Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-04-21
alntIl in eittIt.
Miscellaneous Items.

| -Four seats in tho French academy are
now vacant.
Green peas are in the Savannah market,
but scarce and costly. 49,
A Rochester man advertises lost pup"
which weighs 100 pounds
1t takes 15,000 900 yards OF saclSing TO
put up the California gram for export
Geneva, N. Y, boasts Of COW which cold
last week for three thousand dollars.
The arabic land of the United States is
estimated at 1,26o, ,0O0, 900 acres.
Grant and Dexter are to be immortaliZed
in an equestrian statue done in bronze.
Vienna priests warn their focks not to
read newspapers, because they arc all bad
The gold receipts from customs at Bos-
ton for the month of March were 81, 1856, ,5o2.
The Atlantic cable is growing moro per-
feet in its insulation month by month, it is
said
--'Monticello the homo OF Thomas JEFF
serson, will be sold at sherif's sale on The
18th of May.
The party in power In Bolivia are working
TO secure an annexation Of that country TO
Brazil.
The Boston Transcript asks, 'What has
passed the Legislature ?" and answers "Sev-
| enty-seven days.
The ladies OF Augusta, Ga, decorate the
graves of tbs Confederate dead with flowers
on the 2Gth inst.
An old memorandum book used by
Frederick the Great has been sold for two
hundred and forty dollars.
More than S93OOO has been spent since
1866 in decorating the Capitol at Washington
with so-called works OF art.
"A minister in Mitchell County, Ca, says
the forbidden fruit" that Eve partook Of
and gave to Adam was tobacco.
The telegraph companies of Groat Britain
and ireland own one hundred thousand miles
Of wire and manage 5, 1G0 stations.
During 1868. 1853 persons were accidental
ly injured on the New Jersey railroads. In
1O4 cases the injuries proved fatal.
--Remains of the Greek art are said to
have been found in the bed of the Indus, at
village in the Banau district.
Tho prairies near Pana, ILL.,, arc literally
swarming with wild ducks and geese, and
sportsmen are having glorious time.
Nearly one hundred thousand persons
are annually subsisting by public charities
and correction houses in the city OF New
York.
/ III IL TbpOTlbLA JldJ IGTII DHllbI
resigned the Office of Vice President of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Com
pany.
American dentists arc becoming more
| and more popular in Europe Two OF them
have recently opened offices in the Russian
city of Odessa.
The father of cash boy in Louisville
dry goods store, has brought action against
salesman for shaping the urchin, laying dam
ages at $4,000.
The Parisian jewelers. say there are more
valuable diamonds worn at the balls given by
the leading derni-mondaines, than at The court
balls in the Tuileries.
"A Texas exchange says: "The Southern
Enterprise comes to our Office wrapped in $50
coupons attached to $1,000 Confederate
bonds, due in 1867"
The largest hotel in Europe is to be built
on the banks of the Lago Maggiore. Sngu-
larly enough, it is not to be put up by Ameri-
cans, but by Frenchmen and Prussians.
"A houen, France, literary society has
founded prize for the best historical essay
on the Chevalier de la Sale, who discovered
the mouth of the Mississippi, and Canada.
Two Savannah negroes lately went over
to South Carolina to fight duel They OK
changed shots five times, and the only dam
age done to either party was the loss of one
finger.
Tho London Times says that Greece has
"a bankrupt cSchequer, u dlscredlteu poi
icy, n languishing agriculture, and provinces
lnIesteu 0y the most DarparouS prlSanus Ill
Europe"
vortad .fi,i auot AZ M V HH;no Nochinc The
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viii wi'SS "se Iitov 20 ~ o;r ~ % nina bvno
Gred sonars feet
-Thov oro oroor;ziro ot Nroscow n nIeas.
rro TIN 10 a. tbe " ifnited Mates in which only
W, ,rso, W. oIto;, ,eryoissinr from, ibe
IuWm [oon roenf vii narticinate The
romnd St1h trip sUiT Will cost | 1OC rnbles. paw
g. po,orohrro 10 sonot;mos ca,lod and
oe rGterspTrB 10 sonie'1vs Ee nr "au
m,o ror rossa1S oV pstrnn,enta
CnG Ho'cso laGI'tes 5 ~ poss1ss I n;t ann ,,oi
Sd s Nno saroosS tooChors ~ te nisSo
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"A seaman on Ine Iever snip gallvs v' LostoI' t'
Jr, wnlch arrived Fecensly az New t holH, es
tines tnat ne saw Ine sulBeUli o v. Cli1 IesSGI
aR'Putate an . passehiger gers sore iinGer "i'ii p"ir
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"A san FranfiSco IuIy IeGehuy hppougmC hg5 ~
~ w. an ,,sod t %"vo cbon~o3
ono oi .1o !IIEen ao Ulatu @ ~ n@to o Ja
tho nIs iimu ,,, s,I sro ofu0' ""9 So' "''0 ""0
Ihe jury eiSch"'Beu'
Mr. Russell Smith, Of Fair Haven, re-
UJS Thc5 inod y" 1Ga noss The Iorge"t wa
ohn,,t tha &c of a. b,rl ahot and ibe small
eSt of n nonsIord seod
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"A vast bed Of rock salt has been discov-
cred at Dex, in Fradce, which IS reported to
enS w ,0o goat t,icI II ,ias an,aiI donth
Sr,d 20 ~ nIV oot ,',.i, ~" 9ii'i' "'p'"
anu 10 Vi 6io-' l''''''
-"Henry, love- wish you would throw
away that book and talk to me; feel 30
dull" "a long silence and no. reply.l
| 'ucnry, dear, my fOops asleep" "Is 1t
"oii' ooh '"iA' you niiSn' "hAo ~ "p'
The penalty in New York FOR selling
adulterated food, which is dangerous to life,
is a fine of So, 900 to $4,000, and imlprison-
mont. II The same law extended to liquors,
most OF the saloons would be closed.