Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-06-30
MisoeIlaneaus Items.
Ohio has seventy-two cheese factories.

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The Southern Methodist church has
503, 500 white, and 32, OS5 colored members.
The total membership of the Society
of Friends in all parts of the world Is estl-
matedAt $4,000, d. ,t-sfyt ,,, ,,.-,,
Two public baths are to be erected in
New York, ,afor which the Legislature has
appropriated $50, 900. E
Hartford Conn, is to have q rink
which viii seat G,00O persons accommo-
data 800 skaters, and cost O,OOO
"A Kentucky Police Judge fined q man
five dbllars and costs for the crime of kis-
sing one of his own sex in the street.
The citizens of Sante T'e, New Mexico,
recently held meeting To pay tribute to
the memory Of exit" Carson. l.i,
Two policemen were arrested in ChicaI
90 on Monday for assault and battery. No
wonder that Chicago isia disorderly city. d
"A young married woman was found
drowned in her own bath in Chicago on
Monday. She is supposed to have fallen
in an epileptic fit. % 7d Ienm
2 The original Mrs. BlOomer, wife of the
Mayor of Council Bluffs, Iowa, long since
duit her peculiar dress for the more conlely
habit worn by other women! .... .t.s
"A sloestring saved q little girls life in
New Haven, the other day. IT. caught on
ANAL rs she fell out of q third story win
dow, and held her from death. until assist
ance came. ''''' I1'@'" Gu
D. Santa Anna is living at Port Plate, in
the Island of Hayti, where he occupies
himself writing the history Of his life,
He:yill, however, return to Staten aote Island
in July ,.,trf,, ..'
The tug Goodnow was struck by the
bark Sunyside on Lake Huron, Monday
highs, and sunk. Loss, $l5, 900. The crew
was saved JHu lo nR0(; 10.
.--- Booth, the assassin will not stay dead.
The United States Marshal at Cleveland
received dispatch from Canton, Ohio, the
otherday, informing HIM that Booth had
made his appearance in that place. f''s
BOOTHS Theater is now the only onein
New York in which anything in the least
approaching the. legitimate drama can be
seen. This is mistake, the lc1-iimate
drama can be seen,in any western theater.
The Russian Church at Sitka, Ahsla
Territory, was recently robbed Of copy OF
the Bible richly studded with valuable
stones, crosses and other ornaments, alto
gether said to be worth $40, ,OOO. g.
In the garden of Thomas Atkins, in
Middletown, Conn, is a peony in full
bloom, tue root of which was brought
from England more than two hundred
years ago. Its pedigree has been carefully
preserved in the family.
The body of the insurance clcrk, Frank
P. Woodhall, reported missing some days
ago in New York, was found floating IA, r
Bedloe's Island: His face was gashed and
bruised, leaving no doubtthat he was muir
dered' q n. ...yggj III gu.r
"A Boston paper insinuates that the
reason that Amanda Craig got her verdict
for $10O, 600 damages is that half the jury
have applied Tor divorces in order to marry
the plaintiff and-her money. This is not
substantiatedap" i3I AiI
1.-The army worm is represented as
threatening Central Illinois. The Mattoon
Journal says they arc destroying whole
fields of corn III Coles county; and that
chinch bugs are thick north of Charleston
and appearing in other places. .......
"A woman in Troy, N. Y, has produced
q neodleworked picture of Washington,
containing nearly 700, 900 stitches. II was
raffled off and won by Prof H. Nj. Coleman
Of Vassar College. Three hundred tickets
were sold at 81 Oaoh
"A New York lady recently ordered a
trousseau at Stewards for her daughters
doll, which received complete outfit in
under clothing, silk and lace. One Of the
articles ordered was an India shawl, minia-
ture size, at $50, and lace handkerchief
was valued at So. g....
Miss Emily Judson Harris, graduate
of the Everett School, will read the Declar-
alton of Independence at theecoming cele-
bration of the Fourth of July in Boston.
She is the daughter of the President of the
Common Council.
"A duel wasfought Sunday, morning,
at Lundy's Lane, Canada, between the edi-
tor of a Spanish papebrat New York, and
n Cuban. The latter was shot through
both legs, and his wounds are serious.
An article styling Cubans towards was the
cause. ...... ......
Much excitement is manifested by the
people of Benton and Washington counties,
Ark, on the subject of mining in Benton.
The lead specimens are very fine and rich.
The silver assays $3.50 per ton-the gold is
sparsely scattered Many hundreds of peo-
pie are flochng to the mines.
Tho artesian well at st. Louis is pro-
badly the deepest in the world. 1t has
already been sunk to the depth of 8, 70l
feet, and no flow yet At Louisville they
went down 1900 feet. The great artesian
well in Parisis 1900 feet deep, and the wa
ter is hot enough for washing clothes and
dishes without further heating
-Tama county, Iowa, has for Recorder
q one-legged soldier; for Clerk, crippled
soldier, and ex.Andersonville prisoner; for
Deputy Recorder, n crippled soldier for
Auditor, Surveyor, Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff
and Deputy Treasurer each soldier and
q crippled soldier for Court House janitor
On the farm of W. Pearson, in Elbridgo
township, Illinois, stands n mammoth red
beech tree that on tho ground forms two
distinct trees, stands six feet apart, the
south fork measuring fifteen inches in
liameter About thirteen feet from the
ground the two unite and form one perfect
rec, fully ono hundred feet high. a.
The Herald, of San Francisco, in an
article on the benefits of grain-Towing in
california, says that the exhuasting system
of farming in operation in California has
llready begun to be apparent ia the de-
,rease Of crops. "Where formerly sixty
bushels of wheat to the acre were pro-
duced, the maximum yield of last summer
WAS only fifteen bushels"
The soda fountain at Helmbold's in
New York, isimmense. Itcost about S15,-
)00, and is 10 large that fifty people can
rink from II at once. About it are chairs
md sofas, on which ladies' and gentlemen
AN sit and enjoy the delicious beverage.
Not less than 5000 persons drink there
ach day. s..
Jonathan Mingo died at Albion Mich,
q. I..= 49,