The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
LATE NEWS IN BREIF.


ment within a week. and there are runors of
another, which the managers refuse to tell
about. The Fire Mashals and Chiefs of the
Fire Department are satisfied that most of
these fires are incendiary.- man
ayers are greatly alarmed, and further advance
IN the rates OF insurance is not improbable
Hints about a vigilance committee are renewed
IN various quarters, and there is possibility
OF violent movement for the suppression of
International societies in New York and its
vicinity
The commissioner of internal revenue con-
templates change in the whisky regulations
on the first of January under which an alter
ration IN the allowance of one fermenting pc
rlod, but IN no case more than forty-eight
hours, will be made upon the opening of addi-
tlonal tubs before those additional tubs are in
Guided. In arriving at the producing capaci-
ty heretofore, the additional tubs have been
included from the moment they were opened
This new ruling shall be prescriptive from the
first of January, but in no case will it be re-
troactive, or in other words 1t will relate en-
truly and only to the products of January and
future periods
There is increased evidence of a concealed
plan for the destruction of New York. and the
authorities are exercising the utmost vigilance
Extra men have been engaged on the fire de-
partment, and additional engineer are under
contract. Many Communists, expelled from
Paris after its last capture, are in New York
and their movements excite mucn suspicion
1t is impossible to account for the origin Of all
the recent fires except on the theory that some
OF them were incendiary. 1t is known that
half a dozen fires have been set within the
past ten days, but fortunately they were ex-
tinguished.
The sum of $3.50. 900 has been paid for fifty
one shares of the New York Tribune Associa-
ton This would make the entire value of
he property 81, 100, 900. The New York Her
aid could not. probably, be bought for 50. OGO
900, if it were for sale at all The New York
Evening Post is believed to be worth over
million dollars, and the Journal of Commerce
even more than the Post, and the PHILADELPHIA
Ledger more than either. The st. Louis DEM
ocrat sold recently on the basis of about $780,
OOO-a ridiculously low price. Two-thirds of
the Pittsburgh Dialy Commercial were sold
last week for $780, 600.
There is prospect that the long-delayed
postal cards, will soon be issued. Congress-
authorized them last June, but failed to make
an appropriation to pay the expense of en-
craving and printing. The Postmaster Geuer-
al estimates that one hundred millions of the
cards Will be used in single year and to nav
for the number that will probably be demand
ed between now and the list of July, he asked
an appropriation of fifty thousand dollars
among the items in the deficiency bill.
letter from Wilmington, N c., states that
Andrew Strong, one of the notorious outlaws of
Scuthetown, was shot dead by Young man
named Wilson, whom Strong had warned to
leave tho place. The body was delivered by
Wilson to the Sheriff, who Immediately maid
him 81 900 for it, which is the standing reward
offered by the county for any of the Lowrey
gang dead or alive. Wilson is also entitled to
S0'OOO reward from the State. The only mem-
Der of the gang now alive is Steve Lowrev
The commissioner of patents, Gen. M. D.
Leggett, Is constantly in receipt of letters
from persons who claim to have discovered
perpetual motion, and asking for the s1pposed
reward OF one million dollars offered by the
United states government. There has been
no reward offered by the government for such
invention, nor is there likely to be.
The New Orleans committee have printed
their address to the people of the United States
relative to the Louisiana trouble, accompanied
with an appendix quoting the laws in support
OF their position. Their memorial will be pre-
scented to Congress-, and an appeal made for
the appointment Of a committee to proceed to
New Orleans and scertain all the facts in the
case.
The North German Gazette stigmatizes the
alocutlOn of the Pope delivered at the Con-
sistory held in Rome, as an unpardouabIe in
suit TO the Emperor of Germany The colossal
1mpudence Of the Pope saws the Gazette
proves the inevitable necessity for the imme-
date pas age of law defining the boundaries
between the State and Roman Catholic Church
Among the recent decisions of the Post Of
nce department are the following: Railroad
postal clerks are required to take mail matter
up to the last moment before the starting of
the tram; married woman has the right to
require that letters addressed to herself
should not be delivered to any one but herself.
or on her order.
A dispatch from Hong Kong saws tho shin
Beuares which left that port for San Francisco
went ashore on one of the Loochos Islands
and became a wreck. All the crew Xvare
drowned except five. The English gunboat
Curiew went to the spot to aid her.
Panama papers state that Bogota has been
seriously inundated many people being drowned
and much property destroyed.-The volcano
OF Santa IN the northern part of San Salvador
Is eruptlng, and it is feared many valuable
cefIee plantations will be DESTROYED
The disasters and losses on western rivers
during the past year amount to So, 225, 200, of
when the mississippi gives /, IFS, $50, the
Olio l,O0A1OO, the Arkansas 1863, 900; the Red
lOiOOO. The lives loss by explosion number
So and S65 are estimated to have been lost bv
falling overheard. -
A Boston special says that the number of
lives lost by the sinking of the ship Peru
, wan Is 20. Inc ship had cargo valued at
nearly million dollars, consisting of costly
products frym the East Indies, insured for
four hundred thousand dollars
The King of the Sandwich Island Kameham
eha the Firth, died at Honolulu last month
ne Is the last OF the royal line named. There
IL no successor, and there is an interregnum
during which the people are SOVEREIGN The
Legislative, Assembly it is expected it will
nominate successor to tho late King,
Inc United States engineers, engaged in
making the survey in Washington Territory
.cISt' NAAN Ai'NuNtIN. uelI the terminus of the
Northern Pacific railroad on Puget sound Of
large quantities of coal, specimens of which
nave been forwarded to the Agricultural De-
partment for chemical ANALYSIS
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has just been sued
III the District Circuit Court for fee of S5O
OOO, charged by Mr. Cadwalader Doddridpe
Tor alleged professional services The chaToe
OF Judge Carter was very strong against the
the plaintiff, and the lady came out of tbe
case with lying colors, and not cent to paw
Inc truth of the statement that Boutwell,
mas written a letter of resignation as Secretary
OF the treasury, to take effect the 18th of Feb
ruary, Is denied at the Treasury Department
ana no one at the Executive Mansion has
heard anything of the kind.
A dispatch from Fort Gibson Indian rro,,;
tory, SAYS the epizootic appeared there and
nearly all the government animals got it. The
weather Is extremely cold and all the rivers of
that section are frozen six inches thick
The Emperor of Germany has presented one
~ U. tile captured French cannon to st. Paul's
reformed Church at Titusville Pa, to be cast
INTO bellfor that church. 1t will be presented
IN response to petition from the members of
that church.
The commission to inquire into the depreda-
loho OF MeXicans ON the Texas frontier expect to
leave Washington on the 7th of July to resume
thelr labors: Meade, one of the commission
eTs, has resigned.
VIM. and Edward Clarkson, two farmers
living alone near PittstieId, Pike county, M
NSic lOuuu Iedu In their house last week
having evidently been murdered
France viii pay Germany 200. 600, O0O francs
OF the war indemnity on the 18th of January,
ana VIII continue to pay the same amount
every month until next May
Arnold q Cos extensive printworks at North
Adams, Mass, has been burned. Loss s130
600. Insurance 800, 900. Two hundred hands
are thrown out of employment
Halafax-The smallpox. inDorted from,
Boston, is spreading in the country towns Tn
Yarmouth all the churches, schools, and other
places of public resort, are closed.
The Brooklyn Fire Marshall, Mr.. Ready.
has examined the hotels of that CITY, and re-
ports three of the leading hotels Insecure in
the matter of fire escapes.
Burglars entered Trinity Church New York
and robbed the contribution boxes of about
sixty dollars. They were in search of the
communion service which was locked in a safe
j. S. Adams, Collector of the Port of PEN
sacOla, has disappeared from Taylors Hotel
Jersey City. AS he had a large amount of
money with him, foul play is feared