The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-07-13
GENERAL ITEMS.


The potato bugs are attacking the
beans.
. Egypt exports more rags than any:
thing else.
The young ladies take degrees at Cor.
nell university.
The public library of Boston now con-
tains 314,26 volumes.
Rural Kentucky continues to clamor
for the whipping post.
} Germany is the principal buyer of
Kentucky bluegrass seed.
There are upward of 5, 5,000churches in
the state of New York.
The government still owns one fifth of
all the land in Alabama.
The best education one can obtain is
the education experience gives.
The Knoxville Tribune has absorbed
ten different papers in its days.
The attendance at the Philadelphia
permanent exhibition is very meagre.
Colorado is shipping wild sage to the
east, to be used for medicinal purposes.
Christians should he humble and
thankful, watchful and cheerful.
Epidemic catarrh is killing horses and
mules in Mississippi in large numbers.
The twenty pound Emma mine shares
have been sold in London at one shilling
each.
Waco, Texas, has shipped thirty-fve
thousand five hunded bales Of cotton this
season.
! A boy in Salem, Mass, died last week
from lockiaw resulting from the filling OF
a tooth.
No use looking for Swift's comet. 1t
/ is 120, 100000 miles away, and still tray-
cling from us.
A Marshall, Mich, saloon bartender
made his three year old boy beastly
drunk for the amusement of his patrons.
The San Jose (Cal. Mercury says that
" the stubborn fact is presented that the
grain crop this year will not suffice for
horsefeed.''
An ice-machine in Dallas, Texas, pro-
duces ice-cakes thirty feet long and six
feet wide, weighing from 10000 TO 12,-
600 pounds each.
George A. Blaney, of WOburn, Mass,
annually refuses TO pay his taxes, is
locked in Jail, paws the tax under pro-
test, and is then allowed TO 60 free.
Brigham Young now has fifteen wives
under his care and protection. He has
had forty-fve children. The number Of
his grandchildren he does not know.
Krupp's fity-ton gun, exhibited at the
centennial, was purchased by Russia for
the Notifications at Cronstadt, and is
nsw in position for work.
THE widowed Mrs. Pckens whom IL is
rumored Gov. Wade Hampton is about
to marry, is a Mississippian, and was
IL
reigning belle.
A mansion now building in New York
has a Pompeiian room, the woodwork of
which is of ebony, with ivory inlaid fig
ures, and panels of amaranth wood
painted by hand. The furniture is up
holstered with raw silk of reseda tints,
bordered with crimson velvet.
Battle Greek, Mich, tramp WAS
given breakfast at the house OF Judge
Hall, says the Journal, but Mrs. Hall
noticed that he did not eat, and present.
ly he got up from the table. The host
ess asked him if he was sick. "No, ]
amt sick, but am going to go where ]
can get decent breakfast"
OF the forty members Of the gradua-
ting class at Williams COLI sc, twelve are
to be ministers, seven lawyers, four ply
sicihns, three business men, three teach
ers, one a journalist, and the rest are
undecided. Every man is free-trader,
and there are ten who class Their s3.Ves
as Independent in politics.
Chinamen in California are themselves
of Chinese cheap labor"
Coal mines in Amador county are
worked by Cinnamon from the interior
of China, who speak a dialect that the
rest of their countrymen in California
cannot understand, accept $40 month
wages and board themselves.
Torpedo balloons are proposed by
of the Scientific Amer
ican. The idea is to float the balloons
over the enemy, and drop the torpedo
by means of electricity sent over wire.
1t is calculated that a city could be
totally de troyed in this way by dropping
a sufficient quantity of nitro-glycerine.
England does not intend TO contract
any more Alabama claims. That Turkish
iron-clad, which was nearly finished in
an English ship-yard when the war broke
out. has had TO stay there. The govern
ment Immediately took means" 10
prevent any infringement Of the neutral
ity laws, as Secretary Bourke expressed
II in parliament.
A Partisan Snowman, whose daughter
was lately married, endowed her most
He gave her for her
portion an elephant who knew how TO
lance. a dog that could reckon accounts,
TWO canaries skillful at card playing, and
. camel 80 pious that it went down on
is knees at sunset, with its head TO the
,ast.
Poor Mr.. Brown, in indianapolis,
while waiting in the criminal court 20 be
,alled as a juror, had his pocket picked.
A fterward, TO add TO his sUfferiDgs, the
defendants counsel objected to him as
uror on the ground that having been 80
recently the victim of thief be couldn't
le an impartial juror ina case Of larceny.
This didn't make poor Mr.. Brown feel
better at all.
The other day William Kief. Of New
lrk, n. j, was cleaning his finger nails
With pair Of scissors. His young vile
began teasing him TO buy some furniture,
ma he became angry and threw the
scissors at her. The two blades penetra-
ting her ewes Just beneath the eyeballs.
A physician said that the woman could
not recover her sight.
Ten Texan cattle breeders alone own
O25 600 cattle. besides esand mules,
and have 6S2, 600 acres of enclosed pas
turape. In 1870 the statistics showed
mat the state contained 494,504 horses,
S1 400 muIes and asses, 4Z3 048 milch
cows. 1872, ,4O9 oxen, and 2.993,045 Other
cattle or. for all the owners in the state
onlv 2, ,469, 900 more than are owned by
ten men alone.
Centenarians continue to turn up, in
spite of theories that they are impossible.
< banquet was recently given in Rich
mond, England, TO Mr.. Edward Morgan,
Of Brougham House, WillesdeD, by
members of his family and a number of
friends, on his completing his l06th
wear. The figures are attested by
record in a very old family Bible. Mr..
Morgan, who is in vigorous health, was
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