The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-10-23
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Twelve years ago Texas shipped only
5000 bales of cotton. Last year she
shipped 1,OOO, 900 bales.
ABiltimore girl aged two years ats
so many peanuts as to cause convul-
sions, which resulted in death.
Twenty-one clergymen returned home
from foreign travel in three steamers
arriving in New York on a recent Sun
day.
Pulaski county, Kentucky, has pro.
duced a ripe watermelon three inches
long, au inch and a.half in diameter,
and containing FIVE seed.
Notwithstanding Secretary Eyarts'
manifesto regarding emigration OF Nor
mons to this country, 335 converts re-
Gently arrived on an European steamer.
The husband of tho famous English
beauty, Mrs. Langtry, has commenced
proceedings for divorce, the Prince Of
Wales being set down as correspondent.
The signal service officers complain Of
the department order whereby they are
obliged TO change their station every
two years, and thus break up their
pleasant homes for no apparent good
reason.
AS an instance CT the depression
among the laboring classes of Great
Britain, it is announced that the trades
unions of that country have expended
81, 800, 900 in aid of member5 during the
past year.
Five years ago an unknown Clnadian
firm put 8, 100000 feet of logs in lake
near West Branch, Ogemaw county,
Mich, and they are there yet, and no
one knows who the firm is or what they
propose doing the well water soaked
logs.
BY new postal arrangement parties
may have foreign books sent them by
mail, the local postmasters being en-
powered to collect duties thereon, in
stead of their being held by the collec-
tor of customs at the port of entry until
the tax is paid.
A reward OF 500 was offered for the
delivery of Jack Motter, a reputed horse
thief, to the authorities of De Witt
county. III. Jack walked into the
sheriff's oflice in custody of friend,
through whom he received the Sl0C,
and With this money he employed
lawyer, who secured his acquital.
Zekle's Wife is new character lec-
ture in which tie lecturer appears in
the neat, old.fashioned dress of our
gTaudmothers. She represents an old
woman who has spent her life in hard
labor for others, always keeping in the
background, while Zekle' and the chill
dren have kept pace with the times.
Gideon Cook, preacher, was a man
very eccentric in speech, even to his
last earthly moments. A few hours pre-
vious to his death, his brother, also
preacher, came to his bedside, and in
quired, DO you think you are dying,
Gideon?' And the reply, sharp and
quick, came-'Cln't tell; never died be-
FORE
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, brother Of the
famous London preacher, in addressing
a meeting of clereymen gotten up in his
behalf in New York, remarked: AT
your capital l saw picture Of tue sur
render of Burgoyne. l had the honor
of marrying Burgoyne's granddaughter,
and you are giving me almost as warm
a reception as you did her ancestor,
though of different kind
An Alabama woman has oli yinate1
novel industry which mOy prove to be
an important and useful one. She strips
the down of the feathers of turkeys and
other fowls from their quills and weaves
it into thick, soft cloth, which can be
dyed any desired color, aud out of
which most beautiful and comfortable
cloaks, sacques, etc. can be made. Her
to bay herself sealskin sacque
led her to make the experiments.
A friend and neighbor has relative,
a practical Christian, who has forcible
way of putting things. The ether
day the subject Of death bed repentance
was under discussion, when he said;
Some men think they can live ony kind
Of life, yet save their souls by So
called repentance few hours before
death; bat | have my doubts rs to how
that kind of washing will dry when
hung out on the heavenly clothes line
A medieval hostelry is to be establish
cd at Zurich in Switzerland. The in
terror walls will be decorated with paint
ingg and inscriptions after the ancient
fashion, and at the end of the chief
room will be pile OF barrels painted in
divers colors. On the tables will be
bread and tobacco, matches will be re-
placed by flint and steel, and no bottles
or glasses will bo seen, but only leather
jacks and goblets, while the walters will
be costumed in the style Of the middle
ages.
A short time since report came from
Wheatland, CAL, that during the night
some unknown person had entered the
house of VIM. Roddan and beaten to
death two young girls in their beds
one OF them being Mrs. Roddan's sister
and the other a niece. Roddau and his
wife have now been arrested for the
crime, it transpiring that Mrs Roddan
discovered a criminal intimacy between
her husband and niece, when the latter
fed TO her room, and the auut in her