The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-02-24

Charley AlltchGll nave arranged lot
prize tignt NJ SO 600 side, the win
ner 20 get all ,he money.
Jack Pr-utice, a saloon keeper in
San Francisco, seeing a horse run.
ming turinu-ly down crowded
street, seized lasso and ran into the
street ami ~ the hOrse passed threw
it over his head and stopped him. 1t
skinned his hsnds very badly, but
he held lh- horse,
Gov. McKmly, Of Ohio, has lost
every dollar he has in the world. He
had ENDORSED ter a friend TO the
amouut OF $50 600 and he failed.
Tue bu-i less IN which he lost the
money, by the irony Of fate, was the
manufacture Of tin p ate.
Last week an experiment was
made in Philadelphia OF a pneumatic
tube for carrying mails. The tube eX-
tended from the main post-otfice to a
branch office a little more than halt a
mile in length. Postmaster General,
Wanamaker, sent through the first
package, wrapped in United States
flag 1t went through i'll about a
minute. Other matter was sent
through, including gold watch in a
shoe, which arrived in good con-
diti0n The tube was pronounced a
success. 1t will probably be gem
efally introduced in and between
large cities that are near together
A Lee county Ga, negro was re-
firing for the night on a Pallet on the
floor of his cabin, when he felt some
thing softer than the pillow beneath
his head. Investigation proved that
il was a large rattlesneak, which had
, made Itself as comfortable as possible
on tue pallet. The snake measured
four feet il length.
Miss Sallie Umbry had desperate
battle with wild cat in West Nir-
gina. She was passing through a
swamp, when the animal made p
spring at her, which was warded off
with blow FROM a stick which she
carried. She was severely bitten
about her arms aud face, but finally
I succeeded ID killing the cat, which
= she carried home as q trophy.
, New York buys more lace than
{ any other city in the world, and there
;, are said to De scores of New York
a ladies' whose collections of lace vary
q in value from $4,000 to $4,000. Tue
"a Vauderbilts possess laces which rival
I the Prus5iau and Austrian crown
# lacea, and are valued at 100000. The
a late Mrs. Aston had a lace dress
n which cost SD ,0CO, and another wAs
l. recently sold to All American lady
q for $25 900,
Ie or the 800 girls who have beer
Ie educated by George w. Childs, he
e saws that tue teachers and nurses anG
A. the graduates Of law and medicine
s. have all been successful. The elO
10 cutionsts have made the mos
o. money, and the musicians earl
ID salaries ranging from $500 to So 900.
10 Thomas A. Edison likes to have
e women machiuists to do oil the fine
work of his electrical inventions
There are 200 women in his empty
and he claims that they are far NOR
reliable than men would be.
- Last Sunday the Birmingham
lie Flour Mills were totally destroyed b.
:. fire. superintendent, ]. A. Lewis
le was asleep in the building and wa
at burnt to death. Two car loads c
ey -four and several thousand bushels q
H. wheat We're burned. Total loss, $50
-, 600 and no insurance.
H. The Ohio River has risen abOv
49, the danger line and Cincinnati an
ns Newport are both largely unde
al water.
in 1t is said that Rev. DR.. Briggs, {
,re New York, and Rev. DR.. smith,
N Cincinnati, Professors in I'll
49,, Theological Seminaries in thOs
AIS cities, both of whom have been trie
ell for heresy, will start a church
ge. their own.
me President Cleveland has rented II
ra old Admiral Porter Mansion
-, Washington and he and his fami
81 81 will live there instead OF in II
~ White House.
/. Hon. Ethel Barksdale died in Mi
sissippi last week and his funer
you was preached by Bishop Gsltowa
get whose death Col. Barksdale pu
lished in his paper fifteen years ag
A modified form of the Australia
i'm ballot law has been passed in Al
bama and it is said, will disfra
tea chise 10000 voters, mostly negroes.
A heavy snow fell all over t
-, North ana East last Saturday, reac
Ihe ing a depth Of two feet in sol
=. places.
ood Last Saturday night boy in Lou
'0N Vile named Joseph TOrsch dream
that he would be killed by anoth
boy named Gustave Pilot.
mother tried to persuade him that
was only dream and had no q
nificance, but he could not get on
his forebOdings. On Sunday he L
the preacher about it, aud he
failed to reassure him. When
ris. went home, to his surprise and h
ror, he found Pilot showing a pis
to some other boys. While wavi
it around the pistol fired and 81
Torsch through the head.