Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-07-07
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1t is estimated that lUU acres are plant
ed to hops III Kankakee county, Illinois
There are only 1000 forms of religion
in the world from which to choose living.
Brigham Young charges the billiard
and bar rooms Of Salt Lake O license of
$50 per month.
e New York Councils have appropriated
thirty thousand dollars for fireworks on
the Fourth Of July.
There are one hundred and fifteen fe-
male teachers in Cincinnati, at an average
salary Of $7O0 per year. aa
The Stevens battery will be finished
in eighteen months, and will then be offer
ed to the Government
'Eunadelphia" is the name of a new
wotaens club in New York, of which Anna
Dickinson is the Presidentess.
Every family in Dardanele, Ark, at
the present time, has the measles. This
may be called strict impartialty.
The American Institute has appropri-
ated $500 to defray the expenses of taking
photographs of the solar eclipse in August
next
A colored lady in Colfax township South
Carolina, presented four boys to her hus-
band in one day this month. The father is
sixty-seven years old.
The Omaha Herald says the de,ni
monde of that city are composed almost en-
tirely Of the spoiled daughters of rich and
respectable families.
Last year two Germans bought eighty
acres Of land in Tennessee, and have
wholly paid for it by this years crop of
strawberries on four acres.
1t has been decided in the Courts of
New York, that mechanic who works ten
hours day, can recover day wages for
every eight hours employed.
1T has been shown that if man was
as strong according to his weight as some
species of insects, o man of ordinary size
could lift o ton and half.
"A Texas paper claims That there are
more newspapers published in that State
in proportion to the white population than
in any other State in the Union.
The first peaches of the season made
their appearance in the San Francisco mar
kets on eth. The peach crop of Cali
fornia is unusually fine this year.
IA match game at lager beer drinking
came off at Buffalo last week, between two
Teutons. The winner put himself outside
of eighteen glasses in the space of one
hour.
"A recent medical writer of good au-
thority says: at is certain that in our
times, among our brain workers, there are
800 who do not sleep enough to ono who
sleeps too much.
Hon. F. T. Spinner, United States
Treasurer, has been suddenly called to his
home in Herkimer, n Y, by n telegram in
forming him that his wife, who left Wash
ington few days ago on visit to that
place, has sustained severe stroke Of apo
plexy.
The Lafayette Courier says the fossil
remains of monster sea turtle, or sea
serpent, was found little below the sur
face of the earth, in Knoxville, the other
day. The head is fourteen inches wide and
eleven inches deep.
Mary Miller of Beroa, Ohio, while CON
fined in o Jail as Cleaveland, on account of
insanity, committed suicide on Tuesday
last, by taking strip from her balmoral
skirt and suspending herself from the top
of her cell. ,a
Mr. Abbott G. Peck, of Waterbury,
Conn, whose mysterious disappearance
some months ago created considerable ex-
citement in Connecticut, has been heard
from as serving in the regular army in
Texas l.S
"A clerk in o furniture house at Newark,
being about to commit matrimony,
took more novel than honest way
of procuring an outfit Such articles
of furniture as he wanted, he charged on
the books to various customers of the firm,
and delivered them at his own house.
Judge Downing, of New York, has got
himself into trouble McClelland, the law
yer whom he forbid TO practice in his
court, is about to impeach him. and says
he can prove that Dowling has received
money from thieves for decisions in their
favor.
The following item appears in the
White Pine News Of the Sth ult. "Treasure
City Water Company (Standart, Page q
Coz will supply the citizens of Treasure
City daily with fresh, clear spring water at
eighty cents per gallon"
1t costs only two cents pound freight
on tea from China to New York, by the old
routes, while by way of San Francisco and
the Pacific Railroad itcosts thirteen cents
pound. The old route being the cheap
est will probably retain the trade for some
time to come. ag {79
The new French Atlantic cable is 2, ,752
miles long, or four hundred more than
either OF its predecessors, and the recepta-
cles OF the Great Eastern had TO be consid-
erably enlarged to contain it. Sir Samuel
Canning is the chief engineer Of the expe-
dition. g,.t
In San Francisco, the highest income
returned last year was that of Alyinza Hay-
ward, $166,00O; the highest this year is
that Of Claus Spreckles, $113. 1888. A great
er number Of men have returned incomes
Of $40, 600 and over than last wear. The
number of incomes over $4,000 has also
enlarged.
Jonathan Mipgo, died at Albion, Mich,
o few days since, aged n years. He was
ofthe Narragansett tribe of Indians, and
was q lineal descendent Of King Phillip
AT the time Of his death he had in his pos
session the powderhorn which was taken
from the body of that noted chief when the
latter was killed. t
The Secretary of War has approved
the findings of the courtmartial case of
Lieutenant McGee known in History MS
the 'Drmmer-boy Of Shiloh McGoe
killed on assistant surgeon in Louisiana
last fall, and was sentenced to be Gosh
tered the service, and undergo five years
imprisonment, His friends arc already
milking efforts to obtain his pardon.
Madam Kenyon, ono of the lady riders
in Robinson's circus, exhibiting in ALE.
ghany, Pa, last Friday, was about jumping
through ono Of the pnper hoops, when her