West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-05-08
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

been discovered near Tallodega. Ala.
} Senator Thurman Is limited to two
cigars day since his recent Illness.
Napoleon | was proclaimed En-
peror of the French nation, A. ID. 1904,
Major Reno's dismissal from the
army has been approved by the Cabinet.
Nova Scotia Provincial estimates.
79S.
-Jullas Caesar was assassinated by
Brutus at Rome a. years before Christ's
time.
"A boy In Kenny county, Texas,
has killed forty-three bears the past
winter.
The first gold mine IN the United
states was discovered In South Carolina
In 1900.
Franco In 1879 had 9s6 900 births.
OF which $1,000 or about one In 10 were
tllegitimato.
Dan OLeary. tho pedestrian, IL
now worth 100000. He earned IL all
with his lego.
1t is said that there will be moro
sugar cane planted in Alabama In 1880
than ever before.
-Galileo was tho fret to observe and
comment upon the fact of Ice being
lighter than water.
LOUIS Philippe's abdIcatIon took
place In tho year lsiS, the royal family
escaping to England.
Tho late Leonard Case, of Cleye-
land, left for u school of applied science.
property valued at 81 100000.
-Sllk-worm culture Is some of tho
parishes of louisiana IL success full. 1t
promises To be II prominent business.
The city of Ottowa, Canada, still
complains of hard times. There are
SAID To be 700 vacant tcnements there.
There are .4s7 licensed places
whore liquor Is sold In Buffalo, and
723 saloons whore nothing but liquor IL
sold.
Georgia has 2I3,l6 spindles run
ming In her cotton mills, OF which 4,-
02b are at Columbus, aud "a, ,4ls at Au-
gusta.
There are nineteen bachelor farm
ers In Walnut township, Pike county.
Iowa, who are farming and doing their
own cooking.
-Forty-two thousand acres of min
eral land In Scott county, Va, have
been purchased by a company of North
ern capitalists.
The National Conference OF Char
tiles VIII meet la Cleveland, Ohio, on
Tuesday, June goth, and continue In
session iCf,r daYo.
The American Social Science Asso-
citation will hold It's general meeting In
Saratoga from the 7th to the llth Of
September next.
The total population OF Greece Ia
$4,000 souls, against ,457 900 In 1870.
| Ine lncrense per annum has according
ly been go per cent.
--IIoratlo G. King, of New York, will
deliver the alumni Grafton during Com
mencement w0ek at Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa, In June.
The number OF fires causIng n loss
OF 800 and upward In 1875 was 1901.
In 1879 IL was 2.8I0, an average OF
about one flie every forty minutes.
Mr.. Jay Gould has purchased tho
magnificent white marble mansion Of
the George Merritt estate, short dis
lance south of Tarrytown, N. Y, for
! $275,0
Mr.. Parnell bOasted at his late
Cork meeting that he was the only for
| eigner who had ever been allowed to
address the American House of Repre-
sentatiyes.
| Two men In Altoona. Pa, claim TO
have found an abandoned gold mine In
the mountains along Mill Run. Copper
picks and other copper tools were found
| ia the mine.
The rumor that tho Empress Eu-
genie has made Prince Victor her heir
rs untrue. Her Majesty's heir Is the
Due d'Albe, her nephew, the son OF her
only sister.
From his Investment Of $31 900, 600
IN four per cent. bonds Mr.. Vanderbilt
derives an Income Of four cents sec
ond, s2.4O minute, $l14 an hour and
50, ,456 day.
The heaviest eighteen
| bullock, Of which there Is any record,
showed live weight of 800 pounds.
and yielded, when slaughtered, ol6
pounds of beef.
! reducing all the milk and cheese
sold together with butter TO a butter
standard, the average product Of all the
COWS In the country Is less than 70E
pounds per COW.
During 1879 twenty new asteroids
were discovered, as against twelve ia
/ 1873, so that there Is not the slightest
encouragement TO hope that we are
coming TO the end Of the list.
The statisticans estimate that tho
/ population OF tile country as shown by
the coming census will be between Az
OOU, 900 aud $4,000, 900, or gain OF g.
OOO,OO0 ln the last ten years.
Columbus, s. c., has seven print
| ing Offices, giving employment to four
| ty-twO jOurneymen printers, besides
the usual number OF apprentices. There
Is also boOk-DlnderY In the city.
Remaining on the fact that the
Hartford Skating Rink used over Ave
gallons Of castor oil for oiling skates the
| y lsts season, the Danbury Netos Is thank
| ful that new market for tho stun has
opened up.
The remains OF the late General
I Jefferson 9 Davis are to be finally in
TERED In Crown Hill, indianapolis,
near the grave Of Senator Morton, and
his widow intends 90 erect a suitable
monument over them.
The United States Is making more
than one-third OF all the paper in the
world. The produce is about 800
tons daily, or 6lO, 500 tons year.
/ Thtre are 927 mills, representing cap
ital Of 100000 900, employing "a, 900
persons who receive ia salaries about
SO, 800, 900.
During the year 1879 an average of
1900 letters day was received at the
/ Dead Letter Office, New England fur