The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-17
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February 4,491,0 23 acres were taken up
at the Oregon City Land Office, in the
State of Oregon, for homestead actual
/ settlement, besides which a number of
cash sales were made.
Five of the Alexandra Christmas ri
o@ters, tried by court-martal, have been
sentenced to the punishment Of from five
to six months Imprisonment yin the AL
bany Penitentiary, and are on their way
there.
Coovert, convicted at Lebanon, o., of
the murder Of the Rosa family, has been
granted a new trial.
The Twelfth National Horse Show will
be held at Adrian, Michigan, from the
18th to the 23d of june. A large pre-
MUM list will be offered.
A special dispatch from st. Paul states
that there is a great freshetin the streams
of Minnesota, and an immense destruction
of property has been caused by the over
flow. The Minnesota River has risen
twenty feet and the Mississippifve feet.
The New York Tribune says that the
taxesein this country are heavier than are
or ever were borne by any other thirty
millions of people on earth. Adding our
State and municipal to our National taxes,
they amount to not a penny less than S20
each, per annum, for the whole American
people.
A number Of fairs, for the benefit Of
the widows and orphans of rebel soldiers,
will be held this spring in Missouri.
Boston sells its house offal under a CON
tract for $500 per annum; the ashes col.
lected by the city at So, 200, and the street
dirt and sweepings for $4,000,
Bituminous Coal, of which hogs will
eat from one to two pounds per day, is re-
garded by the Prairie Farmer as a sure
preventive Of hog cholera.
Lemon juice ~(gargled) is pronounced
one of the best remedies for diptheria by
a French savau. Mixed with a little
spirit and sugar it is not unpleasant to
Inc TASTE.
One hundred and fifty young men were
arrested on Sunday last in Philadelphia
for lounging on street corners aud in
front of churches.
The arrest of all the beggars and street
sweepers have been ordered in New York.
In December last $1,000 was stolen
from the Third National Bank Of Nash
vile, Tenn. The colored porter of the
bank has confessed the theft, and So, 00i
of the money recovered.
An attempt was made to burn the City
Hall at Ottawa, G. W., a few nights since,
A creyasse has occurred in the Missis-
sippi, at Baton Rouge, and it is feared
the whole country Gown to the Gulf will
be flooded.
The yellow fever is prevailing at Key
West
Eight stores in Charleston, S.. c., were
burned on Thursday. The loss is esti.
mated at 500, 600.
A series of fires in New York on the
9th, morning, destroyed property to tn,
amount of 100000. At one Of them
woman is supposed to have persisted.
There has been a battle between Indi
ans on the Colorado River, with a loss 0
26 killed and many wounded.
The U. S. Consuls at Brest and Cher
bourg, report that the cholera has disap
peared from those places.
The money claimed by P~ennsylvanii
for militia expenses in 1863 has been pait
into her treasury by the General Govern
ment.
A military board is sitting in Washing
ton, to examine models for breech- load
ing arms.
1t is estimated says the Chicago Times
that one thousand persons were killed o.
wounded by the late tornado in Pope anc
johnson Counties, in Illinois.
The Ohio Senate has passed a bill al
lowing Z per cent. interest.
The number, of emigrants arriving in
New York ip March was 31,673, an in.
crease oyer the same month of 1866, O
17,717.
Alexander H. Stephens is in Washing
ton.
Senator Seward gave a brilliant party
in honor of Madame Jaurez, wife of the
Mexican President, on the evening of the
Sd, in Washington.
The Seminoles have made atreaty with
the United States, and agreed to cede 49,
600 acres 0 ftheir territory to the ciyiliz.
ed Indians.