The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Consul-Gen. Lee is in great favor in
Havana.
Free silver Democrats made clean
sweep in Idaho.
The Louisiana platform declared for
the 16 to ratio.
New Mexico Democrats are for free
silver and Bland.
The state Of Alabama has 26 cotton
mills, employing 10000 hands.
Mexico will have great national
exposition in September, 1898.
After many years of absence, salmon
are found IN the Delaware river.
Bismark is failing rapidly, though
his mental faculties are unimpaired.
Ohio is all right. Eighteen of the
twenty-one districts are for free silver
North Carolina built more cotton
mills last year than were built in all
New England.
Gov. Bob Taylor will make few
speeches for the Democratic ticket in
Alabama this summer.
Eleven hundred and sixty-nine
Japanese united with Methodist
Churches in California, last year.
Weyler has now forbade the exporta-
ton of bananas from Cuba. If he isn't
careful he will have Italy after him.
An English passenger steamer, from
Cape Town to London, struck a rock,
June II, and sunk with all on board
The new woman boom is moving
along at a rapid pace. John D. Rookie
feller has just given Vassar College
100000.
Rev. S. B. Gibson, while preaching
the funeral Of a friend near New York,
was tricken with paralysis, and died in
few minutes.
The body of the late Hon. Jas. G..
Blaine will be removed from Oak Hill
Cemetery Washington, and taken to
Augusta, Maine.
The children's subscription for a
monument to the late Eugene Field,
the Western author, amounted few
days ago to $SS4.56.
A new loom has been built which will
displace hundreds of employees.
Twenty-Five looms can be operated by
one man and two girls.
Last Saturday fire destroyed Louis
vile whiskey warehouse containing
/ 1900 barrels of whiskey. Better be de-
stroyed than to destroy.
The province of Tokina China is
troubled with dire famine. A failure
Of the harvest has brought misery and
starvation to the natives.
Stockholm has the largest death roll
from alcoholism of any city in the
world. Ninety in 1000, die from the
excessive use Of ihtoxicants.
Senator Cannon wept while remind
ing the Republican Committee on
Resolutions Of the party's broken
pledges to the West; but it had no
effect.
Twenty-eight years ago the first
labor-saving machine was introduced
in japan. Now Japanese exports are
threatening the manufacturers of the
oldest nation.
The Legislature of Massachusetts, has
appropriated 100000 for the building of
new roads, with the provision that only
citizens Of the state should be given
employment on them.
In order to compel the electric com
panies to place their wires under
ground, the city of Massillon, Ohio, has
levied tax of ten cents upon every
telegraph and telephone pole in the
city.
Biltmore, the new estate of George
Vanderbilt, is wheelman's Paradise.
There are $1,000 acres in the estate, and
the system of roadways is so perfect
that Mr.. Vanderbilt, who is wheel
man, can go 100 miles over macade-
mized road without going off his estate.
w. G. Whitney did not sail for Europe
as he intended. He has staid to preach
the gospel of gold to the benighted
Democratic masses that will soon gath
er at Chicago. Mr.. German will aslo be
there in time to "prevent foolish action
on the currency question"
A stampede was barely averted in the
Arkansas Democratic convention, at
Little Rock, June II, when telegram
was received containing the news that
Teller and his colleagues had walked
out of the st. Louis convention and de-
clared their intention of supporting
Bland for president. A large banner
portrait of the Missourian was un-
furled, and the convention went wild
with enthusiasm for Bland.
Mr. Watkins Airs His TniIrS