The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-01
News Ofthe Week.

James Gordon Bennett proposes Il
send the second vessel to hunt for tn,
north pole.
The Burlington Hawkeye says tina
"greenbackism" is "nothing but breycI
communism"
About seventy nominations have
been made for Congress, many of which
are new material.
During the week ending the 27tl
there were % deaths from yellow fever
at Havana.
\ Pennsylvania woman walked 3,
miles and carried her baby in order to
see President Hayes.
Henry Jones, colorcd, living near
Atlanta, Ga, beat his ten year old boy
TO death the other day.
Lord Hastings Rignald Yclverton,
Lord High Admiral of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain, is dead.
The Dallas Commercial is Informed
that Texas immigration is falling Off.
In the United States there are $50 fe-
males practicing as doctors, 42O den
lists, . as lawyers and Us AZ preachers.
CALIFORNIA; wheat crop is remarkable.
She expects to realize an increase OF
S2G, 00O, 900 OH the receipts of last year.
American silver quarters are cut in
two by the Mcxlcans and freely circu-
lated as "bits" Ql2lsc.) on the Rio
Grand frontier.
Marcus \. Wright has been appoint
cd by the War Department to collect
Confederate War records not among
the captured Confederate archives.
\ Nebraska city merchant stole the
contribution box from the Irish CathO-
lie Church in that city Il few days ago.
One ease of yellow fever has appear
ed in Key West, and there has been a
general stampede Of the United States
troops.
The National Agricultural Congress
will hold its coming semi-annual meet
ing at New Haven, Conn, beginning
Aug. ~.
a man of 20 and Il woman of 30 were
married at Augusta, Ga, recently, and
Immediately asked for a certificate to
the poor house.
Miss Nellie Stickney, sixteen years
old, was shot dead on the street by Joe
Pcyton, a young blood of twenty-five,
ut Cincinnati a few days ago.
According to the statistics, the sum
of 1896, 600 900 was spent last year for
intoxicating drinks in the United
States.
The King of Siam has 5000 wives all
living under the same roof at Bangkok.
And there isn't a single divorce court
in the whole kingdom.
1t is reported that Congressman
Schlcichcr, of Texas, believes that war
with Mexico is very probable.
DR.. Mary Walker not only gave a
prescription last week to Il sick baby,
but put her hand into her brecches
pocket and paid for it; can any of the
masculine ". DIS do any better?
4 letter from Auckland, y. b., dated
June 2jth, says the British ship Lock
hard from London fof Melbourne with
seventeen passengers and crew thirty
two was lost, except one lady passenger
and one of the crew.
Up to 1872 20,OO7 colored people have
been sent to Liberia. Many are dead,
and many who still live. would like to
get back, but they cannot.
The Posts dispatch from Berlin an
nOunCcs that all the powers except the
Porte have ratified the treaty of peace
concluded by the congress at Berlin.
The Covington Star says: Up in the
mountains they call Il man Colonel for
killing Il yellow jacket, and send him
to the Legislature for shooting sheep
killing dog.
1t is rumored that King Alphonso
threatens to abdicate the throne of
Spain.
The Mayor of Jefferson, Texas, re-
ceives a salary of one dollar per
year.
There have been thirteen deaths
from yellow fever in New Orleans
during the last eight or ten days.
The Graphic says that the way
they divide estates in New York City
is, "ifty thousand dollars to -the
lawyer and two thousand five hun
dred to the widow"
The volunteers are very unpopular
at Montreal since the Twelfth, and
assaults upon the members of the
force going home from drill at night
are becoming frequent.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad
between Somerset and Boyce Station
has been let out to r. G. Hoystan
Co., to be completed hSpthasM
August 1879, underf
$1,000 per day, if not completed by
that time.
The school at the Cleveland Institute