The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Mans field In, exhibits three. pound
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| Houma, La, has a cypress tree sew
enty-two feet in circumference.
Richmond, Va, is Agitated over the
Sunday law, which is being rigidly en-
forced. .7 -.-.l... ~ ......
America will raise wheat enough this
year to supply the world. This is new
couuby, but an exceedingly well-bread
one.
The whole Of the United States have
but 8, 900, 900 proprietary agriculturists;
one half the number of France, with
ten times the area.
The London Spectator says there are
a million Of working people of the me-
tropolis who have no churches to go TO,
and are 30 utterly careless Of religion
that they want no churches. 1f..f
lightning descended on flock OF six
teen sheep at South Sterling, MI, kill
ing thirteen Of them. Strange TO say,
boy who was milking eve and anoth-
er boy who held it we're uninjured, while
the sheep was killed. ~ tt. COIN. q
Accounts from the famine stricken
portion Of China are ghastly reading,
embracing as theydo recitals of parents
feeding ON children, and brothers on
sisters. All humanity was obliterated
in the presence of ravening hunger. e..
The bed of the river along the front
Of New Orleans is being covered with
thick mats OF cane, strongly wired to-
gether, and weighted with bags of sand.
The object is to protect the shore from
being washed out by varying currents.
A passenger from Liverpool lately had
a false bottom ripped out of his trunk by
the New York custom officials, disclosing
mine three inches deep with gold
watches and other trinkets, concerning
which the owner had not paid the duty.
Thirty'two tramps took possession of
Humboldt Wells, a mining town in Ne
vada, stripped themselves of clothing,
held war dance in the principal street,
and declared their intention to sack the
place, but party of mounted men
drove them naked into the hills and
whipped them soundly.
Solon Robinson, the eminent agricul-
turist, says he has seen as fine looking
tea growing in Florida as ever China
produced; but owing to the manipula-
tion or some other cause, he never met
aperson who cared for second cup of the
decoction prepared from it. From which
he concludes tea culture can never sue
ceed in this country.
During the year 1878 there we're 2,7OS
medical students graduated from the SO
colleges Of the United States. AS the
statistics show that in this country an
average OF 800 people support one ply.
sician, there must be constant supply
of over $1,000 patients, who must pay
the handsome sum Of 81, ,976, 900 year
in order to allow each doctor only so q
day. cntgr Haf
The latest ministerial scandal is the
of the Rev. George A.
Simpson, in East Boston, as q horse
thief. He was detected in the act Of
taking horse from the barn OF Benja-
min Treen, at West Mansfield. As he
assaulted Mr.. Treen and his son with
a loaded pistol, anG fred at them when
detected, he will probably be locked up
for long term.
AMemphis paper speaking of the ter
rible scourge in that city says: 1t is sad
TO see well conducted young mon who,
two months ago would have shuddered
at proposition to go in and 'quencb,
now look the admiring dispenser OF IL
guilds boldly in the eye, and call for
whisky straight. Youths drink now
who never drank before, and those who
drank before still drink the more.
Farmer Griffin lost melons from his
patch at Slndersville, Ga. and planned
q joke on the thieves. Young Yarbor.
ough, his nephew, was to join them in a
midnight raid, and fall down with cry
that,he was shot, when Griffin fred a
revolver into the air. Griffin fred Rt the
proper time, and Yarborough fell with
,ry Of real agony, for q bullet had by
chance entered his head, making NOR
tal wound. tf,- .-t.l.-... .,...
: A useful device for preventing o class
Of accidents by which SO many people
have been killed or crippled for life
has been introduced on the Delaware
and Hudson Canal company's railway
,ars. II consists of movable steps,
which at the stations are let down with.
in one foot OF the ground. When the
,ars are in motion the steps are lifted
nigh, 80 that it is impossible to jump
,ither on or off.
The wheat crop Of Illinois this year,
according to figures received by the
State board Of agriculture, amounts toa
jotal Of AZ 041, ,262 bushels; an average
of nineteen and two.third bushels per
acre, and Ia valued Of $37, 2ee, 757, oran
lverage Of eighty-eight cents per bushel
IN the producers hands. II is considered
the largest and most valuable wheat
,rop ever raised in the State. The total
and sown in wheat was 2, 1877, ,OS3 acres.
The experiments with the Krupp gun
1t Essen have had most important re-
Jults, which, il maintained, may show
hat the whole English ordnance system
requires reform. The Krupp cannon
aave proved equal in penetration TO