The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1868-12-07
General News.
Bull Run Russell has been defeated
in his race for Parliament. !

BULL Run Russell has been defeated
in his race for Parliament.
TANMAYY contemplates \. Oakley Hall
or Abraham Lawrence, for Mayor.
Missouri voted against negro suffrage
by %, 435 majority.
MORO for shariff-Reuder unto sci
ger the things that are seizer's!
Tue smallpox prevailing in Milwau-
kee to such an extent that the schools
have been closed.
THE Washington street tunnel, at Chi
cago, will be finished in six weeks, and
formally opened on New Years day.
HExRrQrEs, Vice President Of tie New
York Open Stock Board, gets salary of
SO, 900 year.
A man in Hartford carries IN umbrella
that was bought in 1917, and has never
been stolen but once.
- GENERAL Suffer, the discoverer of gold
in California, keeps himself mostly in
Washington.
JACKSON HAISrs and German Mad
emoiselle dance the can can on skates at
Berlin.
The champion wrestler of the Nine
teeuth Ward Of New York is n handsome
girl of 81.
TuE pilgrim fathers were the original
"carpet-bdggcrs" in this country, says
New Orleans paper.
LIGHT fsh-hooks of French pattern
were recently taken from the stomach Of
a goldfish at Boston.
The oldest physician in the world, a
Spaniard, died recently at Salamanca,
aged los. He had practiced for eighty
years.
IT is said that Napoleon is buying up
all the war materials he can get, in order
to maintain the peace Of Europe, if he
has to go to war to do it.
Tue other day thirteen head of cattle
were killed by grazing in a corn-feld at
Mclrose, Wisconsin, in which several
smut ears had been left.
TuERE is invested in the iron business
at Chicago $4,000, 200 of capital, en-
ploying $4,000 workmen, and creating
an annual product Of $25, 100000.
Was Shakespeare lawyer? "Un-
doubtedly," says Wi-forth; "docs lie not
speak of man dressed up in little Jrief
authority"
FULLY two thousand "dead-hcads"
helped to give Anna Dickinson large
audience, in New York, the other even
ing.
JOSH BILLINGS says he has "seen some
awful bad throtc diseases completely cured
in days by simply jining temperance
society,""
GETTING drunk once a week has been
decided TO be ''llabitual intoxication," in
Chicago. What. then, asfs cotempo-
rary. is getting drunk every day?
BETWEEN ninety and one hundred thou
sand dollars worth of fractional currency
is daily printed at The Treasury Depart
ment.
ALoSG the Amazon river, in South
America. the most productive country in
the world, the towns are supplied with
meat, flour and dried fruits from North
America and Europe.
ABour dozen rabbits were let loose
in Barton Park, belonging to a gentleman
in South Australia, some few years ago,
and recently, in one year, fifteen thous-
and rabbits we're killed on the estate.
Is Japan, paper is used in the manu-
facturc of fans, lanterns, umbrellas,
pocket-books, cloaksand even windows.
The paper string that was introduced into
this country during the late war has been
in use in Japan for centuries.
Ii celebrating Franklin's birthday, tle
printers at Buffalo, had "a good time
and among others the following toast was
drank: Printers Wivcs-llay they al
ways have plenty of SMALL cars for the
heads Of their lite origiHa! articles"
SAN ANTONIO is the paradise of carpet
baggcrs. The Herald says that when
pct-bogger is freshly imported into the
city, Mayor Thi,lepape at once puts him
on the police until he can get something
else to do.
TIE match game of billiards between
Rudolphc and Carme, for $1,000, was
played ut Chicago on ednesday night.
The game resulted in favor of Rudolphc, ]
who scored 500, and Carme 395.
OLIVER DYER is authority for the as.
sertion that 100000 people below Twcn-
tieth street, in New York, live in cellars.
lie has obtained the actual figures Of the
liquor shops-524s. There are 1878
billiard saloons in the city, and 40, 900
destitute aud orphan children.
A Paris fashion. writer tells Of new
kind Of head-dress; garland Of flowers