The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-26
TIMELY TOPICS.

ceeded, and thanked their stars thai
they we're better than other people, was
sold at auction few days ago. Murray
Hill cams down and bid on the stock
while the plucky and friendless little
French woman lay in Jail for refusing
to tell who her patrons..were. The cata'
Iogue included go lots Of goods, among
which there were, several hats, any
quantity of handkerchiefs and pairs oi
kids, lingerie of all sorts and material
and case of fripperies, one of which
was years supply of lootIre dc riz.
In the legislature of West Virginia,
on the Goth, bill passed both houses
providing for the immediate settlement
of the disputed boundary line between
Maryland and West Virginia, and the
consequent prevention of bloodshed and
strife, said by the preamble to be prob
able otherwise. The line is about thir-
ty-seven miles long, reaching from a
point called Fairfax Store, directly
north to the Pennsylvania line. The
controversy involves about forty square
miles. and is now mostly held by Mary
land. Governor Jacob is instructed to
proceed forthwith to resist the encroach-
ments by citizens and officers of Mary
land. The, bill removing the Capitol to
Wheeling, is now law by limitation.
The dispatches said the other day
that a serious fire had occurred in
Canton, and hundred and fifty houses
had been burned. Quite serious, we
would say, in this country, but in that
city of 1, 100000 inhabitants, and its
little brick houses with bamboo fronts,
such conf 'grations are by no means
uncommon, as their fire departments
are wofully deficient in strength. The
japanese, who build their cities largely
of wood of highly infammable char
acter, are just beginning TO introduce
steam FIRE engines and fire department
systems. They are more willing than the
Chinese to introduce useful improve
ments.
fell off about IS, 200, 900 in the last fiscal
year, and that for all the other ports in
the country an equal amount. For the
three previous years there was a sum
total of 1924, 600, 600 gained for New
York, against s115, 100000 gained for
other ports. These figures hardly show
the tendency of commercial growth,
however, although the chamber of COM
merce puts them out for that purpose.
A great cotton year increases the total
export trade of the "other ports" a
great wheat year or a great year for i'm
por.s the total of New York.
THE award in gold of over S197, 900,
made by the British and American
mixed commission, to Augustine r.
Mcdonald, subject of Great Britain,
but for some years a resident of Louis
vile, has been paid by our government.
This claim was brought for losses sus
tanned in the bu, Mug of cotton during
our late civil war, and was the second
largest claim adiudicated by the late
commission. The claim was originally
fOrS2, 500, 900. Witnesses were examined,
ard the testimony covers 6,OOO printed
pages of the record of the commission.
THE other day San Francisco people
enjoyed the sensation of three earth
quakes within twenty-fOur hours. None
Of +ba1, r-ara DF g7GI o;orE r;oIo1co -
stop the stock gambling on California
street, however. A correspondent of
the Chicago Inter Ocean says that San
Francisco is not disturbed seriously by
earthquakes, and only two severe and
destructive shocks have been felt within
one hundred years. The Lightning
never strikes, nor 60 dogs go mad, in
San Francisco, both of which condi-
TORS are quite desirable.
FOLLOWING the news of the death of
one Chinese Emperor and the ascension
to the throne of another, comes the ru-
NOR of an impending internal war in
that empire. That something is about
to happen in that vast realm seems
probable, since information from there
shows an uneasy state of affairs to exist
all over the ration. hy reason of dis
sentiOns in all parties, close times finan-
cialIy, troubles at home, and unsatis-
factory relations with the ncighboripg
country, Japan.
The house committee on elections
have decide ,rsix against five, in favor
of Lawrence aud Sheridan, of Louis
lana. Lawrence contests the seat of
Sypher, aud Sheridan against Pinch
back as representative at large of the
state of Louisiana. The majority report
is signed by three democrats and three
republicans, and the minority report by
five republicans. incIHding the chair
man of the committee.
THAT loathsome disease, smallpox,
has been doing bad work in many parts
of North America during the past few
weeks. We hear of it in the eastern
states, in Canada, and lately it has
closed a large Catholic school in one of
the principal towns in Texas. It rre-
walls to a greater or less degree in most
Of the large cities, and many of the
smaller cities, of the union.
Two huodrej thousand dollars have
been appropriated by the japanese gov
ornment for expenditures in connection
with the Philadelphia centennial; fer
expel of commissioners to examine
industries aud report, one hundred
thousand dollars for purposes of Jap
anese articles to be sent, eighty thou
sand dollars for transportation, twenty
ttousaud dollars.
THE Pennsylvania railroad company
1ofuses TO allow the Baltimore and
Ohio cars to run over its line between
Philadelphia and New York, and it is
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