The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
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| harOuH lh Illinois, WIN membership
OF 3S,GlG.
Out of 972 600 pieces of baggage
carried over the Pennsylvania railroad
lines during the year 1873, only one
was lost.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron has
rented, for $4,000 year, the elegant
residence of Ex-Governor Shepherd,
in Washington, ID. c.
Mrs. Maria Gillett. grand-niece
Of Ethan Allen, and for fifty years
member of the Shaker community,
lately died from the bite of a spider.
The ProfessOrshlp of Botany in the
University of EJinburg is vacant. The
emOluments of this position are said.to
amount 10 about $4,000.
About $25 600 worth of wild ducks
were sold from Hayre de Grace (Md.)
market during the season Just closed,
which Is considered poor result.
William j. AydelOtte, of Maryland,
and George IL. Bagwell, of Virginia,
have been appointed to adjust the boun-
dary line between the two States.
"A capital stock of 100000 with
power to increase to S500,000 is being
subscribed to in Buffalo, n. Y, for the
purpose of building a new music hall
at that place.
"A pack of wolves was recently seen
in Dlacklick township, Armstrong
county, Pa. The farmers spread
around poisoned meat, and several dead
wolves have recently been found.
Mr.. Yung Wing, the Chinese Sec
of Ent ". IA
lately given to the Yale College Libra
ry 400 Chinese books, in addition to
like gift some two years ago.
The Penn Hardware Company of
Reading, Pa, are engaged on con-
tract for 500, 900 worth of egg-beaters.
and are allowed three years in which
10 complete the work.
"A little girl named Brademore is
lying dangerously Ill at COnemaugh
borough, Cambria county, Pa, from
violent exercise in rope jumping.
Another child is expected to die at the
same place from Il is cause.
The late DR.. Charles Ives, of New
Haven, Conn.,, bequeathed $4,000 to
Yale College for the support of poor
students in any department.. the same
New Haven Orphan Asylum.
What is supposed to be the largest
tree in the Southern States is tulip
bearing poplar near Augusta, Ga,
which is l55 feet high and nine feet in
diameter, its lowest branches being 55
feet from the ground.
The experiments with the electric
light in Portsmouth. Me. harbor are
reported to have been complete sue
cess. The results were equally satis-
factory whether the light was eoncen-
trated on a particular spot or thrown
over distance.
DR.. b. Joy Jetl'ries, who has been
testing the eyeSight of pupils in Boston
schools, found that of 9303 boys, 36l or
1888 per centum were color-blind in
greater or less degree. and that of
1929 girls. only two, or .036 per eentum
were afflicted at all in this way.
Mr.. johnson, an American, has
taken the first science scolarship at
Trinity College, Dublin, the authorities
having decided that-he has right to
hold it, as, although he was born in
America, his father was British sub
ject
Miss Lisetta Rist, for forty-three
years an organist in a London church,
died short time ago and left "con-
siderable" sum in the hands of the
trustees to be applied forever to the dis
tribution of gravel on steep and slippery
roadways in London. She had seen to
1t personally during her lifetime.
"A curious pair are two brothers, in
III q rTfOr1 (lnnn nlnua1 OF tho canna
place of business some miles from their
homes, who had falling out dozen
years ago, and have never spoken to
each other since, though they ride to
and from work in the same wagon,
preserving a moody silence toward
each other, with no other companion.
-Wilhelmj did a kindly act at Colum-
bus, Ohio. just before his arrival
there a woman died who was very fond
of music, and had eagerly anticipated
the pleasure of hearing him play. A
message was sent to Wilhelmi, and he
visited the house of death and request
ed the privilege of playing requiem,
as Is the custom in his own German
home, which was granted.
Mr.. George w. Halstead, the last
of the famous Halstead brothers, of
N. Y, died at Mount Holly,
in that State, recently, of pneumonia,
aged 81 years. Two years ago the eld-
est brother, eX-Chancellor Halstead,
died at Elizabeth, aged eighty five.
Last year Ex-Congressman Halstead
died at Trenton, aged eighty-tbree
years.
Potter, the trans-continental travel
lor yyL Lr nYrixya1 nt Co Ero ,tyith
his whe.lbaarow not long ago, made
the whole distance from Albany to
San Francisco, about 1000 miles, in 172
lays. He made an average of 231
miles day, or a little more than four
miles more than he agreed to make each
day, in order to win his wager of one
thousand dollars.
Mr.. IL. ID. Cone, a prominent
paper manufacturer of Housatonic,
Mass, in connection with his wife,
founded free library there in 1869,
which is open to all people In the coun-
~ as well as to his own operatives. 1t
has now twenty-six hundred volumes.
Mr.. Cone employs the librarian, pays
al the expenses himself and accepts no
assistance of any kind.
Fifteen portraits painted by Gill
bert Stuart are now In Washington.
Among these is the portrait of the cler-
yyman Edward Everett, at the age of
nineteen. Sir Edward Thornton hasin
his house the portrait of his father, Ed
ward Thornton, painted by Stuart
when the Engishman was Secretary of
he British Legation in Jeifcrson's
line. The picture is very well pre-
served.
There were distributed by the rail-
way postal clerks on the line between