Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-07-21
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Miscellaneons Items.

| IA first-rate shirt cutter in New York is
paid SO, 900 q year.
Eight conductors Of street cars were
arrested In ST. Louis the other day, on
charge of fraud.
IS Tom. Allen, the pugilist receives a
benefit at the National Theatre at St.Louis
on Saturday evening next.
A writer-in in the Atlantic Monthly says
that II we would abolish the inebriate We
must begin with his grandmother.
New Albany, Ind, win soon have plate
glass works, which have heretofore existed
In this country onlysat Lenox, Mass
THE silver wedding of Bishop Morris
(the senior Bishop OF the Methodist Epis-
copal Church of America), was celebrated
at Springfield, Ohio June 25 se.
"A drunken man in a, &C qf delirium
tremens jumped from the Suspension
bridge at Cincinnati, the other day, and was
drowned.
Fifth avenue houses in New York have
Cashmere door mats now, and it is suppos-
ed that the next novelty will be catners hair
dish clouts.
The agents Of the Cuban Junta have
bought an estate of 40 acres in Bergen
county, NJ j., to be laid out in villas ior
Cuban exiles
The Confederate dead are being re-
moved from the Chickamauga battlefield
and re-interred in the Confederate ceme-
terry at Marietta, Ga.
"A travelling southerner lately offered to
present to the American Club OF Breslau q
bust of ex President johnson, but the club
unanimously voted to decline the gift.
The Red Stockings on their return to
Cincinnati were presented with q cham
pion bat, 27a feet long and weighing 1,600
pounds upon which were engraved the
names ofall the members of the club.
"A Kentucky distiller having noticed
has put up treadmill in his warehouse,
and uses a horse power to keep hewhisky
in perpetual motion.
The rumor is current at Memphis that
the counsel for Yerger, who killed Colonel
Crane at jackson, Miss, will apply to
Chief Justice Chase fol, a writ of habeas
corpus. ''n o.-'.o
Among the finest residences at New
port are those Of Chas. j. Peterson are the
Philadelphia publisher, and Mrs. George
Francis Train-the latter built since last
year. -a-t5'
The Barkentine Western Bill sailed
from Humbolt for San francisco in Janu-
airy, 1868, and has never been heard from
until recently when portion of her hull
with the name painted on it was discover
ed on the northwestern coast of California
near Cape Perhoties. askr7Tf
Mrs. Kolb, who recently died in Madi-
son, Georgia, left an estate valued at near
500, 000,e almost all of which is bequeath-
ed to the Ordinary OF the county, in trust,
for the purpose Of educating the poor or
phan children of the county.
Near Cheyenne has been discovered
an immense tract of land covered with edi-
BILE mushrooms of extraordinary size and
delicious flavor. One is spoken OF which
was seven inches in diameter with stem
two inches thick, and which weighed q
pound. ~ * 9traa Eaai
Notice has been served by the United
States officers on the owners of whisky
burned in the Warehouse of Gaines, Berry
u Co., in Frankfort Ky, some time ago,
for the payment of the tax on said whisky.
The amount of taxes demanded is about
100000 An extensive lawsuit will result.
The New York postoffice always sends
to Europe much greaternumber Of letters
thRnlit receives from thatpart Of the world.
For The month of May it sent away 400, 553
letters, and received 391, ,062. The rule,
however, is broken in single instance
The Italians sent home but 1869 letters,
for 1893 brought over to them. QN
The malignity of the London Times
toward Senator. Chandler is painfully ex-
hibited in the fact Of It's utterly ignoring
his arrival on British soil in gorgeous
turnout. Even the Court Journal main.
tains provoking silence on the Michigan
Senator's presencein England. p 1R-1 "
--on Sabbath evening, June 9th, Christ
Church, New Orleans, was filed with
Congregation of Oubans and Spaniards in
attendance upon the ceremonies OF the
Episcopal Church, which were performed
in the Spanish language. With the excep-
tion of the singingby the choir, the service
and sermon were given in Spanish. iu-gt.
"A physician of Platin, Mo-, one DIR. A.
Hill, reports Chat the notorious desperate
and outlaw Sam Hildebrand, for whose
head reward of $4,000 has been offered,
is dead. He declares that the fellow died
from the effects of q wound in his thigh
and that he attended, him at the request Of
some person to himself unknown.
"A noted Ohio horse-thief, known as
Bill Wheeler, who had served fifteen years
ir the. Kentucky Penitentiary, aud was
very, desperate character, was shot and
killed by party of men, in the vicinity Of
Quincy, KY, o few days ago, who had
chased him from over the line in Ohio. He
had been ordered to halt, but refused to do
So and fred on his pursuers, u Hence his
death.
"A fortnight ogo, at Napoleon, Ohio,
two boys named Cameron, aged nine and
toul teen, were sent TO bed suppetless and
threatened with thrashing in the morn
ing. In the night they got up, walked Ave
miles TO Q railroad station, went to Chicago,
thence to Baltimore and since leaving the
latter place the persons employed by Mr..
Cameron to find the boys met with no sue
cess They can be heard of at different
points, but Can not be caught. They seem
to, have no definite obj ject ilview, but when
travel "a the end Of tho line.
Tholonaha Republican reports the ar. ar.
rival in that city, one day last week, OF
"Stub, boy Of Ia years, who has been
|. wandering over the United States since
1884, His name is John Edwards, and he
formerly lived in Baltimore but ran away
n from home when years old, on account Of
illitreabment. The Republican says Of him;
"Ho has 'Whgoked bulls in Wyoming,
'skinned mules' in Colorado, jammed gold
dust IN Montanag carried water' in Utah,
been captured By Indians in New, Mexico
runched.with greAsers In Arizona, slept with
Cinnamon in California, and like the sim