The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-05-07
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There are in the United States about
SOC, 600 more males than females.
A woman was arrested in Kentucky
for stealing Aatboat.
There were thirty nine unnatural
deaths in New Orleans last month.
A Missouri lady was recently deliver
ed of four healthy boys at one birth.
The starving people down South would
find mors relief from corn than letters.
A blind man in East Fairfield, Vt. has
for eighteen years supported family OF
four persons by his own exertions.
A Portland paper thinks the temper
ance cause in Maine is being injured by
fning men for selling sweet cider.
The Appletons are soon to build in
New York the finest and largest pub
fishing house in the world.
A young married couple leaving Cleve-
land on bridal tour were SO happy that
they forgot their baggage.
Head Centre Stephens is really in
Paris, hobnobbing with the British Min
lister.
In 1866 FIVE hundred thousand sheep
we're killed by dogs, and their value was
$4,000, 900.
They are prosecuting the dog war
with great vigor in Chicago. Already
5232 have been slaughtered this season.
The New York Board of Health claims
to have information that cholera prevails
in three interior cities Of. the Union.
Our national naval contribution to the
Paris Exposition will be the fine war
steamer Franklin, commanded d by Admi-
raj Farragut.
They say that Bismarck is no speaker,
that he is as rough and rambling and
funcouth as Cromwell.
The first attempt at universal ex-
hibition was made under Nero more than
eighteen centuries ago.
Minnesota has received the patent for
the Agricultural College land grant, &C.,
600 acres.
A man in Albany mas relieved of a
ish-bon which he swallowed twenty
years ago. 1t was taken out of his neck.
Lady Emily Peel has presented Sir.
Robert with frst-born son, after eleven
years of marriage.-London paper.
Twelve thousand dollars have been
offered and refused for span Of fast
horses in Buffalo.
For hundred years after the settle
ment of New England potatoes were
unknown as an article of food.
Judge Pettibone, Democrat aged 81,
is the oldest member Of the Connecticut
House of Representatives,.
Car loads of ammunition and muskets
directed to the tyrant Brownlow, are ar
irving in Nashville.
The Newburyport Herald says the cost
of living in New England is now high
er than in any other country on the face
of the globe
The late Confederate steamer Shen-
andoah has been purchased by the Sui
tan of Zanzibar, to be used as pleasure
yacht.
A New York paper has an essay on
"Horace Greeley as hem whose new
laid eggs generally prove in the end to
be added
The newspapers in Chicago are enga-
ged in controversy as to whether the
recent Legislature of Illinois was COM
posed of human beings
Eggologists in Albany are excited
over two complete eggs, we'll formed,
which are united by ligament Of about
IAN inch IN legth.
An English paper says the purchase
of Russian America by the United States
is of the nature of Sherman's S tactics, "a
march upon the enemy's flank.
The Masonic fraternity of the city of
New York have decided to expend $780,
900 in building home for the widows
and orphans and disabled Masons de-
pendent on the order.
The city of Evansville, Ind, has sub
scribed million of dollars to the Evans
vile, Henderson and Nashville railroad
The hands are now at work on that road
and it is to be completed very soon.
The war cloud in Europe is passing
away. Prussia has signifed her accept,
ance of the Queen of highlands propo-
sition for ageneral conference in London
to settle the Luxembourg matter, which
will meet on the 18th of May.
Persons are gathering from the battle
fields in Georgia the bones of horses
killed in battle or by disease, and selling
them to junkshops in Chattanooga. At
every station along the railroad piles of
these bones are awaiting shipment.
Mr.. Dancer has succeeded in making
Photographic portraits on collodion SO
small that they are wholly invisible to
| the naked eye, and 10000 portraits may
be introduced in a square inch.
The Missouri river is higher than at
any time since the great flood of IA, and
is still rising. There has been already
great destruction of property, and great
fears are entertained that there viii be
still greater.
Editors in New Hampshire have new
way of increasing their subscription lists.
A subscriber for one copy receives box
of blacking, two copies obtains box of
saldines, and, to sum up, five hundred
copies secures the nomination to Con
gress while one thousand brings the
lucky patron farm in New Jersey,
fenced in and mortoaged