The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-30

SEVEN men penshed in the harbOr Of
Yarmouth, England, by the sinking Of
the smack Peto.
The steamer G. X. Hall was lost in n
storm in the gulf with MI on board ex'
cept Otto Llsson.
IuE President has appointed John
Morrissey, Jr., to third lieutenantcy
in the revenue service.
The richest citizen Of Boston is said
to be Augustus Hemenway, whose whole
estate is valued Mt S2,SOO, 900.
Mis-. HIATT, the mother Of seven chill.
dren, was burned to death in San Fran
cisco, her clothes taking fire from kero'
sene lamp.
A MAN who has been in jul for eleven
years under sentence Of death died at
Philadelphia. The warrant for his exc
cution had never been signed.
THERE are twenty suits against the
Staten Island Ferry Company pending
in the citycourt Of Brooklyn for damages
occasioned by the Westtield explosion.
TIE Grand Chapter OF Royal Arch
Mas9ns, previous to adiourning, at Bal.
timore, elected to meet oil the first
Tuesday in December, 1874. at Natchez,
Miss.
The sentence OF death passed upon
the gallant Rosscl by the Versailles court
martial has been conirmedby the Court
Of Revision, to which the ease WIS sub.
mitted
THE pfugttss uf the cholera in Turkey
has been checked, and the alarm which
was felt concerning the spread OF the
epidemic eastward and toward Europe
and the west is snbsiding.
FROM experiments made on the West.
rrn Plains, il appears that uansplanted
trees, ps well Us those grown from cut
tings or seed, are thrifty. OF the seed
lings the ailanthus, the black l)ctlst, and
the Usage orange have proved the most
successful
A BILL for lcgllizing marriage with ii
deceased wiies sister has reached its sec
ond reading III the Auckland New Zea.
landl Chambers also one for making
two-thirls OF jury in civil service
causes carry a verdict against the minor
ity.
]. W. S. BROWNE, founder OF the
Cincinnati Commercial, who shot and
killed his daughters seducer in Mem
phis, Tenn, not long ago, has been
placed under $4,000 bail, and will, il is
said, be acquitted when tried before the
Courts.
A SHARP newspaper war is in progress
in London on the subject Of literary
piracy. The correspondents are very
severe on the Harpers and other Ameri.
can publishers Of British productions,
and IN International copyright is univer-
sally demanded.
SWEEPING reforms have been adopted
by the Japanese government AT one
fell swoop they have abolished the
dailnios md annexed their territories.
thus destroying nj once an aristocracy
and religion. The Mikado alone now
reIgns paramount. rs.F....
SOME Texas cattle.drovers at Abilene,
kansas, spent their time IN compelling
the business men Of that place to treat
them 10 liquor. Finallya disturbance
occurred, and in Attempting 10 qucll
it, City Marshal Wild Bill wounded
ono of the drovcrs and accidentally
killed another. ....
The strike Of the engineers at New
castle, England, may be considered rs
ut IN end Only matters Of detail re-
main to be settled. The employers have
agreed to the nine. hour system, which
will be carried into effect on and after
the I'd Of January, 1872, mud the men
have promised to work nine hours and n
half until that date.
The aggregate State debt, rs last off.
cillaly reported. Of all the States but
Mississippi. West Virginia, Nebraska,
and Wisconsin. which have no ou,stand.
ing obligations, is given by the Chicago
Mercantile JomWm us 1900, 1890.
Virginia Inns the heaviest, 1880, 500.
Sc. part whereof, however, belongs to
West virginia-Rnd Oregon the least,
SlOG,333.