The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-24
Summary OF News.


A1orLAScE committee is threatened in
Hamilton, Nevada, unless the courts
execute the laws more promptly.
ADvICEs from Peru state that the
foundations had subsidized, and that the
earthquakes had done no damage.
The fund for the benefit of doc
Simmons family, amounting to S575
was formally presented to the widow.
CHOICE cuts Of beef are two and one
half cents at Fort Griffin, Texas, and
mich cows areleased outfor their board.
COMPUTING the population of Massa-
chusetts at All, 654, one person in every
47.sl was married during the year 1869.
A Resident OF Chicago, named P. A.
Leonard, shot and instantly killed DR..
S. E. Scanland. The cause was domes-
tic trouble.
ADuCEs from the Argentine reDubhc
say the war had almost ended. The in
surgents had been completely routed in
the interior
The Ninth Regiment, of New York,
will visit Boston on the 18th OF June.
1t will be received by the First Massa-
chusetts Regiment
CAPT FOWLER and his mate Turner of
the bark Madawaskn have been fined
$1,000 each in Portland, Oregon, for
severely beating seaman.
RETURNS from all parts of Wiscon-
sin indicate that Hon. W. P. Lyon
(Rep,) received 10000 majority for
Justice of the Supreme Court.
GEORGE H. OSBORNE, first mate, wash
ed overheard from the schooner Hero,
now at Halifax, is supposed to have been
the missing Earl OF Aberdeen.
THREE hundred and forty-ive women
in Massachusetts gave birth in 1869 to
696 children. Three hundred and thirty
nine had twins and six had triplets.
GEORGE ". CHADWICK, convicted OF
altering a United States bond OF the
denomination OF $4,000, was sentenced
to the penitentiary in \ Y, for ten years.
THE city of Newark has organized an
association to test the validity of the In
come Tax. Many leading men OF both
political parties are members. A similar
association has been formed in Chicago.
A WOMAN OF Pisa, in Italy, Pipona
Cetilh by name, has been condemned for
the murder of her husband, and has con-
fessed to the poison Of her father, her
two children, and her husbands mistress,
all in the last six years She is 40 years
old
THE wool interest of California is get
ting to be something immense. Last
year that State produced 10000, 900
pounds, or 5000, 900 pounds more than
all the British American Provinces, and
nearly one third of all clipped in the
United States.
GOVERNOR HOFFMAN OF New York, has
signed the bill regulating the licensing
of druggists clerks. 1t will have a bene-
fetal effect by preventing mistakes in
putting up prescriptions, particularly
the clause which compels doctors to
write in full the ingredients of every
prescription.
THERE was golden wedding in Ken
lucky, at which were present twenty
/ guests who witnessed the marriage cere-
mony fifty years ago. The average age
Of these twenty persons was seventy-one
years, six months They included the
gentleman and lady who acted as grooms-
man and bridesmaid.
The London Spectator snappishly saws,
while referring to Senator Towards
resolutions about British possessions in
America Canada may cede herself If
she likes, after obtaining her independ-
ence by proper parliamentary address to
the throne but England will no more
cede her than the United States will cede
Maine Santo Domingo may sell sub
jects, but Great Britain has not yet de-
scended to thst level.
II the French war indemnity is to be
divided on the same principle rs that
which has been applied to the other e1.
actions, North Germany, not including
Hesse, will receive 1915 millions Of
francs Bavaria, $50 millions; Wurtem-
berg, $40 millions Baden, 100 millions;
and Hesse, los millions This will be
equivalent to 34-6-lO thalers for each in
dividual in the population, and l73
thalers for every family in Germany.
The association organized in California
last year to make practical experiment
in growing tea, has met with encouraging
success. About fifteen per cent. only
of the plants imported from Japan sur
vived the voyage, but large quantity
of tea seed terminated readily, and the
young plants are thrifty and promising.
OF course, the growth OF these latter will
require some years extra time before a
crop can be produced, but if the shrub
is destined to thrive well on this CONT
nent, stock raised from the seed is likely
to prove the hardest and best.
A RUMoR prevails at Havana which is
generally credited, that the volunteers
in the neighborhood of San Juan de les
Remedies roasted a man alive, first run
ming n stake through his body. II is
said that the volunteers we're caught by
Spanish officers while engaged in this
act of cruelty. This outrage has greatly
incensed the people. and many murders