The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-09
Summary of News.

The deaths by cholera in Konigsberg
average 800 per day.
| SIX men have been imprisoned in Ire.
land for Illegal drilling.
| MANCHESTER is to have worlds cot.
ton exhibition next year.
JAcoB Tone is the Republican candi-
date for Governor Of Maryland,
| IMMENSE fires have ragged in the woods
in Northern California and Oregon.
The Masonic order has n total mem.
bership in the United States Of 46G,s03,
The foot and mouth disease is spread
| ing pmong the cattle in Norfolk, Eng.
| land.
| The population of Philadelphia in.
cludes l. Chinese, ] Japanese, and S
Indians.
The Brussels strike has been success.
full, and many Of the men have returned
TO their work.
IT is reported that the employers at
Newcastle, England, have agreed to an
increase of wages,
/ DELAWARE has this season shipped u.s..
1890 pounds of peaches. The mum.
Der Of baskets is 2,Gi0,473
The machine shops throughout the
city of Brussels have been closed by
their proprietors on account Of strikes.
The strike in Newcastle, England, has
virtually ended. Half OF the usual nun
Der Of workmen have recommended work
THE death of the hostile chief Cochise
is reported from wounds received in n
fight with the Mexican troops in Sonom.
A SAVANNAH (Ga. man was cured of
rheumatism by the active movements
he made to get out OF the way OF mad
steer,
TnE large town of Lchifka, Algiers,
has been destroyed, and the insurrec.
tiona.y leaders in the vicinity captured
aud shot.
Al American circus company has
been performing in Constantinople the
first circns that has ever visited the do.
mains Of the Sultan.
FRANCE has directed the French Iii.
plomatic representative in China to
make commOn cause with the Americans
in the war with Corca.
The value OF landed estates devoted
to the support of ministers of the Is.
tablislcd Church of England is set
down at SljO,OOO,0O0.
IT is stated that an American brig
foundercd OF the Lands End, and that
MI on board had persisted. The name
of the vessel is unknown.
Two children in Chicago were smoth-
cred to death by smoke in the kitchen,
where they Ind been placed under lock
while themothcr was ut church
A cooLlE vessel, from India for Mar.
Unique, has been lost on the coast Of that
island, with all hands on hoard. Two
hundred bodies have been washed ashore.
The total value of the church prop.
erty of the UnivcrsaliSts in the State
Of New York is reported to he 81, &c.
100; the total debt on the same, S79,Sj0.
The New Jersey Railroad during the
last thirty-seyCn years has transported
over seventy millions Of passengers with.
ont loss of life or limb 10 anyone inside
the ears.
RgPoRTs from that portion of Texas
bordering on Mexico state that more
than 5000 head of cattle have been
stolen ind run across the border by
MeXicans,
A DESPATCH from Portland, Oregon,
saws that trncli-laying on the Northern
Pacific Roilroad has commenced The
grading Of twenty-five miles OF road is
completed.
Dir. LIvGHdsToSE is again safe. 81
says n Zanzibar messenger, who adds
that party Of Americans is hurrying
into the interior to rescue tho Doctor
from bis "pcrilous position.
II is rcportcd that correspondence has
been discovered in the Tulcries dcvcl
oping n plan 10 place Napoleon on the
throne Of Belgium. The discovery oc.
casions a sensation in Belgium,
A DESPATCH from Luccrnc announces
that steamer has foundercd in Lake
Luccrnc, and that five persons had
persisted 1t is not mentioned that any
Americans are among the victims.
The United States Minister at Bogota,
General Ilurlhurt, llRs been instructed to
demand from the Federal government of
Columbia full and satisfactory compensa.
ton for the seizure Of the American
steamer Montiio,
The Illinois Episcopal Convention ut
Chicago amended their constitution, so
that no clergyman who shall resort to
the civil Conrts for the pupo3c of
avoiding ecclesiastical proceedings will
he suspended from the functions of the
ministry.
The widow of DR.. Connolly, WHO muir.
dcrcd his two children in Now York
few weeks ago, became suddenly in
sane, in the French Cathedral, ut Mon
trcal, and created n sad scene of con-
fusion by her outcrics.
The Episcopal Convention Of Illinois
passed resolution that legal proceed.
ings be taken to prevent further di.
version and administration of the
property aud revenue of Christ Church
by the Rev. Mr.. Cheney.
The United States Consul at Liverpool
writes to the State Department that in
consequence Of the prevalence Of the
cattle foot and mouth discascin England |.
he has discontinued tho granting Of Ger.
tiiicatcs to ship cattle to the United .
States.
A sArL.DoAT on Lake Mendoza, at Mad
isol, Wis, upset DR.. John L. Wilson
and Mr.. Pcttis, both Of TINT city, were
drowned. Hon. James Ross and Daniel
KlIgbi, were washed ashore near the
Insane'HTlum, where they were found
very much exhausted mud in n critical