The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-01-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

III lofO lneTe were over 2O2 OOO OOO
lbs. Of tobacco grown in the United
States. Estimating the average product
at about 500 lbs. per acre, we may con-
clude that over 300, 900 acres were under
this crop.
"A gentleman In Boston, has just pre-
sented TO the public library Of that city
the sum of $1,000, which is to be funded,
and the income therefrOm expended In
the purchase OF books relating to Ameri-
can history.
1t is stated that the miniature Swiss
chalet-a present from Fechter, the ac.
TORN which Dickens wrote most of his
later works, has been taken to the
grounds of the Crystal Palace Company
atSydenham.
The Chicago elevators contain at the
present time about 4,064 ,299 bushels of
wheat, j02 29j bushels of corn, 229 ,26j
bushels OF oats, l39, JIG bushels OF rye,
and ,2G3, ,967 bushels of barley, making
a grand total of 6 2SS, 9l2 bushels.
"A few months ago the city of Cers,
Venezuela, was destroyed by an earth
quake. IL is now about to be rebuilt,
but upon an entirely new site In the
plain below, where several villages es-
capped unscathed, while every town on
the hillside was oveTthrown.
Great Britain last wear imported
oranges TO the extent Of 3 ,533, 7Sl BUSH
els, with money value of 81 ,73S 1926.
This is an increase since 1860 OF 2,379
7Sl bushels, showing that the consuml-
tion in eighteen years has multiplied
threefOld.
The receivers of the Townsend
Bank, at New Haven, Conn, have de-
cided to pay dividend of ten per cent.
$3.50 ,000) about the middle of Decem-
Der. This will make forty per cent.
Isl ,l20, ,009) in all returned to the de-
pOsllOrs.
During the last three years about
SO, l00, 900 have been collected for charl-
table purposes by the Mayors of London.
In 1876 the sum realized was about
$3.50 900; in 1877 the Indian famine fund
helped to swell the total to nearly $2,-
10000; this year the figures are about
1926 900.
"A number of the survivors from the
| Princess Alice disaster have started u
project to erect stained glass window
In the Woolwich Union Chapel, as a
thank-oflering for their preservation
and memento of the kindness which
they experienced from the officials OF
the Plumstead Infrmary.
During the last war 504 900 Russian
soldiers poured down through Rou-
mania into Turkey. Of these, 50, 800
were sent back by rail wounded and 62,-
$50 i'll, 81 900 sick went home &c Qdes a
by sea, $4,000 are still in hospital, 81 y
600 laid their bones in Roumania, and
$4,000 perished in Bulgaria.
While a farmer of Monroe, n. Y,
was prying open fiat stone in quarry
last week his hand touched something
cold and clammy, He raised the stone
and found ball made up of forty-tive
large black snakes. They were matted
together as though they had been braid
ed, and were separated by beating with
club.
Mr.. Spurgeon has declined to aacel
personally the gift of $25 900, which h
congregation is raising to commemorate
the completion of fhistwenty fifth year
work as Baptist minister, but will de-
vote the amount to the establishment
of permanent fund for the aged of Il
Metropolitan Tabernacle almh0uses,
fourteen in number.
The annual report of the Board of
Police Justices in New York city show
the following statistics of crime ia Il aU
city: The number of arrcs:s male by
the police during the year was rs, 533,
of M binh HR I0i ko
Der of prisoners held was 5l,7S6, the
number discharged was 26,7l7, and 30
cases are still pending.
The old Charter which was granted
to the colony of Connecticut In 1862 by
Charles III, and which was hung in the
Secretary of States office for many
years past, has recently been refran'd d
and the text renewed, and was on Sat
urday hung in the Secretary of States
office, in the new Capitol, at Hartford.
The frame is made of solid oak, from
the charter oak tree.
Mr.. Walter M. Gibson, a member
of the Hawaiian Parliament, has Just
entrusted to Mr.. L. r. Gould, of Boston,
tine work Of designing bronze statue OF
Kamehameha, the founder of the prCs-
ent government of the Sandwich ISL
ands, which is to be erected at an eX.
peHse of $4,000 to commemorate the
centennial anniversary of the discovery
of the islands by Captain Cook.
"A resident of Melbourne, Australia.
recently received from a friend In the
British Museum package ofpeas which
were taken from the folds In the cloth.
irg of an Egyptian mummy. 5000 years
old. On receiving them he placed theu
in tumbler of water, where in twenty
four hours they had swelled consider
ably, and then planted them in pots,
where they are now growing vigorously.
The old steamer Columbia, which
was sold in Baltimore last Monday for
$1,000 to satisfy claims against her, is
we'll known along the Potomac. She is
supposed to be the oldest steamer In the
United States. She was built in 1928.
and for forty-fve years ran between
Baltimore and Washington. She was re.
built In 1859, and has been used as an
excursion boat for the last five or six
years.
AN East Litchfield, Conn, boy
named Goodman fell recently and broke
an arm and dislocated his shoulder.
Shortly after two of his brothers were
badly injured by the premature explo-
sion Of blast. The news was carried
to their father by some one incautiously.
He was on the barn sbingling, and was
80 affected that he partially faintedlaDd
fell to the ground, breaking one leg and
receiving severe injuries about the head,
the skull being fractured in one place.
Lately, on dark night, stage
coach with nine passengers was passing
between Leadvillc and Canon City, Col,
when suddenly coach and horses and
driver and passengers fell over q bank