The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-26
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
2.3OO fchools dot Nebraska.

given 81 QUO towards the completion Oi
the Lee mausoleum at Lexington, Va.
The mouth Of the Chicago river is Gf-
teen inches lower than ever before
Heavily loaded vessels cannot get in or
out.
A Mississippi planter says that he
will be one of thousand to give $50
year to send Southern negroes TO Mas
sachusetts.
Smith Barron, Of Clayton, Ind, owns
a six-legged COW, healthy and well de-
veloped, and as good mixer as if she
was not such curiosity.
The first barrel of the new crop wheat
-four sent to the New York Exchange
from Summit county, Georgia, was sold
for charitablepurpose and brought S2l.
During a baseball match between col-
ored cubs at Madison, Fla, a serious
row occurred in which O number Of the
participants were cut with razors, ana
shot.
The fiftieth anniversary OF the Brook
lyn IN. Y.) Sunday.school Union was
celebrated with appropriate exercises
and procession OF $4,000 of the little
ones.
Msior Little and his wife quareled
while out riding at Easton, Me-, and in
the excitement Mrs. Little let her baby
roll off her lap to be killed under the
wheels OF the wagon.
According to the new constitution OF
California no Ohinaman can hereafter be
employed on any State, county, munici.
pal or other public work, or by any cor
poration in any capacity.
Wolves are 30 numerous in Richland
parish, La, as to give stock raisers and
planters much trouble. 1t is reckoned
that 200 calves and as many lambs have
been killed by them this spring.
In New York State there are /, 223, 900
Catholics, and in the archdiocese of New
York city, which includes several sub
urban towns, there are 600,0 900. The
number Of priests in the archdiocese is
250.
The new liquor law for Illinois per-
mits all persons, male or female, to vote
on the question whether licenses shall
be granted in their town. There is
special and different law for the larger
cities.
The proprietor of the Pullman car in
vention reports that paper wheels have
run 100000 miles under his cars without
repair, while the average running pow
err of an ordinary wheel is from $1,000 to
60, ,000 miles.
The list of taxable property in New
Haven, Connecticut, amounts to $a5,-
1872, $50, a decrease of $3, ,426, 918 from
the list of two years ago. There are
S,37S dwelling houses in the city, val
ned at 500. OBJ, ,283.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson is credited with
the invention, at his Louisiana planta-
ton, of practical, cheap and beautiful
fence, crowned with roses. 1t is de-
scribed as the most economical and use
full fence in the Southern States.
The physician told Thomas Smith, of
Warrentown, Mo-, that he must die
within u few hours. 'Are you sure of
that?' Smith earnestly asked. The med
ical man said there could be no mistake
about it. Then Smith confessed the
murder of Greenbury CLARK forty years
ago.
Mr.. de Lesseps, the engineer of the
Suez canal, predicts that the canal across
the isthmus of Darien, thus connecting
the Atlantic and Pacific, will assuredly
be constructed, and thinks there will be
no difficulty in raising one hundred mil
lion dollars to prosecute the under
taking.
A Boston emigration company, headed
BY number of leading citizens, has
purchased 10000 acres of land in Ten
nessee, on the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road, forty miles from the Kentucky
line, and will lay out city and populate
it and surroundings with Massachusetts
colonization.
The new liquor law in Massachusetts
bar-room keepers to get the
written consent of their landlords, and
that provision is causing dealers great
deal OF trouble-property owners gener-
ally dislike to put themselves in q dan-
gerous position with reference to the
civil damage act.
Capital punishment was abolished in
Switzerland four years ago, and since it's
abolition there has been such an increase
in the country of crimes OF violence, es-
pecially in murder, that petitions, signed
by 30, 900 persons, for restoration OF the
death penalty, have been presented to
the federal council.
The rice planters OF Louisiana are
with the entire destruction
of Their growing crops by the Missis-
sippi river falling below the level neces-
sary to food the rice fields. The pro-
prietors OF large tracts are resorting to
the use of steam engines to pump the
water into the fields as last resort.
The tramp law, which has now passed
both branches of the New York legisla-
tare, imposes not less than a year i'm
prisonuent on 'all transient persons who
rove about from place to place The
act is so drawn as to put the burden OF
proof on the accused person, and under
il any stroller can be required to show
that he is not O tramp.
Prof. w. X. Brooks successfully inn
oyster eggs by artificial means
at Crisfeld, Nd. He says they finished
in about four hours, and
in six hours from the time he took them
from the ovaries they had developed into
active, free.swimming, eiliated embryos.
It is expected this discovery will greatly
facilitate the cultivation OF the delicious
bivalve.
To illustrate how American manufac-
ture is driving eff foreign trade, it is
quoted that whereas we formerly i'm
ported all cur cream Of tartar, we nov
make our own, and the price has fall
about one-quarter; all OF the tarta
acid used here is now made in this CT
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