The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-03-27
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passed a bill forbidding the exclusion OF
colored children from the public schools.
A vine grower named Miller,of Putin
Bay, Lake Erie, from a vineyard of i've
acres sold, as his crop of last year, $4,000
pounds of grapes and made 5000 gallons
of wine. The price of grapes averaged
seven and one-half cents per pound and
the wine is worth (new) ninety cents per
gallon. This gives 1887 so for a sin
gle grape crop on five acres of Island soil,
or 1857 80 per acre.
st. Patrick's day, the 18th, passed off
quietly. The unprecedented attack on
Canada, by the Fenians, did not take
place.
The large grain and commission house
of Hopkins & Co., at Toledo, failed a few
days since. The liabilities, it is said,
amount to 500, 900. This is the fifth
heavy failure in that city within a few
weeks.
In mauy Of the cities in the United
States and in Canada, St. Patrick's day
was commemorated with grand and be-
coming displays.
An interesting case is on trial in a JUS
tees court in Chardon, Geauga county
The defendants, the father and brother of
Dewitt c. Warner, deceased, are sued for
trespass in removing his remains from the
place where they were buried, soon after
his decease, by a young lady to whom he
was engaged to be married.
At Knoxville, Tenn, a few days since,
a negro was fined thirty dollars and costs
for speaking disrespectfully of the way
the Freedman's Bureau was managed.
Baron Rothscaild's cellars in the Rue
LATTE are said to contain $4,000 bottles
Of wine of every kind, all nearly as old
as the nineteenth century.
Louis Napoleon has presented copies of
all his writings, with his autograph on
the front page, to the New Hampshire
Historical Society.
The Radicals don't like the Presidents
speech. The speech gives some evidence
that the President don't like them.
Of all the $500 voters in Holmes
County, says the Farmer, not over 200 in
dorse the action of the Rump Congress,
and the Democracy all sustain the Presi-
dent.
The Athens Messenger notices the
wandering away of two children, FIVE years
of age. The corpse of one, after a gene
raj search in which the inhabitants Of the
neighborhood participated, was found in
the river.
William Gallup, Postmaster at TiHin,
Ohio, and an intense Radical, has been re-
moved by President johnson, and Capt.
Jesse Shriver, who stands by the Presi-
dent, and indorses his 22d Of February
speech, has been appointed in his place.
'Things is working"
Seventy-six arrests had been made in
Ireland under the suspension of the ha-
beas corpus, of whom forty-two were Irish
Americans.
A recent decision of the Supreme Court
of Iowa subjects the earnings of married
women to the judgments of the creditors
Of their husbands. The Legislature don't
like this, and a bill to repeal the law un-
der which the decision was made has been
passed by the House, unanimously.
They tell of an enormous pigeon roost
in Martin County, Ind. It covers a ter
ritory of ten miles long and two miles
wide, the trees being literally broken
down by the weight of birds. When
they take wing the roar is heard for miles,
The citizens of the Northern Terrific
ries are moving in the matter of the
Northern route of the Pacific Railroad
They have called a meeting in Washing
ton to urge upon Congress The giving Of
pecuniary aid.
$3.50, 600 of fractional currency was is.
sued last week, $780, 600 of which went
to New York.
The proprietors of the Concord (N.H.)
Standard have brought a suit against the
city for $1,000 damages, sustained in the
destruction of their Office by a mob, in
the early part of the late war.
A Cuban slave trader from Africa has
been captured. She had 375 negroes on
board. They were taken into Havana.
Abill establishing a home for disabled
soldiers has passed both Houses of Con.
gress, and is now before the President.
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A bill to restore the death penalty in
murder cases in Wisconsin, has been de.
feated in the Wisconsin House of Rep.
resentatiyes, by a vote of so to 81.
The Wisconsin Senate has passed a ne.
gro suffrage law, in face of the fact that
the people, by a large majority, voted il
down at the late election.
According to the latest reports the EN-.
peror Napoleon has agreed to eyacuate
Mexico in a year. The Government has
seized all the copies of Bancroft's Lin.
coin Grafton in France, and will not allow
it to circulate on account of its bitter at.
tack upon France.
Five thousand dollars were collected a
a dedication of splendid Baptist Church
in Chicago lately.
The Canadian residents in Chicago have
held a meeting and rendered their servi
ces to the Government if it is attacked.
There are no less than thirty-fve thou
sand men under arms in Canada. The
excitement is tremendous, and the great
est preparations are being made to re
ceive the Fenian invaders.
A strong feeling in favor of the an
nexation of Jamaica to the United State:
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