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

A Boston journal reports that th'
pastor of fashionable church in tina
city has on several occasions recently
been obliged to call public attention Il
female members OF the congregation
who make it n rule to come after the ser
vices have begun, in order that theil
gorgeous get-up may have its crushing
effect on the multitude.
TIE Servians are sharp. IG7ing pre-
pared for grim war, they now refuse to
acknowledge the new sultan, on the
ground OF the irregularity of his acces-
sion to the throne. Murad can do moth
ing else but suppress that wicked re-
belIion." 1t is struggle between Sclav
and Ottoman, with the chances in favor
of the Sclavs.
THE Baltimore & Ohio railroad COM
pany, which is just half as old as the re-
public, has commemorated its semi-cen-
tennial by the compilation of map of
the region, now the United States, show
ing it as it was a hundred years ago.
The map was made from works and
records in possession of the New York
Geographical society.
THE net proceeds, of the raid on the
crooked whisky ring, according TO official
statements, appear to be thus far SO. 150,-
600 in property seized, assessments and
suits in official bonds. Up to May 1st the
cash treasury receipts from the above
were $600,000. The expenses of the
treasury department operations, it is
said, have not exceeded So, 900.
The somewhat singular announcement
is made in the San Francisco papers that
the general fund of the bonanza state of
Nevada is exhausted, and the governor
even can not get his salary. 1t is charged
that the managers Of the consolidated
Virginia mine have refused to pay their
bullion tax, and this completely upsets
the finances of the state.
ALL residents in China know well the
term applied to the made-up or adulter-
ated tea, which, with a singular truthful
ness, is called Gle tea" The process
consists in taking the used and exhausted
leaves thrown away from the tea gardens
or public tea-drinking establishments,
and putting them in bags with a certain
proportion of charcoal. They are then
dried over fire, and when turned out of
the bags are found to have a black coat
ing resembling the Congou brand, which
is a very popular tea in England.
THERE have been exported from New
York this year, since January first, ten
million bushels of wheat, against six
million four hundred thousand at the |
same time last year. The New York |
Times believes that the perfection of the |
system of grading grain, recently estab-
lished, supplemented by the erection of
elevators at the various termini of the |
railways, will do much to centralize the |
grain trade of the western states in that |
city, and ultimately make it the largest |
depot in the world for the storage as well |
as for the sale of grain.
OSCILLATION is practiced somewhat |
promiscuously in Russia. Somebody |
writes: The Russian ceremony of sa-
luting every one upon Easter with the |
sentence Christ is risen,' and a kiss,
was carried out with much pomp by the
emperor and his court. Precisely at |
midnight, the hour being announced by
cannon, the car, his family and all the
{ oJrt dignitaries, together with the chief
officers of the army and navy, went in
procession into the church adjoining the
Winter Palace. Here, at a certain stage
af the ceremonies, the czar gave three
kisses each to the state dignitaries, the
general, aides-de camp and the command
ing officers OF the guard. Mass was then
and the company dispersed
PEACE is again announced in Central
America. Salvador and Guatemala, af-
ter the usually bloody encounter, have
resolved to establish permanent friendly
relations, which undoubtedly will he a
very good thing for all the five republics.
as the quarrel of any two of them, usual
", involves n general serimmage. In
this instance, Guatemala has so thor
oughly whipped Salvador that the latter
republic is now entirely at the mercy of
President Burrois, whose motive in inter
fering with his neighbor was to continue
the weakening of the clerical party,
process which he has inaugurated in his
own country. Burrois is man of very
liberal and progressive ideas, and he has
much for Guatemala. As
the project for confederation of the five
republics has failed, it might be we'll for
Burrois to negotiate for the consolida-
ton of Guatemala and Salvador and
begin the confederation scheme in that
way. These two republics together have
nh area of 200,2l1 square miles and a
population of / 100000.
ONE of the fine charities of New York
which is growing in popularity every
year is the flower mission, which collects
flowers from all sources and distributes
them among the sick in the hospitals and
lsylums, and at their homes when they
are too poor to buy them. They are i'm ,
partially distributed, without regard to
party, sect or class, and often carry mes
'ages of kindness and suggestions of care '
md comfort and love which are more ,
helpful and invigorating than medicines. |
One excellent thing accomplished by the
mission is that it gives an opportunity
TO SO many charitable ladies to visit
those they can help and cheer. Last
year over thousand poor sick people ,,
were visited by the fower-giving ladies', ,
who but for the flowers would have had ,
no excuse for VISITING tbap, Tho nv