The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-27
Items Of GenernI Interest.

vention endorsed the Cincinnati resolu-
tioas.
Horace Greeley has resigned his posi-
ton as editor.in-chief Of the New York
Tribune.
The Coaai,ionnd says three more
French departments will soon be evacu-
ated by the Germans.
A TERRIBLE fire occurred in Brooklyn,
n. Y. Fourteen teuement.houses were
burned, rendering homeless hundred
families,
SrocKs in San Francisco ARE complete.
ly demonlized The break is one OF
the worst ever known, extending through
the entire list
| CISCINSArt is said TO he the most
densely populated city in the United
States, having 3GO0Opcople to the square
mile. while New York has but $1,000,
The London Times says Germany has
expressed her readiness to negotiate with
France for fastening the evacuation Of
the llttcr's territory by German troops.
THE Republican State Convention at
Emira endorsed the administration OF
presidant Gnut in n series OF resolu-
tons, and elected delegates to Philadel-
phia
0msS. Ferry was reelected fora term
Of six years from March, 1873, by the
Connecticut Legislature, Tho contest
was between the successful candidate and
Gen. Hawley.
ENGINEER james Wood ran special
train from Rochester to Syracuse, dis
lance of eighty-onc miles in eighty.two
minutes. This, for the distance, is the
fastest time on record.
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, the Amer.
can plinter.poct, died at the Aston
House, In New York. He was carried of
by an attack of pleuro-pneumonia, in
the fiity.fIst year Of Ills age.
THE last expedition to Cocos Island in
search Of treasure, supposed to have been
buried there by pirates, has failed, and
fourteen persons from the expedition
have returned to San Francisco.
WoRKAnN are engaged in the City Hall
Park, n. Y, surveying the ground for the
New Vanderbilt Underground Railroad.
Three thousand men have been engaged
to begin operations Immediately.
A ROYAL decree has been published nj
Madrid granting full pardon to the
Havana students who were convicted Of
violating the grave Of Gonzales CastanOn
and sentenced to the chain gang
A SCHOONER which arrived at Copen.
hagen from Iceland reports series Of
violent earthquake shocks at Hasvick.
Twenty houses were destroyed, and sew
enl persons were injured, but no lives
were lost.
PRESIDENT GRANT sent Congress Il
message relating to the hardshIps of
emigrants, and suggesting some amelio.
rating action; and one also in regard to
the Confined persecution OF the Jews
in Roumania.
A DISPATCH received ut Washington
from Helena, Montana, dnted the 18th,
says: "The Fort Benton authorities
report that Simmons, Hard, aud five
others, have been killed by Indians
while descending the river"
ALL the titles of the Marquis Of Butte,
etc, are hereditary save two, which were
he ,towed on him by the Pope. in him,
are concentrated the digniiics of n mar.
quis, three carls, three viscourts, three
barons, and five lords. He was born
September IL, 1917, aud is consequently
twenty-five years.
Ir is illegal in Massachusetts for any
passenger car to be lighted by naphtha
or by any Illuminating oil or fluid made
in part from naphtha, or wholly or in
part from coal or petroleum or other
substance or material which will ignite
at temperature of less than three hun.
drcd degrees Fahrenheit.
A NEW line Of iron steamships from
Philadelphia to Liverpool will soon com.
mence regular trips, and then will be
seen the novel spectacle in American
waters of the launch OF ar American iron
steamship, built of American materials,
owned by American capital, and to he
manned by American seameu. The four
steamers Of this line are to he named the
PENNSYLVANIA, the Ohio, the Indiana, and
the Illinois.
Tiny nre going to solve n maritime
war problem by making the British iron.
clad Hotspur hnrl her Titanic bolts Of
i've hundred weight apiece against the
revolving turrcts of the iron.clad Glnt.
ton, in order to test the real strength OF
revolving turrets, the advantages and
disadvantages Of the system under fire,
and other points which can only be
proven by actual experiment.