The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-01-08
NE w 8 ITE n 8 /,

affectionate letter from husband No. in
California who is coming home loaded
down with money.
At Pleasant Mills, New Jersey, lives
the oldest John Smith. His age is III
years, and his faculties are not dim, nor
is his natural force abated.
Mr. Stephen H. Philips, lately citi-
zen of Boston, has been appointed At
torney General by the King of the Sand
wich Islands.
1t Is expected that Surratt will reach
this country about the 10th inst, and his
trial will take place at the FEBRUARY term
of the Washington Criminal Court.
The London Court Journal announces
that her Royal Highness the Princess of
Wales, Is; and that the Princess
Helena also is. In the first case,
''early in the ensuing year." and in the
latter .in April" are the specified occa-
sions. The Princess Clotilde was to have
about two weeks before Christ
mas.
The Vienna surgeons use tissue paper
as substitute for lint. 1t is cheaper, and
just as good.
San Barnardine county, ,California,is as
large as the State of Delaware, Connecti-
cut, and Rode Island combined.
General Hunter, in 1864, found it nee
essary to destroy the mills at Lexington,
Va. They have just been rebuilt.
A branch school for the education of
soldiers orphans is in operation in the
Madison College Building at Uniontown,
Pa.
Eight hundred and ninety-seven con-
victs in the Ohio Penitentiary.
Picture frames are now made of COM
pressed peat.
The city of Columbia, S. G., issues
shinplasters.
In the Veuango district there are 279
oil wells producing 1854 barrels of oil
a day.
In Parkersburg, West Virginia, crude
petroleum is used as paint oil.
A Macon editor had fresh strawberries
the other day.
A little girl in Boston was badly inju-
red by a snow slide from roof.
|, Sand changed into stone in fifteen min
utes is new English invention.
A Cincinnati squire pays man 81, 600
for false Imprisonment.
A boy in Hannibal, Mo-, was hit in the
stomach with base bali and died.
A yoke of Oxen sold at the cattle sale
at London o., last week weighed $3.50
pounds and brought $290,5o.
Bishop Simpson, of Methodist Episco-
pal Church, accompanied by his son, ar
rived in Galveston Texas, last week, and
is the guest of Major B. Rush Plumly.
He preached onSunday morning in Turner
Hall.
The Ashtabula Sentinel reports pig
ten months and twenty days old, that
dressed four hundred and eighty pounds
of clean pork.
The Congressional Investigating Com
mittee has arrived in New Orleans, and
commenced its sessions of inquiry into
the late riots.
General Klapka has arriven in Paris
and has given some curious details of the
late war, in which he participated. He
states that no less than 81, 900 unwound
ed Austrians were taken prisoners at the
battle of Sadova.
Some New Orleans play-goera have
given Zoe gold watch.
Lieutenant- Colonel Fletcher, Of the
Scots Fusilier Guards, has finished a
three-volume book about our war.
1t is said that Fitzpatrick is confirm
ed drunkard, and that he is often picked
up drunk in the streets of Santiago and
carried home.
Mr.. C.. Samory, Commissioner from
Louisiana to the Paris Exposition, was
among the passengers for Havre by the
ST. Laurent.
Count Bismarck has res uned his former
custom of personally making a daily re-
port to the King Of Prussia.
Mr.. Bigelow is going from Paris to
spend some months in Berlin before he
returns to this country.
List composed an oratario for the
Pope, and the Pope kissed him and call
ed him 'My dear son." He must have
meant nephew.
General Napier, commanding the mil
itary forces of Upper Canada, left Toronto
for Boston where he will take steamer
for England.
The President has received from James
Lyons, of Richmond, cane made of a
piece of the frigate Constitution. The
inscription of the head of the cane com
ments Andrew johnson as the restorer
of the Constitution.
The coolest weather in ten years was
experienced in Titusville last week. On
Thursday evening the mercury was fifteen
degrees below zero, and on Friday morn
ing twenty degrees below.
A lady in Massachusetts,, while at
church, put pear in the box passed