The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-27

companies, the work will soon be com
menced.
THE consumption of postal cards fol
the present fiscal year. Third Assistant
Postmaster General Barber estimates al
100000, 900. This estimate, he thinks,
is warranted by the increase 18.15 per
cent? of the last fiscal year which ended
June 30, 1874.
CARDINAL MCCLosKEY has left New
York for Rome, in quite feeble health.
He took with him $40, 900 in gold, the
Offering of the Catholics of the diocese
of New York to the Pope, and after
receiving his red hat, ring and title
from his holiness he will return.
ALFRED EDWARD, Prince of Wales,
must have felt gratifed at the following
remark of Bradlaugh, which was recently
cheered by 100000 Britons: "The
Prince of Wales, for whom our money
is spent, is no prince of ours he is
prince of the wealthler classes"
SAN Francisco is now receiving her
coal from Pennsylvania by rail. The
first shipment of 200 tons was made the
other day, the freight contract being
$25 per ton, and the cost of the coal SO.
The coal at these figures is rather expen-
sive, but it is only used for fine work in
blast furnaces.
THERE is no end to engineering enter
prise. The tunnel under the English
channel is positively to be constructed,
and the next great engineering scheme,
gravely discussed in Europe, is the
union of Africa and Europe by means
of tunnel underneath the Straits of
Gibraltar. The distance from the Span
ish coast to Morocco is nine miles, and
the entry and exit galleries would be
each three miles long.
BEAvERLIE, the indian chief, who
knows a good deal about the Mountain
Meadow massacre, declares that the
Indians did not engage in the slaughter
of the emigrants, as stated by the Nor
mons, but that Lee himself was the
leading spirit in the butchery. That Is
the opinion of Utah Gentiles generally,
and as the Mormons have acquitted
Lee, he seems likely to die with his
boots on.
THE heavens are unusually brilliant
with planets this month. On the 18th
Saturn will be in opposition with the
sun and only $50, 100000 miles from the
earth, shining with unusual prilliancy
in the eastern sky. Jupiter is in the
west,,while Mars shines with rudy light
in the south, and Venus is the morning
star, appearing as Lucifer, son of the
morning."
The shoemakers of New York, who
began strike in Burt's establishment
a few days ago, are defiant enough to
announce that 'we shall reject every
eneroachment, not mattering whether
it comes from outside foes or inside
traitors" They propose that the en-
ployers shall pay the expenses of a strike
in mis- shop, an arrangement which the
employers are not likely to accede to-.
The strikers belong to the class known
as ''cutters."
THE building of the Southern Pacific
railroad through Tehachape Pass in
wolves a vast amount of labor. For
twenty miles there is a succession of
cuts, fills and tunnels. To reach an
elevation in one part of this, section
eight miles of track will be laid to at
tain one mile of actual progress. The
road at that point runs through tunnel
and then encircles a hill at a heavy
grade. Another tunnel is nearly two
miles long, and in places over a thou
sand feet below the surface.
ACCORDING to the monthly report of
the agricultural bureau, the large in
crease of acreage in tobacco this year
Q75 per cent. over 1870 did not bring
the breadth planted up to the standard
of 1873. The increase of acreage over
last year in Tennessee is set down at
203 per cent. and that of Kentucky at
223. The report says further that the
present condition of the crop in this
state is six per cent. above the average,
and in Kentucky thirty-four per cent,
adding "a very depressed condition
is found only in those states whose
yield is too small to greatly affect the
general result" These views will hard
Iy be accepted in this immediate local
ity, and some may go so far as to insin-
uate that the bureau report is manipu-
lated by the "bears."
THE passage of Sir Charles Adderly's
shipping bill, by the English House of
Lords, is quite triumph for Mr.. Pim-
soil, although this bill was a substitute
for his measure and was not nearly so
stringent. 1t is strong enough, how
ever, to abate somewhat the criminal
carelessness of snip owners, and will so
protect seamen from unseaworthy hulks
and tyrannical captains, that the ma
rines will thank PlimsoIl and not the
London board of trade, whose bill Sir