The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-02-12
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Events are not in our power; but 1t
always is to make good use OF even
the worst.
Variety is the spice OF life, but bar
keepers report that the majority Of men
use cloves.
Secretary Ramsey is the first piece
OF cabinet furniture Minnesota ever
possessed.
During the past year, says the
Miners Journal, American mines have
produced ssO,OOO,OOO.'
The man who never smelled powder
is the fellow who never held his nose
close TO woman's cheek.
A white deer with white horns and
hoofs and pink eyes WAS killed by
Aaron Liscker, on Little river, Wis.
Japan has iron coins worth about one.
hundredth of one cent. They are alleged
to be chiefly used for aims and as offer.
ings to gods.
There were but 46O failures in New
York last year, as against 917 in 1878,
and the liabilities of 1879 foot up but
s16, ,s8s. ss2, against s64, 900, 900.
Geese raising is carried on to q large
extent in Texas. One goose will yield
about pound and half of feathers.-
One ranch already has 1000 geese.
Gen. Grant has ordered his Ethan
Allen colt, now on the farm OF General
Bsale, near Washington, to be sent by
the next steamer as a present to the
mikado Of Japan.
A correspondent describes Hot Springs,
Ark, as n city of doctors shops, drug
stores, bath-houses and boardinghouses,
with few stores and churches thrown
in to fill up the chinks.
1t is said for the first time in the
history Of the Protestant Episcopal
church, women took part in voting for
a rector for the Church of the Holy
Communion, New York city.
One day last week COW belonging to
Mr.. John Shuff, living about one mile
from Goshen, Augusta county, Va,
gave birth to three calves-two bulls
and one heifer-all alive and healthy.
The German emperor has ordered
that the fund of more than $50, 600,
collected on the occasion OF his golden
wedding, be exclusively devoted to the
relief of the iamine-stricken Silesians.
In consequence OF the revolutionary
agitation having extended to the troops,
the Russian military authorities have
ordered that heDceforth no regiment
shall be stationed in the district where
it is recruited.
Bishop Ohatard, of Indiana, deposed
Father Fitzpatrick OF Evansville in oon-
sequence of quarrel between the
priest and congregation. Father Fitz-
patrick has now sued the bishop for
$35, 600 damages.
Des MOines had unique fire the
other morning, the flames attacking
the Des Moines packing company's
ice house and soon leaving 1000 tons OF
ice standing up in the open air like a
huge iceberg. Loss, $4,000.
Mrs. Ella Duprez recently appeared
in Kansas City in the disguise of a male
detective. When her eek had been re-
vealed by some accident she confessed
that for several years she has been
tracking man who killed her brother,
J. W. Laforce, near Houston, Texas, in
April, 1874.
The king and queen of Spain showed
publicly the other day, while driving in
Madrid, their devotion to their church.
They met priest who was taking the
last sacraments to dying man, and
alighting from their carriage the young
pair lent it to the priest, following on
foot amid the acclamations of the
people.
Two colored brothers named Robert
and Dennis Patrick, living eight miles
from Huntsville, Ala, got into au alter
cation last Saturday whilst waiting for
a large kettle of water to cool down to
the right temperature to scald hogs,
and were literally boiled alive. They
lived only few hours. Their boards
and hair and fakes OF flesh fell off, ex-
posing the bones.
Among the bequests OF the late Judge
Packer, the railroad capitalist, which,
it is said, has just been announced for
the first time, is the sum OF $500, 900,
the interest of which is to be used for
the support in st. Luke's hospital, at
Bethlehem, Pa, of workmen Of the Le-
high Valley railroad company, who be-
come crippled, sick or too old TO work
while in the company's employment.
The Chicago Tribune describes
brief interview between a Boston mil
lionaire and a clerk in leading Chicago
hotel. The gentleman from Boston is
approaching seventy years OF age, and
was on route to San Francisco. Million
aire-'How is the best way to buy my
ticketT Clerk-'Why, buy through
ticket, of course Old Gent. .-'But I
may die on the way, and if buy the
ticket through will be so much out of
pocket
The thirty nine savings institutions
of Rhode Island have total Of deposits
amounting to $43, ,096, 533. There are