The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-15
Items Of Interest.

The Tichborne litigation has cost to
date over 100000.
A Texas cattle-raiser has pasture OF
100, 900 acres.
The season loses none OF its fruitful
ness in snake stories rs it advances.
II has never been definitely settled
who first uttered the salutation "Good
morning"
Eleven persons were recentlypoisoned
near Sheffield, England, by eating poi
soned mushrooms.
The high price Of bread is causing
great agitation in Paris, and serious
trouble is apprehended.
A great storm, accompanied by tidal
wave, has driven thirty vessels ashore
ut Sidney, Cape Breton.
The vital statistics OF one week in
New York were, SIS deaths, 513 births,
1866 marriages, and 40 still'born infants.
The individuals who killed Tecumseh
have been so thinned out by death this
summer that not over FIVE or six remain.
From five to seven refrigerator cars,
loaded with butter, arc said to be
shipped East every day from Chicago.
Tho conductor whose train collided
with one on tho Marietta and Clncin-
natl R. R. has been committed to iailat
Circleyillc, o.
Alderman John Nichols, OF Phila-
delphia, who was convicted of extortion
in office, has been sentenced to nine
months imprisonment.
Tho Raiiroad Gazette estimates that
the extent Of new railways built in this
country in 1873 will be moro than forty
per cent. less than for 1872.
Scene in Court: Judge-Have you
anything to offer TO the Court before
sentence is passed on you? Prisoner
No, Judge; I Ind ten dollars, but my
lawyers took that.
In view OF the fact that there are 209,-
907 persons engaged in farming in Iowa
to III, ,24S mali otlierpursuits, the fnrm:
ers' ticket would seem to stand n good
chance Of success.
Tho Cresco Ua.) Plain Dealer threat
ems to print tho name Of every man in
that place who visits liquor saloon,
the number Of times day he makes
the visits, and at what hours.
q. is. Judge Advocate. General Holt
denies having withheld from President
johnson petition signed by five mem.
bers Of tho court when presenting tho
record OF the trial OF Mrs. Surratt.
A farmer in Washington county, KY,
has found practical use for snake.
For two years he has had one shut up
in his corn crib, and during all that
time not live mouse has been seen
there.
Mems lives should be like tho days,
more beautiful in the evening" or like
tho spring, aglow with promise, and
the autumn, rich with golden sheaves,
where good works and deeds are ripened
on the field.
The sharpest man in tho world, so far
rs heard from, "hangs out at Fafayette,
Ind. He subsists by driving spikes in
the timbers Of n bridge and collecting
the wisps Of hay that arc caught by
them from passing loads.
Notwithstanding the great loss by tho
November fire, the valuation Of real and
personal property of Boston this year
will show m increase OF n little moro
than 81, 900, 900 over last year. The rate
OF taxation will be about S13 on $1,000.
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, hns curiosity.
Half n mile from shore tree stands
perpendicular in eighty feet OF water.
II projects ten feet above tho surface,
and Is fastened go firmly to the bottom
that it affords safe moorage to the larg-
est crafts OH the lake. .,
The Rochester Union says: "Strange
as it may appear at first sight, there aro
more locomotives in use on the Western
Division OF the New York Central Rail
rond, in switching and making up trains,
than are engaged in drawing the freights
across tho division when ready to move"
There isn't much encouragement to
suicide in Milwaukee. A wealthy farm
er hung himself there the other day,
and his wife not only refused to cut
down the body but wouldn't have any
thing to do with it after it was down.
The authorities had to attend to its
burial.
The Juggernaut car in India crushed
eight women to death ut Gooptipara
this summer. The Bengal Government
proposes to put stop to the dragging
oi these dangerous cars, proposition
which the people generally do not re.
sent, although the priests strongly op'
pose 1t.
It is stated that while the present cot.
ton consuming population OF the world
do not increase in numbers at the rate
OF over one per cent. per annum, the cot.
ton product OF tho world Is increasing
at the rate Of five per cent. per annum,
and that therefore there is an increasing
surplus OF four per cent. per annum.
A Green Bay (Wis.) paper says that
the history Of the pine land frauds in
Shawano county is, in brief, that at
sale OF valuable Pine lands, which took
place at the land Office in Mennsha last
year, some parties bid off at large
price the more valuable lands, and for
feited them by not paying for them
within the time prescribed. Next day
they went To the Office Rndentered them
at the minimum price, sl.25 per acre.
At the present time Lausanne appears
to be the scene Of some little excite.
ment on account Of strikes. On an ovc.
ming not long ago several groupsof poo
pie gathered In the Montee Of ST, Fran-
cois, which was so blocked up as to be-
come impassable. The police did their
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