The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-01-29

s The c0l0red lawyer IN the Massachu-
setts Legislature has been put upon the
committee on Federal Relations, and the
colored printer upon the standing COM
fnittee on Printing.
A Toronto paper,in an article the
Of the President, says that
the leaders in the moy yement are the
very menst5 finch before demonstratioh
of public opinion.
A misery old Scotchman has Just died
immenselylrich died very suddenly as
he wasisighing atcheck for SIC, 600. He
was struck. with paralysis when the name
Two Mississippians were playing poker
for spot of $40 and got into a fight.
One was shot and fell apparently IN the
agonies of death. While some men
were removing him he opened his eyes
and said: "Tell me, boys, before I die,
what became Of that darped pot?'
james Farnham's 5 sister Was married,
in williamsburg, New York, ones night
last week. During the festivities James
asked lady to dance with him. She
refused, and next morning he blew out
his brains. sstness sesg es s sao
DIR. Cumming, the millennial nuisance,
has just leased a new house for ten years,
and fixes the date of the grand winding
up at some time this year. Yes, and he
took lease Of the ground on which.his
chapel stands for ninelyrnine years in
the spring of 1858.
Last year 6, 900 German cmigrants ar
rived in St. Louis. - s 80. -
Lady Fortoseue, wife -sof4the blind
Lord Ebrinston, who'diedrecently at her
husbands S residence in Devonshire, En-
gland, mighthaye been the bride of louis
Napoleon, but she declined the, hand. of
the man Of destiny, and was con-
tent with a happier, and, as the sequel
proved a humble lot g sTsk
A lady in coyington, KYa recently
slipped down on AMI icy pavement, and
crushed her baby so badly which she was
carrying in her arms rms. that it died in 2 few
minutes -
Anna Williamson, of Cincinnati, re-
Gently bet that she could drink a quart
Of whisky st dram, which she did, but
| it killed her. wa,pHx
The Idaho egislature, has passed
bill appropriatlng s30iU00 for the Cath
olic schools Of the territory.
John r. Wigham, recently a. clerk in
the New York Postofice, has been sent
to the Albany Pspltentiarg for ten years,
for steeling letters.
Three and Eve cent currency notes are
no longer printed4the. law haying d.
rected khairssbolishmeH II + | i 4
The ice on tbelake in Regents Park,
london, broke Through, goutbe 15th inst,
while covered with skaters, and two hun
dred persons were precipitated into, the
water. Forty-one are known to have. been
drowned.
i A Court in Wisconsin recently degided
thata a man has arisht,to chastisel his wife
"to Reasonable e2tentsp = ~. = .s...
A Palmer Mass, man man, Who hit freseoseAtiyy
recovered SLIPS IN law suit had to
hand over 5000 Of it to his counsel for
fees. .g&g - aaNss3sKE
A man named Hatch tried TO kill A
married woman named Batchelder, with
whom be was in love-, in Manchester,
New Hampshire, on Monday, and then
mortality wounded himself A steel stay.
in Mrs. Bachelor S dress saved her life.
Three venerable persons died lately
within fve. daysin the same house, in
Tallmadge, 0hio. Iheir ages. we're 80,
1914. ONO ,ltIaI3aaOOH
Il The city of Aberdeen, Scotland, is(the
greatest envelope manufacturing place
in the world. 1000, 600 Of snperfne
envelopes constitute its daily production,
besides note paper and cards There
) are five paper mills ip the vicinity of the
city, employing $500 persons.
Dan Rice has made coptractlte play
i circus twenty weeks in P Philadelphia, for
| S79 600. ii9'st ,s'sss.' z s'.ss'gss IS.
3 The first attempt to establish a post
Office system in the American colonies
was made in 1873 BY one Thomas Neal.
to whom a royal patent for the purpose
had been issued; but his arrangements
t were very limited and imperfect. The
r utmost contemplation by Neal was o post
Office in each country, and his actual
i operations came far shorrpf this. /
t The Pittsburgh rolling mills have sus-
pended work, throwing about four thou
sand workmen out of employment. A
/ large amount of suffering among the fam
lilies of operatives is expected.
Ex- President Pierce has been i'll for
several weeks, butts now thought to be
!, recoyering. %
DIR. Lahan ID. Sanders, / Of Barnstead,
, lately died from disease. contracted five
!. years age, while performing p dissection.
A betrayed woman in Rochester,N Y,
shot three times at her, seducer without
hitting him. sial a6isasg sls.lss
q The cost of manufacturing one pound
of cotton in New England is about II
i cents.
r 1t is probable that the old, measure
of bushels will be entirely abandoned by
the 1st of April in the grain markets Of
L the country.a skl .iIAst;asi1 es ]. :
They sand the streets in New Bedford
s ito prevent the boys from cOasting,. S
: Omaha papers state there, sis, ,dittle
: doubt that all Indians on the plainsare
hostile, land unless the ipremPtest and
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