The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-11-27

TO the rank OF near hulnlIaij w u"'0
from October 10.
Ex Confederate Senator, Oldham, of
Texas, is at Cordova, Mexico, making
photographs fer a living.
A circus equestrienne has sued Chi
cago horse dealer. for $1,000 damages for
selling her vicious horse under repre-
sensations that he was gentle and doclle.
Great quantities Of war material con-
tinue to arrive,at Montreal and are now
being landed. The wharyes are covered
with carriages, brass cannon, &c.
A man in Fredericksburg who had
been great sufferer from rheumatism
was recently struck and stunned by light
ming. It has entirely cured his rheum-
atism.
The ChicagoiRepublican, after calling
President johnson traitor, says that
"Gen. Sherman is far more dangerous
man than the President.
The remains of complete skeleton of
a mastodon havesbeen found at Cohoes,
New York, and Agassiz is soon to pro-
nounce upon them. The dis covery Gre
ates greatinterest among scientifc'men in
the neighborhood.i
Mrs. Ford, Of Monroe County, Ken
tucky, gave birth a. few days since to
three children, all boys, weighing q
pounds each. Allare living and healthy.
Names-George D. Prentice, Robert E.
Lee, and Jefferson Davis.
All the houses of doubtful freputation
in Chicago have been indicted by the
Grand Jury. On the other hand, bur
glars are doing thriving business in that
city, and thus far they have succe eded in
escaping the vigilance of the police.
Wendell Philips says he was welded
to truth and philanthropy when boy
He must have become widower when
quite young.
With utter contempt for the ruling
high prices of calico and cradles, two
editors of the Tuscarawas, Ohio, Advo-
cate, committed matrimony on the same
day, last week.
. Gen. Butler, in his speech at st. Lou
is, said that there was nothing left of
the democracy but the camp kettles. =
No doubt he would like to steal them.
Soldiers who have bounty due them
should remember that three months have
elapsed Of the six months which were al
lowed them for filing their applications.
Those who have not presented their
claims should do SO Immediately.
The Belgium Catholics have given two
thousand needle guns to the Pope.
An unknown person in Massachusetts,
has given 500 to the Warden of the Mas
sachusetts States Prison to procure a
ssgood roast dinner" for all the prisoners
on the first of January.
! The Masonic demonstration in Balti-
more, last week, was very imposing
President johnson, in full regalia, re-
4 viewed the procession from GoyernoZ
i Swann's resi- dence.
j The Eaton (Ohio) Register describes q
singular and fatal accident, which occur
red in that place. Lucy G. Stephens, a
daughter of Jno. W. Stephens, fell while
carrying glass lamp, which was broken
By her fall. A fragment struck her neck
severing the carotid artery and jugulal
vein, and the poor girl soon bled to death
j General Rosser, of Confederate cayal
lry notoriety, has gone into commission
house in New York city.
! It is claimed that an antidote has been
found for all the ills of the potato, which
| is simply drying them and keeping then
} dry. Potatoe dealers and consumer:
should try the drying remedy.
:. John Bright says that half the land il
England is in the possession of fewcl
than one hundred and fifty men. Scot
land is in. the possession of not more
than ten or twelve men, and the monop
oily of land in the United Kingdom il
growing closer daily
Tho Jauitor of the Brown county O.
Court House, who was shot by the. bur
glars who blew open the safe of tn
treasury Of that county, has since died o
his wound.
a Tt is announced in a foreign journa
: that the largest Sunday school in tn
Y World is at Stockport, near Manchester
!. England. 1t was first formed in 1884
0 and now consists of 5000 scholars ant
!. over 800 teachers. Besides instruction
;. in the Holy Scriptures, writing and othe
e elementary studies are taught.
: In Great Britain there are 150, 900 En-
e glish and 100000 Scotch Masons. Ire
land has $4,000; in all the World ther
s are million and quarter.
There have beer four thousand case
J. and one thousand seven hundred death
! from cholera thus far in Cincinnati.
e On the first inst, German name
s Schwartz committed suicide at Hillsbol
!, ough, Ohio, by placing the muzzle of
d musket in his mouth and touching off tn
trigger with the foot. The ball passe
If through his head, scattering his brain
% on the ceiling of the room. No cause
!. assigned for the rash act. Schwartz ha
v been through the Sherman campaign
v and killed himself with the musket b
had SO honorably born"
The cholera has appeared in the o
v regions of West Virginia, and at som
4 places is raging with unusual fatality. A
Enton's Tunnel, small station on tn
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, fifteen mile