The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-05
General News Summary.

G. n. Harrington, Assistant Postmas-
ter at Augusta, Me-, was drowned in the
Kennebec. He was sailing in a small
boat which capsized.
Ex-Gov CoBuKN is Names riches
man. His annual income is said to be
over $4,000, and his property is esd-
mated at 81, 100000.
SEVEN thousand five hundred salmon
eggs were obtained in Canada some six
weeks ago for the purpose OF making an
effort to stock the Delaware.
A BILL has been introduced in the
House Of Delegates of the Territory of
Columbia to extend to woman the right
of suffrage, and the right to hold office.
A BILL has been passed by the German
Parliament forbldding the raising OF
loans by means of lotteries, except in the
case of the various German Govern
ments.
The Republicans of Kentucky have
nominated Gen. John NJ. Harlan for
Governor, and George NJ. Thomas for
Lieutenant Governor, and complete
State ticket.
DURING the past eighteen years the
railroads in Connecticut have carried
rs, 15S, 0S6 passengers and there have
been 943 accidents, Of which 515 were
fatal and 423 not fatal.
No less than two hundred and twenty
four life insurance companies have been
wound up in Great Britain within the
last twenty-six years. This is twice as
many as now exist there.
The President has nominated Como
dore B. F. Sands, to be Rear-Admiral
Capts. Reed, Worden and Stephen D.
Trenchard to be Commodores, and Lieut.
Edward Barret, to be Captain.
The Republican State Convention o.
Pennsylvania nominated Col. Davic
Stanton, of Beaver, for Auditor-Gene
raj, and Robert B. Beath, OF Schuylkill
for Surveyor-G General, both on the first
ballot.
GRANT, who killed Il. Riyes Pollard ii
Richmond, Va, is still in the negro
minstrel business. He is now said to be
attached to Carncross & Dixie's burnt
cork, company, under the name of j. G.
Russell.
G. A. TRENCH OF Columbia County,
Penn, has recently built an excellent
office entirely of MANILA paper manufac-
tured in his own mill. Everything is
made of paper but the floor, doors, and
windows.
JUDGE Bedford, of New York, sent
Doctor Lookup Evans to the Peni-
Tertiary for three years and half, ac-
companied by singing rebuke which
was calculated to pierce even the hardest
sensibility OF so abandoned a criminal.
The fishermen of the Bay of Fundy
are alarmed and indignant over the
treaty. Steps are being taken for hold
ing a public meeting. Intelligence from
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
represents similar state of feeling pre-
vailing in those places.
PUBLIC feeling in New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia is against the Washington
treaty. In the Legislative Assembly, in
the former province, the Attorney-Gene-
raj moved a series of resolutions de-
nouncing the treaty in the bitterest
terms, and was loudly applauded.
THE United States Senate, after seven
bours' discussion, passed resolution
committing to close custody the two
Tribune correspondents who refused to
divulge how they obtained a copy of the
treaty. They are imprisoned in the
room of the Committee on Pacific Rail
roads.
A RENSSELAER, COUNTY young man has
come to grief. Unfortunately, while
visiting one day last week the young
lady who had won his young hearts at.
fection and settling the preliminaries of
their expected marriage, he rashly re-
marked that the union would be pecu-
liarly advantageous to her, because he
moved in much better society than she.
And then upsprang that insulted female.
Selling huge carving-knife from the
table, she went for that young man, and
the youth went for the door. He had
her arrested for assault, and the engage
ment has been broken off.