Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-07-14
prepitifs.
Miscellaneous Items.

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Boot and shoe making is great business
in Philadelphia onnting to five millions
q year.
Mrs. Dumont, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
has become heir to 100000 estate in
England.
| There were 2,171 letters advertised at
the Chicago postofiice on Saturday as un-
called for.
Harvest hands are receiving from So
to So per day in the wheat fields of South
ern Illinois.
"A girl of ID summers is about to be-
come the fourth wife of Muscatine Qowa)
septuagenarian.
Two Canadian Presbyteries have voted
that revivals are at variance with the West
minister Catechism.
"A Mrs. Mansfield and her husband
have been admitted to the bar as praticing
attorneys, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
"A Boston landlord raised the rent of
tenant S100 because he voted against him
on local question.
English house.sparrows have been i'm
ported into Buffalo. One gentleman re-
ceived sixteen pair few days ago.
1t is stated that Henry J. Raymond's
maternal grandfather and grandmother,
and one of his unCles, died of apoplexy.
Cincinnati, on Saturday, by 15,438 to
1,500 (ten to one), voted to issue SIT, 0O0,-
600 in city bonds to build the Southern rail
road.
"A citizen ofShelburne Falls vt. claims
to be the champion horse snapper" He
is 40 years of age, and has traded horses
over 600 times.
Tom Sayers, son Of the pugilist, has
come ont as comic singer in London, and
sports his fathers fighting costume in the
music halls
"A st. Louis paper says that there are
about 5000 opium eaters in that city,
and that they consume 1890 grains OF
morphine daily.
The officers of the Northwestern rail
road deny the story that the Galena Divis-
ion has been leased to tho Illinois Central
Railroad Company.
The New York Sun thinks ''our Amer
can girls belittle themselves by bestowing
their hands upon played outand starved out
Bourbon princes.
1t is said that stock company, with
considerable capital, is now forming to
carry on the National Intelligencer in con-
nection with the Express.
Hiram Miller was hanged, last Friday
in Widdsor, Vt, for the murder of j. G.
and Abigail Going, farmer and his wife,
in Vermont, July 19, 1867.
The entire line of the Dubuque * Sioux
City Road from river to river has been
leased to the Illinois Central 1t is to be
completed in seven months.
| Nox, UnxI, E,ya,,;,,c, Mail ooNo tboH
President Grant rendered his services as
one of the pail bearers at the Raymond
funeral, and they were declined
California produced last year nearly
fifteen million pounds of wool, which was
larger by almost two million pounds than
the production of any other state.
Mrs. Daniel Bean and 262 other ladies'
of the town of warner, N H., have sent q
protest to the legislature against the ex-
tension OF the right of suffrage to women.
Eating peanuts in court at Petersburg,
Va, has been prohibited by Judicial or
der and ihe Index says that ''the order is
justified by the experience of the last GRIM
inal term"
Present prospects are that the Della
ware fruit crop will be 80 large that even
the special arrangements made by the rail-
roads will be insufficient to move it to the
market.
The new territorial seal of Wyoming
bears an elk's head, q shield, train of
cars, and agricultural implements, artisti-
cally arranged, and the device, 'Let us
have peace"
AT an auction sale of velocipedes in
New York, Saturday, the prices for mach-
ines ranged from So to $40. About forty
were sold, and twenty were withdrawn for
want of bidders
California wheat Is so dry, that in
coming east through and into humid at
mosphere it gains greatly in weight by alb
sorption This is quite an element of
profit to the shippers.
The largest shipment of wool ever
made from Quincy, ILL.,, was made Wednes-
day last. Six car loads were started for
Boston. The cars each contained 80 large
sacks of the flbrous material.
1t ID stated that respectable congre=
cation of the believers in the doctrine of
Joseph Smith, the great Mormon disciple,
hold meetings in the West Belleville (Ill)
school house every Sabbath.
The new City Directoryof Buffalo con-
Ibluo dDOAJ OO,UUU udIueb. IL u0 OOuTl6E
multiplies this number by five, and claims
that the productrepresents very nearly the
population Of the city,
The carpenter, third mate and boat.
swain OF the emigrant ship James Foster,
who have been on trial, in New York, for
cruelty to emigrants, have been sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
During social party, recently near
Waxahatchie, Texas, the chimney of the
house in which it was assembled was struck
by lightning, and young man named Hin
ley was instantly killed and Miss Embry
dangerously wounded.
The Petersburg, Va, Index says: tAll
the reports that have reached US represent
the crop of wheat now harvesting as the
finest that has been reaped for anumber Of
years. The ears are well filed, and the
grain not affected by rust"
The names of a triplet Of babies who
took the premium at the late baby show In
Boston, are Nellie Hope, Norah Faith and
Hannah Charity. Mrs. Coughlin, the
mother of these though she has Faith,
Hope and Charity, is known chiefly by her
Works.
The attaches of the New York Demo-
crat had a magnificent deieuner on Wednes.
day evening, at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Mr.. G. p. Sykes, the publisher being the
host on the occasion. There were 'red-hot
times all round and wine and wit flashed
forth indiscriminately.
AT an election in Boston, on Wednea-
day last Lizzie Harrison offered to vote,
Being told that she could not, as she waa
not on the list, she declared that she had
right TO vote, all regulations 10 the con-
trary Notwithstanding deposited her ballot
ON the box and sailed out.
The following appointments have re.
Gently been made for the internal revenue
district of Chicago: Gaugers- Otto A.
gcbultz A ~ Hinclxlev Freemay Connhr