West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-01-24
NEWsY NOTES.

Boston has lOl clubs
SKATING Is in full swing In Paris.
BERLIN Is 10 have rubber pavementS
OREGON apples are shipped to China.
BROOKLYN has s0036 school children.
TnE Patent Leather Trust has suspended
Is France last year 7Ol wolves were killed.
THE English cavalry are wofully short OF
borses
THERE are 5000 professional tramps in
California.
IL 1855 G22 persons died in Connecticut
from old age.
TTERE was a decline in tonnage last year
on the canals
IHE Virginia peanut crop IS almost total
failure this year,
Only eight counties in Kansas are nov
without railrOaia
THERE were eight Iyuchinpa I'm North
Caroliua last year
OvEHa million tons Of pig iron were made
IN the South IN 1888.
TnE Southern Pacific Railway earned
about $f1 ,0JO, ,OUJ last year.
The winter IA France has thus far been
the s3v rest iB Fifteen years.
NAMES maclsere catch for last year is in
me neighborhood Of 10000 pounds
You may lie incinerated in PHILADELPHIA
now-after you are dead-for eos
THERE were nearly fifteen thousand we'd.
dings IN New York city last year.
FRANCE is excited over the attitude OF tb,,
United States on the Panama Canal ques-
ton
BEFORE tho new year was fifteen minutes
OH murder was committed in New York
city
q a TOWN Of Oklahoma boomers grow from
iity Inhabitants to five thousand in sixteen
days
1HE next Legislature OF North Carolina
elect
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFrY-oNE patents
were made out At Washington ia ono day re-
Gently.
THE records OF Kansas show the amount
or land mortgages In the State 70 be S23j,
10000
The United States hog cholera commission
is travelling through tho South seeking for
information.
TnERE viii be sixteen Republican Repre-.
sentative in the next Congress from the
Southern Stltes.
NEw jersey has lG 3 public schools. EN-.
pioying 4l2i teachers nnd giving instruction
70 @154j pupils
: THE value Of the agricultural pro iucts Of
the south in ls65 was sg0OOO, OJO, against
S'iOcO4OJO in 1880
CAREFUL estmatel place the numbcr OF
people living within Ten miles on Boston
Common a. l.0JUJOl.
EASTERN markets are OyerstOcked with
nppies, and n great quantity is going 70
waste for want Of sale
Ir is deemed n fattering sign OF the times
that seats boz the NoW FORK Stock Exchange
are now held at ssi,5 800.
Sioux CITY will send n special "corn
palace train to Washington at the time Of
Harris0n's inauguration
THs Supreme Court Of Indiana has de-
cided that railroad stock Is taxable in the
county in which 10 Is held
THE bank clenrings at our thirty.aeven
large cities for twelve months Of 1888 az
grcgated about s4g, i9l OO0.O
ABOUT l5f deaths during the last four
years is the record of slaughter ct railway
grade crossings In Philadelphia
OVER as3 900 immigrants landed in New
Ork during the past year This is about
lsOuO above tho record Tor 1857
TnE prosecution Of Professor GcHcken for
publishing Che diary Of the late Emperor
Frederick Of Germany, has been abandoned.
PHLADELrHA has 81 O00 PEOPLE and
1900 houses while New York. with q G0m0
inhabitants, Is said 20 have but OIL. 90 houses
TnE four leading Edison companies are 10
consolidate into one general electric com.
pany with q capital oftWolyo millioi dollara