The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-11-27
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The Pittsburg Republic says: A single
tow IF coal recently sent from Louisville
to New Orleans by Pittsburg firm, cou-
tanned 325 900 bushels. or three aud a
quarter acres as it lay in its original bed
This was the largest shipment of coal
ever made by a single tow-bOat.!
If you want to find; man who said,
while the country was yet at peace, that
the Constitution was ''league with hell
and covenant with death, go to the
radical party.
The shoe business in Lynn, Mass, is
unusually dull, even for the season of the
year, and it is said that several thousand
workmen have already left the city for
their homes, and others, 1t is believed,
will soon follow them. Many Of the work
men reside In distant parts of the State,
some in New Hampshire and Maine, and
others in Canada. 1t is estimated that
nearly or quite one-half of the citizens
of Lynn engaged in, this business are out
of work at this time Better times are
looked for at the close of the month.
The Indians on the Plains have taken
5000 white scalps this season.
The people of Massachusetts, have
elect ed Ben. Butler to Congress to pre-
vent his stealing the communion service
plate from their churches. Old cock-eye
will engage himself principally during
the fortieth Congress, keeping his fin
gers out of John Morrissey's pockets.
1t took twenty six men six days TO
count the amount of the war indemnity
Austria paid Prussia.
The Democracy of the whole country,
are three millions and half of voters,
against two and half millions of mon.
grels. This is "Grand Army of the
Republic, and abolitionists who favor
the next war should notice the fact with
some care.
A steam saw mill company of WiscoD-
sin own 5000 acres of land in the vi
cinity of their mills.
Cuba has purchased two monitors of
the United State for 81, 100000.
Mr.. John Hopkins, the richest man in
Baltimore, purposes to give his suburban
seat of six hundred acres to the city for
a public park.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Our
business men are looking for a panic
soon. Several large dry goods houses
are reported just hanging by the eyelids
The decline in the prices of imported
goods and provisions continues, and
threatens disastrous effects to the spccu-
lators. e
The rate of interest in the Bank ot
England has fallen to four per cent
The bank has largely increased its amount
of gold.
Dutch Gap Canal, cut by Butler te
subdue Richmond, but which proved, &
failure as piece of military ingenuity
| is now made quite useful for sail vessel:
and steam tugs.
j The President has appointed VIM. R
Smith Postmaster at Portsmouth, o., ant
R. B. Sphinx, Postmaster at Wooster, 0
| Mr.. Jacob Fehl, of Conestoga Town
ship, Lancaster County,! Pennsylvania,
raised or his farm this year a pumpkin
which measures seven feet four inches il
circumference, and weighs enc hundred
and seventy pounds aud four ounces
The same vine which produced this mon
star bore six more pumpkins, two weigh
ing together over two hundred pounds
one one hundred and twenty EIGHT, an
other one hundred and twenty eight, ant
tn e remainder little less than one hun
dred pounds each.
The difference between German an,
an English mile is described by write
in London journal. A German mile
he says, is equal to four and three-eighth
English miles, and it takes about twent
English square milesto make Germa
square mile.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut ha
: recently adjudicated a case, which ha
) some peculiar features. Mr.. and Mrs
: Enson, husband and wife, were killed i
/; a railroad accident at Beflin-Mrs. En-
son surviving her husband but a fe
!, hours, The heirs of both sued the CON
: pany, and in each case received $500
! damages. The question just decided wa
3 whether the damages, in the case Of NJ
t Enson, should 60 to his heirs or to thos
: Eof his wife. The Supreme Court deci
S ded that the latter must have the entil
. $4,000.
Edward S. Dana, Of Vermont, b;
been appointed Assistant Clerk of tn
United States House of Representative
There are now 13 steam packet CON
E panies running steamers between EuroI
: and the United States. These steamer
/. make about 420 round trips every yea
t and the gross annual revenue they yiel
t is about four million sterlings.
The report of the Commissioner
/. Pensions will show that there is but OF
! Revolutionary pensioner living, namely
9 Samuel Dunn, who enlisted from Ne
Hampshire, and now resides in Ne
York.
Three prisoners who were chained tc
gether on Mississippi steamboat, b
f common consent jumped overheard an
!. were drowned.
t A Chicago dispatch says: ga distruc
: i've fire visited this city last week, resu
ting in the burning of nine stores o
: South Water street. near Market, wit
] their contents, entailing loss of $500