The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-11-29
General News
Mr.. Stewart is worth A. 7. millions.

Mr.. Stewart is worth A. I. millions.
Alligator hunting is now the popular
amusement in Florida.
A Belgian newspaper prints all its
scandals in a supplement in Latin.
Brownluw dies hard. He has gone to
Washington TO see how 1t seems to die
there.
Kentucky mourns over frozen tsbac-
co crop; but rejoiceth over full yield of
whiskcy.
The gas is so bad in Erie, Penusylva-
MIA, that the boy who puts it out uses q
lantern to find the lamp:pOsss.
a man named Allen, died of starvation
in the streets Of Lexington few days
since. Hc was a6rinkist of some note.
E1-Senatar James NJ. Mason, of Ma
sop=SIidell fame, has returned to Virgin
ia, and resides at Seminary Hill.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has blind man
who paints and trims carriages equal to a
man with plenty of eyes.
Eleven disgusted married married cou-
ples are unhitched in day in St. Louis.
How long will the frmilies hold out at
that rate !?
A,despcrado was recently killed in
Arizona, who bad eighteen pairs of hu-
man ears on string in his trunk.
They haven't storage room for the ba-
by cropin London. On an average, for
ty-three surplus cherubs are advertised
there for adoption.
Itis rcporteasLat George Peabody left
an estG:e of 81, 500, 900. which is diStrib-
uted by the will among about twenty
nine persons.
Tic Emperor of Russiais in such fec
be health, owing to his dissolate life,
that his physicians say his death may be
looked for at an early day.
Lizzie Lee, acolored pet at Pittsbu7g,
has been bound overfo- trial. She only
killed her illegitimatc offspring, and left
it in afence-corncr.
Cincinnatti papers are thanking Provi-
dence for saving library from FIRE, and
condeuing the same Providence for set
ting the Ere.
The Nashville Aldermen have passed
bill o.close the naked drama in that
city. The actors have ."cloes," but they
won't wear 'em.
Genera, illinois, is lively DOW, caused
By the trial Of Rev. Dir. Smith, one Of
your careful Methodists,7 who drowned
his wife for the life insurance.
A Mississippi 2spa, says they have
tried negro jrrymeu, and by the watch
every niger went to sleep within exactly
four minHies after getting irtOthe box.
Western papers are jubilating over the
burning Of a hundred Indians By prairie
Ere. They tkMk that is the cheapest
way to get rid Of the devils.
Mcgee dOcl-hands on the Mississippi
boats arc addressed as follows BY the
you Fifteenth Amend
ment. shove out that plank
1t is said that there are sizty-two
towns in Massachusetts, Without Dcm9
crat We can imagine the miscrly and
Skin-AiEt appearance of such God.forsa-
ken communities.
Radical papers are sbusing Dan Rice
because he gave an entertainment to some
rebels at Memphis. 1t does seem as
though the good old panial'' would live i,
through it.
A CHEZ go man who returned a 81, 900
bill to the loser was muailcently reward
cd with q drink! That is considered
the highest honor that can be conferred
on man there.
A Columbus, Mississippi, darkey tried
to outwalk locomotive, and his wife and
six children are in the pocr-house in con-
and the fz0nt of the engine was
all spattercd with gore.
A Bedford County, Virginia, oolored
servant. girl threw little baby into the
FIRE because the child cried, and because
the mother scolded. The child's limbs
we're barsed of.
At Evansville, Indiana, there is mig
ger female in jail for some skullduggery,
who has twice tried to hang herself, but
the upfecliug jailors keep cutting her
down. This is an outrage on the rights
of the colorcd people of that State.
Twenty citizens of Central City, Colo
rado, have killed themselves with whisky
within few years, and the papers say
others are making arrangements to pass
in their chips in the same way. They
have the worst kind of whiskey out
there.
Some one is having considerable fun
blowing up post-ofice clerks by sending
explosive materials in ietters. 4 young
sprout in the Boston Office had three
hairs blowed out of his moYstache, and
was otherwise fatally scared, few days