The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-10-29
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There are $4,000 Cretan refugees in

The Cleveland Ohio, coopers are on |
strike to resist reduction of wages.
West Virginia reports the finest grape
crop ever gathered there.
Chevalier Monte, editor of the official |
journal at Rome, has died of cholera.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia, is
i'll of infammatory rheumatism.
A street in Boston has been named af-
ter Tennyson.
The vote for State Convention in
Alabama is estimated at $4,000.
There are FIVE evening schools, with
over 1000 pupils, in Chicago.
Bull fighting has killed ght toreadors
IN Spain the past month.
A free lodging house for bootblacks
and news boys is to be established in
Chicago.
Eleven George Washingtons are regis
tered as voters in one small parish in
Louisiana.
Many Catholic priests and sisters of
charity have died Of the yellow fever in
New Orleans.
The destruction of the forests is said
to have ruined the coffee plantations at
Singapore.
Henry S. Garrett, well known mer.
chant of Baltimore, died on Thursday,
aged 80 years.
The Pope has called an immediate
meeting Of the Cardinals to consider the
situation.
Over one hundred soldiers of the 1st
u. s. infantry have died of yellow fever
in New Orleans.
/ New York consumes thousand bar
rels---or nearly million-of eggs per
day. They come mainly from the West.
| DR.. Hall, while in the North Pole re-
gions, dimes off Of nine pounds of fro
zen meet to keep him warm.
/ There is one rich Catholic Church in
New York-St. Stephen 's-which is said
to have an income of $4,000.
| The latest mourning fashion in Paris
is rather grotesque-a skirt ornamented
with deaths heads about the bottom.
/ A lawsuit in Prussia, which began in
the early part Of the seventeenth centu-
ry, has just been settled by compromise,
4 Elson, the pedestrian, recently ran
FIVE miles in thirty minutes, in Windsor,
Nova Scotia.
/ The recent assessment of real estate
in Baltimore amounts to over two hun
, dred million dollars.
4 Waterbury, Ct, has new Joint Stock
Company for the manufacture of hooks
and eyes. 1t has a capital of 10000
The nickle works recently established
at Torrington, CT, in connection with q
, mine of metal, will soon go into operation
y The potato crop Of New Hampshire
will not be more than half the average
this season; tubers are selling for so cents
!, per bushel.
i It is said that an offer has been made
for Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe and the auc.
! tion has been delayed until the end O.
this month.
el A lager beer seller in Vienna has beer
threatened with prosecution by the po
lice if he does not increase the size O
his glasses.
n@- Iturbide and Macmillan, the only
two Emperors of Mexico, were both sho
. on the 18th of June. The one in 1924
1 the other in 1857.
Mr.. Martin Heist, citizen of Hartly
township, Union county Pa, died few
! days ago at the advanced age of 1Oi
. years 5 months and 2 days.
n The walters of London have started ,
! newspaper, called the City Walters Pro
yident Society's Journal There ar,
eight thous and walters in the fraternity
Five hundred acres of land near Homes
dale Pa, have been bought by two gen
tlemen of New York for the purpose o.
csla;,,..iigsating the winter greenberry.
A man in Illinois, Sha was stabbed il
the back twelve years ago recently coughet
! up an inch and b alf Of knife blade,ant
feels better since.
i Joseph Dion has challenged Roberts
to play three games, English, French ant
A merican, for $40, 600 in gold each, ans
tn billiard championship of the world
). The new arsenal building at Rock. Is
land between Iowa and Illinois is to be
an imme nse affair. There are to be ter
stone wo rkshops, each 210by 300, feet
Two children in Clinton, Iowa, were
fatally poisoned few days since by an
Overdose Of morphine administered by
an old lady friend to cure dysentery.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin
estimates the sugar crop of Louisians
this year at about one fourth of the usual
crop before the rebellion.
In family Bible, in Connecticut, this
record is to be found.-Elizabeth Jones
born on the 10th of November, 1885
according to the bss. of her recollection.
The Augusta (Me.) City Council has
deposed its President, G., P. Cochrane fol
voting the Democratic ticket at the late
election, while protesting to be Repub.
lican.
The new Opera House in Paris will
contain twenty large statues, forty busts
and four groups Of statuary and will be
adorned with 500 marble monolith col
} umns.
The platform of an independent can
didate for the Wisconsin Assembly, as
announced by him, is "The Union, wo.
: mems rights, and the repeal of the dog