The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-05-04
v A R L Il r Y i.


resolved against cider and tobacco.
The fruit in Middle Tennessee was
killed by the heavy frosts Of last week.
The Sea Island cotton crops were
greatly damaged by the frosts last week.
The Louisiana sugar crop is estimated
at 10000 hogsheads, or twice as much
as in 1867.
Train has delivered his "seventy-fifth
lecture of the course of six hundred in
succession"
Irish potatoes Of this years growth
were sold in Augusta, Ca, last week, at
50 per quart.
DIR. Harris tells US that nine hundred
horses in New York city died of glan-
ders last year.
Ex-senator Doolittle is in Chicago
making preparations to enter upon the
practice of law in that city
Wacltel, the tenor, who used to drive
a cab, now processes dissatisfaction with
a salary of 100000 at Hamburg.
Roman Catholic Cathedrals are in
course of erection at Canton and Pekin,
China. The estimated cost of each is
S3,000,000.
A sugar and corn plantation Of ITO
acres in Louisiana, nearly equally divided
between the two crops, returned profit
last year of S25,660.
1t appears that there is a great NOR
tality among sheep in certain parts OF
Vermont-supposed from eating badly
cured hay. - l''5e7 s4-
1t takes fifty-seven .paymasters, from
Brigadier General down, to do nothing
in the world but pay off the present
standing army of the United States.
Paris Courts have decided in the case
of Madame Carvalho, that the preva-
lence of an epidemic in city does not
release singer from an engagement.
Four women are to be appointed to
81 ,200.places in New York, as searchers
of female passengers from abroad, and
there are 700 applicants for the position.
The constitutional thief" referrcd'to
by Senator Cameron, in his speech in the
Senate, was Ferdinand Cox, nc minated
for Consul at Leghorn. at
Mrs. Fanny Moore, of East Ware, N.
H., was 100 years old on the 18th ult.-
Her maiden name was Chase, and she
had been married three times.
1t is an offense punishable with four
teen years Imprisonment or transports.
ton for clergyman in England to mar,
ry couple after noon of any day with
out special license.
Seventy thousand acres of Florida
land, recently sold at auction, brought
from thirty cents to thirty-one dollars.
per acre, according to quality and loca-
Gion. tee ss4i
! The Philadelphia Ledger says that the
appropriation will be exhausted before
the new bonded warehouse in that city is
ready for roofing, and it therefore cannot
be enclosed until next year.
The report going the rounds of the
newspapers that Bishop Odenheimer, of
New Jersey, has refused to confirm Ia
dies wearing false harris publicly denied
by authority. H
Jewels official majority in Connecticut
is $50, and the total vote shows de-
crease of 2,762 from that of 1868, of
which decrease 1886 was lost by the Re-
publicans, and 5,469 by the Democrats. ]
/ The Chicago Times complains that
practically the Governor of Illinois does
/ not possess the veto power, since any
vetoed bill may become a law by the
same vote which it received on its first
passage.
A letter from Egypt thus describes the
Prince of Wales: "The Prince was 3
stout young man with full beard, looked
rather bloated, but on the whole appear
ed quite jolly fellow. He is already
quite bald"
| The income returns Of Indianapolis
for last year show great falling off from
the preceding years. There are only ten
persons paying tax on over $4,000 -
The merchants return very small incomes,
or none at all, and even bankers are
much less than last year. ~. &. Il,
i In Maine, during the past season, mice
have done great damage. Millions of
young fruit trees have been killed, young
forest trees injured, and grass ruined. In
a Dlxfeld orchard, containing sixteen
hundred grated trees, only about five
hundred can be saved.
'sMack," the Washington correspond
ent, ,classifies Colfax as the 'sman without
brains" Butler as the "man without con-
science" and Senator Sherman as the
"man without heart" and he should
have added, the whole Radical rump as
a mob without honesty.
! ga constitutional drunkard" and "a
constitutional thief appear among the
appointees of Grant. The ruling Of the
Administration then is that drunkenness
and theft are both constitutional. ~
This makes the Radical party emphati-
cally "the party of the Constitution y
4 Gen. Prim, it is thought in Madrid, has
made more money and reaped more fame
by the Spanish revolution than all the
rest of the revolutionary leaders. Hay-
ing the army under his absolute control,
he is master of the situation, and he will
force Serano and Topete into the back
ground as soon as it suits his purposes
Maedler, the German astronomer, has
measured the heighth Of 1908 noun.
tains in the moon. Twenty two of these
are higher than Mont Blanc, which is
within few feet of being three miles
high, and six are above $4,000 feet The
highest observed mountain in the moon
lis 24,944 feet.
The Levant Herald makes the an.
nouncement that Miss Burcett Coutts
has proposed to provide Jerusalem with
an efficient system of water supply at her
own cost, and says the scheme which
embodies the details of her munifcent
offer has been laid before the Council of
I State.
1t is said in literary circles in Paris
that if Alexander Dumas should continue
writing new novels for a good many
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