The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-26

stead of taking them away singly, the
spectators buy up a whole family at
once, including father, mother, uncles
and aunts, and start the lot for foreign
parts. The law can't gainsay the will OF
father and mother, and so the little one:
are smuggled out to tussel with the
world.
THE Masculine Maud Mullers of Eu.
rope have raked up two more little plan
cts that were split along the zodiac This
asterOid business is getting to be a nuis
ance. What's the use of finding a celes-
tial body of the size of a No. 10 shot
And if they must be found, why not let
them be found by our own Watson, the
only original Jacob Graphic.
In the Iull of political agitation the
French government is pushing with con-
siderable vigor the new army scheme /;
and the necessary preparations are forth
with to be made for the formation of the
territorial army. This force win consist
of 100000 men, all born between 1885
and 1916. The infantry regiments, of
which there will be 156, are to be first
enrolled. These figures look very for
midablc, but, as a matter of fact, the army
will, for some time to come, exist prin-
cipally on paper.
A CURIOUS freak of nature can be seen
near Eureka, Cal. 1t is in the shape of
a tree seventy-fve feet high, one portion
of which is pine and the other fir. The
body, from the ground to a distance of
thirty feet, is pine, and then for a dis
tance of twenty-five feet it is fir. The
remaining twenty-five feet, like the lower
portion, is pine. The fir portion of the
tree is in a fourishing condition, the
foliage, on that part being so dense that
the leaves are rather scarce. 1t is a rare
curiosity, and attracts the attention of
everybody who passes it.
THE present Pacific railroad, and es-
pecially the California end of it, which
is commencing a southern line of its own
from that side, is opposing, though not
with great openness, the Texas Pacific
railroad project. According to the
Springfield Republican, Gould, head OF
Union Pacific, and Huntington, man.
ager on this side of the Central Pacific,
arc sending secret emissaries over the
south, cultivating dissensiOns in the
southern mind on this question, and try
TO
being a unit in favor of the Scott
bounty bill, when they get to Washing
ton this winter.
THE news that the Khedive has
marched an army into Abysinia accounts
for the anxiety he has displayed to Sc
cure the services of as many Americans
as possible to command his troops, and
also for the late sudden recall of all alb
sentees on furlough. The Khedive has
a desire to possess all the country drained
by the Nile, and at present seems TO have
a fair chance to realize his wish. No
doubt his men will have sharp fighting
in the mountains of Abysinia, but there
is no reason why they should not be as
successful as was the British army a few
years ago; and if the American, French,
and English officers in command do their
duty, no doubt ere long the Egyptian
flag will float over the walls of Magdala
THE Paris Universe states that the
Popc's household consists of 537 per-
sons, the chief of whom are Cardinal An
tonelli, the majOr-dOmO, the master OF
chamber, the grand almoner, the secre-
tary, the steward, the governor, Gen.
Kanzler, and ) chamberlains. There are
90 persons employed in the secretary's
Office, Is in the administration of the
palace and in the secret printing house.
The Pope has ! groom of the chamber
and 6 body servants. The Apostolic
Chamber is composed of a president, %
couriers, 3 servants and orderlies. Car
dinel Antonelli and Gen. Kanzler have
4 suite of 4S persons, while the Swiss
Guard and Pontifcial gendarmerie num-
Der 200.
COMMISSIONER BURDET, Of the gen.
cral land office, will in his forthcoming
report strongly recommend that all tim
ber lands owned by the government be
appraised and thrown open to purchase
mt not less than their appraised value
He is of opinion that unless they are
thus placed under private guardianship
the fine forests of the country will soon
be wastefully exhausted by lumber com.
psnies and spectators who are now
stripping the land of its timber under
cover of claiming preemptiOn, or without
any pretense of compliance of law, while
the government receives 10 revenue
from its property, and the country sus-
tains almost irreparable damage from
denuding large areas of its water sheds.
He will also condemn the practice of ex-
tending subsidivision survey over i'm
mense bodies of worthless land west ot
huudrsdth meridian, and suggests that
only such tracts be minutely surveyed as
have any attractions for settlers.
TuE New York Herald publishes tel
Cgraphic synopsis of the letters received
in London from Stanley. He says that
Livingstone was wrong in reporting that
the Victoria Nyanza consisted of five
lakes. Spoke correctly states that Vic
toria Nyanza is one lake, but Speke's two
islands are peninsulas. The river Thi
meey is the principal feeder of the lake
and the EXTREMIST source of the Nile yet
discovered. Stanley had several con
ficts with slave dealers on the lake. On
one occasion he was attacked by one hun
dred natives, armed with spears, in thir
teen canoes, who were repulsed after
severe fight. Three natives were killed
He arrived at the Utesias hunting camp
at Msyura, April 13, when the king di
rected extraordinary displays and festivi
ties. One feature was a naval review oil
the lake ofeighty-four canoes, manned by
$4,000 men. On the second day in addi
tion to the naval maneuvers, there were
in r.