The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-01-31
NEWS In BRIEF.


The Alabama penitentiary Is said to
have earned $50, 900 above expenses In
September.
The hardware and implement trade
of the United States is valued at $780,
600, 600 per annum.
Boston people eat each year about
100000 beeves, OF which the West pro-
yides $4,000 to 10000.
Jean Arnauld, the lieutenant of the
pirate Lafitte, is living near Boone, Ill.,,
at the age of eighty.six.
-Porter-house and sirloin steak sell
In Texas for five cents per pound, and
venison hams at fifty cents each.
The Grand Jury of Macon county,
Kentucky, recommended that the Legis.
latuTe re. establish the whipping-pOst.
james Gordon Bennett is rated at
1000, 900, Pierre Lorillard at 81, ,000, 900
and poor Mrs. A. L. Stewart at only
50,000,000.
"A Chicago paper says that cargo
of $500, 900 feet of lumber, sent from
that city to Port Royal by rail, thence
by vessel, will soon reach Holland.
"A new telegraph company with a
capita. of $4,000, 900, has been organ
lied in New York. Lower rates is said
to be the object of the organization.
1t is calculated that by the electri-
cal system Of lighting street lamps Lon
don will save fl per lamp per annum
on its 100000 gas lamps, or half mill
lion of dollars.
AT one time, Commodore Wander
bilt wanted to build monument to
Washington that should be 625 feet high,
height unattained by any structure,
ancient or modern.
During 1876, l0S, III Italians emf
grated to America. According to the
statistics, 900 of this grand total are
set down as temporary tourists, the rest
as permanent settlers.
More than 10000 boxes of clothes
pins are annually shipped from this
country to England, and great quanti-
ties to New Zealand, the Sandwich
Islands and Australia.
Since 1850, 2l5, 600, 900 acres of pub
lie lands have been granted by Congress
to States and corporations for Railroad
purposes, and nearly 100000, 900 acres
of this TO the Pacific roads.
Immense stores of wild honey were
recently found in the fssures of the
rocks in the mountain regions In Cali
fornia by the workmen engaged in
blasting roadway for the Southern
Pacific Railroad.
Ben You has gone back to China
after making 500, 900 in the cigar busi-
ness in San Francisco. Considering
the relative value of money in the two
countries, he will be enormously
wealthy at home.
The Westinghouse Air Brake Com
pany of Pittsburgh, have just made
contract for supplying the London,
Brighton and South Coast Railway Com.
pany, of England, with 900 worth
of their apparatus.
1t is supposed that by 1880 there
will be in the United States about two
millions and half of old maids, as the
last census gives S36, 2sS single women
who are supposed to be looking Tor inn
possible husbands.
The London Gardeners Chronicle
says that bunch OF grapes from Lady
Charleville's Kings county, Ireland,
twenty-four feet long and twenty three
pounds and five ounces in weight Is the
heaviest ever grown.
The Customs return at New York
show large increase in the imports of
Japanese goods, the trade between tie
United States and Japan having grown
nearly three hundred per cent. since
the Centennial Exhibition.
The total assessed value of taxable
property, real and personal, in North
Carolina this year s$l4S, ,564, ,559, a. fall
ing off $3,9Sl ,466 from last years valua-
tion. The real estate is now assessed at
81 less, ,4Ol less than last year.
Satin is now the rage. 1t went out
of fashion in England twenty-eight
years ago, when Mrs. Manning, a cele-
brated murderess, at one time lady's
maid to the late Duchess of Sutherland,
was hung in black satin dress.
A thrifty woman in East Boston had
her son, a dozen years of age, arrested
for stealing an armful of wood. He
was sent to the House Of Industry for
six months, and she thus saves the ex-
pense of keeping him during the winter
and spring.
Mr.. Ii. d. Bacon, of Oakland, has
offered to give the University of Cali .
fornia his collection of pictures and
other works Of art, together with $685.
600 in money, for the purpose of found
ing an art gallery, provioed the State
will add $25, 900 90 the fund.
There are 46, 900, 900 acres in Eng
land and 100000 hsbitants, and
only forty per cent. of these are fed
with British food. The sixty per cent.
would be without their bread, and a
good deal of their meat, butter and
cheese, but for foreign imports.
The United States utilizes in agri-
culture ten per cent. of its area; Great
Britain fifty-eightper cent. France and
Belgium eighty-three; Austro-Hungary
and Holland seventy.
This shows concluslvely whence the
agricultural wealth must spring.
1t is a curious fact that, notwith-
the sure destructio !, sooner or
later, of houses built near the base of
Mount Vesuvius, the Italians do not
cease to build there. The town of
Terre del Greco, containing nearly TO-
600 inhabitants, Is constructed on tie
lava streams of 1881.
-Adjutant-Genera John Robertson,
has prepared history of the "Flags of
which includes an account
of all the flags presented to regiments
from that State during the war, and
traces, as far as was possible, their tri-
umphs and reverses including the NOR
tuary record, which shows that 1885
soldiers of Michigan laid down their
lives for the Union.
"A Baltimore dealer calculates that
there are at present 100000, ,000,0 900
oysters living along the Atlantic Coast
of the United Strtes, not counting