The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-09-13
General News
=. Victoria is about to visit ireland,
Greeley is very slowly getting polite.

nap Of fourteen years, is dead. 5.
Mormonism is fatal to babies. Bishop
IIcber Kimballt has lost 4S ou Of "A crop
of 63. ,al. rm m g3 tt-
A DR.. Lott shot student at Oakland,
Mississippi, the other day, because he re.
membcred Lots wife. 7.4 ,gi.r.
New York has an, association for the
encouragement Of poor authors.
A butting match is one Of the features
Off niger tournament in Tennessee. t1
Tallapoosa means ".chcap medicine from
q dead bear" ,l.
Boston rejoiccs in no! having had an
alarm Of fire for ten days. .'s 7i'l''2
A huge mastodon tooth was recently
found at Otlumwa. 8 i,se.. IA
speetacles were invented by an Italian
in 1919. E,m gy> " pt.u
Five counties in Texas arc governed by
regulators, who shoot 6fty-two men u
month with greatlregularity. Ft
A Minnesota youth has been bitten by
aral.lcsnake, and now Kisses and tries to
rattle. 'e'A'@Ra3 ii''. ems
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A dancing master in Berlin was recent.
ly arrested in that city, on the charge Of
having scduced between twenty aud thirty
Of his pupils. " a2il ~
A young Chicago burglar escaped from
Jail by soaping himself all over and
squeezing through the window bars. 2 !,
A man who had buried four or Eve Of
bis wives in Wayne county, Indiana. has
been notified that he must not marry any
more now uutil they start new cemetery,
The Supreme Court of Geergia, now ID
session at Savannah, has just reallercdN
decision that notes given as; consideration
for slaves are not recoverable. lH'i35 = IT,
| EAjokerjust arrived in California says
that tue distance from Cleveland to San
Francisco By the Pacific Railroad is equal
TOLL games ofeuclire, 173 drinks, and
III cigars. ara -7F5t nyd
A niger baby was found on a stone in
Syracuse, the other day. The ei.y adopt
edit, aud named it August Stone, be-
cause it Sas found in August. tl gj,5
1t is, said that the first crocodile seen in
America was recently captured III Florida
He had probably just run over from AZ
rica to see lis brothers, the alligators.
A minister saw at Saratoga d DR. IS
valued at two years Of his salary and lis
church organ. tas ..ea .iils
| Cincinnati has not yinaicated its moral.
lily. Half thejury in recent indecent
exhibition case voted the concern moral
dance. f-.'' iil71's ~
Bullet-proof knapsacks are TO be sup.
Iplicd to tue French army. As they are
70 bc thrown away in battle the Invention
is an important one. {'a',s
4 A negro woman dcntcd the ground se-
rionsly by Jumping from railway train
id Tennessee, and striking on her head.
As an example Of Yankee enterprise
in foreign countries. it is mentioned that
,hore are thirty-ive Americans in tic
French penitcn.iury.as '
From 1865 10 1867, inclusive, 5,G41
soldiers in the British army we're brand.
ed with tue letter D for dcscrt!on, aud
1870 were Aoggcd. i9 = ~
A drunken mother in St. I.ouis threw
her baby out Of the window, and an old
woman passing caught it in her apron
Fortunately nobody broke tile fall Of tie
mother when she folio we'd her child.
Miss Susan 3. Anthony insists tha
mau and wife shall not sleep together
The furniture dealers at Sandusky, Ohio
have read Slsatl' article. and have nance
the forlorn single bcdstcad used in hotel
4 and boalding-houses "Susanthonies." r
Oncof the features Of the Fair to BE-
held this fail by TIE franklin county, III
linois, Agricultural Society is to be ba
BY show. A premium Of $50 is offere'
for the handsoMest baby. e.aE
It is stated as a fact that times are
dull in one county in Minnesota that til
sheriff has gone to work in a blacksmith
shop Good lawyers must be scarce /
, that county. r.4l
Queen Isabella is disposed to abdicat
in favor Of tile Prince Of Asturias. As sh
: has nothing to abdicate from, her gcner
ossy is truly princely.
Iowa is ahead. A couple out ther
we're married after fifteen minutes cturI
|, ship, aud in six hours were divorced
That wasn't ''liukel sweetness long draw
out.' Fam.I.,ni ~. ts s. ~
Tnllow candles were frs. used as ligl,
in 1890. | ~
Paper table napkins arc The lates, age
no Nt,ht oovlj ..-. l 4. -t =