The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-12-15
hat fingered on his naturally handsome

without a groati.
Howard looked down into his face, q.
if unable to realize What he had done
Then he burst into tears.
"God knows would not have don,
it if could have helped it; but it wa
either your life or mine"
He turned. away with gloomy all, ,ant
upon the instant disappeared. He wa'
never seen in Arkansas again; but, seve
raj years after, trader brought thu
news that he was living at San Antonio
Texas.
Were we writing fiction, we should
here lay aside the pen; but, as We are
giving facts simply, which can be sub
duty con.spels lis to add an
other incident before this tragic tale is
ended.
1t viii be remembered that Hill enjoin
ed upon his son to avenge his death
Faithfully did that SON obey the com
mand. When ihe had reached his six
teenth year he left for Texas. He was
gone several months. When he return
ed, he said to his mother:
'.It is done, mother! Poor Howard
l pitied him, but | had to do it"
1t is stated that Mary Hayes, the Lou
isville courtesan, who fell heir to $500,
600 in gold, is lying in the last stages OF
in that city.
A Baltimore publisher has completed
five copies Of the proceedings of the
Plenary Council, printed on the finest
paper, and bound in watered silk, to be
sent to the Pope and four cardinals
The work is said to be equal to any eyel
done in this country.
A nurse girl, eighteen years of age
while left in charge of three children OF
the McCulloch family, near Corning, N
T., last Wednesday, i'll a fit of rage al
the youngest child for being fretful, threw
it upon the floor, stamped upon it until
it was almost lifeless, and then roasted
its hands on the hot stove. When its
mother returned home at night it was
dead. The girl was arrested and the
jury is investigating the case.
A smart fight is going on among Wes-
tern radical papers about the return OF
Mr.. Chandler to the United States Sen
ate from Michigan. According tp ap-
pearances the coming Legislature OF
Michigan will be likely to ship Chandler
because he gets groggy before he's fair
y half seas over, and get a more relia-
BILE man.
Among the gifts sent to a pair mar
ried last week was brUom sent to the
lady, accompanied by the following SEN
Iiment: This trifiug gift accept from
me; its use 1 would commend. In stun
shine use the bushy part; in storm the
other end.'
Mr.. Muggins says there is no county
in the world where wives are more wor-
shipped than in France. He regrets,
however, that all the alteration comes
from somebody else's husband.
An Alabama editor, in putting a GRO
Gerry kept by a woman, says: ''Her to-
natoes are as red as her own cheeks,
der indigo as blue as her own eyes, and
her pepper as hot as her own temper" p"
Said baggage master lately to fussy
traveller, "NIister, it is pity that you
was not born an elephant instead of a
ackass, and then you'd have had your
trunk always under your nose,'
John Ncvin, native of Ireland, and
living with his son at Underhll, Yer
mont, is said to be one hundred and
seventeen years old, and yet as vigor-
0us as man of sixty. He has worked
On his sons farm during the past sea
son. He is the father of thirteen chill
lren, the s'baby" of the family being fif-
y years old.
A Mississippi editor having given no.
ice that he would inform, free of charge,
snterprising young men how to make a
fortune without capital, replies to several
anxious inquirers: "Every one ofyou
pull of your coats, leave off your army
skies, quit whisky, go to work, make a
crop OF corn, cotton, pease and pota-
.oes; house them up, then marry an 'en-
.crprising girl
Twelve railroad laborers working
lear Davenport, Iowa, were attacked
md routed last Saturday by an inftriated
male deer, which jumped over high
picket fence. The men rallied twice,
md attempted to suhjugate the brute with
,lubs, but he set them to flight, inficting
serious bruises, and tearing the clothes
nearly off several of the men.
1t is asserted that very "loyar' and
'ery pious editor of Troy, New York,
whose sympathics have always been
leeply moved in behalf of the suffering
negro, has suffered his own father to die
n an Iowa poor house, without sending
lim the aid he was amply able to furnish.
The poor old man had the misfortune to
De white.
1t is understood in Washington that
Attorney Genetal Evarts considers the
practice of compromising Internal Rev.
snue frauds as entirely illegal and that in
Mr.. Rollins is to be notified
hat he must in future submit nil such
eases to Secretary MtCulloch or the At
:orney General.
T. r. Toole, assistant special agent of
The Treasury Department, seized, i'll
New York, on Friday last, $4,000 yards
of fine Lyons silk, together with large
number of French clocks. This is said
to be the largest seizure ever made in
the United States. The total value is
estimated at $4,000.
JEFF Davis has made his first appear.
ance on any stage, as lecturer, in Eng
land. He discourseth on the importance
of exploring Jerusalem, and the peculiar
fitness of Englishmen for the job. The
cable dispatch does not state the price
of admittancc.
A white man IN Houston, Texas talk
ing with a negro, remarked, 81 was
taught to believe, before L came Soutl
that the negroes were compelled to drag
the plows on the plantations" Whel
the freedman, unable to contain himself
longer, burst out, Lor! Gewhillical s
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