Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-27
Miscellaneous Items.

Bond MISUNDERSTANDING marriage GER
tifcate.
Smoking has been prohibited in the negro
churches at Louisville.
Up to this date there have been three
thousand three hundred bankrupt cases in
Virginia.
..Of the G,0O0, 900 manageable women OF
England 2,6OO,O0O are unprovdod with hus-
bands.
Tho New Years presents received by the
Cleveland letter-carriera ranged from $40 to
S315, cGsh.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel brings hehigh-
est rent ia New York-$98, $40 a year. The
st. Nicholas is next, boing S96,2OO.
In cold, northern countries, by wise
provision ofnature, the mountains are clad
in frs
There has been shipped from the port OF
Manistee, Mich, during the past aeason
1905 $50, 600 feet Of lumber.
Larger attendance than ever before is
reported at all the southern schools aud col
leges.
"A macadami2ed road has been construct
ed from Jaila to Jerusalem, and the latter
city enjoys steam mill.
When hog is found at large In tho
streets Of Charleston he IL killed and his car.
cass distributed to the poor.
Over twenty thousand copies of Miss
Dickns0ns 'WhHt Answer 2" have been
sold by her publishers. That answers very
we'll
About ono hundred thousand bushels OF
peanuts have been exported from North Car
oina this year. The crop Is very exhaustlng
to the land.
A ho. I,,a I, L.. H.
peninsula OF Michigan, and a memorial to
Congress adopted showing why that piece
should be made Superior State.
VIM. N. Wooley was executed at Free.
hold, n. j., ON the 7th, for the MURDER OF
Hartshorn Fleming at Shark River, last Au-
gust.
"A Minnesota farmer SAYS: eve raise
four hundred bushels of potatoes to tho acre
here, which would be a big thing II we didn't
also raise bugs enough to eat them all up"
The Bluff brewery, at Quincy, ILL.,, owned
by Henry Ruif, WAS burned yesterday morn
ing, with 1000 bushels of barley. The total
loss is estimated ut $4,000
WHATS that2" asked q schoolmaster.
pointing to tho letter X. "Its daddys name"
mo, you blockhead, it's X. )" "Tant nulher
We daddy's name, for Iseed him write it many
a time"
"A Michigan farmers sheep having mys-
teriously disappeared, recently he placed a
wolf trap in the field. A few days afterwards
he. found 1t sprung, and now one OF his
neighbors is laid up with sprained ankle.
"A Richmond detective asserts that about
one quarter Of the horses now owned IN Vir.
ginia have been stolen from their lawful own
Ors, and are mostly in tho hands OF parties
who purchased them without knowledge of
the fact.
The coachmcn Of Paris aud London drive
80 reoklessly Mat accidents continually occur
In the streets Of both cities. In London the
"Cabbies' are insolent and careless. A Paris
coachman usually passes his time IN talking
TO tho coachman behind him.
1t appears to bo the intention Of tho roy
ernInent TO exclude the French language
from tho Dominion Recently number of
accounts were sont back from Ottawa to Que
bee because they lad been render ID In
French.
The warehouse owned by David Mills g.
Co., noar Perth, Amboy, n, j., was burned
ON sunday night with a quantity of grain
Loss %b,0 600: partially insured Tho 3uild.
ing was set on fire by lightod cigar thrown
into box Of old papers Nl0
"A transcendental preacher took for his
tcxt, Feed my lambs" Aplain farmer very
plninly remarked TO him on coming out OF
Vno cnuTcn, very good text, sir, but you
should take care not TO put tho hay 40 high
In the rack that the lambs can't reach IT,"
"A farmer from Missouri drove into Ouin-
cy,. ILL.,, the other day, with load Of hogs,
aud, whilo waiting for his turn TO unload,
weit into n tavern near by for n drink Upon
returning soon aftorward he found that some
ono had, In his absence, sold out his team
hogs and all, pocketed the proceeds, and dis.
appeared, -T-
Near Lexington, KY, last Wednesday
night, tho boraes attached 10 an omn,bus
densely crowded with ''surprso party" ran
oil, thro wing the vehicle ovor an ombank.
mont. The festive passengers Sustained
many grievous bruises, and somo OF tho Ia.
dies were unconsclous for short time. Ijut
tho party camo cfl.
.-Tbe "pastng and folding" for Tho penn.
sylyania Legislature is ajob that has hereto.
fore cost 100000 per session. At tho opening
OF the present session a private irn,~.per.
iectly responsible offered TO do tLc work for
$7OO0i but this proposition was rejected bo.
cause there was emo law for such A syatem M
dong business" Subsequently Il wss agreed
~ eau 'us 70 appoint sixty-one pastors and
folders, m increase Of twenty-ueyen.