The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-10-04
NEWS In BRIEF

| "A numerOusly-slgneu petition has
been presented 10 the mayor of San An
tonic, Texas, begging permission TO
have bull-fights in that city.
The cotton year at Columbus, Ca,
closed on the first of September. The
total receipts were ~, ,534 bales, an in
crease of 0,66l over last season.
The total length of the strets of San
Francisco is 10 miles, and the city has
paid out for all work, Improvement and
care upon them in the past year, $685.
6S2, 600.
The forests of North Carolina pro-
duce twenty-five species of oak, eight of
pine, nine of spruce, seven of magnolia,
eight of hickory, and five each of elm
and birch.
According to the last census the
number of Jews residing i'm the king
dom of Italy is 30, 1856. This shows an
increase over the census of 1861, of ONLY
1868 souls.
The house in which John Locke
was born is still standing, at Wrlghton,
Somerset, England. 1t is in excellent
preservation, and is inhabited by some
parish official.
An old salt, named Webster, who
claims to be l05 years of age, is an in
mate of Sailors Snug HarbOr at Staten
Island, and has been there for more
than twenty years.
"A rumor is current in New York
that Booths Theatre has been leased
for long term to firm of fancy goods
dealers, and that it will shortly be
retitted for their business.
The thirty-frst annual convention
of the Zeta Psi College Fraternity will
be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on October
Oath and 25th. Governor Connor, OF
Maine, is to deliver the address.
One firm in New York engaged in
the manufacture of matches, consumes
per annum 1000 feet of white pine
lumber, 1000 pounds of sulphur, and
100 tons Of straw board for boxes.
"A Chicago minister wentintO bank
ruptcy recently. His assets were $3.50
| of real estate, but in charity he was rich.
The Chicago University holds his note
for $4,000, and Baptist church one for
$1,000.
The 30th of September will be the
one hundredth anniversary of the con-
vening of the American Congress at
York, and the citizens are moving for
the celebration of the centennial of the
event.
"A fund is being raised for the pur-
pose of greetings monument over the
graves of the North Carolina soldiers
who fell in defence of Petersburgh, Va,
and who are buried in Old Blandford
Cemetery.
"A lineal descendant of the great Sir
Francis Drake is keeping boarding
house at Denison, Texas. The lady has
in her possession diamond knee buckle
worn by Sir Francis, which is valued at
nearly $4,000.
Mrs. Ellen Foster, woman lawyer
OF Clinton, Iowa, has been appointed by
the District Court one of the committee
to examine candidates for admission to
the bar. 1t is safe to say that no woman
ever held such an Office as that before.
DIR. Erasmus Wilson has succeeded
in numbering the hairs of the average
head, and states them at l27, ,S20. Bald
heads can make their deductions at the
rate of 1858 hairs TO the square inch.
This vexed question is thus settled-tO
a hair.
While Winfield COursen, of New
ton, N. j., was lying in hammock the
other day 1t gave way, letting him down
on pair of scissors, one blade of which
penetrated the upper part Of his thigh,
as far as the bone, intlicting painful
wound.
The Board Of Managers of the Lee
Monument at Richmond, Va, have ex-
tended the time for receiving models to
the lst of November, in order to meet
the requirement. of artists who have
their models in progress, but not COM
pleted.
Two young men named Joseph +.
Johnston and Fitzhugh Lee, are learn
ing the machinist trade in the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad machine shops at
Altoona. They are nephews of the Con-
federate officers whose names they re-
spectively bear.
The statue of General Philip
Kearney, ordered by the State Of New
Jersey and meant for the Capitol at
Washington, remains in an Out-of-the-
way niche in the State House at Tren-
ton, where it was placed when finished.
No one seems to care what becomes OF
1t.
"A wooden model Of Cleopatra's
needle has been placed in Parliament
square, Westminster, in order to ascer-
tain the eligibility Of the place as site
for the mOnolith itself. 1t stands In
front of the statue of George Canning,
~ hot tI,nan 90 EnpI IlnrhNr
Lord Palmerston.
In the archives of the Tennessee
Historical Society is General Israel Put
nam's commission, signed by John Han
cock, and also the commission of Daniel
Smith, first secretary of the territory
south of the Ohio river dated 1880, and
signed by George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson.
1t Is estimated that the total worth
of the furs collected by the Hudson Bay
Company alone since its organization
represents money value of 500, 900 600
in gold. Still, strange to say, owing to
the careful preservation of game by the
company, the average yearly catch Is
not sensibly decreasing.
According to the report of George
Z. Rowell q Co., there were established
during the month Of August 7S publica-
tions, consisting Of dailies. semi
weekly, GA weeklies, 6 mOnthles and !
quarterly. Thirty two papers sus-
pended, comprising daily, " weekly
and monthly publication.
On the first of October the steam.
ship Ontario, having on board the mem
bers of the Woodruff Scientific EXpedi-
ton will leave New York for tour of
two years around the world. Professor
Woodruff Is In charge of the expedition,
and will take with him corps Of In
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