The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-10-19

tance of six and a quarter miles. The
remaining distance to be tunnclled is
about one mile The progress has al
ways been greater on the southern side,
where the work was begun and improved
machinery first employed. Had an equal
advance been made at the other end the
tunnel would have been rerdy by the END
of this year.
A few days since theboiler of the mill
of Mr.. Short, near Union Church, Miss
exploded, killing Mr.. Reed, who was
sleeping near the engine.
A negro girl named Jennie Croir hung
herself on the place of VIM. Winchester
in Lancaster County, S. C., recently, be
cause her parents opposed her marriage
Some thieves recently sentered the
Church of San Petronio, in Rome, al
midday, and, after -blindfolding and hand
cutting the priest on duty, quietly made
off with all the 1aluablcs,
A Journal of Algiers, under date of Sep
tember Is, mentions the startling fac
that Napoleon has been dead some days
but his demise is kept secret in order t(
organize the third Empire.
The Little Rock Ark Gazette cali
upon the people Of Arkansas to refust
to pay 'the unjust and outrageous take
assessed by those who are fattening oil
their adversitv," .until the validity of th'
imposition is legally determined
In Franklin, Indiana, Mrs. D. Cofel
accidentally swallowed large black spi
der the other day. 1t produced sickness
and incessant vomiting, and for severa
days she was considered in critica
condition, but is now convalescent.
The law department of the Indian:
State University will begin on the 9Th OF
November, under the care of G. A. Bick
nell, of New Albany, and John L. Petit
of Wabash. Tuition is now free in thi
department, and frightful increase il
the number Of students in that depart
ment is expected.
JOHN Morrissey has donated the sun
of $500 tor the relief Of the poor fami
lies of Mechanicsyille, New York, wh
suffered from the recent storm.
A statue Of Mr.. Peabody is to b
erected at Rome by order of the Pope
who is deeply impressed by the CHART.
of this American phiiapthropst-
California displays squashes six fee
long to Eastern tourist An ill-informe
but enterprising lumber man, from Chi
cago, wanted to buy q lot of them tn
other day, mistaking them for saw logs
The New Jersey cranberry crop tbi
season in Ocean County alone is value
a. S2.300,000 An acre Of good Gran
berry land is now estimated to be wort
taom 81, eco to $3.50 The demand i
market is always IN excess Of the supply
Daaie Webster wrote, after continue
provication, TO the editor OF anewspape
which referred to his private affairs, an
especially to his not paving his debts
lie said substantially: 1t is true tina,
have not always paid my debts punctuaI
Ily, and that I owe money Ohe caus
Of this is that | have not pressed thos
who owe me for pay, AS an instance c
this l inclose your fathers note, made t
me thirty years ago, for money lent hlI
to educate his boys"
At spiritual seance in Hartford, It
Gently, the following conversation too
place between a discousolate widow an
the spirit OF the departed spouse: Vic
ow-"Are you in the spirit world p
The lamented-''I am Widow-"Ho
long have you been there:" The |;
mented-"0, some time" Widow
Don't You want to come back and |
with your lonely wife," The lamente
Mot if know myself. It's hot enoug
around here"
twenty-five years ago a couple we
married in New York, had one son, live
together ten years, and then, after losir
all their property, procured DIVORCE
The woman married again, and got
fortune the husband didn't, and renal
ed poor. And now that the woman h
become, rich widow, she has remarriG
, her first husband, and they are going
Chicago for a secondhand honeymoo
The most popular caricature in par
at the present time is as follows: Dea
, Is holding Napoleon III by the thro;
and Prince Napoleon stauds close i
clapping bis hands and shouting:: "Rr
Two bravo Take him. want his throne