The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-12-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| wanna NOlle2e, GtLil -Durg. The Fresh
man class numbers 3j, the largest that
has entered il for years.
"A singular anniversary is 10 be
held at POmpeli next year, TO celebrate
the destruction of that city and Hercu-
laneum eighteen hundred years ago.
The late James Il. Hosmer. of Hart
ford, has willed the Connecticut IheO-
logical Institute 500 600 in addition to
the $lt2 coo given 10 IL during his lie.
The Spanish Government having
sanctioned the practice OF homeopathy,
a school is to be opened at Madrid next
month, and diplomas awarded at the
end of May.
Mrs. Mary Ann Birch died at New
! town, Conn, last week at the advanced
| age OF lOl years and 10 months. She
was probably the oldest living person
In the state of Connecticut.
An idea of the importance of the
potato crop in Maine may be obtained
from the fact that the farmers i'm Aroos-
| took county realize from $lG5, ,0cO TO
$4,000 yearly from that crop.
ELast year there were no fewer than
2003 men dismissed from the British
army for bad character. This is con-
siderable increase on former years, the
number in 1871 being only 1900.
Halifax owners of vessels have been
hastily despatching them, loaded with
full cargoes of lumber, before the
law takes effect which lorbids deck
loads of more than three feet high.
More than One-third of the valua-
tion of the State of Massachusetts is Ia
Boston. The figures are for three hun
dred aud twelve cities and towns. ST.
Oh PA 237; for Boston, $500 s44G, ,S66.
Captain Luther Benson, Of Law
renee, Mass, was eighty years of age
last week, and celebrated the event by
saving a cord of wood on his birthday,
and on the following day he split ali
the wood.
The grounds and out-buildings
around Henry Clay's old home of ASH
land are just as they were in his lifetime.
The old locust avenue where he walked
and pondered his speeches is wholly
unchanged.
several lads of Springfield, Yer
mont, are suffering from incipient spi-
nal disease, caused by brutal system
of hazing practiced in the graded
schools, wherein the victim is tossed up
and down Oh his back.
The monument of General Brock at
Queenstown, Canada, has been Orna-
mented with lightning rod which
runs up the hero's bronze back, climbs
upon his helmet and extends into the
air several feet above IL.
In population Of 2 900 900 In Texas
there are about 260, coo church members.
OF these 92 ,00C are Baptists, 100000 are
Methodists, 81 600 are Presbyterians,
IL 900 are Campbellites, 5000 are Lu-
herans, and 10000 are Catholics.
king Louis IL, of Bavaria, has just
been robbed in the palace of Reut6e.
Three Italians made an entry blS6sx&
iously and carried of tea servi n y x
japanese cups, a watch and somN (.
cles of jewellery, the whole of the d
of 30, 900 florins.
An order has been received -!
Office of the Third Assistant PostI \. !, AZ
General from the New York Po
for l77 900 stamped request enva A... S
This is the largest order ever RI # 'A I
in one day from single PostOffiV
its money value is between $500 N N. X '''
$4,000. " N n
Sir T. Acland, a Scottish NJ
has had teacher from the Edin
School of Cookery visit his estate ~
give practical instruction, with demou-&
stration lessons, to his tenants, using
the appliances In actual use in their cot
Jages, wood fires, crooks and contracted
stoves.
"A great cattle trade is growing up
between Ireland and England. In the
autumn and winter months four or five
large steamers, laden with beasts, leave
the Dublin quays every evening for
Liverpool. 1t is curious fact that the
meat is sold at lower price in the Eng
ish market than can be obtained for
fresh meat in Dublin.
One of the most important reveIa-
ions disclosed at the inquest in the case
Df the Princess Alice disaster on the
Thames is that the man who was steer
ng that unfortunate excursion boat at
,he time of the collision was an inexpe-
'ienced waterman, who had never steer
I'd anything larger than tugboat be-
ore that fatal night.
Lord Dufferin, Goveruor-G General
If Canada, with Captain Il. +. Ward,
A. ID. c., of his suite, will leave Quebec
or England on the 10th inst. 1t is I'M
lerstood that the Marquis OF Lorne aud
he Princess Louise will leave England
It the same time for Canada, so that the
Carl of Dufferin will not meet his sue
essor either here or in Europe, but
will pass him on the way.
The poll-tax was first levied in
England A. ID. 1873. The rebellion of
Vat Tyler sprung from this impost, In
3Sl 1t was again levied in 1913. By
he 1871 Charles H., every subject was
ssessed by the head, namely, duke,
100; a marquis, ESQ; baronet. EDO;
knight, G10; an esquire, Gl0; and
very single private person. This
rievous impost was abolished by Will
lam ILL.,, at the period of the Revolu-
ion.
AS a Lexington. KY. man was
Walking quietly along the principal
treet of the city, a few days ago, the
avement suddenly gave way beneath
i'm, tightly Jamming his body between
ricks and timbers, and holding him
bove what was apparently deep pit.
lis cries soon brought help, when il
vas found that he was hanging over
cry deep and before unknown well,
which contained enough water to drown
ny one who might fall into 1t.
According to the annual harvest
epOrts of France, the grain crop of this
ear will be considerably below the
verage. The yield is given as very
ood In only departments, good in II,
air in % and bad 40. Estimated on
his basis, 1t Is thought that the French
ill have to import for home consump'
ION, during the next IL months, not