The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-15
IN GENERAL.

IN GENERAL. ia
The "oldest inhabitant" of Angus
ia, Georgia, is mule. f
Chicago has twenty-one artesian
wells.
Cotton ofexcellent quality is grown
i'm Nebraska.
Iowa has twenty thousand square
miles of coal fields.
An entire circus company has been
arrested in Arkansas for murder.
Seventy thousand Texas cattle still
roam near Wichita, Kansas.
Five hundred bushels to the acre
is an onion crop in Minnesota.
Germany is feeling rich ever re-
cent petroleum discoveries.
Trains of cars from Little Rock to
Memphis are ferried across the river.
There are numerous iron churches
i'm Australia, sent thitlIer from Eng
land.
-Four-fifths of the whole population
of Western Kansas are males.
The Constitution of Nebraska pro-
hibits public debt exceeding $4,000.
Several "active" mud volcanoes
have been discovered near MendOcino,
California.
Farmers throughout the State of
Iowa have sown All unusual breadth of
wheat.
The Dallas, Oregon, salmon fish
cries are estimated to be worth at least
s., ,OO6, 900. 4.s-r-l
Earthquakes are travelling east
ward, and receiving considerable at
tention along the route.
Five dignified buzzards composed
ly roost on the cupola of the court
house in Thomasville, Ga.
1t is estimated that there is one
lady passenger for every ten trunks
carried over the railroads.
"A monster raft, containing $780,
600 feet of lumber, is soon to leave
Minneapolis for st. Louis.
Two companies of regular troops
have Just been sent out on the North
ern Pacific Railroad line.
When a Kansas Indian dies his
friends choke pony to death and bury
it with the deceased.
"A winged calf is on exhibition at
the Oregon State Fair. The man who
owns it is looking for rise in veal.
Col. Thos G. Redd of Georgia, who
served with distinction during the
Mexican war, died last week at Mont
gOmery, Ala.
"A Shelby (Ky.) widow, "fat, fair
and forty" was married to young
man the other day, at the muzzle of a
revolver.
in Nebraska, April 10 has been set
apart as sacred to the planting of trees,
and is called Arbor Day.
There are fifty-six farmers i'm the
Iowa Legislature, nearly One-half of
the total number of legislators.
About one hundred and seventy
Mormon converts from England pass
ed through Iowa for Utah, the other
day.
johnson county, Iowa, during the
the last three years, has sold $40, 600
worth of Timothy seed and $3.50, 1000
worth of flax crop.
TASTES have changed within the
past 8, 900 years. Once extreme GRIM
inals dreaded the river Styx; now their
greatest fear is of the Neuse.
1t is stated that orders have been
sent by the Persian Government to the
Persian representative at Paris to en-
gage forty professors for the lyceum
and new colleges Of a similar kind.
There is difficulty in finding a
jury when an Indian comes before an
Omaha court. One of the panel being
asked if he had any prejudice, replied !:
"No; only I've been chased by 'em,
been in several battles with 'em and
would hang every devil of 'em at sight.
The Titlsville Press prints the fol-
lowing recipe: "To find out the num-
ber of children i'm a street beat base
drum. To find out the number of idle
men start dog fight. To find out the
number of women let a woman go
through quiet street with the latest
style of bonnet on"
England paid S4OO, 900 i'm gold for her
cable correspondence with the United
States in the matter of the Alabama
Claims Arbitration. Had the Presi.
dent only appointed Mr.. A. H. Steph-
ems as our Secretary of State, we should
have got back considerable more than
SIG, ,00O,O gold, in the shape of in
creased dividends on the telegraphiC
toe ks.-MO. Democrat.
The discontentment among the
laboring classes of Germany and Eng.
land seems to be smouldering like
pent-up volcano, which occasionally
emits little jets of smoke and flame
fearfully prophetic of a great and de-
structive eruption to follow. In Ger
many the disturbing elements are in
the most uncertain condition, ant
fears of what may result from a feather
thrown the wrong way agitate botf
social and political circles. The causes
that have led to this at Perlin, where
the great centre of discomfort is, ar,
the exhorbitant prices which Landlords
are asking for tenements and lodgings
which 1t is impossible for the poor maj
to pay, and the treatment which tn,
working classes received at the hand
meeting, September Z. The rents hav'
been raised 100 per cent, which to per
sons of small means is discouraging, a
they were high enough before. Blu
the English have a revolutionary sid
to them also, which is now interesting
Since they have come to understand
the political power that is in thei
hands the only problem which the.
are anxiOusly trying to solve Gs hov
they shall use it. IA miners Mo1ste
demonstration" was recently held nea
Morpeth, and the attendance was i'm
mense. The weather was wretched
but men and women tramped thrUugl
the mud to hear incendiary speeche
from diggers in the coal pits, and hea
the brassy bands discourse that "Brit
Ons never will be slaves" One Thoma
Elliott, Northumberland country
man, made a speech against tyrant
that would have done for a Covenan
ter, and closed with some origina
campaign poetry.
The Cow Tree.
"Among themany curious phenomen
which presented themselves to me il