The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-08-30
General News
Fremont has gone to Denmark.
China has three million deities.
Vanderbilt chalks up 100000, 900.

Vanderbilt chalks up 500, 900, 600.
Brigham Young is at last married to u
Miss Fo!ausbee, of Boston.
A drunken man in indianapolis bit a
little girls toe off a
The Chinese are said to pour into Cali
fornia as Jid the frogs into Egypt.
The ten cent currency is getting into
circ uation.
Brick Pomcry intends to rnn for the
New York State Senate next winter.
The length of Long Branch, the ia
mous watering place, is best measured by
the purse.
The family of Damphools thrives. One
of them has walking cane made from
LincOln's vld boots
A book-keepcr in St. Louis fell asleep
and out of The window. His earthly nc
count is settled.
The Emperor of China is to be mar.
ried, but Le is IA and knows no better,
poor lad.
An/Alabama regrcss killed her child
by sutiocaling it with smoke over alarge
!. fire.
A negro near Nashville amused himself
by prodding white man with a pitch
fox, but dcsistcd on being shot dead.
Watcrmclous are Eve cents cacl,in
Charleston. Cofins arc correspondingly
cheap. all N
A doctor in St. Louis, who had four
wives, is supposed to have used strych-'
nine to accelerate his weddings,
The appearance Of drunken Indian
with a very usly-looking 'tomahawk, was
the excitement in St. Louis recently. 4,
That Danvillc niger, who looked
down the muzzle Of a pistol to see why it,
didn't expl9dc. died before lie found out
Two Missouri brothers loved the same
girl. and one believing it Inconsistent tl,a,
both should live, considerably butcher.
knlfed the other out Of existence.
The Great Eastern, on her return 10
England from her present expedition,
will Immediately be sent out to India to
lay cable between Bombay and suez. z
The nice young men at Cape May wear
,hluc veils,to preserve their complexions.
They do not swim, forte a horrid dem
milton wave Should brain them. ,., iNl
Horsc-tl,ievcs are hung at Pekin upon
the shortest notice and on tic most rea-
sonsblc terms The last man hung snid
Fho had very little respect for the tics of
this world. + a4sa- qs.s
A Minnesota paper says that instead Of
saying "gool morning" the compliment
Of the day is--"llow's your whooping
cough?' So many cases were never
known before, especially among adults.
At Carroltan. Missouri. negro at.
tended church aud was converted. On
the way home he attempted to commit
rape on young lady. ITc was arrested
and narrowly escaped "roins home" ~.
A Dubuque raner says that the ilrnti
cal pistols with which Commpdore Dcca
tnr and Barron fought their du,l at rla.
densburg. hlaryl'ud, arc at that place
They are, flint locks.
Seven persons have been either hanged
or shot i'll Jersey county, Illinois. by un-
authorized persons, and without legal
trial, within the past two ycaus, for the
alleged crime ofhorsc.stculing. Y" 4
Nearly all the St,0OO,OOO securities
stolen front the Ocean Bank, New York,
have been recovered. by negotiations with
agents of the burglars, in ways that the
bank officers decline to reveal. u I'D
A Jackson, Ohio, paper says-nr o.
G Miller showed us the vother day tape.
worm, preserved in alcohol, which was
passed by a child fifteen months old. The
whole length Of the worm passed was
ffty-Gye feet. aG6a ssa
a convict in the Ohio Penientiary,
named Kelly. chopped OIL his right hand,
one morning last week, in order to get
rid OF work. Once before he had chop
ped of finger. Lie was in for only Eve
years aud was at work in n foundry.
Reno, Nevada, Is place the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad has called into ID.
ing, and although tits hardly yet staked
oft. arrangements were being made at
last accounts for two new daily papers,
and.anothcr was packing type aud things
to remove there
Colonel William j. Magic. formerly Of
the Irish Brigade, ono Of the few who
were released so,ne time ago from the
English prison, was killed n few days ago
! BY a fall from the window uf his residence
ia New York. .lsa
A lady, a few days since. sought a
clerkship IN q Washington Department.
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