The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-12-01

The smallpox is prevailing in Mil
waukee to such an extent that the schools
have been closed.
Three hundred thousand dollars worth
of property was given at New York
wedding last week. a
New York society has refused to no
tice Fifth Avenue lady because for
merly her husband kept a stand in Full
ton market.
A $4,000 diamond necklace appeared
among the bridal presents at New York
wedding on Thursday.
Thirty five candidates are out for com.
mon council in a single ward in Boston.
Four are to be chosen.
Robert Bonner says his New York
Ledger is to be the ''offfcial organ of
President Grants administration.
New York has twelve clergymen who
are each paid over $4,000 a year, and a
hundred others who don't get $1,000
each.
They have in La Crosse blind wood
sawyer, John Hogan; a blind broom
maker, Henry Henryeson, and a blind
authoress, selling her life.
The tax on a gold watch worth one
hundred dollars is one dollar; the tax
on one hundred dollars worth of tea is
at least twenty. five dollars, Who pays
! the taxes?
Two hundred and fifty millions of
passengers paying 15,000,000 pounds
sterling for their tickets, travelled last
year on 100000 trains over 10000
900 miles on the railroads of England.
The Vermont Legislature has passed
bill delivering the bodies of executed
criminals to medical schools, one argu-
ment for its passage being that the pros
pect of dissection would deter criminals
from the commission of crime.
Among the specimens of natural
history from all parts of the world, pack
ed in alcohol" which are daily received
at the Smithsonian Institute, the profess
sors were surprised last week to find a
couple Of very young babies, sin good
state of preservation"
An internal water tumor, il was found
had formed on the breast of Mrs. See
ley, who died at Troy, New York, last
Saturday, weighing one hundred and
twenty pounds. 1t had to be removed
before the deceased could be buried.
George Warren apparently died of
typhoid fever in Meadville, Pennsylva-
MIA, last week, and all the preparations
were made for his funeral After lying
in trance forty eight hours he returned
to consciousness, and is now in hope
full way.
The South Bend Indiana) Register. of
the 9th says that Major Blowney and
Mr.. George Herb, citizens of that place
while standing in front of store on last
Saturday night, were seized by some
persons and forcible carried off, and
that the most thorough search has been
made for them, but nothing can be ascer-
tanned of their fate.
Some ten miles north Of Salt Lake
City is a boiling sulpher spring. 1t gush-
es out in great volume at the foot of q
limestone rock, from an aperture as
large as hogshead and stream that
would fill tube foot square. The
water is very strong. 1t is boiling hot,
and strolling Mormons often cook eggs
in it.
A Miss Ward, of Bethany, Genesec
county, New York, recently met with a
terrible accident A cow, which was
being worried by dog, ran towards
her, thrusting her horn into her mouth
and upward, forcing one eye from its
socket, and inflicting fearful wound,
1t is thought the girl will recover, though
she will lose an eye.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the
best time for family prayers is immedi-
ately after breakfast and Immediately
after supper, for then the children will
be most likely to be quiet, and to feel
that they have something "a be thankful
for. No Que will be hungry; no one viii
> %sry. ~ n''p