The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1868-12-14
General News.
TYPHOID fever is raging in Minnesota.

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Ross,xI, the celebrated musical compo-
ser, is dead.
OyE man in Illinois owns 25, 900 acres
in corn.
CoRy sells in Denton, Texas, for ten
cents bushcl.
SrEuRENvlLL2, Ohio, elects its post
master by ballot
San FRASclsco is trying to invent
earthquake proof houses.
SINCE July first the internal revenue
receipts have reached ffty-two and one
third millions.
Tue superintendent of public printing
has disburscd, during the last fiscal year,
$l,272,G3O.
The President has appointed John
Savage, the Fenian Head Genre, Consul
at Leeds, England.
a nugget of gold weighing two hun
dred and ninety pcunyweigh,s was found
in White county, Georgia, recently
The divorces in Vermont for FIVE years
have numbered one to every twenty mar
riagcs.
ABOUT one million Of postage stamps,
of various denominations, are daily used
in the United States.
THREE millions of pieces, worth nearly
half u million of dollars. were coined ut
the Philadelphia mint last week.
Ir is said that cx Secretary Stanton is
prominent candidate for United States
Senator from Pennsylvania.
TrE officers of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad have elected General II. c.
Wichham president.
TIRES thousand mechanics and labor
crs are idle in the city Of Louisville
alone.
FRANCE has given to the Roman gov
crnmcnt twenty thousand muskcts, of
which six thousand are Chassepots.
MINNESOTA pays $40 piece for wolf
sca!ps and in the past year has expended
$4,000 in such purchases.
! MonE wheat has been planted in War.
ren county, Tenn, this fall, tl.aa fcr
many years.
Ar the recent election of officers of tie
Virginia and Tennessee railroad, Gene.
raj William Malone was unanimously re.
elected President.
Coal Of a good quality has been found
at Beaver River City (Gilner) beyo.,d
the lend Of the track" Of the Union Pa
ciic Railroad.
S2,500,O 900 tex was paid on tobacco
manufactured aud shipped from Rich
mond during the nine months ending on
the lst uit.
7 NornIyG remains of Fort Scott but a
ruined mass of brick and mortar. The
loss to the Government will be about
S220,0Oo
WITuN two months there have been
shipped from Lexington, Ky, $4,000
barrels Of corn to the distillcrics of Bour-
bon aud Harrison counties.
TIE Sheriff whose duty it was 10 hang
Harris, the AuLurne, Nc, murlcrerer,
on the 4,h inst. has mysteriously disap.
pcarci, aud it is doubtful whether the
warrant can be executed.
| IT is estimated that the exports from
Charleston. 5. c., this year, will be
about 81 ,0C0, 900, or forty per cent.
more than the total exports ol the city of
Baltimore.
&. Tns first skating accident of the season
comes from St. Joseph, Mo-, where, on
the 2Gth ult., eleven persons broke
through the ice into the river, but cs-
capped with wetting.
Tur Union Pacific road convcvs pas.
scngcrs | ,43O miles from Chicago. "On.
ly ten days to California" is advertised
by the company in connection with the
WclIs-Fargo express.
TnE King of Sweden has announced
that hereafter M capital execution shall
take place in his kingdom, and it the
death pcual'y be not abolished by law,
it shall not be enforced by him.
The Secretary of the Treasury has di.
rected that the force OF the New Orleans
Custom House be reduced, aud orders
were, on Wednesday. sont TO the Collect
or to discharge l29 clerks, inspectors
and laborers.
! GENERAL PnIM, the hero of the Span
ish revolution, furnishes another ilustra-
ton OF greatness arisilg from obscuri,y.
Upon the beginning of his career he was
third flute in the orchestra OF the theatre
in the little town Of Rcus. aud afterwards
accepted the position Of groom to the
Swedish Countess Barck.
Ten years ago, u man named leagues
Constant murdered. from jealousy n
young aud beautiful Italian girl in New
Orleans. lie w1s convicted Of the crime,
but escaped punishment by some legal
q1ibble, only to become insane shortly
after. Last week he died, driven to
death by the phantom ola heshless skclc-