The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-02-12
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$40 ,0e0, 600 worth of business In Leav
enworth last year.
The per diem of Prussian infantry has
been raised to seven cents.
Philadelphia proposes to run up ST.
100000 worth of additional school.
house.
A reporter has been elected an alder
man in Pittsburg.
A falling icicle dissolved $40 bonnet
in Newark on Monday.
Lebanon, Ohio, has nine churches and
500 people. Marietta, has ouly seven
teen to 5000 population.
Miss Gustina, Bartletts Island, mouth
of Ellsworth River, died on the 18th ult,
aged 15. She was of enormous size, and
weighed about 400 pounds but she went
the way of all flesh, even that amount of
lit.
Governor Low, Of California, has de-
cided not to order Especial election for
Representatives in the Fortieth Congress
so that State will be unrepresented in
the House at the special session commenc-
ing March A.
The late lamented Lincoln's old home
at Springfield, ILL.,, is occupied by fam
lily who kept things as nearly as possible
as they were while he lived in it. They
must have rather a neat time of it.
Bishop O'Reagan, formerly of the
Chicago Diocese, who died lately at Bromp.
ton England, left considerable proper.
ty by will--S10,000 towards educating
priests for Illinois, $1,000 for hospital at
Chicago, and several similar bequests for
Ireland
A certain Mr.. Coffin being blessed with
son, a friend offered one hundred dol
lars for the privilege of naming him.
The offer as accepted, when the friend
named the child Maho gany.
! Colonel Parker, practical Indian, is
the author of the new Indian bill propo-
sing to transfer the custody of the gentle
savages from the Interior Department to
the War Department.
! Beecher thanks God he was never able
to smoke whole segar. He differs from
Sancho Panza, who thought God gave man
a great blessing when he gave him good
stomach.
I IL England 146,343 widowers yearly
wed spinsters, while 1925 widows marry
bachelors
| Mollie Tressell the murderess, has
been pardonel bv the Governor of llli-
nois. She was in the Peuitentiary just
one month.
Baron Rothschild, who has removed to
Vienna, is to be made count 5y the
Emperor Of Austria.
Trade and commerce are steadily i'm
proving in Ireland.
California yielded in 1866, 1000, ,00O
gallons of wine. 1t aspires to FIVE mill
ions.
| Workmen in Birmingham get up the
inside of watch for eighteen shillings
A gay duke in Paris recently deceased
was no ted as the possessor of 2, 700 waist
coats.
The growth and deyelopement Of the
grain trade of California is a wonderful
accomplishment.
The new Constitution of Missouri
gives married women in that State the
right to make wills.
/ Tt takes more money to run the Freed.
mans Bureau than it did the whole Gov
ern ment under Jefferson.
An Italian engineer. NJ. Geralgo, Of
Trent, has invented a needle-gun which
fires fifteen shots per minute.
James S. Blaine, of Maine, is said to
} be the handsomest man in the United
States House of Representatives.
The shipwreck of British steamer
near the entrance of the port of New
York Is going to cost the United States
the sum of 100000.
General Butler says that the President
s'does not like to show his hand Mr.
Prentice adds: "If he were to show both
his hand and all his pockets, and the
inside of his hat, his cock-eged assailant
would see no stolen spoons in them.
An order has been issued by the Sec
retary of War, carrying into effect the
law abolishing the Office of sutler after
July lst, next.
Eighteen thouaand prairie chickens
we're shipped from Cedar Rapids to Liv-
, erpool, England, last week, and on Thurs.
day last, six tons were shipped East from
, Des Moines.
Under the bounty equalization bill Of
last July, about 114,0OO applications for
extra bounty for white, colored and de.
ceased soldiers have been made to the
Second Auditors Office, and about 100,-
600 of living white soldiers to the Pay
master Generals office. Applications are
still coming in at the rate Of one thou
sand per day.
The Madison (Ind) Courier says
"Teaching sixteen year old bundle Of
calico how to Skate-is sweet thing on
ice" OF course it is, and besides if she
can't skate you can ''let her slide.
Nine snow storms this season in Rich
mond, Va.
Twenty years ago the assessed valua
ton of Providence, R. L., was $25, 800,
600; now it is $50, 100000.
Remem ber that it is a fixed fact, thai
revenge, however sweet, costs more thar
it is worth
She certainly is no true woman, for
whom every man mag not find it in his