Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-09-22
Bteutties.
Miscellaneous Items.

- In 1867 there were SOs homicidos in
France; in Italy 2,G26
Six hundred and Ave horses were eaten
IN Paris in June N i
Russia is about TO introduce trial by
jury as a new pledge Of her progress in
civilization.
In Massachusetts this summer the
farners' daughters have helped to make
the hay. Hired mon are scarce.
"A Munich professor estimates the
amount of beer annually manufactured in
Europe to be equal to 8, ,600,000,00O pints.
John Durivage, "a nephew of Edward
Everett and well-knows journalist, actor,
and dramatist. died at the City Hospital in
Memphis, a few days ago utterly penniless.
"A crazy French legislator was found
stark-naked in railway carriage, ~ wish
my constituentst to see me just as l am,R
was his explanation.
1t is said that Commodore Vanderbilt
went to Canada to be married 80 that Fisk |
and Gould should not get out an injunction
and put his intended into the hands OF
receive her.
j. B. Ford & Co. have purchased the
Church Union. Henry Ward Beecher will
edit it after the expiration of the present
year, and his sermons will appear therein.
Iowa has recently taken its census, and
returns from all but five counties show a
population of 1,0l1,05 During the past
two years 10000 dwellings have been erect
cd in the State.
The Eastern Mass Railroad carried
more passengers than any other road in
the state during the past year. AT the
small town of Maiden, four miles from
Boston, they have eight hundred regular
yearly commuters.
-Laundresses in Montgomery have
found new way to increase their gains -
They take the clothes to be washed on
Monday morning. hire them out day or
two and then clean aud iron them in time
to bo returned on Saturday.
The dogs in Somerset county, N j.,
have made havoc among the sheep. About
fifty have been killed within few weeks
past One gentleman, out of flock of
twenty-four, had all killed but one.
The pay roll of the Chicago Police De-
partment for the month of August was $685.
471,72. The pay roll of the Fire Depart
ment for the same time footed up S14, 749,-
23.
The Lynchburg Virginian says that
fifty thousand head of cattle will be sent to
the Northern markets from southwest Vir-
ginia during the coming season.
There were 473 more commitments in
Boston in July and August of the present
year than there were in the same months
last year. And still the city is agitated by
the question-Is there an open bar in Bos-
ton? . Ii
: announcement was made to tho stu
dents of Amherst College on Friday morn
ing that Professor j. II. Seelye, had written
n letter declining the Presidency of the I'm
Sersity of Michigan. The students we're
greatly pleased.
-Mucllage of remarkable adhesive prop
critics is taken from the leaves of the New
Zealand fax. II is 10 be largely used in
England for the manufacture of ''safety en-
velopes" When two pieces of paper are
fastened by means of this gum, no steam
ing or soaking will separate them.
According to Rev. DIR. Osgood, gor-
geously dressed beadles, with sword and
staff, move aronnd in the German churches,
and give the faithful poke by way of re-
buke when they twist ltheir heads around
to look at the ladies or see who is coming
in.
On Saturday heavy thunder storm
passed over Rushville, i'll. Mrs. Ada Lam
don, fearing to remainin he2hOuss in COM
pany with Mrs. Frank Lee, Sepped ont in
to the yard and took refuge under tee,
when bolt of lightning descended, killing
Mrs. Landon, and rendering Mrs. Lee in
sensible.
Professor Romeo Elton, graduate of
Brown University, who returns to Provi-
dence after seventeen years absence, has
Just founded scholarship of one thousand
dollars in the University in memory of his
wife. Professor Elton was professor of
Greek and Latin in the institution from
1885 to lS49, and this is the second schol-
arship he has endowed.
Edward Matthews has purchased n
burial plot at Greenwood occupying 20 lots.
at cost of SIG, 900. A vault and temple
will be constructed at cost of 500, 000.-
| The price of lots in Greenwood cemetery,
IA feet by ~, is from 5000 to $500. and of
single graves in the public lots from $40 to
S25 The corporation has now between
S7O0,0 and $500, 900 sinking fund, which
will soon be increased to 81, 100000.
"A Danbury farmer, whose stack of hay
was growing smaller by degrees and beau
tifully less" posted himself one night TO
find out tho cause, and soon had the salts
faction Of seeing fellow approaching with
n fork The farmer waited until the thief
had got his fork full and WAS walking off
with it, when he came up behind him and
set fire to the hay, which soon blazed up
terribly. The fellow was effectually cured
of stealing hay from that locality. ~ =. '
"A revival at Richmond, Ind, which has
b cen in progress for about six months, is
one Of the most remarkable on record.
About nine hundred persons have been adj.
ded to the various churches. Out door
meetings have been held twice week. and
a noon-day saloon prayer meeting has be-
come nearly permanent institution. Some.
times as many as fifteen prayer-meetings in
private houses have been simultaneously
held in dfferent parts OF the city.
The terms Of the following United
States Senators will expire in 1871, and
many of their successors will be elected
during the current year: II. Y. Miller,
Georgia; Richard Yates, Illinois; James w.
Grimes, Iowa; Edmund G.. Ross, Kansas;
Thomas 9. McCreery, Kentucky; VIM. Pitt
Fessenden, Maine; Henry Wilson, Massa-
chusetts; Jacob M. Howard, Michigan;
Daniel s. Norton, Minnesota; John M.
Thayer, Nebraska; Aaron H. Cragin, New
Hampshire; Alexander G. Cattell, New Jer-
sey; George H. Williams, Oregon; Henry
B, Anthony, Rhode Island; Joseph S. Fow-
Ter, Tennessee; Waitman L. Wiley, West
Virginia total, 16. b., ,'.r-
| "A good story is told ofa Quaker land
lord at Atlantic City. An urchin of five or
six years was seen by him drumming nois-