The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-10-30
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


dred dollars.
Thirteen hundred pieces OF properly
we're sold on sale day in Charleston, s.
O., for State tax.
A San Francisco man was caught alter
ing tie figures on his mothers tomb
stone, his object being TO make the date
suit his purpose in lawsuit.
Two alligator eggs have been pre-
sented to the editor Of the Sanford,
Fla, Journal, each measuring seven
and quarter inches in length by five
and a quarter in diameter.
NJ. Auguste Hennessy, who died re-
Gently at Cognac, France, at the ago of
seventy-eight, was member of the
French senate, but was much better
known as q producer OF brandy.
Americans are making heavy purchases
of hoop iron in England. One firm
in South Staffordshire is working at an
order comprising 1000 tons, and it is
looking for further business Of the same
sort.
Several of the best known OF Mr..
Sankey's and Mr.. Bliss hymns are being
translated at Lucknow, India, into the
vernacuIar of that country, for use in
Christian church of which a native is the
pastor.
Georgia papers complain OF unscrup-
ulous persons killing off the trout in
the mountain streams by exploding tor
pedoes in the deep pools where the fish
congregate, and appeal to the legisla-
ture to stop it.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad has inst paid off mortgage OF
$l3, 500, 900 which was held on all of its
property. The instrument bore $4,000
worth of revenue stamps, and had been
standing thirteen years.
Within the past twelvemonth So
0OO. 900 has been extracted from the
mines at Leadville, and the yield to-day
is estimated at about 81, ,500O0O per
month. The population is steadily in
creaeing, and the town itself is a per
feet hive of industry.
During the month Of July, 1879, there
we're exported from Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco
and other United States ports SO, ,032 $50
gallons OF petroleum and petroleum
products, the aggregate value of which
amounted to $4,28S, ,461.
Capt. Lambert Evans, while on board
his schooner, in Chesapeake bay,
dreamed twice the same night that his
vessel was run down bya steamer and
that he was drowned. An hour or so
after the schooner was struck by
steamer, and the captain knocked over
board and seen no more.
It is stated as the result of experience,
by old railroad engineers, that in all
casee of apprebended collision, if the
speed of the train cannot be efectually
checked, and collision be unavoidable,
the safest course is to get all the speed
possible, as the slowest train invariably
receives the most damage.
A Philadelphia lady is the owner Of
vaIable relic in the shape Of manu-
script copy OF Wesley's Hymns in the
handwriting Of their author. The book
descended to this LAZY from her grand
father, to whom it was given in partial
payment of debt by the son of the man
who printed the first edition Of the hymns.
A Jacksonville, Fla, druggist, has a
splendid young mocking bird that will
20 and come as ordered, turn somer
saults, run around in circle, march,
fetch and carry, hop on one foot, pick up
coin, and do many other pretty tricks.
He leaves his cage at will, goes and
comes as he likes and seems to idolize
his owner.
Dandelions are not only cultivated
largely in France, where they are highly
esteemed for greens, but are also grown
quite plentifully around Boston for this
purpose. large quantities are forced
for early sale under glass. The roots
are transplanted from the fields in Sep
tember and set in a bed prepared for
the purpose.
During recent athletic contest in
New York, nearly all the records were
beaten. Among the feats performed
we're: A seven-mile walk in ffty-fvo
minutes and thirty.six and a'half sec
onds; one hundred-yard run in forty
nine and one eighth seconds; mile run
in four minutes and thirty-seven and
two-6fths seconds.
Major Pierre Cavagnari, the British
resident who died in the streets Of Ga.
bul, was Bonaparto through his de-
scent on the maternal side, from Lucien,
prince Of Canine. The first Of the Bo.
napartes to fall in Aght have both mot
death in the current year, in English
uniforms, against savage enemies, and
in contests which had not even the dig
nifty OF battles.
The true apex OF this continent is a
grand plateau, 5000 feet above the level
Of the SEQ, in The Rocky mountain ro-
gion between the Yellowstone river and
Green River City. There are the waters
Of the Two Oceans, spring whoao
voters are divided in a pass Of That