The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-06-18
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The total amount OF the State debt OF
Ohio is S11, ITO, ,702 Sc.
The Cleveland & Toledo Road earned
in May, $180,66
Prussia's war leyies amount to over
s41, ,00o, ,o09 in gold.
A Spanish silver coin, bearing TIE date
Of 1921, was plowed up in Xenia, Ohio, a
few days ago.
Lucy Stone says that in her late mis-
sion to Kansas she found negroes every
where opposed to female suffrage.
They have an artificial horse at the
Paris Exhibition which will rayel twen-
ty-fve miles upon each winding up.
st. Louis aspires to be the Capital of
the United States, by her central posi-
tion, Sc.
Over 100000 bushels of corn have
heen distributed among the poor of fifty
eight counties in Georgia.
Offending editors in Madrid are made
to wear spiked iron collars and to serve
in the galleys twenty years.
Somebody who saw DR.. Livingstone
shot and buried reports the fact and places
his fate beyond doubt
Barnum has secured that Connecticut
pig with an elephants trunk and an eye
in the centre of its forehead.
There is a family in Madison, Morris
county, N. j, a father and eight sons,
who have never tasted liquor. A
Nine hundred gold medals will be dis
trlbuted at the Paris Exposition
The French Company are about s765-
600 "out' on the Great Eastern
California papers pretend that the
recent earthquake there was no great
shakes.
The Dayton City Council has refused
to levy a tax for police purposes under
the provisions of the Metropolitan Police
law. ~
There are sixteen unhappy couples in
old Lorain, who expect a dissolution of
partnership at the next term of the Court
|ot Common Pleas.
Twenty million dollars viii be paid
from the Treasury in the next ten days
in redemption Of compou1d interest
notes.
Mr.. P. Cooke, ffsg.fYe years old, for
merly Of the firm Of Cooke & Allen, in
Cleveland, is mysteriously missing from
that place.
Congressman John Morrissey is the
purchaser of Basnum's beautiful resi-
dence at Bridgeport, Conn. The price
paid was s65, 900.
& Dublin paper says a fearful blight
has set in among the early planted po-
tatoes in ireland, and whole fields are
effected by disease.
The Richmond (Ind. Telegraph tells
of a Wayne county man who took his
family to the circus last Monday. and
sold his cooking stove to get money to
buy tickets.
The singular anomaly has occurred oi
one of Maximilian's war vessels captur.
ing prize off Yucatan, which cannot be
sold because the captor dses not hold q
port.
VIM. B. Astor,o New York. owns real
estate valued at S65, 100000 But he suf.
fers with the dyspepsia and with the
burdens of his immense business, so that
he looks like an unhappy man.
Brownlow has declared the registra-
tion of voters in Monroe county, East
Tennessee, to be null and void. Mon
roe is Conservative county.
A North Carolina paper says the wheat
crop in that State is unprecedentedly fine
and if no accident happens to it the
yield will be better than for years.
The Richmond dispatch publishes a
tabular statement, showing that there are
i 1860 business men in that city, and that
they pay license tax of s85,739 1S.
In speech at Knoxville, Tenn, last
Friday night, Judge Houck told the ne
groes that if they never embraced any
other religion but radicalism, it would
take them to heaven.
Total number of voters registered so
far in the city Of New Orleans, 23, ,224;
of which 10, 442 are white citizens, and
1854 blacks. in Algiers, up to May
25, 287 whites and ], l94 blacks had been
registered.
Gen. w. A. Blount, of Beaufort coun-
ty. n e., died at the residence of bis
daughter, Mrs. L. OBJ. Branch, in Raj
eigh Tuesday morning. General B. bore
an active part in the war Of 1872, and
devoted most of his life afterwards to the
quiet vocation Of farming.
Last Sunday night promising youth
in Memphis drew a pistol and fred two
shots at his mother, because she objected
to him going out. Fortunately he miss
ed his aim. He then decamped. The
police camped out that night for his BEN
eft, but he kept out of the way.
Count .Bismark suffers terribly from a
nervous disease which prevents him from
sleeping. To recover some sleep he gets
on horse at one o'clock, at night and
rides till four o'clock, returns home, goes
to bed and sleeps five hours,
An Indian passing up the streets Of
Natchez, a few days since, was asked the
relative position Of white man, negro and
Indian. Giving a usual "ughl'' he said:
|"'Fore de war, fust cum white man, den
Injin, den dog, den niger, now cum mig
ger, den dog, den Injin, and white man
last
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