The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-08
VARIETIES.
Texas has green corn in market

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corn In store. uI rari s-N7s ..,..
Vessel building is said to hav
opened briskly ut Buffalo. .. .-.-
The Seine has not been so low q
at present for hundred years.
Salmon are now exported to Englan,
from this country In great quantities
The whisky statistics of Cincinnati
for 1871 show production of 29l 90
barrels, and sales amounting to $l4
741, SIS. teaH = f,
The Rev. H. M. Thomas, of New
York, who now gets $4,000 q year
was formerly Underwater in Cleve
land, Ohio. '... .-,-ai '.t
The Chicago Journal argues through
six columns that Tom Paine wrote
the "Junius" letters. Bosh!
A locomotive consumes, on the
average, 45 gallons of water for every
mile it runs.
Mrs. Experience Plank died at North
killingly, Connecticut, Feb, 18th, 10t
years, 8 months and - days.
In the neighborhoOd of Winchester,
Va, the people are suffering severely
from dTOuth. For nine months
scarcely any rain has fallen.
A mandatory of spools in Fox.
croft, Maine, employs fifty hands.
The company bias recently brought
100 acres of timber to convert into
spools.
1t is said that the eleven Territories
exceed by nesrly 200, 900 square miles
the aggregate area of all the present
admitted States of the Union.
The first steamer blown I'D on
Western rivers was the Washington.
The disaster happened June 9, 1916,
and nine lives were lost.
The Petersburg (Va.) Index Gays
that that city came out of the war
more completely Frustrated than any
city in the South, but Is now on the
highway to prosperity.
The new county of Crockett, between
the two Forked-deers, proposes to call
its c0unty-site Alamo, in honor of the
place in Texas where Davy Crocket
fell fighting Mexicans.
Pennsylvania has been reducing its
State debt at the rate of two millions
q year for five years past. The total
debt remaining unprovided for
amounts to about SIS, ,OOO,O ..
The coal fields of West Virgins are
said to embrace an area Of 1900
square miles, or near three times the
coal area Of Great Britain.
The shipment of butter and cheese
nom Adrian, Michigan, for the year
1871, amount TO 1,273, ,096 pounds of
cheese, aud 219, ,277 pounds of butter.
1t Is affirmed that the eastern shore
OF the United States is sinking into
the ocean at the rate of sixteen inches
every hundred years. Buyers Of sea-
shore lots should bear this in mind,
and strike for the interior!
Nearly four million dollars worth
of steamers are imperilled by the ex-
isting ice gorges along the Mississippi.
Ii the gorges break up slowly by
thawing, little damage will be done,
but if the river current forces them
apart the result will be serious.
The great works which are to make
the present year famous I'm the history
of Richmond are: the deepening OF
James River, the tunnel through
Church Hill, the free bridge across
James River, and the annexation of
Manchester.
A farmer at Cedar rapids, Iowa, has
herd of nine elk, that he is training
and breaking in to fam work. He
now isable to drive them little, keeps
them in q pasture, and generally they
submit to currying as well as any ami.
mails. He has refused Sl4GO for the
herd. ~.
During the last months Germany has
lost three of her favorite authOrs-Carj
Toepfer, the veteran dramatist, Rob-
ert Heller, and Bernd Won Guseck-all
of whom have for tie last thirty years
enjoyed considerable reputation and
popularity.
In Salisbury, England, there is an
eccentric gentleman named John Bull,
who insists upon wearing dress in the
fashion Of the time of King Alfred, and
when recently charged with indecent
dressing, quoted in his defence statue
of tha' 'emonarci, viii, b says that ''any
dress that covers the body from neck
to below the kneecannot be indecentp'
Francis p. Blair, Senior, who lives
in Washington, is now nearly eighty
one years old, and very feeble. Mrs.
Blair is few years younger, and is in
good health. The two old people oc-
casionly take walk together, and al
ways attract attention. Both are
Obliged to use canes.
Mr.. JIG. Bennett, Jun., declines to
exceed Fisk, jun, as Colnel of tie
Ninth Regiment because it is said to
cost $50, 900 a year to be ga liberal and
public spirited Colonel" and he does
not love the military to that degree.
Prince Alsmaya, a son of King The
odore, Of Abyssinfs, has arrived at
Southamton, England. He has been
travelling in India and China, wears
the English costume, and has forgotten
his native language, He is to be edu-
Gated at Cambridge by the English
Government. D. ..lu7
Eight out ofsvery ten tobacco chew
ers in the regions where the plant is
into hanks and free of honey, liquorice
juice or other modern adulteratiOn.
The use of manufactured or 'store" to-
bacco would set the oldest of them to
retchiug. s I..-r t.....
Eighteen years ago Carl Schurz
stood on the fioor Of the United States
Senate, hardly comprehending the
language spoken around him. He
wrote to his wife: .'SOme day 1 shall
stand here and speak in English" and
his prediction proved true. This item
was prepared after Mr.. SchurZ was
sent to the Senate. tff I'.'.
F The total annual circulation of news
papers printed in the State of New
York is 492, 770, 1858 copies, being more
than twice the number issued in any
other State. The next greatest num-
Der of Issues is in Pennsylvania, where
233, ,380, ,582 copies are annually printed.
Massachusetts, prints 1877 ,69I. AS copies,
Illinois IO2, ,6S6, ,2O4, Ohio SO, ,592,448.
Next comes California, with As, S69, ,4OS
newspaper sheets per annum.
In the past year Portsmouth, o., has
built tive hotels costing $I56, COO, wa
ter works costing $125 600, q high
school building costing $4,000, two
and q half miles of new sidewalk cost
ing $11 900, one factory Of agricultural
implements costing s4S, 600, and one
hundred and thirty-five business build
ings costing $36, $50.
A Tobacco firm IN Hartford are 90
ing to try new plan for curing the
1871 crop. Ordinarily, In this climate,
it would not be fit for use till after the
hot months, say in September. They
have conceived the idea of shipping
oarCo to q warm climata wharo n x1;lI