The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-07-31
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young trout from stocking streams and
ponds, selling them at $50 per thousand.
An accomplished lady musician in
Winchester, Tennessee, hung herself last
week on account of i'll health.
Charlotte Cushman will shortly cele-
brate the Goth anniversary of her birth.
Fanny Kemble is in her 49th year. Kate
Bateman is "a years old. Julia Dean is
30. Madame Celeste is Ga. Mrs. John
Wood is &c. Julia Bennett Barrow is Il.
Adah Isaacs Menken 27. Avonia Jones
%. Kate Reynolds 27. Mrs. Vernon
is nearly 20. Mrs. j. II. Allen is %.
Madeline Henriquese is 20, and is the
youngest "leading LADY, on the stage.
Parepa is SO. Miss Hosmer is 26. Maggie
is 80.
The people of Wheeling, w. ", have
been swindeled out of several thousand
dollars by two rascals who sold them
tickets for concert which did not take
place.
A man in Lawrence, Mass, had his
legs sawed nearly in two, lengthways, by
falling upon circular saw.
The advertising receipts of the Cleye-
land CO., papers, from July, 1865, to
April, '66, are reported as follows: Lead
er, $21, 1888; Herald, So, ,SS6; Plain Dealer
S8,6S6.
1t is said that General Dix has writ
ten letter favoring the Philadelphia Ma
tional convention.
Yellow fever is reported on vessels at
the New York quarantine.
The counsel of Jefferson Davis have
ceased to apply for his parole. Davis
condition is now quite comfortable.
Three priests and two students have
been drowned by the upsetting Of a boat
in Chesapeake Bay.
Among the fnery displayed By an ar
istocrtic wedding party in Paris. lately
was a small parasol, the extremity of
which was tipped with an emerald, worth
thirty thousand dollars.
Upward of four hundred clerks were
thrown out of employment by the Lon
don bank failures.
A little school girl, nine or ten years
old, has been sent to the penitentiary in
New York, for attempting to steal 81
worth of artificial flowers at a school COM
mencement.
New England Democratic journals uni
tedly urge the importance of the Demo
cratic party of their section being fully
represented in the Philadelphia conyen-
ton.
The Dayton Journal thinks the crisis
shave arove." 1t wants the people-the
Republicans-to put their strust in God
and stand firm; for if they wayer now,
they are lost.
A boy died in Macon county, illinois,
recently, from the effect of sting from
cat fish.
Among the mourners in the procession
which followed the late Col. Seaton to the
grave, at Washington on the 18th ult,
were number of compositors who had
been setting type in the Office of the Ma.
tionai IntelIigencer for fifty consecutive
years.
Gems. Butler and Logan are urging q
prolongation of the session of Congress.
Kossuth has issued an address to his
Hungarian friends, urging them to hell
Italy.
The fire that has been raging on Long
Island, New York, will destroy timber
it is said, to the amount Of $500,e00.
Twelve of the sixteen thieves who re-
Gently robbed the Clay County missouri,
Savings association of money, bonds anc
valuables,t to the amount of over 500, 600
have been arrested near the border il
Iowa.
The New York. courts have given yer
dict of $4,000 in favor of Benjamin
Wood against the city Of New York fol
printing,
The German population of Pennsylva-
MIA are represented as unit for Clymer
the New York Germans having urged al
abandonment by their countrymen every
where ofthe fanatical Republicans. The
effects of the excise law are felt. What
ever doubts have been heretofore felt t(
the contrary, it is certain that the cam
paign ir Pennsylvania looks decidedly
better for the Democrats than their oppo
nents.
There is scheme on foot in st. Louis
to recruit men for the Liberal army in
Mexico.
Between the 18th of June and the 18tl
of July wheat declined 81 cents per bnsh
ell in Toledo.
Hon. Henry Stanbery has been con
frmed as United States Attorney Gene
raj.
Last week man at Geneva, Ashtabuli
county, in assisting to move barn, wa
crushed to death,
The Paris (Ky.) Citizen saysthat Capt
George Buckley was shot and killed a
a barbecue in Henry County, Ky, by
man named Jacob Stewart. Both hat
served in the Federal Army.
| A special from Chicago says Judg'
Morse has already put into the schoo
fund two thousand FIVE hundr ed dollar
out Of the pockets of the liquor seller
this term of Court.