The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-11-13
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year from ten acres of peaches.
The people of Montana are said to be
disguSted with the mining prospects Of
that country, and are returning to Cali
fornia and Missouri.
The New York Times Montreal CORES
pondent says the FeHians now in Jail,
numbering about twenty, will be tried the
first week in December.
A New York dispatch says: "George
Alison, lamp trimmer in the navy, has re-
Gently fallen heir to $500, 600 and Hun
garian title of nobility.
Captain Biddle, an old cavalry officer,
living in Mooretown, Canada, blew his
head off with az ounce ball upon hearing
of the failure of the Bank of Upper
Canada. lie had 5000 invested in it.
A man in Hartford forgot where he
put $4,000 worth of United States
bonds, and first class robbery was sus-
pected. Police and telegraph were put
in operation but finally he remembered
he had left it in store, where it was
found.
The Fenians held meeting last week
in Chicago, in which State Head Center
L. H.O' Connor stated that thousand
men were armed and equipped in the city,
ready to march to the rescue of the con-
dcmned Fenians in Canada, on the first
favorable opportunity.
Mr.. John E. Nelson, of Memphis, who
had store at the mouth of Coldwater,
Miss, was murdered enc night last week.
The object of the perpetrator was money,
but he only got about s25.
The Macon Telegraph says that the au-
thorities of that city are obliged to fur
nish from six to ten cofins per day, to
bury negro paupers. Freedom is great
thing for the poor African. Free to
starve and to die"
The people of Victoria, Vancoyer's Is,
land, have petitioned the Queen to annex
themselves to the United States.
At Montreal an old Scotchman has
been arrested because he offered for sale
at Bonsecourse market little girl six
years old. He says she is his grandchild
and he wanted to 60 to the States. He
offered her for one hundred dollars. The
child was sent to the st. Andrews
Home.
The body of Confederate General P.
H. Nelson has just been found among
the debris of the battlefield around Pc
tersburg.
General Kidd, Superintendent of the
Texas Freedmen's bureau, is about ma
king tour through the State to examine
into the condition of the Freedmen. He
pronounces himself altogether opposed to
the determination expressed BY many tc
decline making yearly contracts for 1867
which he declairs will be ruinous to their
moral and physical welfare.
A New York milliper has just paid sos,
600 cash for place on the fifth avenue
for business purposes.
Mrs. Sill, an old lady residing nea,
Bowling Green, KY, was murdered by
three negroes last week. The object Of
the murderers was plunder. They got
but sixty-fve dollars.
Mrs. Lear and her three daughters
who live in Fulton county, Ind, were
poisoned theother day, by eating Sibe.
rean crab apples, cooked in copper ket
tie. One of the daughters is dead, and
the other is not expected to live.
Nearly eight thousand buildings have
been erected in Chicago, Illinois, during
the present season, at cost of about sever
millions of dollars.
Indians have appeared in Banda
county, Texas, and are driving in the set.
tiers.
A boy was blown a distance of thirty
yards during the late tornado in st. Louis
without suffering serious injury,
A severe snow stormis reported between
Denver and Salt Lake. The snow wa:
two feet deep. Trains with .grair fol
Holidays Overland Express Company
had 79 mules frozen to death.
The Queen OF Spain, it is said, has
rendered the Pope an asylum in Grenada
if he is driven from Rome, and has
placed her feet at his disposal for tina
purpose.
There is farm in Colorado, 1S miles
long by IL wide, which pastures 5000
head of cattle. and 5000 sheep, and las
year yielded $50, 900 worth of grain. 1
is worked by Mexican laborers, who arr
fed and managed by officers like an ar
my.
Ex-Governor Frank R. Lubbock, O.
Texas, who was Colonel in the Confed
crate Army and aid to Jefferson Davis
has established himself at Houston in tn,
commission ssand auction business.
The uprising among the working class
es of England has no equal in the N EN-
ory of the living generation.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: 9TH,
trial of Champion for the murder Of
Mary Carney, nymph du pace, wa'
brought to close on Saturday, the jury
rendering verdict of guilty OF murder
in the first degree. Judge Allison sen.
fenced the prisoner at once.
Admiral Farragut has decided upor
his insignia Of rank-a gold star vorl
upon the arm.
A terrible affair took place at Fort Ellis
worth, Kansas, on the 1st. Two stone
masons, named Brown and Merwin, hac
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