The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15
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from the Government, for transporting
and supplies from March, 1862, to
1865, the sun Of 1852, 156.
A dog was blown by the recent tornado!
entirely across the Mississippi.
In about three weeks the Treasury will
pay the bounty recently awarded to the
officers and men Of the feet that parties
pated in the conflict of the 7th of June,
1862, which resulted in the capture of
Memphis.
Miss Braddon. the sensation novelist,
is to edit a new London magazine.
There are seventeen manufactures Of.
paper collars in New England, and each
girl makes seventeen hundred of them
daily.
1t costs half a million dollars a year to
keep St. Peters church, at Rome, in re-
pair.
A squadron of So vessels and 6S6 guns
is to be sent to the Indian Ocean. An
comprising 36 vessels and 1872
guns, will be sent to the South Pacific.
A dreadful tornado passed through
Polk, Paulding and Barton counties, Ca,
the first part of last week. In
Barton county a woman and two children
were killed by the blowing down of the
house in. which they stopped. Several
other dwellings were Frustrated. Sta
bles were swept away and horses killed
by the fury of the tornado.
Andrew Johnson says ''the restoration
of the Union is the first business in or
The radicals say they will see
about it in 1870. We think the people
are with the President. Let those who
after us take care of themselves we
will finish up the business of restoring
the Union.
The Governor of Georgia has received
from the Ladies Southern Relief Society,
of Baltimore, two hundred barrels, con
-four, neal aud bacon, for distri-
button among the truly poor suffering
white people, especially the and
children. To effect this distribution he
has also received the sun of two thousand
dollars.
A few days ago, DR.. Morse accidental
ly discharged the contents of his gun into
the bowels of Thomas Grimes, killing
him almost instantly. They were out
hunting, and lived in Pennington,
Illinois.
"One good turn deserves another"
The Rump conferred the special privilege
of "civil rights" upon the negroes, and,
to be even with them, the darkies return
ed them one of their peculiar institutions
smallpox. Senator Fessenden and
several others are down with it. The
disease is prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent in the negro quarters of Washing
ton.
On the night of the Sd inst, a grand
ball was given in Memphis, Tenn, to
raise funds to assist in purchasing limbs
for limbless Confederate soldiers. Over
S., 900 we're realized.
Some of the Bostonians are trying to
the cholera by rushing into and
.crowding the suburban towns and villa
ges. Every thing in the shape of a dwell
ling house for a radius of twenty miles
around Boston has been rented for the
and as high as two hundred and
fifty dollars per month is paid for a fur
house of ordinary size from May
until September.
The Nova Scotia Legislature has voted
$4,000 to the widow of DIR. Slayter, who
died by cholera while employed in atten-
ding on the England's passengers.
The ladies of Columbus, Miss, recent
~ decorated the graves of the Confeder.
ate dead buried in the cemetery at that
city, and they paid the same respect to
some forty Federal soldiers near by. The
press of hat city applaud the act. Does
it not appeal to our generosity and hu-
1t is announced that at the late election
in GAINESVILLE, Wis, which State has re-
recently enacted universal suffrage, a rad
ical republican was run for the Office of
constable against a black man, and the
black mar elected by a large majority
The successful candidate intends to quail.
and perform the duties of his Office.
A bill to protect every Federal officer
who, by authority, made arbitrary arrests
the war, against punishment, has
both Houses OF Congress, and now
awaits the Presidents approval.
A Georgia newspaper predicts the best
crop of wheat in that State this season
that has been made in ten years.
A very respectable woman of Union
City, Ind, who has been a very strong
in her feelings, came to the
polls and offered to vote, which, Of course,
was refused, when she replied, very in
dignantly: "Just as 1 thought-niggers
before women"
A gentleman who has been through
Northwestern Ohio and in Southern and
Eastern Michigan writes the Ohio Far
.er, that wheat fields that ten days before
about dead, are o quite green
and promise a fair crop.
Quite an extensive business is being
done in smuggling whisky to the United
States under the name Of essence Of
cayenne, ginger, or other drugs,the spirit
being colored aud slightly scented with
the drug for which it is to pass, in order
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