The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-01-22

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THERE are in store, in Chicago, 5,2lS,-
600 bushels Of grain,
ALEXIS has presented Parepa. Rosa with
q magnificent bracelet.
THE Republican National Convention
will be held in Philadelphia.
THE Germans have seized a prominent
French citizen as hostage,
THE abundant rains in California in
sure bountiful hNrvests in 1872.
IT is officially announced that the
Prince of Wales is out of danger.
A RUSSIAN ukase orders six men in each
thousand to be drawn for military SER
vice.
TN feet OF snow on the level impedes
mining operations in Little Cottonwood,
AUtah.
The officers and crew Of the schooner
Hogan, Of Boston, were taken of that
vessel badly frozen,
The total amount contributed in Phil.
adelphin for Chicago is S263, 1888 and for
the Northwest S32,G9s.
PARIS papers intimate that Bismark is
scheming for the reoccupation of the
evacuated French territories.
TENthousand dollars worth of wedding
garments passed through the New York
Custom-house, for the daughter of rich
Congressman.
MRs. Sturdevant wife the Superinten-
dent of the Nashville Institute for the
Blind, lost her lie by the explosion Of a
coal oil lamp.
For the first time in ten years, but
two vacancies remain in the United States
Senate, one for North Carolina and one
for Alabama,
SENATOR Chandler gave his daughter
Minnie, who married Congressman Hale,
Of Maine, house worth $4,000 MS u
wedding present,
IT is reported that French squadron
will be sent to Greece to support the
claims Of the French citizcns TO certain
silver mines there, EghHu t..
A ROYAL decree has. been issued at
Rome carrying into effect the CONNER.
cial treaty recently concluded between
Italy and the United States. Fr
THREE Mormons were committed Mt
Salt Lake, to await the action Of the
Grand Jury in the Robinson murder tri.
al. The other persons accused were dis
charged. ,isafA q
The Connecticut labor-reformers re-
fused to unite with the prohibitionists,
and consequently there will be four
tickets in the field at the State election
in April.
IT is reported that the steamer Deid.
rare, bound from Liverpool for Calcutta,
had been lost of the Sicily Islands,
entrance Of the English channel, and
that all hands persisted
IT is reported sn good authority that
all the British troops, except few artil.
lery, will be withdrawn in the spring
from Halifax, which is now the only gar.
isoned city in the Dominion.
CYRUS Pickard was hanged at Lon.
don, Ont, for the murder Of Duncan Nc
VannCl, his employer. Owing TO the bun.
Cling of the oXecuttoncr tho wretchcd
convict struggled several minutes before
he died.
The trial Of l07 citizens and Indians
for killing Apache Indians on the Camp
GrantReservation, Arizona, has developed
that the Indians were not on the reser-
walton, but engaged in dcpredations
against tho white settlers.
The inquest on the body Of Mrs. Klau-
her, who was killed with hatchet by
her daughter-in-law, Mrs. w. t, in
Louisville, revealed the pro- .,riity that
the murdercss is derangcd on the subject
Of crime from reading novels.
Two dcspendoes were lynched at Sen
cen, Mo. Both were hanged to tree.
Before the execution Buckskin one Of the
men, confessed to having murdered
eleven men during the past year, and the
total booty obtained was only 500.
Tm Supreme Court of Town has Just
decided that while railroad track is
fenced, and the bars in the fence are
down, and stock from adjoining land
gets to the track and is killc by pass
ing train, the company are not liable
for damages.