Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-02-17
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FLORIDA has eighteen million acres sub
Iect to location under The homestead act.
There s proposition before the Indi.
ana Legislature toebuild an executive man
sion.
Lord Monffs recently Governor General
of Canada, ha84een elected chairman OF the
Franco. American Cable Company. Ag :.
A method OF extracting the indigo hon
second hand postage stamps, has been, pat
entcd IN England
Tho Berkshire, Mass, Agricultural Bocl-
iety has voted TO abolish all premiums for
trotting horses.
The London Times asserts that "every
industrious worklngman IN England carrios a
paupOr ON In HE back" ~
"A woman may DO Of great asaistanco to
her husband In businesa by wearing cheer
ml smile continually ON hor couutenance.
In the cargo OF tho steamship Moravian,
which sailed from Portland for Liverpool
Sunday morning, was about $50, 900 worth OF
butter, for CanNda.
--Caliiornias population is only onc-fourth
female In Nevada there are oight men 20
one woman, and tho proportion IN Colorado
Is twenty TO one.
"A well.knOwn capitalist has just pur-
chased ono of the islands IN Long Island
Sound, not far from the entrance to the East
River, for the purpoHe Of converting 1t into
a hunting ground. II embraces an area Of
H. 600 acres,
The Times afilrms that more than one
fifth OF the order Of Jesuits are now M the
United states, and that the mOmbers " Oh
try in great numbers. X
The San Francisco Alta Californian says
that California tigs are taking the place of
imported igs n the Pacific coast, Many 'f
them are decidedly superior In quality to all
'frcm Smyrna, save the very best.
AT a recent ball at tho Tuieries the
gueats consumed ten thousand ices fifteen
hundred glasses of punch, ak thousand OF
sherb0t, four or Ave hundred chickens, eight
hundred bottles OF champagne and fifteen
hundred bottles OF Bordeaux,
A woman supposed to he slightly intox-
icated, wAs, on the 9th, walking along an
elevated sidewalk in Chicago, when she fell
of the edge into the gutter, striking her
head against stone. She was picked up q
moment afterwArd, and was found to have
sustained fatal injury.
--Louisville has asdhtrict that rival ls the
Give Points." In one block covering, a su-
perfcial area of ABOUT 20, 600 aquare feet, the
population is estimated at between two and
three thousand, OF lesa than ten square feet
to each inlabitant, with probably not an
honest person in tho whole settlement"
"A man named Hauck, living in Rock Ealls,
Ill.,, WAS attempting TO light a fire by using
kerosene on the morning of the 25th, when
the oil in tho can took tiro and exploded, fill
ing the room with flames, and setting fire to
his clothing, burning him so badly that no 10
not expected to recover. 3D.; rt.-
1T 10 an offesne to sprinkle salt on the
snow in Philadelphia, but one OF tho street
railroad companies evaded the ordinance on
the subject last week in an ingenious man
nor. A curt, whose floor was punctured with
covered with bags' II was then driven over
the route, and sprnkl6d the route by acci-
cent, .. .HG-.
Three privatos belonging to the 25th In
fantry, named Myron H. Strong, Harmon
Spnngstein and Stephen Madden, Tor deser-
ton, had their heads shaved and 'atoood,
and were drummed out Of the service, at
Memphis, on the Goth, in tho presence of the
regiment. Strong had been a clerk in Gen.
Grant Office during the war
Tho number Of veocipedes now in use in
New York is about 800, and in few months
1t will probably be increased to 5000. The
demand for them is 80 great that the manu-
facturers have more orders on hand than
they can fill in several months. One manu-
facturer ia now at work on an Improvement
that will enable tho rider to drive his vehicle
with less than half the fatigue attending the
present mode
"A serious disturbance occurred on the
Doth at the corner Of Canton street and Park
Avenue, Brooklyn, between white and colored
persons, resultlng eventually in tho mortal
wounding Of John Hopkins, white man, by
Samuel Halsey, negro, The apparent origin
was the unprovoked knocking down of a col.
ored man. 4 large number Of people became
involved and the riot was with difficulty
stopped by the police