The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-11-20
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The Supreme Court of Indiana has
unanimously decided that the thirteenth
article of the State constitution called
the "black article" which foroids me-
groes from coming into the State, is in
conflict with the Constitution of the
United States, and therefore null and
void.
OF twelve hundred and fifty six children
between the ages of tour and sixteen, in.
Killingly, Ct, less than one half attend
school. The factories absorb them.
An heir who has been for some time
wanted to an English baronetcy and a
fat estate thereunto belonging, has been
found in the person of butcher in New
South Wales.
The private arms, trophies, and other
property taken from the Fenians captured
by the steamer Michigan, in June last:
and retained on board that steamer, are
to be returned to their owners. Among
this property are side arms worn through
the late civil war on many hotly- -contes-
ted battle field, and highly priced on this
account. eG r
A Soldiers monument was lately dedi-
Gated at Shortridge, Massachusetts,, cost
ing $4,000. a @
There seems to be no longer danger
that the Fenian prisoners will be execu-
ted. Toronto papers, probably speaking
by authority, say death sentences will be
remitted, but that the punishment vii be
severe. .-f.z
1t is more than probable that such ar
rangements are being made with Juarez's
administration that the United States
troops will soon enter Mexico. r.
The Union Pacific Railroad is graded
sixty miles beyond Fort Riley, .:and the
Company has iron for one hundred and
twenty miles of the road. The extention
of two hundred and fifty miles West of
Fort Riley will be completed one year
from now.
8 Julia Dean Hayne, the actress made
$50, 600 in California. @
The Quartermaster- General has decided
to have the graves of all Union. soldiers
iu the national cemeteries marked with
cast-iron headblocks, with suitable raised
inscriptions. A contract to carry out
this design will be awarded to some for
tunate on-founder.
The New York World states that
Commodore Vanderbilt intends to retire
''as sooon as he obtains competence,
and then quietly adds tha. his estate is
now estimated at only fifty millions,
g A Paris letter reports that the Empress
Carlotta's insanity is Of religious char
Iacter; that she is always bewailing her
husbands anti church measures in Mex
leo; and that she had attempted suicide
by jumping from window. af2
England and France have bought FIVE
million dollars worth of cotton in Egypt
A Journeyman baker, residing in the
southern part of Philadelphia, was found
in the cellar of his own house, on Friday
with his throat cut He was removed to
the hospital and soon died. The affair is
involved in complete mystery. @
A gentleman in New York bar-room
was fatally stabbed by a,bystander whom
he refused to invite to drink.
The Virginia Alleghanies are swarm
ing with game. A party from Alber.
marie, who entered the mountains from
Stanton, killed twenty deer in five days
One buck weighed two hundred and fifty
pounds. bar~l l
A Mr.. Charles Plate, Of Niagara Falls,
had his head cut off and his body severed
transversly by becoming entangled in
the machinery of saw mill. '-
Two women killed a wolf the other day
in Bates county, Missouri. The vol
had been catching chickens, and on be-
ing disturbed ran to fence, which it en-
deayored to pass through, but was caught
by the hind leg by one. of the women
and held fast, while the other woman
went to the other side of the fence and
beat the wolf to death with club. vs.!
Senator Douglas said of Forney Giles
a regular Cossack, and will fight best
with those who pay best.p This was be.
fore Fornev's diabolism was more than
half developed.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette estimates the population of Gin
cinnati at 10000. In 1926 that city
contained but $1,000 inhabitants; New
port and Coyington were pretty villages;
the suburbs were nothing; no railroads
existed, and turnpikes were unknown.
The Bucyrus Journal reports that the
hog cholera is prevailing in Crawford
county, O., and is very fatal. One far,
mer lost one hundred and twenty hogs by
lit.
There are at the present time about
thirty notorious dealers in counterfeit
money in the prison OF New York city
alone awaiting their trials, besides Others
committed in most of the States Of the
Union for similar offences.
The outer door Of the Brown County
Treasury safe was blown open on the 30tt
ult. Two citizens hearing the noise wen
to the Court House to see what was the
matter, and one of them, Adam Rose
was shot in the back By one @of the foul
robbers. The other citizen escaped and
gave the alarm, when the burglars decamp
ped.
A New York dispatch says: "The tria