The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-03
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Atlanta is getting up a big Fourth o

Akron, Ohio, has had nineteen elope-
ments within fifteen months.
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, was a
private in the Confederate army.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria have clos
cd the schools at Ludington, Mich.
The acreage of the cotton crop in
Western Texas is fifty per cent. greater
this year than last.
Yakoob Khan Of Afghanistan is guar
anteed a subsidy OF 100000 a year by
the English government.
The German empire has twenty-one
universities with 1850 professors, and
more than 1900 students.
The Dutch. government gives the
population of the Netherlands as
3,97S, 001 souls, of whom 2,007, 1894 are
females.
Twelve thousand prisoners, with their
families-probably about thirty thou
sand persons-are waiting at Mimi. Nov
gorod to be sent off to Siberia as soon as
the Volga is navigable.
The New York transatlantic lines
having had so much trouble on account
OF the striking longshoremon, the Anchor
line recently brought over fifty expe-
rienced Scotchmen to do their labor.
A party of citizens raided some low
dens at Pennington, West Virginia,
threw their stock of liquor in the street,
gave one man twenty blows on the back
with hickory rod, and then tarred and
feathered two men and three women.
Five men travelling in Montana
Territory, were attacked by fifty YAnk-
tonnais Indians. The men intrenched
themselves behind their wagons, and af-
ter fighting twenty hours and killing
eleven Of their opponents, succeeded in
escaping.
The insurance companies having been
beaten in the attempt to prove Colonel
Dwight (who held an immense sum on
his life) died by his own hand, have now
started the theory that body was sub
stituted for him at the funeral and that
he is alive and hiding.
Owing to the strict quarantine regu-
lations the steamer which has hereto
fore run between New Orleans and Vera
Cruz has been laid off. AS she formerly
connected with the main line from New
York, ther, will be one less steamer run
ming between those ports.
The Western Union telegraph com
pany will soon begin work taking down
all their poles in New York, as it is
their intention hereafter to lay all their
wires in patent insulated tubes under
ground. 1t is probable that the work
will befully completed in the city before
next winter.
A dispute about ditch between John
81. Lewis and son and John Lumpkins
and two sons, near Winchester, Ind, re-
suited in Lumpkin's eldest son being
shot and killed and the youngest son
and the father severely injured, while
young Lewis was fatally injured, by
blow with pick.
A c5mmittee of Chicago's city coun-
Gil appointed to examine the condition
Of the new city building in process Of
erection, reports that there are 30 many
grave defects in the material and work
done, that it would beadvisable that the
whole structure be torn down and re.
built The expense would be about
$500,000.
A report from Cincinnati says a vigil
ance committee in the mountains of
West Virginia rode up to mans house
for the purpose of chastising him, but
met with such a reception of buckshot
from the man and his wife that they
were glad to give up the undertaking,
with the loss of one Of their number and
the wounding Of others.
John Fl. Brown. living near Centre
vile, Nd. lost ayoke of young oxen in the
following singular manner last week:
They were drawing loaded cart toward
a field, and when near deep ditch they
became stubborn, and refused to go.
The driver applied the whip, and the
oxen rushed into the ditch, driving their
heads into the earth, and died before
they could be extricated.
A mob Of seventy-fve men captured
the Jail at B Bakersfield, Cal, and hanged
Thomas and William Yoakum in their
cells. The latter, being chained to the
floor, was hanged with the chain on his
feet. The Yoakums we're imprisoned for
the murder, over year ago, of johnson
and Tucker. William had been tried
and convicted, but the superior court
granted him change Of venue.
Smuggling has become so prevalent
among the fashionables Of New York
that the authorities have determined to
put stop to it, and consequently after
q prominent resident Of Fifth avenue
declared that he had no dutiablo goods
on his arrival from Europe, the officers
searched his trunks and found 1l5 pairs
Of fine kid gloves, each dozen having
the name OF some fair friend marked
thereon.
Milchoir J. Miller, Of Accident, in
Garrett county, Nd, has had proli
run Of luck recently. During the "
term Of the circuit court he game
important law suit, and when he
home he found the following add