The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.

addition to her other troubles.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen
Terry have returned to England.
South Carolina sends silver delegates
TO Chicago, headed by Ben Tillman.
Spain's boy king had a birthday on
May 18th. He was just 10 years old
The w. c. r. U. National Convention
will be held in November at st. Louis.
The government proposes to make
the sale of ouinine government mo-
nopOly.
Brazil is threatened with a serious
movement to restore Monarchy The
Jesuit is at work.
The jury found Scott Jackson guilty
of the murder of Pearl Bryan, and fixed
his penalty at death.
The men who were entombed in the
Midlothian mines, near Richmond, Va,
were rescued unhurt.
The lOSth General Assembly of the
Northern Presbyterians began its ses-
sion May 2Oth, at Saratoga.
1t is estimated that at least half the
growing wheat in Michigan will be de-
stroyed by the Hessian fly.
Smallpox and yellow fever are rag
ing at Havana, Cuba. Gen. Vicuua was
the first yellow fever victim.
James A. Ashford, Colonel in the
Confederate Army, died in house of
relief at New York, last week.
At Buffalo, H., at noon, Friday, two
men went into the bank, gagged the
cashier, secured $1,000, and escaped
Gen. GrOsvenor's latest bulletin gives
Mckinley about $50 votes; nearly 100
more than is required to nominate him.
Forest fires are raging in Tucker
county, West Va. The lumbermen
estimate the loss to be already over
100000.
1t is said that the coronation festivi-
ties have caused the Nihilists to renew
their plots against the life of the Czar
of Russia.
Fire swept away whole block of
commercial buildings, opposite the
Smithsonian Institute, at Washington,
last week.
This has been a month of cyclones.
Destruction has followed in their wake
in Kentucky and Texas during the
pastweek.
The memory Of the late Bishop Hay.
good is to be honored by the endow-
ment of a chair of history in Emory
College, Ga.
The Winter Wheat Millers' League
in session at Cleveland, Ohio, last week,
adopted resolution demanding
reciprocity.
Supposed white attendants alta recent
negro lynching are being arrested in
North Carolina, and there is much eX
citement as result.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
reversed the finding of the lower court
by which Seventh-Day Adventists were
fined for working on Sunday.
The House has passed, by the over
whelming vote of 1875 to %, the Bart
holdt--McCau immigration bill as
modified by the Corliss amendment.
c. H. Darr, president of the CONNER
cial National Bank at Denver, Col.
which failed in 1893, is now in Jail
charged with Interpretations ot
funds.
Egypt has 100000 acres in cotton
England imports 5OOOOO,OO0 eggs an
nually. Florida's watermelon crop
this year, is estimated at 72,0OOOOC
pounds.
The General Assembly of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church conven &c
at Birmingham, Ala, last week. They
favored the system of giving "i
tenth" to the Lord.
John b. Gallaher, of Louisville
representing the University of tn,
South, Sewanee, Tenn, won the media
in the interstate oratorical contest a
Danville, KY, last week.
There was deadlock in the Northern
Me. Church General Conference a
Cleveland, o., over the election of TIVE
new Bishops. Revs. McCabe and Gran
ston, both of Ohio, finally were elected
The Consul General of the United
States at st. Petersburg says in a re
port to the State Department, that h.
has seen in the Golfers of the Russian
Government $50, ,769,ll in United State
gold coin.
The First Baptist Church, of Owens
boro, Ky, with LlOO members, ha
passed resolutions requiring that n
member shall sell intoxicating liquor
as a beverage, or rent his property fo
, liquor purposes.
New England Methodism is stirred t
its very core because of the election o
"millionaire brewer" as trustee o
Maine Wesleyan Seminary. Tn
church is loud in its denunciation O
such a time-serving and money-lovin
, act.
DIR. Whitsitt, President of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary