The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-08
General News Summary.

evenings Ave great planets.
CANADA is expecting large number Of
Italian immigrants this season.
In Buffalo family has recently lost
seven children in four days, from scarlet
fever.
PouGHKEEPsrE lady has been badly
poisoned In the hands by wearing green
kid gloves.
Gov. LINDSAY, Of Alabama, has lost
three Of his children by death since
November last.
THE smallpox, which still ravages in
London, destroyed 25, 061 lives from 1910
to 1870 in England.
THE crevasse in the Mississippi Levee
at Bonnet Carree, La, is now 200 feet
wide and very deep.
BUFFALO gnats are killing large num-
berG of horses, mules and cattle along
the Mississippi, River.
FIVE children were poisoned at Coving-
ton, Ky, by eating poke root" 1t is
thought they will recover.
TIM once celebrated Elevated Railway,
in New York City, was sold by the
Sheriff, to satisfy creditors.
CHARLES GREEN, the Sheriff of Pacific
County, Washington Territory, while
collecting, was murdered and robbed.
A CITIZEN OF Montreal is under arrest
for refusing to tell census enumerasor
the ages OF his two unmarried daughters.
DEPUTY CASTELAR, announces that he
will introduce motion in the Spanish
Cortes demanding the dethronement of
the King.
MOSQUITOES are so plenty this spring
near Memphis, that steamboat pilots have
mistaken swarm of them for tempest
breeding clouds.
The Dakota Legislature held special
session, and transacted some important
business before it was discovered that the
session was illegal
REroBrs from Albany and Washington
confirm the fact that a new comet is
observable. The comet is simply tele-
scopic one Of average brightness.
JOSEPH DIoN beat Rudolphe in San
Francisco in q three ball French carom
game, 500 TO 472. There was constant
wranglng throughout the entire game.
In California there are eight wooden
mills, with fifty eight sets of machinery /;
in Oregon and Washington Territory,
eight more, with twenty-five sets Of
machinery.
Hos. Benz. F. WADE, declares that he
is not q candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor of Ohio, and
that l. could not accept the Office if it
were rendered him.
LpSEHAN, convicted in San Francisco
OF robbing Chinaman, and sent to
State Prison, was released under decree
Of the Supreme Court that Chinese testi-
mony is inadmissable.
THE Versailles Government has paid
the first installment of the war indemnity
900, 900, 900 francs, and that the German
troops are, in consequence, evacuating
the forts north and east of the City.
A STAGE was attacked by Apache
Indians siIty-five miles east Of Tucson,
Arizona, and the driver, Mark Robbins,
killed and horribly mutilated. The stage
was burned and the mail destroyed.
A NEW cattle disease has appeared in
Mercer County, Ill. The animals live
but few hours after the attack, and so
far every attack has been fatal. One
man has lost twenty-three head in three
or four days.
FouR fishing schooners belonging to
Gloucester, Mass, were probably lost
with all hands, forty men, in severe
gale on the Banks. This makes total
OF six vessels and sixty-three lives lost
the present season.
OVER 100000 cords OF bark have
been peeled in the hemlock regions Of
Ulster county, n. Y, the past season.
This has compelled the telling Of 1,0O0,-
0O0, 900 feet Of lumber, three-quarters OF
which will be left to rot upon the ground.
AN army comnissary, Just arrived in
Chicago from the plains, got drunk and
gambled away S3,460 in Government
funds the first night. Next day his wife
called at the faro bank in tears to get
money enough to leave town, and was
given 800.
MICHAEL GERMAN and Robert Dettis
were killed near Westchester, Penn,
while standing under tree during q
thunder storm. They had sought shelter
there from the rain, when the tree was
struck by lightning and both Of them
were instantly killed.
DURING thunder storm ball OF
electricity struck the ground near the
entrance OF the Hoosac Tunnel, Mass,
and, following the iron rail into the
tunnel, exploded several charges Of nitro
glycerine, blowing four workmen into
hundreds of pieces and fearfully iniuring
two others.
A BILL was introduced in the English
House OF Commons to abolish the game
laws. In the course Of debate thereon
it was stated that "a tenth part of the
surface Of Scotland, or 1000, 900 acres
OF land, has been reserved as deer
forests, and the population eXiled to