The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
sIISCELLANEOUS.

The number of day laborers in the
United States is estimated at 100000.
Caleb Gushing, minister of the United
States, will soon sail on leave of absence.
Germany has decided to send an officer
to the Turkish headquarters 70 report any
further cruelties.
A man who tried to drown himself by
jumping from an excursion steamerin Boston
harbor, on Friday,was so fat he couldn't sink,
and the boat sent for him found him floating
like cork.
The statute of DR.. Livingstone, lately
unveiled in Edinburgh, represents the explor
er in travelling costume, his right hand
holding cut a bible, and his left resting on
an ak. The material is bronze.
One hundred and twenty-four clerks
out of the eight hundred employed in the
war department and its various bureaus, have
been discharged on account of the recent ar
ton of congress, ordering reduction in the
clerical force of the departments.
William S. Mercer, a prisoner in the
Nebraska penitentiary, has succeeded in OBJ
tanning for that institution the best library
in the state. Many of our best writers have
sent him complete sets of their works, and
he has received large donations from some of
the principal publishing houses.
The-merchandise exports of the United
Ststes during the past fiscal year amounted
to $40, 1884, ,671, and the imports $3.50, 741, 100,
an excess of exports over imports CT $79,-
3,4S1. The previous year the imports ex-
ceeded the exports by 1862, ,725. The spe-
Gle and bullion exports in 1877 amounted to
$50 5O6, 1902, an excess of $40, ,569, ,621 over ina
ports; in 1875 the excess of exports was
$71, ,231 ,425, the total being $92, 2,1S2, l42.
The recent experiment in shipping
fresh beef to Europe was, perhaps, hazard
Gus venture, but it has thus far proved sue
cessful and remunerative. The English epi-
cure are eager to test the quality of Ameri-
can steaks and siHoins, and have pronounced
them excellent. Hence our shippers have
been encouraged to increase the consign-
ments. They have thus far fOund q ready
market for them, and the prospect is that in
the future this will constitute a permanent
and perhaps an important branch of our ex-
port trade.
One curious feature of the Charlie
Ross case has been pointed by the New York
Evening Post. 1t consists of the fact that so
many children supposed to be the lost Ross
boy have been discovered in various parts of
the country. These children, or many of
them, must have been held under suspicious
circumstances, and the inference is that the
crime of abduction is much more common in
this country than has heretofore been imag-
ined. Ne doubt many children have been
stolen concerning whom there has been no
public excitement
The will of Nj. @. Kerr devises in sub
stance that all the law books which he shall
be the owner of at the time of his death, and
used by him as a law library, shall be held in
trust by his wife for the use of his son, Sam
uel B. Kerr. He leaves all his property,
real and personal, in trust with his wife dur
ing her life, and at her death, if her son
should survive her, the property will be be-
queathed to him. He also provides that his
mother and his wife's mother shall be pro-
vided for, so far as his wife's ability may per-
NIT her to do so. 1t concludes with beseech.
| ing his son "TO cherish ALWAYS a SINGER love
| of justice and truth, and to make all his
aims in life consistent Herewith, and they
cannot fail to be high and noble" He
makes his wife sole executrix of his will.
| The paper is dated May %, 1865.