The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-27
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as lawyers in Boston.
In Siam, China, the Baptists have 80
missionaries and 10 churches.
There IS merchant inn Chicago who
has his life insured for $3.50, 900.
A oyster weighing three pounds is on
exhibition in the window of a Newark
saloon.
The prospect of large crop of peaches
during the coming season throughout
New jersey are said to be good.
Capt. Loments, an insurgent recently
executed at Cienfuegos, was married
Just before he was led out to execution.
The Secretary of the Treasury is en-
gagged in perfecting plans for calling in
very soon a large amount OF the five
twenty bonds.
Edwin F. Batchelder, OF Mansfield
Mass, has made his will, giving all his
property, some $4,000, to the Ameri-
can Bible Society.
The Pennsylvania boiler-plate manu-
facturers held a meeting, and decided to
advance the price of plate-iron three
eights of cent per pound.
A Philadelphia machanic claims to
have invented an apparatus for indicat-
ing when a car-axle breaks, and support
ing it till the train can be stopped.
An economical fellow says when his
stockings wear out he sews up the tops
straight across, and puts them on his feet
the other way, thus making good fit.
A traveller we are told, being in wild
country where he could find no provis
ions for himself or his dog, cut off the
dogs tail and boiled if for his own sup
per, and gave the dog the bone.
A man wanted friend to discount a
note. "If I advance this" said the
lender, "will you pay your note punctu-
ally ?" AZ will on my honor" replied
the other, "the expense of the protest,
and all.
Within eight hours of each other,
there died in Providence mother and
daughter, aged respectively eighty-one
and sixty -one, who, during the sixty-one
years OF the daughters life were never
separated for longer period than five
weeks.
The peculiar effect of fear is exempi-
fed in the fact that, Mrs. Alfred Acker
having died suddenly in Montgomery
county, Penn, hired man in the house
was so afraid he might be accused OF
numbering her that he hanged himself
i'll the barn.
There are 5,24 newspapers published
in the United States, distributed as fol-
lows New York, 676; Pennsylvania,
AS; Ohio, 377 Massachusetts, PIG.
Making an average OF 265 to the State.
The remainder of the states and terrific
ries average eighty-four each.
The latest thing in waterproof cloaks
consists of long loose sack reaching
nearly to the bottom Of the dress, and
furnished with a hood and deep cape,
which extends across the back and is
sewed into the shoulder seam, so as to
form graceful, flowing sleeve.
A st. Louis paper published long
article opposing the annexation OF San
Domingo, because Of the frequency and
severif~ of tonadoes there. The same
day East st. Louis va visited by a tor
nado whose unusually ,,ructive effects
have been described > lgth.
One Of the candidates in Concord, n.
H., believing he was elected, told IN ale
dealer to treat everybody who came in at
his expense and went home. The an
nouncement of the result showed un-
expectedly that he was beaten by seven
votes. His successful opponent gener-
ously offered to foot the bill.
In reply to young friend leaving a
town because some things in it were not
exactly to her taste or content an Old
lady Of experience said: "My dear,
when you have found a place where
everybody and everything are always
pleasant, and nothing whatever is lisa
greeable, let me know and I'll move
there too"
A petition presented to the Detroit
Aldermen on Tuesday read: "Instead
of talking of a grand park or boulevard,
the undersigned, most respectfully ask
that the Common Council might first
think of the safety of the city itself.
Therefore We, the undersigned, petition
for lamp-po at the corner OF Mullett
and Antoine streets.
A music teacher once wrote that the
"art of playing the violin requires the
incest perception and the most sense Of
any art in the known world" Where
upon Western editor comments thus:
"The art OF publishing a newspaper and
making it pay, and at the same time
making it please everybody, beats fid-
din higher than a kite.
A woman in Wayne county, Ind, ap-
piled for n divorce at the February term
of the Circuit Court. On the trial OF the
cause both parties manifested the most
bitter feeling, and about two days of the
time OF the Court was consumed in the
trial, the divorce being granted. The
parties were remarked just two weeks
from the time they were divorced, and
are now living together.