The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-12-21
Bonner's horses are said to be worth
S200,000-a fortune in itself.

Victor Emanuel drives in blue chari.
OF drawn by two chestnut horses.
Only about 1000 fighting men of the;
Apache Indiana are left. General Ord
says the race is fast dying out.
A young woman of Paterson, n. j.,
has gone out to India to marry a young
missionary whom she has never seen.
Dominique Lanata, an old merchant
Of New Orleans, died last week, leaving
a fortune Of a million and quarter.
An Iowa paper advertises for girl to
learn the printing trade, who will wear
pants and saw wood.
A hungry Alaska editor writes that out
there beefStake would be an "angelic
vision of the happy land.'
In Providence, r. La gentleman gave
a lady bird cage, and she breach of
promised him, getting verdict of Sl0,-
600.
Rochester, n. Y, has a peculiar sort
of Mayor, who recently vetoed bill of
Councils for keeping the street lamps
lighted all night.
Brigham Young recently lectured the
the sisterhood on table matters, advising
them to avoid multiplicity of dishes,
and rely on ''Jo ohnny cake"
The press of Georgia is almost unit
in denouncing the measures looking To-
the reorganization of the State. The
attitude Of Congress creates uneasiness
in agricultural and commercial circles.
Strong petitions are being offered up
in all parts of the country for the re-
lease of DR.. Schoeppe, who is condemn
ed at Carlisle, Pa, for the alleged mur-
der of Miss Steinecke.
The French Emperor is said to have
uttered only these three words on the
situation, AWAIT and see" Meantime
he parades cavalry in some of the strcets
of Paris every day.
1t is said that the Pope, on being told
the circumstances in connection with DIR.
Temples appointment. to the See of Ex-
eter, remarked, This temple will SOON
destroy all that remains of the old tenn
pie"
! Colonel C. c. Tew, of the Second
North Carolina Regulars, who was re.
ported killed at Boonesboro, Maryland,
is now said to be alive and in confine-
ment at Dry Tortugas A pardoned
prisoner brings the report.
Mr. James Moon, living at Westboro,
Clinton County, Ohio, is the father Of
| fifteen children. He had in the army
seven sons, three sons-in law. and nine
grandsons, who all went through the
war without scratch
The days Of wooden ocean steamships
are past. The splendid steamship Ad-
riatic, 1900 tons-the last one built for
the Collins Line, and represented to be
sound and in good order-is offered for
less than $4,000. She cost over mill
ion.
A member Of Congress, who, while in
Europe last summer, investigated the
subject of the French telegraphic cable,
says the French government has the
right to scrutinize all dispatches cent by
that line, even the kilograms from and
to our government"
Mark Twain's Gallantry prevents him
from saying that the face Of fortune
teller he recently visited was dirty, and
conveys that impression in this way -
"She had dark complexion naturally,
and this effect was heightened by artif-
cial aids, which cost her nothing"
The local editor of Columbia (NIis.
sissippi) paper having recently got mar
ried, a cotemporary says: MAY his fa-
ther-in law die rich, and enable poor
Stevens to retire from the printing bust
ness and set up cake shop at railway
station"
In steep rock, six miles south of Du-
buque, Iowa, an eccentric Englishman
has excavated a dwelling 1t has three
rooms, with seats, couches, fre-places,
flues, and all the conyeniences, carved in
the living rock, The occupant spends
his time in studying botany and entom-
ology. His museum occupies one room.
Hon. John Purdue is disposed TO To-
cate the Agricultural College on the west
side of the Wabash River at Lafayette,
Ind. The Lafayette people are anxious
to have it on their own side, and Judge
Purdue says it may go there if they viii
furnish one hundred acres of land and
$4,000 in cash. The Dispatch thinks
this will not be done.
The Halifax Chronicle says President
Grants message breaks down all hope
of reciprocity and renders annexation
more probable. 1t is rumored that Sir
Francis Elincks proposes to impose du-
ty on American grain and coal and to
make a general reduction OF the free list.
The spirit of education is nothing 9
more than an endeavor to lberate the
ideal human being that lies concealed IN
every child