The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-12-04
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The Goidsboro On. C.) Ne'cs says. the
devil seems to holo sway in some Of the
eastern counties IF the State. On Sat-
urday night last the cotton gins of To-
siah Sugg and Jos. Murphy, Greene coun-
ty, we're destroyed by fire, and other
gins are reported to have been burnt on
the same night, lower down the coun-
try.
jeff. and Joseph Davis's plantations
have been leased to an association of col
ored men.
The Natchez Courier says the New cot
ton is coming in by trains of wagons in
procession, each wagon having huge
coops and baskets on top Of the cotton
bales, full of gobbling turkeys, cackling
geese, and other fowls.
Chicago, Cincinnati, and other West
ern papers speak despondingly of trade
prospects.
Nearly nine thousand pupils of the
public schools in Cincinnati are studying
German.
Three thousand FIVE hundred people
died of cholera in ST. Louis during Au-
gust and September.
Large contributions are being made up
throughout Kentucky in aid of the suf-
ferers in the South.
The Denver News says that there is
fearful state of things in Salt Lake City.
The Gentiles dare not leave their houses
after nightfall for fear Of assassination.
There are a quarter of "a million of peo-
pie in New York city engaged in indus
trial occupations.
Most of the clergymen of Norwich,
Connecticut, have signed a circular pro-
testing against funerals on Sunday.
The Boston merchants who disappeared
with S15O,OOO liabilities last week, left
as their assests nine pairs of boots and a
hoop skirt.
A whale, sixty feet in length, was re-
Gently washed ashore at Rockaway
Beach.
Seventeen thousand stand of arms
Peabody breach .loaders-have been pur-
chased by the Canadian Government for
the volunteers, and are now being dis.
tributed among the different artillery and
cavalry corps.
Mrs. Eliza Robson (mother of Hi
ram II. Robson, editor of the Dayton
En,pire), died at the residence of her SON.
in-law, Ford Sill, at McConneisville, O.,
few days since, aged eighty three years
She had lived in Ohio almost half GEN.
tury.
The skate factory "down east" has
consumed during the present year 5000
gross of screws, 2 tons of brass, 1,00(
pounds of German silver, nearly 6 ton:
of rosewood, and 10 tons of steel, which
have been worked up by 35 men and wo
men into $4,000 pairs of skates.
Governor Brownlows son has been ap
pointed captain in the regular army.
A young organist in fashionable
church at Chicago, received check fo
$4,000 to collect for friend, got cash
ed, gambled away the money, and ha
been arrested.
The barn of the Miller House, at Ash
land, O., was burnt on Monday night, Nov
13, and ten horses, three COWS, and .wen
ty hogs were burned to death.
Hen. Herschel V. johnson resigned
the office of United States Senator, t.
which the Georgia Legislature electe'
him. !.
Italy has been borrowing mo ney eve
since 1859, and her debt is now over 81
oO,OoO,QOo.
Secretary Stanton has appointed Colo
mel W. Ell. Stewart, W. Flynn and Wash
Iington A. Miller, Of Cecil County, a com
mission to award compensation to loya
slave -owners of Maryland whose slave
were drafted into the army during the wal
This commission is created under the ac
of Congress passed last session.
/ Irish merchants of New York hay
offered any number of ships to the Fe
mans.
| A Mr.. Bates, of Kentucky, 20 year
of age, is seven feet eleven inches higl
and still growing. He is the "baby" o
eleven children.
At the sitting of the Saxon Chambers c
Deputy, on the 10th, the Minister declar
ed in the most positive manner Saxon
had concluded no alliance with Austri
before or during the war. The Ministe
added, "Saxony had faithfully observe,
the promise to that effect"
i A prostitute in Chattanooga stabbed
soldier dead.
We notice the sad statement in an Ala
bama exchange that in that State alon
there are 10000 widows and 10000 o.
phans,, three-fourths of them utterly de-
titute. Alasl the poor Southl How h;
it been filled with lamentation, mournln
and woe! Yet Radical thirst for yengenc
| against it is still unslaked.
Richard Larence, who made an a
tempt to ;assassinate Gen. jackson
1885, still lives, and is an inmate Of Il
Maryland Lunatic Asylum.
t The headquarters Of the Departmer
of Arkansas is, by order of Gen. Gran
f transferred from Little Rock to Foi
d Smith, Arkansas, and the commandir
: General of the Department is authorise
e to move the band now at Little Rock