The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-27
Summary Of News.


A NEW rebellion has broken out in
Japan.
CHIEF Justice Chase has recovered from
his illness.
WESTERN England has had an earth
quake shock.
THE Ex-Emperor Napoleon has arrived
in England.
SENATOR Hamilton OF Texas was ad-
mitted to his seat.
Buffers Dutch Gap Canal is being
deepened and widened.
THE subscriptions to the new U. s.,
loan amount to 100000.
CAPT. Peabody has been removed from
the command OF the Neptune.
MARYLAND reports that the growing
wheat presents fine appearance.
INTERNAL Revenue receipts OF the q.
s., fiscal year to date, Sl7O,OOO,OOO.
MARSHAL BAzAINE insists upon an in
vestigation into his conduct at Metz.
MONDAY, the 10th OF April, has been
selected by the Germans for their great
peace celebration.
The sugar crop of the Sagua District,
Cuba, will be smaller by twenty per cent.
than that of last year.
The Massachusetts, House Of Repre-
sentatives will not incorporate the Bos-
ton Baseball Association.
THE Mexican Congress will pass law
prohibiting the reelection of Juarez.
II so, Juarez will ignore it.
THE Chinese Government has paid
100000 indemnity for the French
property destroyed at Tein-tsin.
Four men, with blackened fuces, made
an unsuccessful attempt to rob the First
National Bank at Indiana, Penn.
PAPER and cloth of excellent quality
are now extensively manufactured in
Austria, from simple corn husks.
Mr.. S. GoDSG, OF Auburn, Me-, has
lost his wife and six children by con-
sumption in less than three years.
SIXTEEN German vessels were, at last
accounts, blockaded at Yokohama for
alleged violation OF the revenue laws.
THE vital statistics of n. Y. City for
the past week show 43 still births, 1854
births, 100 marriages and 499 deaths.
A POWDER factory belonging to the
Chinese government at Hang Chow has
exploded, and forty persons were killed.
IT is stated that the pneumatic tube
recently laid in London in connection
with the postal telegraph thus far works
well.
THE Police of n. Y, made a raid on
the keno banks OF that city, and arrest
ed over one thousand young men in one
night.
The Prussian Cross Gazette says that
if the French persecute returning Ger
mans, a German army must reoccupy
Paris.
The damage to the planting interests
by the flood in the Mississippi has been
very great. All the lowlands have been
overfowed.
RECONSTRUCTION IN France is proceed
ing at rapid rate. The army is being
rapidly remodelled, and the men are
nearly all armed.
THE Wisconsin Legislature is invesh-
eating charges OF bribery against some OF
its members, in connection with Chip
pewa River Improvement bill.
The severe winter has proved injuri-
GUS to the wheat crop in Belgium, and
in the greater part OF that country it will
be necessary to resow the fields.
A1rTIE girl in New Jersey was acci-
dentally choked to death last week by
swallowing an India-rubber toy balloon
which she happened to have in her
mouth.
The stage from Fort Yuma to Tucson,
Arizona, was captured by Apaches.
Thompson, tho driver, received three
bullets in the leg and an arrow in the
chest, but escaped with the only passen-
ger
The Mechanical and Agricultural As
sociation of Tennessee proposes a Ma
tional Agricultural Congress, to be held
in Nashville in October next, at the time
OF its annual Fair. The Commissioner
of Agriculture is said to favor the project.
INTERESTING information comes from
Darien that the exploration is pro-
crossing favorably; two separate parties
are pushing toward each other from each
ocean. The Tuyra River | Pacific side is
found to be large river, one mile wide
and enough for vessels OF great deep
draught twenty miles from its mouth.
Ap,tv Rrn1rc.r1nN In accordance with