The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-02-05
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

4lO c0lOreu teHcueIh'
Bishop Potter, Of New York, bias con-
frmed ~, 900 persons.
1t costs s9O,OOOa year to keep b.
Peters, at Rome, in repair.
A Mohammedan priest in CONSTANT
pople has besn sentenced to death Tor
assisting in the translation of the Bible.
The record Of vital statistics Of New
York show that during 1879 there were
in that city 2s, 165 deaths, 25,SS2 births
and s, 8s5 marriages.
Mr.. Oliver Ames gave one-thousand-
railroad bond to each of the employees IN
the Boston Office of the Union Pacific
railroad company on Christmas.
Sam Ward, the great American lobby
list and alter-dinner joker, has been
constant companion OF Gla stone in his
great political tour Of Scotland.
A bill to prevent aud punish the IN"
termarriage of whites and negroes has
passed both houses of the South Caro-
lima legislature, and has been approved
by the governor.
A Swift Runner Indian who was con.
victed last summer, upon his own con-
fession, Of having killed and eaten his
mother, wife and several children dur
ing last winter, was hanged on the Goth
instant at Fort Saskatchewan, British
Columbia.
A curious incident in connection with
the Maine business is that Governor
Garcelon aud Representative Frye are
brothers. in law, and the governors
daughter, an estimable young lady, Is
at present spending the season with her
uncle (Mr. Fryel and his family.
Horn buttons are now mostly made OF
the hoofs of cattle, and not Of the horns
as formerly. Cattle hoofs sell at the
present time for about $50 per ton. The
products Of neat stock are very numer-
GUS, and there is scarcely particle oi
the whole creature that goes to waste
Messrs. Gould and Waite, well.known
young business men Of Chicago, thought
to play trick on the latter's porter by
disarranging the room as if burglars had
been present, and then hiding in the
closet. When the porter came IN he
was greatly excited, and hearing some
one in the closet, didn't scare, but took
pistol and fired through the door, kill
ing Mr.. Gould.
Austin Sheldon, on account OF disap'
pointment in love and business specu-
lations, took himself to cave in Leba-
non county, Pa, and spent forty years
by himself in that babitation. Recently
he was unearthed by correspondent,
who elected from him the fact that he
did not know who was President OF The
United States and had never heard OF
Grant; never saw railroad or telegraph
wire.
Mrs. Ann E. Garrison, of South Bay
City, Mich, has obtained a verdict OF
81, 900 against saloon-keeper OF that
place who sold her husband liquor
She sued for $40, 900 damages, alleging
that before her husband commenced
drinking he was worth S15, 900 and had
an annual income Of $4,000; but drink
took it all away and made him drunk
en-, shiftless creature, and unable to at
tend to business. He is now in Cali
fornia.
Mary Anderson travels in Pullman
palace car, on which three cents mile
is paid, besides the fares, and one hun
dred dollars week for the use OF the
car and attendance. Sam Hickey tells
the Philadelphia North american that,
as it was not in the contract, he object
ed to its being considered Ordinary
travelling expenses, when DIR. Griffin
retorted that his daughter was minor,
and could not legally make contract
So Mr.. Hickey pays the bills
Arather remarkable decision was CIV
en- in England fortnight ago. An old
man was charged by officers OF the in-
land revenue with selling tobacco, In
the shape of cigars, without license.
The defense was that cigars we're not
mentioned in the act of parliament bear
ing upon the alleged ofIense, and that
in fact the cigars were not made OF to
bacco but of bay and cabbage leaves -
The magistrates decided to dismiss the
charge, whereupon notice OF appeal was
given.
George W. Crummy, an old sport,
who recently visited Chicago for the
purpose of raising funds to buy machin-
cry for silver mine in Colorado, has
caused grief and lamentations for the
gamblers OF Chicago. He made regu-
lar tour of many of the gambling halls,
and had such an astonishing run OF luck
that he left with about $1,000 in win
nings. He commenced with 800, and
at one time his capital was reduced to
$l25O. This amount he placed upon a
single turn Of the cards, and from that
time his play was profitable.
On Christmas day Robert Mitchell,
one OF the foremost business men and
capitalists Of Cincinnati, assembled his
family, consisting Of sons, daughters and
grandchildren, twenty-six in all, for a
Christmas dinner. The irst course was
twenty.six envelopes, passed around on
, tray, one envelope for each member Of
the cnmnnnv. Oneninn thesa The 90.