The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-06-01
A Wedding Over a Corpse.

y wedding under extraordinary cir
cumstanccs was. celebrated in Poueh.
lleepsic on Wednesday The couple
move in fashionable circles, and the
event is the topic of conversations On
Tuesday the father of the bridegroom,
a wealthy and respected citizen of fPough-
kcepsie, died, was duly shroudcd in the
garments of death, the body was IN
closed in rich and costly coffin, the
whole being placed in the 7parlor. On
Wednesday, at noon, the old mans son
led his afllanced bride into the room
where lay the body of the deceased par
ent, the bridal party walking solemnly
up the coffin, and the cover over the
face OF the corpse was removed The
Rev Mr.. Hageman, of the Second Re
formed Church, then, amid brcathless 81
lcnce, and by. the open coffin, joined the
young couple in the holy bonds of mat
rinony. The bridegroom, when asked
why he was married in such a manner,
replied that the spirit of his father how,
cred about him, telling him to get mar
ried there and then. am. r.-.,.
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Libel suits against the press are again
at a discount, since AIR. James Fisk, Jr.y
and Mr.. j. r. Young have manifested a
disposition to retire from theirs. ? -s.3
The old Webster mansion, on Sumner
street, Boston, is to be torn down, and a
granite block erected IN its place. A
statue of. the ''Great Expounder' will be
placed in a niche in the front of thenew
building.
Three thousand invitations to wit
ness the Inauguration of, the Suez Canal
will be sent to representatives of the
press, and to other anotabilities at the
West. The Victory Of Egypt is to send
frigate to France to take the visitors
from that and the neighboring countries
and will return them home In the same
manner. aai-'
There is 4 famine in La Macha, Spain.
Bands of the sufferers sally out and pre-
coed to some farm house, whence they
throw themselves Or their knees, beg
gingi for bread, for anything that viii
support life. If the request is, not i'm
mediately complied with they rush in,
and, after helping themselves. scatter to
reunite at some other house in the neigh
borhood. ErB9EAa .g4
'Aletter from France says Paris is
now in its glory as regards gardens and
boulevards. The trees are well clothed
with green foliage, and give an air of
freshness and gayety to the boulevards
especially. The. chestnut trees of the
Champs Elysees are, covered with bios
SONS, and. the we'll cultivated beds OF
foreign plants and shrubs are rich in
broad leaves. The weather is delight
full. +.',s' ~
Last year q Polish gentleman, having
caught a stork upon his estate near
Limburg, put around his neck, an iron
collar with this inscription "HGc ex
Polonia," (this stork comes from Pc
land, and set it at liberty. This year
the bird returned 70 the same spot, and
was again caught by the same person.
He had acquired new collar of gold
with this inscription s'India cum donis
remittit ciconiam Polonis," (India sends
back the stork to the Poles with gifts
Silver ore has been discovered in
Northern Arkansas, thirteen miles from
Fayetteville. The, deposit is silver and
copper mixed, between strata or slate
anG an experienced miner states that il
is equal in richness and extent to the
silver mines of Nevada Some of the
metal extracted from the rocks was for
wardcd to- St Louis, and pronounced tc
be nearly pure silver. The ore is sale
to be very abundant. ~" -" '''