The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-07-03

hlhuAuh RhNo tuEpVt SOhuucllcuL teNeu,
Georgia ono, Illinois fvc, and Alabama fvo
votes for Bristow. U
1t is currently reported that sioux Indians
attacked cattle rancho at Trcmouts Orchard
on the rlAtte rivcr, Rud killed fifteen mon and
drove OF tho stock .....A tiro in large carpet
factory at Ayr, Grolt Britain, whilo tho hands
wero at work, cut OIL tho Ogress, aud before
all tho women escaped tho roof foil H. bIrying
twenty four OF the fArHlo operatives beneath
it..... An insubordiuato officer In Constanti-
nople gained almittAnco to tho room III which
tho council OF ministers worc sitting, aud,
drawing n revolver, killed tho ministers Of
war and foreign affairs, and wounded tho
minister OF hnnuco. Ho also killed al ail.de-
camp and servant before being ovorpowercd
..... Secretary Dristow, owing TO tho pressure
Of private affairs, has resigned his portfolio,
and will leave tho Cabinet tho last OF the
mouth 49,. Tho Mississippi steamer oriolc
exploded hcr boiler, killing six people aud
seriously wounding thirteen.
The town OF s.. Johns, province OF Quebec
Canada, was almost completely devastated BY
fro oil Sunday. Tho coniigration originated
in lumber mill high wind carrying tho en-.
bcrs all over town and "a ming thcm Into
flames wherever they alisbtcd, 80 that In II
fow hours tho on,ire business portion OF tho
town was in ruins, and Il loss OF over million
dollars inflicted upon tho inhabitants Several
persons were burned 10 death in their ondcavor
to ravo property. Tho buildings destroyed In
cludo como fifty stores, five hotols, two fac.
tories, two banks, custom house, post.oillcc,
United States consulate and custom house,
Nc'cs Office, several lumber mills, ak loaded
boats at tho wharyos, and largo number Of
dwellings ind other buildings. Threo hundred
and nifty families wero left houseess end dos
titu.e, and wcro obliged to lodge In tho gov.
ornment barracks. Net place OF business OR
public olico Is left standing. Tho cholera
has broken out in tho town OF Galwood near
Bombay, India, and Of two hundred inlIabi-
tAnts ono hundred died In tlroe dAys. .. :.
DgPHk1 phci1u ShAtkh way 5uOk AHu AllIVu ny
man named Howell, while cndcavoring to
arrost him in Dawson county, Mob. Howell
afterwards was lodged In Jail, but tho citizons
took him ont at night aud hanged him. "a
family consisting OF David lCed, his vito and
two SONS, wore compelled to lcAvo their homo
at Coalmont, Pa, which was flooded by the
late rain, and In Attempting to cross swollen
mountain stream they were all drowned.
A fro at Athens, N. Y, destroyed several
boats and tho Hudson river depot, including
ono hundred loaded freight cars. Lo4s, $780,.
900 .....The pooplo OF New York wcro non.
sultod in tho cauAl ring Albany basin caso. =. j..
Six mon woro killed by a dynamite explosion
ut Glasgow, Scotland, 49,. Moscow, Russia,
Inns suffered from a fro which destroyed fifty
houses. e. E. Reports from tho 1shtrics In the
nrighbothood OF CApo Breton arc most ell
courEging. Tho Darl ADDE'S riots were not
caused by any suffering among tho people,
but on account OF tho impression prevailing
among tho negroes that the queen had given
all the properly Gil tho island to DO divided
among them, and that It was wrongfully with
held