The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-09-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.


cestOrs.
England has 10000 acres In orch
ards; Wales, 2 ,536, and Scotland but
/ ,II0. There are 81, ,264 acres Of market
gardens in England, against 2,SSl In
Scotland and 7l2 iu Wales.
The DOwager Queen Carolina Anne
liza, OF Denmark, completed her eighty
second year on the 9th OF July. She Is
the Oldest living member of any of the
royal families OF Europe.
The late Earl Russell's personal es-
tate amounted 10 $l50.O00. His will
divides 1t between his wife, two sons
and two daughters. Each OF the house,
hold servants are given years wages.
The extent OF the oyster grounds
outside of the New Haven, Conn.,, har.
Dor has increased so rapidly that IL is
estimated that 4, 900 acres are planted,
the total crop being valued at no less
than $2OO,U0O.
The beet sugar industry, which did
so much 10 secure prosperity in France,
Is showing signs OF success in CalifOr-
mia, Wisconsin and Illinois. Maine has
appropriated $40, 900 to test the culture
OF the white beet for sugar.
The Japan Herald says the Japanese
are manufacturing boots for sale in the
United States from leather imported
into Japan from this country. The
trade is of recent origin, but has
already attained considerable proper
tions.
"A mouse without feet, legs, head or
tail, is the property of Pat Mechan, a
labOrer of Peoria, Ill. The head is
Joined to the body without any neck,
and besides these misfortunes, it is
blind. Mechan intends selling il toa
circus proprietor.
Mrs. Desire Gregory, of Danbury,
Conn.,, celebrated her Tooth birthday
recently by large gathering of her
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. She retains her facul-
ties remarkably well, and is quite active
for person OF her advanced age.
The gross assets of life insurance
companies doing business in the State
of Maine for theIyear ending December
81, 1877, amounted to 1888, ,636 ,084 Il;
Liabilities, 1925, 1866, ,G36.97. The whole
OF policies in force at the close
of 1877 was 1868; whole amount in-
sured, $2O, 1923, SAG.
Several ladies in Galveston, Texas,
are busily engaged in trying to estab-
lish in that city the foundation of
school OF design and an art gallery.
They have met with considerable en-
SO far, and hope at an
hnnin nj ixn Ia,
consummatlng the work they have be-
gun.
Many accidents having occurred in
Paris on the day of the national fete
from the letting Off of fireworks-in the
street, the Prefect of Police after 1t Is
all over and the mischief done, has sent
a circular to all the missaries call
ing their attention TO police ordinance
OF 1856 prohibiting all such demonstra-
tions.
New Hampshire proposes to send
trLmps who klnGle fires on land, with
out the owners permission, to prison
for fifteen months; II they carry fire.
arms the sentence will be two years;
if they do malicious injury, either to
personal or real estate, it will be five,
and SIC bounty will be paid for every
tramp convicted.
-Four more old London churches
are to be torn down this year. Last
year witnessed the destruction of the
fine church of st. Michael and of All
Hallows, where Milton was baptized,
and the four which are to be torn down
his year are all the work of Christie
Dher Wren, two of which possess spires
If singular beauty and originality of
lesign.
The tablet furnished by the State of
Connecticut for the National Monument
o the Pilgrims has arrived at Ply
mouth, Mass, and will be put in posi-
ion at once. The statue of Morality
,ut by the Bodwell Granite Company of
iallowell, Me-, is expected to arrive
,ery soon, and will be put in place ut
nee. The stone for the next statue is
)eing quarried.
"A large owl was recently caught In
singular manner at Manchester, VT.
lie entered hen coop in which were
len and a brood of chickens, the struc.
ure being propped up with stick to
Illow the fowls free ingress and exit.
As soon as the owl came in the hen and
chickens ran out in such hurry as to
mock out the prop and bring the coop
'ver the owl, holding him prisoner till
he next morning.
The Washington Star says that
hree Englishmen, who called TO pay
heir respects to President Hayes, re-
emily, had their cards embellished with
of themselves. The pho
ographs, which are of the head only,
re placed in the upper right-hand cor
Ter, and are supposed TO be the new
British wrinkle in the way of visiting
ards for gentlemen.
There are estimated to be in this
l,0lS Baptist associations, 23,-
0S churches, IA 500 ordained ministers
nd 2,024, 224 church members. The
has 10, ,492 Sunday schools
With 1867 teachers and scholars. 1t
{ is estimated that the total number of
'aptsts in the world Is 2 ,472, 400, Amer
ga having 2.ll6,9 500 of these and Great
Britain only 269, 1886.
For the past ten or twelve years
orse stealing along the western bor-
ers of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-
ouri and Arkansas has been lucrative
usiness. Thousands of fine horses have
zen stolen and run out of reach, and
few of the thieves have
een arrested. Within the last eight
lonths the number of horses reported
tolen at police headquarters In Kansas
lily was 1868, and this Is but small
OTtiOn of the lOsses,
Mr.. Jacob Yallowley Powell, a
.ondon merchant, recently died, leav-
ng an estate of 100000. He leaves
%, 600 to the Liberation Society, u
lumber OF large legacies to Noncon.
Drlnist objects, and 500, 900 each to two
ieces, with the proviso that, If either
f them marry a clergyman of the Es-