The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-01
NEWS IN BRIEP

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New England has in her savings banks
the enormous amount Of $3.50, 600, 900.
Nineteen times within the last one
hundred years the Russian forces have
crossed the Danube with hostile intent.
The Bank of England has only two
depostOrs with larger credits than
Brigham Young.
Captain Allen, of Exeter, N. H., 80
years of age. was recently married ~
Mrs. Sherburn, aged rs.
Edwin Forests will is about to be-
contested by man claiming to be a ne
phew of the dead tragedian.
"A North Carolina attorney took his
fee in grapes it was all his client had.
or course the lawyer took it.
Massachusetts, has the largest State
debt-$33, 800, ,464 of all the States.
Virginia and North Carolina follow
close after.
John B. HOllenback has been JUS
tice of the Peace at Burlington, VT, for
thirty-one years, and has tried over
5000 cases.
Mr.. Irish, Democratic candidate for
Governor of Iowa, is the first native OF
that State ever nominated for that par
ticular office.
The Meriden Comm Brittania
Company have just received several
large orders from the South, the first
since the war.
President LincOln's monument, at
Springfield, ILL.,, is nearly completed.
The groups of statuary are being lifted
to their places.
Milton Hoag, Norwich, N. Y.
farmer, recently picked ripe apples and
punches of blossoms from the same tree
in his orchard.
1t is again asserted that Mr.. James
Goreon Bennett intends to start daily
newspaper in London. similar in style
to the New York Herald. .-...l
Capt. Joshua Wheeler, a Kentucky
soldier of the war of 1912, boasts that
he never took dose of medicine In his
life. But he may forget. .''
On a hemleck tree upon the very
summit of the Sierra Nevada mountains
near Silver Lake, can be seen the name d
of Kit Carson, carved there by himself
in 1874.
During last year there were l0,8l6
boys, and 1871 girls born in Mime
sofa. There were $50 pairs of twins, b
eight sets of triplets, and one of quad
ruplets. ..i"
Mr.. Robert C. Winthrop lately
made the ascent of Mount Washington {
for the second time. The first was
made fifty-one years ago, and then he
walked up.
The largest jet jewelry establish
ment in the country is located at Paw
tucket. Thirty persons are employed
at present, and most of the glass used is
imported from France.
Arrangements have been made by !.
New York capitalists with steamship
company for shipping live cattle from
Hoboken, N. j., for Europe and about .
300 were sent few days ago. .t
Professor GuyOt of Princetvn Col.
lege, is measuring Equinox Mountain
in New Hampshire, which, according
TO the measurement of the United States
Coast Survey, is 1887 feet high. aa
john Hutton, an employe in the
print works Of a Manchester, eng
land( firm, recently attained the age of
100 years. He has been In the service
of that firm for the last 70 years. ri
The cost of lighting the streets andf
public buildings of Farls last year was
9lSG, ,230 ($93l ,150), There were 37,5l4r
lamps in the street, and 2l,27l gas
burners used in the public buildings.
-Solon Robinson, the famous old
agricultural editor of the New York
Tribune In Horace Greeley's time, now
of Jacksonville, Fla, has been danger
ously i'll at Browington, VT, where he
has been visiting, but is now slowly re-
covering.
"A class of twenty-three young Bos-
ton women has successfully prosecuted
diamond cutting, which has heretofore
been carried on almost exclusively by
the Jews of Amsterdam. The girls cut
and polish the diamonds in an excellent
manner. Hf..
Mr.. Richard Hanks, coal miner,i
living near Galesburg, ILL.,, is reported
10 have dug out of the earth, fifty feet
below the surface, the entire carcass Of
petrified mastodon, sixteen feet long
and nine feet high in almost perfect,
shape. .
The Belgian Government has or
dered the construction of new geo.
graphical map of Belgium. 1t will
require seventeen years, and an
expenditure of $2s2, 100. The first in
stalment of the may will be exhibited
next year at the Paris Exhibition. .r
John B. Hill of Mason, N. H., is the
oldest living member OF the Hills
borough County bar. Mr.. Hill was
born in Mason in 1896, and is therefore
eighty-two years of age. He graduated
from Harvard College in the same
class as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Judge
Loring, Judge Kent, and several other
distinguished men.
The sugar lands OF Texas comprise
four or five counties only, but there is
every evidence that they are about to be
utilized. They cover a region of un.
surpassed fertility, where improved
places before the war were held at enor-
nous valuation. These counties are
Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton, and
several portions of one or rtwo adjoining
counties.
AN Englishman who has made a
bet of ESQ, 600 that he will in six years
walk through France, Germany North
Russia and Siberia to China, hao.started
from CALAIS on his journeying. His bet
obliges him to return through India,
Persia and Southern Russia, and from
there over Greece and Italy to France.
He must be in Liverpool by the first of
July, 1888. axe
Bishop Dubois, of Galveston, was
twice captured by the Texas Indians.
Once the savages tied him to a tree and
were preparing to burn him to death,
when he pleaded with them, speaking