The Morning herald., 1877-12-18
THE HERALD. Z a
Ea,ains1on. Dela~atsI I9es ~ N1s77.
HERALD NorEs.

HERALD NOTES. :
r,s r.1ss-Pacidc Railroad was probshll.
supported by the House.
r,s Oriental Sayings Bank ef4arand
t,sst, r New York, has exploded.
.., s.,v,. formally declares, war and he
.a,ns NV are On the way to the front.
NJ. National Trus: Company, of New
NIX. M has gone to ruin. Deficit, s70o,oOs.
v, Rvlaud has Withdrawn from the
.,.torsl contest iu California.
n, Dslane's health is somewhat i'm
D,ovsd. He purposes spending the winter
tp Cannes.
Samuel Tyler, the Senior Professor in the
law Department Of Columbia University,
i Washington, died 1t Georgetown, estur-
Day.
Dr. Ninisn Pinkney, a retired medical
director, United States Navy. after brief Ill.
pess, died Saturday at bis home in Easton,
Talbot county, Md. +f*a.'.'- j
Europe expended for tsiegraphic messages
last year s14, 400, ,OoO.' " do.
The military telegraph line around the
Texas frontierts Fl Paso ard up to Aisula,
New Mexico, has been completed. y>t,.
The crush 10 hear Moody and Sankey was
50 great in Providence that horse car was,
crowded of the track, and clothing was
ruined
The City of Peking, on her last voyage,
brought 100 packages of silk worm eggs
from Japan to San Francisco, consigned to
firm in Italy. '. -n.
The Congregational Church, OF Walcoit
decided that the use Of wine at tho CON-
munIon table tends to promote intemper-
ance. Water is hereafter to be used. Oh
By the new route from Portpatrick to
sranrser, the new passage 'twixt England
and scotlsnd, Is but twenty-five miles, and
Belfast is within nine houre Of Glasgow
President Sherman Broadwell, of the de-
csyed Clairmont Savings Bank, is in jail for
perjury In concealiDg fraud. r. -..
1t is runored that Thomas H. Whit man.
the murdered Staten Island merchant, has
turned up at home, not half 90 dead IS he |
was. ..
Dom Pedro's visit has already come to
good. The Brazilian government has voted |
a yearly subsidy of 100000, during ten
years, for line Of steamers to the United
States.
Davenport, Iowa, is where the last clerical
escapade took place. A nice minister raised
money on forged CHECKS, borrowed what
cash he could and then vamosed the rasch
Of torty>three varieties Of apples tested
by M. Truelle, Of the Chemical Society of
Paris, the red American genette was found
10 contain the largest amount of sugar.
Il
scoicbman has proposed that
everybody who drinks alcoholic liquors
hould be compelled to take ont license.
This, at IS ahead year would raise very
,retty revenue.
Leading citizens of Nevada want the
oundary line Of California and Neyada
sed at the summit of the Sierras 20 that
heir State can have Surprise 'anl Honey
AXE valleys. |
A woman dfty-nlne years old, with her
oh' arrived 10 La Grange, Oregon, re ecently,
aVing walked tlither from her home in
Indiana. She carried pack weighing rs
Ounds.
The London Gsrdcners' Chronicle ssye
lat huach of grapes from Lady Charles
He's, E'"gs county, ireland, 2l feet long
nj - pounds aud ounces IN weight. is
'e Lr",i s' yer v""wl
lhrn w..ri 10 " u,r. in 4. Pi.'sll-.tI
WI W u III Il sil'i|rr NJ Il Z. wv EnDN e. |
IT, I {" ~.it'r l"urrs' !" ,m hen 50 fast
al Ley ""rn c.r'i-,l di,taAc, of .uvera,
o'f', AMI 'early drowned,
The Bank of Russia Il supprs 4 % ho,d
me: '''ir reserve of Sl25 O00, 600. to he
Uh'h only as q last resource; Int now
are thrown out that this grca'
m Is 40. really there. Il
Belief IN the existence Of a subterranean
ke near Newburyport, Mas, led TO the
lkihq Of a well. Clear water WAS fouid d
a depth Of afty feet, Ia such quantities
at there is a talk Of supplying the city
th it.
committee of country schoolboys visits
Edwin Boo:h, in Utica, for tha purpose 8
engaging Kim to act In their exhibition. !
eir idea was to appear themselves In T
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