The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-02-02
CURR ENT MENTION.

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year, one-eight of the sugar required for
consumption in the United States-200,
900 hogsheads
A LOndOner, Mr.. Sawyer, has offered
to take the Crystal Palace and grounds
for long term of years, at an annual
rental of $4,000.
Montana appropriated 81, 900 for CEN
tennial purposes, and the commissioner,
Mr.. Woolman. has returned to the treas
ury an unexpended balance of 81, ,561.
Abner G. Daniel, soldier of the war
of 1912 and former member of the Ken
tucky legislature, died in Danville Jan.
2, at the age of eighty-six.
Ostrich raising has how been added to
the profitable industries of California.
1t requires, at present, about $6,000,000
in value of ostrich feathers to satisfy the
vanity of the women of christendom.
Kossuth says, in a recent letter, that
Hungary should resist Russian encroach-
ments at all hazards, and that bloody
war would be preferable to the further
extension of the northern power.
The ruins of the oldest settlement on
the upper James river of Virginia, re-
Gently discovered, are supposed to be the
remains of an old store house or fort
erected by Col. Thos. Stagg in 1868.
The Sacramento (Cal.) savings bank
has more money in its vaults than it can
invest to the profit of its depositors, and
the managers have decided not to receive
any more deposits for the present.
A man in Delphi, ILL.,, tried to kill
himself the other day by filling his mouth
with gunpowder and touching it off. He
succeeded in blowing out four teeth and
burned his tongue, but he still lives.
New Hampshire is the only state that
requires its governors and legislators to
be Protestants, and its constitutions
convention, now in session, recommends
the abolition of the religious test.
A Mr.. Warner, of Ashtabula Co., Ohio,
who wintered over 1000 turkeys, last
winter, on beechnuts, began the present
winter with 1000, buying a car load of
poor wheat at forty-eight cents per
bushel, to feed them.
The terrible opium habit is steadily
on the increase in this country, and the
demand upon the druggists and apothe-
carries for the different forms of the ar
ticle upon which it is led is constant and
growing.
T. p. Bliss, the song writer, author of
scores of popular Sunday school songs,
such as "Only an Armor Bearer" Hold
the Fort, " What will the Harvest be-"
Almost Persuaded" =" etc, was among
the " dead in the terrible Ashtabula dis
aster.
The business of cattle grazing on the
western plains has developed into inn
mense proportions, amounting in the ag-
gregate, including cattle shipping on the
hoof and in the form Of dressed beef, 70
one-half the gold and silver product Of
the Rocky mountains.
A Chinaman, who was recently arrested
for burglary in San Francisco, was
found by the keeper Of the prison inhal-
ing gas from the burner, and nearly ex-
hausted. When he was taken into the
open air, he langudly opened his eyes
and said, Z" Me likee muchee die"
All physicians in Texas, under the
new law, are required to appear before
the county examiners, appointed by the
district court, and stand an examination
in chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and
materia medica, before they can have
legal assistance in collecting their bills.
The population of the globe, accord
ing to the latest Statistical account, is
1,423, ,917 600. Europe has 3O9, ,17S,300
inhabitants Asia, 824, AS, 800; Africa,
199, ,921 800; Australia and Polynesia,
4,74S, 800; America, S5,519, 800. The in
crease in this country for the past year is
given at 100000.
A Boston dry goods firm was cleverly
swindled out of 5000, recently, by a
fashionable dressed woman, who offered
a good 900 bill for a 500 shawl, and
when the clerk sent to the bank and
found it genuine, said she was insulted
and left the store, but finally came back,
took the shawl, and got the change on
bad bill.
The Chicago Journal says that during
the season of navigation on the great
lakes, now closed, AIT marine disasters
were reported, involving a total loss of
property estimated at $1,173,2 $50. The
total deaths of seamen recorded were
155. New crafts were set afoat having
an aggregate tonnage Of 7,46l, a falling
off from last year.
There is now living at Norwich, Eng
land, an old lady who was present at the
battle of Waterloo, and took passive
part therein. She was the gardeners
daughter at the cheateau of Hougou-
mont, and at the time was five years of
age. Her father did not leave tho
chateau until it was shelled by Jerome
Bonaparte.
The corn crop of the United States
this year was !, ,295, 100000 bushels. At
an average price of forty cents per
bushel, this crop would be worth $5lS,
600 900. The estimated yield of our
gold and silver mines for the year is $780,
25O, 900 The corn crop alone, therefore,
was more than six times as valuable as
the entire product Of gold and silver.
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THE most gigantic scheme,of tunneling
ever broached is the project Of a Madrid
pamphleteer to tunnel the straits OF
Gibraltar, which it is asserted is even
more practicable than the proposed
submarine tunnel across the channel
between England and France. The sub
marine portion OF the straits OF Gibraltar
tunnel would be little more than one
third the distance across the Straits OF
Dover, but as the maximum depth OF
the sea is five hundred fathoms, and AZ
it is proposed to leave three hundred feet
of rock between the sea bottom and the
tunnel, the tunnel of approach on each,
side would have to be nearly six miles
=. L. % make the decent urac-