The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1870-07-05
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have on too much war paint
Gen. Custer is tired of the West and
threatens to resign.
An Indiana Gipsy Queen sports 5000
silver tea kettle on her tripod.
Miss Dickinson has raised the price
of her lectures to $3.50 per night.
Bayard Taylor's lectures,at 81 head.
are not very successful in California.
A landlady in New York refuses to-
kill bedbugs, because it is cruelty to ami
mails.
A woman in Oshkosh, Wis, has been
fined $S for stealing switch from the
head of another lady.
One of Baron Rothschild's groomS
smoked in the stables and spoiled 10000
francs worth of property: go
Indiana women refuse to visit their
distant friends, especially during the ses- :
sions of the Common Pleas Court.
George. NJ Pullman, President of the
Pullman Palace Car Company, returns
for last year net income Of $4,000.
The wheat harvest in SoutisIlnn Illinois
is about completed, and it is pronounced
the best crop for many years. The corn
looks promising. ,.
VIM. Liestenschneidcr, of Collinsville,
Conn, was relieved, a few days since, Of
tape-worm thirty feet long-almost as
long as his name. sa agi
| A Kansas woman weekly fagellates
her husband, and then locks herself in
the parlor and sings: Nearer, my God
to Iliee'' .s..si.. s.ts
| Bob Butler, nephew Of Ben Butler
has been arrested in Washington for
stealing silver spoons from his boarding
house. ,...,.a.s
| Conundrum by Dana: If Andrew,
| johnson had nominated rebel officer
for his Attorney General, what would
! Congress have SAID and done about it?
Only % out of the "a members of
Congress from Pennsylvania want to go
back Covode is s'weerie of publick life,
and doant want offis' q -
DR. Hitz has gone to Washington He
died some six years ago in Montana, out Z
became such beautiful petrifaction al:
ter burial that the Smithsonian would
have him. f -,1asfsiasts ~
Sturgeon is about forty-six years DID,,
and preached 1000 sermons before he
was twenty-one. For the last FIVE years
| ,0e0 copies week of his sermons have
been sold. ssr,
Punchinello tells of Greeley, at Long
Branch, "sitting sadly, observing the
swindling waves, which came all the way.
from Europe, an6 didn't pay a cent of
tax when they landed"
Wilson Mcdonald has closed acons
Etract with the st. Louis. Association for
making an equestrian statue of Gent
1Lyon 1t will be the finest work of the
kind in the Mississippi Valley,
1 Two fashionable young ladies Of Hart
1 ford, Conn, have been laid up for repairs
! from wearing high.heeled shoes ;and the
.ldoctor thinks he has job that will last
Ehim a year to straighten out their little
ItoeS.
4 A correspondent of the Edinburg
Scotsman states that Queen Victoria has
Expressed to the, Duchess, of Sutherland,
in a private note, the deep interest with
which She regards the approaching Pro-
i testant Conference in New York.
4 Toombs is much ADLER lawyer than
. Akcrman, and 1t strikes Avery of the
/ Cincinnati Commercial, .sas wonder
that President Grant passed over the
! General to make a selection from his
staff" .3i8it4 sIdsE5 ia80gH
AR Thomas Jones, hale and hearty
young man. of eighty one, was present
at the reunion of veterans at Maumee
City, Ohio, last week He was accom-
panied by his wife of twenty-seven, and
daughter of five years. g9afDjE Ii
) The following is veritable transcript
, from the record of will admitted to-
: probate in the State of New York II
bequeath my body to the grave, my soul
to its Maker, and the remainder Of my
property to my wife. sts,s
The Evening Post is better. informed
than it was, and now acknowledges that
subscriptions have been taken up to get
paid up life insurance policy of $780,:
} 600 for Gen. Grant, but the project went
hard and has probably been given up
, now. flfs Ea.lgf.fsssg
It has been established that Colonel
Jacquess, at Washington, seeking COM
I pensation for secret services, is the sand
!; indicted in Louisville for murder and
J abortion. His attorney, who defended
him, it is stated, holds his note, with
forged securities. II
Here1s DR.. Mary Walker in her sum-
mer dress: ga pair of number two
boots, tight pants, a blue .swallow-tail
coat, bespangled with brass buttons, a
sshoo-Ay' cravat of the latest and most
approved style, her hair worn loose and
combed back of her ears" - 4ts
; The Herald reports that at a picnic
/, party the other day up the Hudson, the
) Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher was pus
through sham trial and sentenced to
be kissed by six ladies of Plymouth
Church, who were present The sentence
was Immediately executed.
Texas is ahead, and Washington's
, body-servant is nowhere. Texas reports
/ that a negro woman died in that State on
t the 7th inst, who was l33 years old,
) lborn in 1737, who was only tone Of
. the Oldest inhabitants of Texas" and
t who was formerly aservaht of General
E Washington's mother" (, e, s
5 Although tic white population Of
Richmond, Va, probably exceeds the
] black by 5000, the records of the Board
e of health show that since october 4,
: 1869, 54S blacks have died from natural
4 causes. and only 412 whites. Including
e those killed at the Capitol, the whole
e number of deaths is 46S whites and 55I
blacks.
The Governor Of Massachusetts has
signed the bill amending the prohibitory
: liquor law of that State 1t will there
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