The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-02-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Canned fruit Is an important item,
In South American commerce.
Brazil gets most Of its foreign agri-
cultural products from Portugal and
other European countries.
The number OF emigrant arrivals at
Castle Garden, New York, last year
was 70, ,S02, against 63, ,s55 in 1877.
Onions are largely imported from
Brazil TO Portugal. They are said TO
be superior to the American onion,
Statistics show chat there are G2i,-
743 children In France between the
ages of 6 and l3 who do not attend
school.
AT auction, in Savannah, a cargo of
white pine of 900 feet was sold, for
export TO the West Indies, for $275 per
thousand feet.
Mr.. Lewis Swift, the astronomer of
Rochester, n. Y, has had plans made
for an observatory at that city, aud ex-
poets subscriptions of 5000 to enable
him to build 1t.
The value Of the entire amount OF
gold In the world is estimated at nearly
$1,000, 100000 1t might all be contain
ed in block IL feet high, 2s feet wide,
and Sc feet in length.
The receipts of all kinds Of grain at
Philadelphia for 1878 were nearly
10 ,000, coo bushels in excess of 1879,
when the totals were greater than
during any previous year.
"A decision has Just been rendered
in st. Louis that the city cannot be held
responsible for damages when person
Ia run over by fire companies while
hastily answering an alarm.
"A sixteen.year. old boy and four
teen-year-old girl were married at
North Adams, Mass, several days ago,
and just after the ceremony sheriff
put in an appearance to take them home.
Ives Statue of Roger Sherman has
been received in Hartford, Conn.,, from
Rome, and will be placed in position
over the east entrance to the Capital
building opposite the statue OF Governor
Trumbull.
The telegraph at Holly, Michigan,
stepped out TO get bucket of coal the
other night, and, while he was gone,
some one stepped in and stole his stove.
His thoughts were indescribable. but
he said nothing.
The Russian Government has con-
ferred upon Mr.. f. D. Mlllet, corres-
pondent of the Ne,C York Herald during
the Russo.Turkish war, the insignia OF
the Orders of st. Stanislaus and Stanne
of the third class.
The report of the mortality of New
Haven, Conn.,, for the year 1873 shows
that there were 144l deaths, of which
lC77 were of white persons, $50 of these
being males. OF the whole number,
743 were born in Connecticut.
"A violent shock of earthquake oc-
cured on a recent Sunday at Calatagi-
rome, Sicily. The congregation In a
to the doors. Two women were crushed
to death, and twenty persons were SER
iously injured.
On November IL, the occasion of
the ninth birthday of the Prince of
Naples, the heir apparent to the Italian
throne, he was taken by his mother,
Queen Margherita, to the Hall of the
Five Hundred, in Florence. He was
enthusiastically received by 5000 child
rem.
Another mysterious disappearance
of a picture Is reported. OF M. Jean
Paul Laurens' picture, ,''L'EXhumation
du Pape Formose," which was hung in
the French galleries at the Paris Exhi-
bition, no trace can be found, in spite
of the most careful researches. NJ.
Laurens intends to bring an action
against the managers.
I'm 1928, New York, with a popula-
ton Of l69, 900, had thirty newspapers.
1t was estimated at that time that the
United States lad one paper in every
l3, 800 of population; England, one in
$500; France, one in Co. 300; Prussia,
one in $4,000; Austria, one In 400, 900;
Russia, one in 672 600: Sweden ana
Norway, one in AZ 600; Portugal, one in
207, 900; Spain. one in S6S,000.
The son of King Theodore of Abys-
sinia, who was taken to England alter
the fall of Magdala, is being educated
for the British army. He is a slender
and dusky youth, and naughty and
shrewd as becomes descendant of the
Queen of Sheba. He likes his English
life, admitting that spring mattress
and ulster in London are preferable to
mat and bare legs and blanket In
Abyssinia.
DIR. Buchner, a personal friend Of
the late Princess Alice Of Hesse, says
that the latter expressed presentiment
some days before she was taken sick,
that she would die on the approaching
anniversary of her fathers death, and
that she contemplated death with the
utmost fortltude and resignation. Only
a few weeks ago the Princess was sitting
by the dying bedside of DR.. Buchner's
wife, to whom she was devotedly at
tached.
Miss G. Moore who died In Kings.
ton recently, was the daughter of
Thomas Moore, one of the merchant
citizens of Boston who composed the
famous party which threw over the tea
in Boston harbor, December 16, l774,
and, singularly enough, she died on the
anniversary OF that event. She was the
only person of the second generation
present at the centennial celebration OF
the tea party held In Boston, December
IL, 1874.
The Committee on the Sumner Me-
mortal in Boston, finding that balance
OF $3.50 Is still In the treasury, after
paying all the hills connected with the
placing of the statue on the Public Gar
den In that city, have decided to Join
with the trustees of the estate IN erect
ing mausoleum over the grave OF Sum-
ner at Mt. Auburn. The structure will
be simple in style, but of sufficiently
solid appearance. and, the Ornamental
tion will be In keeping with the gener-
al design, Its expense being estimated
at about three thousand dollars.
The French Court Of Cessation con-
slsts of fifty.six members, and their
salaries aggregate 2lc,000, The frs
president has a salary of $4,000 a year
the three other presidents each receive
$4,000 year; the forty FIVE counsellOrs
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