The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-09-04
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IulS SGdSUu u mlillOu QOlldrS WOTCu OF
cattle. A large number of Texas cattle
are now detained on the Southern border
of the State on account Of the Texas cattle
fever.
The Indianapolis journal says that par
ties from the country represent that the
corn crop is better than they have ever
known it. The potato crop will be i'm
mense.
At factory in Canada huge cheese
has lately been made which weighs three
anda half tons, and measures six feet eight
inches in breadth, and three feetin thick
ness. The milk used in its manufacture
weighed 5itons, and was furnished by
800 COWS. This huge cheese will be on
Exhibition in Toronto at an agricultural
fair to be held there during September.
A girl of fourteen years of age, in In
dianapolis, was tickeledIby her mother the
other day until she became exhausted, and
finally, in struggling to free herself, burst
a blood-vessel and died. @
The old council tree ofthe Senecas,' near
| ly two centuries old, at Mount Morris, N.
Y, was blown down a few days ago. It
measured twenty three feet in circum-
ference. The solemn councils of the SEN
eca chiefs were held beneath this tree
from time immemorial.
A little boy was left on the seat of a
moving g-machine in Lancaster, Mass,
when the horse started, and the little fell
low was thrown under the knives and
killed.
Collector Smythe, of New York is
making general slaughter among Office
holders.
The Secretary of War has issued orders
to stop all payment of bounties to colored
soldiers, and to turn over all claims ap-
pertaining to bounties to the Second Au-
ditor for settlement.
The Indian troubles in the far West
have been renewed, and we have daily
reports of murder and incendiarism by
the savages on the white men aud their
property.
Gov. Brownlow said the other day in
Tennessee, that there must be another
war. Wendell Phillips says the same,
and Shellabarger and other Radicals are
tanning the flame of discord and strife
They long for another war.
The Bedford Inquirer states that Mr..
Eiisihurt, Of Ringstown, Bedford county,
Pa, died recently, aged Ill years, five
months and twenty days. He saw all his
own kindred buried. He ran foot-race
at the age of ninety years with his young
est son, and beat him,
The Union Pacific railroad is now re-
ceiving the iron for the fourth hundred
mile of its track. The first two hundred
miles of track are now laid.
There are Z, ,449 Odd Fellows in Cal
lifornia. They own thirty halls, valued
at 100000, and other property valued a
$5oo,OOO.
! The most extensive, and one of tht
best conductedseed gardens on earth, is;
| Pennsylvania institution-that of-Dayid
: Landreth & Son, Philadelphia seedmen
The garden is called Bloemsdale, is sis
hundred acres, and is superintended per
sonally by Mr.. David Landreth himself
!, The impression gains ground that JEFF
Davis will be released ON a conditiena
parole, on the ground of his continued il
health.
The sum of two hundred thousand dol
lars was realized from the sale of pews in
! the new Jewish synagogue in Cincinnati
last week.
One Reverend S. j. Pinkerton write,
to the Atlanta Georgia., IatelGgencer
that throughout Middle and Western
Tennessee, as; well as all along the valley
of the Ohio, the ground is covered Will
a rich crop of corn
A little girl, near Milton, Pa, was sen
} to the fields a few days since, to carry
lunch to the hands. Not arriving ther,
search was made for her, and when fount
:. she was strangled to death by a black
snake. The reptile had ceiled itself sey
eral times about her neck. 10
I Of the seven leading New York dailies
five supported the reelection of Mr.. Lin
coin. Six of these journals now supper
the restoration policy of President John
son.
4 The fine for offering green corn fol
sale in the Cincinnati market is $40.
A 'snegro minstrel named William
Holmes, died of cholera in concert sa
loon Office in Cincinnati. The man VIII
carried his death notice to the newspape
Offices died three hours afterwards.
friend Of Holmes, named James Maley
became alarmed at the sudden death 0
Holmes, took to drinking brandy, be
came intoxicated, fell out of a fourth ste
ry window and was killed.
j Activity Among the Tenians.
New YORK, Aug. %. Fenian affairs i
this city are looking up. Mr.. Stephen
/; and the released Dublin prisoners al
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