The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-11-20
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


the year is estimated at 4i,000 tierces
ard that Of Georgia at $4,000.
A Swiss colony OF seven hundred peo-
pie now in Tennessee devote their timo
TO cheese making.
Victor Hugo is a broad-shouldcred
man. He has full beard, almost white,
and he does not appear ethereal.
An agreement relative to postoflice
money orders has just been concluded at
Berlin between Germany and the United
States.
The long.standing order of the post
Office department which required that
all postal cards having any portion OF
the message written on their face should
be treated as unmailable, has been re-
scinded, except in cases where it makes
the address illegible.
The Mercer county, Pa, court, in a
case in which person on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad sued the company for put
ting him of q train because he had re-
fused TO pay an additional fare which
was demanded, because he had left ono
train and taken another, the plaintiff
was non-suited on tho ground that he
had violated the contract printed on the
ticket.
The liability OF common carrier has
Just been defined by the kentucky court
Of appeals as follows: The consignor is
not bound TO accept or agree to the terms
of the special contract in restriction OF
the carriers liability, but in such cases
it is his duty TO refuse to accept the
written instrument limiting such liability
by returning it to the carrier, after he
has had time to ascertain the contents,
with notice OF non-acceptance.
Prince do Bourbon, son of the Count
d'Aquila, uncle of the eX.King Francis
II, of Naples, and grandson of Dom
Pedro l., Emperor of Brazil, comes to
claim the hand OF Miss Aver, daughter
of the late proprietor Of Ayers pills, who
has fortune of So, ZOO, 900, and is thus
the richest heiress in the United States.
She is said to be lovely young girl of
twenty, and the great and noble count
is thirty.two.
A novel phase Of the labor question
has just been developed in the South
Carolina cotton fields. The colored
people in one section held an excited
meeting, extending through Saturday
night and Sunday, and adopted rosolu-
tions binding themselves, their wives
aud children, not to pick cotton for less
than fifty cents per one hundred pounds,
under penalty of whipping, o member
Of the organization to apply the lash.
A feature of Austrian prison discipline
is tho practice Of compelling the convict
TO reflect upon his offense. IL is in the
discretion Of the Judge, on passing sen
tence OF imprisonment, to prescribe also
compulsory fasting at stated intervals
every year, and TO direct, in addition to
abstention from food, aperiod Of solitary
confinement on each anniversary of the
crime. The fasting ndsolitary confne-
ment arc believed by German irists to
have valuable rotormatory influence.
A candIestick has been constructed of
porcelain, and SO arranged with applied
phosphorus that it gives sufficient light
to read iu the darkness Of a cellar the
label on cask. where spirits or other
inGammable liquids are stored. BY this
means the explosions occurring from tho
incautious use of an unprotected light
are obviated. Further improvements
may mako this light substitute for Sir
Humphrey Davy's lamp for tho use OF
miners.
One of the most remarkable incidents
OF true tenacity was verified in a red fox
chase in Johnston county, Ga. The
chase lasted for eight hours, aud every
dog was entirely exhausted but one and
he held out until both he and the fox
were run down, when they positively
laid down close to each other, and every
time the fox would move or attempt to
get up the dog would move toward it,
hut could not quite get hold of Reynard,
who, by the assistance Of the hunters,
was captured.
The manager of the Burlington and
Lamoille railroad, in Vermont, has in use
an ingenious method of conveying cord
wood distance of two miles and landing
it on the cars. He has erected small
fume from point near the timber lead
ing to the station. A stream of water
from brook is turned into the flume
and the wood floats down very rapidly,
and OF the terminus is shot on to the cars
while the water falling short flows away
into the river. Thirty cords Of wood are
placed on the cars in this manner every
day.