The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-01
FINELY TOPICS
cattle disease is making sad havoc
! counties in England.

AsURER New says that the
IS paid by the national banks dur
last fiscal year as tax on cireu-
was So, 366, 1882.
heavy rains have seriously dam
be crops in Minnesota, it being eS-
d that already the loss foots up
or twenty per cent. of the entire
the state.
Indians appear to be on the war
but in western Utah, having al
butehered a number of settlers
liners. Troops are being sent for
o Squelch the redskins.
success of the new Atlantic cable
; communication with Europe at
lower rates than have heretofore
harged. The enormous capital now
rged beneath the sea can only be
to pay low tariff and large bust
announcement that $4,000 cattle
der treatment for hOof and mouth
in one county in England has
preceded by anxious discussions of
pread of the contagion and of the
y increasing prices of meat in that
rY.
ANK HARPER's three-old colt, Ten
k, astonished the knowing ones at
lgtOn by making the fastest
on record for the distance,
hg the supposed invincible Bob
ley. Ten Brock is by Phaeton, out
antura, the dam of the famous
Fellow.
E arrangements have been almost |
leted in England for the great Pan
lean synod, similar to the one held in |
on some years ago under the presi |
of the late Archbishop LOungly. |
American churches will be fully rep |
ted in this ecumenical council of |
icanism.
lille DE GIRARDIN has written |
n elaborate letters to prove that the
thing France can do is to form an
sive and defensive alliance with
many against all corners, especially
la. Only one single journal of the
ach press is in favor of the idea he is
hing.
JDGE PARKER, whose judicial district
nds over Indian territory and a por-
of Arkansas, will, it is said, sentence
teen more murderers to the gallOws at
next term of court. They will prob
be hung on the same day as was the
with the six criminals at Fort Smith
|ntly.
HE London Times gives a summary
he failures in England during the
three months. The liabilities of
ney-nine amount to a total of $685.,
900, and their assets to $1,000, 900,
which about One-third are regarded
But the Times has mis-
ing that this is very far from repre-
ting the total losses of the late panic,
in this view it is probably correct.
HE secret service authorities have in
nation that a company of Italians
e gone west with a large amount of
dollar counterfeit bills of the first
iOnal bank of Philadelphia These
nterfeits are exceedingly dangerous.
, of them was recently received at
treasury cash room and exchanged by
experts for small money. The com-
cit is probably the most dangerous
ant. 1t is perfect on its face, but has
W defects on the back.
T is said that the Grand Duke Alexis
been divorced from the pretty maid
honor whom he married last year in
e of the Cars objections. This
lis very pleasant little romance, as
xis declared that he would never
ID to his fathers wishes, and the
ing couple were said to be living so
ply together. The proud duke, per-
IS, grew tired of his gOlden-haired
DESPITE the general depression of
mess since the panic the New York
bune says there has been a steady inn
vement in the iron business during
present year. The statistics of the
erican iron and steel association now
icate that the production of the
de county during the past year was
Ial to that of previous years. The
of iron and steel has ex-
ded the general estimate.
loNTH after month the wonderful
operative power of France is more
more palPable. 1t is officially de
red that her trade returns for the first
EN- months of 1879 show an increase
the value OF exports of 26O.OOO,OOO
mes (S52,OOO,O00) as compared with
corresponding period of 1874; in the
ne time the value of the imports has
reased by 100000 francs (S8, $780,
- the result is that France obtains
difference in gold.
4 SPANISH organ at Havana, the
Trio de la Marina, admitted recently
t 1t was possible that the island might
ONE an Independent state, and adj
ed the insurgents to treat for the pac-
alton of the country. Affairs, indeed
k promising for the rebels, who over
the whole eastern part of the island,
ming sugar plantations and enlistine
slaves as fast as they are set free.
e steam yatch Octavia has succeeded |