The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
GENERAL ITEMS.

| UENEhAL IIEMS.
Millions of deed oysters line the coast,
Of Jamaica bay, N. j.
The Greeley monument fund amount
to Sl6,4S4
A California writer has found ract
OF Indians who live without sleep.
Land is worth $500 per front foot OIL
Wabash avenue, Chicago.
st. Louis papers now number theil
suicides. The last one was "Suicidt
No. 502S."
Hammocks are coming into general
use IN New York houses, instead OF
beds.
Extensive lead mines are being open.
ed in Utah.
Iowa has two thousand square miles
of coal fields.
A $4,000 school house is being built
it Lincoln, Neb.
In Kremer County, Iowa, corn is
worth Is cents per bushel.
Peru, Indiana, is to have an $50, ,ON
towel manufactory.
The wealth per capita of the State OF
| Illinois is $3.50 "a.
Paniers and high heels are rapidly
going out of fashion.
Many have withstood the frowns OF
the world, but its smiles and caresses
have hugged them 10 death.
Jesus is offered as a whole Saviour,
a perfect physician. Receive him.
Accept him now. Already he has
been knocking for admission, until his
head is filed with dew, and his locks
with the drops of the night.
The Great Salt Lake and Colorado
River Railroad Company proposes to
build line from Salt Lake City up
the Valley of the Jordan and down the
| Rio Virgin and the Colorado River to
Fort Yuma, where it will strike the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
there is lake among the Cascade
Mountains, in Oregon, the walls around
which are nearly perpendicular, and
two thousand feet high. The depth OF
the lake is unknown; its length is
| twelve, and its breadth ten, miles. No
man has ever yet reached the waters
edge.
The Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing of the Treasury Department, WASH
ington, has already forwarded to Japan
four mum mSering machines, with type
cut in japanese characters, and is pre-
pairing to send six roller presses for
plate printing, all of which is to be us I'd
in the printing of the japanese nation
al currency.
A fine picture of Boston is given by
Wendell Phillips, in one of his recent
lectures on labor reform: "BOstOn is
a city i'm which every tenth person is a
criminal and every seventh a .pauper
Three-quarters of our farms mortgaged
for drinks; two-thirds of the pulpits are
filled with drunkards ard the bench of
Justice is nearly vacant because one
half of the judges have died drunk
ards.o
Within the past eight weeks an ex-
traordinary excitement has been aroused
in Colorado, Utah, and the adjoining
States and Territories, relative to the
discovery of rich placer gold diggings
on the Colorado river, about one hum
dred and fifty miles from Gallville.
Colorado resembles Virginia in one
respect. 1t is State of springs and
watering places. There are the Idaho,
the Colorado, the Central, and host
of others all boiling over with hot and
cold, iron and sulphur, magnesia, and
other drugged and tinctured waters.
In fact, this plain seems to hold the
materia medica of the continent in SO.
luton.
A prize of 1000 francs and medal
are offered by the Agricultural Society
of France for the best memoir ION the
Theory and Practice of Irrigation"
The memoirs are to be sent to the Gen.
eral Secretary of the Society before the
list of January, 1873.
The first coal ever mined in the
United States was dug Lear Richmond,
Va. Bituminous coal was mined there
as early 100, and in IT'S was exten-
sively used in the vicinity. During
the Revolution a Richmond foundry
employed this coal in making shot and
shell for the Continental forces.
Since the introduction of coal oil re-
fineries along the SchuyIkill and Dsla-
ware, the original fine flavor of the
sllad caught in these rivers has been
materially injured, partaking of the
rather unpalpable taste of kerosene.
IDtllt SIccfly wiz OHt vi tbC UCct tuthoi.
tiles on the fresh fish question in this.
country, says "The flesh of fish will
taste of kerosene if caught in any
stream i'm which the refuse of kerosene
oil refineries is allowed to run"
Since the San Francisco authorities
have offered a premium of $40 for
every body recovered from the bay, the
Chronicle is looking out for large sup
ply of corpses at the Morgue. Ii ad-
vises drunkards and Oregon flats TO
give wide berth to the man-hOles and
dead-falls of the waterfront. Ten dol.
lars may seem u small premium for
murder, but times are hard and human
nature weak.
The entire length of tic canal by
which it has been proposed to connect
the Caspian and Black Seas would be
$50 Russian verts, or 400 miles. 1t is
calculated that the work. of construc-
ton would take $1,000 laborers six
years. Aside from the benefit of the
canal on commerce at large, it would
serve to replenish the Caspian Sea,
which is thought to be gradually dry
ingup.