West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-07-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

Ink total ruin OF the whortleberry crop
an Connecticut is reported.
EHS hay fever patient is preparing him.
self for his regular summer dose
THERE was crop OF oats in 1888 in the
United States OF 571 100000 bushels.
An Indian burial ground has been dis.
covered. on the shores of Onondaga Lake.
TEXAS makes highway robbery punisha.
bie by an imprisonment Of not less than
Ten years.
SENATOR CHAFFEE has been elected Chair
man Of the Republican National Executive
Committee.
STEERAGE passage by the European
steamers has been reduced TO Sl4 and Si5
per passenger.
MISSOURI newspaper advertises that
It's town would be benefited by few first.
class cremations
THREE little boys in Kingston, Ont, were
playing burglar, and a policeman shot and
killed the youngest.
"A TROUT has just died at Hardwich. Eng.
known to have been living in well there
for the past thirty years.
FRINGE BISMARCK has distributed from his
piscicultural establishments at Friedrich
Sruhe fully 10000 young trout this season.
OUR Scotch-American millionaire, An.
drew Carnegie, Of Pittsburg, has become
the victim of the sO-called comic papers of
London.
BoSToN lady advertises for n kind
careful man TO look after the house and be
company for her dog during her summer
absence in Europe.
IHE most temperate men i'm New York.
says the mayor OF that city, are the whole.
sale liquor dealers, because they dare not
ha gftrH ~. ..lI
MRS. QUINCY SHAW, of Boston, has been
compelled to c,ose eight OF her thirty-three
kindergarten schools, through depreciation
in the value Of her mining stocks.
A NEW steel cannon, just cast in France
Ior spain, is seventeen feet long, weighs
SIX tons and throws with eighty.four
pounds of powder, 40 pound shot.
HENRY c. WORK, who died recently At
Hartford, Ct, and who was the author OF
Marching through Georgia" and other
popular songs, was printer before the
war.
CAPTAIN ROBERT ANDREWS, aged ninety.
three years, who started to walk from
sumter, =. c., TO Maine, nine weeks ago.
concluded to take the cars at Worcester.
Mass.
DURING the present session OF Congress-
the House has passed bills providing for
the forfeiture of nearly 20, 600 900 acres OF
land granted to railways.
lHE heaviest fleece so far reported was
taken from the celebrated ram "Lane -
owned by John Bell, Tekonsha, Mich. and
Is OF the almost unparalleled weight of A4l,
pounds, at 3G4 days growth.
1T is the current belief in some sections
that this country is rapidly becoming En-.
ropeanized by foreign immigration. In
point OF fact, statistics show that out of
every siKty-six immigrants thirty-four
come from Great Britain or ireland.
PERSONS interested in carp culture will
be glad TO know that gentleman i'm Vir-
ginis has been able to send by expressr
living carp Of four pounds weight, packed
IN wet moss, which arrived i'm good health
1.-THE end Of journey eight hours long.
A CORDUROY road has been discovered in
Lincolnshire, England, at a depth Of seven,
feet below the surface. 1t lies beneath a
Roman road, and is therefore much older
than 1000 years. Biologists say that its
timbers, which arc Of oak, we're laid down
10000 years ngo.
ABRAHAM LEvAN, the noted blind farmer
OF Berks County, Pennsylvania, died the
other morning, aged eighty years. He had
been blind sixty years, but he did oil kinds
OF farm work. He fed the cattle. husaed
corn' bound sbeaves OF wheat, rye and
oats, and even moved grass by the side OF
his brother, who directed his movements.
For the third time new head has lust
been put upon the figure Of Major John An
DIRE i'm the beautiful fresco upon his tomb in
Westminster Abbey. Exactly six cases OF
sacrilege have occurred at this tomb. Tho
heads Of George Washington and Of Mai !
Andre, both being prominent i'm the fresco. !
have been three times stolen respectively. |
Americans are accused OF this vandalism. |
STURGEON weighing from twenty 20 SOW /
enty pounds are caught in great numbers |
IN Lake Winnebago, Wis. Tho Lake Win. |
nebago sturgeon is highly priced among /
the lumbermen and others in the region. |
Its flesh is finer and Of better flavor than |
the saltwater surgeons The fish soils
for six cents n pound at retail Large /
quantities arc salted and smoked for use I'm /
the lumber camps.
GENERAL DI CEsNoLA's troubles are not
yet over, IL appears. The New York cor.
respondent Of the Troy Times learns that
the war will soon break out again with all
It's former violence, the next attack upou
the Cypriote explorer being based upon the
alleged discovery Of modern iewelry among
tho collection which Cesnola says he found
IN one spot under Cyprus temple cut in
solid rocks. The latest critic says that
some of this jew elry is machine made and
comes from Newark
FOURTEEN millions Of dollars were 70.
moved recently from the United Bank
building 20 the elegant new structure Of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company in Nassau
street,N. Y. First came the colored porter Of
the banking concern, carrying peck basket
In either hand. The porter was the Gus.
todian Of S3JOO,O 900. Next came the Office
boy with books and papers representing
B,OOO,O00. In tho rear was n man with a
push-wagon, on which were piled 81 f5O0,0 900.
These effects belonged 60 the late firm OF .
Grant e. Ward.
NOVEL wedding ceremony is 90 be per /
formed about the middle Of July in Texas.
The bride is n "sweet girl graduatev
graduate from Nassar and hcr intended 4
husband is a cattle herder She has
gone all the way TO Texas TO marry him.
ss he can not possibly come North Tho
ceremony will be performed in front Of /
his cabin. The whole roof Of the house
Is 60 be covered with the lovely wild