West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-03-27
NO.29.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

against Mig John OF AbysSinia
Spelling reform pays. Josh Bill
llngs has made $l00, 900 by his writing.
Provisions and tsllow To the value
oi Sa,i99 .OOO were exported In January
Five thousand eight hundred I'M
migrants landed at New York In jan
uary.
The debt OF Cleveland, o., is $685.
olS,ooO. SO03,OOO were paid on the de1t
last year.
There are made yearly In Reading
anu befks counties, Pa, over 6,000, 900
WOODEN hats.
On bis farm ut Beauvolr, Jefferson
DAVIS Is preparing Tor u big cotton crop
next season.
The amount of Uulted States eur.
toney outstadlng at tho present time is
$3Gl ,7OS .50l.4l
1t Is said there are 40, ,0OO, 900 acres
of public lands In the state OF Cnlifor-
MIA yet unsurveycd.
Mississippi has decided TO have nm
entomologist. The state loses 81, ,OOO,-
OOo year 10y worms.
"A company with u capital'of $25c.-
OOO has beea formed To work the petro-
ieum springs In Germany.
Spain pays her ministers plenipo-
tenlihry $50, 900 "A year and her favorite
bull-hghtet $4,000 "A year.
The fifteen car manufacturing es-
tabllshments In this country turned out
81 100 ears IN eleven months.
The Marquis dc Talleyrand Peri
| CORD, relative OF ,hc famous TalIsy-
rand, Is visiting Washington.
Tho total value OF exports of pc
troleum aud petroleum products for
December 1879 were 81, ,030 900.
During the year 1879 three new
Geographic lines were opened for SER
wee by the Government of Persia.
The total receipts of lumber at Chi
cago during 1879 were | ,I67, 720, ,0OO feet.
AN increase Tor the year OF % per cent.
During 1870 more railroad accI-
dents occurred In the transportation OF
coal than OF any other kind OF freight.
1t Is estimated that the Increased
cost oil railroad building at present as
compared with year ago ls 81, 900 per
mile.
In tho United States navy there
are Dut forty-eight vessels OF all sizes
ana classiIlcations that are able to lire
gun.
The Habeas Corpus--the peoples
writ OF right, passed Tor the security OF
individual right--was made law May
| %, 1870.
The State OF Mississippi IL about TO
establish college for young women.
The State University now has 877 stu
dehtG, and Is prOspering.
The new Cathedral at Edinburgh.
punt by the Misses Walker, Is the
largest Protcstunt Episcopal church
erected since the reformation.
The revenue from New York ca
mails la 70 was $G7.31S less than In 'Os.
rus Is nscribed 10 the late opening last
SPRING rms year ought to compensate.
-Connectlcut has Il school fund OF
fI,Ol9, 900, OF which about three-uuar-
Lcrs are invested conservatiyely In
mortgages on property within the state.
AT the end of the present fscal year
the commissioner OF pensions estimates
that there Will be 25O,0O0 applications
Tor pensions pending and unacted upon.
The treasury oil the State of North
Carolina has funded between So, ,000, 900
and 5000, ,O0J of old bonds In new four
per cents, bearing interest from July,
1880
Capt. u. f. Burton Is now I'm Egypt,
ana II about TO proceed, with survey
ing party, TO the gold mines which he
discovered near the shores Of the Gulf
of Akaba.
There are ninety y-hye lakes In Iowa,
covering an area OF Gl 90 acres. Should
these lakes dry up, as some OF them are
doihg, the land Will belong to the Gov
frnu.ent.
The trotter RolIa Golddust, valued
In his prime at 1900, was sold at Eden
farm at auction Tor $50. He Is old and
crippled, aud is valued chiefly for what
he has done.
All al
plcted In less than seven years--that is.
half the time consumed IN piercing the
Mont Cents, which IL exceeds in length
by 200 metres.
The gross earnings Of the Northern
Pacific railroad for the year 1870 are
reported TO the railroad commissioner
at 8 1881 ,03l, upon which the tax paid
the State Is sz7 ,95l.
-Four thousand fig-trees, imported
from Europe, Asia and Africa, were
planted on Fairnie Hill. near Pensa-
cola, Fla, last autumn. A neighbor-
ing Tx orchard contains $500
There are about 205 900 Indians Of
all tribes. or these 4O, 900 can read and
write, 10000 are mem bcrs OF churches,
and there are about 250. 900 acres OF
land cultivated by the different tribes.
The Belgian Queen still so fondly
I cherishes the memory Of her only son,
I thu Duke Of Brabant, VINO died In Jan
nary, 1869, that she has never since
I permitted any Court festivities TO be
held during thGt month.
Lyons. France, IS about TO erect a
statue TO jacquard, the inventor Of the
/ wel-knOwn loom that bears his name.
\ lie was born In 1852, and died In 1884
/ Lyons had the first use Of his loom,
I winch, 10 may be remembered, was
I publicly burnt.
The life Of the late Marquis Of An
glesey was insured ia various COM
panies for an aggregate amount Of not
less than E550,OOO. The present Mar
/ quis will come into q magnificent and
unencumbered property, with an In
come Of 100000 year.
An enterprising American shipped
some wheelbarrOws to Rio de Janeiro,
and the natives filled them with stones
and carried them on their heads. They
said " was capital contrlvance, and
wondered how they managed to get
along so many years without IL.
Joseph T.. Temple, a retired PhIla-
delphia merchant, has made gift,
amounting I'm All Ia aG0 0OO 10 the