The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-11
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

there.
A Prussian grave digger has been
arrested for roasting bodies and selling
their fat.
You seldom find very fat man con-
victed OF crime, and never heard OF fat
mau being hung.
Four hundred bandits, having expelled
the Brazilian authorities from Januaria,
in the Province of Minas Geraes, sacked
the town and burned twenty-five houses.
Several leading citizens OF st. Louis
have taken steps to organize company
to develop silver mines in Montgomery
county, Arkansas, which are pronounced
by mining experts to be valuable.
The offer OF the Morgan line OF
steamers to carry the mail from New
Orleans to Havana, via Cedar Keys and
Key West, has been accepted by the
post.office department
Full many a rose is born to blush un-
seen, and waste its fragrance on tho
desert air; full many nip is taken be-
hind the screen, and cloves and coffee,
too, are eaten there.
Isaac Sevan, veteran soldier OF 1912,
resident OF Baltimore, was found dead
in his bed. During the war Of 1872 he
was in the navy, and had fall from
which he never fully recovered.
A dispatch from Silver Cliff, Colorado,
says the Silver Cliff Milling and Mining
Company shipped half dozen silver
bricks, the result Of the first clean up
since starting the stamp mill, which is
deemed great success.
Miss Harriet Hosmer is said to be still
resolved to discover perpetual motion,
and has taken workshops near Westmin-
ster, England, to pursue her efforts
She expects to be successful by midsum-
mer.
Congressman Frank Hurd, Of Ohio, is
about forty years old and is a very rich
man. He Is the best constitutional
lawyer of his age in the country. Be-
sides, he is good looking and a devout
Catholic.
A singular case, in which a bank
bookkeeper stole in little more than
six months upward of $34, 1000, which
was expended, with the aid of an out
slider, in the business OF playing policy
and buying lottery tickets.
1t is announced from Louisville that
DR.. Staudeford is to resign the presi-
dency of the Louisville and Nashville
roilroad, and that Albert Fink is again
to assume that position. Mr.. Fink is
the originator of the pooling system of
the trunk lines.
A young man in Hartford, who in.
CURED the displeasure of his kinspeople
aud acquaintances by marrying Ger
man servant girl, now holds his head
very high when he meets any of these
critics. His wife has fallen heir to an
estate in the fatherland worth $500, 900,
Now look out for servent girl boom.
A padrone named Antonio Gioyanna
Ancoro, an Italian, has been convicted
and sent to the Albany penitentiary for
inveigling seven boys from Italy and
using them for begging and music play
ing. This is the first conviction under
the padrone law recently enacted in
New York,
The Little Miami and Louisville Short
Line railroad companies will unite in
building monster new passenger depot
at the southeast corner of Pearl and
Butler streets, Cincinnati, The location
is several squares nearer the centre Of
the city than the present depot.
The boy who was believed to have
been murdered by his father, Edo
Buck, the New Hampshire, Iowa, Ad
ventist, is alive i'll an adjoining county,
whittier he fed after the beating his
father gave him, to avoid repetition of
tue outrage.
Speaker Randall is not wealthy, aS
some people suppose. He lives in
smaller house than almost any man in
Washington who has been there as long
as the speaker, house about half the
size Of Blaine's, for instance, who came
to Congress no richer than Randall, as
far as appearances went, and has been
in Congress about as long.
During the outward passage Of the
steamship Saratoga from New York,
Chas. Byerly, one Of the cabin passen.
gers, committed suicide by jumping
overheard. 1t appears he fell into the
mouth OF an enormous shark and was
devoured. No trace OF the body could
be found, except some blood in the
water.
Olivia writes that Senator Booth is
such hardened bachelor that "a sigh,
drawn fresh and pure from the deepest
AM most capacious female bosom, and
applied to the right place will have no
more effect than Holman liver.pa
administered for lockjaw, while glance
from the most brilliant eye falls like
sunbeam ON an alli9ator's back.
A small pox patient had narrow
escape from being buried alive Ontario.
Canada. The grave diggers threw on
the lid of the coffin, three shovelsiul Of
sund, which aroused the supposed dead
man and caused him to kick Justify.
The coffin was hastily drawn out, the lid
was Immediately unscrewed. The sup.