The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-06-04
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only 81, TIA bales.
The weekly receipts Of cotton at New
Orleans since the 1st Of September last,
amount to 679, 1878 bales.
The Waltham watch-man, Royal E..
Robbins, put s133, ,361 in his pocket last
year in the way Of income.
The loss in Chicago by FIRE, in April,
reached s97, liz, with an insurance there
ON of s75,6l0.
The famine has not ceased Its ravages
lin India. In the district Of Cuttack the
deaths were forty per day.
John Saxton, of the Canton (0hio)
Repository, is 75, and has helped to
produce every issue of his paper since
1874.
Col. James NJ. Thompson, Of Spring
field, Massachusetts,, and of express no.
toriety, returned an income last year Of
S118,l94.
In Canada there are seventy-three gold
mines, employing 708 miners. The yield
of gold for the last three monthsis val
ued at $500, ,955.
The iron mines along the Juuiats Riv.
er, near Mount Union, Pennsylvania, are
said to contain both gold and silver. An
assay proves the ore to contain S12 80 Of
gold and eighty cents of silver to the ton
of iron.
Jefferson Davis has arrived in Montre-
al, and is stopping at the residence of
his wife's mother, Mrs. Howell. It is
said that Mr., Davis has purchased the
McGiverin, estate, at ST. GATHERINGS, for
a summer residence.
Whilst the German and Irish immigra-
ton to the United States has been very
large, and has attracted general notice.
it is estimated that more than one million
French people have quietly come into
the country, and are now settled in vari-
Gus parts, chiefly in the Northwest.
The whole radical element of the coun
try was recently overoyed by the ap-
pointmeut of colored confidential clerk
in. the Treasury Department at WASH
ington. He vas put under the Comp
troller of the currency, and is already
under arrest for embezzlement and for
gerry.
Mr.. Oliver Moon, Of Sheffield, Lorain
county, Ohio, departed this life on the
2Sth Of April, 1867, in the 8lst year Of
his age. He came into Sheffield 81 years
ago. then an almost nnbroken wilderness
and has resided on the same farm ever
since until the close Of his busy life.
Brownlow's voters in Tennessee are
described by radical paper as class
who have left their original places Of
residence, and are at the mercy of cir
cumstances as to employment and q
livelihood. For the most part they can
neither read nor write, and are uninstruct
ed as to the rights aud duties growing
out of their new station.
Itappears from the monthly report Of
the Director of the Bureau Of Statistics,
that the exports Of the United States in
the first quarter Of the present year, we're
one hundred and thirty three millions Of
dollars worth. Of this amount the South
ern States furnished ninety-two million,
or about seventy per cent.
A lady of sporting pfoclivities, resi-
ding at Kalamazoo. Mich, has just pur-
chased the trotting horse "Melton" in
Hamilton, C. W., paying for the same
$500 in gold. This with the present
Canadian tariff Of 20 per cent, win make
the total cost SIC, 200 in gold. The lady
6rst witnessed the performance Of aMel-
ton" at the horse fair in Buffalo last
summer. when be trotted mile in 2:24.
A good anecdote is told Of house
painter son, who used the brush dex-
terously, but had acquired the habit of
putting it on too thick. One day his
father, after having frequently scolded
him for lavish daubbing, and to Ino pur-
pose, gave him a severe fagellation.-
aThere, you young rascal" after per-
forming the painful duty. show do you
like that?" "Well don't know" whined
the boy, in reply, shut it seems to me
that you put it on thunderin' sight
thicker than did"
A short time since the following ap.
peared:
Why is beard like common sense?
Because no woman possesses it.
At which lady correspondent "goe!
for it in the following manner;
Why is the author Of the above like /
certain worn out instrument of music?
| Because he is an abandoned Tyre
Qiar.)
An old joke illustrates this article:-
"My friend, said a seedy individual t.
an acquaintance at the ferry, "I wisf
you would loan me two quarters to eros.
the ferry; han't got dollar in th'
world"
"Well, I would like to know" was the
Ireply, "what difference it makes to q
man who hasn't got dollar in the world
(which side of the river he is on?"
/ Persimmons says of his FIRST sereuade
at was the witching hour of l A. M.
when church yards yawn. Everything
was hushed, and stiffness reigned pro,
found. I commenced to sing, 4 Bring .
Little Flower to Thee. Sophronia was
hanging out of the window, and it wa.
through her solicitation that I eadeayor
cd to warble this cussed piece; Il Bring
a Little Flower to Thee Sophronia'
1 pap stuck his head out of the window
and in a voice of thunder roared: "Wel
lust set it on the door step. and dom
make SO much fuss about such cusset
/ little flower"