The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-06-05
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Many farmers have their clips for the last
three years on hand.
A correspondent of the st. Louis Re-
publican, who has travelled through the
interior counties of Missouri, predicts
that the Conservative majority at the next
election in that State will be from fifty to
sixty thousand.
A clergyman at Cleveland has made an
estimate that S21 600 are weekly expen-
ded at the drinking saloons of that city.
Thaddeus Stevens is said to be disgust
ed with the Senate because of the course
it is taking with regard to his proposed
amendment to the Constitution; and hence
the introduction of his bill abolishing
the Southern State Governments and pro-
viding for new ones based upon univer-
sal suffrage.
General Frank P. Blair is canvass
ing Missouri efectually against the Radi-
Gals.
A mud catfish weighing 1O4 pounds
was caught last Monday in the Muskin-
gum, two miles below McConnelsville.
Wheeler & Wilson are building a new
machine factory at East Bridgeport which
will be 80 feet by $40. The iron trus-
ses for the roof will cost over $50, 900;
$500, 900 brick will be used in the walls.
Mr.. j. w. Cullison Coshocton, Coun-
ty, lately sheared one Of the celebrated
Atwood sheep two years old, and the
fleece weighed 2433 pounds. At the first
shearing, last year, the fleece weighed Is
pounds.
The Telegraph of gainesville, Ohio,
represents the wheat crop,on the ridges of
that country, never looking finer than
now.
The Erie (Pa.) Dispatch, says the same
of the crop in that region.
The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald, reports
the wheat crop of this season as more
promising than any for five years past
VIM. Haley, a constable in Detroit,got
a splinter in the palm of his hand some
days ago, which produced loekjaw, from
the effects of which he died on Wednes-
day night.
General Stoneman's reporter the Mem
phis riot puts the responsibility of its
commencement on the Negro soldiers
and its aggrayation to non-soldier Negro
participants. He thinks that if the latter
had kept out Of the riot, it would have
been quolled in its incipiency.
The Ney York Tribune has the can
dor to avow that its reason for fayorlng
the Racical plan of reconstruction is that
the Southern States will lose twenty-five
votes in Congress if it is adopted.
United States Treasurer Spinner has
decided that the Federal Government is
liable for the redemption ofevery note at
its ''full nominal face value" "issued by
the Controller Of the Currency to a Ma
%tional Bank, and the Banks puts in cir
culation.
There are in Oregon ten thousand
more men than women. That's a good
place, for women to GO to who wants to
get married.
The Chicago Republican declares that
political distinction on account of color,
lis neither polite, Democratic or just"
1t will be some time before the mass of
the Whites agree to that.
A "Copperhead" nova days is a man
who supports the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States and insists the Federal Gov
eminent should be administered in ac-
cordance herewith.
Seven hundred and forty-fve dollars,
exclusive ofcosts, says the Belmont Chron-
icle, have been paid in liquor cases on in
dictments found at the last term of Court
Of Belmont county.
An old negress named "Alnt Biddy"
died at Macon, Georgia, last week aged
112 years. re
The Catholic Telegraph speaks Of the
Fenians as of a "Don Quixotte organiza-
ton" and inquiries: Glow long are the
generous hearted and patriotic Irishmen
of our country to be duped by this insane
folly.
The newly appointed Postmaster, P. w.
Lawson, at Abbeville, South Carolina, af-
ter examining the oath of Office required
to be taken by Postmasters, decides that
he can not take the oath, and says he
does not know a man in the district who
can. In a note to the Abbeville Post he
says: "You will therefore, please give
notice that neither myself nor wife will
take the oath. I will keep the Office op-
en- until a successor is appointed, and if a
suitable person can be found and can not
elsewhere procure an Office, | will fur
nish the use of mine, free of charge, as |
am anxious to contribute to the public.
convenience"
A Green County (Penn) soldier wri-
ting to his county paper says: Nov, Mr..
Editor, we shot for the Union and not for
the negro, aud we intend to vote for the
Union and not for negro. This is all |
have to say at present"
Amerchant Of Cork has brought an ac-
ton Of e1O,o6G damages against a mag
istrate for sending sixty policeman to
search his house for Fenian arms.
The Baltimore Gazette says hat in all
the indictments now prepared inthe Grim
inal court where a negro is accused of
crime, the word NEGRO" is ignored, and
the word "yeoman" inserted, precisely
as in an indictment against a white man.
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