Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-04
General News Items.

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Tho exodus of beef cattle from Wosi-
ern Texas this spring is estimated at not
less than quarter OF o million head
"A Western man advertises his wife,
who has loft his bed and board with
gentleman named Decker"
The flax factory at Dixon, ILL.,, turns
out an average of q thousand yards OF cot
ton baiingper day
"A United States detective was tried in
st. Louis d few days ago for stealing dog.
He was acquitted.
: The New York Evening Mail iavors
the removal of the national capital to st.
Louis.
--"The Day We used to Celebrate" is the
heading of the Charleston Oouriers leader
on the 9th.
San Francisco talks of big hotel, COW
ering two blocks, connected at each story
by covered bridge,
The Alaska Times claims TO furnish
the news to territory Of greater size than
any other paper in the world.
"A box containing $4,000 In Indiana
state and Washington money--long since
worthless was found in the woods at Dam
vile, Ill.
The South Pacific Works at Franklin,
Mo-, were destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day OF last week, involving a loss of $780,
600,
"A rattlesnalee crawled up the trowsers'
the other day, and bit him twice. Whisky
and ammonia saved him.
Just five hundred pounds is the weight
of o man and wife who keep lager beer
saloon in Chicago, the man weighing 220
and the wife $50 pounds.
Chicago has been under the weather
30 long that the papers are glad to be able
to state that ''it hasn't rained tRr q quar-
ter of an hour"
Not long ago young married lady in
Illinois was found dead in her bed, and
Coroners jury rendered n verdict of "died
of conyulsions aided by tight-lecing."
"A young lady goes into ecstacies over
her new bonnet: "Oh, the lovely little pan
cake tho charming little mat IL makes
my head so level, and so very, very flatT
Wells, Fargo & Co. 8 coach going south,
from Virginia City, was robbed at Moren's
Station, thirty miles from Virginia City
The treasure box, containing 1900 ingold,
was stolen.
Pine apples are being cultivated in the
peninsula of Florida with the greatest sue
cess. They are larger than those grown in
the West Indies, and fully equal to them
in sweetness and flavor.
The strawberry growers of Delaware
shipped the present season from Brenford
Station, the principal one on the Delaware
II. r., 81 GOO quarts to New York and 2,740
to Philadelphia.
"A citizen of Belfast, Maine, who had
not seen his son for eight years, and sup
posed him dead, recognized him as one of
the acrobats in circus which exhibited in
that city recently. e--
"A verdict of 5000 has beon obtained
in Cincinnati against telegraph company
for rejection of q message desired to be
sent for trading purposes, in competition
with the company itself.
The value of skilled labor is aptly IL
lustrated in the balance spring of q watch,
The finest watch springs are so light as to
number 1000 to the ounce, and that ounce
is valued at $5, 900 in gold.
Tho United States have capacity of
cotton production Of 142, 2,12l, ,S14 bales,
which, at existing prices in currency, would
be worth $14, 212, 900, 600 o sum which
staggers the imagination
The Peoria Transcript says: During
q rainstorm last week, five horses were
struck by lightningand killed while stand
ing under n tree in Ransteads hollow, Hal.
lock township. few days before COW
was killed by lightning in the same hollow
Baron Zero, Greek, had cataracts on
his eyes, He recently offered G1, 500 TO an
English oculist to take them of. After
one was removed he paid half the money,
and said ho would keep his eye single and
his whole body full Of light hereafter.
The following is the valuation of eight
Iowa Cities as shown in the auditors Office
in Des Moines: Council Bluffs, $4,211, 48G:
Des Moines, $3,G0S, 458; Dubuque, So, $685.
$40; Davenport $2,8G0,5O0; KeoSuk, $2,-
531, 1874; Burlington, $2,092,9O5; Musca-
tine, 81, 372, ,01G; Iowa City. $500, 400.
There is on exhibition at Macon, Ga.,a
stalk of Persian clover, eight feet high and
half m inch thick at its base. II grew at
the rate Of four inches day. The seed
was brought from tho Paris Exposition in
1867 When dry il is as fragrant as the
Vanilla bean. 1t is perennial,
The party selected to make the aslror-
omical observations OF the'coming eclipse,
has arrived in Des Moines Il consists of
Prof VIM. Hardness and j. r. Eastman, of
the United States Navy; Edward Curtis and
II IL T.an,ar;a nr
Also M. v Boeman of Washington, d. O.
"A Boston paper says; 'eThe sea serpent
has again appeared in our waters, if &C.
counts from below are correct. IL was seen
on the 4th inst. in the bay, sailing about
with head erect. After Displaying itself
for some time, itmoved round in o circle
and disappeared. It's head was apparently
about the size of barrel, with series of
rings around it, From the description
given we should think it was the ''serpent
of the still.
"A Pittsburg paper says that 8, 100000
tons of coal are annually shipped from
Pennsylvania TO New York, and the bal
ance, 10000 600 tons is conveyed in sailing
vessels to various ports on Long Island
Sound, and ports beyond. The production
OF coal i'll Pennsylvania and Maryland in
1867 was over 10000, 900 tons, and Is in
creasng at the rate Of 2, 900, 600 tons, or fif-
teen per cent. per annum. f4
The May products of the Lake Su-
perior copper mines were as follows: Hecla,
$50 tons; Calumet, 175 tons; Quincy, 115
tons, 768 pounds; Huron, 63 tona; Ridge,
13 tons, 1,515 pounds; Knowlton, 8 tons,
l,402 pounds; Evergreen Bluff, II tons,
1913 pounds National, mass, barrel aud
stamp, 18, 8,46iponnds; Pawabic, mass, bar
rel and stamp, 80, l55 pounds; Franklin,
mass, barrel and stamp 1887 pounda
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