Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-25
Miscellaneous Items

Isa--The boys OF Dos Moines county, Town,
have within short time killed 4,640 goph-
ers. sfn4.--
Omaha has q musical genius in the
person of blind German boy ID years of
age.
Spirits paid tax of $293, Sl1. .67, and
tobacco S77, ,121.30, in Chicago district in
July.
Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest of twenty different keepers OF gambling
houses in Omaha.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, during the past
year. 2, G61 buildings have been erected,
valued at 9,545, 600, ,.-,
"A Boston tooth-pick factory has The
monopoly of the business, and sells 4, 0O0,-
0OJ or 100000 per day
Mike McCoole and 0'Baldwin, the
Irish giant, had sparTing match at the
Opera House in Buffalo on the 18th.
Mr.. Lewis Longstaff, formerly of Bes-
vor Dam, in this state, is on trial lat Glasgow,
Mo-, for the murder oil John B, Jones.
-- Forty-ii FIVE thousand baskets of peaches,
ninety Caf loads, arrived in New York,
yesterday, by the New Jersey Railroad.
Mr., James Miller has in preparation q
reprint of ''Peter Parley's Thousand and
One Stories, which have long been out of
print
The true sign of great poet, orof any
great author, is not that he is without faults,
but that he makes you love his faults, in
spite Of yourself.
There is an increase of nearly fifty
millions of dollars in the assessed value OF
real and personal property in Boston since
the last financial year.
"A. X. Bailey of tho DaCOrah Qowa)
| Republican, does the apOlOgetic as follows:
| ''Our paper is retarded slightly by the ar
rival of an extra male"
"A "nigger" baby was found on stone
IN Syracuse The city adopted it, and
named it August Stone, because it was
found in August.
The father Of q deserted wife, of Sioux
City, has obtained Judgment against the
recreant husband for bed and board for
the last two years, amounting to 81, 3SO.5O.
The cNpitAl invested in the publication
! of sheet music and musical works in the
United States is estimated at $4,000 COO.
There is comparatively little music import
ed.
The biggest man in Indiana is David
Buskirk, who lives in Monroe county a
mile and quarter from Gosport. He il
about seven feet high, and weighs three
hundred pounds.
A young man of sixteen, the SON Of q
Cincinnati lawyer, is writing a tragedy
founded on the fresh subject of the st.
Bartholomew massacre. 1t will be brought
out at one of the Cincinnati theatres next
winter.
The total pumping capacity of the
three pumps which furnish Chicago With
water is 3S, OOO,OO0 gallons per day. The
actual consumption of water during thir-
teen consecutive days in July was 2i, ,OO0,-
600 gallons per day. ~. '.i.
Two new companies have been formed
for the purchase of lands in Virginia and
their settlement by emigrants from Eulope
The aggregate Of land already purchas ed by
Companies in Virginia and the Carolinas ex-
Seeds 100000 ofacres.
Postmaster General Creswell's house
near Elllton, Md, was entered by burglars
on Tuesday evening and quantity of
clothing stolen. One of the robbers was
clught with full suit OF Mr.. CreswelPs
clothes on The other escaped.
An exchange says: The stump tailed
Latin used by haltledged physicians in
making prescriptio has been the means
oil numbering many persons lately. Would
1t not be we'll enough 10 use the English
language, or don't they Understandable
The total quantity of land devoted t,
the growth OF cotton throughout the whole
OF India does not exceed S,500,000 acres.
If this quantity of land was as productive
IN India rs it is in thee United States, it
would yield something like 1000, 900 bales,
or half bale per acre. nI'TG
The gentlemen OF society at SARATOGA
are epltomized as follows: Greatest lion,
Gen. Sherman; luckiest man, John e.
SAKE; ladies' tayorite, Ensign Mason; most
dtStingNe, W. Il. Travers; danced the most.
Sheridan; best dressed, Charles LELAND:
politest, Joe, of tho Clorendon.s1e ~ IT.
Gen. Thomas JOurdan, now in COM
mand of division of Cuban troops. was
written to by the officials of the Treasury.
asking him to refund S2a, 600 which Re
owed the government before he Joined the
rebellion. He replies: "Your letter re.
celved. Any further communication will
reach me if sent to Newark, N. j."
"A question for solution Two ladies
We're walking alonga Chicago street the
other day, each having her child with her.
Soon they met two gehtleme en-. ''Phere,"
said one, 'are our husbands" Eyes"
said the other, "and our fathers" 'And
our giandfathers, said the children. All
were correct in their st atements. Who can
solve this relationship sphynx
Mrs. Stanton writes to the Revolution
from Johnston, N. T.; "The two central
figures on which all Thought and conversa-
ton centre just now in our native town, Ia
the unhappy man in prison. Of whom We
told our readers last week, and a pretty
: young girl, member Of the Presbyterian
Church. who, outside the conventional
rules, has become tho mother of q child"
} "A young Canadian girl who ran awav
from home and went TO Detroit was ar
rested recently for vagrancy.. When offer.
Cd her liberty In case she would 20 back
home showed her good taste. by the follow
ing reply: "Not any, Mister; l likes the
states IN prison better than Canada at lib
erty I'll take my chances, on this side. ;"
Disseminating and tasteful female, thatl 4,
An old lady in Iowa, complimentetl on
the beauty and preservation of her teeth.
aSeribed II to having /" bitten the snake"
She explained that in childhood hor father
held rattlesnake by the head and tail and
each OF his children bit along the, whole
length OF the backbone, just indenting the
skin, as q preventive of toothache and
decay, and the old lady believes TO the
ton. HI i'.l ~ wv
The cotton and sugar crop Of Louisi-
ana will be the largest and best ever pro.
duoed there. Tho cotton nron Ia 90 fnn n