The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-06-12
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lation amounting to S276, $40, $40 which
is secured by bonds held by the United
States Treasurer, estimated at 1924, 1884,
$50. The total capital is s414, s21, 479.
Ofthese Banks nearly 400 are National
repositories for the reception of Govern
ment funds. As security for such funds,
the amount held by the Department is
$50, 776,500.
An Englishman is said recently to have
invented a scarecrow SO effective that one
crow who saw it brought back all the
corn he had stolen for three years.
That's ahead of any Yankee invention.
1t is announced that the President will
remove every Office holder that does not
support his policy.
The work of removing to Arlington
Cemetery the dead bodies of soldiers of
the army of the Potomac, who died from
disease and were killed during the early
years of the war, when the army was en-
camped in the vicinity of the city and af-
forwards, has been completed. There
were one thousand six hundred andseventy
eight bodies disinterred aud removed.
Captain j. R. Hynes, A.. Q. a., who had
charge of that work, under direction OF
the chief quartermaster of this depart
ment, has been ordered to report to Col
onel j. NJ. Moore, A. ON, for assign
ment to similar duty in the vicinity Of
Richmond, Va.
Kate McMahon, a beautiful Irish girl,
died of lock jaw at Louisville on the
18th, occasioned by running a tack into
one Of her feet ten days before.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have a suit pending against
them in Baltimore for refusing to sell a
negro a ticket for passage in fist class
cars. Such a ticket has been refused in
Washington, and it is not unlikely that
the occasion will be seized for bringing
another suit under the civil rights bill.
Several have been brought in Baltimore
and at other parts Of the country for
r%efusa!s to colored people of admission
to entertainments to which they have
heretofore been excluded under State and
municipal ordinances.
The Treasury and Sub Treasures con
tain $50, 600 900 in specie.
Stephen Kelly, of Stamford, Connect
cut, some time ago. beat his wife SO badly
that she died. He has been sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary there
for. 7.
The House Military Committee are ma
turing a bill to increase the regular army
in accordance with the views of General
Grant.
Washington special dispatches say:
The Senate Military committee have in
creased the total pay and emoluments in
the bill creating the grade of General, to
near SIC, 900.
Preparations are making to issue $780,
600 fractional currency this week, to take
the place of a similar amount mutilated
and to be cancelled.
fNaEt
A merchant by the name ofDickey, Of
the firm of DicAey, & Son, was assaulted
and murdered few nights ago while sit
ting in his store door, at Randolph,
Tenn.
The Treasury disbursements for the
past month have been: War, Department,
s1,710,766; Navy, s4,9Ol,175; Interior,
81, SIG, 34s.
Mrs. Henry Snyder. of Edgerton, was
so badly burned on the ed uft, in conse-
quence of her clothing catching fire while
engaged in making soap, that she died
next day. 81
The Detroit Council has passed an
eight hour ordinance, and fixed the scale
of prices for laborels working ten hours
at $1,65 per day, and for those working
eight hours at $1,35, for man and team
working ten hours 1878, and for men
and team working eight hours So.
A carriage containing four negroes was
driven through Circleville last Saturday
by a white man. IN h
A young lady, daughter Of Abraham
Simmons, Of Caldwell, Noble county, was
thrown from her horse against the tim
bers of a bridge at that place on the 10th
of May and so fearfully injured as to
cause her death on the following day.
A few days ago the corner stone Of a
new Catholic church was laid at Wash
ington, Fayette county. ~
The following news is transmitted by
telegraph from Cairo:
John Hildebrand was fined S. before
the police court for using offensive Lam
guage to a negro named j. Brown"
The prospect for a large crop of fruit
in the Southern States is very good-bet-
ter than for years.
A colored man who was refused cabin
passage by two steamboats,. from Duvall's
Bluff to Memphis, has sued the captains
for $4,000 damage each.
The public libraries of the United
States comprise more than 5000, 900 vol
umes.
Dexter, the swindling Treasury Age Mt
at Mobile, has been fined $3.50 600. 1t
was shown on the trial that he cheated
the Government out of over a million dol
lars.
Forty Indians were frozen in one
night in Minnesota while hunting buff
falo.
In Connecticut a sheep-shearing ma
chine has been invented, which is said to
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