The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Gen. A. ". Campbell, who has been
prominently spoken ofas West Tennessee |
candidate .or Governor, has withdrawn |
from the race, on account OF family al
| fIctions.
Gen. John B. Gordon, Senator from
| Georgia, says the civil rights bill Will pass |
next Congress, and that Grant will sign |
| it.
Gen. G. W. C. Lee, son of the late Gen.
| R. r. Lee. has gained some land in Fair
fax County, Va, in a suit in the United
| States District Court, which had been
| seized by the Government. The AIRING
ton estate is held by the government IN
the same way that the Fairfax property
was held. Justice at last.
| London dispatches announces the death,
Yesterday. of a Professor, while attempt
| ing to fly from a balloon on the earth'
| After rising a short distance the Professor
was lowered and hung suspended from
| the balloon with the wings of his hylng
machine extended. The balloon ascend
ed to considerable height and at
signal the rope was cut, when the Protes-
sor descended with frightful velocity to the
ground and was instantly killed.
Israel Elias of Memphis shot and kill
ed his son last Friday.
A report from Louisville says that Pat
rick Foley died there last Friday, OF what
the attendant physicians say was Aslatlc
cholera. after a sickness of four hours.
He died in the same house in which the
endemic of 1851 broke out,
A genuine case of Aslatic cholera oc
CURED in New York last Friday.
Hydrophobia continues to kill EN- IN
New York
en- silence, aud demanded an investlga-
/, tion of his case by Plymouth Church,
l Ii seems that Mr. Beecher made this re-
: quest the day Titon published his charge
{ against him. 1t is now thought that Mr..
! Beecber will come out of this scandal
= with fving colOrs, and we would be IN
cIined to think so too, if it were not for
> that remarkable letter, cOnfesslng his
/ Guilt. addressed to Tilton. The public
" will be a little anxious to know how he Is
{ TO explain that letter. Mr.. Beecher is a
: strong man, and may have been the IN
= iured man in the whole transaction, bu1
we cannot see it in that light Just yet
i The matter will be tried by Plymouth
Church,
Three other Massachusetts, mill-damt
. have given away, though with not the fata
- results as those attending the mill Creel
dam. IL,
n. man fred at Prince Bismark as he wa
ridinr out last Saturday, the ball grains
his wrist. Bismark is fighting grea
a. war with the Pope in Prussia, and vii
in conquer and hence the anxiety OF Cath
lies to get rid of him.
-. Nashville has passed dog law, an
II. TO carry it into effect the City Marsha
a. paws fifty cents per head Tor capturlns
~ killing and burying stray dogs Inns al
oe nouncement has taken large numbe
| = Thew
! | killed tomorrow.
..u- Tom Bowling, the fastest horse sine
vi the DAYS of old Lexington, famed hlmse
~ the other day, thus following the exampl
~ of ali the recent famous horses.
"a The Louisville and Great Souther
Is and the Nashville and Chattanooga road
rs are about to establish an immense cotto
"a ward in Nashville, for receiving and TO
II II warding cotton. The Nashville cotto
oe merchants are highly Indignant IN
l. only excuse offered so far, is that ther al
IN roads get by this arrangement the pene1
IL If a comuressing machine to reduce III
We bulk of cotton, which will be great .sa
NJ ing and convenience to them:
10 CHICAGO has again been visited by
'ur terrible CONFEDERATION, whole squares
IN MAGNIFICENT buildings being swept ava.
eH Reinq beside lake and a prairie, the WIN
pe c makes a common fire entire uncontroll
rtv BILE. bofo-o Il
-, ~ committee appointed to lnyesugate u
30! Reecber-Tilton scandal, and her testlmor
lei Is said to be contradictory to the verso
er. gwen en- by her husband. 1t is reported tn
ler Mrs. Tilton is not living with her husbar
the the but with some of Beecher's friends,
nG Several weeks since Deputy Unite
Il IN States Marshal W D. Hildreth was sh
/ 1t and killed in Coffee county, A few da,
i ;a ago, his successor, James P. Everett, "
IN killed near Lynchburg, in an adJolnll
o oIa county to Coffee County
ole Franklin County, Tennessee, has
: lts sessed that portion of the Nashville CHI
Let f fanooga and St Louis Railroad operSst
e esi geo per mile, and the Tennessee Coal q. a
pei RAILROAD Company's branch H., to era Ira
Co1rt saws it will back up the assessC
and see that its right to collect the tax
enforced by the courts