The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-11-17
Items of Interest.

The most violent hiccough is cured by
Chicagoan, who stops the ears and nos
trils and administers glass of water.
Spurgeon wears blue overcoat, and
4" a cigar burns merrily in his mouth -
Genius can not disguise itself, even
among clergymen.
On New Years day the people of In
dia are to have their happiness com
pleted by the formal announcement of
their English empress.
( Walters of the Lick house, San
Francisco, injured by the explosion of
| the steam table in September, 1875, have
brought=d damage suits against the Lick
trustees and ask for $4,000.
| The University of Virginia has re-
ceived donation of $4,000 for the ben
eft of its library, from Mr.. VIM. w.
Corcoran.
manufacture of willOw-ware in this
country is imported from Europe at
| cost of $5,000,OOO.
The double hanging in New Jersey
last week was horrible affair. One OF
the wretches slowly strangled to death,
and in his struggles his hands got loose
The jersey hsngman has evidently been
reading Deacon Smith.
Commodore Vanderbilt says the
obituaries are much better than he ex-
pected, but he is mOrtally% afraid the
newspapers will go back on him next
time. There is such thing as { mans
dying once too often. If the COmmO-
dore keeps on he may write the Obitua-
ries of some OF the newspapers and
they would make lively reading.
The steamship Acapulco of the Pa
citic mail line, which arrived last week, |
was struck by lightning on the 9th of !
October, while entering the harbor of
Asplnwall, and the tOpmast was shivered !
down to the lower mast, a distance of |
about forty feet. Fortunately no one |!
was near it at the time, and no perssn |
was injured. It is curious fact that |
the fore-topmast of the Acapulco was |
also struck by lightning in the same port
on the previous voyage.
The Anglo-American Times argues
that the United States have fully re-
covered from the panic of 1873. amer
icau factories" it says, /" for the first
time IN sixteen years, threaten formida-
bic competition with manufacturers in
foreign markets. They can now produce
on par with European manufacturing
countries, because their work is as eco
done, or would be, were it not
for the faulty system which remains
American labor is cheaper, its means of
living cheaper, and the whole scale is re-
duced, by which the cost of manufac-
turing the article is lessened.'"
The papers transferring the Old South
church, Boston, have finally passed, and
the sale is completed. It is now held by
Mr.. L, N. Pulsifer as trussee for the
owners. The sum of $4,000 was ad-
vanced, 100000 without security by
friends interested in the purchase oil the
building the rest of $400, 900 is secured
by first and second mortgages. The con-
dition annexed to the sale by the stand
ing committee of the church, namely,
= that the building shall not be used for
my purpose whatever on Sunday for
thirty years, except so far as may be
necessary for its preservation" was rati- !
led by the society.
1t has become notorious that legally
made will stands for nothing if there is
enough Of money to make it an object !
% fight Tor 1t. Any grasping relative |
N any person whose interest it is TO dis
over plain case puts it within reach :
If the lawyers, and there it is all up with I
5he estate SO far as the heirs are concern S
I'd; the city and the lawyers gobble it l
Ip.-Jennie June '
Mr.. David Polsifel, of the secre t
ary of states Office, has in his posses 4
ion wellpreserved but very ancient
Hebrew roll, known to be at least more C
han Loco years old. 1t contains the i
our b5oks of Moses, written upon a soft t
brown silk about ninety feet long and il
wo wide. The pages of the roll are p
even by twenty-f0ur inches, and contain p
orty-lines. The characters are large and c
ct black, age having had no apparent d
7earing effect upon them-BOston i'd t
ertiser. C
Maggie Stewart, a little girl from p
Brooklyn, visited independence hall last r.
light, accompanied by some of her fami- Ii
=, and while admiring the old bell and n
he many relics exhibited there, asked p
he janitor whether she might be allowed fl
D recite "The Independence Bell" say a
1g that it was her highest ambition to o
peak the piece in Independence hall. +
was granted, and the little girl d
stonished the many visitors by reciting c.
he piece in fine style. Another poem d
as called for, and the child again de- ii
GIFTED her auditors. - PHILADELPHIA Il