The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-10-12

4 Chinese immigration agency has
been opened at Madison, Florida.
New Hampshire has mile of railroad
to every 500 inhabitants.
A new and dangerous counterfeit ten
dollar greenback has just appeared.
The Cincinnati Red Stockings heat the
California Picked Nine on the I'd inst
46 to Ia.
The number of miles Of railroad to
be constructed in Georgia during the
next two years is estimated at l,42l.
Something better for women than the
ballot" is out. It has ribbons foot
wide, and bird of-paradisc feathers.
Some author says one Of the uses of
adversitv is to bring us out. That's true
particularly at the knees and elbows.
Two Indian skeletons were dug up the
other day at Marblehead, Mass. They
were underneath heaps of scollop- shells.
The venerable Peter Cartwright, of
Illinois, has been presented With thirty +.
three pieceS of silver plate and chair
worth $50.
Alexander Dumas is the author of q
novel soup made of onions and cream,
now popular in Paris, and recommended
as 4 cure for the headache.
Lobelia is prescribed successfully by
the Matron of an Eastern boarding
school for girls, as a cure for the incipi-
ent symptoms of love.
BY natural but indiscreet slip of the
tongue loyal orator recently addressed
saddle -colored audience in Tennessee
as "yellow citizens" d"
A little girl attending Sunday School
for the first time, was asked who went
into the lions den? "Oh, know" she
said, sit was Dan Rice"
The Boston Posts last conundrum
"The Ways and Means Committee man
age to find their way about the country,
but who finds tie means?'
Chicago is determined to be ahead oI
all competitors in the celebration bust
ness, and is already preparing for the
Columbus centennial in 1892.
bridget, what became of the tallow
l creased my boots with this morning ?"
81 fried the buckwheatS in it. ooh, |
was afraid You had wasted it."
The fund which is Icing raised
throughout the East for the relief of the
Avondale suffers,is likely to reach 5000,
900.
Joel NJ. Tucker, of Monson, Mass
has pear tree 100 years old, which ha:
ripe and green pears and blossoms or
its branches.
The grain crop on Mr.. A. Sherburn'.
farm, in Red Cedar, Iowa, is estiinate(
at from six to eight thousand bushels O
wheat and $4,000 bushels of cats.
The Fredericksburg Railroad Compa
nv offer great inducements to immi
grants. One of them is passage at hal
fare over the line for one year after set
tlement in Virginia.
Ex. President Pierce has been very i'll
for. some weeks, and the physicians pro
nounce him very low, and say that if his
disease assumes dropsical form his re
covery is extremely doubtful.
A belle at White Sulphur Springs ha.
accepted, according to vow made, tn,
one hundredth man who proposed to her
Wouldn't she have been mortified i
propositions had permanently suspended
with No. 90?
There are two thousand professional
thieves in Chicago. The rest arc mcr
amateurs, but they achieve considerable
success in stealing
The Adams Express Company, it i
said, compels all agents and employees t.
put up their photographs at the genera
office, SO that in case any of them run
the detectives can idedtify them.
The Rhode Island cotton mills emplo
10000 operatives, and run one million
spindlcs. Twenty firms are engaged i
the business, but two, Brown d Ives,an
the Spragues, do nearly one,half of it,
1t is rumored that Goa. Island, o
Newport, r. l which is the property {
the Government, is again to be occupie
in the interests of the War Department
A large manufactory of torpedoes is t
be established there, and work has alread
9 begun. The ruins of the old fort wi
l probably be demolished.