The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-04-17
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1883.
The district of Coadoba, Mexico,
estimates Its next coffee crop at 3,O00,-
600 pounds.
In lSfj the average yield of wheat
I'm France was eleven bushels TO the
acre, now it is fifteen.
During 1877, j,S77 persons emigrated
from the Austro-Hungarian empire,
and nearly all came to the United
States.
-Salicylic acid is said to prevent
honey fermenting when used in pro-
portion of one-fourth of an ounce of the
acid to 30 pounds of honey.
California is expecting the best
raisin crop this year ever raised in the
State. Ii is set as high as 100, 900 boxes,
but conservative accounts set 1t ut
10000.
In 1861 New York State dairy but
ter sold as low as l3 to l6 cents per
pound, at which price thousands of
packages OF fine butter were exported
to England.
The Western Texas sheep husband
ry has grown immensely. in 1868 San
Antonio received but 600, 900 pounds of
wool, while in 1873 she received
100000.
The Western Methodist book con-
Germ reports sales $725,7Gl in 1873.
an increase Of $G7, ,2S7 over those of 1877.
The profits for the year were $40, 1896,
and the net capital is $446,37l.
. L.; |, an al haI Of onf
ton have been shipped from Milledge-
vile, Grorgia, during the present sea-
son. 1t is thought the shipments will
reach fourteen thousand.
The sum of $235,144 has been paid
toward the preservation of the Old
South Church, Boston; there is $26, 800
on hand or subscribed, and $l77 1896
more is wanted.
In parts of Clearfeld county, Pa,
the amount of small game frozen
during the winter is so large as TO ex-
cite fear of ar entire determination of
some kinds.
Miss Mary j. Wadleigh, of Sutton,
Mass, has not less than ene hundred
pet cats, and when one of them dies,
by a neat monument.
The hotel, eating houses and liquor
store license applications for Montgom-
cry county. Pa, for 1879, number 1893
applicants for hotel license, 10 for eat
ing house license.
The Howard Association Officers
are now burning all the tents used in
Chattanooga, Memphis, New Orleans,
and other points during the yellow
fever epedemic.
DIR. lie MOyne's cremation oven, at
Washington, Pa, it is said, is not to be
turned into popcorn factory, as stated,
but it is TO be converted into a bone
dust producer, for the benefit Of sur
rounding farmers.
The wind has been blowing across
the top of Mount Washington, lately,
at the rate of Ia miles an hour, the
snow is so deep that the buildings are
buried to their caves, and the tempera-
ture frequently falls to twenty degrees
below zero.
The original charter of Newark
(Delaware) College. which is still in a
good state OF preservation, was granted
by Thomas Penn and Richard Penn,
Governors of the State of Pennsylvania
in the year 1863, and signed by Lieu
tenant Governor John Penn.
M. de Lesseps, of Suez Canal fame,
proposes to take the Isthmus of Darien
Canal project in hand, and has issued
invitations to the various nations in
terested to send representatives to a
meeting at Paris on the 10Th of May,
when route will be decided upon.
The Ancient and Honorable Artil-
lero Company of Boston has undertaken
the formation of military museum
and library at its armory, with the OBJ
ject of preserving the military records
and relics to be found in so many OF
the old houses of Massachusetts and
other portions of New England.
The total cotton spindles in the
North are now estimated at about S,9OO,-
600, and IN the South at $1,000, or
total in the United States of say 10, $780,
600. OF the 5S,000,00O spindles em-
ployed in the manufacture of cotton In
1876 the United States had in round
numbers 100000 and Great Britain
10000, 900.
The valuations of the leading cities
and towns of Connecticut are: Hart
ford, $40, 752 ,073; New Haven, $40 ,209,-
O49: Norwich, $l4 ,G02, ,90l Bridgeport,
$l2, 7Ol GIG; Mcriden, $S. .7S3, ,S39; Stam-
ford. SIS, S,065 ,S20; Waterbury, $685.
72s; New London, SO, 746, ,167; Norwalk,
So ,4S2, ,9GG; MiddleGown, Sc, ,422, 1875;
Danbury, $5,233,33 StOnington, So
OS3 ,533; New Britain, 81, ,6S7, ,S4l.
The collectors of the fund for the
relief of those who were made orphans
by the Princess Alice disaster in the
Thames, after obtaining no less than
$3.50, 900 for that purpose, are at a loss
what to do with it, They can find only
twelve persons thus bereaved, and,
though it is proposed to educate them
and give them a sum of money to start
in life, it is justly thought that $l2, 800
apiece would be an excessive sum.
"A considerable sensation has been
caused in Patterson, n. j., by discov-
ery of a small outflow of petroleum oil
through the assures of the rock walls
of cellar in South Patterson. The
premises are owned by John Rufilng,
German. The oil has been tested, and
is pronounced unusually pure, and pro-
perty owners are in fever of excite
ment. Indications of oil have been
found about Paterson before, but
nothing was ever developed.
The Exhibition of 1878 is not at an
end yet, for it appears that the Medal
lists have not yetreceived their rewards.
The delay seems strange, but there are
many strange things in France, and
not few happened in connection with
this very Exhibition. The gold medals
are now being manufactured at the
Hotel des Monnaies. Each of them is
of a value varying from 500 francs ($l6O)
to 1900 francs ($360), and each medal,
the designs for which were supplied by