The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

Michigan is to have a new State
capitol.
Galveston complains OF forays by
sharks in the harbor.
The relief committee of Chicago
has spent Slt0, 900 for stoves.
Richmond Va, shipped $4,000 bar
rels of -four to Brazil last year.
Mr.. G. b. Lockett, of Georgia, is
the largest planter OF the South.
The London Times thinks three
nen-of-war could capture that city.
Boston wants $500, 600 for the Coli
scum to be built for this years Jubilee.
Little Rock, Ark, has taken
census of her dogs, developing 1900.
Osceola county, Iowa, with 277, $50
acres of land, contains not single
tree.
Chicago proposes now to have side
walks with iron girders, arched with
brick. -r..' ..-
The proposed Viaduct Railway in
New York, if ever built, will cost
$lS,00o,0 600.
The famous Tichborne baronetcy
case is expected to continue until
midsummer. ..
The capitalists of Turkey have gone
earnestly to work extending their
railway system.
Paul Lyons, the oldest man in
Mobile county, Alabama, died recent.
ly, aged nearly Ill. rs
The North Carolina Legislature
contemplates the passage of bill to
encourage the growth of peanuts.
Trenton, n. j., owns the largest
circular saw in the world. 1t is
twenty-five feet in circumference.
The hay crop of Maine has hereto
fore. averaged 1,000,090 tons. This
year the supply is only 49, 900 tons.
The English are talking of replen-
iShing their exhausted oyster beds
with oysters from Chesapeake Bay.
A free supply of water, it is said,
would add million dollars a month
to the present gold yield in Califor-
MIA. F.
The Royal Geographical Society OF
London proposes to send out an eX
pedition to Africa to rescue DR.. Liv-
ingstone. SO; Etsf T
One OF our police magistrates is re-
ported TO have said that no class put
more feeling into their vocation than
pickpockets. --3. .-.S
The United States lease of SANTANA
Bay, San Domingo, having expired,
the American flag has been hauled
down in that region.
The high Spanish comb is coming
in fashion again, and is made of gold,
studded with precious stones Of oXidi-
zed silver, of jet, or tortoise shell.
A Sac county, Iowa, horse tried to
scratch his nose with his own foot,
the other day, caught his hoof in the
halter, gave jerk, and broke his own
neck.
\ mammoth cheese was recently
exhibited in Faneul Hall, Boston, of
which 1000 persons bought slices,
paying for them in the aggregate
SG3i 40.
The new arrangement by which
mutilated currency is to be redeemed
at the post offices, by being taken in
payment for stamps, is great con-
yenience.
y vessel just arrived at New York,
saw floating in the Gulf Stream,
miles away from any land, large
railway baggage car, marked North
ern II. r. i
Robert Branson, a great grandson
of Brant, the famous Indian chieftain,
and his wife, aged respectively nine
ty-one and eighty-sevcn, are living
in Detroit, Mich.
There are said to be %, 600 Protest
ants in Turkey, representing twelve
different natiOnalities, the greater
number being connected with the
American missions.
An English congregation proposes
to establish Il chapel on the summit OF
the Rigi, near Lucerne Switzerland.
That congregation evidently belongs
10 the High Church party.
An Iowa eagle made one fell swoop
and pounced upon a young and ten
der pig. Contrary to all precedent,
however, the porker proved resistant,
and slew the proud bird of freedom.
A member of the staff of the Grand
Duke Alexis, who has listened closely
to the speeches of welcome made to
that Prince, has come to the conclu-
sion that America must be nation
of oratOrS.o
The Boston Transcript says: "A |
prominent and honest Congressman |
rejoices exceedingly that under the !
civil service reform he will become a |
freeman, and have his public life |
from importunate Office
seekers"
Theirs is described by an American
who saw him on the 10th |
ultimo, as Choking as hale and
hearty as the Pope, and promising
TO oudive two. or three more French
revolutions"
England is excited on the subject
of oysters. The price charged for
good ones is five times as great per
bushel in 1871 as it was in 1861. The
beds have been dredged to death and
cannot restore themselves.
The British mercantile marine con-
siSts OF thirty seven thousand vessels,
six million tons. OF
these four million tons are steamers:
and, altogether, the English have
more ships than all other nations
A contemporary thinks that "The
graceful ease with which a California
tage-with its load of passengers
allows itself 10 be robbed by highway
nan i'll pairs or singly is more credit
bile to the courteous good-nature of
he travellers on the Pacific coast than
0 their personal courage"