The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-03-20

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Rev. j. D. Fitzgerald, of Bellair, Ohio,
has accepted a call to the pastorship of
the Presbyterian Church at Cumberland,
Nd.
There are tw. hundred and twenty
newspapers printed and published in the
State of Ohio-two hundred weekly and
twenty daily.
1t is intimatedthat as Archbishop Pur.
cell is the senior Archbishop in. the
United States, that he will be chosen a
Cardinal at the mex. meeting of the Con-
sistory in Rome.
A Cashmere Goat Company has been
organized in Guernsey county, Ohio.
Ten thousand dollars has been subscribed,
and stock has been brought from Gala
tin, Tennessee.
An answer to a dispatch sent from
Conneaut, Ohio, to Petaluma, Sonoma
county. California, was promptly received
the same day.
A firm in New Orleans has orders for
one thousand plows from a single county
in Texas.
At the November term, last year. of
the Cleveland Common Pleas, thirty-nine
criminals we're sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary, and at the recent February term,
thirteen, making ifty.two in about three
months.
At Chicago, on Wednesday of last
week, Ann Kreamer was shot by her hus-
band. The ball entered her hip, passed
round her body, and lodged in the spine.
Macmillan keeps 1000 men at work
on the railroad from Mexico to Vera Cruz.
We impor. nearly a million dollars
worth of cigars a week; these, we suppose,
are mostly of the best Havana. This i'm
port is occasioned by the internal tax,
which is greater than the duty on the for
cigu article.
According to the New York World the
Fenian recruiting in that city goes on with
great rapidity, and it further says that
General Sweeney calculates he will have
25, 200 men from that city alone, who
have seen service.
According to the Worlds Albany cor
respondent, uniforms for $780, 900 men
and 10000 rifles Of the most approved
pattern have been transported in the last
few days to New York City. Arms in
abundance are said to be deposited in De-
@troit, Buffalo, Ogdensburg, P~lattsburg
and Montpelier.
The Charleston Courier says that there
is not the least cause for apprehension
about the crops either in Georgia OF
North Carolina.
Mr.. Peterson, the gentleman in Wash
ington to whose House President Lin.
coin was taken soon after the assassina-
ton, has received from the Government
1928 for damage done to his furniture on
that occasion. from the crowds who came
in to see the dying President. The bill
is probably all right, but the radical jour
nails, from ONE cause, seem to think ht
ought to have donated it for the honor o.
having the President die in his house.
We don't think the honor would pay FOL
the damage done to the carpetsl
1t is claimed that the murderer of th,
two children in the woods near Boston,il
June, 1865, has been discovered. He il
a convict in the State prison, having beer
sent there from Worcester County foI
burglary shortly after the murder.
A female teacher in Belfast. Maine, hal
just recovered $271 from physician there
who charged her in one of the newspa.
pers with having EXPRESSED JOY at the
death of President Lincoln, thereby de
priving her of her pupils.
The next Ohio State Fair will be held
in Dayton, commencing on the 18th Of
next September.
The orange and jessamine trees in the
vicinity of Mobile, Alabama, were killed
and the fig crop destroyed, by a freeze
last week.
The Commercials special says: Presi
dent johnson has determined to have
40, 900 colored troops, now stationed a
the South, mustered out within the com
ing month. a@
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