The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-11-06
ITEMS or GENERAL INTEREST

child with one black eye and one blue
The San Antouio Free Press declares
that Texas eau produce better wine than
California.
A Cleveland boy of seventeen years Is
six feet nine aud a quarter inches high
in his stockings.
Work on tue Northern Pacific, west
of Bismarck, is now progressing at the
rate OF mile day.
Over l 000persons in CLARK and Wayne
counties, Miss, earn their living by the
turpentine industry.
The experimental cotton factory OF At
lanta, Ga, is getting along, with orders
ahead for 600, 900 yards OF cloth.
Meissonier has an unfinished picture
on his easel for which Mr.. William w.
Astor is said 10 have paid S2S,000.
While man was eating a meal in
Pottsboro, Tex, restaurant, bat flying
about the room struck him in the eye
with such force as to destroy the sight.
A rural visitor at tho Baltimore city
hall, deceived by the purity OF a large
French glass window opening on bal
cony, rushed forcibly ont for view, and
breaking the pane, was mulcted OF 800.
On 5plittinga a block of ice cut in one
of the Middle States, Young black bass
was found in frozen condition. AL
though incased in ice for eight months,
it revived and swan about lively few
hours after being placed in water.
A colored man resting on the gallery
railing of church in Chatham, Va,
fell asleep and toppled over, seriously
injuring n woman on whom he tumbled.
Another woman was severely bruised by
one OF the mans shoes striking her
head.
A writer in Nature proposes that car
rier pigeons be used to bear news OF ap-
preaching storms. The birds may be
carried out to sea five hundred miles by
out going steamers and dispatched with
the weather news ahead Of the weather
itself.
A bondholder having had the misfor-
tune to lose by fire some coupons repre-.
senting Heveral thousand dollars in in
terest, forwarded the ashes to the treag-
ury department for redemption, same as
il they were bonds, but the officials. dc.
cided they had no power to redeem them
as the coupons had been detached.
Mr.. Grandson Fairchild is the father
of three college presidents, viz, Ober-
lin, .Berea, and Kansas State agrioultu
raj. One of his sons.in-law is a profes
sor in the Michigan agricultural college,
and at least eight or nine of the grand
sons and grandsons irIaw are also col
lege professors.
Amateur newspapers cannot be admit
ted TO the mails rs second class matter,
because they are not issued from known
Office of publication, are not published
for the dissemination of news Of pub
lie character, and have no legitimate lit
Of subscribers. Many nefarious pruo
tees have grown up in tho amateur
newspaper business.
A lady in Philadelphia was fortunate
in being robbed last week. The light
fingered person who operated upon her
pocket secured hfr pocket.book contain
ing only So, but left behind beautiful
diamond ring valued at $500, which
must have slipped from his finger. The
lady AYERS her entire satisfaction with
this exchange.
West Point men make a mistake in
looking upon army appointees from civil
life as interlopers. OF the staff corps,
the number of graduates of West Point
is 231, while there are 2s9 staff officers
appointed from civil life. OF the line
officers, the number of West Point grad
yates is 597, and the number appointed
from civil life 637. General Mcclellan
was the first West Pointer placed in
command of the army.
A generous cattle dealer, Mr.. John
Tinnon, of Texas, who owns thousands
Of head of cattle running at large, pub
fishes this notice: All honest, good,
industrious, poor men, with families,
are welcome to kill an occasional calf of
mine for food, provided they do not
waste the meat, aud all my honest neigh
bors are welcome to skin and sell the
hides Of my dead animals, but living
animals must be untouched
Mormon women having endeavored TO
take advantage of the homestead law,
the department denied their right, de-
Gliding that no woman who voluntarily
maintains and acknowledges her position
TO be that of plural or polygamous
wife should be permitted TO make
homestead or pre.emption entry OF pub
lie lands, as he very fact that she retains
such relation is conclusive evidence that
the entry is not made in good faith for
her exclusive use and benefit.
A touching incident Of the plague in
the South is recorded in late Memphis
papers. T. Il. Marshall and Jane, his
wife, we're taken i'll at nearly tho same
time, and both died within half hour
Of each other. During their illness they
would allow neither doctor nor nurse to
attend them. and all medicine was re-
fused. They wero prepared for burial