The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-23
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every day. They are said to be charm,
ingly composed.
A man in Ohio is father of five boys
named Fremont, Lincoln, Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan. -t
The message of the Governor of Kan
sas is published every year in English,
German and Swedish
There are eightv-two places in Lewis
ton, Maine, where liquors are sold. The
prohibitory law is in force.
An exchange says that Judge Under
wood is self-made man. If so, he made
very bad job of it.
Garibaldi talks fourteen different Ian
guages. English he last acquired, in
America, in 1850 and 1851.
Brigham Young has no fear of the
locomotive. "Mine must be ad-dpoor
religion" he says, ''if it won't stand one
railroad"
Dean Swift is reported to have preach
ed the annual sermon to the Associated
Tailors of Dublin upon the text: ga
remnant shall be saved"
A. T. Stewart has sold twenty shawls
this season in New York, worth $4,000
each, and one worth $4,000. One wo-
man lately ran up bill for $4,000 at
his store in couple Of months.
The bill locating the capital Of West
Virginia at Parkersburg, passed the
House of Delegates, yesterday morning,
by vote of 30 to %, and was reported
to the Senate.
The assassin of Darcy McGee was
buried at midnight in the prison yard.
When his wife found that she could not
get his body, her language was decided
ly not choice.
Speaking of the course Of the Radical
party, in regard to negro suffrage, be-
fore and after the election, Senator Hen
derson said it rendered that party un-
worthy the support and respect Of hon
est men,"
Revenue offices are to be stationed on
the islands of st. George and st. Paul,
Behring's Strait, on the Alaska coast, to
prevent the indiscriminate slaughter OF
fur seal. They will be assisted by mil
itary force and steamer.
On Saturday the lower House of the
Tennessee Legislature adopted the re-
port of the investigating committee, de-
claring Speaker Richards innocent of the
charge of bribery in the school fund
matter, by a large majority.
The largest man on record in modern
times was Miles Darden, a native of
North Carolina, born in 1898 He was
seven feet and six inches high. At his
death, in 1857, he weighed little over
1000 pounds.
The Viceroy of Egypt has granted
the privilege for gaming institution in
Cairo, similar to that at Baden, to Eu-
ropean company. The annual tax is to
be applied to the improvement of the
city ard suburbs.
As far back as last July, Maggie
Mitchell was married to Henry T. Pad
dock, of Toledo, gentleman of fifty,
to whom the little actress has long been
affianced. She has quilted the stage,
and will live with her husband in New
York City.
The body of Harold, one of the as
sassination conspirators, has been taken
up by permission Of the President. His
funeral was held Monday afternoon, and
the remains deposited in the Congress
ional burying ground. Azterot's body
was taken up Tuesday.
Two gentlemen" were recently sent.
enced in London to five years i'm son
ment, with hard labor, for having wilful
ly damaged a railway carriage on the
Dover and Chatham Railroad All pc.
cuniary offers were refused point blank
by the magistrate.
A young couple of Rockport, Maine
while counting, walked out together
arm-in- arm, and fell through a hole in
the sidewalk, each breaking leg Their
fall set them up in the world-a jury
awarding them verdict cf $12,00(
against the town.
A velocipedist in Detroit got off his
machine and thrashed an impertinent
pedestrian who stopped his way; then
remounting was out of sight before the
nearest policeman could Interfere. An
other argument for mounting the po
lice on bicvcles.
At his grand party the other night
Ben. Butler said to party who were
talking of Mrs. Surratt: "She was al
innocent woman. I sent persons to mil
itary commissions when INTENDED them
to be convicted. When l wished them
acquitted, did it myself"
A Frenchman at Natchitoches, Louis
lana, intends to plant, the coming year
several acres of poppies, and to make
opium. He says that an acre of pop
pies will make fifty pounds of opium
worth fifteen to twenty dollars pound
at a cost of less than four dollars pound
for manufacturing.
There is no Bourbon left on throne
The Count of Chambord is an exile ir
Austria; the Duke of Orleans, ditto ir
London; Queen Isabella, ditto in France
the claimant to the Spanish succession
and the title of Cherries Sixth, ditto il
Austria; Francis II, late King of Nap
les, ditto in Rome
Two men, named Hiram Henim ant
Samuel Kelley, 1.-THE latter an attache O
the New York Theatre, have made s
wager of 81 800 a side to ride a veloci
pede from New York to Chicago. Tht
forfeit money $3.50 each is to be placed
in the hands of Mr.. Charles H. BladeI
on Tuesday. The time is not yet agreed
upon.
1t was found when David Harold.
body was exhumed that the flesh haC
entirely disappeared, the skeleton only
remaining; but the clothing appeared tc
be in fine state of preservation. A vial
containing parchment slip, with the
name of Harold, was found in the box
and handed to his mother.
A gorgeous sign board, with the sin
gle word "McCoole," in green, red and
gold, flames on a saloon opposite the
Court house, in st. Louis. The neigh