The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

The overland telegraph line in
Austria has been completed.
One Of the German papers has al.
tanned the great age of 242.
A rich Turk recently gave $4,000
= for beautiful Circassian girl.
The weather. classes of Turks pre-
fer written copies of the Koran.
-Pere Hyacinthe and his new wife
are going to start newspaper.
Edwin Forrest is going to retire
from the stage now as a Shaksperean
reader.
Mrs. Siddons is SO ill that she has
cancelled numerous lecture engage
ments.
During the past three months 54,-
600 emigrants sailed from Liverpool
for the United States.
The next session of the machinists
and blacksmiths' International Union
will be held at Louisville.
The present Car of Russia is so in
temperate that his physicians say he
cannot live many months.
Lord John Russell is preparing a
review of the proceedings of the Geneva
board of arbitration.
Prince Bismarck has been advised
by his physicians to retire from public
life for the balance of the year.
The. emigration from Metz has
been SO great that its present popula-
ton is but one-third of what it was
before the war.
During the past year it is estimated
that the postal railway service has
been increased by about 10000 miles.
MIR. William Everett, son of Ed
ward Everett, has applied to the Boz
ton Association of Ministers, for Ii
cense TO preach the Gospel.
Lamentations come from Acadia
relative TO the emigration from Nova
Scotia westward, and especially to the
United States.
MIR. Benjamin ID. Emerson of ia
maica Plains, Mass, who died last
week, left an estate of S25O,OOO, of
which he bequeathed 500, 900 to Dart
mouth college.
-Jerusdfem is agitated over her
water supply. The pool of Sloan and
q few Others like it are all that can be
depended upon, and they are full of
bugs and other live organisms.
"A philanthropic Yankee has in
vented a lifeboat which. if thrown into
the water wrong side up, will imme-
diately right itself, and, if filled with
water, will bail itself out.
The yield of gold in Californ ia is
slowly but steadily decreasing, while
miners and mining engineers find
larger profit i'm the silver mines of
Utah, Nevada and Colorado.
Efforts are being made i'm England
to compel the constructors of the priva-
teer Alabama to pay a portion of the
sum awarded to the United States, by
the Geneva tribunal.
The law imposing the stamp duty
on all documents expired on the frs;
of October. Hereafter, bank cheeks,
drafts or orders are the only papers
that are required to be stamped.
The London Telegraph thinks
"the American government must be
congratulated on the ease with which
it placed its hands on lawyers of such
eminence as Mr.. Evarts and Mr.. Caleb
Gushing.
California has a milkman, who,
in 1856, sold the tactical fluid from two
cans he carried about the streets, sus-
yended from his shoulders. He now
owns 200 Devon and Alderney cows.
The name of the successful gentleman
is S. c. Abbott. His property is as.
sessed at 100000.
Mrs. Levi Woodbury., who was a
belle in President ] ackson's day, when
her husband was secretary of the navy,
spends her summers with her daugh-
tiers. at her old home in Portsmouth,
n. H, and may often be seen riding
horseback alone i'm the suburbs of that
delightful old town.
"A touching incident occurred re-
Gently in one of our Southern cities.
A Cincinnati youth on q drumming
expedition, guided by the advice of
fortune-teller. attempted TO make
recalcitIa ant Southern girl fall in love
with him by means of electricity
working under the lady's chair. When
the time came she sprang into the air
about six feet, and when she came
down she planted her lovely fingers i'm
the youths hair, and commenced an
exhaustive pull at his wool. The lily
fingers of the other delicate hand were
painted squarely la his eye. After
making him both bald and blind she
told him she hated him from the bot
tom of her little heart.