The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-21
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A marble statue 10 Prince Louis will
be erected in Westminster abbey.

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Reading in the twilight has been the
means Of staining and ruining many
good eyes.
Blowing down lamp chimney TO ex.
tinguish the light is frequent cause Of
explosion.
A colony of 100 persons has been form.
ed Of the operatives OF Lowell, Mass,
TO emigrate to Coffee county, Tenn.
The mines in Spottsylvania. Va, have
just shipped twenty good-sized bags Of
gold dust to the Philadelphia mint.
Recently Senator Gordon, of Georgia.
was seen partaking ofthe communion in
church beside an old colored woman.
The dreaded phylloxera has made its
appearance in the vineyards Of Switzer-
land, aud the authorities are doing their
utmost to stamp it out.
During an investigation into the evil
effects OF ailantus trees in Atlanta,
it was demonstrated that only the male
trees Of the species were harmful.
An Iowa man tied his mare to tree,
when q swarm of bees alighted upon
her, and stung her so severely about the
head as to cause death in few moments.
England has got to explain the pres
ence OF her rifles in the hands OF the
Turcomans. Russia thinks it rather
equivocal friendship that supplies her
enemies with arms to oppose her with.
Lawrence Schuester, youth OF eigh-
teen, took oath before Newark, N. J.,
minister who married him to a woman
of twenty-four, that he was twenty-one
years Of age, and is now under arrest for
perjury.
Maud Grassland, q beautiful young
lady of Indianola, Texas, sang very pa
thetically to her friends the song See
that my grave is kept green went up.
stairs, procured q pistol and blew out
her brains.
Ohas. Hartman, one OF the contest
ants in the great international walking
match in New York, has eloped with the
wife of a prominent merchant of that
city, whose acquaintance he made during
the tournament.
The last Missouri and Illinois legislR-
lures passed law making it felony for
any officer Of bank to accept deposits
in the institution il he knows it to be in
failing condition, and imposing the
same punishment as that for stealing
money.
As an evidence of the large amount OF
surplus capital idle in Europe it is an
nounced that the Bank OF Paris has
agreed TO furnish the capital for the
construction Of an underground railway
in New York, provided that the company
shall raise $500,00 for the first OK.
penses and establish validity of the fran
chise.
The second beet sugar factory in New
England is being built at Northampton,
Mass, and over 800 acres of beets are
growing in the neighborhood for it's use.
Good beets, closely worked, will yield
about ten per cent. Of sugar, and it is
thought that with improved machinery
twelve or fourteen per cent. may be
realized.
Santa Cruz, California, has a gallant
baby. A little .year-old girl was
playing with a three.and.a.haIf- -year-old
baby near the waters edge, when
breaker carried the little girl out intoit.
The manly little fellow went Immediate
ly into the water to the rescue, and
saved his companion, TO the admiration
Of those who witnessed the scene.
During Friday night and Saturday
morning the American Union Telegraph
company erected about six miles OF tele-
graph poles in the several streets OF
Newark, N. J. Saturday afternoon ell
the poles were taken down, by order Of
the mayor, who claims that the require
ments OF the city ordinances we're not
complied with in the erection Of the
poles.
Daring the recent dry weather in
Manatee county, Fla, the lower Miaka
lake dried up oil to one hole. The hole
Was deep and was the only resort of the o.
cattle for water. The hole was full Of
alligators, and as the stockmen feared
depredations on the cattle, number Of 4.
them went there one day and killed 723
alligators from six to fourteen feet in
length. ai
The largest ferryboat in the world is
ready for launching at San Francisco.
She is 424 feet long and 116 wide; double
ender, carrying eight steel boilers.
Four tracks will be placed upon her
decks, capable Of accommodating TWEEN
ty.four passenger cars. She will run be-
tween Martinez and Benicia, shortening
the distance between San Francisco and
Sacramento fifty-Ave miles. t4f
The house Of Samuel Wood, late Of
New York, now residing in Chesterfield,
Va, was destroyed by accidental fire.
Woods wife, an old woman, was 30
much confused and alarmed that, though
she carefully removed the cooking uten-
slls and the things she was cooking, she
forgot package Of $4,000 in the house,
and IL was consumed. Wood, who was
an eccentric character, hearing the loss,
rafuaad IN Unit his work In n neiQhborE