The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-17
Items Of Interest.

IAe whole business portion OF tne
town OF Reno, Nevada, has been burned.
The Sacramento beet sngar factory
this year will make 5000 barrels Of
sugar, valued nt 100000.
There are three hundred vessels now
in course OF construction at Glasgow.
Half Of them will be steamers.
The amount OF gold dug in California
since 1913 is $3.50, 700, 900, Of which
500, 100000 were mined in 1853.
Jefferson Davis has been nominated
for tho Chancellorship Of the University
OF Georgia, which is about to become
vacant.
1t is said that new penal code, by
which the death penalty is abolished,
will be introduced by tho Italian Gov
eminent.
There is time at which lanb be-
comes mutton there Is time at which
the mint sauce Of Irritation has to bo
discarded for the currant jelly OF serious
intentions.
It Is said that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, having now complete
through line, will send passengers from
New York to New Orleans in sixty.four
hours, without change Of cars.
The yexed question whether the Jews
in Germany can be compelled to appear
before magistrate II summoned to at.
tend on the Sabbath, has once more
been brought on the tapis and decided
in the affirmative.
California farmers are up in arms
against what they term tho suqirrel
nuisance, and at q convention held in
Sun Francisco recently, they demanded
some legislative enactment that wouid'
result in exterminating the pest.
Whittier, one OF the purest and
sweetest poets in the English tongue,
has the barest competency for his
bhclelorship, and any where, save in
New England, would be regarded as
only round the corner from pcnury.
An old farmer said to his sons:-
"Boys, don't you ever spekerlate or
wait for something to turn UP. You
might Just as well go and sit down on
stone in tho middle Of q medder with
pail 'twixt ySur legs, and wait for COW
to back up to you to be milked."
Last spring Mr.. Sam Hemphill, Of
Warsaw, Ind, slipped small potato
over tho end Of grapevine which he
Ind trimmed in order to keep Il from
bleeding. The potato sprouted and
grew all summer, and the shoots 1t sent
forth are neither grape nor potato vines,
but have o peculiar look aud formation
Of their own.
As apart Of tho history Of the rayages
Of tho scourge in Memphis, tho fate Of
tho inmates OF boarding-house is
given. Tho landlord is Joe Sanford,
whose family consisted Of wife and
two children. In his house were 1S
boarders. OF oil these there were only
Joe Sanford and one boarder who sur
vived; oil the rest coy died.
A tragic love story comes from San
Francisco. One Burque, q policeman,
has Just committed sSicide in that city.
He was mRn Of some ability and had a
rich sister in RusBia-a nobleman's wife
who Ind sent for him to go there, but
he was in love with San francisco girl
and would not leave her. Her parents
refused consent to the marriage and he
settled the matter by killing himself.
"Gentlemsn," said an auctionesr,
who was selling piece Of land, this
Is the most delightful land. 1t is tho
easiest land to cultivate, It is 30 light,
SO very light. Mr.. Parker hero will
corroborate my statement, he owns the
next patch, and lie will tell you how
easy 1t Is worked" eyes, gentlemen"
said Mr.. Parker, ait is very easy TO
work, but it is q plaguey sight easier to
gather the crops"