The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-22
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ljail in New Orleans, charged with swim
ding, and he has for company a large
number Of cotton agents who are held by
military authority.
A grand Catholic Church is soon to be
built at Columbus. The cost is estima-
ted at one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
A Miss Stebbins, ofChickasaw county,
Iowa. has received an appointment as nota-
ry public for that county. She is the
FIRST female ever having received such a
commission, and is represented as emf
nently competent.
One of the District Assessors in Pitts
burgh. appointed by the President, voted
for George B. Mcclellan for President.
"Oh! Moses"
The Worlds special says: Every means
which may be consistent with the welfare
of the country will be used to reduce the
number of volunteers yet in service.
A Republican johnson Convention will
meet in Pittsburg in July, to nominate a
third candidate for Governor of Pennsyl-l
vania. The Republican State Conyention
of Iowa will meet on the 10th ofJune.
The late..Sylvanus Packard, of Boston,
bequeathed Tufts College, Massachusetts,.
the sum of $3.50, 600.
Generals Burnside and Hawley the re-
Gently elected Governors of Rhode Island
and Connecticut, were both ~inaugurated
last week. Gov. Hawley, in his inaugur-
al. suggested that the question of negro
suffrage be again submitted to the voters
of Connecticut.
A criminal, in Jail at Ravenna, Ohio,
became unmanagable recently, and was
only pinloned after he had been reduced to
Inconsistencies by the injection of two
pounds Of chloroform into his cell.
On Sabbath Of last week, there were five
persons 1.-TWO women and three mem bap-
tised into the Dunkard Church near Belle
fontaine. So says the Gazette.
The wealthiest congregation in New
York city, perhaps in the whole country,
is that of the Ascension (EpiscopaD in
. the Fifth Avenue. Their aggregate in
!, comes last year are shown by the official
r returns to have been nearly $18, 000, 900.
About COO. 600 bushels of grain were
received at Buffalo on the 10th.
A young man in London recently died
from the effects of looking at a glittering
water snake, which he said was very pref
ty, Of all manner of %colors." Bladders of
blood an inch long appeared on his eye
f lids, and in a short time his eyes became
a black. jelly-like mass.
Hall. in his Journal of Health, says
' that a pound of fine -four or Indian meal
I contains three times as much meat as one
pound of butcher roast beef.
The public debt Of the United States on
the 1stinstant was So, $50, $50. 842,
; James P. Lane, editor of the Lafayette
e Qndiana) Journal, a radical, has been
removed from the Postmastership of that
city. The radical postmaster at Taun
ton, Mass, has also been removed.
A fire at Grand Rapids Michigan. May
Cd. destroyed property to the estimated
value of 500 600. Five thousand acres
of the Woodstock and Catskiil mountains
were burned over last Sunday.
t On the 9th ult.. a torpedo exploded
at Sullivan's Island, in Charleston har-
! Dor, throwing up an immense quantity of
water. 1t had been sunk over three
years.
Geo. Metz. who was a soldier in the
10Th Indiana regiment, killed a negro at
Franklin, Tenn last week. for Insulting
! his wife. Metz, after an examination be-
fore a Magistrate, was released.
The widow Of Joseph Smith is still in
/ Nauvoo, I'll and still believes in Nor
monism, although she has been remarked
to a GENTLE.
Gen. Frank Blair. it is said. will be
t the next Conservative candidate for Gov
ernor of Missouri.
9 1t is proposed to establish three nation
e al cemeteries in Georgia for the proper
interment of 10000 Union soldiers buried
in that State.
: General Ewell is quietly farming in
Tennessee.
!, Belgium proposes to punish by impri-
sonment all persons convicted Of cock
fighting.
A contemporary wants to know when
Congress will be kind enough to begin
ito do its duty"
: The cornerstone of the monument to
be erected over the grave of Stephen A.
Douglas, will be erected some time dur
ing the month Of May or June.
The U. s. Court at New Orleans is
closed, and Judge Darall says he will
keep it closed while "bayonets bristle
about it."
A Gentle in Salt Lake City married a
woman who was claimed as one Of the
I wives ola Mormon leader. She. fearing
to lose her children, brought the case
} before the United States Courts The
case vas postponed, aud in the meantime
her new husband was assassinated.
Through all the northwest and central
parts of Missouri, labor is said to be plen-
'fty.. Former slaves are working with
a good viii and at fair wages.
!, The term of the County Court Of Trem-
bleau, Wis, has been postponed Z weeks,
in consequence of the ravages or the