The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-07-13

Elder Jacob Knapp, the well known
reyivalist, who lives at Rockford, ILL.,, re,
turns an income of Sl4,931. ..-....
Jay Cook goes trout fishing every day.
He has made himself rich during the
past five or six years catching suckers.
A miserly rag picker has just died in
New Orleans, leaving a large fortune to
a grand daughter whom he had placed in
an orphan asylum.
Chief Justice Chase has a, cottage at
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, and
Blacque Bay, the Turkish Ambassador,
with his family, is also there.
} A New York editor, on a wager, has
recently been attempting to write in an
hour matter enough to fill column Of
small type, but WAS unsuccessful.
The converse of the wickedcst man in
New York is one who advertises for the
owner Of an umbrella he has found
The name of this phenomenon is Mil
Ter. ''e'- 'cas
Henry A. Cleveland, of New Haven,is
the wooden Spoon Man" at Yale this
year. He wins the trophy by an undis-
.puted claim to the championship in ugli-
ness.
The New York Post says: "Madame
Anna Bishop has lately left Sydney, Aus
tralia, for England. She still sings in
public, as she has done for the last cen
tury or two
The King of Prussia has taken to cog
nae to preserve the freshness of his com
plexion and the general appearance of
vigor.
An English D. d. advertises to in
struct members of Parliament in COM
position, reading and extemporaneous
speaking. Washington might possibly
afford him good collection Of pupils
during session of Congress.
Viscount Adair, son of the Earl of
Dunraven, is coming here to 'study the
germs of the great future in American
politics and society" He has just mar
ried an heiress, and has an income of his
own of S3OO,O0O a year. 3
A widow woman in the town Of Sulli-
van, New York, wants Jim Nye, loyal
Jim Nye, Senator Jim Nye, to pay her
one hundred and fifty dollars which he
borrowed from her deceased husbands
estate.
Stokes, of Tennessee, has been, in Or
der of the mention of them, horse jock
ey, preacher, hog driver, mule seller,
whisky -distiller, Confederate Captain,
scalawag Federal Congressman, torch
and turpentine tramp, and Is now a can
didate for Governor .
1t is reported that the Empress of the
French and ex-Queen Isabella of Spain
are proposing to construct monastic
establishment on the site of the once ia
nous Abbey of Longchamps destroyed
by the great revolution and forgotten by
late generations.
Two Germans recently drank beer for
the championship of Niagara Falls; one
drank sixteen glasses and succumhed,
unconscious; the other drank half of his
and, having won the victory,
left off with the exclamation: '@Himmel
by.tam eff l vas been dry amore vonce,
1 Good drink der whole keg." He then
fell heavily alongside of Gottlieb, amid
the exultant cries of his friends.
Canada is proverbial for Its poor Coy
ernors. Lord Elgin made money by
selling the manure heaps from his stable
Sir Edmund Head had been poor Law
Commissioner in England, and lived
from hand to mouth in this country,
while Lord Monck has had to accept the
of a cable telegraph compa-
ny and Commissionership under the
in England The present
Sir John Young, is SAID to /
be no wealthier than his predecessors.
At San Francisco, lately, Chlnaman
was offered as witness in the Police
Court, in case where the defendant was
a Chinawoman. Counsel for the defense
objected, and, after long argument, the
witness was excluded In the District
Court in Placer County, recently, white
man was convicted of murder on the
testimony of Chinese witnesses.
That t'last spike" is around again.
The New Bedford Standard says that
Mr.. Duff, one of the Directors of the
Union Pacific Railroad, was in that city
.he other day, and had with him the
sold spike said to have been the last one
lriven on the Pacific Railroad From
is appearance, it is evident that it was
lriven sabout as much as corner stones
ire ''laid" by public dignitaries. The
marks of two very light taps.o of the ham
ner can be seen en- it.