The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-06-26

The last fashionable bonnet which ap-
peared on the promenade in Paris, cons
sisted of a single vine-leaf of pink silk,
laid fat on the top Of the head, the said
vine-leaf being edged with glass pendants,
initiating deWdrops, and kept in its place
by a pair of pink strings.
Captain Menter, who was shot by a
burglar at Newport, KY, is dead.
Henry Shaw, ofSt. Louis, proposes to
give that city two hundred acres of land
fora public park, provided that some
twenty thousand dollars are annually
spent in improving it. The land is val
ued at four hundred thousand dollars.
A Warrenton (Virginia) paper, calls
Congress a anegro debating club"
The authorities of Boston have recent
ly been Investigating the milk business
in that city, and in one establishment
found four large casks Of refined whiting.
weighing 24G0 pounds. This, mixed
with water, made a cheap, but W. should
say not very good, substitute for milk.
Not long ago, the Albanians turned an
Episcopal church into a theatre. Now
it is advertised that a Uniyersalist church,
is to be employed henceforth as a vine
gar mandatory.
A. contract has been awarded for a tri-
weekly mail service from Virginia City,
Nevada, to. Boise City, Idaho, for four
years, at seventy-fve thousand dollars
per annum.
Numerous cases of cholera are now re-
ported in New York, Brooklyn and Jer-
sey City. os .a nj .4adtas
A. number Of Southern United States
officers are resiguing, because the Gov,
eminent require them to take the test
oath. aateF;
The Canadians intend keeping 1000
troops on the frontier.
The cholora continues its 5rayages in
Poland. The latest weekly report from
Rotterdam shows eightylfVe cases, Of
which ffty-fve proved fatal. dee' eaf
The annual income of Wendell Phil
lips is sixty thousand dollars. The Cleve-
land Plaindealer remarks that the state
mentashould go with it, which will hard
ly be denied, that Phillips inherited his
wealth from ancestors who accumulated
immense fortunes by the manufacture of
and traffic in New England rum, and by
the African slave trade,
While Mr.. Moses Hawkins, an old
and prominen resident Of Ypsilanti,
Mich, was at work recently in his gar
den, he was shot and instantly killed by
a young man who was shooting birds.
A few days ago a freedman In King
William county Va, killed, after a des-
perate encounter, a monster snake meas
uring nearly eight feet long and large in
proportion. The contents of his snake
ships stomach were varied and assorted,
reported as follows: a young rabbit, FIVE
partridge eggs, a couple of frogs, two
hens eggs, a lizard and a small chicken.
Thirteen hundred tons Of telegraph
wire for the, Collins Russian-American
Telegraph Line has arrived at San Fran
cisco. nef -
The National Cemetery is to be estab-
lished at Fredericksburg for the inter
ment of IL, 900 Union soldiers killed near
there and charlottesville.
The Summit County Beacon says the
wool market in that county is now brisk
the new clip coming in literally, selling
at from 90 to 60 cents per pound.
The Tribune's Montreal dispatch say.
the Fenian prisoners will be hung.
The storm on Sunday and Monday did
immense damage inhthe western part Of
the State. In Huron County some far.
mers lost as many as one hundred and
fifty sheep each by the exposure to the
storm, they having been recently sheared.
It is thought 10000 sheep were lost with
in a radius of ten miles.
According to the records Of the Treas
ury Department the United States Navy
captured over fifteen hundred prizes da-
ring the war, some of which we're valued
as high as 5000, o00.y nj
Mathew Gardner. a farmer Of Middle
burgh, Cuyahoga county, o., committed
suicide on the 9th inst, by taking poi
son. he was sixty years old, and gave
as a reason for his self-destruction that
he had lived long enough.
The President has approved the bill!
giving bounties to wounded soldiers, and
pension bounties'a allowances to their
heirs, $40 8fi,g 81 sgals