The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1870-05-24


know
How you wish it to run, whether fast or slow
Not knowing, pom hoaor, what sort of reply
To make to plobiscit like this, shall try
To keep ssolly atcof Do you also as I.
Judge Thomas NJ. Peters of the Su.
preme Court of Alabama, in letter in
sisting upon the need Of universal edu
cation to insure the prosperity of the
State, saws: "Iguorance is misrule, 1t is
confusion, it is sin, it is death and hell :;
and our safety rs free people requires
that we ceaselessly war against it with a
Carthagenian zesl,"
The coal scuttie stv+e of bonret has
gone wholly cut Of fashion among the
.yosans SnaSefvsscs of Philadelphia,
while the young Quakcrs have shaken
the broad brim hat AMI taken to the
stove pipe. Shad bcllied coats are also
getting out Of vogue among the elders,
who manifest dccid Il inclination for
the claw hammer.
1t is not generally known. hut tbe last
lines that Fsark fTcfsrstet eSsr wrote
we're tae following "Fest Is for the
dead -and peavo apt happiness immor-
tai. For those who remain behind, the
WEAKNESS Of memory, the loneliness OF
regret, the yearning fer the untimely
lost, which will not pass away until life
itself shall have passed through the
darkness of the grave into the light of
immortality"
Says the Richmond Dispatch: "If the
melabcrS Of the Virginia House of Del
ega,es expect in this day of calamity in
Richmond and poverty in Virginia that
they are to have a hall fitted up for them
with desks and all the improvements of
modern Legislative halls, they look for
more than their forefathers had and they
were quite as good as their descend
ants"
An exchange says: '1'he changed
views Of hanf Senators on the San Do
.nthgo Question, illustrates the impropri,
ETY. OF forming hurried Judgments upon
measures involving important results, as
the annexation of that republic is well
understood to do" Possibly it illustrates
at the same time the wonderful power of
greenbacks in influencing legislation for
the benefit of spectators.
The festive Parkes, Of Woods Muse
um, is now rejoicing in the possession OF
young lady, Fat and fair, and weighing
600 pounds. tie has measured, and
says her arms are "twenty-two inches
round," and her ankle twenty.seven and
a half. How's that for thick ?-N Y.
Star.
A lady's will dis2osing of about $500
600 worth of property is contested in
Philadelphia, it being tontended that
when the will was signed, deceased was
not in her right mind, as an evidence Of
which it is stated that she Kept pistols in
the houss, and woust t,ily ergsse in
firing at a mark in tho tards
Brick Pomeroy having been interview
ed in regard to his political aspirations
assured the reporter that, "If was Gov
ernor of New York, and the people de
clared that black men should not vote
and the General Government interfered
there would be fight would supper,
the people at all hazard"
AT the opening of breach of prom
ise case in Kentucky, the Court asked
the counsel for plaintiff how long the
trial would probably last. II can't say
exactly" replied the cnunsels ''but vii
mention as one item that have three
hundred and eighty -four love letters
written by the descendant to my client, tc
read"
Six drunken ruflians, near Fort Scott
Kansas, on Thursday, May l2, demand
ed lodging Cor the night, which being re
fused, the owner of the house was knock
ed insensible, and the men afterward re
pestedly ratisited hts tro daughters
aged twelve aud fourteen years. Five
OF the perpetrators of this horrible out
rage were captured by the citizens ant
summarily lynched. The other one il
in their haA,ts, and will doubtless meet ;
like fate.
j The Austrian Marshal, Baron VOL
Hesse; whose death has Just been an
nounccd, was Borri ir tTs8, and cnterct
the military service in 1905. He distin
guished himself greatly at the battle o
Wagram, and in the italian 1at Of 1913
J In the war of 1859, after the defeat o
, Magenta, he was called to replace Gen
r eral Giulay at the head of the Austrian
> forces and he it was who drew out, witt
the Emperor Francis Joseph, the plar
of the battle of Solferino. He wa
i named Field Marshal on the 18th of Jul
| following.
; There is woman in Virginia who i
I said to have lived for years without eat
!. ing. A Richmond letter to the Peters