The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
NUGGETS.

Onions are $l6 barrel in New Or
leans, and when a woman, whose hus-
band refuses her new dress, wants to
indulge a good cry, she is compelled,
unless wealthy, to fall back on common
hOrse-radish.
There is music in Adair, Iowa. j. G.
Gibbs, late treasurer of the county, has
been indicted for embezzlement, bailed
fixed at $4,000; and NJ. E. Black, late
deputy-auditor, for issuing fraudulent
warrants, bailed for $500.
The toughest story humanity has
yet been called on to believe is this
CATER thirteen years of angry separa-
tiOn, Terre Haufe couple now sleep
upon the same pillow" Pillows must
be larger in Terre Haute than other
localities.
An English inventor proposes to
defaee postage-stamps on letters by
placing them in gas which Will cause
a reaction in the material contained in
each stamp, and change its color. This
process would do away with the tedious
work OF defacing by hand-labor.
"A California widow lately went for
a youth who had wooed and won her,
but was disposed to coquet, with a pis-
tol and marriage license. She took a
clergyman with her who was ready to
preach a funeral sermon or perform a
marriage ceremony at the same price.
The young man chose the latter.
1t is a singular fact that the con-
ductors on the Housatonic Railroad
have more trouble from drunken men
on the short portion of their road,
which is in Massachusetts,, where liquor
selling is prohibited, than upon the
many miles which they run in Connecti-
cut, where liquor-selling is not prohi-
bited.
The Omaha opera-house has been
turned into a hotel and now, instead
of sweetly warbled words as ''Sweet
Spirit hear my prayer" and son yon-
der rock, the guests hear, "Coffee with
cock-roaches for two," and another
ladle-full of hash for sick man, and
other remarks of a culinary character.
Paul May, last June, attempted
suicide in London, with young COM
panion. who succeeded. When Paul's
wounds healed he was tried for assist
ing in his companion death. Acquitted,
he was returned to Berlin, and has now
been convicted of stealing the money
with which the two started on their
spree.
The maddest woman in the United
States of America is the one who lives
at jackson, Maine, and recently lent
her fifty-dollar muff to a female ac-
quaintance, who sported it at smallpox
funeral; who sent it home with a neat
little note, stating this fact, and that as
she chad sprinkled it with benzine, the
owner need not fear catching the dis
ease"
Dubuque, Iowa, was elated last
week over its first street boot-black, but
after three days trial the boy said he
could not afford an adult polish for less
than thirty cents, and sold out his stock
to blind man, who tainted when he felt
the size of his first customers foot on his
polishing pedestal. The citizens will
now use stove backing, as heretofore.
"A cross-eyed man in Newburg, N.
Y, has gathered around him seven
cross-eyed servants, and when he goes
into the kitchen and gives an order with
ont mentioning name, it is fun to see
the entire seven go clawing around the
room to obey him. He intends putting
up a notice, saying: "In carrying out
my views of housekeeping, the en-
ployes will depend upon the sense of
smell, rather than sight.
-"Local option" has prevailed in
nearly every county in Pennsylvania
that has thus far voted on the question,
the only exceptions being Schuylkill
and Forest. All the rest, numbering
about a dozen, have decided that the
sale of liquor in their limits must cease.
If this style of voting continues, the
traic will soon be confined to three
or four counties in which there are large
cities or heavy mining population.
There is some advantage in living
on the border, and q number of thirsty
souls in Yigo county, Ind, and Clark
county, Ills, propose to make the most
of their fortunate location. A build
ing is to be erected on the State line,
with bar in either end, and the Suck
er will moisten his clay in Indiana,
while the Hoosier performs a similar
operation in Illinois. In this way will
the pains and penalties of the liquor
law in the respective commonwealths
be avoided.