The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

600.
The value of recovered goods stolen
during the riots in Pittsburg, is over
s5O,0O0.
Dom Pedro wore out five private
secretaries, and left them behind when
he sailed for home. =.
The faculty Of Dartmouth College
have voted to invite Evangelist Moody
address the students.
"A firm of street contractors In Bur-
lington, Ia, bear the forbidding name
of Swindler & Company.
Women are being nominated for
county school superintendent all over
the State of Illinois this fall.
Benjamin Webster, the London
theatre manager, has at seventy-seven
married woman of twenty-seven.
No less than 100 mercantile houses
In Boston are connected with every ex-
press Office In that city by telephone.
There is a limburger cheese factory
in Hendricks County, Indiana, and the
country for miles around is deserted.
Kentucky squirrels are swimming
the Ohio river in great drOves, and find
ing law, order, and safety in Indiana.
Over and above the cost of powder,
Buffalo Bill has made $4,000 by his
theatrical performances during the last
six months.
The grave of General Israel Putnam
at Brooklyn, Conn, is said to be marked
only by few stones and fallen and
defaced slab.
"A wild man is reported to be In the
woods in the vicinity of HoightOn lake,
Michigan, with terrible long nails and
as fleet as deer.
The walnut ceases to grow at an
elevation of 5000 feet, the yellow pine
at $500 feet, the ash at 1890 feet, and
the fir at 6,700 feet.
The Black Hills papers say that IL
1000 women would emigrate there they
would at once find remunerative work
and husbands besides.
They have brick at Raleigh, \.
c., l0S years old, upon which is dis
tinctly seen the track of dog-made,
of course, when the brick was soft.
The salary of Marshal MacMahon
as President of the French republic Is
100000 francs. He receives, In addi-
tion, his pay and perquisites as Marshal
of France.
Steel, the famous Scotch sculptor,
is now engaged on statue of Robert
Burns. The cost will be $40, 900, and it
will be betrayed mostly by Scottish citi-
zens OF New York.
"A Minneapolis, Mimi, miller as.
serts that flour manufactured from the
new crop of wheat will make 40 pounds
more bread to the barrel than the -four
from last years wheat.
Three trunks, containing in the ag-
gregate $40, 900 worth of securities, de-
posted in the safe of the Cambridge
port. Mass, National Bank have
mysteriously disappeared.
The Philadelphia Exhibition mana
gers are enforcing the sixty day rule of
notice to withdraw goods against exhi-
bitors whose religious scruples will not
allow them to participate in Sunday
show.
For the half year just closed, twen-
ty-nine mines in Arizona, Nevada, and
California yielded $22, ass. 200. OF this
amount the California and the Con-
solidated Virginia mines yielded $l4.-
TS0,700.
"A convention of colored people
will be held at Raleigh, N. c., on Octo-
Der Is, to consider the present condition
of the colored race, and to devise means
for its amelioratiOn, morally and ply
sioally.
Lewis II. Shelton Of Sycamore
Spring, Texas, declares that twenty
miles south of Austin, is cave contain
ing a petrified man, sitting on stone
with gun, hard as rock, lying Oh
his knees.
The Board of Directors of Girard
College, Philadelphia, have nearly COM
pleted buildings for the accommodation
of 500 more orphans, which will make
900 in all. This will clear the list of
and make room for more.
William G. Bryant will be 81 on the
Sd of November. His paper, the New
York EUening Post, is in its 10th year,
and has had but two chief editors. The
first was William Coleman, who occu.
pied the post for 26 years, and the second
Mr.. Bryant.
Finland has only thirty -eghtnews-
papers, and only one is a daily, printed.
half in Finnish and half in Swedish.
The most important printing establish
ment in the country employs only sixty
men and boys, and belongs to the Fin
nish Literary Society.
The steamship Diego, burned at
sea, was a Spanish vessel, of 2,799 tons,
and valued at 100000; built of iron.
The cargo consisted of 379 bales of cot
ton, 1,03S barrels of flour, 1873, 76S
pounds of lard, 262 tierces of beef, 2l9
barrels of pork, "a, ,078 bushels of wheat,
7l0,270 pounds of iron, 30S hogsheads of
tobacco, 1873 bales of leather and $500
bars.
Orders have been given for the con-
tructiOn of several rev steamships for
The Cunard line. Messrs. Thompson,
Of Glasgow have been entrusted with
three. The first of the series will be
Of 5000 tons for the Atlantic
service. This vessel is to be called the
Gallia. She will be the largest and most
powerful steamship yet built for the
Cunard Line.
-Telegraphing in France is govern.
ment monopoly, land all dispatches
have to be vised by the government.
kilograms do not 90 directly, but are
sent by pneumatic tube to the Rue
Saint-Germain. There an
agent of the Government takes them
out, reads them, has an interDreter In
read them If in a foreign language, sup
presses them If he does not like them
puts his stamp upon the harmless ones
and they are sent off.
AT recent sale of short-hor.
COWS In England, beast named '''"
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