The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-03-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

liens Of Interest from Home and Abroad
The Governor OF Now York signed tho BIZ
for more enectuhl punishment of psculation IN
Office THE captain and thirteen Of Ill.
crew Of tho abandoned zhIp sydney Daeres,
from San Francisco for Liverpool who Wert
lnIzring, have arrived at valsntiA. All the
ships company are now safe. wv. II. Green,
an old citizen Of Hampton, and ono Of the
directors Of the Fair Haven PAnlI. died after
lyo days Illness Ills wife wAa 70 OycrcomC
that she died the mex. day, aud her brother,
who had been living with her, died tho day
following. The frt two died OF pneumonia,
and the last o. heart di.easc. .... The city Of
Albany, n. Y, has distributed thousand tons
Of coal to its poor during the winter. "A mau
worth 100000 committed suicide in JOrsey
City through fear Of poverty Gee. The United
States Senate passed bill granting a sito tC
the Peabody School in Florida. james Nc,
Mnliou leapcd from the dome Of the capitol al
Washington, falling distance Of $50 feet and
being dashed to pieces.
Aficr coGtlnusus session Of nearly twenty.
nine houna, tho United States Senate, by 4
vote Of 80 yeas to % nays, tabled Mr.. Morton.
resolution to admit p. d. s. Pinclback, OF
l.ouiriAna..,. Mr.. Disneli's resolution dc.
clAring John Mitchell ineligible to seat in the
English Parliament was passed by tho Housc
Of Commons without division. The motion
for new writ Of election in TpporAry county
was also carried without division 81. :. Tie
Southern members Of Congress have published
An address to the people OF tho South urging
them to 10 patient and to trust to the sense Of
justice Of the country for a redress Of any
grievances they nAy have. ...,. Twenty more
tugar plantations have been destroyed by the
insurgents in Cuba. Tho war there seems to
be one Of destruction to property. So. 1t has
Just como to light that woman, partly insane,
las been confined all winter in room In her
husbands house in West Buxton, Me-, part OF
the time being chained. When found shO had
hardly any clothes gu her body, and her logs
aud feet were badly frost bitten 80. The New
Jcnoy Legislature appropriated SO,OOO,O 900
more for the Morris Plains LunAlic Asylum. e.
by a coasting Necldcntin Worcester, Mass, one
man was killed aud two girls seriously injured.
Two hundred thousand dollars have been
appropriated by tho japanese government for
expenditure in connection with tho PhilAdel-
pllIa Centennial. see, The bill presented by tic
United States government for improving riyen
and harbOrs ApprOpriAtos S6,Og9,2OO for this
object
An express train on tho Pittsburgh, cincIn-
natl and St. LOUIS railroad was thrown from
the track aud two cAn were burned. Several
passengers we're injured and tho stIAkosch
Opera Troupe lost all their baggage. .....s. J.
H. McSlillen, Republican, was elected United
states senator from Minnesota by q vote Of IS
to 10, in the place Of Alexander l!amscy. The
new Senator is fifty years Of AgO...... The
United States House Of Representatives passed
tho Army Appropriation Ill, which appropriate
E2LOO0,O0O .....A match factory at Gotten.
burg, Sweden, took fire, and the flames spread
with such rapidity that fifty employees were
cut on from escape aud persisted in the flames,
...... The Paris workingmen's associations are
discussing tho question Of sending delegates to
the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition. .....
The report Of tho United States Ways and
Means committee on the Pacific Mail invcstlga-
ton will charge William S. King with perjury,
and report that no money has been proven to
have been paid to Congressman. .... RObCma
GHCsc, girl sixteen years Of age, was COM
mttCl in Boston for raising certificate Of
stock Of tho Michigan Central railroad from
one shnrc to sixty, the original value Of the
sans being sGs, and tho pretended value 81
OsO. Upon this well executed certificate 5000
was obtained when the fraud was discovered.
LEO d, Kent committed suicide in Charles
ton, Mass, by cutting his throat. ..... Gen.
Alexis Nonl, who was recently arrested on luis
arrival In iIAyti, from St. ThOmV, has been
condemned to five years imprisonment.
Tho Lehlgh and Ehstou Railway Company
Of Pennsylvania petition the Massachusetts,
Legislature to guarantee 100000 Of its first
mortgage bonds on condition that Il will carry
all coal destined for Massachusetts, at rate Of
not over u! cents per ton per mile. .Advlccs
from Zanzibar report that fleet Of IIritish
men.oi-wAr have bombArdCd and captured Fort
MonbalIque, on the east coast otAfrieA. The
engagement lasted five hours. Seventeen Of
the garrison were killed, and fifty wounded.
Two slAvo ships were captured, with three
hundred slaves on board. In a New Yorl
sllauiy two men drank a quart Of whisky, and
then one Of them murdered the other In moei
brutal manner, by beating lis brAins out with i
chair. 80. John Mitchell has issued an Addres,
to the electors Of TiPporary county, Ireland
presenting himself again as candidate fol
Parliament. $50. Phelps dwell, a lAborer IL
New York, surrendered himself to the polio,
and confessed to having killed, as he claimed
In seli-deicnse, a stranger supposed to DO from
Iondo', Canada, .,... An explosion In III,
Safety Fuse Works, at Redruth, Cornwall
England, caused the death Of i've girls.....
/ Four hundred and five Indians were killed Ant
2l7 were captured by United States troops ii
! 1879 Tho heirs OF the American citizen
captured in tho vlrgnius and killed arc !,
receive $4,000 for each man killed. =. ..Edwart
spangler, who was ono OF tho persons sen
fenced to tho Dry TOrtugAs for participating Ii
tho assassination conspiracy which resulted it
the death OF President Lincoln in 1865, died a
tho residence Of DR.. Samuel A. Mudd, neE
I ly4ntoWn, In Charles county, Nd