The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

sented a case Of valuable books TO Colby
University, Wateryllle, Me.
The great fire Of London occurred
September 2, 1866. 1t Itdestroyed nearly
the whole city.
The Mansion House Iondon) Hun
garian floods relief fund amounts to
$4,000
Mrs. John G. Northrop, of Bur-
lington, VT, has just given birth to her
seventeenth child.
-Gad's Hill Place, the late residence
Of Charles Dickens, is to be sold by
auction.
The State quarries of Northampton
county, Pa, have nearly all resumed
operation.
1t is proposed to celebrate, at Pom
peii, this summer, the lS00th anniver-
sary of the destruction of that city by
an eruption of Vesuvius.
-Only three murderers have been
hanged in Connecticut during the last
twenty years, but there are now three
under sentence of death.
-Bobie is a town in California. Six
months ago it had 800 or 600 buildings
and population of 400. Now 1t has
some 1000 buildings and population
of 1000
The American Consul at Florence
informs Mr.. Evarts that American
manufacturers could successfully fur
nish steel wheels for the Italian rail-
ways.
During February, IA vessels of
total Of Is, 200 tons were launched on
the Clyde, Scotland. OF these six were
ocean steamers, ranging from 1000 to
5000 tons.
"A large number of heavy, broad
tired wheels were made in West Ches-
ter and shipped to England, whence
they will be sent to Southean Africa,
where they will be used for heavy haul
ing.
--Ex-Sheriff Hogencamp, of Paterson,
New Jersey, who died recently
left exactly one hundred descendants
children, grandchildren, great-grand-
children and great-great-grandch
The rays of the sun, shining
through stereoscope, set fire TO
table IN the house of George w. West
in Chichester, N. H., few days ago,
and the building narrowly escaped
burning.
The amount of logs cut on the west
branch ofthe PenObscot river, in Maine,
during the winter, is estimated at 25,-
900, 900 feet, on the East branch, II 2,000,-
000 and On the Mattawamkeag, 20, ,000,-
900 feet.
A swarm OF bees took possession of
the chimney of Middletield Comm
Methodist Church during the summer,
and when a fire was kindled in the
stove on a recent Sunday the floor OF
the church basement literally flowed
with honey.
The foundation for a Jesuit Col
lege to cost 100000 has been begun in
San Francisco. il will comprise a col
lege, with all the requirements Of mod
ern education, such as laboratories,
libraries, studies and rooms for the stu
dents and professors, church and
theatre capable of seating 5000 persons.
Cyrus Degler, of Marion township,
Berks county, Pa, awoke on the morn
ing of his wedding to find the snow
VII cO DlSh ii hlSbdnCC vi SCNCldl
hundred yards that his sleigh could not
be driven through it. He shovelled
out roadway in two hours, and was at
the BRIDES house at the appointed hour.
The Annual report of the Massa-
chusetts Bank Commissioners has just
been published. From it it appears
that the total deposits in the savings
banks doing business in that State on
October 81, 1878, were 5000, 800, ,63l1S,
being a decrease for the year of $34,-
755, 1888. This decrease includes $7.263,-
-00.62 in the banks in the hands of re-
ceivers.
Thomas Millerchip, a surgeon at
Coventry, England, has been sentenced
by Lord Coleridge to four months i'm
prisonment, with hard labor, for failing
to attend sick child in the district of
which he was medical officer. The
charge against him was that of man
slaughter by culpable negligence, and
the jury found him guilty, and strong
ly recommended him to mercy.
The first Marquis of France has
just died, the Count of Mailly, Prince
of Lisle and Marquis of Nesle. He
was the son Of Marshal de Mailly, who
so heroically defended Louis XVI, on
the 10th of August, and great-grandson
of Louis de Mailly, Prince of Orange
and Commandant of the Gendarmerie
of France. The title is as old as the
eleventh century.
When Queen Victoria sailed on the
royal yacht for France it was on one of
the stormiest and most disagreeable
Saturdays of the whole year. A writer
in London paper. commenting on this
shows that Saturday is an unlucky day
for the royal house. William H.,
Queen Anne, the four Georges, the
Duchess of Kent, the Prince Consort
and the Princess Alice all died Oh
Saturday.
The California Woodpecker's hab-
it of dropping acorns and other nuts
into knot holes and hollow trees, as a
source Of future supply, is well known,
and an ingenious Napa farmer has
turned 1t into good account by knock
ing out knot in the side of his barn
and placing trough underneath. AS
the birds drop their acorns in his hogs
seize them, and are thus fattened at no
expense to himself.
There are twenty-five Mennonite
villages in Manitoba, with 4S0 dwell
lings and 284l residents. The immi-
grants from Russia have 1870 acres
under cultivation, 362 horses and some
$500 COWS and oxen, and have already
large stores of grain and other produce.
They are growing rich rapidly and
prove the very best of citizens, settling
all their disputes among themselves
aud having in their colony neither u
constable nor q lookup
The present year is memorable
ono In the dnvalnnmpnt of the RnRainn