Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-05-26
Miscellaneous Tte,ns.

There was severe hail storm in the re-
g1on OF Memphis on the night Of the 9th.
Don Piatt will soon publish In book form
his washington letters TO the Cincinnati Com
mercial.
An opera troupe will perform at the Le-
land Opera House, Saratoga, during the en-
tire season.
Tho Young Mems Christian Association
has now In Europe 557 branches, with mem
bershp OF $4,000.
| Savannah, Ca, now has population of
4oOOO-being an increase of about 10000
since the close OF the war.
.---Pio Mono has quarreled with the Roths-
ehiids, and they declare they will lend tho
Holy Father no more money.
Near Pittsburgh, on Thursday, a boy, in
Ian hred pistol at two others, killing ono
and severely woundlng the other.
England contains q, 900 900 inhabitants:
lts U.s. land @ is owned by 50,00O people, 1t has l.,
VoO,UOO more women than has men,
The number of children of school age in
the state OF Ohio is /, ,019, 1872, only about Ave-
hihths OF Whom are regular attendants.
The press of France has sustained 11s
prosecutions by the government the past
year, and paid $4,000 francs in the way Of
fines. w
bridgeport, Connecticut, has received
an order from the Spanish Government for
tne manufacture OF 100000 metallic cart
ridges.
,-Vhe solitary system has been partially
dispensed with in the Pennsylvania State
effect.
In March there was an arrival Of 1000
A L "
OF bananas, at San Francisco, from the Sand
wich Islands.
South Carolina Is soon TO hold an aeri-
cultural convention, at which an endeavor
Will be made to form county societies to i'm
port white labor.
There are Ave weekly American papers
in Paris, chiefly supported by advertisements
seeking the eyes OF American travellers,
daily.
"A whale forty feet long, yielding 869 gal
lons OF pure oil and more than four hundred
| pounds OF whalebone, was taken near Cape
Lookout, North Carolina, about two weeks
| since.
The New York street commissioner has
prohibited the posting in any part Of the CITY
OF medical hsndbills, or bills givinglnotice Of
the sale or exposure to sale Of any noatrum OIL
medicine.
Northern capital having been successful
~ invoked, the Richmond steel works are be-
ing rebuilt, and will be supplied with new and
improved machinery, They are expected to
| reopen next month.
Mr., Gilmore has received Grand Peace
March, written for the National Peace Jubilee
by an Italian composer, whose name is not
TO be made known until judgment is passed
upon the composition.
Among the incidents ofthe late storm in
St. Louis, was the return of sportsman
with five dozen snipe which he found killed
by the nail. A pigeon was brought down in
the city by hail-stones.
One hundred and fifty acres of woodland
in Wenham, Mass. belonging to o Mr.. White,
were burned over on Wednesday last. Two
thousand cords Of hard wood ready for mar
ket were also destroyed.
"A mammoth block Of granite, ninety-fye
feet long, thirty-eight feet wide and thirty
one feet deep has been taken out of Rich
mond, Va, quarry. II contains Ill $40 cubic
feet and weighs Sa26 TONS or 18, ,652, 600
pounds,
The coal product Of the United States
for the year 1868 amounted toe 35, soc, 900
Pennsylvania. The anthracite coal fields of
that State embrace about ATS square miles of
territory, while in the bituminous fields over
1900 square miles are embraced,
The hoop skirt business in Birmingham
Ct., is dying out. Firms who formerly en-
ployed from fifty to one hundred hands, ,prin-
clpally girls, now only employ from six to
fifteen.
"A ee-story brick house 10 by 40 feet.
and in the construction of which AZ $50 bricks
were used, was built in Lancaster, Pa, last
week, in 19t hours, and persons we're living
in II within three days from the time ii was
commenced.
The Portland Steam Packet Company
have run their steamers between Portland
and Boston tor the last twenty-five years,
making 5000 passages and running l,80O,-
600 miles. They have transported 1600 900
passengers, and $500, 900 tons Of freight
"A lad Of Is, in Pittsburgh, bought liquor
in four saloons on Sunday Of last week. and
on Monday lodged information against the
dealers for selling liquor on the Sabbath
and received 800 as tho informers fee.
"A down. least girl being bantered one day
by some Of her female friends In regard to
her lover, who had the misfortune to have
but one leg, replied: Pooh, L wouldn't have
a man with two legs-theyre too commons
-One of tho sable minstrels at Mozart
Hall declared last night that every dog must
have his day. A logical youth in the gallery,
thinking that he saw in the old saw an incOn-
sistency, cried ont that there were more dogs
than days.
The mail contractors on the Southern
overland route have entered into contract
to transport $4,000 600 Of bullion annually
from chihuahua, Mexico, to New York
Heretofore the bullion has been carried to
San Francisco and thence to England.
"A recent book OF historical "reminiscences
OF the House OF Commons narrhtes the
laughable failure OF one who rose fully
primed for first attempt. He said: "Mr.
Speaker, / am astonished-, sir, am aston
shed-A, sir, am astonished," and then
his astonishment overcame him and he
sat down, never to rise in Parliament again.
The approaching completion of the Pa
cific Railroad reminds the San Francisco Bull
letin that at the time Of the Atlantic cable
celebration In that city, in 1858, one citizen
placed in his shop window solitary candle,
the socket.stock labeled with this inscrip.
i ton;
"Give us q railroad to the states,
/ AndI1l pay for candles at highest ratea."
"A Roman Cathilic priest has given say.
ings bank in Charlestown, Mass, two sums
of fifty dollars each, received through the
confessional, and acknowledged as taken
from the bank under false pretenses.
"A plumber Of Davenport Iowa, bought
35, 900 pounds OF army belt buckles at Rock
Island, for about seven cents pound, They
cost nearly dollar pound, and would have
supplied an army OF more than 100000 men.
They are TO be melted down for the brass and
solder.
The first telegraphic dispatch from White
Pine to San Francisco, dated April 18th,
was as follows: 'The dwellers amid the
clouds greet the dwelers by the sea. ALI
we'll"
"A bright girl was under examination at
school. The committee wished to examine
her in music, her weak point, or, rather, that
on which she was entirely ignorant. "What
is music 2" Music is an art devoted 10 har-
mony and ueed for pleasure. Now, as weare
not here to amuse ourselves, suppose we
pass to some other subject" The committee
smiled and passed the scholar.