The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-07-17
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Nevada.
Fead-center STEPHENS is soon to issue
an address to the Fenian Brotherhood.
The loss by the great Portland Gre is
now estimed at the enormous figure of ff-
teen millions of dollars.
THREE months since, four men started
from England to make tour ofthis coun-
try. One after another met their deaths
by drowning until but one of the party
survived and last week the.last was drown
ed in the river at Fort Wayne. His name
was Arthur Dolin.
| Maximilian is not preparing to evacuate
Mexico, but intends to order the conscrip-
tion of men to carry ON the war.
The Waverly Democrat says the crops
in that section exceeds all anticipations.
The suicide season seems to have set
| in at Hartford, Connecticut, no less than
| five cases having occurred in the village
in the space Of twenty hours. One
man poisoned himself with strycnine, two
others shot themselves, and two women
jumped into the Connecticut River. The
two last were rescued before life was ex-
tinet, and saved.
The Democrat and conservative Re-
Ipublicans have held meeting in Decatur
County, Indiana, and nominated ticket
composed of men from each branch, op-
posed to the radicals.
A marriage recently took place in
South Carolina wherein the bridegroom
was S8, the bride So, and the parson s5.
1t was runaway match-the parents of
the blushing damsel being averse to it.
The duty on cotton is to be 81 cents a
pound.
The New York Herald says the Radi:
Gals are talking of having national Con-
vention to agree on platform adverse to
the President.
! A negro boy out cunning near Allan
ia, Georgia, expended all his ammunition,
and tried to get the powder out of an
unexploded she'll which he found in the
field. Result-shell exploded,a and no boy
to be found.
Gen. Kirby Smith, celebrated for his
raid on Cincinnati, in 1862, is in Louis
vile, and designs going inte business in
that city.
/ Thaddeus Stevens proposes to tax the
people of the United States twenty mil
lions of dollars to put down the civil
war in Mexico, while he declares our
own civil war is not ended. Would it
not be better for the physician to first
heal himself?
The losses by fires in the last six months
nthe United States foot up forty mill
/ ions of dollars.
! The Legislature of Pennsylvania, in
1854, passed the following: Resolved,
That no member Of the Legislature will
be allowed to come into the House bare
footed"
IA company has bought the Gettys-
burgh battlefield springs property, and
will erect soldiers hospital or water
ling place upon it.
The New York Times (Republican)
says "the Republican party can not exist
an hour upon this universal negro suf-
frage platform" Still, Maine, Vermont
and Iowa have declared for universal
negro suffrage.
/ Major Gen Rosencrans, of Ohio, has
taken up his permanent residence at San
Diego, California.
/ In Onondaga county, N. Y, forty per-
sons were poisoned by eating cheese,
two of whom have died.
James Littleworth, of Tennessee, now
seyenty-eight years old, is the father of
thirty -ens children, the oldest of whom
is fifty years, and the youngest four
months. He is living with his fourth
wife, whom he married at the age Of fif-
ty-nine, she being then little Indian
squaw of fourteen.
Prominent Fenians who have arrived
from Ireland say that the people are
greatly exasperated, and that a revolt
may be looked for at any. moment.
A LITTLE WoMAN-Miss Maria E.
Naile, native of North Carolina, has
been on exhibition at Richmond-21 years
old, and weighing only II pounds! "well
fproportioned and handsome said to be
the smallest woman in the world.
French farmers claim that in districts
where the pigeon is most abundant, there
the wheat fields are the cleanest and the
crops most prolific.
A man named Reynolds was robbed
in gambling saloon in Louisville few
days since Of $4,000.
The Keowee Is. C.) Courier says that
in its vicinity there are not less than
eight hundred families, with an aggregate
population Of four thousand, on the point
of starvation.
Vessels at Chicago have more than
they can do in bringing forward the corn
crop of last year.
Advices are received Of desperate
and bloody fight, near Fort Garry, be-
tween Indians, on the 22d, of June. The
Sioux tribe were the sufferers.
A boy named Spang was burned to
death at Harrisburg. Pa, by kerosene
lamp explosion.
A man named Augustine was murdered
in Monroe county, ILL.,, a few days since.
by another man named Lane. The mur-