The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-07-06

Olive Logan has written up the "Nudt
Woman Question" for Packard's Month
ly. At the present rate, Olives writings
will soon be sold by men who stand in
alley-ways, and keep a sharp look out
for the police.-BHfalo Erpress.
Last Saturday there was found in the
Oak Grove Cemetery Gland tortoise
bearing upon his back the inscription
''L. A. Devine, 1872" and below this the
figures 1882" "-Narietta Register.
The Australian wool growers, it is
stated, have become alarmed at the com
petition from South America, where, il
is reported, 70,000,O0O sheep are shorr
every year, ,and the exports of wool $780,.
100000 pounds.
Gen. Joel A. Battle, of Tennessee, re,
Gently recovered PLAIN geld watch
which had been taken from the body of
his son on the battle field of Shiloh. II
was returned by a Federal officer, who
recognized the family name engraved
thereon.
AS Grant was driving on the ferry
Thursday morning he was recognized by
the driver Of an Eighth Avenue car, who
shouted at the top of his voice: "Do We
mind the dhrop O wather L gave We for,
mint the stunted PONIES at Spotsylvania
Court House?' Grant bad no blank
commission, in his pocket, and didn't re-
spond.
Stillman S. Conant is the successor OF
Mr. Raymond as the chief editor of the
New York Times Mr. Conant has held
an editorial position on the Times for six
years, ard has several times filled, tom
porarily, during Mr., Raymond's absence,
the place to which he is now permanent,
ly advanced. .-...
An irreverent Radical scribe expresses
the hope that Mr. What-is-it, the new
Secretary Of the Navy, will "name some
old hulk in the navy yard after the re
tired Secretary, merely to preserve a
memory of the past" Alas, poor Bore
ais he goes out after a brief scintiIla-
ton, like a tallow candle, with a bad
smell.
A new apparatus for boiling coffee and
cooking provisions has been invented by
a Frenchman. 1t is heated by petroleum
lamps, and both coffee and meat may be
prepared in the course of an hour. The
whole may be carried on the back of a
mule, and dinner be dressed as the ami
NAL advances on q march,
George Francis Train said recently, in
San Francisco, Il have delivered fifteen
lectures here, and have covered vast
range of knowledge. 1 should like to
see what other man in the city could ac-
complish as much" Certainly it is Il
Train that goes over and covers great
deal of track.
1t is known that Ben. Butler is not one
of the Oldest Republicans. Farnsworth,
Illinois, lately taunted him with the fact,
referring to his own career in the party.
Butler grimly replied that "some people
seemed to think good deal more of Ju,
das than Paul, because he was the older
Apostle"
Have you forgotten the 'Wickcdest
Man in New York p" asks a New York
correspondent of the Philadelphia Tele-
graph. ''He has forsallen his Water
street den, and is keeping a temperance
grocery store. His nose is less rubicund
than formerly-more Of water and less
of rum-and water color. He is expe-
riencing all of the peevishness and eniu'
of a great man whose greatness has died
before him, like Spurgeon with dwin-
died congregations, or an actor perform
ing to empty boxes. He is no longer
the wickedest man. He is only the man
that used to be the wicl1edest."
The rates charged for board, as noted
by the Virginia City Enterprise, are as
follows: For a bed in y house. barn,
blacksmith shop,or hayward, (none to be
had-all having been engaged shortly
before election;) horse blanket in old
sugar hogshead, per night, SO, cScbery
crate, with straw, ST SO; without straw,
So Is; for cellar door, 81; for roosting
on smooth pole, s., so; pole, common
rough, So; plaza fence, 50 so; walking
up and down the Warm Spring Road, il
cloudy, 81 SO; if clear, 81 %; roosting
places in pine trees, back of Camp Nye
6 bits.