Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-12-17
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Scarlet fever ia doing fatal work in Ken
tneky.
.-Knozville, Tenn, has dshad ! snow
storm. t
The p6stohice clerks n clstlsnd, Ohio,
are al females.
-Some Disturbances, headed by atqdents,
have occurred at Athens, 1roeee.
-LOoalhas been found under the founda-
ton OF the new Illinois statehouae.
--Sight-seers are already engaging rooms
in Washington for Inauguration week.
Ripe stfawb6fries we're gathered on the
James river, Va, as late as the 10Th Of No
yember.
"A book has been made in Hartfordwhich
weighs seyenty-hyo pounds, and contains
l,056 pages.
H-Many are enlsting in thearfny in India
10 escape from the famine which is surely
impending. g tn ayl 44f
An Ohio farmer has raised forty bushels
Of a new variety OF corn in two years, from
four kernels.
Railway travelling Is said 10 be more slow
and uncomfortable Ia Italy than anywhere
else in the world.
Fifty thousand dollars in counterfeit
currency was lately found by a Philadelphia
garbage picker.
1t took two freight cars packed full TO
cRrryto Washington the records Of the mus
tering Office 1T Columbus, Ohio.
In Kansas %, 900 acres ofdand have been
purchased for a colony Of Swedes, who are
coming over In the spring,
Florence has increased in population
10. no oa Az.
tai was removed thither from Turn.
The $1,000 diamond pin stolen from Con
Gresamsn Schumacher. In New York, has been
returned by the thief, and mo questions
asked.p s.t,es.,s, g 4sna
The Jews in Warsaw have a theatre in
which all the plays are founded on Old Ies-
lament stories, and all the parts are taken
by males.
A New York Journal has the following
curious notice; tsWanted, nurse to take
charge Of basket Of children left at this
Office short time ago. i---S
Cholera lof the true Asiatic type has
broken out in Bombay, but it is thought that
sufficient measures have been adopted to
check the spread Of the epidemic.
"A family left Duffalo for week, recently,
their house remaining in charge OF servant
girl, who gave succession OF balls, at
which. she appeared in her mistress dresses
mud jewelry.
--Awag seeing friend bow to an extreme
" corpalent man, inquiredwho no was. That
sir, is smith, the great corporation contract
Or" "Ah, indeed; he looks Ike corpora
ton expander" ~
Paris is said to have feline population
of 700 824. This would seem to show that the
"harmlees cat" enters less extensively into
the daily food OF the inhabitants than has
commonly been supposed.
"A kerosene lamp exploded OF the house
Of L. j. Leslie, in Sing Sing, on Saturday,
burning TO death Mrs. Leslie and her two
children, one boy Of about three years and
the other baby OF nine months OF age.
"A wealthy gentleman In Providence, who
lfas made specially Of collecting political
carieatures, has q full collection, going back
as far as the hard cider campaign. 1t is said
to be the richest of the kind extant, as he
has been offered repeatedly several Thousand
dollars for it.
The New Orleans Republican has passed
into the hands OF stock company with a
large capital, and will hereafter be edited hy
ex-GOy Michael Hahn. The tenor OF his
saluiatory Is said to be rather conservative
and independent.
III lldb DtCb iVulu Vial btuuInbn ~ OdAli-
bridge, England, University are so deficient
in English grammar and spelling, that an OK
animation in these elementary branches has
been added to the tests to be applied before
a student can receive his degree.
"A man named Asa Kimball jumped from
the third story window OF gambling
house in Cambridge, Mass. last Sunday
night, to escape from the police, who were
making raid on the premises, and was 80
badly injured that he died on Tuesday morn
ing.
An attorney, about to fvrnisE bill Of
costs, was requested by his client, a baker,
s.to make 1t as light as he could" "Ahl'
replied the attorney, "that's what you may
say to your foreman, but it's not the way I'
make my bread"
"A cargo Of coolies Is reported to have ar
rived recently at Galvest0n, Texas These
unfortunate Chinese aborers, it is said, were
consigned as merchandise, With the Ordinary
bill oil lading, and were to be sold at auction
to pay freight and charges. Two-thirds Of
the coolies were females.
"A man went up in balloon few days
since from park In San Francisco before he
was ready for the trip, While making his
the balloon got loose from its
fastenings and darted up to a considerable
height and collapsed Tho ambitious Rronaut
slid hastily down rope which was dangling
from the basket, thereby SAVING his life at the
cost of some severe bruises.
AT one time woman could scarcely walk
through the streets Of San Francisco without
having every one pause to gaze on her, and a
child was so rare that once ina theatre in
the same city, where woman had taken her
infant, when it began to cry, just as the or
ehestra commenced to play a man IN the
pit cried out, "Stop these tiddles, and let the
baby cry. 1 haven't heard such Q sound for
ten years" Tho audience applauded this
sentiment, the orchestra stopped and the
baby continued its performance amid un-
bounded enthusiasm.