Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-02-24
Nlaeb III eittle.
M,seeIlaneous Items.

| The Kansas House Of Representatives
has defeated bill to abolish capital punish
ment. ,,. .,o
Seventeen books are TO be iasued by tho
Appletons the first three weeks OF the pres
ent month.
"A lot Of smugged kid gloves OF the Alex
andre manufacture, were sold ny auctloh al
Detroit few Gays ago.
-.Prussian coal mines yield one hundred
and Ave million tons year, and give employ
ment to 278,0O0 people.
=. -"yelocipede candy" is now sold. The
manufacturer finds 1t necessary TO give
notice that II is not worked with the feet.
An ambitious stabe-keeper in East
Broadway, New York, has an immense s'gn
on tho front of his establishment, 'Hotel de
| Horse"
The recent lunar eclipse could be seen
| from the summit of Sierra Nevada while the
sun was still in sight. The phenomena was
caused by refracton.
In Switzerland one who kills another 10
liable for the debts Of the murdered man;
| This suggests to some one an alteration OF
an old motto to--"sweet 1t is to die for ones
tailor"
Somebody claims to have invented an
"entirely new" velocipede, the motive power
of which s the weight of the rider. Can it
be hand-sledH
One hundred and nineteen witnesses
have been summoned to appear against Mrs.
| Nancy ]. Clem, who is to be tried again for
murder, at Indianapolis, Ind
= In recent trial for bribery in an Eng
lish election, ii 10 reported that the evidence
only showed that the accused had been sim
prudently charitable" which IL rather good.
The Maine colony in Jatia, Palestine,
have been agsin heard from. They now num-
Der twenty-five, and are in state OF bliss,
in consequence of the departure OF their
leader, Adams.
The Prussian Military Gazette says that
the German Military organization IL now
complete. and that" ga million Of soldiers can,
at any moment be placed under arms by
single telegram from Berlin" saS.-o
The Velosipede, a paper devoted exclu"
sively to news and mattors pertaining to the
machine, made it's fipst appearance in New
York, few days ago. W. Chester King, son
of the veteran missionary TO Athena, is its
editor.
Punch has good thing on q subject to
which We recently referred. 1t says that
although the English Pitch is to be lowered
to the French standard, never shall tho
English Tar bow before the standard Of
France"
A school teacher in one Of the towns in
Steuben county, N. Y, was recently fined ten
dollars for whipping one of the female schol-
ars, and the residents Of the district, satis-
fed that he was justified in the act, promptly
paid the fine.
Upward Of seventy newspaper coTre-
spondents, from ell parts Uf Europe, have
assembled at Madrid, and the telegraph lines
between Madrid and the other European cap
| tals are doing about twenty times as much
business as formerly.
The Boston and Providence Railroad Co.
have obtained verdict for $66 $50 upon their
suit for breach of contract against the Mer-
chants Navigation and Transportation Com
pany The defendants denied the existence
OF the contract.
--Sitka is said to be nearly depopulated.
Every one who went there wanted to keep a
saloon, There being no one topay for drinks,
where all we're bar-keepers, business became
dull, and now the emfgrants are going back
to San Francisco.
The largest amount ever received during
any one month for admissions by theatre
in New York ia believed to have been $50 7s5,
paid into the treasury Of Niblo's Garden du-
than the receipts of the Academy of Music
| for the entire year.
| Alaska is good for something. 1t pro-
duced for market last year 225, 600 seal skins
worth from $40 to $25 each. This fact should
not be concealed. In addition to their skins,
every ten seals is said to be good for bar
rel OF oil, and there Is no doubt that q barrel
Of oil is good for something, because 1t has
been tried.
Awe |" exclaimed an English cockney to
Western traveller in England. "speaking-
aw the law Of primog eniture, ave you hen
tail in Amerwica2" "aentail |" said the
American; looking at his interrogator with
curiosity " no. sir. We have the cocktail
in America, and very popular drink it is"
Within a territory embraced In circuit
OF fifty miles, OF Keokuk, Iowa, there ere
5000 acres planted in grapes, nearly all for
wine-making purposes. One man in Keokuk
has planted seventy, five acres, and is prepar-
ed to plant twenty-five more in the spring,
all for wine-making purposes. Some vine
growers are making ten thousand dollars per
year
A Maine paper relates that a country
member OF the legislature, seeing quantity
OF boxes in the rotunda ofthe State House at
Augusta, to be used in sending away doou-
ments, asked an old stsger what they were.
''Shoe boxes, presume "What," said the
draw shoes, do we2N
Currency printed on 'shoddy paper"
made by grinding over mutilated notes,
proves to be of q very interior quality, and,
OF course, is easily worn out in handling.
Orders have been given that no more grind
ing up OF old notes shall be done, but that
hereafter only the best kind of new stock
shall be used in making Government money.
The New York Independent claims re-
ceipts OF $s7, 1884, giving the other weekly
religious papers as follows; New York OBJ
server, $24,b7l New York Evangelist. SiO,-
$50; Examiner and Chronicle, $7,7l4; The
Methodist, $7,499; Christian Leader, former
S53, 1874. '-
The papal government is mort than
usually troubled by the financial difficulties
that are looming up before it, Although the
estimated expenses of the coming year are
but thirty-fqnr million livres, the receipts
will fall short Of this sum by nearly six mil
hon livres. There is great hope, however,
that the Gcumenical Council will discover
some way out OF the difficulty.
| "A pedestrian feat was accomplished last
week by three young gentlemen Of Bucksport,
Me-, who walked from that place to Bangor,
! eighteen miles, in three hours and twenty.
seven mnutes, being at the rate of FIVE aud a
half miles an hour. One of tho number re.
turned to Bucksport in the evening. The
other two concluded to take another da2 for
that part ofthe programme.
---Old epitaphs are not alone in being po-
| culiar In Sussex, England graveyard ia
this inscription: "Richard Bassett, the old
clerk OF this parish who had continued In
| The oihce OF clerk and sexton for the space
OF 43 years, whose melody was warbled forth
M IL he had been thumped on tho back with
a. stone, was buried on the Goth September,
Among the superstitions Of the Seneca
Indians is one Of singular beauty. When a
maiden dies they imprison a young bird un-
I'll 1t first begins to try its power of song, and
then, loading 1t with caresaee, they loose il
over her grave, in the bel ef that II vii not
fold it, wings nor close its eyes until it has
flown to lhe Spirit Land, and delivered its
precious burden Of affection to the loved and
! lost.
Two years ago the Aourishng 'city'' OF
Meadow Lake, on the limo of the Union Pa,
cihc Railroad, boasted municipal Cavern
ment daily paper, a stock and exchange
board, two theatres, thirteen hotels, numer-
GUS stores, seventy. Ave BARI ooms, and many
| other places OF entertainment ThiA winter