Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-02-28

MAssACHUsEFTs "A bill has pa ssed
both Houses Of the Legislature repeating
the law against intermaTTigss between the
black and white races. The vote in the
House stood, yeas 1872, nays el16, ab.
sent So.
The Senate haVe passed bill to re.
peal the lRsOlVent Law-the repeal to
take effect on the lst Of December
next.
A Fitting Praysr.-A Clergyman re-
Gently after exhOusting all his zeal an d
elOquence upon his auditory and finding
them still cOntiDuingobdurate, concluded
his prayer as follows:
"And o Lord make the hearts of these
sinners as soft as their heSds."
A LARGE EsTATE.-We understand
that the estate Ofthe late EImore Will.
aims, Of this city, is estimated al about
half a million Of dollars, and it yields the
income Of that sum. 1t is also, we be,
lieve, totally without debt. This large
property is the accumulation OfOne life
in the city Of Cincinnati, without specu-
latiOn or mercantile operations of any
kind.-CiB. ChrOH.
MOLES.
A farmer of this neighborhood tells US
that mOles always work about 9 o'clock
in the morning, and 3 o'clock in the e.
vening, and he says that by watching
their haunts at these hours they may cas-
ay be taken BY mean 'ofa hoe 10 dig
them out. Ae says that last spring he
caught thus, in two days, over forty moleS
in one Of his cornfelds.-ErchGnge pa
per.
ExcHANGEs.-N is now eight years
since the government, directly or indi.
rectly, has had any thing to do with reg.
Olating the exchanges. The result Is,
that during the past year, on all specie
paying points, exchange has been lower,
more regular, and more easy to be OBJ
tanned than ever before, even under the
best days Of the late national bank.
A Wholesale VILLAIN.-At the court
of Assizes, held-at Montpelier, France,
recently, a man named Pomarede,
after trial which lasted thirte en- days,
was found guilty by the jury of arson,
nineteen highway robberies, two actual
murders, and FIVE attempts to commit
murder.
Rather Equivocal.--'I don't say as
how master drinks, but l do know that
the demijohn in the dark closet don't
keep full all the time"
WATER BURNINa.-Mr Ellis stated at
a Lyceum Lecture in Boston, a few days
ago, that the greatest discoveries Of fu.
ture ages would probably be made by el-
ectro-magnetism--nOt animal magnetism
that water could be separated into its
component gases and burned to light our
houses and cook our food, and then re.
combined and forced into water again.
Itappears from statistics recently pub
lished, that about twenty thousand mem.
bers we're added TO the Baptist, Method.
ist, Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches
in Virginia, during the year 1912.
trMR. CLAY ran some risks OH his
passage to Mobile, which city he reach.
cd IN safety on the Sd inst. He return.
ed TO New Orleans on the 7th, and after
! stay ofa few days will depart for home.
SITE FOR THE WESTERN ARMO-
RY.
{. The President sent to the House on
the 9Th the Report of the commissioners
appointed to select site for the Western
ArmOry.. The correspondent Of the N.
York Herald says;
Although,the report was not read,
can tell you that the commissioners have
decided on Fort Massac. or MassiCk, in
Illinois on the Ohio River for the site Of
the Great Western ArmOTy. 1t is 20 or
80 miles below ShswneetOwn, and about
12 or Is miles below the Tennessee Riv>
or.
UASS AND WEBSTER.
The Philadelphia Spirit Of the Times
says:
SVU AL.AI