The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-04-26
NEWS In BRIEF.

-Ine new Onlnese coin Is tne III
tieth part of cent in value, and five
pounds are equal to nickel.
The Missouri Senate has passed a
bill offering $4,000 reward for the dis.
covery of a sure cure for hOg-chOlerd.
AN average ofllO, 900 letters is daily
received at the Boston pOstofiiOs. A
year ago the average was $1,000 letters
a day.
Prof. Seelye, the scholar in politics,
has given his salary TO the town Of Am-
herst, the money 10 be expended in
sidewalks.
1t is said that there are more Bap-
list churches and members in Phlladel-
phia than in any other city in the world,
save London.
The Graphic is the only paper In
this country which can illustrate boat
race 5000 miles away on the same day
of its happening.
TIE Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany is having l25 refrigerator cars
constructed for the carrying of meat
from Texas to New York.
Judge Peleg Sprague of Boston Is
| WV olhNob VA - llIlOh tDlhANo eNlhbOl hO"
living. He was member of the Maine
Legislature fifty-six years ago.
The boats of the Royal National
Life Boat Institution, of England, last
year saved 5lj lives, besides assisting
numerous vessels in distress.
1t is stated as a fact that the Palmer
House, Chicago, has over $4,000 worth
of bronzes distributed about the hotel
as ornaments and embellishments.
The last China steamer from San
Francisco took ten thousand barrels of
California -four. China is said to be
rapidly substituting wheat for rice.
"A glass factory at Honesdale is fill
ing an order for Y, 900 hand lamps, for
Japan. The same concern has recently
shipped 10000 fruit jars to California.
The debris of the palace car "Pala-
tine" that went through the Ashtabula
bridge, has been made up into walking
canes by thrifty individual named
Smith
The Permanent Exhibition at
Philadelphia is an assured success.
Every foot of space has been applied for,
and half as much again could have been
disposed of.
The colored people of Raleigh, N.
c., have called convention on the first
Monday of May to devise some plan for
bettering their condition by colonial
tion or otherwise.
"A private polar expedition will
leave New York in the early summer,
ostensibly for trading purposes, but in
reality to search for records of the
Franklin expedition.
The male members of the Swedish
colony in ArostOOk county, Me-, were
all naturalized several days ago. The
colony now numbers about 600 persons,
and is said to be tlourishing.
Capt. Eben Pierce and Relmar
Eggers, both of New Bedford, Mass,
have jointly invented breech-l loading
whaling gun, which will throw lance
75O feet with destructive effect.
of the coast of Virginia, about five
miles from the mainland, is an island
upon which roam numbers of ponies as
wild as the mustang. How or when
they settled there is not known.
The city council of Danville, ILL.,,
prohibited the boys from running vel
Ocipedes upon the sidewalks. The boys
in a spirit of retaliation petitioned the
councils to prohibit the wheeling of
baby wagons.
One of the rarest books printed in
the nineteenth century is the first edi-
ton Of the "BoOk of Mormon" pub
lished at Palmyra, N. Y, in 1880. Lord
Macaulay tried in vain for years to pro-
cure copy of it.
Hannibal Hamlin, since Simon
Cameron's retirement, is the oldest
senator, reckoning from the time he
entered that body, but his service has
not been continuous. Senator Anthony
is the Oldest senator In continuous SER
vice.
The Baroness Mayer de Rothschild
lately died on board her yacht at Nice.
She had been sailing about the Mediter-
ranean all winter in the hope of bene-
fitting her health. Her only child,
Mile. Hannah de Rothschild, inherits
the estate.
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain,
once possessed pOnderous set of mill
tary maps of France and Belgium, and
these have just been presented to the
University of California, by Mr.. Mail
laird, of San Rafael. One of the map
cases is perforated by bullet.
Mrs. Frost Thorne, the widow of
the gentleman who was drowned in the
Mohawk disaster last summer, intends
to return to the stage. She is daughter
of E. l.. Davenport, and will take back
her maiden name Of Lily Vining Daven-
port when she resumes her old profess
sion.
Judge S. G. Hastings, of San Fran
cisco, has offered TO deposit 100000
with the Treasurer of California, on
condition that the State shall promise to
pay per centum year forever to the
University Of California, the amount
thus received to be divided into two
parts, one of $4,000 and the other of
$4,000, the former to be used at first to
purchase books for law library, and
the latter for professors salary.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany has lately arranged to have 40
900 Eucalyptus GlObaluS trees set out
along the 800 miles of the right of way
of the company. This Is only the first
instalment, as 1t will require about
500, 900 of the trees for the 800 miles OF
valley where they are to be cultivated.
The Immediate object of the plan Is to
increase the humidity of the region,
and lessen the liability to droughts.
The Modoc Indians, now number
ing ffty-four males and sixty-three ie-
males, are located on very fertile
tract containing 1000 acres, in the
northeast corner of the Shawnee re-
serve, Indian Territory. They have
engaged energetlcally in labor during
the past year, and as a result, have
large and valuable crop on their farm.