The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-07-19
GENERAL NEWS.


hundreds oil thousands
Vinton county has been visited by horse
thieves who stole valuable horses, but the
rascals were appreheEded ut Belleville, ".
Va, and are now in the Macarthur Jail
a man named Doherty shot another
named Geo. II. Schleich, in cold blood, at
Lancaster, o., last Thursday. Ii was a
cool, deliberate murder, and the jury that
wouldn't give him the hempen cord ought
TO hang themselves.
post Office has just been established at
jamestown. Va, the first it has ever
known, aud exactly eight generations
after the place was founded.
student in the East Tennessee Uni
versity was dangerously insane for several
days, but instantly recovered his reason
W hen q bug was removed from his ear,
where it liad ciawled without his kuowl
edge
The W estern Union Telegraph Co, have
issued an order prohibiting operators in
their employ from sending special mes.
sages to newspapers. They must have the
seal OF red tape to be permitted to 90 to
the newspaper direct
Some Ohio grangers were so forgetiul of
their principles recently as to ask for
special rates over a railroad while going to
and returning from convention. The
railroad company logged their memory.
The New York Times states that "a
sister Of Colonel Mostly, OF Confederate
fame, has just been appointed clerk in
the dead letter division of the Post office
Department.
An Alabama LAWYER, defending a MUIR
lerer spoke ten consecutive hours and the
iry convicted the client in seven minutes
Eight Dubuque families lately had n
picnic at which eight mothers show ed
eighty two sons and daughters.
The second install ment OF two hundred
and fifty millions of frances of the lasi
milliard due by France to Germany was
paid on the 9Th OF this month. Five hun
bred millions o; francs remain to be paid
10y the 9TH of September, and Franc. is
free
A stern old Roman is Governor Booth.
of California. a recently organized mill
tary company called themselves the Booth
Guard in his houor, and yet he has refused
to muster them into the State militia. on
the ground that there are not sufficient
funds TO maintain the companies already
mustered in.
Since the shooting Of old John Jennings
in Werzel county, the Who'll connexion has
LETT the country for the oountrys good.
The Philadelphia ring rascals boast
that THE new Constitution of Pennsylvania
displeases them, they can defeat it bv
giving sixty thousand majority against 1t
in the town they are running
There are Indications thar Captain Jack
may he wasted away be'ore his trial comes
off Everybody il sending postal cards to
him.
Fifteen United States Senators have
thus far returned their back pay to the
Treasury, evidently under the impression
that hey were putting it here it would
DO the most good
Mrs Jessie Fremont. wife Of John G.
Fremont, and daughter, are stoppin, at the
Grand Hotel, Saratoga
A marriage has finally been arranged
hetween the Duke OF Edinburgh and Maria
Alcxandronna, only daughter Of the En-
peror Of Russia
1t j. repor ed that the French Govern.
ment has under consideration the question
Of calling q Congress Of representatives. OF
the great powers in Paris, to discuss the
the terms Of a new commercial treaty.
Lewis & Rosetter's foundry the Oldest
one in Pittsburgh. was burned Saturday
about 4 o'clock Loss from $4,000 To
$4,000, insurance $1,000
The colonists sent hv Brigham Yonnr
TO Arizona, under promise from the
Prophet That they would fud an earthly
paradise in that country, are returning 10
Salt Lake, Disguised with the evpelitiou
md very much shaken in their belief OF
Hrsham's in'aIibiIity
Miss Gertrude, one Of the nuns AZ tae
convent at Nj he Chuulal. diei at uat
institution 10 Whcc'in, ON Saturday. july
9th, OF cerebo spinal menineentis.
The Gr-t four horse wagon ever made a.,
Cinrfshurs WIS made FOR Col Ben Wilson.
foo ll,) and paid Tor % in pork ri 5000
per hundred and dour at $500 per barre.
I'oher' ba'v. of Ir-hnr county arcl
upwards Of SD years hanged himsclfin bic
stable with -kern of homemade flax
thread on the l-t OF July Domestic d..H
Guilty WIS supposed 20 be the cause. Doe
having Young wife.
One Jay H-f week 5s thc Spencer Base
ba.l Club w1s p.ay ing practice game Que
of the ha'-mau le: Dis bat aliu -rI1insa
Young man named JHmss Hewitt. aud