The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-12-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Peanut oil is being shipped from
North Carolina to Italy. COtton-seed
oil also goes TO the same country, where
1t is rapidly taking the place Of olive oil.
The receipts OF the Gi1fard captive
balloon during the first 60 days, are said
10 have exceeded 90, 900 francs. The
probabilities are that the enterprise VIII
pay.
The disaster at Wollaston Will cost
the Old Colony Railroad Company about
$3.50 900 in the payment OF claims Of suf-
%terers, the sums ranging from seventy
five cents to $1,000.
The Department OF Agriculture has
received seed OF the date palm from
Egypt. The Colorado desert is sug-
gcsted as the place for the experiment
of growing the seed.
"A leading cotton raiser Of Hale
county, Ala, has introduced upon his
plantation 1000 English sparrows In
the hope that they will prove electual
~destroyers of the cotUOn-worIn.
-Monsignorc Prospect has left to his
| cousin, Leo XIII. a small wooden cru
ciix which Louis XVI. carried ON tn
scafiold. 1t was given TO Monsignore
Prospect by the Count de Fleury.
The Athens Archaeological Society
is in t. oaty for buying up the houses ON
the site Of the Temple of Delphi, and
transferriDg'the village to a short dis
lance of. Excavations will then be
undertaken.
To show the strides our country has
made In cheese making, we give the fol-
lAvrs~- n.,,Naa In FIN faaR lQnn xHa
exported 9l3, S43 h.; In 1850, 5000, 600
H.; In 1870, 81, O00, 900 b.; aud in 1876,
81, 000, 900 in round numbers.
1t is announced that the Universal
| Exhibition is 10 be organized and TO
take place In Italy, in 1881. 1t is said
| the King of Italy has already named a
| special commission to study the ques-
ton, but that no definite resolution has
yet been taken in the matter.
The library fund of Amherst Col
lege, which has been accommodating for
some years to be used for putting up 4
new library building, now amounts to
about $4,000, but the present building
is roomy enough. Some $1,000 worth of
new books are added each year.
The ten cotton growing States raise 4
for expectation annually $3.50, 900 ,OCVl
| worth of cotton, with naval stores, to
bacco, peanuts ETC., enough to raise the
amount to 5000, 600, 000-$2O, 000, 600 escI
for the ten States-an mount ufiiciei
to make them prosperous and great.
j. S. Sumner, a Boston ri6euh
has received $50 in gold from
Sharps Rifle Company of Bridg4a
Conn, for his recent score of III
a possible 225 at Creedmoor, th9f
pany having offered that amoA
year to any one who could mal
der the same conditions. HI
"A colonist of KenMaslla.
| Constantine, in Algll S5N'
| planted In 1876 a
grapevine, one foot
| root, and that duriIi
he has gathered a a
have been suppli
growth of the sam
The largest
| ton, ever built |
| the stocks at Thl
tons burden, ley N
and Is $50 feet d*tt
wide and has n
has three decX
bushels of salA
timbers for t
against rot. m
Mrs. Al
is the presi
thony WaH, s|St
of nearly 20JSs
of preservation. ST. s#
the Valley Forge CenteHnS4
ton, that as soon as the proposcM M
chase of Washington's headquartersv
been completed she will present tho
! library to the Association.
In France, as in England, importa,
lions OF live stock and dead meat areY
continually increasing. The value Of
imports In live cattle has risen from
105, 1873, 900 francs In 1877 to l60, 5fl 900
in 1878, and that Of imports of fresh aud
sailed meats from ~, 000, 000 francs In
1877 to so, coo, 900 IN fS7S. \ new COM
pany has JUST been foykETRd, with q CAPT.
tai OF $500, 900 francss~ tx importing
meat from La Plata.
Condor huuterSvare warmly well
coined by inhabitants Of the South
American s~ierras, as the birds commit
great havoc among the herds. Waiting
| till the mother of u calf is at some dis
| lance from her offspring, tLey will
swoop down and strike the young ami
nal to the ground, Immediately ripping
out its tongue to prevent IL from raising
any alarm. In a few minutes nothing
but the skeleton Is left.
- From the 1st Of January to the 3lst
of August, 1873, the total number OF ar
Il H., M l"hID N rta nv rafl pnoVtnkn1 70 10
kS20,3 while the departures were Ia
~, 507. During the same period the
gelnture Railway transported 3,464, 800
passengers. Adding up these figures
bgtve have 81 ,342, $50, a sum which repre-
4 sents the travelling movement for the
\ first seven months Of the year. For the
entire year of 1867, in which IT, former
| Universal Exhibition took place, this
movement is represented by only 49,
900, G0l.
The restoration ofthe Cathedral at
Pisa Italy, is going on rapidly, aud the
building ia beginning to assume some Of
its ancient ~splendor. The little gems in
mosaic. which adorn the narrow fringes
above the rows of light galleries form
ing the ornamental front OF the build.
Ing. have In particular been admirably
renovated, and now have a very beautI-
FIJI effect. The restoration of the Lean
ing Tower also has reached the upper
part, or belfry, and Is being very salts
. factorily carried out. Only first-class
architects aud sculptors are employed
in the work.
-lThe captive balloon at the Pads
Exposition had, UP TO the 18Th Inst,
made 74S asoensions, taking up 2i,604
passengers, while $50 300 persons paid
the admission fee TO the space beneath.
pha venaihta amounted TO $l2S, D2C ,10s