The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
GLEANINGS.

| GLEANINGS.
"A paper recently alluded to a mar
as battle-scared veteran" The com
positor was 80 agitated when the editor
made him correct it that he changed il
to bottle-scarred veteran. And still
the veteran in question was not salts
| fed. = - -E aE
"A Montreal man, in a fit of drunken
rage at his wife, went to the cemetery
! and mutilated costly monument she
! had placed over the remains of her first
husband,
An Oswego county On. " jury
was literally treated to brandy at the
expense of the accused, the constable
| kindly officiating as a means of commu-
nication, and the verdict was "in ac-
cordance with the circumstances"
Alexander Dumas and George Sand
have jointly written a tragedy entitled
"Brutus, which Victor Hugo says is
superior to any tragedy ever written in
modern times. .-..
The attendant in the gentlemen's s
dressing room where frst-class party
was given recently, at New York, dis
covered that nearly every overcoat in
charge had a loaded revolver in the
pocket. HEE "a
-s' A Mississippi valley society" has
been organized at st. Louis, with a
branch in London, to promote business
relations between England and the Mis-
sissippi valley, and to encourage emil
grstion
Amos Cummings, managing editor
of the New York aSat1a is suffering from
ond hoe orOno 70 do
Thomas N. Cooke, formerly correspond
ent of the Herald, has taken his place
on the San.
"A Memphis woman who out-Herod-
ed Herod and everybody else at the
Mardi Gras carnival by appearing in an
open hack, en- masque, with one arm,
shoulder and breast bare, was taken
with pneumonia next day and died in
less than week.
"A Missouri woman said she gave a
conductor ten dollar bill; he said it
was two; she insisted he persisted :;
she took out little revolver and snap
ped at his head, and, as he was too po-
lite to quarrel with the sex, he gave her
back her balance of So.
Bishop Vail, of Kansas, by way of
illustrating the free and easy ways of
frontier life, says that in one grave
yard where he happened to be walking
there were 27 graves, and the un-
dertaker told him that the occupants
of 26 of them died and were buried
"with their boots on, that is,
killed in afrays and buried without
ceremony.
Mr.. Wright Johnson, a venerable
gentleman of six years, and Miss Ber-
tina Sykes, whose locks had been thin
ned by the fight of five years, arrived
by railway in ST. Louis, recently, hav-
ing fed from the tyrany of their pa
rents in st. Charles, Mo-, with the in
tention of being matrimonially united.
A kind hearted policeman who knew
how, took them in charge, and dosed
them with lollypop and sweet things
until they could be sent back home.
A." regular builp vampire came
on board the steamshi Nevada, some
where near the Pacific, and a daring
sailor bagged him. He is said to re-
semble peterodactyl, but that is rath-
er indefinite, as no peterodactyls have
been observed about here for several
seasons. It is more satisfactory to learn
that it closely resembles black-and-
tan terrier dog, with wines stretching
three or four feet from tip to tip, and
teeth half an inch long, with the use of
which it seemed quite familiar. 1t re-
sented all attempts at familiarity, and
is supposed to be full rugged vampire,
of the species that put man to sleep
with their wings and then suck his
hearts blood.
No man knows, nowadays, who is or
isn't going to shoot him. A middle
aged man who with eight or ten others,
was in the baggage car of a train on the
Albany and Susquehanna railroad, the
other night, suddenly drew revolver
and fired twice at the baggage master,
who was locking out the door The
shots both missed and the man was Sc
cured, but he was stranger to all
present, even to his intended victim.
He refused to give his name, and was
permitted to escape.
THAT Chicago abduction case was
a swindle. Instead of being lugged
off by two men In hack, the girl went
over to West end to see her lover, and
staid over night. and then when she re
turned to her frightened parents, in
vented the abduction story to bamboo
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all and applied to the Superintendent of
police to work the thing up, and the
Superintendent was also taken in, as
well as several reporters. AS good
square liar, that girl can take rank.
A DUTCH FORTUNE AND IT'S AMERICAN
CLAIMANTS. Sarah and Wolfort Webber
and Wintiie Sybrant Brewer died in
Holland in the early part of the seven
teenth century, leaving behind them a
considerable number of heirs, and con-
siderable amount of property. They
also left wills bequeathing their pos
sessions to their children and their
children's heirs. but, in the course of
generation or two, those important
documents became lost in some of the
musty, cob-web covered courts of dyke
land. Recently, while explorations
were being made in the interest of the
Anneke Jams heirs,-who, it appears
the long-lost were found, and it was dis
covred that about $40, ,000,0 900 were
awaiting lawful claimants in Holland.
This was joyful piece of intelligence
to a large number of people In this
country who can trace their genealogical
record back to the immediate descen-
dants of the Webbers and Brewers, some
of whom settled in New York in the 18th
century. Since the announcement was
made, meetings have been held in differ
ent parts of the country to make ar
rangements for proving heirship and
securing the rich prize. 1t is now be-
lieyed that the matter will be brought
before the United States courts and
definitely settled in short time.