The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-06-12
DR.. Hale, Of Rock county, Wisconsin

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has inst had damages to the amount Of
$780, SO inflicted on him for kissing the
wife of Mr.. Ravens, of the same county.
Kissing would@seem to be expensive in
that county.
A married lady in Merser, Pa, tied her
feet together and pitched into a cistern.
General Arson J. McCook has been
confirmed Revenue Assessor for the Sew
enth District of Ohio.
There is said to be a project on foot
among the Israelites to build a magnif.
cent Jewish theological college in the
United States.
Fort Erie, Canada, is a ruined wooden
work, thrown up by the British during
the War of 1872.
The revenue receipts last week amour
ted to upward Of 81, 600, 900.
st. Louis has taken a fresh start since
the war closed, and shot far ahead of its
rival, Chicago. 1t now claims 100000
inhabitants.
The Lynchburgh district Of Virginia
has already paid about $500, 900 in taxes
of all descriptions to the United States
government. By the 1st of June the tax
es will amount to 100000 or more.
A capitation tax o $1,50 was recently
assessed on each male in Bedford County,
Va, over the age of sixteen, to meet the
county expenses.
Thomas M. Drake, Of Parkersburg,
dropped dead on last Saturday week, at
the Spencer House in that city.
A few days since a man named Solo
mon Cisco, nearly seventy years of age,
was found dead on Brooklyn Mountain,
near Lake Hopatcong, in Byran Town
ship, N. j.. He was found in a sitting
posture between two rocks. It is sup
posed that he fell from a ledge above and
afterward crawled to where he was found,
when, becoming wedgedf fast, he died from
exposure. He was a wood chopper, and
had a cabin near by, to which he had
started. to go, but probably missed his
way in the darkness.
The American Screw Company at
Providence, with a capital of $1,000. 900
is reported to have divided 81, 600, 900
among its stock holders in 1864, and ST.
200, 600 in 1866,
There is a negro in Philadelphia whose
feet measures twenty-on inches in length.
1t is supposed that they will be used as
the next Republican platform.
Macmillan and his empire are in a bad
way. His European hackers are likely
to have employment at home for all their
time and resources, and this contingency
will leave him no other course than to
abdicate and leave.
johnson Clubs are being formed in the
State of Missouri. The abolition RAIDS
don't like it.
Early in the late Civil War, when the
report was circulated throughout the
country that slaves in Eastern Maryland
had risen in instruction, there were Rad
icals who rejoiced thereat.
Four maiden sisters, whose united ages
amounted to 313 years, averaging 783
dwell in the house of their nativity at
Marlboro, Mass.
Alittle boy ten years of age, in Ere
mont County, Iowa, poisoned, the other
day, his younger sister, in the mothers
absence. He said he did it to keep her
quiet.
Wolves are so numerous and vorac-
ious in the northern part of Fremont,
Iowa, that a heavy bounty has been
offered by the residents for their destruc-
ton.
Before the war, and under Democratic
policy, cotton was about eight or ten
cents a pound. It is now proposed by
the radical politicians in Congress. to
make the Northern farmer, laborer and
mechanic pay six cents pound duty alone
to the Government on all that they use.
In other words, the tax upon the North
is to be nearly equal to the old Democratic
price.
So popular is General Ben LeFever,
that Republican journals insist that some
popular military officer must be nomi-
nate in opposition to him to insure sue
cess.
Wyman's Hall, in st. Louis, has been
destroyed by fire; loss S15O,000. There
was a, fire in Memphis, on Thursday,
which involved a loss of $50, 600.
Friends Of JEFF. Davis at Washington
are sauguine that he will be rele ased on
parole or bail. 5sa.aa
Fireman &C., warehouse in s. Louis,
was burned on Wednesday, Loss $780,
900.
Horrible Tragedy-A Father and