The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-10-04
General News
Chicago is to nave another luke tunnel.


whose skull will turn pistol ball.
[ Three pairs Of twins arrived the same
night in u Georgia family. .,.
as Ex-Governor Worth. ofNorth Carolina,
died on Sunday night, e7a .,gjlio.!
Dead trees have been set on FIRE BY the
rays Of the sun in Georgia this year.
a. T. Stewart's income is sat the rate
Of six dollars u minute. f'Irn1 g''
.4 The door.keeper of the Alabama Senate
has resigned, iu order that be might oc.
cupy Q cell in q jail. 2iafi
A. colored sister tbrashed Niger
preacher iu Louisville for slaudering her,
aud then they all prayed. = 'a9ss .e7a'.
An Iowa dis.illery has been turned into
cotton-mill. It isn't the first distillery
that has spit cotton. a'794 81
Wendell Phillips proposes to publish
hi, speeches in book-whicL will bo
very much like collecting stule "pop" in
barrel. izal j5Jlzs q,
Fifteen persons, mostly negroes, are to
be tried for murder at the current term OF
court in Clark county. Mississippi; !. f.,5
Pierre Plant, Canadian. lately handed
in his checks, aged one hundred and
twenty He was evidently OF tho Century
Plant family. 1sII.79 r. "
The identical printing press used by
Benjamin Franklin is now in Fayette
County. Georgia. 1t is also at various
places in Massachusetts,, New Hampshire.
Rhode lslsud. Connecticut. aud else
VI where. .ilhat, HtG jQ n3aa i,'H
z The jugc in q Cincinnuti Court allowed
two lawyers.,o ightih the courtroom ,lu-'
ringla trial, ,'as hc said wien Que man
called ono,her a liar be deserved to have
bis mouth slapped. sDMi 3a.oa ~
Tho Winterset (Iowa) .Muaisoniian says
that John McClintock, of Walnut town
ship, found in his harvest field nh i'm
mcnse spider. Its body was as lurgc as a
mouse, and it covered with its legsat leust
fvo inches Of ground. g 70 rtmag 4
In Monroe, Georgia, last week. group
Of the Oldest citizens Of the county were
gathered together in the streets, chatting
Of old times. There were seven Of these
patriarchs. : Their combined ages are FIVE
hundred and twenty-tllree years, and they
arc the fathers Of seventy.three children.
~ Tie National Methodist camp.mceting
will 90 held next year at a place near.
Long BridgeaNew Jersey. on the Shark
river, in tie southern part Of the State.
A tract Of 1877 acres has been secured,
and negotiations are in progress for
enough land adjoieing to make up $50
acres, with over u mile Of sea 'front.' ~
Some of tho tcolorcd rioters, who at.
tempted to prevent black voters from svot-
ting the Conservative ticket at tho recent
election in Washington city hayoubeeu
tried aud sentenced 10 two years simpris-
onucnt. The opinion generally prevails
there that the sentence is noti severe
enough. lai 'it 2 lii[5a s,..,, : a, aoi'raq
The Deputy Sheriff Of Rensselaer,
county New York, with a posse Of twenty
men, undertook, on the 18th, ult., to levy
on . farmer encouragement ofrent; but
was met By double the number Of thr
farmers friends, who fred upon him,
wounding the deputy mortality, it is
thought, and two others seriously.
The wool clip reaches 6, ,52s.OOo lbs.
d Kansus claims the biggest corn crop
vet ,ii g,I9d uAg lolt, iu'
,aRoast benr and fried snakes are plenty
in the Dismal Swamp. .ao' IR,t'1, M, ~
Georgia has produced a .wo-pouud Jug
Get Of gold. ..aalat 2i7If ,,' ap.., Z.
Silver gdblcts, lined with gold, are
used iu Boston beer-saloons, now Butler
has conc to California. H 47s a+a6
Texas has sour lake, the water Of
which tastes worse than an old.inad's
sewing society.4,,t2 g.j}it
Corning has white .blackberriss Of an
amber color. Next We shall hear Of u
white black COW Of brindlc tut,
B spaniards are gaining ground in Cuba.
but il seems oibe principally in the way
Of grayeyards. l4!,s2' ''iao
They are fooling away time in Wash
ingion trying q niggsr for stealing only
100000 AIN ...'57 l6eislaJ sa.i ,-ii !. /
da A Tennessee hu. band not only cut bis
wife up with u bulcher.kuife, but burned
his moiher.in-law's house. 'H.si .., iis, i9
O-At Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. a
drunken lawyer aud nigger received the
President, cheered, took d drink, aud
the Government moved Ion. Yl5s it99
l In Richmond, Virginia, The other night.
after the, doors we're opened, lioness ii
One fthe eages, at Ames' menagerie and
circus gave birth to two whelps. Herr