West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-03-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

we sent last year To Europe ,oOO,-
600 hides.
The katahdln iron works have
never been so busy as now.
Steam and horse railroads In this
country require 100, 900 men To labor OH
Sunday.
Ohio has school population OF
l,Oi3, $40, of whom 734 ,657 are enrolled
scholars.
"A factory in Oshkosh, Wis, cut up
100000 feet of lumber into matches
last year.
There has been no issue of silver
hve cent and copper two cent pieces
since 1872.
-Brooton, Mass, shoe shipments are
almost four times as great as they were
year ago.
The combined length OF the new
railroads projected for 1880 will be
5000 miles.
The militia forces of the United
states are put at III 900 men with
$500 officers.
Large quantities of land have been
leased In Potter county Pa, to put
down test oil wells.
The Penobscot lumbermen antici-
pate better business In the spring
than for many years past.
Mrs. Chisholm has been promoted
TO clerkship In the Treasury Depart
mcnt, with a salary of $1,000.
-Adelina Patti Is reported to have
Deen paid 81 900 night during her en-
gagement Mt Pesth; Nicolini, 5000.
The total coinage of the mints dur
Ing January reached $0,57G, 500, of
which $2.460,000 were silver dollars.
The late Mr.. Buckle determined
never to marry until he mad an income
of $4,000 n year. He never married.
The veturns by counties whore the
chief distress exists I'm Ireland show the
number of the sufferers to be 3l2, $40.
Over ! 800 persons are employed in
chair making IN Gardner, Mass, turn
Ing out over $2,000,0 900 worth annually.
The sea Is To the land, I'm round
millions of square miles, as one hun
dred and sixty to forty, or as four to
one.
The first gas ever exhibited In New
YORK was from lamp erected by the
old gas company In lS2a, In Franklin
Square.
In the Pennsylvania oil region the
past month there were $40 wells COM
pleted, giving production Of $500
barrels.
Gov. Holiday, of Virginia, has re-
fused the petition To- commit the SEN
tence OF John Il. Pomdexter to one
year In Jail.
Hill monument counts the steps-295.
The ascenslons yielded $2,SS0 In fees
during the past year.
"A sale by auction Of tract of land
nfty-one by thirty eight miles I'm area,
lh Kansas, Is TO be made to satisfy a
mortgage of 10000
Mrs. Iachariah Chandler has been
very Ill since the death of her husband,
Dut Is now recovering. Her daughter,
Mrs. Hale, is still with her.
The rolling stock of the Union Pa
cihe railroad consists OF 179 locom0-
tives, l66 passenger, baggage and sleep
ing cars, and 3,216 freight cars.
The Commissioners of Allegheny
county. Pa, have called for the pay
ment Of the money subscribed to pay
the Pennsylvania Railroad claims.
There were five Sundays in Febru-
ary, 1924, In February, 1852, and I'm
February, 1880. The next five Sunday
February will not occur until 1920.
The annual blessing of the Neva
took place ut st. Petersburg on the 18th
or January, the Emperor and his
household attending the ceremony.
-Anson ID. Stephenson, clerk In
Boston, on several occasions befriended
a young lady who has just died leaving
10 Stephenson property valued at $780,
| 600.
-One hundred and thirty Indians
were confirmed by Bishop Hare, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, during
the last year, and seventy-three Indian
adults were baptlsed.
General Robert r.. Lee has pew In
the old Christ Church In Alexandria,
Va, where Washington once wor-
shipped; and every button has been
taken from the cushions by curiosity
hunters.
The ex-Empress Eugenle's party
TO Natal, Africa, will consist Of one or
two ladies' Of her household, Sir Evelyn
and Lady Wood, Mrs. Ronald Camp.
bell, the Due de Bassa?o, and Surgeon
Major Scott.
In 1867 $4,000, 900 head OF sheep
/ produced l47, ,000,0O pounds OF wool;
In 1877 35,0O0,000 head produced 2O8,-
I 900, 900 pounds. This shows wonder
| ful Improvement in the science Of sheep
/ husbandry.
The Speaker OF the British House
/ Of Commons has $40, 900 a year, n house
i ARtAN as'Nr FffVvV VI hnOuS1t
1000 ounces Of silver plate on his cleo
\ ton, $500 for stationery each year, and
fees amounting to $4,000 year.
Chicago has eight Reformed Epls-
/ cOpal churches and ten clergymen Of
/ that denomination. Christ Church and
! 80. Paul's, the two principal parishes,
each own property worth from $40, 900
/ to 100000, and are free from debt.
There are fourteen counties I'm
| Pennsylvania free from debt. These
are Adams, Bradford, Butler, Centre,
/ Columbia, franklin, Fulton, Greene,
/ Luzerne, Mercer, Snyder, Susque-
| hanna, Washington and WestmOreland.
Less than fifty years ago one man
/ could not make over IA pins y minute
\ now he can make more than 400
/ Then one girl could stick on papers
about 10000 pins n day; now a fair
/ days work Is from S00,0 900 TO 600, 900.
The Marchese Grillon, the husband
/ Of Nine. RistOri, Is building a mansion
/ in the new aud yet incomplete part Of
/ the Via Nazionale, Rome, and recently,
\ In digging the very last spadeful, al
/ most, Of the foundations, the workmen
came upon a large deposit Of ancient
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