The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS

A gentleman in Floyd county, Ga,
destroyed two hundred and fifty bushels OF
grasshoppers by driving them into lime
sink in his field.
One hundred and twenty-one recruits
are to be forwarded to the regiments in Da-
I1ota and Colorado, and forty-four to Gen.
Terry's command.
The funded debt of Savannah is put
down at over So, 700, 900, and the rate of tax
in some cases to absorb all the revenue de-
rived from real estate.
The foreign imports entered at New
York in June amounted to $21, los, 1857, which
is a decline of about 100000 as compared
with the same month of last year. Since
January 1st there has been a decline of
| $33,915, ,294 as compared with last year.
Stanley, the African explorer, has
| been heard from. He has made important
discoveries in the interest of geographical
science that will link his name forever with
the great continent already immortalized by
so many successes comm encing with that of
Mungo Park.
Texas has millions OF bushels of wheat
for export, and the entire south will come so
near to raising their own bieadstufs this
year that the occupation of many produce
dealers in st. Louis and other western cities
will be as good as gone. The south will
supply herself very soon.
The average yield of corn in the
United States according to the commissioner
of agriculture, is a fraction over twenty-six
bushels per acre, and the total acreage 37,
99,S S03 acres. Corn is now extensively cul-
6tivated throughout the southwest, and hogs
are appearing on farms where hogs were
seldom seen before.
The secretary of the treasury has
stopped the coinage of the trade dollar at
the Philadelphia and Carson City mints, and
has ordered the San Francisco mint to coin
only sufficient to meet actual export. The
mintS will be run to their full capacity on
the subsidiary coin necessary gold coinage.
There is some talk of presently nego-
tiating new commercial treaty with France,
and that country proposes to take off duties
from every manufactured or other product
of the United States, in consi ieration of a
concession by t. e United States, that wines,
France shall have free entry to this country.
Official returns made to the bureau of
statistics show that during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1876 there arrived in the
United States 22,572 Chinese immigrants of
whom only two hundred and fifty-nine
were females. During the corresponding
period of 1875 the total immigI alton to the
United States from China was 16.437, of
whom 50 were females.
The July statement of the financial
condition of Memphis shows a bonded in
debtedness of $3,575,5OO; floating debt, ST.
97O,922.96; total liabilities, $3.50, ,422.96.
Assets for reduction of bonded debt, $2I7,-
O66.16; for reduction of floating debt, ST.
622 2,975.S7; total assets, $1,S4O,O41.s3. Ex-
cess of Liabilities over assets, $3, 706 3S1 .03.
A discouraging exhibit for the taxpayers,
truly.
Telegraph instructions have been sent
to the commanding officer in Columbia,
South Carolina, ordering commanding Off
GERS of the United States troops at Aiken, to
detail an officer and picket guard of twelve
men for duty at Hamburg. Eight compa-
nies of artillery have been ordered to depart
out of Missouri and Observation-Disclosures
Dudley, of the ninth cavalry, and Otis, of
the seventh cavalry, have been ordered to
Join their regiments.
The secretary of war has sent to the
house dispatch of Gen. Sheridan, recon-
mGnding the increase of the companies of
the second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh |
cavalry to one hundred men, as was done for |
the two regiments on the Rio Grande, and (
submits an estimate for the men required, |
in addition to the 25,O00 men Authorized by |
law. The number required to i,l the regi-
ments of cavalry on the frontier and in
Texas to the maximum of the one hundred |
men, will be $500, and the expense 1864,
700 Ger. Sherman prefers regular enlist
ments to volunteers.