The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-10
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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Virginia.
The total number Of emigrants land
ed at Castle Garden during the first Eve
months Of TIE present year was 1852
against 2S, l4j for the same period in
1878.
Tho allopathic physicians OF Philadel-
phia have agreed 10 collect bills month
ly, or at the end Of services in each case,
and have employed financial agent to
attend to collections.
General Fitzhugh Lee has resigned
his membership Of the board Of visitors
to the Mount Vernon association, and
General Jubal A. Early has been ap-
pointed to the vacancy.
Col. Alfred Shorter, of Rome, ca,
has donated Shorter college TO the Bap-
tist church Of that city, at q cost Of near
ly 800, 900. 1t is one Of the finest edu-
cational buildings in the South.
The land in ireland is cultivated by
GOO, COO tenants, who occury an average
of thirty-two acres each. There are
10000 landlords, OF whom 1,942 own
two-thirds of the whole country.
Capt. w. Fl. Jackson, a member Of
the American rifle team, recently won a
prize and scored the greatest record for
2O0-yard off.hand shooting, by counting
seventy-two out of possible seventy
five.
Forty-six thousand two hundred and
eighty-six persons emigrated last year
from Germany, very nearly s. COO more
than in the preceding year. The num-
ber in the past ten years is estimated at
845, 244.
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, has re-
turned to st. Mary's church in Mobile.
He desires to have the quiet necessary
for the arrangement and revision of his
poems, which will be published in book
form early in autumn.
Great damage has been done by forest
fires last week along the Lake Michigan
shore. Twenty buildings we're burned
near Horns Tier, and also number
near Ahnepee, Wis. Many families are
rendered penniless and destitute.
A lad in New York who had been un-
der water eight minutes was rescued by
another boy diving for him. After half
an hours hard work by surgeons life
was resuscitated. 1t is considered one
of the most remarkable cases known.
Edward Richardson, of Jackson, Miss,
probably is the richest man in the
South. He is reported to be worth
from SO, 900, 900 to IS. 900, 600 He owns
nineteen plantations and markets about
100000 pounds of cotton every year.
A letter written by the pope has been
published deploring the new civil mar
riage law, denying that the church de-
sires to encroach upon the prerogative
OF the State, but declaring that purely
civil marriages are destitute of honest
or sacred bonds.
John Miles, Mormon, was convicted
of polygamy at Salt Lake, and sentenced
to pay fine of 500 and be confined in
the penitentiary for FIVE years. The
case attracted a great deal of attention
through the support of Miles by the
Mormon leaders.
A party of railway officials travelling
over the Erie road made the distance
from New York city to Niagara Falls,
AL miles, in the fast time of eleven
hours and thirty minutes; the run from
Hornellsville TO the falls, 113 miles, was
made in two hours.
Elizabeth Rose, colored woman of
Incorporate habits, threw her two-year-
old girl out OF second story window in
New York, and the child's life was
saved only by her coming in contact
with o clothes-line. The unnatural
mother was held for attempted murder.
James Bryant, OF Gainesville, Ga, on
his deathbed confessed the murder of
revenue officer named Cotton, two years
ago, who mysteriously disappeared. -
Search in the spot where the murderer
declared the body to have been buried
resulted in finding q skeleton with the
skull crushed.
The French do not know much about
trotiing, judging by the time their horses
make. At late international horse
show at Paris, match, mile and half,
to wagon, open to all comers, was won
in no better time than four minutes and
ffty-two Heconds--one and half Sc
conds longer than itrequired Flora Tenn
pie to make two miles twenty years ago.
A minister Of Maine is accused OF
preaching full course Of the Rev. DIR.
Storr's sermons without explaining that
his people were getting the gospel at
second hand. The people were so i'm
pressed with tho force OF the sermons
that they gave the preacher call to
their church. One OF the young ladies
Of the flock was edited to the extent OF
becoming his wife. flf
An officer OF the Humane society who
has been investigating the transporta-
tion Of cattle from the far West TO the
Eastern market, finds that the animals
are frequently Eve days without food,
water or rest: jolted about the country,
which causes them to become feverish,
and thus impairs the blood, 80 that
when they are eventually killed and the
beef put upon the market II Is actually