The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-02-19
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who has visited the upper part OF South
Carolina since Washington passed
through in his private carriage in the
year 1897.
Albert Oleson, living near Ciayaeld,
Minn., had both his ears hard frozen,
last week, and two friends, in endesyor-
ing to start a circulation, rubbed them
clear from his head.
The highest diploma for porcelain
painting in London has been awarded
to Miss Stevens, an American, who
already has orders from the Prince Of
Wales and the Duke of Cambridge.
A woman at Ulysses, Neh., wrapped
her baby in sheet and left it in the
warm ashes by the fireplace while she
went to visit a neighbor, and when she
returned the infant was burned to q
crisp.
Four transatlantic steamers, one
from Havana and one from Bermuda,
arrived in a bunch at New York one day
recently, and made things lively in the
great postc Fl e, there being one hundred
and sixty thousand letters to sort,
Ex.Oontroller Connolly, OF New York,
one OF the Tweed crowd, now fugitive
from justic,. has recently made three
millions in New York speculations. His
son-in. law conducted the business. This
is not generally the way Of the trans
gressOr.
W. Price, a young boy living in Cen
tire street, Orange, N. j., while playing
with some comrades, was kicked in the
mouth by one of them. A tooth was
knocked out and down his throat, from
which lie choked to death in few
minutes.
The duty on salt in Russia brings to
the state treasury fifteen and half mil
lion dollars annually, Now the Russian
press advocates the abolition OF the salt
duty, as it falls chiefly on the poorest
classes, and serves rather to depress than
increase the national welfare.
Statistics gathered for the forthcoming
annual report of the New jersey labor
bureau include reports from sixty-seven
silk mills, mostly in Paterson. The
Paterson mills alone employ 10000
hands, besides from 1000 to 5000 en-
ployed in their own homes. The an
nual production of these mills reaches
the total OF S14, 900, 200.
There has been frightful mortality
from smallpox in Ottawa, the capital OF
the province of Ontario. The deaths
during the last year were 9O2, OF which
21O we're from smallpox. Owing to the
French Canadians being averse to vac.
cination, there were 1877 deaths from
smallpox among them, while the deaths
among others were only %.
Mr. Telford Tippet, of Howard county,
Missouri, while in his well at depth Of
fifty feet, was hemmed in by the upper
part caving in upon him. Two hundred
people from the neighborhood as
sembled, and after nineteen hours of
arduous labor, they had the pleasure OF
rescuing him alive, though severely
bruised by the falling rocks.
French privstes are prohibited from
travelling in uniform in first.class rail-
road carriages, and writer in Figaro
tells how a poor fellow was lately refused
a ticket by an express, exclusively first
class, when his mother was dying. The
passengers took compassion, opened
their valises, and rugged him in enough
civilian cloth to enable him to pass.
The recent cold weather in France
has recalled the remarkable fact that in
1896 the severe and prolonged frosts
enabled regiment of French cavalry to
gain one OF the strangest successes ever
recorded in military annals, The Dutch
feet was frozen up in one OF the harbors
of northern France, and in this condi-
ticn the vessels were attacked by these
mounted troops, and, after vigorous
defense, the admiral was compelled to
pull down his flag.
On Sunday morning steamer ran in
to the drawbridge on the New York and
New England road in Boston harbor. The
blow disarranged the draw and discon-
ted the tracks. No one was on the
bridge or near at the time, and train
was approaching when the engineer no
ticed the disarrangement. By applying
the air brakes the train was stopped
within fifteen feet of the draw. Had he
failed, the train of five cars, filed with
passengers, would have gone into the
water.
After the numerous discussions Of Mr..
Edisons electric light, it will be inter-
esting to see exactly what claims for il
Mr.. Edison himself is willing to indorse.
A paper is announced to appear in the
Midwinter Scri6ner by Mr.. Edison's
mathematician and assistant, Mr.. Fran
cis r. Upton, which, besides the writer's
intimate connection with the invention
itself, has the further voucher Of letter
from Mr.. Edison, certifying that il is
the first correct and authoritative
account
In December, 1875, the United States
express company, in New York, received
from the Bank of North America n
money package containing $5, 900, which