The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1881-05-13
MEMS.

LIE Allduld AOnstllullO4 says ina
Gen Gordon owns go, 900 acres of thu
finest coal lands in the world.
The supreme court of New .Hamp
shire has decided that the constitu
ton of that State does not exempt
church property from taxation.
Over 4, 500, 900 feet of yellow pine
lumber were shipped from Jackson
vile, Florida, during March last.
A telegram says that the inhabi-
tants of Chinatown, San francisco,
are dying OF frightfiIlly but no one
seems to know what is killing them.
Rev. Robert Matloek, in lizard
County, Ark, was taken out and
lynched for the murder of Thomas
Miller. So. ttE
The political canvass in Virginia has
already begun.
Another case of trichinosis Is report
ed from New York.
Smallpox is epidemic in both the
Sandwich Islands and China. ''.t'si
The Jennette relief expedition will
leaye San Francisco June ].
The people of Jefferson county, Ar
kansas, are greatly exc cited ever the
discovery of galena as rich as that of
mines ave not far from Eureka
Springs and have already attracted
the atte1f l3n OF capitalists.
Eureka Springs has grown Ike The
gorlrd ii s,iiis.lif.. - tvs
years j hd eeanie "a town 5000
inhabitants 4and s place u at ime
port4Dce. So great Is re- evel to
md from that a railpead TO Connect
it with Thea hEssrr,,lfl f5icific at Iaqefs
Is noz beflf s1l,sz-tz witlfeVery IllAs-
prospect OF 4eeely consfruction. =
In his-ffigbt with the President,
Conkling counts upon the votes OF the
following Democratic Senators: Far
lev. Hi Of Georgia, Brown, COckrell,
McPherso5, Harris of Tennessee, Ram
som, and Davis of Illinois. Conkling|
himself claims more than this He Is
reported as saying that there were
fifteen Democratic senators who viii
support him. 4ai
tits now asserted very positively
that Stanley Matthews will be con-
4rmed justice of the supreme court
BY majority of the Democratic sena-
tors. Jackson, of this State, will vote
for him, but it is not known what |
Senator Harris viii do. Garland, of |
ARKANSAS, is opposed to him, and |
walker is doubtful, Morgan, of Ala
barna, is also among the doubtful ones,
but Push is for him, as are Lamar and |
Georse, of Mississippi. g1
The statue of Gen, Stonewall jack
Nm, erected in the Metairie Cemetery, |
New Orleans, was unveiled on the
afternoon of Ma k06 The committee
Of arrangements declare that the
statue exceeds them anticipatious as to
life like appearance,
etc. The members of the armies of
Northern virginia and Tennessee, the
Lee MonumeW Association, and the
Veterans proceeded to the cemetery
ln q body, where appropriate aud inn
Dressive ceremonies took place.
New York World: DIR. Swift, of
Warner University, Rochester, who!
has discovered the new comet which
rises now about O'clock A. NJ and is
moving southeasterly, is said to be
Ieeking name for It.. In view OF the
IA of its discovery aid the obllquity
md extent of its tail, Why not call If
the Star-Route comet?
The suit brought by B. t. Avery &
ons against Thomas Meikle d Co.,
" infringement on plOws, involving 1
bout $150,000, in which the costs in !
De case are enormous, which has
cen on hand some years, has been
scided, at Louisville, against the
Iaintiffs and dismissed at their cost.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, il is
by the Whitehall Review,
engaged to marry tue daughter of
Ie Prince of Furstenberg.
Knoxville talks of introducing the
erdics. III
Sara Bernhardt, the French actress, h
nlfrsts5 seslltsffIfa9 DIVERSION, 600 forflIe o
ven months she was in this cOun-
Both Houses Of the Indiana LegisIa- =,
ture have passed a bill allowing ,go- =,
en- ID vote at all elections. And In b
ana will soon be under petticoat
r
The Yorktown bids fair, as it should
, to be the grandest OF all our CEN -
nnial celebrations. 1t has been
zde national affair by the action In,
Congress, and the people in all
IT'S of the country have entered INTO hi
with spirit and energy which prove so
zt the fires of patriotism have only
en banked down and not extin- RI
shed All the States will be rem 20
ented, and the old thirteen will Be XII
'ecially conspicuous for their militia ",
representation. kca
Brady, of the Postoffice Department. nit
,harged with sending an empty
ii bagV fromSt, Louis to st. Paul wa
paying Davidson's steam boat the
900 a year to carry it, while the una 4
II matter was carried regularly Ola da,
car. MAJ
ackson, Miss, May 1O.-A Demo- stal
ic State Convention is called for 4
Ibany, n. y, May 10.-The Gov "--
y has issued proclamation forbid
! lotteries.
Paul. Mimi, May 1O.-The Su- Mo
az Council OF the knights of Hon. hor
the United States began a meet II b
+ Minneapuss to-day. The re- He
OF the supreme Dictator shows sale