The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-05-03
NEWS IN BRIEF

the British railways.
-Ex Gov. Hanford, the California
millionaire, has given Blerstadt an order
for $40, 900 picture.
The silver production Of Colorado
last year was $1,000, 900, and is expected
to be five times that amount this year.
Marriages solemnized i'm Pennsyl-
vania on the Sabbath are not legal SO
says law enacted in that State I'm l777.
The wife of Dom Pedro is the first
empress who has trod the streets of
Jerusalem since the days of Queen
Helena.
The Secretary of War has ordered
home the troops now stationed at
Alaska. The cost of the post has been
$4,000 per year.
The circulation of ScriJner's .Monthy
is 10000 copies, atlantic Monthly, II, 900,
GALAXY, $4,000, Hdrper'S Magazine, l2O,-
OOO, Weekly, 10000, Bdzar, $4,000.
Observe the value of single vote.
EX-Lieutenant Governor PachecO, of
California, gets to Congress by one
majority out of nearly forty thousand.
The surveying instruments for
merly used by old John Brown are now
owned by a man in Wyoming, Iowa,
who bought them from him in 1857 for
$40 in gold.
The French Geographical Society
has awarded the great gold medal of the
society, to Commander V. L. Cameron.
of Her Britannia Majesty's Navy, for his
explorations in Africa.
The Augustine convent at Witten.
berg, In which Luther lived when
monk, and which was afterward given
to him and his wife, IS now to be used
as Lutheran Museum.
"A Holly Tree Inn has been started at
Chester, Pa, and one is soon to be
opened at Titusville, Pa. The Holly
Tree Inn is intended to popularize hot
coffee instead of hot whisky.
Charles Fairbanks OF London, Eng
land, member of the Vermont family
of that name, has given $l5, 900 to finish
new hall for women students at Drury
College, at Springfield, No.
Col. Moore, Cincinnati's new
mayor, is popular with the news-boys.
lie has done good deal for them, and
they celebrated his election by torch
light procession and serenade.
The son of Charles Dickens will
not allow monument to be placed over
his fathers grave, as proposed, because
the noyelist's will requested that
nothing of the kind should ever be per-
mitted.
The Post Office Department reports
That during the past three months
there have been 1872 detections and ar
rests for mail robberies, embracing
officials in nearly all grades in the Dos
tai service.
"A bill to allow husband and wife
to testify against each other has bean
killed in the Indiana Legislature. VI
was feared that if legal permission was
given nobody else would have chance
to say anything.
George Eliot and her husband Mr..
LeWes, are going to give up their Lon
don house and reside altogether in Sur
rey, in which county they have pur-
chased house which formerly belonged
to Sir Henry Cole.
The King of Holland has offered to
M. Krantz, Commissary- General of the
Paris Exhibition of 1873, &c, 900 tulip
roots, which will be taken care of at the
expense of the King. The offer has been
gratefully accepted.
The people of Virginia, it is esti-
mated, drink annually 1926, 900 gallons
of ardent spirits. OF this 10000 gal
Ions are produced in the State, leaving
2,O25,OOO gallons of the consumption to
be imported from other States.
1t is shown that the British Post
office Department carries thirty-two
letters per annum for every man, wo
man and child in the United Kingdom,
or, In detail, 30 each in England and
Wales, IL in Scotland, and 13 In Ire
land.
Since the accession of Queen VictO-
ria to the British throne, forty wears
ago, 1t is calculated that eighteen mem
bers of the royal family, including the
Queens uncles and cousins, have cost
the nation 92O,2l50OO or about $lOl,-
0s5, 900.
The Municipal Council of Paris Is
considering the project of great sys-
TEN of metropolitan railways to connect
all the quarters of the town as in Lon
don. 1t is very probable that work
will be begun on this shortly after the
close of the great exhibition of 1878.
Fred Archer, the leading jockey on
the English turf, is only 1S, but
during the racing season of 1875 be rode
no less than 657 times, and won 2l7
races--a feat never before accomplished
by any horseman on the turf. He prob
ably received in fees, retainers and
presents, $43, 700.
AN immense meteor, weighing un-
told tons, alighted sometime since In
Nevada Valley; and, as they assay
everything out there, this was taken In
hand by a chemist, who demonstrated
that this windlall from the heavens was
a real bonanza, yielding 1897 in silver
and $42 in gold per ton.
In 1870 for every gl00 received by
the railway companies of Great Britain
G48 was expended. Year after year the
proportion of working costs has In
creased until in 1874 1t cost E55 to earn
Gl00. In 1875 matters were so far lm-
proved that 1t cost only $54 and last year
only trihe over eco.
One of the foremost champions Of
women's rights In England is about to
Condescend to matrlmOny. Miss Lillian
Ashworth, John Bright's niece, who
has been held up as an example of rigid
celibacy, $ soon to marry Prof. Hallett,
of Bristol. The lady Is said to be rich,
handsome, and remarkably intelligent.
"A bill has been passed by the Legls-
lature of Tennessee to reduce the salary
of the Governor from 81 900 to $1,000;
Supreme Court Judges from 81 900 to
SO 900; Judges of inferior courts and all
special Judges from $2,5OO to $4,000.