The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-12
Summary of News.

damage from blight.
The losses by the floods in Antigua,
Peru, exceed 81, 100000.
THE schools of Connecticut cost the
State 81, 62l 1888 last year.
A LOUISVILLE man mas left England
with $500 sparrows for that city.
RICHARD SMITH, wealthy New Yorker,
poisoned himself in Springfield, Mass.
HAILsToSEs weighing two to three
ounces, fell in Quincy, H., on Wednes-
day.
THE Ohio Democratic Convention will
it is said adopt the Vallandigham plat
form.
The Prussians have paid the indemni-
ty for the British golfers sunk in the
Seine.
EIGHTY millions of bushels of coal are
said to be shipped annually from Pitts
burgh.
THREE ce-Presidents have died in
office, George Clinton, Eldridge Gerry
W. R. King.
COUNTERFEIT twenties on the Mer-
chants National and the Bank OF New
York are calculated.
CREAM puffs poisoned a Louisville
family on Monday, but all its members
are now out of danger.
The iron-mills of Pittsburg, Penn,
have, in the past six years, increased
their capacity fully twenty-five per cent.
The capital invested in vessels on the
Mississippi River and in the cargoes they
are constantly carrying is $1,000, 0O0, 900.
The Democrats of the Third District
OF Texas have nominated Col. D. c.
Giddings of Washington county for
Congress.
THERE is family in Vermont consist
ing of five sisters, who are all over ninety
years old, and of three brothers all over
eighty years Did.
Born branches OF the Massachusetts,
Legislature have passed the new bill
organizing State Police. It is to num-
Der seventy men.
A CALL is out for a Pennsylvania State
Labor Convention in Danville, Montour
County, on Tuesday, June q, to form a
State Labor Union.
BEs SAWYER, colored, was hanged at
Evansville, Ind, for the murder OF his
wife. He manifested no emotion, and
died in ten minutes.
The Derby stakes, amounting to about
E6, 900, were, after the race, presented
by Baron Rothschild to Wells, the Jockey
who rode the winner.
The Maine Republicans will hold their
State Convention in Portland, on Thurs
day, June 20, and will, probably, re-
nominate Gov. Perham.
The British House of Commons was
b. Nosed to pass vote of sympathy for
'rsailles government but was
he bectsS $, Mr.. Gladstone.
Wv pso 'ks, a resident of Wash
, o ,MM, o ., Dir, three, while in the
a rssonco a - his asgans,d suddenly drew
pistol and shot himself ..eaa'
TIE ladies of Boston are to hold
reat Fair in December next in aid OF
be Massachusetts, Society for the pre-
en.ion of Cruelty to Animals.
The California Republican State Com
ention, to nominate candidates for State
nd Judicial officers, is to be held In Sac
amento on Wednesday, June %.
Mr.. LESLIE, Democratic candidate
or the Goyernorship Of Kentucky, IS
Jumping the State, jointly with Cen
Harlan, the Republican candidate.
BELGIUM expresses its horror OF the
Paris Commune by refusing to recognize
my of its members who may escape into
Belgian territory as political refugees.
The Rhode Island Commissioners have
.emoved all restrictions as to admitting
,attle into that State from Albany, as 1t
is thought danger from disease is over.
THE U. S. Senate has confirmed the
Of James r. Partridge, OF
Maryland, to be Minister Plenipoten-
tiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Bra
I'll.
CHARLES EACKER, the murderer OF
Thos. E. Burdick, was executed at
Fonda, n. Y. The crime was committed
on the 9th of July, 1870, and caused an
intense excitement.
THE German Reichstag has approved
the additional clause of the postal treaty
between the United States and Germany,
reducing the rate to two and a half
groschen five cents) per half ounce.
The complete returns OF the vote on
the question as to whether malt liquors
shall be sold in the different towns and
cities of Massachusetts,, show that OF the
339 cities and towns, only l76 poled a
vote on the question.
AT the time OF the explosion OF the
tug-boat B. B. Jones, at Port Huron,
Michigan, crew were at dinner. The tirst
engineer and six other men were killed,
and two others badly scalded and
bruised. There is no reason to hope for
their recovery.
The American and Foreign Christian
Union, which has greatly increased IN
importance and usefulness during the