The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-05

Gratis,
Two street robbers in New York were
sentenced to twenty years each in State
Prison.
The late purchases of tyc.twenties'
by the United States Government were
at 114.40.
Usury-that is taking more than seven
per cent. interest is to be punished IN
New York city.
A new town is Just started in Kansas,
in which no one is to be allowed to set
tie who smokes or chews tobacco.
The great strike in Wales reached its
end by.a compromise which affords
nearly all that the men required.
The boilers in Colville & Co. g saw
mill, Wilmington, N. O., exploded re-
Gently, killing two men and one woman.
The motion for an injunction and re-
ceiyer in the case OF the Knickerbocker
Life Insurance Company has been de-
MED. ,,
Several persons have been killed in
Giurpeyo, Wallachin, because the mill
tary would force the carmen to pay
taxes.
Bad drainage, many physicians be-
lieyc, causes cerebro.spinal meningitis,
fact full Of suggestiyeness to city
fathers.
Indiana tobacconists nre pinched to
choose between shutting up shop on
Sunday or paying 800 fine for selling
cigar on that day.
Twenty reals per day OF service is tho
sum families who have sons with the
| insurrectionists have to pay the Spanish
Government.
Awestern pulpit orator deanesrehgion
as Gan insurance against fire in the
next world, for which honesty is the
best policy"
Five men were killed and many more
injured by "fire-damp" explosion IN
coal.mine near Abertillery, Mon
mouthsllirc, England.
A wool.grower in the United States
lost s15, 900 last year because OF his not
reading tho papers, he did not sell lis
wool ut the right time.
A determined youth at Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, got his lady love out OF her stern
parents possession by writ Of habeas
rornna md tben married her.
Minnesota reports that with the mild
weather pickets are beginning to come
up, and farmers expect fair crop OF
i'nu.9 MI, st'.n.n.; 49,, roni.,oturo hos nossed
, Ine MlsGtt .iti;"n ,oLosnra je to lien ilnon n
pill eI'.s,iS .s,nlSs I% a." onnt,octora faiI 10
r'lilfHau tI wren tor ,ho .a'V worI they NAV have
pyo Pay .neli tVi 'H' "''A
"OaV' Nop,es contemporary styles Mr..
lanes Gordon Bennett, Of the New
yorit JEcraM who ia now in Naples, the
i;scoyerrr Of the discoycrer Of the dis.
covcrer
Buffalo Bill has just received from
the West bride. made out Of human
hair, which he captured in battle with
the Indians. 1t is heavily mounted
with silver.
JB. Brown. postal clerk, was ar.
rested at Winona Junction aud brought
to La Crosse, Wis, charged with burn.
ing mil matter to save the labor oil uls-
tribution.
A western contemporary thinks that
tbn oIJ mayim Of law in libel cases,
"ths greater the truth the greater the
libel" las been retained in Pennsyl-
vania for the the benefit oil politicians
Wbitelaw Reid, editor Of the New
York IfiJnc, gets salary of $4,000
a wear Jennings has $4,000 on tho
Yimgs: Croly had 5000 on the World;
Hudson lad 600. 600 on the Herald, and
was retired on pension OF $4,000.
JohnSulliyan, long knownin England
as "king of the begging.letter I'M
nosters. !" hns been sentenced to seven
ycars' pennl seryitude for swindling
Gen. BFaybrook out Of 50 by lying
netition.
A 1r;ss;ss;n,; shorifr makes nm I'M
,oTnn,oS a N,o' JS,aand ytnon public credulity,
oSsnri;no thot both he and his wife were
'SIc,s'hS ai,1oroiaSsmoi r" by burglars and $1,000
=" crrrlUiy, r-;od "a from M his house. The money
S,lsieu s,na ,',,,i;c III itv irnIs Of course.
"',s PiOiiV i"N' - a. tot,o, ostod
some years w. g.,ia,t y ~, vh;ic IN Par.
old Sir Francis Dufuess, ,,,;sion xn,, az saving ~
lament ior some a,,,,,op pVs,.Sr n,o nscd to
Don't y9H fe%ylIPgr e WalI i ran,ied po sir Fran.
";s W " i Pasv' yey have wrowp into a volume
US, O1 ,,s ~ =. c.hoL;0v;llo soys
a scIooiIills.er scIi,l!.. ,;ha IL S;nJnass in mon.
there IS hotlliIs s M M G inrs I'D Ton foot
agng scl'oo.' s.I;',t ,,dns;,oiS m on m tLe dssk
hickory sapNng puhiISitth psniIa ths Snvs n kindly
before MN, niG ~ 'eiaS nj III ,'o soys ihs IL
now tney I9ss l..sS uo I'LL a i % so%:tb;ng re.
lect o. PIN ms Ain" "'fu' % ''
rliark@oie, .-,....u, la, 4,,o