The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-04-03
BRIEFS.

DcHiuSs supplying lntlT own iildIhel
the French expOrtannuallyl 900 900, 900
eggs, valued at $l2, 100000.
Great Britain has 81 ,532 900 sheep
on 7,2S4 ,lS4 acres which realize all
annual profit Of the value of $3.50, ,0O0, 900.
The desk and bookcase used by Dan.
lei Webster are now the property OF
Edwin Fernald, of Great Falls, n. H.,
and in use in his office.
Seven hundred and eighty.two peo-
pie were under treatment at DixmOnt
insane asylum, near Pittsburg, during
the last year.
The Italian colony In New York
city numbers 5000. They have twelve
mutual benefit societies and one Mason
ic lodge.
in 1870 there were in the United
States 1892, ,59l acres under wheat,
while I'm 1877 the area had increased to
2G, l93, ,4O7 acres.
"A woman at Luckfeld, Me-, rect mt
ly entertained three female visitors. who
weighed respectively $50, 262 and Isl
pounds, or total of 500 pounds.
Several days ago a deed of tract of
land in Dartmouth, Mass, was record
ed at New Bedford, In the same State,
which was conveyed in November, 1893,
but had never been put on record.
DIR. c. IL. f. Peters, the director o
the Litchfeld Observatory of Hamilton
College, Clinton, n. Y, has been elec.
ted an associate member of the Royal
Astronomical Society of Great Britain.
There arrived last week, at Ply
mouth, n. H., from California, 90 900
land-lOcked salmon eggs, for the New
Hampshire State HatChing House. The
eggs came by express, packed in wet
moss.
"A man named Balson, who was re-
Gently hanged in Western State, con.
fessed that he murdered two men whose
charred remains were found In the
burning cinders of camp in the town
of Trescott, Me-, about thirty years ago.
Total abstinence will be an essential
requirement in the selection of servants
of the new Government railroad OF
Quebec for promotion, and all engine
drivers, firemen, switchmen. operators,
despatchers and foremen must be abb
stainers.
The consumption of cotton by
American manufacturers was greater
by 10000 in 1878 than In 1877. The
yield of the staple in the United States
exceeds that of any year on record, be.
ing 4,Sll ,266 bales, of 1910 pounds gross
each, up to September lst.
Two very aged persons have Lately
died in Maine. Lettie Larrabee, of
Knox, l0l years, and John Eason, u
coloreG preacher of Augusta. who was
born in Wareham, Mass, l776, and was
consequently nearly 103 years of age at
the time of his death.
"A petition is in circulation In Bos-
ton, TO modify the regulations now IN
force at the City Hospital, so as to afford
women engaged in the study eff medl.
cine and surgery equal facilities for
clinical observations and professional
improvement with male students.
AT the end of January the total
number of paupers in London was SO, ,663
of whom Al, ,7C0 were In workhouses and
43, ,954 received outdoor relief. These
figures show marked increase since
January, 1873 and 1877, but decrease
when compared with the figures of
January, 1876.
"A man now residing In Idaho, who
26 years ago cut his foot badly by step
ping Upon broken glass, has just had a
piece OF glass removed from his foot.
The glass had shifted its position about
six inches, working back and upward
from the toes to the ankle.
Ira Cook, laborcr, 67 years old
attempted to scale high fence In North
ampton, Mass, and his foot caught be-
tween the pickets and he hung there
till he died. The fence was battered
with the heel marks of the other fOoI,
and the snow was paved away as far ss
his hands could reach.
Mrs. Thomas Burns, OF Portland,
Me-, will, if she lives, be 1l3 years old
on April 10. She is still In good health,
but keeps her bed most of the time, and
is nearly blind. Her Bible shows that
she was married at Bristol, Me-, in 1884.
at which time she was Is years OF age.
Her husband has been dead for 46 years.
Statistics of our foreign trade for
the eleven months of 1878 ending with
the 3Oth Of November show balance
Of trade In merchandise in favor Of
America amounting to $269, ,55S 8l9,
against a similar balance in the cores
ponding period Of 1877 amounting to
800, ,304 900. The balance in specie IL
In favor of imports is 81 ,767 30G. In the
eleven months of 1876 there was an ex-
cess of exports of specie, amounting to
b24 ,297 ,270.
During the eleven months of the
year 1873, Great Britain expoI ted
10 all countries articles of British and
Irish produce and manufacture amount
Ing to ELS, l43. 800, or about $500, 7l6,525
and during the same time imported pro-
1ncts and manufactures valued at f33S,
)S2, 1892, or 81, ,G94, oil 900. The exports
Tor the same eleven months in 1877
ending November 30) reached E1S2,-
Sll $40, and the imports f36l ,045 ,053--
showing decrease during the past
year.
Paris has AZ dailies including the
Obiciel and Bulletin Francois, 25 OF
which are published in the morning.
Of the 40 that take party sides, % are
Republican, 6 Ligitlmist, OrIeanist
md lmperialist. The big papers cir-
,ulate $50 600 copies day, Of which
about 100000 preach Republican poll
,ics, go, 900 Orleanist, GO, 900 Imperialist,
md "a 900 Ligitimist. The circulation
of the small papers is estimated at
200, 900 day; of this three.quarters
IS Republican, 100000 disseminate,
Orleanist views and 20 600 Imperialism.
The new peal of twelve bells In st.
Paul's Cathedral, London, has been ded-
Gated, Before the bells began to ring
ihe Bishop of London and the clergy,
kneeling on cushions ranged round the
Delfry, one before the pedestal on
which each Of the ringers stood, Joined
In the form of prayer prescribed for
The occasion, AT tho conclusion of the
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