The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-17

q lire that destroyed q mouse IN Delle
Plain, ILL.,, lately.
There are ut the present time 2ot vcs-
sells engaged in the whaling business
hailing from American ports.
Arizona Territory is not only FREQ
from debt, but has a balance Of cash in
tho treasury amounting to 500, 200.
A seyen.foot kangaroo in Australia
had battle with three mon, three hor-
ses, and four dogs, and whipped them
all.
Seven thousand four hundred and
ninety-seven Chinese coolies were i'm
ported into Havana during the past
year.
Men from the scene of tho fight with
the Modocs say that tho squaws took
part in tho battle. One soldier was
killed by squaw.
A Hartford paper says "the dull
quality of the gas enables tho gas COM
pany TO declare q brilliant dividend OF
twenty-five per cent"
A true bill has been found against
Robert Bowles, in the Central Criminal
Court Of London, and his trial is ex-
pected at IN early day.
A dispatch from Bordeaux says yes-
sci, supposed to be British, went ashore
on tho coast near that city, and all OH
board arO probably lost.
A Massachusetts, undertaken, with tho
aid of a policeman, waylaid n funeral
procession, and stopped it until his bill
for tho coffin was settled.
The Cortcs' committee on the aboli-
ton of slavery in Porto Rico has declnr-
cd in favor OF granting owners m aver.
ago indemnity Of $3.50 per slave.
Senator Alcorn, Of Mississippi, is
now living with his third wife, and
twenty.ono children can exclaim "My
father is Senator from Mississippi"
The Balances in tho U. s. Treasury:
Currency, 1924, ,4G5; ; coin, sGl, ,43G,S5
including So, TAI, ,000in coin certificates;
special deposit Of legal tenders, $780,
OsO,OOO.
The price OF coal has again risen in
England, causing tho suspension OF
work at many of the iron furnaces, and
depressing the market for English Rail
road Securities.
The bill abolishing tho franking
privilege after tho 1st OF July next,
with the Senate amendments, was passed
by tho U. s. House OF Representatives
by the extraordinary vote Of 143 to As.
A sweet little boy only eight years
old-bless his little heart-walked into
tho scene OF n teachers examination ut
Oswego, Inst week, and .bawled out =
/" Annie, your fellcr is down to tho
House"
An English newspaper, speaking OF
the large amount OF coal imported from
the United States, thinks 1t probable
that system Of iron steam colliers will
carry United States coal to all parts OF
the world.
A bill has passed tho Indiana Legis-
lattlre providing that transient visitors
from other States not be granted di.
yorces unless the alleged cause OF COM
plant was n legal ground for divorce Ill
the State where 1t occurred.
John Hunt, at Cairo, ILL.,, placed tho
butt OF his rifle on the ground, with
the muzzlo leaning against his breast,
when his powder.horn fell on the ham
mer in such manner rs to discharge
the weapon, killing him instantly.
The colliers on strike in South Wales
arc much incenscd ut the proposition to
import coolies to supplant them, and
several owners Of mines have received
nnonymous letters threatening them
with assassination II tho coolies are i'm
ported.
Some questions very naturally sug-
gest themselves to IN inquiring mind.
An amateur farmer wonders "why, OIL
all this fair earth, the ground is spread
bottom side up, so that it must bo turn
ed over with plough before crops can
be raised"
Mr.. Charles Town Fowler, q London
reporter who died lately, had given his
attention during thirty years singly to
the writings of fires. He pursued his
peculiar line of reporting with so much
earnestness that, It is said, he literally
lived upon q fire engine.
Captain jack, the Modocs chief, pre-.
serves regular military discipline, and
drills his men every day with the assis-
tancc Of persons well acquainted with
military tactics and ambushing, and
who arc supposed TO be renegade whites
who have become their allies.
Tho Mayor OF Detroit says that he
pulled down the smallpox flag from n
tenement owned by him "to conserve
the public peace, explaining that boys,
: congregated around it and "darcd +"
. each other to scale the fence and ap-
proach the house on which the flag was
displayed.
A New Orleans woman, who was told
by "Voudou priestess :" that her
, daughter, recently buried, would revive
,, on the third day, went to the tomb at
! the time designated, had the coffin
opened, shrieked, and clasped her living,
frantic child in her arms, realizing that
she had como just in time.
= The Carlist instruction in Spain IL
] assuming formidable proportions. Tht
1 Paris Union says their lines extent
: through the Northern provinces o.
Q Spain from Cape Creux To Corunna, ant
h that they are flourishing in numbers
Q arms, and resources, Mail communi
s cations haee ceased between Spain ant
8 Paris for whole week.
Japan has recently takon two impor
tant progressive steps, which indicat'
that the recent report Of conservatiy,
!. reaction among the rulers Of that En-
u piro is untrue. The first Of these step
IA the decision TO create an olectiy