The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-28
Items Of Interest.

barned in the Union Jurisdiction, Cuba.
When man has no mind OF his own
his wife generally gives him piece Of
hers.
An arch young lady should be an
archer, for she can bend her bow aS she
pleases.
Chicago, just recovering from fire,
raised a handsome sum for the Atlantic
sufferers.
A San. Francisco man has brought
suit for s4l, 900 for being crippled for
life by dog.
Twowomen in vicksburg latelyfought
duel with butcher knives, and ono OF
them was killed.
Maine farmers anticipate large hay
crop this season, as the result Of the
great fall of snow.
The friends OF Nixon, sentenced to be
hung in New York, have given him
complimentary ball.
A mandatory in Rome was struck
by lightning and forty persons were
buried in the ruins.
General Candy nys the MQdocs' re-
quest to be left in the lava beds means
license to plumber.
1t would seem now that the White
Star line might us well have been called
the White Starvation line,
The Pennsylvania Assembly rejected
bill to allow the truth Of libel TO be
given in evidence for the defence.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will spend S10, 900, 900 in laying addi-
tional tracks between Philadelphia and
Pittsburg.
A man writing poetically Of the
weather, says: "The backbone Of win
ter is broken, but the tail wngs yet oc-
casionally."
A painter in Louisville, Ky, in put
ting up his staging lot go the rope to
spit on his hands, and broke his leg on
the sidewalk below.
In the first three months Of tho
present year, the imports Of dry goods
at the port OF New York alone, werc
valued at s12O,9Os,G13.
An order by the Sultan forbidding
the wearing Of tnrbans in places Of pub
lie amusement is creating some distur-
bans in O Constantinople.
Gen. John. O. Fremont has been
sentenced to tofveyears solitary imprison-
ment, and 5000 francs fine, in Paris.
He got away Just in timo to escape it
all.
Massachusetts, proposes TO commem::
orate the one hundredth anniversary OF
the battle of Bunker Hill in 1875 by
erecting statue to General Joseph
Warren. 1.
Mr.. Joel Roberts, Of Winchester, Pa,
coming down stairs tho other morning,
stumbled over the charred body OF his
daughter. By her side 10y broken
kerosene lamp.
The editor OF tho Moorhead %. o.
Star says: 1--WE offer special induce
ments 10 our subscribers who club to.
gether and send in any little matter OF
eatablc, as it were"
An old lady was admiring Landseer's
beautiful picture called Saved" "1ts
no wonder" she said, "that the poor
child tainted after pulling that great
dog out OF the water"
In South Africa the droutll is very
severe, and sheep are dying by hun.
dreds and thousands. One farmer lost
1000 sheep, and his ncighbors count
their losses by hundreds.
A gentleman wishing to go from
Wichita to Dodge City, Kan, applied
TO friend for a.letter Of introduction.
He was handed double barreled shot
gun and Colts revolver.
Before a member has finished his
speech in tho House Of Commons, the
greater part Of 1t is Of late not only
written out, but actuallyin type in more
than one newspaper Office.
A young woman in London was re-
Gently fined twenty shillings, or four
teen days imprisonment in default, for
knocking ut st. James's Palace at an
unseemly hour Of the night.
A worthy Kentucky farmer being
asked II daughter recently married
was still living with him, replied:
"No, sirl When one Of my gals swarms
she must hunt her own hive"
A poor man who hanged himself,
owing TO domestic afiliCtion occaSioned
by his wife, is thus disposed Of out
West: "Henry Lyman, shoemaker,
Terre Haute-bed cord. Jealousy"
There has been another q minres' :"
strike in Pennsylvania. A miner struck
his father with hoe.handle. He says
he feels as II he had been sitting on o
forty.horsepower mustard plaster.
Two or three hundred dollars Of
conscience money are received in WASH
inrton every week. II there were q
little more conscience in tile country
the national debt would soon be paid
Of.
A morning paper is Of the opinion
that nothing was too low for the Forty
second Congress. This is o mistake,
for their salary was too low 80 tho
members raised II, by lowering them
selves.
Douglas Jerrold, for a long time one
OF the editors OF Punch, said that tue
man never lived who could make 365
good Jokes o year-or even half the
number. One q week he thoughta very
good allowance.
AT the Borden mines, near Frostburg,
John Langley was being lowered down
/ with horse and cart, the horse kicked
the coupling loose and all were precip'
itated 10 tho bottom, d distance OF over
100 feet. Langley.was almost instantly
killed.
Two women have been committed foi