The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1870-04-19
NEWS ITEMS.

Ithe EcgislatvFe of Louisiana TO pass an
act enabling her to settle the New Or
leans claims which the courts have
already declared in her favor.
In the recent municipal elections, st.
Louis cast total Vote of 1883, inclu-
ding that of Carondelet, recently annex
eaYfthc cit,Y eincinnatalcast a.vote Of
26,507.
1t |, said Tint farmers in Minnesota
can how make more money in raising
beets at % per ton for sugar making
than they can in raising wheat or any
other kind of graft. .-a
Sir Francis Hicks made d financial
statement in the House of Commons,
/ Canada, Thursday night, and stated the
actual receipts for the year at Sl4, 1885,
100, and expenditures S31, ,973,4OS.
A Chicago editor tells the farmers of
Illinois aud the neighboring States that
they have made grave mistake. The
soil of the whole Northwest, lie says.
has been wheat-ridden till it is we'll nigh
| bankrupt
A quarry Of marble, said to be equal
| in every respect to the Carrara marble OF
Italy. has been discovered in Loudon
County, Virginia, about thirty miles from
Washington, and q company has been
organized to workit.
A wallet containing coin, notes and
valuable papers to the value of $4,000
was found in the attic of an old build
ling corner of Third Avenue and 18th
street, New York, supposed to have lain
there for years, and to be the proceeds
Of robbery.
The total town and city debt of Mas
sachusetts is 834,S25, 1850 81. OF this
amount the debt of Boston is S16,41I,-
1856 SO. The valuation of property in
the State is one thousand million. The
savings banks deposits amount to $780,
600, 600. h as Gz
Ger. Spinner is writing alester that
will show that by the first of November
next 81, ,lS0, ,0OO, 900 worth of $40 bonds
will have matured, so far as the first five
years expiration is concerned, and that
therefore the Government can call them
all in. f,1o }..
An alarming disease, thought to be
spotted fever,prevails at North Haverhill,
N. H., utterly defying the skill Of medi
cal men. Persons in all ages. of life
have been stricken down by it, living
but three or four hours after the appear.
ance of the first symptoms.
The shipwrecks of 1869, according to
the books of the "Bureau Veritas," the
French Lloyd's, involves the total loss
of 26l2 yessels,o of which 2453 were sail.
ing vessels and 159 steamers. In the
above figures are included $50 sailing
vessels and eight steamers never heard
from. - .f4a
| At the battle Of Gettysburg, Gen. Ga
briel R. Paul, of st. Louis, was shoi
through both eyes, and his eyesight
wholly destroyed. A joint resolution
giving him the payand allowances Of $
brigadisr, lie having been retired on tha
rank, has passed both houses of Con
/ gress, and is now in force. j ~ e
Western Texas will not again be sub
ject to drouths, as it is fast becoming :
timber country. Within the last tel
years the whole face Of the country ha;
changed, and young forests are nov
/ growing in what was formerly a naket
] prairie. Rains throughout this section
have been general, and the prospect fo
bountiful crops was never better
i They have queer ideas of fun out il
Illinois. For example, the other even
ing set of funny fellows entered I
Lodge of Good Templars while that bod.
Was in session, and, seating themselve
4 at the Secretary's table, played a gam
Of suchre to decide who should pay fo
a bottle Of gin which they had will
them. 80
The branch of the Freedmen's Saving
Bank, in Louisville, was entered on Sat
urday at ten a. M, BY five disguised mer
The guard on duty, colored man, wa
gagged and tied, while the sale, va
drilled and some $500 taken therefrom
There was $500 in the safe, but the bal
ance vas left undisturbcd.
/ A man calling himself Augustus Lat
terbsck, a Prussian by birth, and hailin
| from Texas. was detected IN Toledo las
week as Masonic swindler, by R. Rich
ardson, IL. o. Wagner, and others, Q
4 the Masonic Board Of Relief He ha
recently been operating in Chicago, Mi
/ waukee, Detroit, and other cities, in Al
!. of which he obtained small sums Q