The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-02-26
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A New York paper advocates the eat
ing of horses.
In 1856 Mr. Peabody was worth fifty.
millions. t
The importation Of pork into Russia
is prohibited.
Fifteen feet of land in London sold fer
$2l5, 600. @e
A single grove near st. Augustine,
Fla, yields 10000 oranges this season.
A young man in Newburg, Ind, who
was frozen stiff, was warmed into life.
There were Al ,46S illegitimate births
in England last year.
The Congress Hall hotel, at Sarat oga,
will be ready next summer.
A Illinois girl who lost her speech has
had forty offers of marriage.
A negro in Chicago attempted to poi
son the inmates of boarding house.
Mrs. Gsysel, lady of Philadelphia,
froze to death on door step in that
city. 80 h
The winter syle of bonnets consists Of
twine strings, with diamond set in the
+. top.
Fresh Goldfish are for sale in the Pc
tersburg, (Va.,) market, thing never
before known, says Petersburg paper
| Chief Justice Taueys friends are about
to erect monument to his memory at
Frederick City, Maryland.
The number of Masonic lodges in En-
gland is l, ,140, an increase of 65 during
last year. 8
i The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided the dog tax of that State to be
unconstitutional.
Il The advertising receipts of the St.
t Louis papers during 1866 amounted to
! $500, 153.
4 At the Cocheco mill, in Dover, N. H.,
100000 yards Of cotton prints were
turned off last year.
] Mobile is almost as dear as New York.
1t requires an income of about Sc, ,00e to
live there in anything like comfort.
: A recent storm in San Francisco in.
cluded rain, wind, thunder, lightning,
and slight shock of earthquake
/ Ship building is very duh in Quebec
About $500 tons are on the Stocks,
against 30.000,at the same time last year
i Roses are now blooming and straw
i berries ripening in California. Out there
winter is merely conventional term.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that drunkenness is neither pal
liation nor an aggravation of criminal
act. i s
A new Industry, that of polishing
granite, has been introduced into Glasgow
Scotland The art has long been carried
On at Aberdeen. ~ a SEQ
i Great preparations for the shad fishery
/ are being made in the waters near Nor
folk, Va, and an early and profitable
seasen is expected.
, The Supreme Court of New Jersey ha.
, just decided that liquor, bill is not {
; legal debt. The Blues can't get blue on
: tick any more. s 5a i Il
4 A Missouri editor says that the Radi
Gals in Congress will soon enact law re
quiring mems cloths to be made without
pockets-there will be no use for them
Sanford Conover the detective, wht
fabricated the testimony complicatins
JEFF Davis with the Lincoln assassina
ton, has been found guilty of perjury
A woman in New York found $500
U. S. securities, and not knowing thei
I value, was about to paste them on fire
board, when they we're rescued by po
, liceman.,
The French Minister in Mexico, NJ. Da
no, is to be married to Mile. Bestegui
: The lady's family own the silver mine o
Real del Monte, and her dowry will b
100000 francs.
: Mrs. McTavish, who died recently il
Baltimore, was sister of the March,
/, oness of Wellesly and also of Lady Stat
! : ford. her only son Charles Carroll Nc
lavish, married daughter Of Gen Scott
> Who dosn't know the man that di,
. not leave the Democratic party?-not he
I The party left him. So he boasts, never
. thinking what an almighty mean man
he must be to make whole party leav
/! him.
al Kinsey's wooden factory, situated a
e the foot of Wheeling Hill, about ST,
q miles east Of st, Clairsville, was burned
or Monday afternoon. The fire wa
= communicated to the building from |
E stove-pipe.
: A son of Cornelius Vanderbilt ha
t testified before committee of the New
: York Legislature that his father own
e one half the Harlem railroad aud seven
teen thousand shares of the Hudson
9 River road.
Two young women of very respectable
: families in Milwaukee, dressed themselve
in male attire, and with each cigar
and hats jauntily set on the side, of tn,
head, made tour Of the city, taking
Z billiard d-room in their course.
Mr.. George Peabody has donated th
magnificent sum of one million of dol
lars for the benefit of the South Western
States,in the promotion Of moral. intel
lectual and industrial education. 1t is