The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-28
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Association, OF New Orleans, is organ.
lied and ready for business.
The United States is now shipping
horses TO Brest, 10 be used in the French
cavalry service; thus opening a new
trafli,.
OF the forty million dollars in refund.
ing certificates issued by the United
States Treasury, $32, ,277 900 have been
converted into four per cent. bonds.
New York capitalists are investigating
the feasibility of a canal across Florida
in order to shorten the ocean voyage
from New Orleans to the metropolis.
Dissenters from the Greek church,
hitherto unrecognized by the State in
Russia, are now TO have entire liberty of
worship. This affects 100000 Rus
sian subjects.
Mr., J. NJ. Clark, at Howell, Mich,
lately delivered lot Of hand-cars with
sail attachment. He is now filling Or
ders for sail hand.cars from two parties
in New York, one order being for export.
The managers of Manhattan beach,
Coney island, New York's fashionable
watering place, announce they do not
want Jews to visit their grounds, claim
ing their presence is offensive to the ma
iority Of people who patronize that re-
sort.
In consequence of the prevalence OF
incendiarism the authorities OF Khar.
hoff, Russia, have divided the town into
324 fire districts. Every householder is
bound to keep special night watch.
man, and to have thirty buckets of wa
ter always ready.
The severe drought in Virginia has
been followed by disastrous forest fires,
in which thousands of acres Of valuable
timber has been burned, as well as much
cordwood and fencing. In many in
stances farmers with difficulty saved
their burning buildings.
A fine illustration of the patience of
hope and the labor OF love is found in
the Church Missionary Society Of Eng
land, which labored without desponding
eighty years without single convert,
but it now reports 30, 900 communicates
and 1900 adherents in pagan lands.
While the steamer State of Virginia
lay on the shoal off the Nova Scotian
coast where she struck, being tempora-
rily abandoned, small schooner, hav
ing canvas over her name, ranged
alongside, and the crew stole the larger
portion Of the cabin furniture, includ-
ing the piano.
Saturday, July 18th, the thermometer
at Charleston, S. c., stood 104 degrees
in the shade, the hottest day ever known
there, and the record goes back to 1888.
In 1873, for the first time, it reached 9S;
in 1772 it touched 101; in 1926 and 1929
the highest point reached was 100; in
1871 it went up as high as 102.
Twelve large donations to missionary
societies have been made within few
months, amounting to over $4,000, 900.
Miss Lapsley, of Indiana, left 100000
to the Presbyterian board, and Deacon
Otis, OF Connecticut, $97S,000 to the
American board. Gifts Of 500, 900 each
from India and Africa are included in
the list.
During the past year 405 distilleries
have been seized in the sixth North Car
olina collection district, the net amount
Of money recovered to the United States
therefrom being more than $85, ,00O.-
The collections from the district for the
year were 1887, ,659, an increase of $780,
81. This is due to the rigid enforce.
ment of the law.
The New Hampshire house of repre-.
sentatives has passed bill regulating
railway passenger and freight tariffs. 1t
gives to the railway commissioners the
right to regulate the tariff of any road in
the State, prohibits any railway commits.
sioner from holding Office in any railway
corporation, or from owning the stock or
bonds of any railroad.
Two prisoners who broke jail at Oma-
ha, Neb., have sent note to one OF the
papers, stating that the sanitary condi
ton OF the edifce was 30 bad they
feared disease, and so escaped. They
assert their innocence of the crime for
which they were committed, and state
that on the day set for trial they will
appear and prove their case.
Careful estimates made at New Or
leans place the Louisiana rice crop at
about one.half that raised in the State
in 1878. Where irrigating machinery
was employed full crop will be har-
vested, but the greater part OF the crop
has suffered terribly or been lost from
want of water--a want intensified by the
remarkably light rainfall this season.
The whole number Of publications OF
all kinds in the United States and terri
tories, as shown by the American News
paper Directory, grew from S,7O3 in JAN
uary last, to 9,153 in July. Monthlies
and dailies have most increased. News
papers abound in the territories. Sus-
pensions in general have been compara-
lively less than for preceding periods.
Discoveries were made at the Blantyre
colliery, near Glasgow, Scotland, where
n terrible EXPLOSION DESTROYED thirty