The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-11

MILK is to be sold by ale and beer
measure in Maine.
THERE are ls2 patients in the Virginia
Asylum for colored lunatics.
MAINE proposes to abolish solitary
confinement in her States prison.
The California Assembly refused, bya
vote Of 43 to 80, to exempt journalists
from jury duty.
The bullion product of Nevada in 1871
exceeded S92, 900, 0OO-nearly equal to
the gold product Of California.
Tue voluntary subscriptions to the
French fund to pay the indemnity to
Germany amounts to 23,0OO,OOO francs.
SOUTHERN Illinois reports flattering
prospects Of an abundant fruit crop,
especially apples, pears and cherries.
Gov. CALDWELL, Of North Carolina,
has Offered $4,000 TOR the capture Of
LOwery and his gaug, and yet there are
no takers.
A PuBIsHED letter from Charles d.
Hildcrbrand, the Missouri outhw, con-
yeys the unpleasant news that the report
OF his death WIS false,
THR Vermont Legislature, at its last
session, fixed the election Of Congress,
men in that State, this year, for the first
donday in November.
THE mistake" OF druggists clerk
caused the death Of the wife Of Col. ]. NJ.
Thornburgh, q young lady very highly
esteemed, in Nashville, Tenn,
HHR National Labor Convention at
Columbus, nominated DAVID Davis, Of
Illinois, for President, aud Joel Parker,
Of New jersey, for Vice President
THR National Engineers Gift Enter.
prise" eliminated in Milwaukee, in the
arrest of President Charles D. Smith,
who bailed himself ont and left for parts
unknown.
A VERY competent authority, present
in the Prusslan dominions during the
war, estimates the number Of men called
to arms On the German side during that
period at Il million. rI..
A LETTER from Londonderry, Ireland,
including one half Of three pound ster-
ling uote, to pay SIS, income tax left
unpaid by the sender, was received by
Treasurer Spinner.
ENCOURAGING reports from the diamond
fields continue to reach Capetown.
Diamonds were selling at auction at q
decline of ~ per cent. on the prices re.
ported by the previous steamer.
The Pennsylvania Democntic State
Convention to nominate candidates for
State officers and Presidential electors,
aud to select delegates to the Democratic
National Convention, is to Ne held in
Reading on Thursday, May 80.
A SPECIAL despatch from Rome to the
american Rgi'ier says General Sherman,
Colonel Audcnried, and Lieutenant
Grant, previous to their departure from
that city for Naples, had n pleasant inter.
view Sf m hours duration with his Holi.
ness the Pope.
The Auditor of Ohio has decided that
when n sexton resides, as watchman, in
the basement of church, the whole
building must be taxed, the State law
providing that church building must
be exclusively used for divine worship
to be exempt from taxation.
IT is report that Boston landlord re-
frained from collecting rent from one of
his tenants for several years, that he
might avoid payment OF the income tax
thereon, and that by the recent failure
Of the tenant, he has lost the entire SUN,
amounting to many thousand dollars.
Two soldiers, named McCargue and
Mavanaugh, inmates Of the National
Asylum, ut Milwaukee, we're found dead
in n rayine in the woods back Of the
asylum barns They were nearly blind,
and have been missing for more than q
month, and until the past few days have
been covered with snow. The thaw de-
veloped their whereabouts.
IT has been generally supposed that
The guano deposits in the Cincha Islands
were the excretAl Of birds, but now DR.,
Habcl aud Professor Edwards suspect
that they are made up Of the bodies Of
lecayed animals and plants, most of
which are Of marine origin. This sup
position rests on the iact that the
lnchors of ships moored near those Is.
ands frequently bring guano to the
surface.