The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-07-19
General News

An Illinois horticulturalist grows roses
on apple trees.
Fortified moss is manufactured to order
in Minnesota.
a Baltimore lady shot mad dog on
The street the other day.
They smashed a table and picked a
pocket in honor Of Grant at Hartford.
A coffin, said an Irishman, is the. house
Il man lives in when hcis dead.
Owing to too much whiskcy, Nash
vile husband missed his wifc's head and
shot of her ear the other day.
On an average, sevcnty-fve persons
annually fall victims to the strect.taf$ of
New York city, nine. .tenths of whom die.
Sir Robert Clifton, who died recently
in England, had $4,000 insurance on
his life.
Crawford county, Arkansas, has had
her first colored jury. This jury surprised
n prisoner with crime Of not guilty.
A man in Norwich has domesticatcd a
lot oftoads, which keep lis garden clear
Of insects.
Tho Methodist Church South has ro-
moved the penalty Of expulsion for neg.
Letting to attend class meetings.
A man in Rhode Island was sent to jail
for ten days for sleeping in church.
Nothing was done 10 the clergyman.
Tobacco chewing is on the increase in
Salt Lake City, aud the ladies' complain
that they can't wear white dresses to the
theatre. s
a disloyal paper in Chicago says:-
"Almost every interest in this country
has lis organ. That of the manned sol.
diers of tue late war is the hand-organ."
Nice people in New York. One Of
them picked the pocket Of an old man, Il
stranger in the city, while he was lying
in fainting 6t on the sidewalk.
A half-wittcd fellow ip Minnesota cured
his Cog ofhydrophobia BY fcfFipg the AMI
NAL up in his bedclothes and setting fire
to them. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Shclburne Falls, Vermont, has. & eiti-
zen who claims to he the champion
horse tradet." Hc is 40 years Of age,
and las traded horses 55er GOO tines.
Inquest whiskcy is the name of a new
beverage which attracts attention near tho
City Hall, New York. A jury is con-
s,antly in attendance.
DR.. Samuel Wesley, one Of the leading
English church composers of the present
day. lisa nephew of the celebrated John
Wesley.
The remains of John Wilkes Booth
were inferred in thc family lot at Bali-
more, on Sunday, in the presence of the
mcmbcrs of .le Cau'ily aud friends.
Colonel Il. W. Tlournoy. Democratic
member of the Georgia Legislature, was
murdered in his own field the other day
by negro. The murderer has been ar.
rested.
The Prussian army is about adopting
the Bcrdan rifle. The projeciilc ron
this rifle will penetrate au uch plank at
distance ot1520 PAGES. tho cartridges
being made Of thin sheet brass.
A freedman III Montgomery has ~
vented cotton plough. He deserves
credit for that. but if he will now Invent
n way to make his brother freedmen Use
the cotton Plough, he will deserve more.
Brigham Young. when asked if he
thought the Pacific ra'lfcad would iniurc
NIornonism, is credited with the profimc
reply, II thihk 1t would be id poor
religion that cannot stand one railroad"
"'rin Bear" the most 7cnerablc of the
Can'anchc chiefs, having lived on Buffalo
meat all his life. can't make up bis mind
to cat corn meal He is therefore teach.
ing hi, people to cut their hoes into ar.
row heads.
Reuben D. Hcrndon, the alleged mur-
dcrer Of Miss Lumsden, in Orange coun-
ty, has been tried at Orange Court
House, by ajuty taken from Alexandria.
The jury sentenced him 10 eighteen years
in the pcnitcntiary.
A man in Monroe county. Michigan,
who lnd been saved from punishment for
smuggling, through tho payment of seve.
raj lundred dollars by a friendly farmer
of the same town, recently ran of with
the wife Of his bencfhclor.
A gentleman named Garrett, living in
Sumner county, Tennessee, has very
valuable COW. She brought forth six
calves at birth tie other day They
aro still living, and have regular morning
fights ab6tt their milk. They grow fat,
but tue COW grows thin.
A stranger recently went to a hotel in
t1ortfotd tUr d bath, and as he did mt
emerge from his retirement for an hour