The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-03


says that David Dudley Field is credited
with $S75,O0O; Samuel G.. Courtney,
$780, 900; Brown. Hall & VanderpoOl,
S225, 900; z. w. Stoughton with $780,
1000, and William NJ Evarts with $50,
EfOOO annually.
4 CAPT. JAMES B. EADs publishes a
Pfcard IN Washington paper, in whi he
5states that the dispatches from his work
I55are of most cheering character, and
Ethat his grant will be scarcely one year
rold before the channel over the South
Pass bar will be the deepest outlet of the
|9S lississippi, although only half the depth
tpf the best when they began work
i MANY of our southern contemporaries
have commencedurging farmers to raise
nheir own food supplies, as has been Gus
Stomary for a long time at this season of
sthe year. Heretofore, farmers have paid
Aittle heed to the sound advice of having
sIfheir corn-cribs and smoke-houses at
|ihome; now, however the idea seems to
|helave found many adherents, and the
ecoming season will probably see the
youth more Independent of the west than
bver before. e.-NashUilLe american.
III ONE of the most curious things at the
Exposition will be an architectural plan
Ia,f the city of Mexico. Its dimensions
tlfe 33Oby 23l feet. 1t will display all the
characteristic of the city, and will be
e,eopled by co. 900 lcaden figures dressed
IN appropriate costumes, some for the
|sDpera, ball and social party, and Others
|PEending fruit and ice cream, carrying
4 Baskets and rolling barrels. In the
ittreets will be 300 coaches, an equal
Rslumber of other vehicles and lot of ar
e Aillery pieces.
HI CANNED fish generally is not partic-
& klarly wholesome food, and it is not
lnfrequently dangerous. 1t should never
pc eaten unless it had been heated TO
Poiling temperature shortly before, even
| hough it is particularly liable to spoil
P.OOn after opening, under the most favor
Rabie circumstances. Brands devoid of
Eyshese necessary directions for safe use
i hould be avoided, and persons who per-
Rsist i'll putting such food upon the market
! FithOut precautions, should be placed
/ nder legal restraint.
THE officers of Harvard University
4 dave lately kept a record of the percent
of the students, from which some in
4 |c!eresting facts are to be ascertained
! Merchants and shOp-keepers send to col
6 tRge about half her students. Lawyers
{end literally, and clergymen not so well.
q mOng the classes of parents who do not
|5Pnd at all, are sea captains, railroad
tlen, hotel keepers, artists, and literary
I1pen. Artists and architects have only
pntributed three students in six years,
Iiind editors, authors and publishers have
.PfOne little better.
KEELY's motor has been envelOped in
81 mysterious obscurity for some time,
Pnd people were generally beginning to
srelieve that the affair was failure. Last
friday evening, however, in Philadelphia,
EIP terrific explosion took place in brick
|s1uilding, and one ofthe walls was knocked
p pieces. Upon investigation it was
discovered that Keely occupied the |
Is ructure, and his iron box, where he |
frh hained his motor, had blown up. There |
|P3ems to be something in Keely's ma !
1fline, after all, but the people who live |
"a the neighborhood have very earnestly |
him to move elsewhere.
A GENTLEMAN in New York has con-
Eibrted an old church, no longer used for |
h pe purpose Of worship, into lodging
hpuse for tramps, the beds in the pews |
I'm the ground floor free to their occu-
and those in the gallery let at a .
lstihing cost. In this way he accommo- !
keates three hundred vagrants nightly, |
no hundred and fifty of them absolutely |
hithout charge. I'm the morning each |
pa lest is given hot breakfast of mush. !
I d is entirely Mt the option of the tramps .
8Tbhether they acknowledge the kindness
4 lktcnded to them, by chopping wood in
sche basement of the building half an hour
.ebfore taking their leave, or not. 1t is
: Iatifying that a large quantity is
Re hopped, which indicates that the much
hbused tramp is not altogether destitute
4 Iht honor. No drunken men are ad-
tilted.
a SERIOUS danger has Deen apprehended
4 England of a war between the Anal
i hmated Engineers and tleir employers.
4 9he owners of the Firth iron works.
living decided to conduct their business
liz piece-work instead of weekly wages,
De men went on a strike, and the union |
4 4sued orders that they intended to COM
NldI the masters-except under special cir
4 Iamstances, to be judged by the union
R,Tt abandon the one method of payment
n hlr the other. The Amalgamated Engi-
II hers possess a fund of $3.50, 900; and
3ey rule from 10000 to 10000 skilled
winds. They can, if they organize gen
8eial strike, throw entire trades out of
4 lar, and stop large undertakings directly
n Iokpendent on their labors. The London
fhbectator says that the Amalgamated .
Erhgineers can stop or greatly reduce the .
BStlcome of 100000 households, and inf1ict /
II aharly as much misery as a great cam
IrAign would. What this organization
Iotoposes to perform, is to take away from
faate skilled minority possession which |
fe9ey have for the benefit of the majority |
ehd, says the Spectator, they have no 1
tleght to do it, and no plea of benevo- |
hce nor brotherhood nor general conve-
EHence can give them the right. The |
i zion Trades Employers Association. |
kt5hich held its general meeting at Derby, |
'hdId in it's hands the issues of war or /
4 aace. The counsels of prudence fortu-
II ately overruIed the promptings of self /