Huntington independent. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1871-1874, 1874-01-08
NO. 3s.
VARIETIES OF ALL KINDS.

I A timely question: What are your
present intentions?
Kentucky is said to have lost over
$500, 600 by desaulting sherifs.
Bishop Simpson is going on an epis-
copal vi to Mexico this week.
The life of Agassiz, written by bis
wife, will shortly be ready for publica-
ton.
The Supreme Court of New Hamp-
shir. has young lady clerk.
Photography is to be taught in the
girls high school in Boston.
1t requires eighteen thousand lamps
to illuminate the streets Of New York.
A man in Chicago announces himself
as the Methodist candidate for con-
stabler
Newark. \. J. has ninety Sunday
schools, with $500 teachers and 10,
600 scholars.
CITY Solicitor Healey, Of Boston, to
whom the question was referred, gives
his opinion that women cannot legally
serve on the Boston School Committee.
Four women were chosen TO that posi-
ton at the recent election.
A man named Belchor recently
moved from Michigan to Laporte,
Indiana, bringing with him two VIC
men, aud the three are living together
as happy family"
Animals are well protected in New
Orleans. A cart driver careleSs'y ran
over dog recently, whereupon the
animals owner calmly shot the driver
on the spot.
Gray switches" for lady'S heads are
displayed by New York artist in hair
at the panic price Of $40 each. The
price of the same kind Of article here
tolore has been S75.
The editor Of the Duluth Herald is
sanguine in spite of hard times. He
says: "We shall jerk living out Of
this city duving the coming winter, or
We are much mistaken"
"He winnowed her into Paradise
with fence rail- is a new phrase in
Western journalism for wife murder.
The Methodist Episcopal Church is
aid to have incren ;cd 5000 in mem
bcrship and 1900, ,00O in funds during
the past year.
An Ohio lady bases her claim for a
livorce on the grounds that on one oc-
nasion her husband put her TO soak in
The rain-Tater barrel
1t is said five hun red children in
Havre became fsthcrlcss, and more
thsn onc-hundred women were made
widows, by the loss Of The Vile du
Havre.
A woman living near Altoona, re.
Gently entered a stable attac!ed to the
house in which she lived, when a horse
,aught her by the nose and bit it of.
1t is said to have become the fashion
n Boston, TO announce on the invita-
ton cards to gold and silver weddings,
mat mo presents will bc received
An Indian princess, the Rance Of
Pertsb Singh, heir apparent Of the
Msharsjah Of Cashmere, died aoout
six weeEs ago in India Of smallpox.
The funeral procession was attended by
10000 persons, and in accordance with
tIinGoo custom the body was burned.
A sensation is published by the
Detroit Free Press, VIZ, that nan
Sa. found Oh Lake Michigan sitting
BOLT upright IN yaul boat frozen to
lcath, with his hand on the helm, Il
corpse, covered With ice from spray
ia6hcd ever him, steering his baIk.
Charle.ton. South Carolina, cIaims
20 be the h,altbiest city in the Unior,"
because last week, the mortality os
show by the return Of the city Regis
er, wa three whites and fifteen color
:d ont Of a total population Of fifty
thousand, nearly equally divided BE-
wcea the two races.
Two years ago, by steamboat ex-
plosion on Chsu'auqua Lake, New
York, Stillman Witt, low Of Cleye-
and, lost a granddaughter aged four
years. At her birth her grandfather
had set aside 10000 for her. This
money, on her death, he expended 10
erecting a mission chapel in Cleveland,
- a memorial Of her II has just been
dedicated.
4 man nam,d Herring, living near
Toronto, recently confessed having
committed q murder six years ago ID
| Wisconsin. lie said the reason he
olfcsscd was that lie had a very bad
empcrod wife, aud that whenever they
disagreed she would aggra7aie bin by
taunt.ng him wiih tie murder. He
,ubmittcd for six years, but at length
determined to seek the tender mcrc.es
D. the law, rather tan bear the con
slant irritation Of bis wile's tongue.
The rulc Of mo vinc' is becoming
common il Ncs YORK receptions.
Cornish, Mass, is well proyiied with
flags, an eccentric citizens having left
| 81 900, the interest Of which is annual
Iy to be expended in bunting
The Niagara railroad suspension
bridge has been opened far trahc for
oyer ghtean years, and the first retirn-
tbar.ng /: has had has Just been compile
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