The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-11-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
I.sm. OF Interest from Home and Abront

Items OF Interest from Home and Abroad.
1t 10 announced In London that Mr.. Glad
stone has assured his family that no will never
resume tho Liberal leadership. .... .Thesteana-
tug Miller exploded her boiler and sunk in
Thunder bay, noar Detroit. Capt. Miller and
his clerk woro killed, and tho fireman was seri-
ously injured. ..... Tho sum OF $4,000 was
found with Nichols, tho absconding bankmana-
ger, aud his son, from Montreal, who wero
caught at 81. Augustine, Fla. Tho detective
hopes to DO able to recover most OF tho stolen
property. New York merchants arc petition
ing tho post-oi.lco department for direct
mail to Brazil, monthly, thcro being none at
prcscnt......A report upon tho now Boston
post-ofiice shows Enthusiastically that there has
been frAud, aud Secretary Bristow llAs taken
tho matter in hand Tho Chicago Times
having charged cditorially that Secretary Bris-
tows family had eightcon trunks passed By
tho rovonuo officers on their arrival from
Europe recently, Attorney. General picrrCpont
has issued n card contrndctDg the statement,
and saying that his family accompanied the
secretaty's from Europe, and that he Is cosni-
zant OF tho fact that tho trunks were opened
and examined Same As those Of tho other pas
seugers. Tho London papers sharply criti-
ciso tho admiralty minute exonorAing tho
admiral in command OF tho squadron ut tho
timO OF tho collision OF tho two iron .cads. 80.
Judge Foreman delivered strong charge to
tho grand Jury at Salt Lake City, against
polygamy.
At tho county fair grounds, near Greenfield,
Ohio, the seats around the race track fell, pre-
cipitating fully ono thousand people to the
ground, severely injuring largo number Of
men, women aud children. :. Rev. DR.. Henry
Forter, archbishop OF BrcslAu, who has long
beon In trouble with tho Prussiau government,
growing out OF hts publication OF the PopO's
encyclical declaring tho Falck laws to DO null
aud void, haa severed his connection with tho
Prussian portion OF his diocese. 49,. Under
the pressure Of tho great powers Turkey Is
diminishing her concentration OF troops OIL the
Servian frontier, and scrviA Is demobilizing
her forces $3.50. Lulu trotted three heats
against time In Rochester, N. Y, In 2.16lE.
2 II, and 2.l6, which are claimed as the fastest
three heats on record. dispatch from
Vienna says Russia Is preparing an expedition
against BokhAra out OF revenge for tho assist
anco rendered by tho latter TO tho Khokand In
surgents. .... Dr.. J. W. Sanders was poisoned
by negress named Matthews, at Clinton, In.
at tho instigatiou OF negro named GHir. A
deputy sheriff, whiiO conveying Gair to jail,
was oycrpowercd by masked mob who shot
Gair aud then took tho woman from her crsto-
diAns and hung her.. ...Tho negro who killed.
Samuel Garner, In Murray county, Ga, fow
days ago, was taken from tho guard at Spring
Place, by party OF disguised men, and hanged.
..... China has granted the British demands.
......Tho cotton crop Of tho entire South Is
largo, according to tho report OF tho New Or
leaus committee appointed to investigate; but
the picking is going on slowly, Oh account
OF sickness and political troubles. 80. Senator
Edmunds, OF Vermont, has declined tho United
States circuit judgeship which was tondcrcd
by tho government. Charles Courtney
made tho bost .imo on record at tho boat race
OH Cayuga lake, n. Y. IIo rowed two-ulilc
turning race In thirteen minutes and fourteen
seconds.
A giraffe belonging to Forepauslis circus
died at Syracuse from exposure. It was valued
at $1,000. While tho rhinoccros, belonging to
tho same establishment, was being carried
from Philadelphia, tho wagon broke through
bridge and the animal was fatally injured. 1t
was valued at 100000. -. Tho percentages Of
the condition Of tho cotton crop, Oct. ], were
Ms follows: North Carolina, eighty-avo South
Carolina, scventy.seven Florida, seventy,
Georgia, seventy. ono Alabama, ninety-four {;
Mississippi, nincty-six; Louisiana, ninety ;
Texas, lightweight; Arkansas, one hundred
and three; Tennessee, ninety. Two negroes,
named Jackson and Thompson, wercmurdcred
by rufiiAns in Brooklyn, n. y. There had been
some trouble on account Of the whito men In
terforing with the dancing al negro picnic |;
and on tho negroes starting for homo they
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