The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-01-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ly Mass, in 1857. Ii continued in opera
ticn until 1902, and then stopped, nine
ty per cent. OF the cap tai having been
SUM- in the enterprise.
The Boston Transcript says there Is
money enough spent In charity In Bos-
ton every year 10 carry the whole eX-
cess of population of the city TO points
where they could at east earn living
by working on the land.
j. c. McCabe, Commissary of the
Citizens Relief Committee. of Memphi',
Tenn, In making final statement, re-
ports that 745, 900 rations were issued
to 6S, ,022 persons during the prevalence
of yellow fever In this city.
In ordinary years the public vehi-
cles plying for hire in the streets of
Paris bring in a revenue of nearly fl4s,-
600. The city has 100 cab stands, 10
each of which Is attached an inspector,
appointed by the prefecture of police.
According to the Swiss tables of
mortality just issued, 597 persons com
mitted suicide last year in Switzerland,
which is at the rate of one In every L.
600 inhabitants, greater proportion
than in any other European country.
Most of the Paterson On. j. silk
mills are running to their fullest capa-
city, and making two or three hours
overtime every night. The greatest de-
mand is for ribbons and scarfs. From
5000 to 600 hands, it is estimated, are
employed in the mills.
The usual distribution of decora-
tions among the foreign officers that
represented their countries at the grand
maueuvres has been made in France.
Germany not only has the greatest
number-7, but also the only appoint
ment to grade Of grand officer.
A two.dollar bill, issued by the
Smithfield (R. I) Exchange Bank in
1923, one year after its organization,
was presented for redemption, in clean
order and excellent condition one day
this week. 1t was found among the ef-
fects of lady recently deceased.
The guests at Marshal MacMahon's
Versailles fete consumed 1000 bottles
of champagne, 900 of claret, 1000 lltres
of punch, 2, 400 litres of syrup and iced
coffee, 4 900 cups of chocolate, 10000
cakes, 20, 900 sandwiches and rolls, 400
partridges, 500 fowls, 80 hams, and 200
pounds of candy.
1t is announced that there will be
an international exhibition of sea and
river fishing material in Berlin, In 1880.
This exhibition will contain not less
than nine departments. A programme
will be sent abroad soon, giving all ne
cessary particulars TO those WHO may
desire to forward exhibits.
Lieutenant Colonel John Brett, one
of the few Eaglish officers wha rose
from the ~ AXIS, has just died. He got
his commission as ensign after the bat
tie of tie Alma, in 1854, and when in
1873 he was retired with full pay wore
the Catfre medal with three clasps, the
Turkish medal and the Cross of the J., =
gion of Honor.
The value of land in Melbourne,
Australia, has increased somewhat since
the city was founded. A lot 6S feet
wide and 22O feet deep, which was
bought from the Crown in the early
days OF the colony, for $50 by MIR.
Michael Pander, and remained in his
possession until his death, was recently
sold by his heirs for $l65,0
ireland has 75l, 800 turkeys, 2 250,-
800 geese, 2, G53 ,070 ducks and 1920. SO5
ordinary fowls, making a total OF 49,
566 ,0S3. Estimating the geese and tur-
keys at an average market price of sew
enty-fiVe cents each, and ducks and Or
dinary fowls at 8 sXty-twO cents per
pair, the poultry in Ireland would rep
resent total value of So 54S 400.
The failure of Messrs. j. Innes,
Wright & CO., of GLASGOW, for 81 $50 ,0OO
disclosed the facts that the books had
not been balanced for thirteen years,
nor had the cash books been added up.
Sometimes for months. together tie
books were left blank, the only records
of business transactions being memo
randa on scraps of paper. The book
keeper was "too busy"
Lord Carnarvon in his address at
the Edinburgh Philosophical Institu-
ton, last month, said during his own
four years of Office he was not aware
that one unfriendly word has passed
between Britain and America. That
was due to the right intention of each
Government, to the mutual good will
of the two peoples, and the tact and
good feeling of Lord Dutferin.
Vermont is said TO stand at the head
of the New England States In the rela-
tive proportion of her agricultural pop
ulation. Over fifty per cent. ofall who
are engaged in occupations are engaged
in agriculture, while the ptrtSntage
thus engaged in Maine is less than'for-
ty, in New Hampshire thirty eight, In
Massachusetts less than thirteen, in
Connecticut about twenty-five, and in
Rhode Island about thirteen per cent.
In excavating well at Castleton,
Vermont, recently, bone of some un-
known animal was dug out nine feet
below the surface. The formation in
which it was found is glacial sand and
bOwlders. One bowlder was so large
that it had to be reduced In size before
It could be removed. This bowlder was
originally from the conglomerate for
nation extending along the west side
of the Green Mountains In Starksboro' ,
Lincoln and Ripton.
The cause Of the ex-Empress Eu-
genie and her son against the State Is
iust now being tried in Paris. They
claim certain property of Napoleon III
as belonging to them, particularly the
Fontainebleau Chicago Museum, the
collection of armor at Compeigne and II
great many pictures. In 1873 com
promise was signed between NJ. Rouher
and the liquidator of the civil list. but
difficulties Of construction have given
rise to the present suit.
"A tablet of black marble has been
placed upon the house 96 Rue Saint llo-
more, corner of Rue Sauval, where Mo-
liere was born in 1922. Corneille's
house, Rue d'Argenteuil, whgc he dlef
October lst, 1854, has been torn down to
Law out the out the Avenue de fOpera,
and the only memorial to the great dra-