The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-09-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Intsr,sting Items from Home and
Abroad.

from homo in Philadelphia about two months
ago. Shortly afterwards his body wa found
In the Delaware. 1t vas taken to the Morguor
and Identified by NIurphy'a wife Is her hus-
band. It was delivered to her and buried.
Last week tho real Anthony walked Into his
homo, we'll and in good spirits. No explanation
OF bis disappearance Is giyon......M Six
PortAg0s, a Canadian town up the dAineau
River, three little children set fro to a barn
aud then climbed up to tho top Of NOV,
whore they remained until every means OF
escape had been cut on. Their mother, hear
ing thCir cries, rushed into tho barn, and was
surosA.cd, but, rolling on the NOV, her ro-
mains we're recovered before the flames
reached Il. After the building was consumed
tho remains Of tho children were recovered.
......T Tho grave OF tho poet porclTAl ls at
Hazel Green, Wis, marked only by single
evergreen tree, While making a geological
survey OF that part Of tho State hO was taken
sick, and q DR.. JOnekos being sent for, they
formed so fast friendship that tho doctor In
slsted on removing him TO Ills own house,
where no spen. tho last and hApplesl years OF
his lio...u Tho racing season has been un-
usually brilliant. Only short time ago Gray
Planet mado the best tlmo on record for a
single mile, aud nov Felowcraft has run four
miles Ia seven minutes nineteen and half
seconds, surprising in speed for that distance
anything previously known, oven Lexlugtons
great time. Add to this the time Of Goldsmith
Maid and OF Madge, who made tllree-qlnten
Of milo at Saratoga, tho quickest over made;
and hOrsemOn Ough! to bo satisfied with the
season.
Tho Dakotah Autobiography and Democratic
Congressional and Territorial Conventions
iAIlodt to effect a union. The l.SIonopollsts
nominated DR., ". A. Burleigh for Congress,
Tho Democrats have also made their nOnI-
natIOu.... The Alabama Republican State
Convention nominated MOssrs. Peters, saffold,
and Folder for tho Supreme Court, Lewis for
Governor, MeKinstry for LlousonAnt-Goy.
ernor, Bingham, for Treasurer, n. Il. Rice for
Secretary Of State, Foster for Superintendent
Of instruction, and Turner for Attorney.
General. .....J John Harper, the owner Of the
celebrated horse LonSiellow, died al his real.
donee, near Midway Ky, leaving q large
fortune. ... Tho Republicans Of tho First
District Of Kansas have nominated Col VIM.
A. Phillips for Congress. Tho suits com.
mouctd against Woodruff, Robinson L Co., Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, by tho U. S. Government, To
recover tho value Of goods fraadulonlly with.
drawn from warehouse, have been dIscon.
tinusd on tho payment Of the full amount du.
the Government. Tho penalty has boon TO-
cOiyed and tho case disposed OF In such 4
manner that II cannot again DO reoponed.
This Is the firm OF which Frank Moulson Is 4
member. -. Five men named Anderson Perry,
John Ross, Antoine Maurice, James williams
and James Rotenon, associates In the murder
OF Elisha Eastwood, an old flAt-boAsmAn, Oh
tho 25lh Of April last, wore hung at Napoleon
vile, Assumption Parish, Lac. The New
York Democratic State Convention will DO hell
at Syracuse, Sept, lCth..... Theodore Titor
has commenced two suits agGlns. Henry War
BOtcher one Of them for libel, and proposes
suits against several OF tho newspapers OIL
New York aud Brooklyn. =. Sixty thousand
, dollars reward Is offered by the French Minis
/ ter Of Agriculture "ior tho discovery Of az
! efilcacIous and economical means OF destroying
the phylloKuTa or OF preventing lls rayagSs.
This, II will DO remembered, Ia tho insect thai
Is devastating tho French vineyards. .... The
Reading Railroad Company of Pennsylvania
stopped working all but four OF their ono hun
drcd and forty mines for an Indefinite period
The oiage Indians in Kansas have taken tht
war path against tho State, and tho frontior
will suiIor severely. 80. In North Carolina The
State Senate will DO composed OF IS Democrats
aud IL Republicans, Democratic gain Of
members. Tho House will contain 50 Demo
Gratis, 90 Republicans, Independent Demo
Gratis, and Liberal Republican. 1T Is lalt
that party OF capitalists arc Gbou. to buy ID,
New York Herald paying s., oO0, 900 for Il, ...,
Tho trial OF the ten young mon and twt
women, charged at St.. Petersburg with clrcu
latlng revolutionary pamphlets, terminated
slI OF the accused wero sentenced to period
Of hard labor varying from three to ten years
and tho rest to short terms OF Imprisonment
.....All the loading lawyers OF IsdlAnIpolIl
tender their services to Mr. Harding, OF til,
Herald, who sho. Mori.z, for oulraglng hi
daughter, II tho case comes to trial.. The
Spanish Government denies Indignantly tht
story about Porto Rico being sold to Germany
Tho Government Is informed OF and will put
stop to a proposed allbustering expedition
against that island. .... In bis official report
Gen Custer speaks In high forms OF tho Blael
Hills country. No portion OF the Unitet
States no says, can boast Of ARCHER or bOLtc
pasturasO, puror water, tho natutAl temper
. turo Of which In midsummer, as 1t flows from
tho earth, Is tWoluo degrees above tho freeIlnl
point, and Of greater advantages generally Il
the farmer or stock raiser than arc to DO fount
In the Black Hills. Building stone IL found 1t
inoxhaustiblo quantities, aud wood, fuel, ant
lumber sufficient for all time to como. IIalnl
are frequent, with no evidence Of oIthcl
draughts or froshcts. Tho days arc perhaps
too short and the nights too cool for coru; bu
believe all other grain could DO produeet
hero In abundance Wheat particularly wOult
yield largely. There was very soyor,
typhoOn at Nagasali, Japan. Great damIg,
was done to property on shore and To the ship
ping In tho hArbor. A large number Of nativel
lost their lives. .....A war between tho whltel
and blacks took place In Lancaster, Ky. TIT
whites took possesaion Of the town. TIT
negroes fortified themselves IN tho house o.
The Hon. William sOllon, which The whites ss
fro TO. Tho trouble Is said to bAye adsel
from tho recent election, and is between tht