Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-18
NEWS 1rnMs.
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Boston has expended $216, 900 during
the past three months in paving and re-
pairing streets.
Troy has the largest water-wheel Ii
the world 1t is an overshot, and sixty
feet in diameter
The Red Stockings who have been so
often paragraphed, have at last been pho,
tographed.
An enterprising Yankee advertises for
the lucrative position of undertaken on the
Erie Railroad.
= A handsome blonde OF Saratoga wore
twenty-one new dresses last week, with
half her trunks still unpacked.
The town of Households, New York,
has man, so called, who offers to eat q
bushel of cut hay on wager.
The Detroit Tribune says the mother
of w. II. Campbell, joumeyman printer,
is anxious to hear from him.
II. Tilton isn't orthodox enough for his
patrons, and S250,0O0 is to start q rival
concern which will give the pure doctrine.
The Chicago Board of Health have
prohibited the carrying of ofal through
the streets except in closely covered carts.
Twenty divorce cases we're heard be-
| fore the Recorders Court in Chicago on the
4th, and it was poor day for divorces at
that.
Throwing Cayenne pepper in the eyes
of Chinese, is said 10 be popular sport
in California. The agony of the sufferers
gives intense delight.
-Handkerchiefs nre now made In New
Orleans from the Rampino plant. The
texture is finer than silk, and the handker-
chiefs are quite pretty.
Vice President Colfax writes for the
Hearth and Home. He communicates q
sketch of the Yo Semitic Valley as the first
paper. Where is Bonner2
Wine in the wine-growing regions Of
California is cheaper than milk. In Ana
helm and Los Angeles common wine is but
SOC gallon; milk costs SOC.
The receipts of internal revenue in
Chicago for July were SClS, 553, of which
$685., 1000 were collected on whisky and
beer, and $40 800 on tobacco.
"A young man named Lehn is digging
in the lower part of Lawrence county, Pa.,
for fortune of 100000, which fortune
teller told him had been buried there.
"A Chicago paper gives the following
useful hints: Temperance and regularity
of habits, combined with o good conscience
are conducive to health during the sickly
season.
More than dozen Philadelphia
clergymen have united in the determine
tion to attend no more Sunday funerals
unless the necessity is certified to by o
physician.
An old gentleman OF seventy, living in
an inland town of Massachusetts, who had
been deaf for many years, awoke the Other
morning, with his hearing completely re-
stored.
A deficiency of S1,550 43 has been
found in the accounts of the City Treasu-
rer of Dubuque, and he has asked for time
which has been granted-to straighten
up his books. The treasurer is demo-
crat.
Tho fashion reporter of New York
daily paper announces that 'Ida Lewis
wedding has been postponed, and her sis
ter has Just effected an engagement with Ida's
fancs's brother" The terms are not men,
toned.
The Sheriff hns levied upon certain
real estate in Chicago, belonging to Elisha
Sprague, to satisfy an execution issued in
the late breach of promise case. The
property is to be sold at auction on the
9th.
A writer in the Washington Herald
proposes the introduction to the Southern
States of the date PALM the sugar palm,
and the cocoanut palm-these palms fur
nishing fruit, sugar. oil, fibre, &c.
A P. Messenger, Of New York, chal-
lenges the world in velocipede race, He
says he has run 100 miles in seven hours
and twenty minutes, and 500 miles in IL
minutes less than so hours
-Stetson, of Long Branch, can pick you
out the Boston man by the manner In
which he holds his knife, the Baltimorean
by the way he ,peels his potatoes, and the
Washinetonian from his eating the whole
of the potato, skin and all.
The principle of woman's rights
achieved partial triumph in the New York
Teachers Association, this week, by the Sc
lection of Mrs. A. II. Randall, Of Oswego,
to be vice president Of the association.
The Yankton Dakotinn says: "Accounts
come in from all around us Of big-glori-
ously big-crops. One instance of forty
bushel wheat to the acre. All we want now
is big corn crop. We can beat Illinois
on everything else"
"A farmer of Terre Coupee Ind, writes
70 the South Bend Register that field OF
forty-eight acres of wheat, raised by D. L.
Phillips, on the farm of VIM. Ruckman,
Terre Coupee Prairie, will yield thirty-fve
bushels per acre, or 1000 bushels from the
whole field
The amount of business transacted in
the Postoflice in New York may be judged
by the fact that two windows are open foI
the sale of stamps in sums less than one
dollar The receipts at each Of these win.
dows average 81, 900 per day. The daily
consumption Of stamps Mt the Office must
be in all about $50, 900.
An atom Of water sometimes makes q
most extraordinary difference in the prop
critics Of bodies Thus, TO give some more
familiar illustration, the addition of an at
ON of water TO starch converts IL into gu.
gar; the subtraction of IN atom of water
from alcohol converts IL into ether.
| -DuuhO DUtbib VI CWWON bSCOuu w
but one other in the world. Itnumbers AZ
bells, and cost about 100000. The only
other carlton in America is in the Church
of Notre Dame du Lac at Montreal, and
numbers only "a bells. There Is no Other
in the United States.
| Personal.
The Empress Eugene visits Constan-
tinople in September
MIR. Roye has been appointed as U. e
Consul at Prague.
Mr.. Toucey left 500, ,0O0to Trinity Col
lege, Hartford.
Dan Rice is building barn at Girard
Penn, which will cost $4,000.
Hon, John Bigelow, the editor OF the
New York Times, Is Swedenborgian.
1t s stated that Henry Keep left TO hiI
wife and daughter $2,000,0O0 worth o
stock Of the Northwestern Railroad
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