The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11

INV OhLEANS receives nlne-JentnS OF
The immigrants to the southern states
The school children of America an
nually Fay $50, ,OOO, 900 for schools books,
of which it is said the publishers pocket
$33, 1000.
AN English paper says that it is thought
in many quarters that the Jews are going
10 purchase the Holy Land of Turkey,
with a view of going there in body.
PROF. TAYLOR LEWIS says that an
sdea of a God who merely started the
universe and then left it to evolution
lis exceedingly attenuated."
Ia is now ascertained that Winslow.
the Boston forger, sailed from New York
for Rotterdam, Holland. He laid his
plans well as there is no extradition
treaty with that country.
The Northampton, Mass, bank rob-
berry, turns out to have been a trsmen-
dous haul for the cracbsmen. 1t is esti-
mated that over 100000 in money,
stocks and bonds were gobbled by the
robbers.
CHINAMEN stand by each other in
This country. Those employed in shoe
making in North Adams have contri-
buted out Of their scanty earnings S947
10 defcud one who is cntangled in law IN
Nevada.
Mr.. MENZIEs, whc has just published
a valuable work OH forests in England,
says that lightning never strikes dead
trees, but always selects the strongest,
and those full of sap. 1t is well worth
knowing that the ivy often acts as a
lightning conductor.
THE petition from the Murnon Women
was a fraud. Number cF those whose
names appeared therein deny having
signed any ssIch paper, but admit that
1hey dad sign II petition to grant the
women OF Utah free admission to the
centennial exposition.
The " hanging" question is being in
vestigated in Great Britain in the inter
e'sts, rot of the condemned criminal alose,
but OF humanity. Prof. HaughtOn, of the
university of Dublin, who has given the
subject good deal of attention, repro
bates very strongly the use of any method
which fails to produce instantaneous
death, and recommends a long drop with
the knot under the chin.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ir., con-
tributes an article to the Atlantic Month
ly, in which some interesting statistics
are given, showing that the deaths bv
rail are lower than from almost any other
cause For instance, he shows that more
deaths occur from f,Iiing down stairways
an the city of Boston in proportion to the
population, than occur on the railroads
of Massachusetts, in proportion TO the
persons travelling.
The ladies OF England are not dis
posed to allow their sisters on this CONT
nent to have monopoly of honors won in
intellectual contest with the lords of
creation" Miss Issbella G. Clark sue,
cessfully passed the major examination
OF the Hnelish pharmaceutical society
and was thereupon duly admitted as a
pharmaceutical chemist. Her perform
ance in passing the examination is the
first on record of lady doing so.
THE late postmaster Of Boston bears
testimony As follows to the excellence of
The service rendered by the much ma
iigncd feminine clerks in his department:
-T The women have proved far superior to
men in looking up mis-scnt and mis-
directed Letters, snd in making returns
20 the dead better office. They have also
proved entirely reliable. There has not
been n single instance in nine years
where the accounts of any woman have
shown a deficiency of one dollar in the
Boston Postoliice."
\ RECENT visitor to the Dismal Swamp
describes it, i'll Forest and Stream, as
having lost none of the characteristics
which gave it its name. Bears are not
~ plenty there Us when the region was
rarely penetrated by man, yet they still
afford sport for hunters. Lake Drum
7nond, once believed 10y the ignorant to
be lottOmless is really not in any place
more than fifteen feet deep. Its water,
impregnated with the juices of juniper
and gum leaves is of the color of wine,
and is drunk as a remedy by consump-
tiYes.
MESsRs. FLOOD X O'BRIEN. managers
of the consolidated Virginia and Cali
fornia mining companies, announce their
determination to send Il specimen to the
product of these mines to the centennial
for exhibition. They are preparing to
put a working force on their mine. large
enough to turn out ten million of bullion.
This will he shipped to Philadelphia in
June. There will I've one hundred and
fifty tons of it in the shape of three thou
sand five hundred silver bars; and it will
require train of fifteen ears, bearing
ten tons each, to carry il. This ten mil
lion dollars worth of silver will be the
uroduCt of one months working of a
crevice in the earth one thousand two
hundred feet in length. 1t is stated that
the Weld of these two mines for the
present year will be twenty-one million
dollars.
4 PH1LADELPHIA eXpcrimenter has
been emulating the example of Dio Lewis
in respect to economical living and
vegetable diet, and communicates to the
public the result OF his effort to feed Il
family of three on Il dollar a week. lie
tried corn-meal and found it insipid.
Buckwheat soon followed, and potatoes
soon failed to sustain bodily strength.
Then oatmeal was tried, and at the ex.
piration of two weeks, says the expert
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