The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
GENERAL NEWS ITFNS.

1 dENEhAL NEWS Iff1Ss
/ Next month Iowa has q state billiaH
tournament.
Niagara Falls had 10000 visitors tn,
past season.
The health Of Gotham is impaired By
her cemeteries.
/ A rich amber mine has been fount
in Alaska.
| Americans are in the majority Al
the principal Partisan hotels.
Rents in London are about one-thirt
what they are in Boston.
The California strawberry crop ha.
been the largest this year ever known
Memphis bucks wash their alimentry
canal with Dolly Warden cocktails.
Indians have been committing seri.
Gus depradations in Wise County
Texas.
There were only three plural mar
riages in Utah during the past three
months. 79i-
Sir Edwin Landseer, the famous
English animal painter has gone
crazy.
Tennessee contains 1900, 600 acres OF
of land, of which only 5000, 900 are
improved.
| Mrs. Fairs second trial has been
postponed until the first Monday in
September.
Texas fever is raging among the
cattle on the prairies near Sabine,
sweeping off whole herds.
Americans continue to apply to the
| German government for patents of no.
bility.
At the Yarmouth mills, in Maine,
brown paper is made from spruce logs
| in twenty-four hours. 7
Five European princes, none OF
whom, however, belong to reigning
| families, are married to American
ladies.
Abt says that the Boston jubilee's at
tempt to sing "The Swallows" with
twenty thousnndd voices was a "hoom-
pOog.'
A hundred men are employed two
hours every morning in sweeping off
the dirt accumulated by the Boston
jubilee.
Belfast Ireland has run up in popu-
lation from 5000 to l75,oOO in the
past 80 years.
The value of gold at present in ex-
ward of 5000, 100000.
Three thousand yards of lace, smug-
gled in milk-cans, on the steamer Rus
sia, were seize Tuesday in New York.
President Grant, Gov. Washburn,
and James Martineau were recipients
of the degree of LII. D. at Harvard re-
Gently. -fs .-s.(
Col. r. NJ. Brown, of the Mississippi
"Central" IL a candidate fO Congress
in the Water Valley district.
During q recent severe thunder
storm Hon. d. 8. Hammond, of Han
over ILL.,, lost 81, 600 young trout valued
G. M. Hazen's paper mill, three and
half miles from Knoxville, has been
destroyed by fire. Loss $25, ,00O-in-
surance $4,000.
California, in spite of the frosts will
manage to squeeze out S,0OO,0 gal
Ions of wine and asuggestion OF brandy.
Ex-Congressman Clark, of Texas, has
been appointed postmaster of Calves
ton, vice James A. Mckee, suspended.
England has exported in the last
four months 90, 600 more tons of iron
than at any corresponding time before.
Parties from Fort Sill report move
ment OF the wild tribes of Indians upon
Texas. There are available forces suffi-
cient to meet them, and serious times
are looked for.
Photography promises to do almost
as much for man as the steam engine.
1t assists the painter and the sculptor,
the astronomer and the naturalist.
Young ladies now usually carry two
umbrellas on the promenade-onei in
the hand, dainty thing of black lace
and carved ivory, and the other for
rain, being swung to the wrist Ia
Dsilitdire.
The Barmese embassy which re-
Gently landed in England brought
costly presents, among which was
magnificent bracelet for Queen Vic
toria, the gold of which weighs seven
pounds.
A correspondent says that New Mex
leo has q supply Of minerals that will
bring the energy of the nation there,
and create third civilization which
Apache and Navajo cannot destroy.
The California Legislature thinks
it has stopped betting on elections, 10y
making the act punishable by fine
not exceeding 1000, and term of im-
prisonment not exceeding five years.
Up to the year 1871, six hundred and
forty Thousand copies of Franz Abt's
song, "When the Swallows HOmeward
Fly" had been sold in Germany. The
composer received only $40 for that
popular production.
A new supply of Peruvian guano has
been discovered some distance to the
south of Lima and several miles in
land. The deposit is reported to be
very extensive, and lies under sue
cessive beds of black salt, nitrate of soda
and bOraX,