The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-25
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
CHILDREN die in New York as sand
flies do on summer evenings. The
wife of an undertaken told a reporter
last week that she had with her own
hand prepared one hundred and thirty
infants for burial in three days.
The spectacle of a man with his fifth
bride listening to the funeral sermon of
his fourth wife was witnessed al Bangor,
Maine, recently. No. four died of a
funeral services. He Immediately got
another wife, and invited her to attend
the funeral sermon of the dear departed.
IT is said that no one remembers ever
having noticed living evergreen that
had been struck by lightning. It has,
therefore, been suggested that a building
well surrounded by ouch trees would be
comparatively free from danger of being
rent by lightning.
MRS. GARNER, wife of William 7. Gar
ner, was the only daughter of the late
colonel Frost Thorne, of Nacogdoches,
Texas. She and her brother Frost
Thorne, were probably the largest land
owners in Texas, having inherited from
their father great tracts of land in various
parts of the state.
COURIER JOURNAL: Colonel Valen-
tine Baker, the British hero who miscon-
Quoted himself in the railway coach, is to
take command of a portion of the Turk
ish army. If MouIad wins, Baker will
dOutless be rewarded with a harem.
Feminine Turkey probably never had
just such valentine.
THE Newport antiquaries have been
working away at the Old Stone mill, in
hopes of finding a new theory. They
are of opinion that it was built by the
NorOe freesmasons as a masonic temple,
with the symbolic seven pillars. One of
their reasons is that the windows are in
the east, south and west, and not in the
north side at ali.
TIE last words of Charlotte Cushman
are more authentic, but less heroic than
last words usually are. Her nephew had
raised her, and offered a stimulating
drink with the words, "COme, auntie,
here is your milk punch" She smiled,
and quoted the first line of the cele-
brated street car jungle, 'Punch, broth
ers, punch with care" Then she fell in
10 a deep sleep from which she never
awoke.
SULTAN MURAD's condition is pitable |
indeed, if accounts from ConstantinOple |
are true. A correspondent of the Mes
sager du Midi sends TO that paper let |
ter PurPorting to have been written by
the sultan's physician, which says that |
Murad is dying from delerium tremens,
brought on by hard drinking, principally
absinthe, reckless debauchery, remorse |
for his uncles death, and dread of Rus |
sian invasion, or attacks on his pal2 ce by |
Mussulman fanatics"
THE South Carolina planter whose
BODY was recently burned on an i'm
mense pile of green wood probably
caught the idea from a wealthy batchelor
near Charlestown. who had cast-iron
Gin made, and directed his Overseer
TO have the remains reduced to ashes on
n pyre of twenty cords. The key was
dropped into the casket through a
small hole made for that purpose, and
the box was thrown Into the Cooper
river.
A TRAIN on the Pennsylvania railroad
leaving Pittsburg Thursday with military
for the centennial encampment at Phila-
delphia, was added to On the main line,
and Northern Central branch until it
numbered one hundred and ten cars in
eleven sections, carrying over five thous-
and passengers, being the largest passen-
ger train ever run over the road. 1t
arrived without any detention or accident,
and without any interference of the reg
ular trains. !
1T has now been proved beyond dis
pute that Gen. Custer was not sCalped,
that his body was not in any way mutt
lated and that his uniform was not
stripped of by the Sioux. But it is
fact that Buffalo Bill, white man and
killer of Indians, has just sent to his
friends in Rochester the scalp which he
cut from the head of the Cheyenne brave,
Yellow Hand, after he had killed him,
and the blanket, head-dress and girdIe
which he took from the body of Yellow ,
Hand after death.
The marquis of Salamanca, a rich i
banker of Madrid, ennobIed by queen '
Isabella, has sent to this country one
hundred and thirty-fve pictures, mostly
old ones, which he desires to sell. His
gallery is said to contain fifteen hundred
paintings, and these are what he wishes
to get rid Of from among the number. {
They bear the names of celebrated mas I
ters, such as Rubens, Murrillo, Raphael,
Nandyke, Tintoretto, Wouvermans, Paul S
Neronese, 1eniers and Velasques They
are to be sold at auction, and their GEN
uineness is officially certified. What
they are really worth cannot be told =
until they are exhibited, but it may be :
taken for certain that they will sell very t
cheap. There is no market in this coun- 6
try for the old masters. s
SOME of the worthy people who go to
Saratoga are accompanied by their ini- ,
imitable children, and the little ones :
have dancing parties. Says a recent let
ter; Zone sight was that of little l
three year-Old who was dressed in rose
colored silk, with yard OF hermamma's
point-lace founcc for an over-skirt, and