The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-10-02
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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trotter Rarus was rejected.
Abraham Layman, a bachelor, aged
seventy. seven years, and Miss Ann Lay.
man, aged thirteen years, both OF Rock
ingham county, Va, were married on
the bridge at Harpers Ferry recently.
The New Orleans city council has
passed an ordinance that the sale Of
privileges shall be for cash; also an or
dinance that all funds accruing to the
city from such sale shall be used for re-
demption Of the bonded aud floating in.
debtedness.
A Baltimore lawyer calls the attention
of journal to the fact that TO advertise
that reward will be paid for the return
Of stolen property and mo questions
asked, is an infringement OF the law Of
the land, which expressly prohibits such
compounding Of felony.
The naphtha lamp used by stove
polish peddler at Danielsonyille, Conn,
to light his stand exploded, setting the
clothes Of three children who stool be-
low On fire. One of them, Walter Bow.
mau, is dead, and another named Lu.
cien is not expected to recover.
There is large importation Of cattle
from the United States al Belfast, the
beasts selling from 500 TO $3.50 apiece
on the quay. As soon as the order in
council which compels these cattle to be
butchered on the spot is rescinded it is
expected that Belfast will become an
important depot for live stock from this
country.
An improved attachment for clocks,
to be connected with self-lightiDg and
self-extinguishing attachment for gas
burners, which shall be 30 constructed
that the gas will be lighted and extin-
guished automatically at f1el times, so
long as the clock continues to run, 80
that the only attention required will be
TO wind up the clock at the proper time,
has been patented.
According to Mr.. J. I. Sprague some
Of the improved gas engines now in use,
Of small capacity, realize one horse
power on the gas derived from one and
three.ffths pounds OF coal; and the best
steam engines, of large capecity, realize
one.horse power on two and half
pounds of COAL Gas engines are thus
shown to be much more economical as
motors than steam engines.
The projected line OF last steamers to
carry mails from st. Louis to New Or
leans has so far advanced that contracts
have been signed by John H. Baldwin
and co owners of the line with Billings,
Powell & o., of New Albany, Ind, for
all the machinery and boilers for the
vessels. Contracts will also be closed
this week for six hullS, cabins and out
fits. The steamers are to be ready for
business by the 1st of December next.
DR.. Phillips, of London, has recover.
ed one of the largest verdicts ever won
by an individual against railway cor
poration for injuries received from an
accident. The amount given him was
S35, 900; yet be appeals from this large
award, claiming that his expenses were
more than $1,000, and his professional
income more than S25, 600, and that he
was for sixteen months disabled. The
company opposed his application, but in
vain.
The Southern Presbyterian church re.
ports Il synods; 66 presbyteries; l,122
ministers and entiates-increase 8;
1892 churches-incroase 13; aud 1l6,75
municants-increase 2.177 The
contributions amounted to 81, 1,0l5, ,S5l,
showing a small decrease. OF this
amount 1906, 957 was paid to pastors,
1920, IT'S was used for congregational
purposes, $50, 06l was raised for foreign
missions, and sac. .S64 was devoted TO
sustentatioD.
Mr.. Scott, the we'll known English
agricultural authority, in his annuVllet-
ter reviewing the crops, estimates the
outcome Of the grain crops at third
less than the average, amounting to a
loss OF COS, 600, coo to the cultivators.-
He says that 16, 100000 quarters of
wheat, or possibly 100000 quarters,
will be required from abroad. Mr.. Scott
also estimates that the deficiency
in the potato crop will cause loss to
the cultivators of G15,OOO,0OO, and the
deficiency in beans, peas and rye loss
of e., 100000.
George Thompsol was on his DEATH
bed in a hospital at Lexington, KY. Hs
sent for police detective and confessed
that he was fugitive murderer from
Tennessee, saying that he did not wish
to die with the crime on his conscience.
But he soon rallied, and there being
hope Of his recovery, declared that the
confession must have been freak OF de-
lirium, as he remembered nothing about
it, and certainly had never killed any
body. However, he had time before he
died to confess anew what was found to
be the truth.
A Cincinnati paper claims that city to
be the musical center Of the country,
and boastingiy asserts: We have the
largest and most imposing building for
musical purposes in America; we have
as q located worker Mr.. Theodore
Thomas, who is, beyond any possibility