The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-09-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-lhe LahZlOAf slave traue Is fepOTueu
to be largely on the increase, the with
drawal OF cruisers having left 1000
miles of coast unmatched.
During the month Of July twenty
six foreign steamers arrived ut Boston,
which Is the largest number that ever
arrived there In one month.
The new census gives the populs-
ton of Auckland, New Zealand, and
suburbs as "A, ,442, an increase Of 6,640
during the past tour years.
"A newly discovered copper mine La
South Mountain. near Monterey, Pa Is
said TO contain the richest copper ore
yet discovered in the State.
During the three months ending
June 30, the Jersey City police made
I ,563 arrests. The number of dodgers
at the various police stations was 2,67.
In the Royal Library at Paris there
is a Chinese chart made 600 B. c., on
which AGO stars are correctly located.
There is also a map of China made 1000
b. G.
Since the first of January there has
been shipped from Boston live stock
amounting to 29 205 head, including
10, AS head of cattle, 1888 sheep, 4,572
hogs and 2O2 horses.
An interesting musical event oc-
CURED In London recently, being re-
viVal by the Gluck Society of Purcell's
"Dido and -Eneas," which has not been
performed since 1876.
"A bread-fruit tree is now accllmated
and in bearing condition at Sacramento,
Cal. The fruit is pear shaped, four
inches long and three in diameter, and
has a cantaloupe flavor.
According to estimates, the cotton
crop of the present year will be 4, ,700,-
600 bales-the largest since the war. In
lS59.60 the crop amounted to 4 ,86l 900
bales; lS70-7l, 1887, 900 bales; 1S75-76,
4,732. 600 bales; lS76-77, 4,474, 900 bales.
The Prefecture of the Seine has just
terminated census of the house prop
erty in Paris. The total number of
buildings is rs, ,526, and the rental $l17,-
12S, l20, of which $50 744 ,450 is derived
from trades, and 500, ,3S2 ,420 from habi-
tations.
General Roger de Trobriand, who
was In command at New Orleans In
January, 1874, when the troops entered
the Hall of the Louisiana House of Rep
resentatives, has asked to be placed on
the retired list of the army on account
of his age.
Mr.. Mackenzie, the Premier of the
Dominion OF Canada, has been confer
ring with the GovernOr-General at Que
bee upon the proposed improvements In
the Notifications there, the contract for
which will be given on the Premier's
return to Ottawa.
The Empress Eugene and Prince
Napoleon are both on the Continent.
The former is staying at Ems, while the
latter makes the tour of Sweden and
Norway. About the middle of August
they will meet at Arenberg, Switzer-
land, where they will remain until Oc-
tober
There were 80, 1886 barrels of ale and
beer brewed in the Allegheny county
district from July l, 1877, to June 80.
1878, each barrel containing 81 gallons.
The production of whisky for the same
period amounted to $40, III gallons; In
bonded warehouse, 736,S37 gallons,
making grand total of l,2S6,6 sos gal
Ions.
The Fall River (Mass.) Ne,os says
that the curtailment by the stoppage OF
the Union, Border City and Sycamore
mills, the changing from print cloths to
other goods by some of the other mills
and the running of short time by the
remainder, has diminished the prOduc-
ton of print cloths during the past
three or four months about $40 900
pieces.
Sir Garnet Wolseley's salary US
Governor Of Cyprus is G5, 900 ayear. The
garrison is to consist of 10000 men,
1000 of them natives of India, and, &C.
cOrding to the Spectator, will cost El,-
100000 year. This, with the ''im-
prOvements," &C., the same paper
thinks, will make the island cost Great
Britain at least e., 900 ,000a year for ten
years, after which it may possibly pay
its own expenses. .....
There were 4,3l9 marriages in the
State of Connecticut last year--a less
number than for II years. The divorces
numbered 427, l20 being granted on the
petition of the husband, and 307 on the
petition of the wife. The Ia ,072 births
were an increase of 272 over 1879, and
included 1916 males and l27 pairs of
twins. or 1896 deaths 956 were violent
and 4,796 of males, the sex not being
stated in LAG cases.
Professor Marsh, of Yale, has been
finding more toOthed birds among the
Wyoming and Colorado fossils, besides
the petrifed remains of 300 or 400 dino
saurs, mammoth kangaroo of the
crocodile order sometimes 100 feet long,
and about 900 pterodactyles, a sort of
contemporary flying dragon, with
spread of wing thirty or forty feet.
-Sixty-seven failures occurred In
New York city during July, In which
the aggregate liabilities amounted to
5,738, III and the assets were estimated
at 81, ,702, ,442. This shows an increase
of thirteen failures and 81 ,400, 900 liza
bilities, compared with the record for
the previous month, and an increase Of
80 per cent In number and double the
amount Of assets, as compared with July
1877.
Six reindeer are to be imported
from Lapland into Manitoba this year.
They will be accompanied to their new
home at Winnepeg by Lapp, who
will have charge of them during their
journey and also for some time after
their arrival. The moss which grows
In great abundance in the wooded coun-
try east of Lake Winnepeg and In many
other places, is said to be Identical with
that which forms the chief food of the
reindeer In Northern Europe.
According to an inventory taken by
Louis Xviii, the Crown Jewels num-
bered more than $4,000, weighed 1871
carats, and were valued at 2O,9OO,2 28O
francs. Besides the Regent and the
Sancy stones, of which every one knows
the history, there Is All imperial sword