The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-08-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Ore at Cairo. III, on The 81 Inst, destroyed property
valued OF $4,000.
The RocklaDd MEL Ga.efc says that Captain SyIvanus
HASKELL Of that place recently los; his saie key day
or two subsequently he pulled board from his barn by
accident and found behind u se.ooo IN United States
bonds wrappcd IN n newspaper TEo money proved IN
have been taken from his SAFE He watched tile package
aud was surprised and hearhrokcn TO fnd that the thief
was his adopted son aycung mh1 IN whose future prom
ise he had tho highest confidence A confession mnds
by the young sconndre revealed the fact that he had al
different limos robbed tic wealthy and kidd hearted Cap
tain OF $4,000,
The criminal docket OF Palmyra county Waconsu IL
ead 70 read thrs:-Rev. James Creon, preaching the
gospel; John Smith, ael ing whiskoy without license,
Rev. W. n. Newland prcachng Tho gospel without
license; James Brown, aong whIskey on Sunday; Rev.
j. H. Luther, preaching the gospel; Judy Dudley keep
ing bawdy house; Rev. Henry Louthan, preaching ts
gospel r4E
The young ladies' OF Louisville arc gonqso give Con.
Rousseau 10 replace tho that be broke
the head Of Mr.. Grinnoli
Three cases Of sporadic yellow foyer have been
ported In Savannah, Ga.
boy ton years old, named Inkiemap was run over
and killed BY street car, ia Louisville, ky tho ID
inst
Row Matthew Davenport lately preached a. okalbcno,
MISS He IL one hundred years old.
Bricklayers out West strike for IS 80 per day
The valuation Of the town q Tacnon, Mass, is this
year So, 307 6l3 t@
The artesan well at the Chicago stock yards has reached
a depth Of 40 feet and no water yet
Two lads in woodford county, Ky had 2 street guar
rel which they natv settled by shooting 4. each other
Both were wounded and satisfied.
A boa constructor escaped from his box on board
brig in Mobile harbor Aiter having eorged himself on
chicken he was lassocd and rccaged
The new wigwam building in Philadelphia for
the National Convention will be hundred and forty
six BY hundred and sixtyfvo feet II will be con-
structed OF boards and will accommodate ten Thousand
persons. The interior will consist Of vestbule and
amphiheatrc, two galleries and four aIterooms Int
Girard avenue door O. equal sze will load to the
anphheatre and tower gallery, and private entrance
viii into the adrs gallery above Tho ante room:
WI m
the building will be placed the Speakers desk, and on
either side the tables OF the reporters The aphitheaire
will be seventy by hundred and forty feet The gal
leres will he supported by iron pillars sixteen feet apart
These will he hung with evcryreens fcstocned with How
crs during the sessions OF the convention.
Tho receipts Of wheat al Milwaukee, Wis, in 1865,
were over twelve million oushelsand 30 ahead or the
receipts at Chicago
The rebel ram Mcrriraac hal but short lived career,
having been ATTACKED and driven back by the to M0nt
tor but two days after she ist oaine outside OF the
rebel works Norfolk and being finally blown up by
her commander few days afterwards, upon tho rebel
evacuation Of Yorktown Tho Southern people, how
ever think that mo herrmac great achievement,
and II Is proposed IN Norfolk 10 construct model
OF her TO send % Che French Exposition year.
specimen Of the work OF Southern gcnig.
A frcshet, in Owen county, KY, last week, drowned
nineteen persons
South will on csosne ther ls5crs for this year 70
move with their families 70 Tie Homestead lands provid-
cd for them by gevcrnmertin the new bill.
Ono hundred and twelve thousand dollars realized
at Savannah, Ga, few days ago lot Of shot end
sael broken cannon field ind siege pieces collected
from Georgia battle 1elds
There Is u be regatta at Springfield, Macs sometime
in September
Minnie 81 Clair fair but fr.l committed suicide by
taxing audanum In Hartford Conn, on the ati inst.
There wore two hundred aud twelve pupils In the
Hartford Deaf and Dumb Asylum ,ast year.
Farmers In Now Jersey experimenting in raising
tobacco.
Lightning last week struck In West Duxbury,
Mass rendering aeaaeiess two aies ono Of hem failed
10 Immediately recover, though every osort made
restore consciouaness; but while rho body being
prepared for burial the chest beaved with gasp and
efforts removed which resulted IN subsequent
covery.
A movement IL on foot "a build hotel In PhlA-
deiphia on the plan OF tie building in Boston
Tho Massachusetts, horticultural Society going to
erect two fruit preserving houscz.
The value Of boots and shoes manufactured In the
United States 10 1896, at Wholesale, amounted -
SOS 500, 0O0 and Ia 1918 70 not many Thousands 10
about this time that Rufus Chaplin, OF Milford Mas.
conceived the Idea that boots and shoes could DO made
with pegs and b0 as durable as n they sewsd-
Acting the Idea, Mr. Chaplin II once commenced the
the Manufactures Of pegged boots splitting the pegs bv
hand from strrs OF wood sawed by his direction
peggsd boots into this any other country He
tinusd 70 manufacture poeged work SUCCESSFULLY unt
hs death In 1882 and this branch OF manufacture has
grown rapidly thae IL stands third the st Of
manufactured ARTICLES 10 the Unitod States Mr. Chaplin
had i've sons who from boyhood up tho present Time
have continued u the business
MIRA Young stepped on . melon rind on tho side
walk In Norfolk Va fell and received injuries resulting
speedily In death.