The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-16

tea, 6 to 8. The cars you ride in are elegant.
The two cars inspected today. Drawing
room hotel and sleeper cost 1874, 600, this in
cludes a 5000 silver service. The cars
wiegh forty-seven tons. Wheels of paper
tired with steel. A handsome drawing-room
| car is shown from Delaware, cost $4,000. One
| Who has had his nose on the grind stone can
be reminded of it in seeing Tuscan column
of thirty-eight varieties of grind stones forty
feet high.
The grand Barthodi fountain is completed,
and in operation. 1t Is a beautiful work of
art. Only seven pick-pockets have been de-
tected since the opening. Are the people
more honest, or the rogues fearful of the
| argus-eyed vigilant police force on the
ground, one thousand and fifty men. Gov.
Tilden of New York. with an escort of the
Albany zouaves will join the procession that
moves on the 4th of July. Sir Sidney H.
| Waterlow, centennial judge of awards, from
i Great Britain, has arrived Excursion tick
cts from New York to Philadelphia So for
| the round trip. Prof. Archer, the British
centennial commissioner, paid 50 800 for a
piece of japanese workmanship. All this
and the times are hard, they are always hard
| with the imprOyident, with those who con-
| slider luxuries as necesSaries, but as a rule,
i with the temperate, the industrious, the
| frugal, the world wags on as it ever did.
| Take care of your health, be saving of the
pennies and if v pII desire vases in your old age
| worth $1,000 you EAl. auy, previde dential vista
| tions of death and disease excepted. Even in
| these cases there is refuge in the hospital
and tomb. Henry w. Longfellow is being
| feted and feasted. So much for poetry of
| life in this proSaic world. The following is
| list of conventions to be held in June:
Volunteer Firemen's National Convention,
May "a; General Assembly United Presbyta-
rian Church, May "a; Anniversary American
Sunday-school Union, MAY 80; Opening of
Bankers Centennial Pavilion, May 80; Re
union OF Grand Encampment Knights Tenn
plrr of United States May 30; American
Social Association, May 80; National Con-
vention of Baptist Social Unions, May 80;
Grand COmmandery, State of Pen lsylvania
May 81; Pennsylvania State Medical So
ciety, May 81; Humboldt Centennial Organ
izatiOn, June 1; Meeting of Massachusetts
Press Association, June 2; American Medi-
cal Association, June 6; Reunion Society
Army OF the James, June Z; Reunion So
ciety Army of the Potomac, June s; National
Convention of Civil Engineers, June 10;
Association of superintendent of Asylums
and Hospitals for the Insane, June II; Wo-
mems National Temperance Union, June ~
International Temperance Conference, June
Is; Good Templars, State Lodge, June 13;
National Association Stove Manufacturers,
June IA; National Division Sons of Temper
ance of North America, June IA; Ministerial
Temperance Conference, June IA; Grand |
Lodge Good Templars of the United States, |
June 15; National Convention of Mining En- |
gineers, June 20; Manufacturing Chemists Ma !
tional Association, June D ; Grand Encamp- |
ment Knights of Malta, June "a; Nation ] |
Religious Amendment Association, June %; |
Worlds Homeopathic Convention of Ger |
man Free Thinkers, June 26 National Law |
Congress, June 2S Reunion 2Sth and 147th |
Regiments Pennsylvania Volunteers and |
Knapp's Battery, June IS; National and |
State Encampments of the Grand Army of |
the Republic. JOSEPH BARBIERE.