The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-02-19

ception in Washington and was mistaken
for hackman.
The peasants ofEngland have not more
than three hundred words in their vocab-
ulary.
The Sisters of Charity in the United
States number at the present time 951.
Mollie Trussell was pardoned after a
months Imprisonment. The Judge was
Mollie- fed.
The miscegenation sentiment is pro-
crossing in Maine.
The Paris exposition building covers
twice as much ground as the London
Crystal Palace.
George Eversman dropped dead while
dancing at ball in Burlington. Iowa, one
night last week.
A tape-worm removed recently from
a man in Brattleboro, Vt, measured 546
inches in length.
The wool clip Of 1866 sold for about
$50, 900.
Ronalds is great skater in louisville,
KY. He has no legs, and uses three
skates. He sits upon one and uses the
other two with his hands.
Bayard Taylor delivered in Rochester,
New York, on the 21st ult., his eight
hundred and fifty-seventh lecture since
he entered the lecture arena.
Philadelphia clergymen "cannot under
stand why the rich man who rides in his
carriage on Sunday should go to heaven
while the poor man who rides in the street
car should go to hell"
In three of upper counties of South
Carolina, there are in operation twelve
establishments for the manufacture of
cotton goods, two of them running as
high as ten thousand spindles apiece,
and thirteen hundred operatives.
The Patent Office is the only self-sus-
tanning branch Of Government; the fund
on hand for paying entire expenses of
officers is s29O,00O all paid by inventors.
1t has been ascertained that Nebraska
has 100000 inhabitants, and rapidly in
creasing.
A horse thief named Trowbridge was
taken from the Louisville Jail Tuesday
night aud hanged by mob.
Mrs. Lutz was married at Circleville,
Ohio, lately, her own daughter and grand
daughter acting as bridemaids.
There are in California 126,903 chill
dren under the age of fifteen years. The
school expenses last year were 1888, ,229,-
19, and the receipts S9l8,S51 SO.
During eight months of last year. steam
engines to the value of S5,082, ,925 in
gold we're exported frem great Britain to
foreign countries, chiefly Russia, India,
and Egypt.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland keeps
up the state due to his viceregal position
his wife, the Marehioness, never going
out, even when shopping, without four
horses to the carriage, and two outriders.
In the Kansas House the concurrent
resolution to amend the Constitution by
striking out the word ''white," which had
passed the Senate, was amended so as
to strike out the word "male." and also
makes intelligence the basis of suffrage
after 1870
There are Z ,426 breweries, large and
small distributed throughout the towns
and villages of Prussia, for the manufac-
ture of lagar.
/
The value of taxable property in Ne
braska in 1866 was S17,S35,881 81, an
increase of more than four millions over
the previous years valuation.
The rebel ram Stonewall jackson, hav-
ing been converted into an ice boat, is
used to open the channel Of the Potomac
The Arkansas Legislature have passed
resolutions appropriating money to re-
place the funds of the General Govern
ment seized by that Convention at the
time Of secession.
There is, il is said, space Of 4,131,.
600 square miles around the North Pole,
which is now blank on our maps.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blackburn, of Columbus,
who are charged with fendish abuse of
their little daughter, have been commit
ted to jail in default of $4,000 bail each.
The little victim is at hospital, and i'm
proving.
Mrs. Wilby kicked conductor iu the
mouth, at Erie, Pa, because that unhap-
py man would not let herself and hus-
band get on the train without showing
their tickets.
The Paris Exposition will cost the
State of Wisconsin $4,000.
A Maine boy who amused himself some
years ago by planting apple seeds netted
q profit of 500 from his orchard last
year.
Nebraska is now State. IF all the
Southern States were recognized as in
the Union, the Union would consist of
thirty seven States.
Solomon johnson, colored man, for
merly President Lincoln's barber, has
been appointed first class clerk in ihe
Treasury Department in Washington,
| with desk in the Secretary's Office.