The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-19

THE public debt was reduced about
four millions during the month Of Oc-
tober.
The Freedman's Bank at Washington
has commenced paying to depositors the
twenty per cent. dividend decided on
some weeks ago.
GEN. GARFIELD says that he intends
to move a repeal of the law increasing the
postage upon newspapers as soon as con
gress assemblies.
THEY have recently had the seventh
annual cat show in the Crystal Palace,
London. The highest priced cat was val
ucd by its owner at $50. 900. but itdidn't
get the first prize. Tommy Dodd," aged
nine years, valued at $500 was the win
ner. There were over five hundred cats
exhibited.
RUssIA's part in our exhibition next
year may be comparatively small, but 1t
will be interesting all the same It viii
consist of products which cannot be du
Plicated by any ether country, for they
are to be confined - those which are PC
culiar to her soil and climate.
THE city of Berlin has but one steam
fire engine, the rest being 0id-fashioned
hand machines, and the water supply is
inadequate. Recently an immense new
hotel was burned, and water was brought
in barrels and pumped fcebly 10 the sec
Ond story where there was no fire. At
length a heavy rain extingIIished the
flames.
WASHINGTON dispatches assert that
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
will not recommend any increase of tax
alton this winter The receipts on WIS
ky, etc, during the last year have been
larger than in any year, except 1870,
since the taxes were first imposed. and at
the increased rate they viii be still
further augmented during the current
fiscal year
COFFEE drinkers will please remember
that the crop reports do not hold out any
comforting assurances. A falling off has
UGH ~ iftA N'h siAt sAlttits VI s-'A ID y IL
there is Il considerable falling off. Rio
shows a still more marked diminution,
though there is some coffee Of the pre-
viOus crop left over. The islands near
Java show a decrease of about fifty per
cent, in production.
IT is a significant fact that the grain
trade of New York has fallen off this year
1872, ,5l9 bushels rs compared with las
year, while the delivery at Baltimore j.
greater than last last. Philadelphia also
shows a gain. When our southern rail
way system is made what it ought to be,
Charleston, Port Royal ana Savannah will
export more grain, -four and meat than
any other Atlantic cities.
PEOPLE who write letters VIII find in
struction in the facts shown in the report
of the dead letter office last year. Some
3,64O,797 letters went astray, mainly
through carelessness in directing. There
was taken out of these letters the aston
ishingly large sum Of s., 500, 600. All Of
this was returned to its owners with the
exception of 100000, which remains as
a profit to the Post-office Department.
FTTzROY, believed to have been chief
in the organization of the whiskey ring
at St Louis, went into court Tuesday,
and, to the dismay of his counsel, pleaded
guilty to all the counts in the Indictment
against himself Thorpe, late store
keeper, also threw himself on the mercy
Ct the court. This action is considered |
at st. Louis as the most significant epi- |
sode in tine downfall of the once formid-
able underground organization.
4 COMPARATIVE analysis of the public |
debt statement published shows a dc |
crease in legal tenders during the last |
month of S705,OOO and in fractional cur
rency of 100000. The Treasury bal !
ance increased nearly $I1, ,OOO, 600 The |
tive-twenties of 1862 have disappeared |
from the interest bearing debt, having |
been absorbed by the new fves The |
$4,000, 900 of 1864 bonds called in, leave !
but about Sl2,OOO,OOO of the new fives
not taken. There are about SS,0OO,O 900 |
of the new '64s still outstanding, and
they will be called in before the 18th
inst
SAYS an English paper: a sample of
condensed milk, weighing about one hun
hundred pounds, was exhibited at tie
rooms of the Society of Arts, and an in
tcresting experiment made thereon This |
mammonth piece Of solified fluid was
prepared by Iooker's process. 1t had |
been exposed to the action of the air for
four years and three months, yet its |
quality was 50 excellent that in a few |
minutes it was resolved, by churning |
into good fresh butter This trial was
only one of a series made mt the Interna- !
tional Exhibition, South Kensington, and
elsewhere. In each case the same salts
factory result was obtained.
LARGE quantities Of provisions are 60
ing to Cuba. The City of Vera Cruz took
out full load, and two extra steamers
leave for the same destination. In con-
sequence Of the arrival in Havana of one
hundred and fifty thousand troops, it is
surmised that the provisions are intended
for them. The cereals taken out include
rice and wheat in vast quantities, and
when tine seven thousand more Spanish |
troops land, it is supposed that the ex-
port OF breadstutis will be doubled. All
steamers which have recently sailed for
Havana have been packed as far as safety
would admit. The demand for space in
steamers, billed to leave within the next
two weeks, Is greater than the capacity
Of the vessels. In consequence, several
extra steamers viii leave within the
fortnight.
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