The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-09-22
NUMBER SO
Grant


arms to keep him in office in Tennessee
Mrs. Partington inquired at the; Post
Office, the other day, for a stamped ante
lope.
A woman was fined at Nashville on
Saturday, for whipping her husband with
a red hot poker.
| A Boston sculptor is working at the
bust of Anna Dickinson -E.rchange.
Good gracious!
Washington City, the Capitol Of thirty
million whites is controlled under Ratli-
cal rule by negroes.
Why cannot Grant sail by the old
route to California Because he can't
pass around the horn. =.
An exchange says that Holt, Stanton
and Bingham must have horrid dreams
over the Surratt butehery.
A woman in London has been arrested
as vagrant, for exciting the public sym,
pathy by begging win straw baby.
Apples are now carried to China I'M
good condition, by packing them in iccs
and readily sell at Hong Kong for S2 q
dozen in gold.
| The button mania has broken out in
Augusta, Maine, and little girls and old
ladies are squabbing for the charmed
number of 999.
The II rebel Generals who met in
Nashville recently and declared for peace
and fraternity, have excited the Radicals
to fever heat.
The Louisville Journal says of Clay
and Webster, were they now living they
would be Democrats, and vote for S.y-
mour and Blair.
AT the end of several years of full and !,
uninterrupted Radical sway in the South,
Southern whites and Southern negroes
are starving to death.
Another private execution has taken
/ place in London. A boy named Mackay,
nineteen years old, was hanged for the
murder. of his mistress.
Why are the laboring men all in favor
of the Democratic Presidential nomineee
Because they want to Seymour green.
backs and less taxation.
A vote for Grant is a vote to increase
the public debt that is now weighing us
down-to continue the Frecdmen's Bu-
reau to feed lazy negfoes.
A new park is about to be laid out IN
St Louis, near Lafayette. Bonds to the
amount OF $3.50, 900 were issued ON Mon
day to carry out the project.
The blacks Of South Carolina are arm
ing against the whites, and the latter are
invoking the aid of the Northern people
to save them from the barbarians.
"Why don't the Southerners behave p
Tribune. 4-ssF
"Ma, make Bill be .quiet-every time
l hit him on the head he hollers."
The corn crop of Minnesota. the lar
gcst ever grown in the State, is now
nearly ready for harvesting, and viii
yield from fifty to sixty bushels per acre.
"See here, misther,' said an Irish lad
oil seven summers, who was driven upsn
apple tree by dog, ''if you don't take
ples,," 1saais s - y
There is German Democratic CIubin
New York nearly five hundred strong.
nearly all the members of which are said
to have heretofore voted the RebubIicajt
ticket. a e
The Long Branch Daily News has s,is.
pended until June l, 1859. 1t estimates
the receipts of the Continental Hotel a.
at S25O,0OO.
Gov. English has given all Railroad
conductors in Connecticut Especial DO
lice" commissions, thus enabling them t,s
more completely govern the conduct OF
passengers.
1t takes twenty thousand soldiers, at 4
cost of two Thousand dollars year per
head, to keep up black dominatior, in
the South. Had we better contin e to
pay the money.
Salt was struck at Kincardinc, Ontario.
on the seventh inst, alta depth of SOS
feet. From two ordinary glasses of tile
brine one and a half glasses Of the purc
white salt was produced.
When men pay their taxes they real
ze the enormous lying the Republican
papers are guilty Of, when they say tho
taxes are trifing, and that the public
leht is public blessing!
The harvest of the new rice crop Il,
South Carolina and Georgia has com
and the quality is said to he
The finest ever known. The Yield is csti.
mated at serenty-five bushels per acre.
A Radical urges Grants election. bc.
cause he drove his own wood wayo,, int,
st. Louis. The fun of it is, Mrs. Grant 8
,lways hatf to send the niggcr to ST.
Louis to bring Grant home in the wag
)n
The court at Toronto. Caaatla, has de-
'ided in favor of the United. States for
sl2,ooO worth Of postage stamps cap.
llred by the privatecr, Florida, which.
lfter variety of transfers, were taken
here for sale.
INCREASE OF THE PGBLIc DEBT s-1Isc
,ublic debt on the Istof SeptembcS 18B
vas 81, 492, 7S3, 3,365, and on thesast of
1S6S, S2.5356ll.3l3. a1bw.
ng an increase of S42,S30,94S daFinc
he past year. Taxpayers will IIeaso s
axe notice. IS
The Everett Mills, of Lawrenec. rt,u.
O,00O spindles, employ LOCO hand, usc q
very week 1900 pounds of wtx,| o,,sj -