The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF

-Daguerre, who gave a name to the
daguerrotype, is TO have monument Ia
Paris.
Sir George B. Airy has been
Astronomer Royal of England for over
forty years.
The State of Virginia will collect
tax of one cent on each drink of liquor
sold at bar.
The butter and egg trade of Web
ster city, Iowa, last season aggregated
nearly $4,000.
In point of railroad mileage Ger
many heads European countries. In
proportion to area, Belgium.
Fred Grant has been sent to the
State prison for burglary, but it was
Fred Grant who lived in Rockland, Me.
George Macdonald, the novelist, has
eleven children, and the boys and girls
alternate regularly through the whole
number.
General Hancock is to be assigned
to the Southern military district again,
much to the satisfaction of the residents
of Louisiana.
English capitalists have loaned to
foreign countries a total of $685., ,094,-
423, which they are not likely to get
back again.
The Home for Women, founded in
New York by the late A. Il. Stewart,
has been fully furnished, and will
shortly be opened.
"A grand ball is to be given In Music
Hall, Boston on the 9th of April, in aid
of the old South Preservation Fund.
Save the old church.
The German Postmaster General
proposes the Introduction of postal
cards serving for all countries in the
Postal Union, at the price of one penny
each.
Soup houses are growing In favor
all over Germany, owing to the distress
caused by business depression and the
resulting hard times among working
people.
Mrs. Jackson, of Boston, spends
her time in collecting money with
which TO redeem articles pawned by
poor people in that city during the past
hard winter.
-Manufactories of wood at Chicago
number 226, with a capital of $7,67l 600;
employ 9,263 hands, pay $4,0l3,570 for
wages and produce goods to the amount
of SIS, ,S07, 900.
The Dominion Government is said
to have under consideration the ques-
tion of an appropriation to have Canada
properly represented at the Paris Exhi-
bitlon of 1878.
In England in 1873 iron and steel
rails were selling at Gl5 and E22 per
| ~ ha
had for E5 5s. and G7 5s. Pig iron has
fallen to less than half its price in 1873.
The old Schuyler mansion at Albany,
n. Y, where General Burgoyne was
confined after his surrender at Saratoga,
belongs to the widow of ex-President
Fillmore, who at present resides in
Buffalo.
"A Baltimore inventor is ruined. He
invented kind of air cushion for
women's bustles, put all his money into
their manufacture, and now q change
Of fashion has left the stock valueless on
his hands.
The Prince of Wales has decided to
place his two eldest sons on the ship-of-
war BrittaDia, in order that they may be
subject to naval discipline, although not
necessarily with the view to adopting
the navy as a profession.
"A statistical Partisan boot-maker
has recently given American ladies the
distinction Of having the smallest feet
feet by nature among their sex, and from
them he ascends in the order of Spanish,
Italians, Russians and English to the
| Germans.
The Rhode Island Fish Commits
sioners put l20, 900 salmon and 100000
land-locked salmon into the various
rivers of that State last year, and stocked
twenty-five ponds with black bass.
Their efforts in shad culture have proved
very successful.
AT the old Kings Arms Inn, Ian
caster, England, is one of the three
clocks invented and constructed by Ben
| Franklin. 1t has three wheels and
| strikes the hour. 1t is soon to be sold
with a number of other curious and his.
torical objects.
Secretary Schurz can speak fluently
in the English, German and French
languages, and it is said that his gift
causes him good deal of trouble as it
enables office. seekers of three nationali-
ties to weary him with eloquence in
their native tongue.
1t is estimated that about 1000 of
French revolutionists who participated
in the revolution of the Commune are
now in the United States, of whom
about 1900 reside in New York city.
About 10, 900 are still held in penal SER
vitude at New Caledonia.
Comptroller Hubbard of Connect.
cut refused to purchase the portrait of
Sir Edmund Andres, which the Legis-
lature authorized him to buy, on the
ground that the subject was not worthy
of place among the Governors of the
State. The Senate sustained him.
Mr. James Irvine, the great sheep
farmer, of Los Angeles county, CalifOr-
mia, intends to kill thirty-nine thousand
sheep on account of the drought which
prevails in that region. He owns alto
gether about forty-tive thousand sheep
and one hundred and seven thousand
acres of land.
"A large number of Roman coins and
an enameled brooch, inclosed in hand
some vase, were dug up in London the
other day, by some workmen who were
laying gas pipes. The coins bore In
scriptions which showed them to be Of
the reigns of the Roman Emperors be-
tween 81 and 1876 A. ID.
Madame Bonaparte, Of Baltimore,
is now in her ninety-fourth year, and 1t
seems probable she may yet realize her
expressed wish to live TO be one hun
dred years old. Though feeble, she
maintains full possession OF her mental
faculties, and takes an active interest
in public affairs, especially abroad.
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