The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-18
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

| NANHS HhNAAN hNhSA's
During a remarkably heavy rain in
Cincinnati !. .46 inches Of water fell in
twenty minutes.
Sixty five persons were poisoned at
Searle. Ala, few days since, by eating
ice cream that had been prepared in
brass kettle.
By railway accident at Frederick
ton, Ohio, over twelve hundred bushels
Of grain were scattered in a swamp be-.
side the track.
A Western paper says Of the loss Of a
vessel: The captain swan ashore, 80
did the chambermaid; she was insured
for S15 900, and loaded with iron.'
By new law about to be carried into
effect in Philadelphia the furniture Of a
tenant becomes liable to seizure for tax
es unpaid by the owner Of the property.
Our consul at Tangier reports that the
sultan Of Morocco has subdued the in
surrection of the Berber tribes. Thirty
four heads of rebels were exposed on
the walls of the city to inspire terror
among other rebels.
The bonanzas which have been devel-
oped in the Black Hills up to the pres
ent time lie in a belt extending through
hills and gulches for distance of about
two miles. The belt is vein which is
about 100 feet in width but varies very
much.
The house OF James Buckingham, in
Milford, Conn, was struck by lightning
and wGs somewhat damaged. The most
remarkable circumstance in connection
with it is that Mrs. Buckingham, who
has been deranged for several years, had
her reason completely restored by the
shock.
A report from Deals island says that
a child died there one day last week
from the effects of mosquito bites. The
mother left it asleep and on returning
found it literally covered with the in
secis. It's death followed Immediately.
Smoke has to be kept about stables
there to prevent horses and cattle being
driven frantic.
A novelty al the Berlin exhibition is
an electrical railway with three carriages
and capable of carrying twenty passen
gers. The road is 900 yards long, and
trains run seven miles an hour. De-
prez will have at the coming scientific
exhibition at Paris small train worked
by twelve Bunsen cells, and hopes to be
able to work an aerial propeller by his
electric motor.
Mr.. Gladstone, speaking at the open
ing OF the art exhibition at Chester,
said that when America learned to trust
entirely to her own splendid natural
resources, the great genius other people
and their marvellous proficiency in the
adaptation Of labor.saviDg appliances,
in which she was at the head OF the
world, she would be formidable COM
petitor with the English manufacturers.
Edwin Forrest, driven by John Muir
ply, made the fastest time that was
ever made in the world by trotter on
the three. quarters track on Mr.. Bonner's
farm, near Tarrytown. The first quar-
ter was made in 32I, the half in 105s,
the three-quarters in :S8t, and the full
mile in 2:11i. Three watches wereh held
on him; the fastest made the mile in
211l, and tie slowest in 2:12, conse-
quently the time according to rule is
2I1i.
Some fishermen caught horse-mack-
erel at Mimingash, Prince Edward
Island, with a cookbook. They then
paid out line until they were able to
weigh anchor, when the horse.mackerel
started for the south at the rate OF sew
enteen miles an hour, with the boat in
tow. At the end of three miles he be-
came exhausted, and the boats crew
succeeded in towing him ashore. This
fish measured nine feet nine inches in
length, aud his girth WAS six feet five
inches.
Mr.. i. B. Carpenter has just finished
nearly full-length portrait Of DR..
Crawford w. Long, late Of Athens, Ga,
who used ether to destroy pain in surgi-
cal operations March 80, 1842, nearly
three years before Horace Wells, Of
Hartford, Conn.,, discovered that nitrous
oxide gas was also an effective agent to
produce similar result, and more than
six years before Sir James Y. Simpson,
Of Edinburgh, demonstrated that chic
roform was as effective. The picture is
to be placed in the capitol at Atlanta.
The vital statistics OF the country
show the following number OF bales Of
cotton raised in the Southern States
during the years from 1870 to 1873, re-
spectively: 1852, ,3l7, 1874, ,3l1, 8, $780,
sos, 4.17O,9ss, 1882. 991, 1860, ,2ss,
4 1876, 423, 4,S11, ,423, 5,200,00O; hogs
heads of sugar 144 ,SS1, 1913, 461, 1OS,-
$40, 9.49s, 116, ,s67, 144,146, l6a,331,
l27753. $4,000; pounds OF tobacco;
1856 100000, 426, 100000, 4sO,OOO,OOO,
SOC 100000. 3l5,OOO,OOO, 522, 100000,
535 900, 900, 500, 900, GOO, 572,0OO,0O0
Mitchell Jefferson, young farmer
who had been separated from his wife.
visited her recently at Scottsville, Va
His mother-in-law, in her enmity against
him, persuaded her daughter to get him
out Of the way, and gave her poison to
put in his coffee. She gave him the