The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-08-04
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wAye, who, ia MAY, 1863, took Presi-
dent Lincoln from a disabled steam
er under fire from Confederate bat
terry and carried him in safety to the
Maryland shore, IL said to he living
penniless and destitute in Boston,
willing to work, but unable to get
employment. / am getting along
in years" he Gays, "snd younger men
have the call"
DR.. r. J. Calling. whose revolving
machine gun has attained a world
wide reputation, has applied feeder
for the gun, which renders it still
more convenient and useful tLan
ever. 1t seems to be a pelfect ma
chine gun BOW. The small bullets
used IN this gun, with sm' kele-
powder, have been fired through
forty one inch pine boards. The
can be fired two miles and ther have
force enough to pas5 through tin
body OF man.
The State Of Virginia once owned
slave, the only one probably thar
any Commonwealth ever did own
de was known as "Ben the Bell
ringer" Of the University of Virginia.
The University only had $500 lef
over when it WAS endowed, and it
was proposed 20 buy a negro wit,
this amount and keep him as a bell
ringer. They bought Ben, and il
this time he became great chsraci er
at the University. He knew every
body and was very Useful to every.
body. Ben used to get very drunk
on the / beral and constant fees he
received from students. He died in
the Albemarle poOrhOuse at an ad
vaDGed age.-RlchmOnd State.
An example of the mutation o.
fortune occurred several days ag'
when the supervisors of SOnOma, Cal,
made a special order placing Jonquiu
Carrillo on the poor lit ut $40 q
month. He was once one OF thu
richest men in California.
At Bath, Me, A. Sewell & Co. have
in process Of construction the frs
steel merchant ship ever built in the
state. She IS 800 feet long and will
be of 2,750 net register tons. Wheu
this ship is launched, next fall, the
keel for her sister ship will be laid.
Mrs. Harriet Strong Of Whittier
Cal, last year imported pampat
grass from South America to her
ranch and raised 100000 plumes
These make handsome decorations
One million OF these were sent 70 TIA,
Worlds Fair. She has exported $50,
COO to Europe.
There is a man in Cincinnati EN-
plOyed by minister to wander
about town and report to him queel
incidents that he may find. Tnes;
are then weaVed into the preacher
sermon. He is able to speak Of sur
prisIng phases nf lite, aud his cOu
gregation wonder how he gets time
to 40 80 much.
The mosquitoes have made rsiC
on Maryland this summer m unusu
ally large swarms, especially in tn,
vicinity Of Drums Point. F. w. Lix
on, who was bothered by them, wa
told that il he would burn tObacct
stems in the house they would leave
and ne tried it. The remedy was et
fectual in that it not only drove tin
mosquitoes out but the entire family
for he burned down the house.
The members OF the Alliance {
Lafayette county, Miss, several day
ago passed this resolution: 1--WE wi
make our sub-treasury at home, fill
1t with corn, hay, oats. fodder, porf
potatoes, peas, cabbage, turnips, OF
ions, beets, rice, psrsnips, molasse'
pinders, and then, il we have an
time left, we will put in one or tw
bales of cotton, Then we will hsv
sub-treasury that will be OF SON
benefit to us"
Hibbert's Gore is the one place
Maine where taxes are unknown
Only six families reside there-fort
l,ersous in all. The Gore comprist
800 acres, bounded by Waldo, KnO,
and Lincoln counties, and by SON
mistake was omitted by the enginee
when these counties were laid Oh
Having no connection with al
county, and never having leen Q
ganiged As a tOwa or plantation, Il
residents Of the Gore neither pa
taxes nor vote. They build their ow
roads, however, aud send their chi
dren 10 the schools nearest by. By
special provision Of the statutes Il
paupers of the Gore are cared for
the oldest adjoining town, Pslerm
but there hsve been only three ps
pers in the last forty years.