The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-07-07
NUMBER 10
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New York furnishes one prisonet 4
day for tie Sing Sing prison
Crying babies are prohibited at one Of
the Saratoga hotels this year.
Fashionable Parisians get their we'd
ding fxings from London.
The trees of Gettysburg are fast dis
appearing, to re.appear as canes.
immigration into Kansas this year is
estimated at one hundred thousand.
A California paper nominates Reyer-
end Henry Ward Beecher for President.
The frst wheat raised In Ohio was
harvested in Marietta, in 1899, BY Thur
man Guthrie.
The assessed value of property in Ne
braska is S32, 600, 900, anincrease Of S14.
100000 over last year.
A cruel editor says ] ohm Sherman only
speaks when stocks are going Up. John
owns $500, 1000 of ouds-was poor when
the war begun. l't1
Yarmouth, hGoyernor" Of Louisiana,
has boughta house in New Orleans to
enable him to deny the charge Of carpet
Ibaggirg,
Doolittle and Butler having. dined to-
gether, Prentice conjectures that it must
have been at place of entertainment f6r
man and Beast.
Professor Gangee says the reason peo-
pie in this country eat their meat SO
nearly raw is beause the proper juices
are lost by transportation.
A Radical editor says they have in
this campaign to meet a desperate foe--
the people led on BY oopperReads and
greenbacks.
The Cincinnati Commercial says old
Ben. Wade is the sdeadest' man in
Washington. He represents the future
Of his party associates.
An English editor, who hasn't heard
of apple-jack or Jersey lightning, am
nounces that athe Americans are making
wine from apples
When genuine radical wishes to be
especially complimentary to q mans ex-
cellence Of heart, he calls him black
hearted.
To vote for the Democratic ticket is to
act like a white man. To go for the
Radicals is to make negro of yourself
Grant will never be elected to The Pres.
|idency. He is more than sufficiently
honored in having his name spoken IN
connection with it.
Since Forney is out of Office he has
SO much time to devote wholly to lying,
that his papers utterly groan With their
burdens of fresh falshoods.
Dir. N. S. Townsend, Of Avon, LoraiS
County, Ohio; has received the appoint
ment Of Professor Of Practical Agricui
ture in the Iowa State Agricultural COL
lege, now being established.
The railroad bridge projected at Bis,
sells Point, near St. Louis, has been
planned by Benjamine II Latrobe, Of
Baltimore. He estimates that it can be
built for 81 100000.
Bob Schenck charged Butler with
consulting his wishes instead of his wis.,
dom. Butler retorted that the time for
wisdom had passed out of the pafty-ths
question NOW is money.
The two-years-old girl who has all the
physical development Of woman Of
thirty is on exhibition in Chicago, and
afternoon matinees are held to acomnlo-
date the children.
The Vienna Presse asserts, on the au-
thority Of information derived from .
Roman source, that in his next Allocl-
ton the Pope will declare that he has no
intention Of relaxing the Austrian Con-
cordat.
A careful estimate Of the strength of
the two branches Of Old aud New School
Presbyterians, when their union is com,
pleted. shows total Of 407 1856 mem
bers, 4, 4,l72 ministers, 4, 1872 congregations
and 358,265 SGnday-school attendants.
On the California end of the Pacific
Railroad they have already cut fifteen
tunnels 10 distance o! 137 miles,. Thsse
tunnels range from S5 feet in length OF
the fifteen is 6,2s2 feet. The energy
displayed on the Pacific Road would as.
tonish the Old World engineers.
The Kansas settlers, who are in dan
| ger Of losing their homesteads by the
recent treaty, for the sale Of the Ghero-
kee lands, are calling for protection on
the members of Congress. They claim
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