The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-15
Summary Of News.

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Los Angeles County, Cal
THE U. S. Treasury contains S1O7,-
000, 600 in coin and coin certificates.
Hon. JAMES MURRAY MASON, ex-United
States Senator, from Virginia. is dead.
TOTAL number of births in New York,
last week, 800; deaths, 46l marriages,
204.
A BILL to make the State Treasurer.
elective has passed the Pennsylvania
Senate.
THE lower branch Of the Austrian Par
lament has ratified the naturalization
treaty with the United States.
The English House of Commons has
decided that the public lands belong to
the people and not to the Crown.
PENNSYLVANIA has the largest assessed
valuation of real and personal estate of
any State in the Union-S1, 634, 2l9, 936.
ONE thousand Coolies, it is an
nounced, are to be brought from Asia to
work in the quarries of Portland, Maine.
If Pennsylvania coal were mined for
nothing, it would make a difference, in
the cost, of less than fifty cents per ton.
The Commune announces that it has
made ample arrangements for provision
ing Paris, and that prices will speedily
fall
OVER two hundred women are now
working farms on their own account in
the States of Iowa and Indiana. This is
official.
A LITTLE daughter of John ". Prann,
of Wethersfield, Conn, fell into bon
fire, and was so badly burnt that she
died in few hours.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina
has unanimously decided in favor OF the
validity of contracts in which slaves
were the consideration.
A DISCHARGED servant-girl set the
house OF Mayor Morris, OF Nashville,
Tenn, on fire, and he and his family
narrowly escaped sufocation.
A CABLE dispatch from London, an
nounces the death OF Sigismund Thai
berg, the eminent pianist. Thalberg
was born in Geneva, Jan. 7, 1872.
NJ. NJ. KENNEDY, farmer OF Solar
Township, Ohio, was killed by his son,
while quarreling over property. The
son claims to have acted in self-defense.
THE next conference of Jewish crab
bis, preachers and delegates" will take
place at Cincinnati on June 5, supple
menting the conference held last Novem-
Der.
AT Ossian, Iowa, few days ago, Mrs.
John Larber smothered her infant, three
months old, and then committed suicide
by throwing herself under q train OF
cars.
GOVERNOR Yarmouth of Louisiana,
has ordered to be hanged for murder
the 18th May at Parish Prison, Martin
Worms, Vincent Bayonne and Pertro
Abric.
Mr.. DAVID S. WELLS has written a
letter to show that for the next quarter
OF q century the rate of interest in the
U. S. cannot be lower than per cent.
per annum.
PERSONS whose incomes are less than
81, 900 are not required to make any re-
turn, nor is there any authority of law
for the Assessors or assistants to call for
such returns.
An accident occurred at Uniontown,
near Washington, by the bursting of q
soda fountain. Samuel Shreeves was
MORALLY wounded and an errand boy
badly injured.
FANNY MORTON, who had been arrested
for disorderly conduct, in New York,
attempted suicide in her cell by swallow
ing a number Of pins, which she took
out of her dress.
VIRGINIA planters complain that never
were the tobacco flies so numerous and
destructive as this season. And altogether
the South is dismayed at the number,
size and voracity of the mosquitoes.
THE dead bodies OF John Donovan,
his wife and child, boy eleven years
OF age, were found in Albany, lying be-
side the stove. An examination showed
they had been sufocated by coal gas.
TICKET 9,444 has drawn n prize OF
S20J, 900 in the Havana lottery. AS the
ticket was divided into twentieths, a
dozen or more people will probably be
ruined for life by share in this wind
fall.
Two sisters named Bowman, aged re-
spectively eighty-seven and seventy-one,
died recently at Germantown. The ell
der sister died first, and the other, over
powered with grief, survived her only
four hours.
A BOY eight years old was sent to
prison for a month by three magistrates
Mt Tamworth, England. The poor little
mite had thrown stone at bird, and
missing the bird, had broken q glass in
shopkeeper's window.
ARIZONA advices state that a.body OF
United States troops encountered Indians
in war paint, and killed thirty-iour in
two fights. They had also corralled $50
Apaches in the Dragon Mountains and
had hopes OF killing the entire party.
THE Communal authorities OF Paris
wanting two millions of francs within
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