The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

passed law obliging all railway CON-
panies in the state to fence their roads
under heavy penalty for failing 80 TO
do.
]. B. Merwin, editor Of the American
Journal Of Education, says: at is easy
to show that money paid for schools
becomes an investment at compound in
terest."
In the struggle TO capture party OF
colonists bound for Kansas by two rival
railroad passenger agents at Rochester,
the fare was reduced from $50 6l to IS,
one agent selling ninety-three tickets
and the other forty four.
A report TO the annual conference of
the MOrnons says that the Mormon
population of Utah is Ill, $50, that the
Church in that Territory has lost 600
members and gained l 500 in year, and
that the Church receipts in that period
we're o, ,er 81 900.
The Australians do not take kindly to
the pJlygumic IDEA. Oae of the Salt
Leke pri,s who has just returned from
proselyting visit to the big island, Gays
that four attempts were male there to
murder him, and the Salt Lake Tribune
is abusing the Australians for their poor
Workmanship.
Z stern people who have a general
idea of the size of Colorado may yet be
surprised by the statement of the Dan-
yer News that it is the fourth state in
the Union in this respect, and is larger
than New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa
cbusettF, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland combined.
In many portions of Missouri the cane
sugar industry is being vigorously
worked up, and several syrup and sugar
factories, some of them on large scale,
are being prepared for work in the fall.
A great many farmers will plant the best
varieties of sorghum, intending to raise
their own sweetening hereafter.
A new railroad between Cincinnati
and Baltimore is PR jected, and an act
incorporating the company which pro-
poses to build it has passed the Ohio
Senate. 1t is said that English capital
lists will furnish the money. 1t will run
along the north bank OF the Ohio river
to Gallipolis, and thence through West
Virginia and Maryland to Baltimore.
The report Of the commissioner of
statistics for Minnesota now tells us that
"the crop OF spring wheat for 1879 will
not be more than $4,000, 900 bushels,
and the yield per acre not more than
nine bushels" For weeks during the
growing season of 1879 the st. Paul
newspapers considered their state in
suited if the 6gures "45, 600. OOO' bushels
were doubted for moment.
A new and cur. .ous case OF death from
poisoning has occurred in Philadelphia.
A young woman who wore colored stock
ings and shoes with copper nails, had
her heel punctured by one Of the latter.
Inflammation Immediately set in, and in
few days she died. Physicians do not
know whether to attribute the poison
Jog to the stocking or to the nail, or to
both.
Thomas F. Kelly, of Philadelphia,
deemed himself an uncommonly wicked
sinner. BY way Of penance he sold his
house for $500, gave the money to the
poor, and started barefooted for the
Roman Catholic monastery at Loretto,
Pa. He is begging his food and lodging
on the way, and his feet are terribly
swollen from hard usage and cold. He
intends to spends the rest of his lie as
a monk.
The project OF an international bullior
bank is now discussed in Parje, its pur-
pose being to secure the disuse of re-
mittances in goll coin, and substitute
for it bullion. By this arrangement it
will be possible to save the expenses OF
exchange and the danger attending the
Of gold coin. This bank
is to be opened in Paris and London,
and branches are to be established in
large cities all over the world.
In regard to strikes the Boston Rulle-
tin says: Arbitration alone is the key
to the situation. Let master and man
both listen to reasoning. Lot the wants
of each be freely expressed to the other.
Let each understand the other, and very
often the difficulty can be easily settled.
But il employers are stingy and work.
men are unreasonable, then let commit
tees OF arbitration settle the dispute. II
there could be board OF labor commits
sioners authorized by the legislature Of
every state, with the power to settle
labor questions, rates of wages, hours,
ETC., vast deal of trouble would be
saved"
Mrs. Scott .Siddons was reading to q
fashionable audience ~ Columbia, s. O.
In the midst Of selection from "King
Jchu," at the point where the Prince is
sentenced to be blinded, she stopped
abruptly, said it was impossible to pro-
coed, and walked off the stage. The
people thought that she was overcome
by emotion, aroused by the passage
which she was reading, and so they
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