The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
GENERAL ITEMS,
LOUISVILLE wants a peace jubilee.

/ GENERAL ITEMS.
| LOUISVILLE wants a peace jubilee.
SIXTY tons of steel pens are made
every year. .. .- --
MACON is preparing to erect a new
Jewish synagogue.
THE capitol at Richmond, Virginia,
Is receiving coat of paint.
THE premium list of the st. Louis
Fair Association amounts To $4,000
THERE are said to be about 1000, 900
canibals i'm the world.
CALIFORNIA expect. soon to become
a great coffee-growing country.
MACON has population of 10000
according to her own late census.
ST.. LOUIS will be connected with
Galveston by railroad in few months.
A WIRE heated by a galvanic current
will cut wood like saw.
IT COST Chicago half a million dol
lars to restore her Fire Department.
THE house where Robert Fulton
went to school at Lancaster, Pa, has
lately been torn down.
| THE Rothschild firm lately received
thirty-one wagons of gold from Ger
! many.
| THERE is a heavy crop of supposed
noblemen at the seaside this summer.
NEW YORK owns $50. .OOO, 900 worth
| of churches, and her debt is SS6, 600, 900.
Hon. Charles Summer has taken
quarters at the White Sulphur Springs
of Virginia.
A CALIFORNIA man expects to reap
a crop of 10, 900 wild goats from Guada-
loupe Island this year.
AN IRON bridge, to be thrown across
the Arkansas River at Little Rock,
will be two years in building.
A KANSAS paper tells of an army of
toads which extends three-fourths of o
mile along the road.
JOE JEFFERSON has already recovered
! the use of his eyes. He is obliged to
wear goggles during the daytime.
TITS SAID that the balcony of the
Catskill Mountain House commands a
view of about 10000 square miles.
CHIEF Justice Chase is ut Newport,
and, we are pleased to hear, his health
is improving.
TIE notorious Fremont or Mariposa
estate, in California, has gone into pri-
vate hands,
ONE OF the recent thunder storms
destroyed LOO barrels of whisky, at
Patriot, Ind.
GENERAL Roseerans is devoting his
time, energy and ability to railroad
building in Mexico.
A PRIVATE letter from General Sher-
man says he will return to the United
States in September.
FRANK Leslie is at Long Rranch, |
where his handsome equipage is the
admiration of all beholders.
IT Is NOW said that orange is the
proper color for spectacles for persons |
with weak eyes, instead of blue or
green.
A MAN who is anxious for "cham-'
pionship" announces his intention of |
swimming from Cairo, Illinois, to New |
Orleans.
THERE will be enough wild grapes |
i'm Texas this year to make more wine |
than was ever manufactured in France |
in one year.
THE receipts of iron ore at Pittsburg
by railroad have been twice as great |
the present year as they were during |
the same months in 1871.
THE Merchants Exchange i'm st. |
Louis is to be one of the largest and
handsomest structures of the kind i'm
the world.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, has a negro man
1O2 years old, and still unhappy, be-
cause, although raised in Virginia, he
never saw Washington.
ONE-THIRD of the Texan cattle |
which went into winter quarters i'm
Kansas have already been lost by |
straying away or by death.
A DISPATCH from London says the
grave diggers of WOOlwich Cemetery,
in the eastern suburbs OF that city, are
on a strike.
FOUR million of brick, 10000 cubic
feet of granite, 8, 500 tons of iron, and
10, 600 pounds of cement have thus far
been used upon the new Postof1ice in
New York.
CAPT. Richard Francis Burton, the
African explorer, has succeeded the
late Charles Lever of British Consul at |
Trieste.
COLONEL Skinner, of the "Turf, |
Field and Farm, /" has just received from |
Egypt a famous Arabian horse. He is |
about fifteen hands high gray in color,
and cleaned limbed.
IT HAS been commonly supposed |
that the highest office within the gift of !
the people 10 the Presidency. This is q |
mistake. 1t is the superintendency of !
the weather signal station ON Pixies |
Peak.-BostOn Post.
THE Atlanta "Constitution,u has
moved into its new building, and the |
Office is now provided with all the inn
provements and comforts that modern
ingenuity can contrive.
THERE is a law uIon the statute |
books of North Carolina, passed in |
1860, or 1861 fOrbidding the circula- |
ton of the New York Tribune, and |
that law has never been repealed. The |
world does move rapidly.
1T is SAID that by the expenditure |
of S33, ,000, 900 for levees on the Missis-
sippi river, 100000 acres OF cotton |
land and 10000 acres of sugar land
would be reclaimed, the annual pro-
duct of which, ii is estimated, would |
amount to 81 ,0OO, 600 in gold.
THE Washington Sunday Chronicle
announces that Brevet Colonel James
| Forney, Of the United States Marine
Corps, SON Of ]. w. Forney, of the
Press, has been sent ON a two years
| inspection tour to examine into Euro
pean marine organizations.
THE experiment Of growing tea in
India is proving quite successful. In
1852 the crop was estimated at 1,O0O,-
900 pounds; in 1871, at something over
1000, 900. 1t is claimed that India
can now compete with China in. pro-