The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
NEWS IN BRIEF


ber about2 900.
Preparations for the japanese ex-
hibit at the Paris Exposition of 1873, are
In rapid progress.
The Confederate army Of Northern
Virginia is to hold reunion at Rich
mond, November lst.
Out Of the thirty-three millions of
people In Great Britain fifteen millions
live upon imported food.
The famous Dumitt orange grove,
on the Indian river, Florida, has been
sold TO New Yorker for $22, 900.
Eighteen thousand bushels of Gran.
berries were picked this year in the
cultivated marshes in Burnett county,
Wisconsin.
The telephone is about to be intro
duced into the coal mines at Pottsville,
as a means Of communication with the
outer world.
1T is proposed to build an elevated
railway along the docks at Liverpool,
about three miles in length, at a cost
of about 100000.
Lucy Stone has found Harvard
graduates digging in the mine In Colo
RADIO. Their education as Oresmen Is
not thrown away.
One of the novelties of the Kansas
City exposition was three. legged calf.
IL managed to trOt with as much ease as
the fat four-legged bullOcks.
In the years lS76-'77 the State of
North Carolina produced l25, 900 bush
els of peanuts; Virginia $50, 600 bushels
and Tennessee, 100000 bushels.
There are three sisters living In the
same house In Barbour county, Ala,
whose ages are respectively 92, SO and
65. The two eldest have never mar
ried.
The long strike in the iron ship
building trade on the Clyde is estimated
to have cost the workmen between
$3.50, 900 and $4O0, 900 in wages lost since
April.
Worcester, Mass, has just com
pleted a new hospital for the insane.
The building will accommodate 800 pa
tlents, and was erected at a cost of
81 100000.
Carrier pigeons are used In France
to smuggle tobacco across the borders,
and the custom officers answer with
shrug when the innocence of the dove
is spoken of.
The mileage paid to the representa-
tives of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
of Pennsylvania, which held its annual
session at Erie in May last, amounted to
over $4,000.
The Municipal Council of Paris is
said to have decided to name street of
that city the "Rue Washburne," after
the late Minister to France, Mr.. Elihu
b. Washbure.
-Brumide, the artist, has been en-
gagged for the last twenty years in fres-
Going the Capitol at Washington, and
he estimates that he can put in about
forty years more at it.
-Jabez Towne, of Londonderry, N.
H., who is 92 years old, was seen
threshing out his grain recently. He
does all the chores on his farm, and is
the Oldest man in the town.
Edward Everett, Martin Van Bu-
rem Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Quincy
and Pierrepont Edwards, and all de-
scendants of great men whose names
they bear, are students at Harvard.
The Pittsburg Post says the oil
shipments from the entire regions in
september aggregate 1867, 1853 bbls.
These shipments were the heaviest for
)ne month ever known in the trade.
The solution of the tramp question
n Bridgeport Conn, Is to build cheap
odging- -house, where tramps may get
| breakfast, for which they shall pay
BY breaking stones for two or three
hours.
VIM. Cullen Bryant, Longfellow,
md Bayard Taylor have recently been
Try Academy of Athens, which Is under
,he special patronage of the Queen of
Greece.
Since the Crimean war England
las reduced her National debt from
$500, ,000, 900 to G7l2,0O0,000. Persons
low living may live TO see the debt ex-
inguished altogether. Then again they
nay not.
Maryland was named in honor of
Henrietta, Queen of Charles l., In his
)atent TO Lord Baltimore, June 3, 1882.
Rhode Island was so named, In 1914,
tter the island Of Rhodes in the Medit-
erranean.
Providence, r. l., people are anti
ipating a reduction of gas for heating
purposes to 81 thousand feet, and
everal parties are preparing to attach
to their furnaces, abandoning the use
# wood and coal altogether.
There is man in Newton county,
Ia, who, during the late civil war,
made VOW never to cut his hair or
have until the independence of the
southern Confederacy was established.
lie has kept his vow inviolate.
There are more than thousand
cooperative societies in Great Britain,
aving 262, 1888 members, holding CO.
perative capital amounting to $G,000,-
90, and drawing a net profit on their
hares in one recent year of $780, ,72l.
The total number of lunatics, idiots
nd persons of unsound mind, regis
cred as such, in England and Wales,
n the first of January last, was SO, 1886,
n increase of l,720 upon the number
egistered on the first of January, 1875.
Fort Dodge claims to be the greatest
utter market in the State of Iowa.
rom May / to September /, there was
ought and shipped at that point over
our hundred thousand pounds Of that
rticle, for which over $50, ,O0SpA cash
vas paid.
The daily average consumption of
yater at Saratoga Springs, during the
Month of August was 10000 gallons.
here were 5000, 900 gallons less of wa
er pumped at the public water works ;
uring the month than during the cor
month of 1876.
The Lake Shore and Michigf
outhern Railroad Company have
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