The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-05-31
General News.
McCoole and Allen will injure each
others countenances the 18th of June.

McSooio anu Alien Will lujuTe eacl
others countenances the 10Th of June.
The Richmond Enquirer advises younl
men to give up the yelocipede and TAX
tho hoe.
In North Carolina there arc men VIII
steal apple trees, transplanting them ii
their own orchards. u.
The total incomcs returned in Troy, N
Y, is So 54O,754-an increase Of 1854,
2SS over last year.
Memphis is shipping oil cake to Liver
pool by way Of New Orleans at the rat
-of one hundred tons q week.
Barley was harvested in California
about the middle of May. On the 25,l
ult. corn was ten inches high thero.
A Boston publishing firm has issuet
$4,000 volumes of law books durin!
February and March.
Five years ago no white man livet
within six miles Of Ottawa, Kansas
Now tho place has 5000 inhabitants.
Waller Brown, at the Empire rink, il
New York. on Tuesday rode his yeloce
pedc fifty miles in 8 hours and "a min
utes.
Brick Pomcroy is recovering his health
lie puts up fifly.six pound damb.bells
easily, and snutis candle ut thirty PAGES
with revolver.
Pixies which loyal Joe Brown had
made to kill Yankees at tho commence.
ment Of the war, have been sold a,
Augusta, Ca, and will be used to arm
the South Carolina negro militia.
Bank Of California, in San Francisco,
employs Chinamen in hulf-dozen gangs to
count silver coins. They work under the
leadership Of seventh, and with wonder.
full rapidlty.
There arc now in Australia some four
millions Of cattle and forty millions Of
sheep, while there are not a million con-
sumers, and the live stock, with abundant
pasturage, increase enormously.
= Clergyman in Ohio who recently ran
away with the wife Of a parishiOncr, has
brought libel suit against the husband
for telling Of it and actually had him lut
under bonds.
Alaska Indians arc said to resemble
tho Dutch with broad fat face and immense
mouths. They sitso much STOPPING owe,
9 fro that they are all round shouldared
and nope along like old men.
Forty Swiss families, supposed to pos
ssss 81 .OO0a piece on an average are
about to settle in Grundy county. Ten
nessec. They will engage in aaricultu.
raj pursuits and have already begun to
arrive at tllcir new homo.
The equestrian statue Of Washington,
destined for the public garden in Boston,
is rapidly approaching completion at the
Ames establishment at Cllcopee, Most
Of the work now remnining to be done is
the caparisoning of the charger.
ASt. Paul paper says: l"Yestcrday
two Young ladies from tho country
brought to market thirty dozen frogs
which they slaughtered the previous day
They found ready snIe' gong OF at NJ
teen cents per dozen. lhe frog trad'
seems to De OH the ihcreasc'
Five hundred and thirty persons re
ceircd, the rite of confirmation Sunda,
afternoon in st. Paul's Roman Catholi,
Church. New York, ut the hands of Arch
bishop alsGiosSey' Inc ceremony wa
witnessed oy an immense concoufse.
Skulls Of dead Confederate soldier
buried near Fort Harrison, Va, ar
burned by enterprising negroes as
means Of securing the ro'l filings Of tn
teeth. A white rencsa le>from secession
ism bosses the gnou''sn business
A double cndcr" locomotive is tn
last invention in the railroad line. I
has no tender bat carries water in the taul
over the boiler, and coal in n box in TIL
rear Of tie furnace. 1t lius trucks ant
COW 'catcners a. Sllner ena' anu runs VIII
squal 'ac''''y ei'uef eiu 'V'e''0S''
The Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Reror
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