The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-04-05
SUNDRIES.

Lima has produced a seven-headeC
child.
Another diamond-field, of extraor
dinary richness, has been discovered
in South Africa. @
Since the Louisville corner in
Whisky, Cincinnati topers have to be
taken to a "dry" dock.
Great Britain and Ireland produced
nearly 100000 worth of metals
and Goals last year.
Foot-races are the chief amusement
of thin-souled San Franciscans.
A western paper talks about a GER
tain occasion as one of calm, unim,
passioned profanity!
A cotemporary says of a prominent
General that ''his sword was never
drawn but once, and then in rattle. !"
A Philadelphia election is pictured
as ruffian with q revolver in one
hand and bundle of ballots in the
other.
Another fearful warning-A chap
living out in Illinois went duck
shooting on a recent Sunday. He
was brought home head foremost,
with the top of his head blown of.
They don't call it "going to see q
man" in Rensselaer,, Indiana, but
always "expect letter." the post
office being in the hotel bar-room.
The Legislature has under consid-
Grafton bill to forbid the lighting
of railway cars with the highly in
fammable oils frequently used for
this purpose.
Ex-Secretary Seward is to officiate
as orator at the dedication of the Lin
coin monument at Springfield, Ill.
The Secretary never says "die."
Nineteen executions took place last
year in Germany. Four of the poor
sinners were women. Eleven of them
were beheaded with the axe, two
guillotined and six hung.
One Jean Hosmer is giving costume
lectures in Iowa. She pretends to be
a niece Of Stokes, the murderer of
Fisk, and wants to make money
enough to defray the expenses of her
uncle's defence.
A society has been organized at
Boston, entitled the mission for
Animals" the object of which is the
improvement of the modes of treating
live stock destined for food, clothing
and other uses.
Judge Pope, the United States Dis
triet Attorney for Georgia, has re-
signed that office, as the duties as
signed to it under recent legislation
in relation to Ku-Klux prosecutions
render the position distasteful to him.
The claims of Florida as hunting
ground are only just beginning to be
recognized. Large parties are daily
leaving Jacksonville for different
points on the Upper st. Johns,
where hunting and fishing are said
to be superior to any other part of the
United States east of the Rocky
The editors of the newspapers pnb-
lished in the City of Mexico have
formed themselves into a society, the
members of which are all bound to
abstain from personal attacks upon
each other when discussing politics
and other inflammable subjects.
There are four adventurous young
men in Dubuque who are preparing
to make a voyage from that city to
Cuba in boat twenty-five feet long
by six feet wide. They propose to go
down the Mississippi to the Gulf, and
then keep along the coast to Florida,
whence they will strike across to the
shores of Cuba. ..F
There is q chestnut tree standing on
the slope of Mount Etna, in the is
land of Sicily, which is said to be the
oldest tree of its kind in the world.
1t is of colossal dimensions, and is
named the Hundred Cavaliers, ON ac-
count of the Queen of Arragon and
her court having found shelter be-
meath its branches. 1t is nearly two
hundred feet in girth, and is thought
to be not less than three hundred
years old. -
Jacob Fournhis, who was probably
the oldest man in the world, died re-
Gently at Kansas City. He was about
H3S years old, and remembered, dis
the taking of Quebec by
Wofe, in 1859. In 1874, at the time
Of the occupation of New Orleans by
Jackson, Journals was not
allowed to enlist because he was too
old. He followed the occupation of a
hunter for fifty years, and retired
about thirty years ago from active
work.
The town trustees of Petersburg,
H., have hit upon an excellent ex-
pedient for checking the traffic in
liquors. They charge
5000 for a license, and this Is more
than the profits of the business amount
to-. Ten of the fourteen saloons have
and they hope to crush
the remaining four. They are lucky
in having a people SO temperate or so
poverty-stricken that this process
should prove successful. f ,,.,5.
A clever application of science to
purposes has been made
by an italian gentleman, NJ. Eugenio
ie Zuccato, of Padua. By means of
the invention any number of copies
Of manuscript or design, traced
upon vanished metal plate, may
be produced in an ordinary copying
press. This application applied to
art is in full use in New York.
The New Orleans papers record the
death in that city, on the 18th in
slant, of Mr.. John s. Washington,
for thirty years marine news editor of
the Rcdy,spe. Mr.. Washington was
'ixty-twO years old, and at one time
resided in that city. He was native |
Of King George County, Va, and was
4 descendant Of a branch of the Vir-
yinia family from which sprang
General Washington.
The railroad tunnel under the De-
troit river Is going on well. 1t ad-
yances at the rate of five feet in
hours, the masonry be-
ing carried forward as fast as the ex-
cavation. The construction Is him
iered by layer Of quicksand at the
bottom of the tunnel, from which
flows q current of sulphur water at |
the rate Of five gallons minute.
There Is also some difficulty from
the bowlders which are met with inn |
bedded in the clay through which
the excavation, Is carried. The bot
tom OF the tunnel is 118 feet below |
the waters edge .. f.-r. --.|af+