The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-08-13
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Charge 1t home on them tnat the Re
publican party was responsible for the
war.
A new cotton factory. the first ever
built in the State, has just been compile
| ted at Rockford, Illinois.
The pecuniary cost oe the Mexican ex-
pedition Of the French was over sixty
millions Of dollars in gold.
Ottawa, Illinois, has baseball club
every member of which weighs over two
hundred pounds.
Sanford Conover has been taken to the
Albany ponitentiary. to which he was,
sentenced for ten years.
The reign of terror consinuesin Spain.
There have been sixty eight political exz
ecutions in six months.
Frogs sell at Cincinnati at about ff-
teen cents per dozen, and the men who
dearin them make money at that.
Frank Fitch, woll-knoWn billardist
at Troy, made the unparalleled score Of
1880 points one day last week.
Ristori is not captivating the attention
of the public as much in Paris as she did
in the United States.
Two Englisbmen have climbed Mount
Blanc this summer, the first since last
years mishaps.
The remains Of Table Rock, Niagara
Falls, we're destroyed by charge Of 200
pounds of powder, on Friday.
The Boston Post says: Brigham
Young promises to abolish polygamy
when the Union is reconstructed. he
is safe for the next two years.
A letter from Monterey says Lopos, who
betrayed Macmillan, has been arrested
by the Governor of 0ajaca, and will be
executed.
The Troy Times says that Congress
man Morrissey made upwards of $780,
600 in stock operations in Wall street
last week.
The American Watch Company; Water
town, Conn, turns out watch every two
and half minutes during the working
hours of the. day.
The mortality from exposure is greater
among the London police than in the
British army. Dyspepsia and sore feet
are common complaints.
A Mississippi paper thinks General
Ord was omitted from the vote of thanks
because he was the only commander who
had failed to getu riot.
There are over twenty thousand #cres
of land in Alabama planted in swest po-
tatoes this year, which viii produce eight
hundred thousand bushels.
A hopeful youth at Boston, named
Wm. Wallace, stole his mothers feather
bed, worth S40 and sold it for 81, to
take his girl riding the other day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said In his Phi
Beta Kappa oration at Harvard .ast week
"The true hope Of any time must always
be sought for in minorities.
The Mexican fllibustering schemes,
intended to avenge the death of Maxi
MILAN, do not appear to have met with
success, and have been quietly dropped.
Most of the gold now going to Europe
Is to pay the expenses of persons now
travelling there, and it is estimated that
they will spend $40, ,o00, 900 this season.
IL Cleveland negro baby fell out ofa
window and nearly killed a gentleman
passing along the street. Erchaage.
He had niger Oh the brain.
Last week 1903 immigrants arrived in
Columbus, 347 of whom intend to settle
in Ohio; 81 in Indiana, SO in Kentucky,
and the remainder in other States further
west.
The amouht Of cheese made in Truti5
bull county last year was z,755, ,S9a
pounds; wool, 467.619 pounds. The
amount Of wheat grown was only 1884
bushels; corn, Al, bio; oats, 267, ,2l4.
Chignons are now worn in London,
attached to the bonnet or hat. There
was sensation in Hyde Park when the
hat and chignon Of a lady on horseback
blew off.
More than one hundred and fifty thou
sand pounds of wool have been purchas-
ed this year at Morenci, Michigan, at an
average price of forty-three and one
half cents.
Fifteen hippopotamus hides we're re-
Gently sent to a tannery in New Boston,
Massachusetts,, to betanned. They we're
in halves, and weighed together $500
pounds.
The Meadville Republican says every-4 ]
body is crazy at Oil City under the stim-
ulas of the advancing oil market, which
has gone up over loo per cent, in three
weeks. q
An Omaha paper speaks of Olympia
Brown as ga weather beaten, cross grain-
ed, sour, snappish, ,fanatical Grabbed skin
ny, smoked locking old beldame from
Vermont who has been making speeches in
Kansas lately in faverof female suffrage
The importation of coolies, who have
completed their time in Cuba, has been
carried on extensively for over a year,
about 2 ,0G0 having left for New Orleans
within that period A Mr. Williams has
made arrangements for the introduction
of 1000 Chinese laborersi into Louisiana;
several other agencies being overrun with !.
applications.
Advices from Utah indicate that an
irrepressible discord has broken out
among the saints, and that the problem
Of Mormonism will soon solve ITSELF
Large numbers of anti polygamists have
left Utah, bound for Nauvoo, H., Brigham