The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-03-27
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cremation furnace at Washington, Pa,
is TO be converted into popcorn fac
tory.
The Pennsylvania State Grange OF
the Patrons Of Husbandry will hold Its
annual session at Bellefonte, on We'd
nesday, December 10Th.
California produces the laI gest
barley crop, or s 7S3, 400 out Of total
of 29,76l 3J5 bushels, and also nine
tenths of our native silk cOcoons.
Col. Percy Wyndham, who served
with Garibaldi and also in the United
States army during the war, has just
been killed in India while attempting
a balloon ascent.
Vermont has two hundred and
fifty grist mills, valued at 81, $50, 900.
The annual yield of wheat In the State
is estimated at 445. 700 bushels, and of
corn l,7CO, 900 bushels.
The number of deaths In Worcester,
Mass, last year, was l00l, or l3O less
than in 1877. Two OF the deceased
were centenarians, Mary Carroll, 104,
and Mary Cuddy, lO4.
The Agricultural Society at Cum
berland, Nd, threatens to sue Henry
Ward Beecher for $4,000 damages for
failing TO keep an engagement to lee
ture at the fair last October.
A saw fish, captured on the coast of
New Jersey, not long since, had saw
measuring over four feet in length-a
formidable weapon, The entire fish
measured sixteen feet in length.
Maine has grown ], 800, 900 bushels
Of wheat the past year, against 27S,000
bushels in 1869. The Maine Fdrmer has
offered prizes of $50, $50 and $40 for the
best grOwths on an acre of land In 1879.
The total of British contributi, ms
last year to foreign missions is set down
at So, SOB 965. OF this amount $3S.l65
was raised by the Catholics, and So, $780,
365 by Church of England Societies.
"A Canada cheese factory has turned
out cheese weighing 1000 pounds. 1t
is said to be feet 10 in diameter, or 81
feet in circumference, and required 80
tons of milk to make it, the product Of
1000 cows.
"A leading cotton raiser of Hale
county, Ala, has introduced uDon his
plantation eight thousand English
sparrows, in the hope that they will
prove etiectual destroyers Of the cotton
worm.
Fifteen years ago the wife of DR..
Capel, of Charlottetown p, E. l., got a
divorce from him, with alimony of ECO
year. Rather than pay this he went
to Jail, and there remained till his death
last week.
The imports into the city of Dublin
during the third quarter of the present
year included S74 packages of butter
comprised 1882 firkins, 1859 packages
of butter.
The number of changes which any
number of things, as bells, letters,
cards, &C., can produce, is the product
of all the figures multiplied together,
thus: l,2, 3, 4, 3, 6, bells, produce 72O
changes.
-TheWilliamsport (Pa.) Lumbermen
estimate that they will get a hundred
and seventy million feet of logs in the
boom this season, which will exceed
the amount for last season some fifty
millions,
Upwards of 156OO, 600 pounds of
Goldfish and IL coo, 900 pounds of halibut
from the banks. and 100000 pounds
of Goldfish from Georges were landed at
Gloucester, Mass, during the year just
closed.
An improved mode Of fastening
gloves has been introduced. The
glove has three small buttons on each
side, around which is passed small
silk cord. They can be fastened with
little trouble, and are consequently
sought after.
Some Idea may be formed of the
progress of China within recent years
from the fact that of the 9,26S, ,006 tons
of foreign-built vessels engaged In the
local carrying trade between the Il elty
ports, the Chinese themselves own
3 1855, 900 tons.
During the next six months the
French Government will have at Its
disposition in the Legion Of Honor five
to the grade of Grand
Officer, eighteen to that of Commander.
seventy-seven to that OF officer, and 450
to that OF Chevalier.
The Coal Miners of Western Penn
sylvania propose to form protective
or union, to which all min
ers in that section of the State may be-
long. 1t is expected finally to extend
the organization so as to make State
and afterwards a National Miners
Union,
The annual report of the Connec-
ticut Hospital for the Insane states that
$40 persons were under treatment last
year; that there were 16l new admis
sions and that 14S were discharged.
The hospital has been continuously
overcrowded, and at the close of the
year had 4Sl patients.
Mr.. Thomas Gray, OF Attleboro,
Mass, aged so years, has built twenty
seven houses in that town within the
last nine years, all but one of them on
his own account. He has just finished
4 cottage upon which he has done all
The carpenter work with his own hands,
excepting two weeks work by one man,
upon the outside.
"A recent discovery In Germany Is
likely to add important original mater
ials to the history OF our Revolutionary
war. 1t is the manuscript diary of one
Of the Hessian officers who served In the
British army in this country from l776
TO 1880. 1t is said to give very full
account Of all the daily incidents Of
camp life, the rumors and news re-
,eived from day to day, but especially
Of the expeditions and engagements ia
which the writer, Capt. f. Won der
took part.
The statistical returns Of Methodism
Tor 1879 show that the number of Me-
,hodist communicates In the world Is
I, ,4S9 ,S77, with 104, ,175 local and travel
ng preachers. The Methodist popula-
ion is estimated at 10000 600. The
Methodist Episcopal Church reports