The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-09


what is wanted. The Hrussian govern
ment is about to put its soldiers on
dry egg dict as an experiment.
Miss JULIA MATHEWS, of the English
opera bouffs troupe, died at MullanPhy
hospital, st. Loais, on the 10th, of rheum-
atism and malarial fever. Miss Mathews
was taken sick at Chicago in March, but
continued on the stage, and after leaving
there sang at New Orleans, Nashville
and Memphis.
THE story comes from France of a hOr-
ror similar to that portrayed by Dickens
the death of a man from spontaneous
combustion. The theatre of the tragedy
was one of the suburbs of Paris, Fonte-
nay-du-Bois. The victim had been for
years a confirmed drunkard, consuming
on an average quart and a half of bran
dy day, and frequently he would shut
himself up alone for quite period to
indulge unmolested in his debauchcry
Not long ago. conscious of his degrada-
tiOn, he resolved to destroy himself, and
took the preliminary steps in true French
style. On Easter Sunday he shut him
self up, and as he remained secluded
much longer than usual, the neighbOrs
broke in his door. An overpowcring
smell of spirits saluted them as they en-
tered the room. In brazier were found
the remains of Il charcoal fire. and on the
bed lay the body of the mana cinder.
The doctors assert, that spontaneous
combustion must have taken place soon
after the drunkard lay down to die.
The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate says
that instead of corn being shipped into
that country as has been the case ever
since the war, it is now being shipped
from it. West Tennessee makes a sim
liar report. And little corn is now
brought into North Mississippi and Ar
kansas. Cotton is low, but the farmers
are no longer wholly relying on the
northwest for hog and hominy" They
are beginning to produce the necessaries
of life, and to realize that no community
unable to feed itself can be permanently
prosperous. Let us have more corn and !
wheat and fewer trust deeds; more hom- |
my and less interest money for summer !
advances; more hogs and cattle and |
grasses, and fewer debts; more production !
of the necessities of life and less cotton
more farming and less planting. 1t no
longer pays to "plant," but good farm
ing will pay in every civil district in the
southwest. That's the sort of politics.
Memphis AUdlaRche
IN December last the proprietors of
the Baltimore Weekly san offered twelve
hundred dollars in graded prices for six
stories. IN response two hundred and
SIX stories were received, and the COM
mittee to decide on the merits of each
have made the following awards: First
prize, five hundred dollars, to Mrs.
Marion Stockton, of New York, for
" The Great Wheel :" second, two hun
dred and seventy-fve dollars, to Miss
>. w. Hubbard, of Buckingham county.
Virginia, for " Two Sides ola Question ;
third, two hundred dollars, to Miss Julia
Magruder, of Winchester, Virginia, for
4" A Regularly Nice Girl" fourth, one
hundred dollars, to Miss Fannie NJ.
Kyle, of Albemarle county, Virginia, for
9 The Lost VILLA Tale of Amherst :"
fifth, seventy-ive dollars, to NIrs. Skip
with II. Coale, of Hartford county,
Maryland, for A Freak of Fortune"
sixth, fifty dollars, to Isaac n Pearson,
of Westminster, Maryland, for " Dame
Leroy's Revenge" The names of the
writers were withheld until after the
decision.
THE " solemn injustice " of the British
has been again illustrated,
the illustration being furnished by a son
of the late Bishop Wilberforcc. As the
story is told by Mr. Conway. in letter
to the Cincinnati Commercial two little
boys. sons of a farmer, who is his neigh
Dor, were recently discovered by Wilber-
forces gamekeeper digging at rabbits
hole on his estate. The farmer went to
see the magistrate to apologize for the
offense and represent the thing as child
ish folly which ought not to be publicly
Wilberforce asscnted to this,
and told the farmer to send the BOYS to
him, which he unsuspectingly did.
WhercupOn this magistrate" took
them into a stable and beat them so Sc
verely that the flesh was torn off both {
the boys in long strips from head to foot
and at one time it seemed doubtful if
they would recover. The lord chancellor
has delivered n reprimand to WiIber-
force; but there are some persons who
are not satisfied that a rcprimand is sufi-
cient in such a case, and Mr.. Peter Tay-
lOr is set down for a motion in the house
Of commons, which will compel that
body to say whether this magisterial
brute is a fit person to administer Justice
in England.
NEW York correspondence to the n
o. Picayune, dated May 1lth, reports
some pretty severe losses on cotton. I
Parties who bought on a margin have |
put up and up with each material decline
until many of them can do so no longer, ,
and they are now being sold out-some
of them at a loss of l { cents per pound. t
Thus, July deliveries, for which 14l
cents was agreed to be paid, were closed i
out at 12B. OF course no one dreamed !
of such a fall, and the best minds on the t
exchange have this season been at fault. !
That prices are near bottom, however 5
is pretty generally conceded for with !