam is said
to contemplate visit to Europe and
the United States.
The new discoveries OF gold and
silver in Northern Arizona are at
tracing much attention in San Fran
cisco.
The UOnzales 6roxasl Inquirer SAYS
that contemplating will commence
in that country on July lst.
Hillsboro, n. c., hasa house, in the
Tporch of which British sentinel was
killed as he walked his post.
An Atlanta cotton merchant realiz-
e7 ten thousand dollars in cOnse-
quence of the advance in cotton.
The Oglethorpe Manufacturing
Company, of Augusta, Ga, has re-
ceived nearly $4,000 in subscrip-
| tions.
Hon. A. II. Stephens health is
| improving. He now weighs 70
pounds-his weight about six months
ago being only 70 pounds.
The Chattanooga Times says the
wheat crop in that country is almost
total failure. Many of The fields
will not pay for cutting.
President Woolsey, of Yale Col
lege, is TO retire at the close of the
present collegiate year. lie has been
connected with the college for forty
years.
A cousin of Sir Walter Scott, who
bears the poets name, is living in !
Fall River, Massachusetts,.
A member of the Newfoundland |
Assembly has established his claim
to Immortality by Neutrality-suspicious.
speech.
Somebody who wants to GiscOur- |
age marriages this warm weather, |
says country is bliss, but natrimOny |
is blister.
A Yacht for Brigham Young, and |
intended to ply in Salt Lake and the |
River Jordan, has just been compile |
ted at New \ ork.
The Lynchburg va, News says a |
disease similar to the Texas cattle |
disease has attacked the cattle in the |
mountains of Amherst, and many |
have already died from it.
The New York Herald hopes that |
Mr.. Gee, the newly-appOinted color |
ed West Point Cadet, will, in the Ian
guage of the teamsters, ''go Gee
though he will have a hard road to |
travel.
Iasf,riE The iEmPeGH9RFF y 8G BraIiI M ,iy5 ha5 the
nephew, the King of Portugal, whom
he had never seen also his stepmOth- |
er, the wife of his father. Don Pedro
]. who left Brazil with that sovereign
forty years ago.
The New York Commercial Adj |
yertiser says: Mature that gave |
gold and grapes to California, gave !
her neither shad, cells, nor bullpouts. |
For these treasures California longs. !
So her Fish Commissioners appeal to |
Seth Green, and he promises to give |
them shad."
The Valley of Mexico Is 10 he |
drained, not only to avoid the DAM
ger of the capital being inundated. |
but to irrigate the adjoining lands.
KosSuth is reported to have des-
paired of the cause of human free |
dom in Europe. and to talk ofreturn-
ing to- this country to die, because it |
is the only country where liberty has
been from first to last preserved in
its perfection.
The Memphis Appeal OF Thursday
says: We notice to-day, as rather
singular fact, the arrival of five Kan
sas turner's, with their families, who
propose settlement in Tennessee,
having become DISCUS ed with the
fierce winds which descend from the
Rocky mountain region, and thus
render unpleasant a home in the
| State first named.
They make butter in Ravenna.
Ohio, by putting tie cream into
cloth bag and burying it about two
feet deep in the earth, letting it re-
main three days. When it is disin-
tered it is found to be transformed
into pure, sweet, yellow butter, with
not one drop of buttcr-milk to be
seen. The buttcr-makers say that
cream will yield about one-third
more butter by this process than by
the old-iashiOned way OF churn-
ing.
Iron telegraph poles have been
substituted for wooden ones on the
line between Berlin and Potsdam,
and along the railway from Weis-
ssnfels to Gera, with such satislac-
tory results that it is now proposed
TO introduce them on all russian
telegraph lines. In Switzerland they
have also been satisfactorily tried.
1t is claimed that they will last so
much longer than wooden ones that
, they will be cheaper in the end,
while they arc much more pleasing
to the eye.
There arc now published in The
United Kingdom, lTl0 newspapers,
distributed as follows: London, 26l ;
English provinces, lll2; Wales, 5S ;
Scotland, l3l; Ireland, I3S; British
, Isles, II.
4 shopkeeper having advertised
his stock to be sold under prime cost,
a neighbor observed to him that it
was impossible for him to do so, as
he had never paid anything for it
himself.
The EX-Emperor OF the French,
, now in exile in England, recently
, wrote the following note to gentle
man in New York: ''The Emperor
!. Napoleon thanks Mr. *
for the newspaper he sent him, and
+ is deeply sensible of the sympathy
: which he has expressed for him and,
on his side, he cherishes the most
sincere wishes for America, which
: affords to the world the grand spec
! table of country truely free and
knowing how TO govern ITSELF
, Chiselhurst, 1871"
, The Electric Telegraph Companies
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