The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-05-14
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Inc tax per capita III Dost0H IS S0fjln
New York s22; in Philadelphias11.
A Chinese firm in San Francisco wields
a capital of over S2,OOO,OOO
The Mexican Empire, by the fight Of
Macmillan, lost its head, and now Max
imilian seems likely to lose his.
The Presidents wife is said to WELD a
considerable influence over her husband.
She is a sound, sensible, good woman.
The Universalist societies in the Uni.
ted States number about 750, and have
543 ministers.
The lace trimmings of dress lately fin
ished by Boston milliner, for New
York lady, cost alone $4,000.
In Georgia a pair of twin children,
with snakes heads, excite popular won
derment.
The bridge, fifty feet thick in some
places, opposite Quebec, cannot be dis
lodged by powder.
In 1842 Milwaukee had 1000 inhab-
itants; now her population is about TO-
600.
A young man employed in the rolling
mills at Bethlehem, Penn, has fallen heir
to an estate valued at $8,600,00O.
Helan Ciecht, of Milwaukee, beat his
wife to death in religious controversy,
"He proved his doctrine orthodox by
apostolic blows and knocks"
Trouble is expected at Havana on ac-
count of the taxes recently imposed, and
the Spanish troops are being drilled con-
stantly.
General Mcclellan and family are ex-
pected to return home during the fall
Mrs. Mcclellan is said to be in very bad
health.
A Newburyport merchant last week
received a telegram from Calcutta, in two
days and five hours from its date, only
costing $500.
The Asiatic cholera is carrying of
many victims in the principal cities o.
Nicaragua. In Leon one hundred deaths
occurred In one day.
At the instance of Sir Robert Muir
cheson, an expedition is to be sent tt
Africa for the purpose of clearing up all
doubts of the death of DR.. Livingstone
Many of the wealthy old creoles o.
Louisiana are returning to France. They
are disgusted with the military despot
ism now existing in the State.
A telegram announces that three ne
groes from Alexandra are among The
jurors in the United States District Cour
in Richmond.
The oil and bone taken from thre,
whale-ships arrived in New Bedford thi.
season, during their last voyage, amour.
ted to over 100000.
New York has contributed for the re
lief of the South SITS, 600; Boston s44,
900; San Francisco $49,00e in gold; ant
Philadelphia $4,000.
A bag containing two hands, an arm,
leg and hip bone of woman was fount
by the New York police, floating in tht
North river.
An exchange thinks the pews of som,
of the churches ought to rest on pivots
SO that the occupants could see wht
comes in without straining their neoks
The Chicago policemen carry rount
with them pieces of boiled beef, prepar
ed with nuxvomica, to aid in dog slaugh
ter, and over 5000 CANNES have already
bit the dust.
The whole number of sewing ma
chimes manufactured up to the close O.
last year is computed a.750, 900, and th,
present rate of manufacture as about
100000 per annum.
Juarez has declared all foreign resi-
dents Of Mexico outside of the pale O
protection-Mexican protection-whost
Governments recognize that of Maxinil
ian.
The increase of the area under cottor
cultivation in the Bombay (Indla) Pres
idency is about 270, 900 acres, represent
ing increased export to the value of S.,
100000.
Irwin Davis, formerly a writer at the
Massasoit House, in Springfield, Mass.
is now one of the richest men in Califor.
mia, his income being from $4,000 to
100000 month.
A crazy Canadian fool has published s
book to show that in the next eight years
Napoleon is to absorb the ten Kingdoms
of Europe, and commence a religious
crusade against the Christians,
Arailroad conductor and $50, ,00(
heiress in prospective, eloped from
Springfield, H., last week, but were cap
tured at St. Louis by the police, and
conveyed to separate cells and sorrow il
the callaboose.
A company has been formed in Merl
den, Conn, for the manufacture of hats
by a machine which weaves them whole
The capital stock is 100000, and i
took $4,000 to buy up the different
patents used in the machine.
The last revolutionary pensioner ii
Maine, Mrs. Rhoda Green. died at Lis.
bon on the 18th ult., at the age of 100
She has had two hundred and thirty
eight direct descendants, of whom two
hundred and six are new living.
The returns of the number of immi
grants arriving at New York show thai
from the beginning of the year Of May
1st, 44,337 have arrived, as compared
with As, 1877 during the same period las,
year. 49,
The spiritualist, Williams, who starved
and fogged his little daughter almost tt
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