The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-17
General News Summary.

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hogs last year.
THERE are over $50, 900 Freemasons in
the United States.
SWEDISH papers are advocating emil
grafton to this country.
A MAN was arrested in Indiana three
years ago for murder and has never been
tried.
THERE were two suicides in New York
in one day, caused by depression Of
spirits.
Mosr OF the new loan is taken by hol-
ders of fve-twenties, and in exchange for
the latter.
TwESTY-oSE thousand fish traps are to
be set in and about Narragansett Bay
this season.
PHILADELPHIA has shipped $3.50, 269
gallons OF petroleum to foreign ports
since Jan. l.
DELAWARE sends out promises of an
abundant peach crop. The trees are full
of blossoms.
The last returns give Boston, Mass,
a population Of 25O,526, of whom ST.
9S5 are foreigners.
A DRUNKEN man in Syracuse, Kansas,
recently iroze fast in gutter and was
drowned in six inches OF water.
THE colored citizens of New York
celebrated the proclamation of the XVIII
Amendment by parade and speeches.
Jones and his wife agree graudly on
one point she thinks more of him than
any one else in the world, and so does
he.
REPORTS from almost all sections of
Southern Indiana represent the growing
wheat crop very promising at the pres
ent time.
THE Apprentices Library of Phila-
delphia contains 10000 volumes, and
over 1900 books were loaned out du-
ing the past year.
WILLIAM II. MCPHERSON, the young
est brother OF the late Major-Gen. J. B.
Mcpherson, has been killed by kick
from vicious horse, in Clyde, Ohio.
CONGRESS granted to Phebe Scofeld,
the widow OF a revolutionary soldier, $50
per month from June 5, 1867, on which
day she attained her hundreth year.
WASHINGTON reports are to the effect
that Senator Allen G. Thurman il IN
open and avowed candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for the Presidency.
SENATOR Pool, Of North Carolina, has
written home tina. he thinks Ex-Gov.
Vance will be admitted to seat in the
Senate next December, if not before.
A CLERGYMAN in the West seeks dam.
ages Of q journal which published n re-
port OF his lecture, "Mind and Matter, "
under the head OF "Wind and Water"
The profits of The N. Y. Herald alone
must be half o million yearly, which
would make the value of that establish
ment somewhere from four to five mil
lions.
The FIRE at Truckee, CAL, destroyed
almost the entire city, involving 120
buildings, including all the business
portion Of the place and the Chinese
quarter.
MINNESOTA, which in 1857 imported
wheat for food, in 1867 raised IA, 900, 900
bushels, and exported two-thirds of this
amount Now she raises some IS, 000,-
900 bushels and sends u, 900, 900 bushels
to market.
The Detroit papers have discovered q
new method OF driving away the organ
grinders. Every day or two they have a
small paragraph like this: "Organ-
grinders in Memphis make about ten
dollars day."
JOSEPH HOLLAND, OF Claremont, New
Hampshire, relates that he and forty-five
OF his associates signed the pledge of
total abstinence forty years ago that
he was the only one Of the number who
kept it, and he is to-day the only one
alive.
In the English House OF Lords, the
bill legalizing marriage with deceased
wife's sister, previously passed by the
House of Commons, came up for final
disposition. After long debate. in
which Lord Penzance argued strongly
in its favor, the bill was rejected.
The Philadelphia Mint will redeem
zach kind OF United States copper, nickel
and bronze coins, when forwarded in
even sums Of $40, or any multiple of
$40. Copper cents prior to 1857, MCKEE
copper cents from 1857 to 1864, and
bronze cents since 1864, must come
separately.
A COMPARATIVE statement, which had
been prepared at the Internal Revenue
Office, showing the receipts from the
several sources Of internal revenue, now
subject to tax for the joint eight months
for the present and last fiscal year, shows
decrease of S1O,310,1 1873. There has
been n decrease on spirits Of So, 124, ST.,
and on incomes of 81, 1872, 666 Tobacco
shows an increase of S1,373,536.
THE Queen Of Sweden, who died at
Stockholm, was daughter OF William
Frederick, a member of the House Of
Orange, and uncle OF the present King
of Holland. She was born Aug s, 1898,
aud married June 10, 1850, Charles XIV,
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