The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-11
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
THBmarriage ofLOrd Vaudeville to a
American girl is thought, in England, t
have been imprudent. In America it
the marriage of the American girl t
lord Vaudeville that is thought impru
dent.
ANOTHER set of blood relations of
I. Stewart have announced themselve
from Ireland. The Begleys claim to b
first cousins, and say they will not Pu
up with any fooling AMI will have exact
justice done them.
ONE of the best things said of William
7. Garner since his heroic death in trying
to save his wife and friends, is that he
Faid good salaries and gave proper vaca.
tion to his clerks, and when any of them
fell sick in his employment he sent the
check regularly when the pay day came
round. This is the kind of obituary that
tells.
HE feat of crossing the English chan
mel in canoe has been accomplished by
Lieut.. Colville,o of the Grenadier Guards,
who started from Dover at three o clock in
the morning and padded into the har-
Dor at Calais at $50, going about thirty
miles zigzag across the channel in six
hours and half.
AFRICAN ants march through the for
est in line of battle, sometimes extending
To seven miles. In front of this line are
the officers. When ,he invaders enter
house they clear off everything in jiffy.
Elephants, gOrillas, black men and all
the other animals fly for their lives.
Would that we had regiment of them
at Goose Creek.
WE are getting in our vengeance on
the Indians, after all. A young lady
visited the fort near St. Augustine,
Florida, few days ago to see the In
dians camped there, and, in learning to
shoot a bow and arrow, accidentally sent
whizzing arrow into the side of the too
confding redskin. An army with pam
niers would crush Sitting Bull.
The condition of the English and
Scotch operatives in the mills is growing
w4rs", and the reduction of wages is like
ly to become general. This will be fol-
lowed by strikes and great suffering, and
in the end the wOrkmen will be worsted.
The business depression is so severe it is
to be feared that only starving labor will
reviveit
THE whole cost of the war to the
northern and southern states from 1861
to 1866, is estimated as follows: Lives,
100000; property by waste, destruc-
tion, etc, $4,000, 100000. The gross
expenditures of the United States from
June, 1861, to July, 1866, S., ,792, 257, 900.
OF this the actual expenses we're about
81, 342, ,237 ,OOO.-D. A. Wells.
JOHN HANCOCK-the John-was only
thirty-nine years old when he signed the
declaration of independence, and the av-
erage age of the signers was about forty
five. The oldest member was Benjamin
Franklin, seventy, and Thomas Lynch,
jr., and Edward Rutledge (both of South
Carolina), were only twenty seven. Two
of the signers were born in England, two
in Ireland, two in Scotland, and one in
Wales and the rest in the colonies.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, so asserts |
Jennie June in the Baltimore American, |
. is now generally considered lunatic."
She says that he sits ten hours every day |
on a shaded bench in Madison park, pet |
ting children who play there. He will
shake hands with no adult for fear it
might take strength out OF him; and he
says that he is developing a will-power
that will enable him to kill anybody by
Il mere exertion of his mind.
THE water of Lake Superior is very
clear and cold. At no time of the year
is it safe for bathing. The recent loss of
twenty-seven of the passengers and crew
of the propeller st. Clair, which was
burned five miles from shore, in an illus
tration of this They were all provided
with life-preservers, and were found
floating in the lake with their heads and
shoulders above the surface, some of |
them within a half mile of the shore,
having been chilled by the coldness of
the water.
PRIMITIVE WARFARE.
Interesting Proportion bV ~ MonfPne-
EriiI tO--S Wounded Russian Omcrr.
London Daily News.
The Montenegrin method of making