The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-21

q TIMELY TOPICS.
The MikadO of Japan has granted tC
journalists the right of sending whatever
communications they may desire from
one part of the empire to the other free
of charge.
The ice companies of New York have
had their supplies increased by the ice
dealers of Maine. They have made large
purchases, paying for much of the ice
the sum of $3.50 a ton.
MILANEsE botanists assert that Europe
can not claim to have done anything for
America gratis, when the latter gave her
the sunhower, tobacco, potatoes, jalap,
red pepper, tomatoes, quinine. guanO and
corn, not to mention cotton, petroleum
and ether things.
NIAGARA, Ont, responds to the Ken
lucky meat shower, by reporting a rain
of goose-eggs, with the explanation that
they probably fell from flock of wild
geese which had become bewildered in a
storm and were unable to reach their
usual laying place.
4 THE reports from the Black Hills are
Encouraging. The entire population has
left off digging for gold and gone to spec
ulating in town sites Gold mining is an
uncertain and demoralizing pursuit, but
specializing in real estate is one of the
solid industries of the country.
THE only way for an editor to get
dead-head ticket to the Centennial ex-
Ihibition is for him to have his photo
Igraph taken, to be gummed on his ticket
/ This is in order to enable the Oor-keeper
to see that the editor who presents the
ticket is the one to whom it vas given,
not some friend to whom he has lent
his privilege.
+ The immense shower of flies which fell
on the snow of Ontario last month is sup.
posed to have originated in the same way
as the Kentucky fall of meat. These
/ flies are said to be about three times as
large as the ordinary mosquitoes, and are
thought to have been waited from the
West Indies 1t is probably the first
time that Kolus ever undertook to
whistle Shoe Fly.
FROM the effects of the sultan's pecu-
liar financial policy, the Turkish treasury
has been so thoroughly exhausted that
the government has not been able even
to furnish hospital supplies for the troops
operating against the rebels in Herzego.
.vinia. The mortality in consequence has
been terrific A surgeon in the service |
reports that the losses of the force in the |
Field, mainly from disease imperfectly
'treated, have not been less than 10000 |
men.
VIRGINIA has been doing something
or the cause of education since the war. |
A correspondent of the Richmond En-
NSOAiA1lCS blldI oJyODOJOOO HdNG |
been appropriated to educational pur-
poses in the state during the past ten
years In the same period endowment
Fchemes for the benefit of the colleges
hnd theological institutions in the state
have been wholly or in part carried out,
amounting in the aggregate to $3,4OO,-
boo.
THE people of Georgia do not believe
in newspaper quar-els. The grand jury
bf Polk county, at its recent session,
made the following report to the court
after returning several indictments:
g We also feel it our duty to censure the
course and conduct of our two newspa-
pers toward each other, and urgently re-
quest the two editors to cease wrangling
about themselves and branch off into :
agricultural articles, or others that will ,
tend to develop the interests and welfare s
Of our country"
The religious press of Europe are re-
oicing over news that the Turks have 9
permitted the Christians to place bells in |
5he church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jeru- '
'alem, recalling the fact that no bells |
nave been heard in that church since the !
great Saladin entered the city in 11S7.
For several centuries past the use of
,hurch bellshas been prescribed through
,ut the Ottoman empire, on the ground ,
that they afforded an easy means of arous-
ng and exciting the people for revolu-
Iionary purposes.
Col. JOHN II. STONE, the newly
elected governor of Mississippi, was .
born in Henderson county, Tennessee.
When the war broke out he was living
at Iuka, Mississippi, and went from that
place as captain of the Iuka Guards. He
himself at the first battle ,
of Manassas, became colonel of the second =
Mississippi regiment, and served with it
the Virginia campaigns. r
After the war he was chosen treasurer of t
county, and was subsequent
ly elected state senator, which position q
he has held for six years.
THE London Times has an editorial {
on the subject of the adventures of
the survivors of the emigrant ship
Strathmore, which concludes as follows:
- The vessel which at length arrived to ,
rescue them was a United States whaler,
on her course to the South Sea fisheries.
Her captain, we are told, gave up the !
chance of the vessels profit for the sake i
Of thepoo creatures he found at Crozett's, |
and who needed an amount of care they 1
could not have received if he had taken
them with him. We are sure the Eng !,
Iish nation will judge as it deserves the