The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-24

AhE NhlcaSO lines says the COCK thai
ought to be turned-eff is rBaboocksw q
Weep Rt$IDESr AyuSoxls property
will nOtSexceed, Il il thought, 100000 il
value
IT is now supposed that abaut 14O per
sons weTc, lost by, ,-the-tlisastsr-te- tho
steamshiplb lbeutsdAilandJ ( 0F4l
y FEARFUL collierg eSplosiea. Occurred
in Yorkshire, England last week, result:
ing in theyloss of about etwe hundred
lives a Al 81 " b
WHEN the heir to the Brazilian throne
was recently born, Depoul, q Paris doctor,
attended for fee ofpver twenty thousand
gold dollars.
The humorous sketches Of southern
backwoods character published in the
Vicksburg Herald, are the productionsof
James II. SnIiyapFa young jourpalist
from Memphis. .Tdaq
ONE Of the witnesses in. the Milwau-
kee whisky ring trials has burned states
evidence. Itistlie St. Louis story Over
again. There isft seems, material for
the penitentiafy in Milwaukee.
Moody attributes his. lack sof,succegs
in Philadelphia to the 1fact tEat the regu-
lar church-goers crowd out the eseaaent
he is desirops pfaddresv4g HowwSufd
it do for hid To- labor With the regular
churcL-goers q while?
They wapntI,e extr@agant F92rivSF
FWis.) improNdnient ! jashedA tlirough
congress, but think aid to the Texas
Pacific railroad a reckless waste of money.
The former il ,aiocd inrproyement, and
the latter win benefit the nation
The party in Canada who have favored
Annexation to the United States -ar, -siaiiG
to have abandoned that project, . owing "a b !
to the recent triumph of the reform
party, which has obtained control Of the
government and the emoIumentst thereof
The anncxationists now sing with much
feryor, God save the queen"
The twenty cent pieces have proved a
failure in California. The San Francisco
Post says: Nobody seems 10 want
either, to pass Ga toreoeive ithern. and IN
some mysterious manner tkey9dFaVpear
and go back to the mint, and, though
destitute ot sHeh a coin, we still reckon
an bits t0r all our small transactions"
iHE pearl fisheries of the Gulf of Cal-
ifo rlia threaten- to be entirely Aeiined.
owing to the wholesale use of submarine
armor; last year they yielded about \
100000 worth of pearls and $200,OOO1
worth of shells, while this years opera
lions will hardly pay expenses.
IT took the Cherokee nation two or
three months to find out who was elected
chief the last election. Charles
Thompson is the man, and he is a full
blooded Indian, uneducated, speaks
broken English and is classed among the
''progressionists."'r He is in 'faYer of
regular Territorial organization -'
- Is e. eL8-
The French wine product of 1875
amounts to 2,0O0, 900, 900 gallons, and it
is calculated that it would FIJI canal
three and half feet deep and three and
half feet wide A. ,6O0mile long. Supposing
YOU could drink twenty-five gallons
minute, 1T would take you one hdadred |
and thirty-fve years and eighteeR days /
TO drink the whole of it
SENIOR ALBANIA, the Cuban agent in
New York, has received letter from
Camaguay, giving account Of the opera
tions Of the first and second divisions of
the Cuban army since January last The
insurgents have been especially success
ful in the eastern department, and all the
enemy has heen able to do is to protect
plantations at Guantanamo and Santiago
dc Cuba. s-ECi4 i93J8 I
KnEDrvE IsMArL is not haying, : such c
an easy time conquering the Abyssinians
as was predicted. Adispatch from Alex
andria states that the Egyptian army
has been surprised, with n LARGE loss.
King Johannes, the Abyssinian potenate,
Is the aggressor in this war, as IeOrdered
his troops To invade Isgyptiausoil folgthe
purpose of Stopping the di4gnyion Of his
own people and concentrating their at
tention on the border.
THE Supreme court has decided the
Union Pacific railroad case against the
government. BY this decision the COM
Panv is excused from paying the govern
ment any interest1or principal on its
bonds for thirty years. The aggregate 1
amount involved in the case and lost to
the government by the decision is up
wards of 5000 600, coo, and naturally
enough the result was awaited with
brcathlcss interest by the stockholders
and spectators generally,
THE London Times has a leading ed
itorial ON President Grants message
Referring to the part about Spain and
Cuba, the Times says: q" If Spain cannot
suppress the Cuban rebels; if the island
must be half ruined while she holds it
if she viii not put an end TO that institu-
tion which is the main source of disturb
ancc; it would be hard to expect the
I lillCu htiO'N ~ itt llc NuIh Ol utNdSld-
tion proceed unchecked merely out of
regard to the normal sovereignty OF
Spain az W q ~
THE New York papers are burdened
with surmises as to how Tweed made his
escape. As the ex-boss had seven or
eight steamers to select from, and had
money to bay one for his own use it is
very likely he slipped off over the sea.
Foster Dewey, Tweed's private secreta-
ry, has also disappeared with his master,
He had talked of going to Boston the
d,V before the disapnearanre but ba i