The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-25

EuWaru johnson. Elk President
er, whose grave at Hollywood is un
rked, will also be paid the tardy
ors of a monument.
n Russia ladies seem to have peculiar
lities for entering the profession of
dicine. At the St. Petersburg medical
ege there were last year Ill female
dents, 102 of whom belonged to the
nilies of the nobility, the remainder
ng the daughters of merchants, clergy.
n, etc. A large number of lady ply
ans are engaged in the practice of
ir profession in Russia.
PROF. T1GE forecasts the weather until
18th of this month, as follows:
rom 18TH to 14th-falling barometer,
inner, cloudy aod threatening weather,
d heavy rains and severe snow storms
places. From 14th to 1Sth-clear or
airing weather, rising to high baro-
ter, and very cold, if the high tssre-
ter is an Arctic ohei otherwise the
ather viii he n6defate.5~
HE Indiana school system employs
POO officers in its management. 1t ed
htes more than half million children
costs $4,OO0,OO0 annually. The
Perintendent argues in his report, that
great degree the future welfare o
r state depends upon the Normal
nOol. The greatest. defect in the sys-
fn Comes as the result OF the employ
fnt of nOvices as instructorso of children.
be greatest need of the schools is thor
Ighly trained teachers.
AMONG the many beautiful objects to
exhibited by Spain at the centennial
pl be a building illustrating Moorish
ihitecture, and in il will be qualtefed
detachment of soldiers from The royal
gineers, composed of a lieutenant, a
Igeant. a corporal, and twenty privates.
e soldiers will come armed and uni
med. They will act as guards in the
anish department. end VIII take part
parades and other occasions of cere-
bny.
The recent. marriage of Miss Belle
nthicum, a. clerk in the treasury de-
rtment, to Senator Christiancy, of
chigan, suggests that the treasury girls
We chances, after all Miss Linthicum
ninetecn, and pretty. Senator Chris
ncy is sixty-foer years OF age, and a
dower of ten months standing. 1t
hkes No difference. He is a senator,
I d Miss Belle will take kindly TO the
ty-four years for the honor Of beihr
enat6rs wife,
THERE was quite a sensation in New
rypOrt, Massachusetts,, last week, over
marriage of James Parton, author,
his step-daughter, the same being for
lden by the statutes of that state,
be bridegroom learned his status oh
e morning after, the Wedding, and
prevent further scandal, left his horne
charge of his wife ahd took rooms for
mseif at Il boarding house. He will
lhlS 10 the legislature for special act
hctionihg his marriage.
FaE entire Aita OF public lands in
kshsas is 33, ,4O6, ,72O acres, of which
ere is still undisposed of $500, ZOO
res; in Louisiana the entire area is
,46I, ,440 acres, of which 5.S8A5 5a8o 9e-
hin uhdiair56sed Of; in Mississippi the
ttire area is 80, O,1SO, $40 acres, of which
'263, 52O are mdisposed of in Alabama
area is 30, ,462, ,OSO acres, of which L.
6,s0S remain undisposed of; and In
|orida the entire area Is 81, ,93l ,520
res, of which 16,946, ,226 remain nndis-
|bsed Of.
'FBs carnival to be held in Memphis,
'ebrAafy 29th, Will be the Growing effort
the managers Of the grand apectaeis.
he Mempf,i. the UlkS, and the Motley
rev viii exhibit additional attractions
! the splendors of the last annual pa
liant. The Mardi Gras of Memphis
lands unrivalled. 1t is said that Lou
eubrie, Count DeNasns.'' ir tNG pro
,ni,cr VI ~ these grand novelties.
emphis should exhibit her gratitude,
|ld wreath the brow of Lou Leubrie
ith her gayest chaplets.
THE London Times, in an article on
merican grain expectation, shows that,
hereas nine years ago forty four per
ent. of the grain exported TO England
lme from Russia, and only fourteen pei
ent. from America, now forty-foNr per
mt comes from America and but twen-
zone per cent. from Russia. To this
ate of things is partly attributed tho
reat monetary crisis a, Moscow, the con
uuous depreciation of the paper cur
|ancy. and the excessive distress in south
rn Russia.
PROBABLY the most remarkable cOllec-
ION ever taken up at a single religious
|athering was that at the closing meet
ne of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in
bbiIadeIphia last week. Mr.. Moody had
nnounced at a previous meeting that
here would be a collectjoa taken up, and
is hearers appear to have come pre-
Jared to respond to the evangelist's call
or funds. The result of his appeal was
collection aggregating about 100000.
here was also one subscription of So, 900
nd a gift of a valuable diamond ring. a
lift to the donor, for which 81 900 was
-ealized.
The great falling off in foreira imn;
rration last year is shown ii the Ye.,ore
pf the New York Emigration cosnnis.
sioners of the numEer of arrivals at that
port. There We're landed at Castle Gar
len during 1875 but 81 800 immigrant,
compared with l4O,O4l for the preyiou,
yer. In 1872 the immigration Wis New
York reached the large aggregate O.
294, ,5S1, so that last years arrivals wer,
not much more than one-fourtho ofthose o,
1872. The decline is almost equally diff
fused among the different nationalities
last year cDp4-;L,.1 ~ 80