The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Mississippi il getting down quite
low.
As q stock raising country Montana
has no equal.
The Alabama and Florida railroad is
for sale.
Large quantities of zinc are coming
into Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
The locusts are affecting Sullivan
County, Ind.
The Appleton(W Wis "burnt district"
is being rebuilt.
Only eighteen of the first Napoleon's
verterans are left.
Colorado wheat promises well this
year. 1t is considered the best wheat
in the world.
Last week ], 469 European immigrants
arrived in Milwaukee.
Birmingham, Ala, is putting up
splendid buildings on her new Fair
Ground
The big woods of Minnesota include
region of 5000 square miles.
Oxford University celebrates It's
1OOOth university this year.
Mahogany has been discovered in
the Guinea region of Africa.
The crack of the pistol is unknown
in Lapland, and they still pick the
fiints to their shot-guns.
Fifteen Minnesota legislators are
Scandinavians.
A wonderful cure has been wrought
in Berlin by drawing off poisoned blood
from a man and inserting pure and
healthy blood.
The business Of making sewing ma
chimes will he open free to the public
in q year, If Congress grants no more
extensions.
California farms are SO easily titled
that bushel of grain per acre pays the
costs of cultivation.
During the month of May there were
| shipped from Ottawa over fifteen tons
of butter.
The bridge over the Warrior at Tus-
kaloosa is rapidly approaching COM
pletion.
Mrs. Gen. S. d. Watson and family
after an absence OF about six years in
Brazil, returned to Talladega county a
few days ago.
| The reduction of the hours of labor
in New Yor will cause loss of S., 900,
900 year in production.
In Indiana there are four hundred
and fifty Masonic lodges and $4,000
Masons i'm full communion.
There is no hard wood except of in.
ferior quality in Southern Colorado.
Fences for farms are not used, the stock
being herded during the growing sea-
| son.
Ohio is the second of the great cheese
producing States of the Union. Du.
ring the year 1870 the product of Ohio
was Al 1851, O3S pounds, and that Of but.
ter A., 020, 54 pounds.
Says the Herald: The Masonic fra.
ternity of Birmingham may soon con-
graduate themselves on possessing q
handsome temple, costing fifteen OF
twenty thousand dollars.
Some $4,000 head of long, lean, lank
Texas cattle, with horns like elephant
tusks, are kicking up dust in the vi.
cinity of Ellsworth, Kan.
The vote in Virginia, go far as heard
from, on the question of striking ou'
the present usury clause, allowing l:
per cent by contract, from the statutes
stands IA, 563 for and 9,Sl4 as ainst the
proposition.
Not less than 100000 head of bee
cattle were driven from the mesquI
grass ranges Of Western Texas; besides
more than three million dollars worth
of hides were exported from one par
alone-IndianOla during the last twelv,
months.
/ A newspaper has just been started il
London called the american Settler
1t is devoted exclusively to the INTEREST,"
of settlers i'm America. The advan
tages of immigration are set forth, ant
fair representation made Of the differ
ent parts of the country.
The Galveston Nc,cs, of the 10Th
says: We have been informed tina
there has been shipped on the New
York steamer Houston 1900 fine wa
termelons for the New York market
This will, doubtless, prove . remuner
alive speculation, and may lead to tn,
opening of An extensive trade in thi
line"
The Democratic State convention O
Alabama have nominated Col. Il. H
Herndon for Governor, and Col. Al
pheus Baker and Col. J. J. Jolly f.
: Congress for the State at large. Tn
Convention endorsed Greeley and tn
Cincinnati platform with ananimity