The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-10-09
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

put up in Baltimore this season, con-
suming 100000 bushels Of fruit.
Dakota is larger than New England,
and its people are beginning to >gitate
its division into three Territories.
The celebrated Kennedy cattle rancho,
Texas, on the Rio Grande, has been
purchased by an English company for
1850, 900.
The mayor OF st. Augustine, Florids,
receives salary OF twenty-five dollars
q month, and the city scavenger receives
the same amount.
The revenue officers at Washington
discovered an illicit still in full opera
tion within q few hundred yards OF the
Presidents mansion.
Philadelphia papers tell Of the arrival
in that city Of, a party Of Italian chill
dren, all OF VIII I'M had been purposely
manned by the loss Of an eye or limb,
in order to fit them for the purpose Of
begging.
A monument has been inaugurated
among a number OF gentlemen in Balt-
more to erect a statue to General Lafay-
ette in oommemoration Of his valuable
services to the cause of American liberty
and independence.
While the Transatlantic circus was
parading the streets of Mayfeld, Ky,
a small boy twisted the tail Of the lion,
which hung outside the cage, causing
the animal to assail and nearly tear to
pieces his keeper, who rode inside with
the beast.
The law against pool selling or gam
bling in any form on any horse race in
Massachusetts, being in force, the asso-
citation at Beacon Park near Boston,
decided to respect it fully and no betting
was allowed; the first horserace Of the
kind in many years.
Nathaniel J. Coffin, an old soldier,
feeling aggrieved at the statement in a
paper at Portsmouth, N. H., sent the
editor challenge; but the man OF the
quill respecting the stringent law, swore
out a warrant and had the blood-thirsty
individual put under bonds,
Bad accounts concerning the italian
crops are confirmed. The yield of maize
in several provinces is only half that OF
ordinary years, while in several others it
is considerably below the average. The
wheat crop is also generally unfavorable,
the production being equal only to a
third of that OF 1878.
A writer in an English magazine sug-
gests a new vocation for women-that
of gardeners. While women are feeling
most deeply their exclusion from the
ordinary walks of life, why should they
not take up profession to which there
is no barred door, and one SO infinitely
suited to their tastes.
Holloway, the English pill manufac-
turer, is to build college near London
for the higher education of women, at a
cost of 81, 1,25O, 900, and endow it with
half as much more. The way in which
he became able to do SO much good was
by spending about "a, 600, 900 in adver-
tising during the past thirty years.
A New York lawyer, employed to
search the title to piece Of property,
reported it unincumbered, and it was
accordingly bought. On the purchaser
subsequently ascertaining there were
heavy claims upon it, he sued his exam
iner for damages and got verdict, which
wss sustained by court to which the
case was appealed.
Charles Dickens, son of the great
novelist, manages one Of the largest
printing offices in London, perhaps in
the world. He has very successfully
published the London Dictionary and
the Guide to London, and is now pre-
pairing Dictionary Of the Thames
He inherits his fathers early love for
printing offices and newspapers.
Mary Keesucker, one Of the most en-
thusiasto of the converts at a camp
meeting at Urbana, Ohio, fell into a
trance while praying. Her friends be-
lieved that her condition was the result
of q special blessing, and would not
permit physician to do anything for
her. She lay unconscious several days,
and finally died OF spinal meningitis.
A Mr.. Soule, Of Elgin, ILL.,, is in his
third year of frog farming, and his first
crop is now being marketed. He has an
acre and quarter devoted to the frog
industry. The kind grown is the 'Gos-
lin frog, much larger than the common
sort. Mr.. s. will, next season, furnish
st. Louis, Chicago aud Cincinnati with
frogs, and is confident Of success In the
business.
The family of Frederick SUSSEX, con-
sistipg OF six persons, residing at Lin
den, N. j., partook freely Of toadstools
under the impression they were mush-
rooms, and two of the children died from
the effects the same day. The mother,
in the midst Of the tribulation, gave
birth to o child, and is at the point Of
death, as is another child. The father
end fifth child will recover.
Richard Stevenson, United States
deputy marshal, was shot to death in
Kingman county, Kansas, by horse
thief, who escaped TO the Indian Terri
tory. He had arrested the thief at Wei
linpton and was returning the prisoner