The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-04
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

tramps.
A Chicago preacher advertises that
his sermons never exceed twenty min
utes in length.
During a heavy rainstorm in Balt-
moro a dog was swept into sewer and
carried mile and half by the under
ground food before he was rescued.
The deepest running stream that is
known is .he Niagara river, which is just
under the lower suspension bridge, is
seven hundred feet by actual measure
ment.
Four thousand Germansheld meeting
in Newark, N. j., to protest against the
action OF prohibitionists in reference 10
the granting of licenses and Sunday
recreations.
rA-masked man seized young girl in
te'sntons Ohio, and holding her mouth
closed TO prevent screaming, cut off her
hair, which was particularly luxuriant
aid handsome.
Intelligence from Noumea, New Gale
donia, confirms the report OF the inten-
ton Of the French authorities to take
possessioufof the group OF islands known
as the New Hebrides.
The famous solid silver vase, two and
half feet high, and deliberately fabri-
Gated, presented by the Wings to Henry
Clay in 1916, is offered for sale at Bos-
ton by the great mans grandson.
New York cabinetmakers are again
agitating the eight-hour law, claiming
workingmen are 80 confined to their Ia
Dor as to be obliged to neglect the prop
er moral and physical culture OF them
selves and families.
The jury of inquest into the death OF
the workmen who were killed by the
falling OF the Buffalo, N. Y, roundhouse
while in process of construction, declared
the builders responsible, owing to in
different care and supervision.
The Saturday RevieO says that the
frugality and quickness of intellect Of
the Welsh often secure them advance
ment and prosperity, especially in retail
trade; and yet it is odd that no Welsh
man ever attained, in any walk oflife, the
highest order of eminence.
While an express train was running at
a speed of thirty milos an hour near
Bayview, Maryland, little girl missed
her sister, and imagining she had fallen
out Of window, ran to the door Of the
car and sprang off, and strange to say
received only few slight scratches.
The inhabitants Of Hannibal, New
York, are shocked at the conduct of o
farmer, who, having bought one of the
town cemeteries, is plowing it up. He
says it is his by deed, and if people don't
want their relatives turned over by the
plowshare, they had better dig them up
themselves.
William Hurd is conducting revival
meetings in a novel manner in New
England. He has tent with seating
capacity for 1000 persons, which he
pitches in town, and then makes a
street parade with gaudily painted wag-
ons; the evangelist, Rev. Hugh Mont
gomery, very handsome man, appear
ing on one of the vehicles.
All the anthracite or ,nard coal Of
America, OF which more than forty-two
millions Of tons are mined annually in
the State of Pennsylvania, from the five
counties Of Dauphin, Northumberland,
Schuylkill, Carbon and Luzerne, that in
its area, if joined together, would only
form small county twenty miles wide
and twenty four miles long.
The clause in the new Massachusetts,
liquor law requiring every liquor dealer
to get the written consent OF the owner
of the premises is source Of great trou-
BILE in the trade, because many real es-
tate owners, while willing to take the
money of such tenants, refuse to COM
NIT themselves on paper. Some OF the
most prosperous places in Boston are to
be closed.
Allie Cowger recently went to hear
lecture on education at Crawfordvllle,
Ind. The speaker said that everything
else ouQht to be sacrificed for the ac-
ouirement OF knowledge. Allie went
home deeply impressed by what she had
heard, stole horse and some money,
rode fifty miles to female seminary and
had bargained for schooling when pur-
suing constable arrived.
Sanitary authorities in Ireland are be-
ginning to put the law into operation
with the view Of preventing the spread
of infection caused by the custom OF
holding wakes. A man has been prose-
cuted by the Dublin public health com
mittee for holding wake on the body
Of q child who died OF smallpox. IL
was said that person who attended the
wake has since died Of the same dis
ease.
Among the ladies who went from
France to attend the funeral OF the
prince imperial was Nine. Thayer, the
widow Of one Of the ministers Of Napo.
leon III. She ir the daughter Of Gen.
Bertrand. who accompanied NapoleonI.
70 81. Helena, and remained by him to
the last. When girl she stood by the
bedside Of the dying emperor and henrd
his last utterance. This lady has now