The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-10
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The Texas negroes are emigrating in
large numbers to Kansas.

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large numbers to Kansas.
Bound East-The books published in
Boston.-NGU York Net0S.
4 MichigaH boy committed suicide
because his mother scoldcd him fol
smoking.
The railway through the St. Gothard
IN mel will, il is thought, be open for
traffic by the first of October, this year.
Walnut logs, thirty feet in diameter,
are carried by rail from Tennessee to
Pensacola, and shipped TO Europe.
The successful growing of the coffee
plant in Florida is now established be-
yond question.
The mayor Of Leavenworth said he
liked to see boys enjoy themselves, and
then turned about and arrested lad
who gave him a volley from beam
shooter.
The Cincinnati brewers have 'pooled
their issues" so as to make one great
stock company. They want TO keep up
the price Of beer.
The United States annually consumes
about /, ,O00, 900 boxes-of twenty pounds
each-oi Malaga raisins. why not
produce some of them in California in
stead of buying all from SpainP
Twenty thousand dollars are demand
ed by disconsolate Brooklyn, N. Y,
wife. for the alienation OF her husbands
heart. Many another woman would
pay an equal amount TO get rid of her
husband, heart and all.
The government in Ireland has de-
termined to grant, on easy terms, loans
to proprietors for the employment of the
tenants on their estates, on the princi-
pie that the repayment will not begin
for two years, and during this time OF
grace the interest and principal will be
added together, and the repayment only
begin in the third year,
In view of the fact that the land and
other property held by the War Depart
ment is valued at over 5000, 900, 900,
Secretary Ramsey recommends the crea.
ton of "land title" division Of his de-
partment and legislation which will
allow the collection of all titles of
record, &1., into that division for per-
manent keeping.
Mrs. Julia Kelly, formerly residing at
Titusville, Crawford county, Pa, has
been wandering up and down through
many counties of the State, for the last
6 years, in search of her little girl
named Mary, who disappeared one
evening after being sent on an errand.
She has spent the proceeds of comfort
able home in her vain search, and is
resolved to sacrifice her life before CIV
ing up.
Judge Jere Black, OF Pennsylvania,
is an excellent farmer, and delights in
nothing so much as his vacation among
the fields and gardens Of his country
home. 1t is said that sometimes for
month he will not even open letter,
lest it may call him away from his farm.
He does great deal of reading there.
He is supposed to know the Bible,
Shakespeare and Milton almost by heart,
but while he appreciates the great writ.
ers, he ignores nothing that falls in his
way, reading the lightest fiction of the
day as well as the weightiest disquisi-
tions.
"When a girl has received the best
education which schools can afford;
when she has learned to sing, dance,
embroider, knit; when she has pretty
face. taste for fnery, and desire to
have house of her own; she soon turns
restless on finding that no eligible pro-
posals are forthcoming for her hand.
In the nature of things, it must needs
be that the majority of girls in the mid
die class are condemned to remain single
in their prime. Men cannot marry un-
til their prospects are well assured, and
this happens to most men only when
they are bordering on thirty"
The record OF business failures in
1879, kept by the Mercantile Agency Of
Dun, Barlow & o., shows the average
liabilities of the firms failing was $14,-
TAI. This average was never 80 low but
in 1862, and is lower than it has been
since 1868. The following table shows
the percentage of failures to the entire
number of firms in business for the years