The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-13
Items Of Interest.

hiNsAN
In the Newmarket, Eng, October
race meeting Tichbone won the handi-
" Il ia stated that there are &c, 600 mem
bers Of the international Society in
Spain.
The new Masonic Temple in Phila,
delphia has been dedicated with great
display.
The Grow Indians aro reported to
have surrendered their Yellowstone
reservation.
The piazza around the fall styles OF
shoes Is little broader than those
built in the summer.
The British Admiral Yelyerton has
surrendered the insurgent iron.clads to
the Spanish Government.
The physicians OF New Orleans testi.
fy that they have not single case OF
yellow fever in their practice.
A patent fire escape killed four men
in Montreal the other day, and it was
only experimenting even then.
There was railroad collision OF
trains near Carlisle, Eng, by which
several persons were killed and injured.
The State Bank OF New Brunswick,
N. j., suspended because $3.50, 900 had
been Is misappropriatcd by its cashier,
Learn to soy "no" with proprlety;
there is no necessity for swapping it out
dog-fashion, but soy 1t firmly and res
pcctfully.
A Philadelphia servant, left in charge
of the house for week, cheated tho
house Of $1,000 worth Of furniture and
sold 1t for $3.50.
The London Daily Mews believes
that the financial panic in New York
will possibly lead to the resumption OF
speeds payments.
A law down .cast hen lays her eggs
in n manure piic; and calmly enjoys her
scratching while tho little chicks hatch
themselves out.
An Indian skull Of IN extinct trioe
has been discovered in mounG IN san
Francisco. The Academy OF Science is
discussing its age.
More than half tho acreago IN LIMOS
ia in corn, The Chicago Tribune in.
licates from one.half to two.thirds an
average crop this year.
The editor being in Nebraska, tho
LetjrtCti Patriot has less original mat
ter and is d better paper than usual
says the Indianapolis NewS.
Where is "parts unSnown'" asks q
correspondent oi tho DanbuEy News, to
which Bailey answers very trh:hiuliy'
"Whcre they don't advertise"
It is estimated that the Secretary Of
tho U, S. Treasury will ihd it abso;;
lutely necessary to increase tue legal
tender circulation ut least ss,0OO,0OO.
Stokes is outriyalled by a prisoner in
one OF the county jails Of Pennsylvania,
Who has been waiting for somc cover
nor to sign his death-warrant since
1850.
Love is like the measles. Il you
don't catch II till late in life, this in
fantile complaint, which most people
never have but once, Is likely to go
hard with you.
John Green, alias Mcdonald, now
sentenced to the State Prison in MaSsa;
chusetts, has confessed TINT he killed
James Graham, ut Little Neck, L. l.,
in February, 1873.
Convey thy love to thy friend, rs an
arrow to the mark, to stick therc-not
as A ball against the wall, to rebound
back to thee; that friendship will not
continue 10 the end that is begun Tor
an end.
Tho bark Glacier from Hudson Bay
arrived in New Bedford, Conn.,, bring
inc portions OF the crews OF tho Rus.
sci Gibbs and orrny Taft, and what
are believed to be relics OF Sir Joha
Franklin,
A woman has been arrested in Baltt-
moro on the charge OF bcing common
scold. The laws Of Maryland make no
provision for tho punishment oil sucn
offense, and she is to bc tried unaer IN
old English common law.
Mullins OF Darby II was who sat q
long time very attentively, musing upon
a cane.bottom chair. At length no
said, az wonder what fellow took the
trouble to find all them ar' holes md
put straws around en-"
OF the children born in London moro
than.twice Us many arc raised to ma:
turity now than were raised one hundred
wears ago. Then more than one-half
died under the age Of five years now
only about quarter.
Tho Chinese Temples in San Fran
cisco, which used to be among the curl
ous places visited by strangers, has be.
come less popular since It has been dis
covered that the Chinese use them to
secrcto smallpox patients.
A few days since q riot broke out at
Puttamby, in tho Madras Presidency,
India, A detachment OF the Forty:
third regiment was sent there by special
train and after eight OF the rioters had
been killed, order was restored.
or s12, 100000 in greenbacks paid oui
by the U. s. Teasury in New York tc
redeem bonds, $4,000, 900 were at once
locked up in the Safety Company
vaults by anxious and excited indiyid'
uals, who were afraid Of something.
A Bombay telegram announces the
, capture OF 4 slave dhow near the Ley
chelles Islands, of tho eastern coast o.
Africa, by the British naval slooI
Daphne. The dhow had had 800 slave,
on board, but only 80, and those re
duced to skeletons, were alive. Til
others had died Of smallpox.
, A watertown (wis. )lady sent pobtO
card to friends in Fond du Lac, inform
. ing them Of lier intention OF maxim
n visit. When she arrived, tho Cnrt