The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-22
Summary Of News.

WIN. WHITE, shot his wife dead at
Upton's Station, Kentucky.
The whole of the Kabyles are in arms
against the French authorities.
The English Lords passed the bill for
the protection of life in ireland.
The Illinois legislature is convened in
extra session, and will meet May "a
The Bond Arbitration bill in Mime
sofa is defeated by nearly 5000 majority.
DR. A. X. HOFFMAN, the father of the
Governor OF New York, died OF Sing
Sing.
JAMES DNGs, notorious character,
and John Hand, were burned to death
in Syracuse.
NEGOTIATIONS are now in progress, for
concluding an extradition treaty between
Great Britain and Germany.
The instruction in Algeria is extend.
ing, and the Government at Versailles is
needless of the approaching danger.
The aggregate manufactures of Gin
cinnati last year amounted to 1921, 49,
OBJ, as against S49, 1850 ten years
ago.
The vote on the bond arbitrament in
Minnesota few days since, was very
light. The returns show q majority for
the bill.
The Hon. David Atwood and E. D.
Holton, have been appointed Centennial
Celebration Commissioners from Wis
consin.
The Judges of Havana, have released
Capt. Dickson of the brigantine Penni-
man, Notwithstanding the objections OF
the accusers.
JUDGE J.N. Granger, Recorder of the
General Post Office, and brother-in.law
Of the late Senator Douglas, has resigned
his position.
The Republicans OF Maine will no
doubt nominate Gov. Perham, and the
Democrats nominate Chas. W. Roberts
for Governor.
ADvIcEs from Buenos Ayres say: The
ravage of tine yellow fever was dreadful.
The deaths from the disease have increas-
ed to 700 per day.
DIR. CURTIS CHAPMAN, n Peekskill, n.
Y, physician, % years of age, committed
suicide in wood near that village few
days ago, by taking prussic acid.
The returns show that nearly every
town in Massachusetts, which voted on
the question OF licensing the sale OF beer
and ale, voted "no" by large majority.
MAYOR Mason, of Chicago, issued
orders for strict enforcement OF the
law pertaining to the closing OF saloons
on Sunday, which has hitherto been
dead letter.
The Postmaster General has appointed
Geo. A. Bangs, Special Agent of the De-
partment to superintend postal matters
with the railway service, vice George
Armstrong, resigned.
The town of Palestro, Algeria, has
been sacked and entirely destroyed by
the natives, and the inhabitants, with
the whites in the town, have been cruelty
massacred and put to the sword.
The ifeboat belonging to Fort Niagara
get adrift during a gale, when boat,
manned by six soldiers and Lieuts. L.
&. Ashbury and J. c. Morris, started in
pursuit, but their boat capsized, and all
we're lost.
The Spanish authorities are said to
have full information as to the assassins
of Marshal Prim, but are deferred from
arresting or prosecuting them on account
OF their high social position and infu-
entail connections.
The late rains in Minnesota and Iowa
have, seriously interfered with wheat
sowing, though about two.thirds had
been sown previously. Some fields near
the streams, and in the Mississippi Valley,
are covered with water.
In reply to letter from Western
Revenue Assessor, Commissioner Pleason-
ton decides that the salaries OF city and
county officers are not exempted from
return for income tax under the recent
decision OF the Supreme Court. =
A PASSENGER train on the Northwes-
tern Railroad, nineteen miles from Nash
vile, ran off the track, and the engine
was precipitated down an embankment
of 100 feet in height. The engineer was
fatally and the fireman slightly injured
The decision of the Internal Reve-
nue. Commissioner in the New York Cen
tral scrip dividend case, has been indefi-
nitely postponed. The transfer of the
Revenue Solicitor to the Interior De-
partment necessitating denomination
Of the voluminous papers in the case.
THERE is a blacksmith out in Iowa who
has fairly " earned his bread by The sweat
of his brow" He has worked on the
open prairie for two years, without a
particle Of covering for his "shop," and
now he has purchased fine farm and
built cosy house upon it with his earn
ings.
A YOUNG man named Lafayette Shop
herd killed his mother and his sister with
an ax, near Newton, Jasper County, Ill.
He fled, but has since been arrested. He
has several brothers and sisters, who are
also under arrest under suspicion OF
being accessories to the murder II is