The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-11
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

very promising in Louisiana.
New York city's bonded debt, less the
sinking fund, is 1924, ,S7s,s59
Twelve lakes, and extending fifteen
miles, are TO be dredged into one at
Quincy, Mich.
1t is reported that the celebrated ra-
cling mare Mollie Mccarthy has become
lame, and will be retired TO a brood
farm.
Thirteen barns have been burned with
in few months in the western part Of
Chicago, and it has transpired that
boys fired them for fun.
A new waterfall OF one hundred and
fifty feet height has been discovered in
the White Mountains, N. H. II is de-
scribed as being Of great beauty.
Twelve millions Of dollars are invest
ed in Coney island improvements, while
it is estimated that $1,000 would have
bought the whole island ten years ago.
A large portion Of the wall Of the i'm
port dock, East India Docks, Blackwall (.
England, fell, carrying with it all the
hydraulic cranes and quay sheds. The
damage is estimated at 100000.
Reports are to the effect that Lieut.
Carey, who left the prince to his fate,
was sentenced by courtmartial to death,
but that the queen ordered the sentence
modified.
Fifteen years before the Revolution
the wife of Washington kept sixteen
spinning wheels running, and saw the
fabrics made in her own house under
her own direction.
The steamer Arizona on her last trip
from New York to Queenstown excelled
her previous speed across the Atlantic
making the voyage in eight days. eight
hours and eight minutes.
A steamer has arrived at Halifax, N.
g., from Bordeaux, France, filed up
with refrigerators for freezing salmon,
Goldfish and Holsters, which she will col
lect along the Newfoundland coast and
carry to France.
Rev. W. FL. H. Murray, Boston's fa-
nous minister, who wrote the we'll known
book on the Adirondacks and also one
on The Horse, has been bankrupted by
his stock farm, the Golden Rule and
other business ventures.
Anthony Anderson, New York trav'
cling salesman, fell over the Palisades
on the bank OF the Hudson, but was
caught in the limbs of tree after
descent of 230 feet, and strange to say
escaped with only broken arm.
The freshets raised the Ohio river to
such an extent as to admit the passage
OF the coal. laden canalboats which had
been accumulating on account of low
water, and not less than s, ,332, 900 BUSH
els OF coal were started down stream.
Official returns show that twenty off.
GERS and four hundred men died of ohol-
era and other diseases on the return
march from the Afghan campaign, while
only about one hundred men were killed
in action on the British side during the
war.
The Salt Like City (Utah) Ne,Os
(ohurch organ) denounces United States
Judge Boreman for judicial impudence
and assumption in the Brigham Young
executors case, and charges him with
'abominable falsehoods, and with being
Infamous, bigoted and aristocratiC.
Protestant missionaries in Turkey say
that young Turks who are sent to Amer
ica to be educated, in order that they
may return and labor for Christianity
among their countrymen, aim to obtain
a medical rather than religious eduoa-
ton, so as to practice medicine profita-
bly, when they get home.
A Maryland farmer, bent on extermi'
mating cabbage worms, offered a cent
each for the little yellow butterflies
which lay the eggs. He spent over six
dollars thus, and estimates he prevented
the Matching of thousands Of worms; at
any rate his cabbage plants the next
season were unmolested.
The great army of embezzlers has re-
ceived two additions recently in the per.
sons OF Chevalier Jurnenville and Ed
ward P. Page. The former was cashier
Of the New Orleans Canal bank for thirty
years, and stole $2O,OO0 The latter
was chief clerk of The Vermont Central
railroad, and embezzled $4,000.
The gamins Of New York are in the
habit Of running alongside the bob tail
cross town cars late at night when
crowded with passengers and reaching
in on both sides, snatch the hats from
the heads Of the unwary, and escape in
the darkness. There are no conductors
for these cars, and the driver can do
nothing, as he is not permitted TO leave
his seat or his cash box. t
John E. Seely, three years ago q
horse fprrier in New York State, took
DR.. Greeley's advice and went West. He
engaged in the restaurant or hotel bust
ness there and then speculated in mining
stocks and in working mines. He came
back TO Goshen on q visit last week,
worth over 100000, having made in
the three years Of his absence an average
Of nearly $4,000 per day.
The grapes in the vineyards on Lake