The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-01-04
General News.
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The Cuban insurrectionists have got
the regular troops on the defensive.
Total National debt, December 1st,
$2,645, Ill, lG4 81. ..
A Enthusiastically found three pink mice
in large apple the other day.
There arc 957 miles Of railroad west Of
Omaha. ar.f. +.
There are hundred thousand Span
iards in New York. q
Alexander II. Stephcns,will enter upon
his duties as Professor of History in the
Georgia University early in January.
The instruction at Cadiz, Spain, is
cndcd-the insrrrectionists giving up their
arms. hia ~
G.. r. johnson was killed by the ex-
plosion Of tho boiler of n saw-mill, near
Dauy;llc, Ky, on Thursday. ,'
The English cruiser Nymph has cap
turcl eight sayers off .he coast Of Africa
during the past ceason. .,s.a fla.
A pumpkin pie, nine feet in diameter,
vas exhibited at y recent fair in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, "
AZanesyille widow Of sixty gets $500
from rich man of sixty-iivo, for breach
of promise. She asked $4,000,
There is hitch after all in the award
of the lIoosac Tunnc! contract. Two
parties claimi,, and a strife is going on.
Ethan Allen, of Quincy, Illinois, has
been sent to tho pcniteut:ury for five
years, for shoot;n: through the window of
his house Il! his family, who were inside.
The champion postmaster Of the Uni
ted States is John Eibering, who has held
the Office at Lynvillc, Pennsylvania, for
forty y-cight.straight years. ''''g
Charles o'conor, Of New York, tits
reported, has been engaged 10 aid in the
prosecution Of Grant for the murder Of
Rives Pollard, in Richmond.
Three men were murdered and two
others wounded, by party OF robbers,
in Jasper county, Missouri, q few days
since. ig 'r
A man in Monongsl;. county, West
Virginia, tho other day whipped his wife
ior eating molasses sud butter together
upon her bread.
The word debt is composed Of the
initials Of ",lun c7ery body .wica."
C.r-c'd-i,s is formed oI tho initia! letters
OF "call regularly every day-l'll trust"
A young man named Charles Karus
blcd 70 death u; New philadelphia, Ohio,
last week, froa, having several tcc:!,
drawn. ,,. i,
Burglars are operating in Evansville
on d grand scale. The lymnul says the
townis full Of deaa-bca.s, Iimps aud seal
awags generally. .
A little child from the Orphan .Asy-
lum, Cincinnati, carried smallpox 10
PcnsTillc, Morgan county, where The dis
ease has broken out. So says the Morgan
Henald. ID
James Hart, aged seventeen, has been
convicted Of lnanslausliler al Paoli In
diana, in Killing W. Mckecue. Seycn
o;icr boys are Oh trial for the same Of.
iensc.
A lady in Winchester, Virginia, still
preserves pair of boots once worn BY
Lord Fairfax, and Mr.. il Massey, Of
Clarke, has his snutT-box Of silver aud
pearl. -..
Mr, Peter Loyen, q well-known citizen
of nnricss county, KY, was instantly
killed By fall from lis horse on sntur-
day evening last, near his residence on
the Calhoun road. ag'
On Tuesday evening; at New Albany,
u man named Hardy mate Of the steamer
Red Rover. was drowned BY falling over
board, in m attempt to jump from the
boat 70 u barge. %. o.. iT.37t A
Frank De I'ratcs, Of Springfield, 'Illi-
lncis, has been III the labit Of stealing n
ride on the ears between Springfield and
lllkhart On Tuesday he fell Oft, was
run over and killed.
A squad of clever negroes were brought
|! into Brownsville, Tenucsscc, charged with
forming conspiracy to rob and murder
| General White, near the neighborhood
in Which they lived.
Near Fosters Landing, Bracken county,
KY, Joseph Chip,nan, in attempting to
cross rayine, Slipped and fell, his head
stirling against the bank, BY which lis
neck was brOken.s '.1l ei ~
Tic Lincoln County Nsn, learns That
a man by the namo Of Simmons, living
somewhere near the line between that
county ard Madison, Alabama, was found
frozen to death during the recent cold
spell of weather.
A man named Luke Tully attempted to
murder lis wife ut Worcester, Mass.
Saturday. He shot her in three placcs
| and then yllot himself and v,sl,ej he