The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-12-03
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1t is said that the Australian miners
waste one.half of the gold metal in ex-
tracing it.
Canada has seven universities. The
oldest is Kings College, Of Nova Scotia,
founded in 1902.
The Cincinnati Hebrew Relief Society
has spent over twelve thousand dollars.
this year for the benefit Of thejpoor.
At fashionable wed dings in Philadel-
phia, the bridesmaids enter in pairs, un-
attended by the groomsmen.
Chicago has pedestrian named John
SheyardJ who is backed to walk to New
Orleans n-twenty days.
A Massachusetts merchant, who has
heard nothing of his son for two years,
has just found him in the Sing Sing
State Prison. Aao SO
In Spain out of population Of 49,
L673, 900, according to the last census, no
less than, IL, 600, ,0eo could neither read
nor write. 80
A Philadelphia paper publishes the
names Of two hundred candidates for the
Vice Presidency, and proposes to contin-
ue the list at dollar head. y ~
The Knoxville Herald of the 7th has
good reason to believe that silver abounds
on the line of the projected Nashville
Railroad. m
/! Mr.. Joseph Il. Delano Of Marion, Mass,
has married a daughter of a Russian
Admiral, as one of the results of Farra-
CUTS visit to Russia. Mr.. Delano was an
ensign.
Secretary Seward was snubbed by the
House declaring that they would not
vote monies to purchase any more terri
tory, which refers to the a,ledged pur
chase of the Danish West India Island.
There is q sensation ia Dubuque. A
young woman kicks, beats, pounds and
hacks an infant to death, breaking all its
bones and rendering it unrecognizable,
/ Cause unknown.
The New Orleans papers contain en-
couraging accounts of the winter bust
ness prospect. Places Of amusement are
we'll patronized, the hotels are filing up,
end, as the fever has now disappeared, the
health Of the city is unusually good.
A Miss Lane fell into cattle, guard
|near Cincinnati recently, and become
.Iwedged so tightly that she could not get
out. In this condition whole train Of
cars passed over her. Fortunately she
sustained no injury from the cars.
i New York, the Empire State, gave
Radicalism its death blow at the Novem
ber election. In 1866 the RAIDS had q
I majority of 1879. At the late election
the Democracy carried the State by 50,-
i 900 Democratic gain $3.50.
4. Mr.. Battle of Memphis, was robbed or
the highway. A few days afterwards Q
stranger was telling a tale Of having been
attacked, when Mr.. Battle recognized him
as his assailant. he told his suspicious
to his friends, and they took the stranger
out and hanged him.
Mrs. Pratt, widow of Springfield and
her daughter attempted a while ago to
smother little niece of the former, hav
ing been directed by the spirits, as she
said to do so; but the attempt was fortu
nately discovered in season to be frus
trated.
Miss Nancy Ann Snyder, young wo
man of New Bethlehem, Clarion county
Pa, lately ran two miles and half in
seventeen minutes, winning a bet, Sht
now challenges any lady in Clarion coun
4 ty to run race-distance from one te
!, FIVE miles-for twenty dollars side.
A Presbyterian church in Ohio, having
suspended member for joining the ma.
sonic order, an appeal was taken to tht
Presbytery. This body, by vote O.
fifteen to ten, sustained the appeal, ant
restored the party appealing to the com.
munion of the church.
An editor says he has given twenty
thousand dollars fora race horse in order
that he may catch defaulting subscribers
& Another, having heard that drowning
men remember every event of their live
advises his defaulting subscribers to bath'
in deep water.
The library Of cancelled notes in th'
Bank of England contains more than sil
thousand boxes. In these are bundles
of assorted notes, and on the outside ii
painted the date and rank of the defunc
The number of notes kept there is abou
:. one hundred millions, and their nomina
value is S3,0o0,000,000.
! In Richmond, q few days ago it wa
: decided that a person who had taken
counterfeit note and kept it for seyera
months, could not then recover from thu
person he took the note from. 1t wa
long ago decided in Pennsylvania, that
' person receiving counterfeit note from
, an innocent person in payment, and keep
, ing it by him six months without notice
was guilty of gross negligence and mus
sustain the loss
The engineer appointed to fix a poin
e on the Union Pacific Railroad, whicl
, should be considered the Eastern base o
, the Rocky Mountains to the West, o
which the Government has agreed {,
give forty-eight thousand dollars pc
mile to aid in the construction of thu
, road, has reported. He fixes twenty -6v,
I miles west of Omaha.
The crest of said hills is 8,342 fee
above the level of the sea.
The names of Governor English, Ex
Governors Hawley and Buckingham ant
of eighteen other prominent citizens o
j. Connecticut, are attached to published
D appeal of the Christian women of tn,
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