West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-03-20
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year.
The Prince OF Wales lays the cor
ner stone of the Cathedral of Truro Ia
April.
-Manbouquet, the celebrated French
steeplechaser, was sold recently for
5000.
When an English peer Is made
knight OF the Garter his robes cost
about 5000.
The salaries paid To federal oillce-
holders id the whole country amount To
S3l ,252, l07.
In Amsterdam there are $4,000
Jews engaged In cutting, polishing aud
setting diamonds.
MIR. w. Il. Astor owns narrow
gauge railroad In Florida which Is
doing n good business.
Mississippi was the banner cotton
State last year, having raised 75,O 600
bales more than Texas.
The Baptist theological seminaries
TN the United States have $50 young
men studying for the ministry.
Nearly 40 per cent. of the colored
children of Tennessee were last wear
enrolled In the public schools.
Gents have begun to appear In San
Francisco. Hitherto five-cent pieces
have been the least coin received.
-Th United States government pays
srlarics To $4,000 persons, OF whom
only ZIG this year come from Georgia.
The late A. Il. Boric, of PhIladel-
phia, left n bcquest of Sic, 900 to Gen.
Grant, of whom lac has long been near
aAd Intimate friend.
Keen, tho English bicycllst, offers
To wager 81 900 against 81 900 that he
VIII beat the best American trotting
record for one mile.
France has just been able. ten
years after the event, to figure up tho
cost To her Of the Franco German war.
IL was $4,000, 100000.
"A young man mt Canton, Ohio. has
sued his own mother for $4,000 for
slandcr. She circulated report that
he was drunken and thievish.
The salt In tho oceon Is estimated
by Schaf haul at 4,05l ,3i2 cubic geo.
graphical miles, or about four times
more than the mass of tho Alps.
The German Government has re-
Gently re-chrIstened no less than $50
places In Alsace-Lorraine. giving them
German names In tho place of French.
The grape islands of Lake Erie
In 1879 was 10000, 900 pounds. The
wine production was ,528 400 gallons.
The French Assembly refused to
gradt full and complete amnesty to all
Communists who were arrested and
convicted IN lSG0-70 by vote Of Ilb TO
3l3.
during the past year Massachusetts
has Instructed 81 ,55S pubic schools.
The tpnphQra nnrn hnroI vta plo...
were PIG high schools, having 1891
pupils.
Thirty thousand eggs of the Attain
tic salmon have been placed in n hatch
ing house at Bloomsbury, Pa, where
there are already 100000 California
salmon.
More cotton Is passing through the
looms and splndles Of New England
than at any time since the beginning
OF the business. Tho English con-
sumption Is about ~, 900 bales week.
The number OF slave yessels can
tured by British cruisers I'm the years
lS7f-7S was l62, Of which 115 were CON
demned and 81 restored to their own
ers. The number of slaves captured
was 2,ls5.
king Cetywayo Is said to be n man
Of simple and abstemious habits. He
does not drink to any excess aud does
not smoke, his reason for not doing so
being that cit would spoil the color OF
his teeth"
The Hawaiian Legislature has ap-
proprlated fifty thousand dollars ~
build a palace for the king, whose
home has hitherto consisted Of a num-
Der Of wooden cottages enclosed by
high stone wall.
Mr.. Peter Sprague, of Boston, Is
said to be the oldest member Of Con-
gress now living. He was n Repre-
sentative from Maine from 1924 to 1929,
when he was chosen Senator, and acted
In that capacity until 1885.
Mr.. j. &. Flood has lust bestowed
pleasant little amount OF pin-money
upon his daughter, Miss Jennie Flood:
he has registered 81 800. 600 In UaIted
states bonds In her name. This gift
provides for her an income Of 100000
year.
Joseph Brandt, the famous chief OF
the MObawks, the haIf-breed savage
who led the Six Nations as British al
Hes In the Revolutionary War, is TO
have monument costing $50 900 erect
ed TO his memory In Brantford, Canada,
where he died I'm 1917.
-lHe TOTAL value OF the imports fOg
the fiscal year Of 1870 amounted to
$4GG, ,073,775, of which $314,1l 1862 were
imported into New York. Tire total
domestic exports for the same period
amounted 10 $717003,777, of which
s33S S,Sl75iG we're exported from New
York.
--Ilat-making was first begun i'm
Danbury, Conn, In 1880, the factory
there employing three workmen and
turning out three hats a day. There
are now employed 800 persons, and
they make H. 400 hats a day. The ray
roll Is $23 900 each week. Ia 1880 IL
was under $50 week.
The Now-YOrk Methodist Book
Concern has net capital Of 81 ,080 .b69.
The net profit for the year were ST.
loo. The sales Of publications amount
ed 10 SS25,63l, against 1912 ,726 the
previous year. The Western Book
Concern, at Cincinnati, has a net capt.
tai Of S46i17S, the profits tor the year
being S27, ,807. The sales fell OF SS5, ,S73
from the previous year.
The production Of beet root sugar
In Europe, according to the statistics
furnished bY Herr LIGHT Of Magdeburg
was $3.50, 900 tons for 1870, against l :
574 l5f tons 1873 This amount L. d.
vidcd rs fellows among the various
States of Eurof,n Ccrparv lfO OO0