The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-10-30
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The Sentinel says that 20 white girl
about twenty three years of age, resi-
dent of Hooking county, and respectfully
connected, applied at the Probate Court"
on the 18th for license to marry black
Negro, boss barber in Logan. The
license was refused.
A Detroit lady was recently scalded to
death by the explosion Of can of. toma-
toes.
Radicals are inaugurating bitter war
of words against Gen. Grant.
The COTE crop in Costa Rica promis-
es remarkably well. Prices have already
fuctuated under the influence of parties
advancing funds on the next harvest
The same may be said of Indigo and
Cochineal throughout Central America.
Prices have fallen considerably in conse-
quence Of the fine prospects.
For the last six months the number of
persons found drowned IN New York is
169.
Governor Cummings telegraphs from
Colorado that promising agencies are at
work to prevent a general Indian war.
To Montreal the Hudson Bay Compa-
ny have sent this season 16,400 bales of
buffalo robes.
W. H. P. Denny has sold the Circle
vile (0hio.) Union, after thirty. tour
years continuous editorial service. He
states, in his valedictory, that, during
this period, he wrote not less than 5000
columns, and all for victuals and clothes.
The question is to be tested in New
York City, whether Negro cannot vote
under the Civil Rights bill.
The total vote of Philadelphia on the
9th, was 1o0,693, indicating population
of 100000.
The wife of well known lawyer in
New York City eloped, recently, with a
physician, and carried with her $4,000
in United States bonds, belonging to her
husband. They are supposed to have
gone to Europe.
Nearly three hundred souls are suppo-
sed to have been lost on the steamship
Evening Star.
The revenue of English railways is
$50, ,o0O, ,00o-and of the London omni-
buses $2,5OO,OOO.
The pauper burial expenses of Nash.
vile for the past three months were s3,-
606,50.
An orphan boot black in Little Rock,
Ark, was lately made the heir of $50,
900.
The famine in India continues, and
the people there are dying by the thou
sands daily of starvation.
The Louisville Journal makes good
point when it tells the people of the South
that their condition is better than that oi
the North; for it is better to be unrepre.
sented in congress than misrepresented
by the men the Radicals send there.
! Missouri, Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee pay tax on tobacco of $19,.
Oo0,O0o.
! A Tennessee Radical killed his dog
for barking at "Old Brownlow." The
dog would have died anyhow.
! A publishing house in Chicago has is
sued 100000 almanacs for the coming
year, at cost of $4,000.
The tanners in Bewdley, Eng, have
been fined for turning a white liquid in
to the river Severn, whereby one hun
dred thousand Of the fish were destroy
ed.
Some Virginia tobacco has just beer
sold for 500 per hundred.
In the blast furnaces and rolling mill
OF Englantl theworkmen have lost e150,
600 in wages by their strikes.
A horse thief, arrested at Eddyville
Iowa, recently, took strychnine while il
the officers hands, and died immediate
ly.
A safe in the Office of Adams Express
at Ilion, N. Y, has been broken opei
and robbed of s41oO in stamps and cur
rency.
There are $4,000 idle negroes in tn
city of Washington, who have neithe
means nor disposition to obtain an homes
living. The Tribune asks Nothern farm
ers to give them employment Mr.. Web
ster once told distinguished Senator
i, that he smust skin his own skunks."
The average daily earnings of the At
lantlc Cable, to Sept. 2lst, were eS37.
Poor men are net allowed to work i
) the Harrisburg car-factory unless the.
vote for negro suffrage.
,, Large numbers Of emigrants pas
!. through Cleveland, O., daily, for tn
. Western Plains.
0 A Radical editor says che can bea
: with resignation any dispensation 6
0 Providence that will remove Presider
c Johnson
r Cholera, of a very malignant type, is a
}, Holyoke, Mass.
A child was run over by a street car
: in Chicago, the other day, and its hea
cut off.
|. General Howard has ordered the restt
). ration of the property of JOSEPH. E. Di
r, Wis, brother of Jefferson Davis, he havir
been pardoned some time since. Tn