The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-31
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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Pillow is writing his fathers biogra.
ply.
A colored Methodist church in Abbe-
vile, S. c., gaves1, 200 lastyear for char.
table purposes.
They are agitating the removal of the
capital Of Louisiana from New Orleans
to some interior town.
The London Sunday school union has
under It's care 4,361 schools, log, 039
teachers and 964, ,724 scholars.
The Cornish mines in Great Britain
have been worked for one thousand
years, and are entirely exhausted.
The government has just made its first
contract for moving machines and reap
ers for the use Of the Indians on reser
vations.
While steamtug was running up the
river from San Francisco at night, a
thirty-pound salmon sprang aboard, and
was captured.
The sanitary condition of Memphis,
Tenn, is reported by the board Of health
Of that city to be better than at any pre-
vious time in twenty years.
1t is announced on excellent authority
that Edison has abandoned his theory of
the electric light and adopted that of Mr..
Wallace oF Anaoo;o Iopr
The clergymen of New York State,
aided by some Of the ablest lawyers, are
about to begin war on the Shaker COM
munity at Oneida, on account of their
free love practices.
A black snake, four feet long, has re-
Gently been killed at Darlington, near
Havre de-Grace, with head on each
end. The snake could travel in either
direction with equal facility.
The temperance movement seems to
have taken firm hold Of the inhabitants
of Sandy Creek, N. Y, for of the fifteen
hundred residents one thousand have
taken the pledge Of total abstinence.
There is considerable excitement in
the silk market, prices of the raw mate
rial having advanced 81 to $40 per
pound. The advance is owing to the
failure of the French and italian crops.
At two o'clock Of q Monday morning
the doors of the Congregational taberna-
Gle in Jersey City were found open and
all the lights ablaze. A careless sexton
Ind forgotten to close the house of wor-
ship.
AS two passenger-laden ocean steamers
were passing down New Yolk harbor,
they collided, and damage to the amount
Of $2O, 200 done. There was great com.
motion among the people on board, but
none of them were injured.
half of the hair and beard of man in
Springfield, Mass, has turned gray,
while the other half retains its natural
dark color. The dividing line Of the
beard is in the middle of the chin, and
on the head it is Immediately over the
nose.
Russia has solved the problem of the
Servian boundary. When the commits.
sion failed to agree upon boundary,
Russian soldiers, at the point of the bay
onet, drove the Servians beyond the
boundary line set by Russia, and threat
ened to shoot any one coming within a
league of it.
An eigbteen.months' old child, in
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, after Watching
blacksmith shoe a horse, picked up a
little hammer and, crawling between
the legs OF team on the street, began
hammering at the foot of one of the
horses, when it stepped upon the in
fant's leg and broke the bone short off,
and then kicked it in the head fatally.
The growing of wheat on large scale
in the Argentine republic has only been
carried on two or three years, and yet,
at last accounts, forty vessels were load
ing in the river Plata with wheat for
Europe. The country is fast filing up
with emigrants from Italy, France and
Germany, and promises soon to be
sharp competitor in grain shipments
with the United States.
John King, who has been an industri-
ous 'newsboy' in Cincinnati for ten years,
notwithstanding being crippled in both
legs, has just given the city library
2, 800 select volumes, fearing to keep
them in his squalid tenement for fear of
fire. He has always lived in absolute
penury, and devoted all his funds to the
purchase of rare books, being fond of
classic reading. he still peddles papers,
and is scarcely above want.
For years Great Britain has been
regarded as the richest coun-
try on the face OF the earth, her wealth
aggregating, exclusive Of public high
ways, $42, 500, 900, 900. Recent estimates
place France ahead in the matter Of
wealth. Her private property, real and
personal, is set down at $43, 110,600,000
and her navy, palaces, public buildings
and other public property, excepting
at 81, 1,475,OOO,OOO, making
1856, 100000,
A Mr.. Collins Of Tennessee claims
that On infusion Of some kind Of wood
moss is q specific for the bite Of rattle
snakes, and TO demonstrate lis efficacy
allowed himself to be stung by snake
in tho presence Of two Nashville doctors,
when he Immediately took draught Of