The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-12-07
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Gg@Thc salary Of tha Governor Of
Wisconsin is 5000,
ErThe surplus wheat crop Of Mime
sofa is 100000 bushels.
EyBmMARo1 is still suffering from
nervous prostration. Grant is troubled
in the same way.
Senator RAMSEY and the French
Government could not come 70 terms on
& new postal treaty.
4 GgConnterfeit United States ten dol
lar bills have Just made their appearance
and are excellent imitatioHa.1
Eg'The Tennessee Legislature propo-
ses. to reduce the tayes Of the people so
per cent. When will Ohio do the same
thing?
Ey~JoE CoBUEN challenges Ton ALLEN
to fight for $4,000, and not less than
$500. He will pay ALLrS's trareljhg
expenses to California.
Elk. President JoHSsoE and ex-San-
ator T. 4 F. Mason decline being can
didates for the Convention to. form the
new Tennessee State Constitution.
~The largest wheat grower in Min
nesota cat his 1000 acres with Is reapers
and 185 hands, His average is IS bush
els to the acre, of excellent quality.
rA lady, aged rs years, residing
near Des Moinea, lo~a, has knit twenty
four pairs OF socks and four pairs Of
double mittens since the lat day Of Sep
tember.
gWe learn from the Republican
that this years crop Of tobacco, in Noble
County, is estimated at $4,000 pounds
Packers have already bought the greater
portion of it at five cents per pound
wHandhlla are posted about Rich
mond, Va calling for 10000 colored men
to go South; SIS to 322 SO month,
with free transportation, good rations
and comfortable quarters being offered
as Inducements
Australia seems possessed o. the
magic Of our West in the growth Of its
cities Melbourne, which little over
thirty nine years ago was marked by q
solitary los Int, now boasts over 80,
900 Inhabitants
Eg-It is said that several Eric stock
holders are preparing q statement show
ing that JAMES FIsg. Jr., has appropri2-
led FIVE million dollars Of The Companye
funds to hIs own use, and that they can
prove tha facts.
@A Pittsburgh inventor haa con
structod D stove for the consumption of
bituninous coal without producing
smoke. The principle OF tie invention
is to produce both an upward and a
downward draft, meeting IL tls fire, and
causing perfect combustion.
SEA. D. BIcHARDaoN,the Y ? TrI5-
,4ns war correspondent, vas ehee one
day last week by q lawyer named Alo
FAy1ASD The ball lodged in his stom-
ach, the chances for living are against
him.
LAcrI-R,caardson died tie I'd list.
TIE New Orleans Picavune saYo BIT
ler had Great passion fox taking the
swords Of dead man.
The New York Times urges the trans.
fer OF negotiations relative 10 the Ala
hama claims 20 Washington. Il dnp5ts
the report that negotiations have been
reopened by III Motley.
Pavmaater r ] Marcy, of Mare Is,
land Navy Yard. Cal. whose estimated
defalcations bor1sred upon $40, eco, has
turned his property over to government,
out 1t oy no means covers the dsTaica.
t;ons
The revised sentence in the CASE OF
Lieutenant Commander Seelv, Of The ma
w, tried for cruelty to bis men on the
steamer PaWnee, is, that he be suspended
from command, f1riough or pay, with
loss Of all rank, for the period Of foar
years.
After presenting his picture. tmerty
dollars, bird cage, and several articles
of jewelry, to Mss Helen NJ. Brown,
and after writing her that she had "sweet
eyes, etc, Captain Bartlett refused to
enter into contract of marriage. Miss
Bro"n felt very badly; so badly that
she brought suit against the racreqnt
Bartlett, al Providence. Rhode Island.
and recovered verdict Of $4,000 She