The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-03
Summary of News.

NEw-HAMPSHIRE' annual fast is to be
on the 9th of April.
{ The bark Cornwall has been sunk in a
collision with the steamer Himalays, and
| eleven persons drowned.
! THE journals complain that the Prus.
slams are still depredating upon the ill.,
habitants, and urge reprisals.
PRESIDENT GRANT ordered the U. S.
, navy to protect the Government of Baez
against any demonstrations by Hayti.
LIND1ENT labels are said to circulate
freely among the Indians OF the North
west, who take them for greenbacks.
AT Racine, Wis, three small children
of Mr.. Bauman died within few hours
of each other, and were buried together
on Monday.
A TORNADO near East Lebanon. ILL.,,
demolished about twenty farm-houses,
killing two persons, and fatally injuring
several Others.
DAVID REEVES, Esq, prominent iron
manufacturer, President OF the Phoenix
Iron Company, died in Phenixville,
Penn, age 70.
Provisional certificates have been
granted to the Democratic candidates
for Congress in the recent New-Hamp-
shire election.
NEWS has been received OF an engage
ment at Ladichosa, Cuba, in which
thirteen insurgents were killed, and
their intrenchments destroyed.
CH1EF-ENd1NEER Andrew Lawton, U.
S. N, died at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard. He was native Of Massachusetts,
and entered the navy in June, 1850.
IT has been decided by the French
Government, to place on the market
loan of two and half milliards of francs
in the form of three per cent. rentes.
The Dominion Government has issued
a circular withdrawing all charges on
American vessels engaged in the lake
trade, in view of recent American action.
JOIN ScARLEs recently shot a grizzly
bear near Fort TETON, CAL, and, on
entering the chapparel to look for its
mate, was attacked by it and torn and
mangled fatally.
Ii the carrying trade between the
United States and European ports 1873
steamers are employed. OF these 101
are British, and the American flag is
borne by not a single one.
A HANDSOME Italian, who claims to be
lineal descendant of the once princely
house OF the Estes, is now hack-driver
in Ferrara, where once his ducal ances-
tors held almost imperial sway.
AT st. Carroll, Iowa, R. B. Terry,
lumber merchant, shot and killed his
wife, set fire to his house, and then shot
himself dead. He was married last Oc-
tober. Intemperance was the cause.
FLORIDA proposes to sell to Alabama
the strip OF country lying between the
latter State and the Gulf of Mexico, and
stretching from the Apalachicola River
on the east to the Perdido on the west,
for 81, 100000.
The Pennsylvania House OF Repre-
sentatives has passed a bill authorizing
the people OF each ward and township
in the State to vote once in three years
upon the question OF licensing the sale
OF Intoxicating liquors.
The vigilants of Nevada are sending
notices to suspected persons to leave
Immediately, and their demands are
invariably complied with alacrity. Eight
persons have been banished from Virginia
City already, and six from Gold Hill.
A GENOA correspondent writes that
more than 90 Americans and English
men have died in that city in the past
two years. and argues thence that it is
an unhealthy place, especially for per-
sons troubled with pulmonary atfec-
tiOns.
An Elmira despatch reports that Mrs.
Hess, who murdered two men last Janu-
ary in Stenben county, has been adjudged
insane by jury who investigated her
condition. She will consequently be
transferred from the jail to IN insane
asylum.
The Albany Grand Jury having fail
ed to indict DR.. Lemuel B. Van Hoosen,
who killed his wife, last week, while
laboring under an attack of delirium
tremens, the Court ordered that he be
confined in the State Lunatic Asylum
until he is restored to his right mind,
or until the further order Of the Court
in the premises.
INA SUIT on Il promissory note, Judge
Smith, of Illinois, decided that the
words and letters ten pct inst annually,
meant nothing, and were srlrplusage,
and so to be treated that the note was,
therefore, silent as to the rate of inter
est it would draw, and must be governed
by the statute, which provides six per
cent per annum He gave Judgment
for the amount due on the note, and in
terest at the rate OF six per cent. per an
nun.
The war hetw, el France and Germany
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