The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-01-10
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vi AuudpollS, MAT iduu aIclo De
of. They number one hundred.
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, ex-Repre
sentative from Ohio, has been nominated
by the President Minister to the Repub-
lie of Mexico. in place of Gen. Logan,
who declined the appointment.
The Wisconsin papers say %venison is
very plenty and very cheap in that State,
Rarey. the horse-tamer, is paralyzed.
There were FIVE hundred marine disas-
ters en- the great lakes last year. A De-
troit paper gives these statistics fer six
years: 1860, 377; 1861, 275; 1852, 800;
1868, $50; 1861, 379; 1865, 500.
A fire at Camp Douglas, Utah, on the
10Th, destroyed a million dollars worth
of Government supplies.
The medical officer Of the freedman's
bureau in Georgia, says that the SMALL
pox is increasing to an alarming extent
in that State. u ae
Two young men got into a quarrel on
Christmas night in Baltimore. in which a
lady was concerned, when one Of them
drew a razer and cut the others throat,
killing Enthusiastically.
The San francisco Journals announce
that the experiment of employing Chi
nese operatives in California has sheen
successful. They proved apt at learning
the nature of the work assigned them and
hired at very small wages. They are
suited only fer the simpler process.
Averdict of $3.50, 600 has been render
ed in favor of the Union Bank in New
York, against Ketchum & Sons, in a suit
growing out Of the Ketchum frauds.
A paymaster was robbed of $4,000
last week in Washington. He had JUS
drawn the money from the bank, ant
while talking with a triend,som one tool
it,
A company with a capital Of $1,000 10
has been formed for the cultivation o
, grapes In Mif1in County, Ohio. The,
expect to realize large profits.
The Boston Traveller says that the PEG
: pie in that city, not finding tenements
, have gone into the adjacent country /
search of them, but that in most case
: they were doomed to disappointment.
add that there are not within a range Q
twenty miles of Boston more than lift
houses for sale or rent, and to obtain eve
these it would be necessary to pay a larg
advance upon former prices. This scar
city will, by the next spring, become
severe as to require the erection Of a larg
number Of dwellings even if the preser
high cost of building should continue I
It prevail.
Joseph Stoner has sued the Trustee
of Cambridge Township, Guernsey Cour
ty, for rejecting his vote at the 0ctobt
e election. James w. Cosgroye has ais
Sc sued the Trustees of Spencer TOWNSHIP
in the same county, for denying him
IN vote on the ground that he tried to evat
the draft. The damages in each case a
u laid at So, 900.
Old army officers who have seen Sc
vice on the Plains are besieging the Pre-
% ident for an opportunity to make a ra
Of against the. Mormous.
William Hutchings, of Penobscot, Nj
IN aged 101 years, and Lemuel Cook,
ii Clarendon, Ny, are the only survive
J. of the Revolutionary War known to t
Commissioners of Pensions.
The London Observer has a report tb
Macmillan is about quitting Mexico,a al
will shortly be in Europe, and that Nap
a leon has sent the Mexican Minister
at dissuade him from such a step,
p In Boston, a negro who killed a lit
" white boy recently by striking him with
IS whip, has been sentenced to pay five hu
al dred dollars to the mother Of the boy.
d: BENEFIT OF Mrs. SToNEwALL JAG
ito soN.-Gen. De Russy having given p'
ew mission, the people of Mobile caused
n performance to be given at the theater
m that place on Christmas nightfor the be
q eft of the widow Of Stoncwall jackson
w A Washington dispatch states that
OF casualties in Alexandria on Christn
III were ever estimated. Only one white a
an two colored men were seriously Injuries
:. Gen. Buffers celebrated tower n
= Bermuda Hundred, from which, for
many months, lynx-eyed sentinels pr
into the movements of the rebel troo
was the other day sold at public auct
- for the sum Of FIVE dollars. There W
vor at least thirty cords of good timber in
er- structure.
me- Bitterness of feeling between the NJ
en- mons and United States troops contin
eel to increase, and there are prospects 0
collision before the winter is over.
we A lad named James Bingham YVES a
oy- dentally shot and killed at Cincinnati
Christmas afternoon by a companion, J
'O' was carelessly handling a loaded re-
yer.
10. Twelve hundred French soldiers b
been landed in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
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If st RELIGION OF THE PRESIDENTS
In religious belief Of the deceased Pr
So dents of the United States, as indic'
7ful by their attendance upon public wors
a,;Janoa offorded in their WrItI