Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-09-08

Miscellaneous Items.
Boston has two haunted houses,

fs- Boston nus UWV nuunuvu noupOo' af4
Cincinnati papers speak of Chicago as
the .'hand New York.
Receipts from Internal Revenue on the
30th were S9S7, 900.
The manufacture of trowser buttous
has enabled wife to appear at Saratoga
with So 600 diamond.
The Boston and New York Indies at
Lake George are not on good terms, and |
verbal fights are frequent eot 81
"A German Railroad Convention held at
Vienna on the 18th OF July. The Directors
of seventy-seyen railroads were present
In Cincinnati peaches are selling at
IS cents per bushel; tomatoes % cents
apples 40 cents; pears 80 cents, &c How
will that do for low? @
"A loaf of Indian bread has been found
in Indiana, buried in the ealth, and geolo
gists are trying toascertain its age. A thick
bark had grown over 1t.
New York city hasmade the liberal offer
of $4,000 for the Century plant. Over TO-
900 people went to see this plant while it
was on exhibition at Rochester.
Bishops of the Established Church in
England are, during the next two years, to
be allowed to retire upon G2,OOO year. or
one-third of their present revenues.
Daniel s Curtis, lawyer of Boston,
has been sentenced to two months in Jail
for tweaking the nose Of Joseph M. Chur-
chill, banker in the same eminent city.
The cars on the White Mountain Rail.
road were delayed by snow on the 7th of
August, and 100 people were compelled to
spend night on Mount Washington.
"A letter from San Francisco says there
are few old Californians to be found who
have not been rich and poor again, at least
half dozen times, and most of them are
poor now.
Cornelius Kailiher, an invalid in New
York, following the advice Of an old wom-
an, stepped o ten cent paper of tobacco in
pint Of ale, and drank the fluid. 1t kill
ed him within three hours,
Ono of the Georgia editors objects to
the proposed editorial convention in that
state. He says that the affair will only be q
blg drunk, and 1--WE can getdrunk at home,
ON whisky that we are usened to-"
james Bessom, pedestrian, is to at
tempt the feat of walking backward from
Portland to Boston, adistance of 110 miles,
in eight days, on a wager of ST. 900. He
proposed to start on the 26th of August
"A Chicago paper says The number
of deaths in this city for August will reach
about 900, as we learn from an official
source, There is much sickness, aud an
unusual number of deaths are occurring.
When in 1874, the Rev. DR.. Tefft, in
an address at the Indiana University, pre-.
dicted railroad across the continent, his
hearers, including the potent grave and
reverend seniors laughed him to scorn.
Preliminary steps for founding col
ored commercial or business college in
Washington have been taken, with pros
poets of final success. 1t is proposed even
tually to extend the movement all over the
country,
The total receipts from theatres in
Chicago during July were as follows:
Woods Museum $6,271; McVicker & N.Y.
ers So, 1875 Dearborn Theatre So, $50. As.
All of these places were open only q part
Of the month.
st. Augustine, Fla,, which is filed with
inyalids from the North during the winter
months, has become great resort for South
erners in thesummer. Cool seq breezes, nm
even temperature, and fine bathing are its
attractions in the latter season.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was
the largest wheat-producing state in the
| Union. Now it is about twelfth on the
list. The people have turned their atten-
tion to the development of that which is
hidden in the earth oil, coal and iron.
-Aconvict in the Maryland Penitentiary,
who has three years to serve, as a cattle
thief, has fallen heir to $4,000 by the
death Of q relative in Ohio, and some very
dislnterested persons are endeavoring to
procure his pardon. ..
The question whether Barbara Friet-
chic wasa myth or q real woman is to be
finally set at rest by the presentation to
Mr., Whittier Of cane made from beam
of the house she lived in, by the citizens
of fredericksburg.
S. j, Caven railroad agent Mt Green
River, Wyoming was shot and killed, few
days ago, by L. Smith. He WAS arrested.
The men were understood to be compsti-
tors for the affections ofa married lady who
belonged to neither,
Mr.. L. Provost died at San Jose, CAL,
on the 10th. Mr.. Provost had been en-.
gaged for the last thirteen or fourteen
years in the business of silk culture, and,
in fact, may be regarded as the founder of
that important and promising branch of in
dustry in California.
The Perry Monument Association pro-
poses grand meeting Mt Put-in-Bay, on
the 10th Of September, the anniversary of
the battle of Lake Erie, the primary object
Of which Is to raise additional funds for
the monument. One Of the survivors of
the battle will deliver an Grafton.
Considerable excitement has been
caused among the people of Chicago by
the discovery that the walls of the new
east wing Of the court house in course of
erection, are in danger of tumbling down
from the careless and unworkmanlike man
ner in which the work has been done.
Not less than 1O7 clergymen have
clergymens cards from the 81. Paul and
Pacific Railroad Company, emitting them
to ride on the road at half fare. They give
these cards to only those who live on the
line Of the road II appears that the towns
on this road are well supplied with preach
ers.
The papers are calling to mind the al
legged prediction of the famous sleeping
girl Of Kentucky that, after the eclipse,
the sun would never again shine so hotly.
But as the girl did not die as related aud
predicted neither the eclipse nor the per-
manent weakness Of the suns rays, it is
hardly worth while to discuss it.
"A man who owes q bill in London can
now pay II in four hours by simply going to
Wall street and purchasing document
known as o ''cable transfer" O device born
Of the great Atlantic telegraph enterprise,
whereby the equivalent Of the money which
he gives in New York will be Immediately
delivered to his creditor in London.
There is an old gentleman named Bar
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