The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-30

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party, like swells hair, parted in the
middle.
The Treasury Department is in receipt
of information that the United States
Marshal of Georgia has absconded with
500, 900 of the public money.
A few days ago a negro woman, forty
two years of age, living seventeen miles
from Athens, Alabama, gave birth to
twins-one white infant, and the other
black as the ace of spades.
A GLADLY" well dressed, very drunk, and
with $4,000 in her pocket, was arrested
in the streets of Alexandria, Va, last
week. After sobering.off in the lookup,
she was permitted to go home.
A negro named Payne, in New Or
leans negro congregation the other Sun
day, exhorted so loud and long, and
jumped in and out of the baptlsmal pool
so many times, that he finally fell down
dead.
In the New York City dumping ground
there was recently discovered 4 skeleton
in the sand, with diamond ring on it,
and silk stocking containing the frag-
ment of foot, indicating a mysterious
murder.
Hundreds of the soldiers of the regu-
lar army stationed in Daksta are married
to Indian women land these women make
faithful, virtuous and laborious wives.
The soldiers rarely desert them.
Spiritualst Home has been making
live Goals rest Oh peoples heads without
burning them; and now and then lays
his own angelic face on white heat coal
bed, without singing his whiskers.
A special dispatch from Desmoines,
Iowa, says that five million dollars of the
first mortgage bonds of the Iowa and
State Line Railroad Company will soon
be issued by that company,with j. Edgar
Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad, as the Trustee.
A negro preacher, recently arrested in
New Orleans as a disordcrly person, was
unable to pay the fine imposed. He was
about to be committed, when happy
thought struck him. "If your honor
will trust me till Monday, I'll take up a
collection tomorrow" He was trusted,
The volcanoes in the Sandwich Islands
have been active lately, and so, also,
have the annexationists. The King some
time ago sold large quantity of land,
but has recently repurchased it, and the
fact is supposed to indicate an impress
sion in the Royal mind that the Yankees
will soon take possession, ,and that prices
Of land will soon go up.
Here is handsome compliment to a
Democrat, from Radical newspaper, the
Toledo Blade: 1--WE would like to see
Col. George w. Manypenny, of Colum-
bus, appointed Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs, under the new Administration
We don't believe Grant can find better
man for that place in the United States" :"
After President Lincoln's assassina-
ton soldier was placed on special guard
duty in front of Secretary Seward s
house. Though Seward has gone, the
faithful soldier still continues his peram-
bulations, musket in hand, in front of
the Seward mansion, on Fifteen and a
Half street.
The gross earnings of the Illinois
Central Railroad for the year 1868
amounted to S7,71S,629 "a. AS the
State of Illinois, under the charter grant
ed to the Illinois Central, is entitled to
seven per cent. of the gross earnings of
that road, the State revenue from that
source exceeds 100000.
Chang and Eng are married to two
sisters, the daughters of an American
clergyman. Each brother has nine chill
dren. The family of Eng consists of
six sons and three daughters; the family
of Chang consists of three sons and six
daughters. Their first children were
born within three or four day of each
other; the Others at irregular intervals
Changs ninth child was born three
months ago. b.