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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Owen county, Kentucky, brags child
born with full set of teeth.
At Edinburgh eleven young ladies
are studying medicine.
That girl with snake in her stomach
has turned up again this year.
Washingtonians are obliged to take
whisky with their Potomac to kill the
infusoria.
1t cost Berlin, as a municipality, $50
600 to celebrate Kaiser Wilhelm's re-
turn to the capital.
The boy murderer Asa Kettle is so
idiotic that not to know much in New
York is described as not as bright Asa
Kettle.
An eleven-year old boy has walked
from Kansas City to Houston, Texas
a little tramp of one thousand miles
and good pluck.
In Wyoming the bridegroom does the
fainting and takes the kissing at We'd
dings, while the bride whispers, ''lean
on me, dearest"
A Paris halter whose stock was rid.
died with bullets during the siege, now
sells the damaged hats at fabulous prices
as souvenirs of the war.
A Chicago sportsman's idea of heav-
en-: 81 would have it boundless prai-
| rie, with an eternal Srptembcr, and I'd
have with me an everlastin' gun and q
never,dyin' dog"
-Four George Washingtons, six And
rev Jacksons, five Henry Clays and two
James X. Folks, all negros, reside at
present in the Louisiana Pententiary.-
To this complexion have we come at
last.
The dearest notes Of the times are
those produced by Vivier, the renowned
French horn player, at a private concert
at the mansion of Lady Castelton, in
England. He received $4,000 for play
ing four pieces.
Mr.. VIM. Bradley of Meridian, is out
fifteen thousand and five dollars on his
horse Leyiathan. The fifteen thousand
was offered him for the animal fort
night since, and last week he paid man
five dollars for the funeral
An effort is making in Philadelphia to
! erect statue to the memory of Martha
Washington. The amount to be expen
ded for the purpose, $4,000, is to be
raised by 81 subscriptions.
The London Spectator says: an
Thiers is as tricky as the Orleanists, as
hostile to Italy as the Legitimists, as
sycophantic to the army as the Bona
partists, and as reckless of human life
and freedom as ever was emperor OF
king"
A child was born at Manchester, Yer
f, mont, on Tuesday, which weighed only
twenty-four ounces, but was perfectly
formed and hopes are entertained of its
living. Its face Can be almost covered
by an old-fashioned cent and a lady's
finger ring can be slipped on the arm.
A set of excellent porcelain, present
from Champion, the great Bristol man
ufacturer, to the wife of Edmund Burke
in 1774, has just been sold at auction
The teal sold for 81 ,05O, the cream
jug for $575, the Stop bowl for $3.50
and the cups and saucers for from $500
to $3.50 EACH
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
A California Monte Crisf0.

San Francisco correspondence Chicago Tribune]
Alvinza Hayward is the hero of a
story equal to Monte Cristo." He is
a Vermonter, who operated with man
named Chamberlaine in a gold lead
which was full of indications, but yield.
ed nothing tangible. Chamberlaine at
last went away disconsolate, giving
Hayward all his interest. The latter
worked at the thing for months, and
was buried deeper and deeper into
the ground, but at last his family were
next TO starving,all his laborers left him,
and he knew of no friend in the world
except Chamberlaine.
"My God p he said to this man, who
had meantime been engaged in stock
raising, 81 am on the verge of this great
strike / know it Can't you give me-
q little money
ChamberIaine had been on the verge
himself several times, and be shook his
head sadly But he had $4,000, his all,
buried under haystack near by, and he
went and dug it up.
"Take it, old fellow" he said, with
California heartiness; "do your best!"
With this money Hayward recommen.
ced, and he had worked until it was all
spent, and his men we're reduced to q
bag of beans for nourishment, when to
the gloom of hope the precious ore
blazed suddenly up; the Amador mine
was the richest IN the world When
this mine was paying $4,000 month
Hayward made over to his friend one
perfect third of IT, Chamberlain re.
tired upon s1,50O,0OO, and moved East
TO educate his children, Hayward buy.
ing back the whole. Finally, even Hay
ward grew tired, and he sold out the
mine to a stock company, of which
Gen. Cotton is President. The mine
will make $450,000 net this year, and
Cotton said last week:
1.-The Amador mine will hold out lon
ger than we will!'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
A MONSTR0S7TY.
The Latest wisconsin sensation,

From the Chippewa Falls Democrat
Mr.. Paul Cave, who lives in this town.
near Leona, informs us that his old cat
came home few days ago dragging
with her mouth what appeared to be
bundle of kittens. On examination, the
collection proved to be parts of four
kittens grown together,two at the shoul-
der and two others joined to these by
their hind parts in such manner that
whichever two were on the floor, the
other two were in the air, feet upward.
Where the bodies joined the legs were
missing, SO that the whole combination
had only seven legs in all. Otherwise
there were parts of four individual kit.
tens, four bodies, four heads, eight eyes,
four tails, DC.
There was only one umbillicus, and
the whole seemed to be one organiza-
fion, inasmuch as when one mouth new
ed all mewed and all the eyes dropped
in slumber or opened after nap at the
same moment. All the mouths took
nourishment at once that could get at it,
but the peculiar build of the animal 1--WE
speak of it in the singular) made it nee
essary for part of the mouths to prac-
tice self denial, or mew-sic, till affairs
or the old cat took turn. When all
the mouths were empty the whole con-
glomeration would set up and yell with
such remarkable concert between the
four voices that the effect was four times
the quadrupled excruciating capacity Of
one cat. This rare faculty was advan-
tageous in securing every attention call
cd for.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
Narrow Escape OF an Actress.

Gallignani gives this incident of life
in Paris under the Commune: Cries for
help by women in distress were heard
at about half. past eleven on Thursday
night from cab, which was being driv,
en- at gallop along the Rue de Richie
lieu. A captain of the army rushed
forward and seized the horse by the
bride, stopped the vehicle, notwith-
standing the resistance of the driver,
who flogged both the animal and the
officer. Two ladies' then alighted, and
one, who proved to be Nine Guyon, of
the Theater Francais, said that the cab
man had refused to drive her home, and
after striking her several times with his
whip, had said that che would take her
to the Batignolles to be hanged" and.
in fact, was driving her rapidly in that
direction when stopped. The man was
handed over to the police.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
Extract from "a Letter by Hon
JOHN O. Adams,

A few weeks since the editor Of the
Augusta (Arkansas) Bulletin wrote a
letter to the Hon j. Q. ADAMS. of Mas
sachnsetts, on the political situation -
We extract from Mr.. ADAMS reply:
s.You and /. and your friends and
neiehhors, and mine, arc Of one blood =;
we were once fellow citizens and the
old-time kindness must lingcr yet, in
spots. Our fathers were 'hrethren,' and
that must count for something The
whole political problem of the future,
turns upon the answer to the question
Shall we live together as friends or en-
emies:'
"Now,the whole internal policy of the
present administration says, Var.
Demonstration meant Var; and the
Ku Klux bill declared Var.
"This Union is now held together by
force. Certainly, if this is to he perma.
nent, it would have been better to have
parted at first. If the struggle to cast
out slavery overthrew the Constitution,
what chance is there for free Govern.
ment, if the North is to rule the South ?
South Carolina is to-day the most
shameless parody on Republican institu
tons since Republican Rome bestrode
all the nations Of the ancient world, put
the sword to their throats, stripped them
bare, and then lacked words to laud the
loveliness of liberty You cannot be
subject, and we be long free"
The above is true, every word of it
and deserves the thoughtful considera
ton of every voter in the country. Fur
ther misrule by Radicalism will result il
anarchy and war to sustain its corrup
ton and nepotism.
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Amnesty Proclamation.

VERSAILLES, July 1.-The government
has published a proclamation granting
full and complete amnesty to all politi-
cal offenders against the government in
the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine
The proclamation has been widely circu-
lated, both in those provinces aud
throughout the country generally.
That is the action of the French Re-
public too months after the close Of the
war.
The Radical Reds who govern the
American Republic will not grant am
nesty to political offenders in the South,
Notwithstanding the fact that the war
ended more than sir years since!
The people will grant them amnesty
at the polls this year and in 1872.
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The Republic Forever!

WASHINGTON, July 5.-No observ-
ance whatever of the National holiday
was had here yesterday. Not even a
National salute was fired from the Navy
Yard. No flags were displayed on the
public buildings.
The GRANT Administration is con-
stantly plotting for an EMPIRE, with the
horse jockey as Emperor, and of course
desire all celebrations of Independence
day to cease, but the patriotism of the
people will not permit them to discard
the noble WASHINGTON and his confrcres
for GRANT, MORTON, BUTLER, WADE, the
bigamist Bowen, and other conspirators.
The People will vote with the Demo
cratic party for the old 4th of July cele-
brations and tue Republic against GRANT
& Co.'S efforts to abolish one and estab-
lish the other
The Republic forever! Down with
the Imperialists.
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The Radical Reform nesasn,ion.

The Radical Reform Resolution.
The resolution of the Radical plat.
form which declares the party to be in
favor of civil service reform, coupled as
it is with an endorsement of GRANT, is
an insult to the Intelligence Of tie pco-
pie of the State,
THIS same party which does this re-
solving, has had control Of the govern.
ment for the last ten years, and could
have established this reform at any time
when ii had the will to do so. Yet, at
the end of this len years of power, we
find the civil service in far worse con-
dition than was over before known.
GRANT commenced his presidential
career hy selecting cabinet on the prin-
ciple Of tic WATsoNs without fear or
Judgment. Nearly all his chief Officers
were notoliously incompetent,and scarce
ly month has passed in which he has
not had to ''sincerely regret" the retire
ment of one or more Of his advisers.
The less dignified, but in some instan
ces more lucrative positions, have been
lavished upon proAigate relations and
the most servile political tools. No
President ever before required such alb
iect subaervioncy from his appointees as
GRANT They dare notion peril Of losing
their places, have or hold any political
opinions until such opinions arc furnish
ed to them, ready made, from Washing
ton. 1is @=s
When an appointcc relaxes his zeal for
GRANT he is atonce rcmorselessly kicked
out. And when the subject of naming
q successor arises no one ever dreams of
enquiring for a competent man. The
qualification sought, and the cnly one
having the slightest weight with GRANT,
is, that the applicant shall be an artful
political schemer. and be always ready
to perform the diltiest party work that
may be put upon him.
AS natural result Of this pernicious
system the money stolen from the people
by GRANTS officers amounts every year
to millions Declarations have become
so frequent and trite as to scarcely re-
ceive passing notice. Yet not one de-
faulting scoundrel out of every hundred
is made to disgorge, and not one out of
thousand is punished. What is still
worse, very large share Of them are
not even deprived of the offices which
they have disgraced Many of them are
useful as partisan schemers, and, belong
ing to that lucky class "whose hostility
it is not for the interest of this admins
tration to provoke" they continue to
lplunder with impunity.
The very last important appointment
made by GRANT is that Of q carpet-bag-
ger recently detected in au almost sue
cessful attempt to swinde his adopted
State out OF its agricultural land scrip.
This barefaced fraud was worked up,and
finally exposed, right under GRANTS
nose, yet with the stencil of his corrup.
ton still surrounding him he gets lu
crative Office with unusual facilities fol
stealing.
! In view of these facts and ten thou
sand more to the same effect, we are fully
warranted in saying that the Radical res
olution promising civil service reform
when linked with an endorsement oil
GRANT, is an insult to the intelligence o.
the people Of Ohio.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11

gST CLAIR KELLY, of ST. Clairs-
vile, is announced as an independent
candidate for Common Pleas Judge of
Belmont and Monroe Counties. What
he is "independent' of we are not ad-
vised, but he is certainly not independ
cnt of Radical politics.
If Mr.. KELLY hopes to pick up stray
Democratic votes in Monroe County by
this assembling form of announcement
he will be disappointed. Our Democrats
have good candidate, and intend to
vote for him.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
The Pulpit "BeariBs'' Wall Street

New YORK, June 25.-The Rev. H.
D. Northrop, in the course of his SER
mon to day, from. the text, "The way of
the transgressor is hard" referred in Sc
we're terms to the Rock Island stock
transactions of last week He said that
the cliques and corners, in which the
stock brokers engage, are neither more
nor less than gambling, and the man
who bulls or bears the market for the
purpose of robbing his fellows is no
better than the man who robs his wife
and children to try his fortune at cards.
If by accident one of these monsters
reached the New Jerusalem, he would
ask the way to Wall street, and if there
was no such place in the sacred city, he
would go TO He'll rejoicing.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
Negro Ku-Kiux I'm Ge0rsla-.Ono
white Man Killed and Several
Wounded,

AUGUSTA, GA, July 3.-On Saturday
last % armed negroes went to the plan
tation of August Red, about twelve
miles below Augusta, on the Savannah
River. Arriving at Reds residence the
party fired a volley into il, killing Thos.
A. Lowe and seriously wounding Red
and his wife and mother After disarm-
ing Red the negroes returned to Paul
F. Hammond's plantation, where the
deputy sheriff tried to arrest them, but
without success, as they refused to dis
arm.
The negroes, however, promised to
90 to Aiken and stand an investigation.
One of the parties implicated was arres-
ted here this evening. His version was
that Red and Lowe attempted to chastise
a negro for stealing from the premises
OF the former, but the negro escaped
from them ard returned with an armed
band, who did the shooting by way of
retaliation. The affair causes uneasi.
ness and alarm.
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Taxing Ton,bstones.

Senator John Sherman, opening the
political campaign in Ohio, upon which
depends the renewal of his Senatorial
existence, expressed himself with char.
ming generality and wise ambiguity, as
being utterly opposed to continuing at
high rate ''the taxes on articles of
prime necessity in common use among
all our people, merely to be able TO re-
duce the taxes on those articles which
enter inlo competition with our own in
dustry." Under these circumstances,
Mr.. Sherman will, of course, be in IA
vor Of reducing the duty on tombstones,
which are made from tablets sawed out
Of Carrara marble, and pay a double du-
ty of specific and ad valorum quality,
amounting to about one hundred par
cent, Though statuary, the amusement
of the rich, is imported free. For
tombstones are articles of prime necess-
ity in common use among all our peot
pie
Mans home is in the grave!
Here dwell the multitude; we gaze around;
We read around, we sigh, and while
We sigh. we sink"
But Mr.. Sherman will not be in favor
of reducing the duty upon blankets;
which are articles which enter into COM
petition with our own industry. Yet it
cannot be denied that blankets are quite
as universal wear as tombstcnes, with
this slight difference, that, while the
marble covering simply marks the abb
ding place of the dead, the woollen COW
ering keeps life and vigor in the bodies
Of the living.
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GNlIibiAity.

Some weeks since gentleman of
Norfolk, Virginia, lost valuable ring,
which he priced very highly, and which
he supposed to be stolen After having
exhausted every effort to find it, he con
suited a fortune-teller, who told him
that the ring had not been stolen, but
had been dropped into the food of fine
calf which he owned and been swallow
ed by the animal. Thinking the tale a
plausible one, he ordered the calf to be
killed, and its stomach searched, when
10! there was no ring to he found. The
family of the gentleman have since lux
uriated in veal which, taking the price
at which the calf Ga highly improved
breed, J must have been worth at least
So 90 per pound.
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~At the commencement excrcis

~At the commencement exercises
Of Georgetown ID. CO. College, on the
Goth ult., General SHERMAN made a
speech to the students. He said:
"You must have at heart the interest
of the whole country, which must never
be divided. The attempt in our genera
ton failed, and it will always fail, and l
would as soon expect to see an attempt
to dissolve the Union in the future come
from the North as from the South. -
This is confrmatory of his New Orleans
speech, in which he declared he took no
stock in stories of Southern disloyalty to
the Government.
The next rebellion will be inaugurated
by the Radicals, at Westinghouse retain
power. Let the people be ready TO crush
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Re- Mr.. Jefferson, having invited Pat
rick Henry to dine at one of his artis-
tic fetes, the chef deurre of his celebra-
ted French cook, was mortified to find
that the Governor declined to partake
Of each and every one of the elegant
and elaborate creations of the French.
mans art. At last, having run through
the carte, the President begged that
Governor Henry would say what he
would have. 81 will thank you, sir, for
some bacon and green's" was the eager
reply. Mr.. Jefferson could hardly re.
strain his surprise at so novel demand,
and begged that the Governor would
excuse him on account of his long alb.
sence from Virginia, for forgetting that
there was such dish still in demand
among civilized people as "bacon and
greens Mr. Henry never forgot the
reproof, and when he returned to Vir-
ginia he denounced Mr.. Jefferson "as a
traitor to his material vittals." On the
other hand, Mr. Jefferson left on record
his opinion of Patrick Henry ''as man
of low tastes and vulgar associations"
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The Radical Party Arraigncd.

The address of the Pennsylvania De-
mocracy contains the following truthful
arraignment of the dangerous party in
power:
''No candid person will deny that the
leading men in power at Washington
have broken the pledges they made to the
people, and, in reckless disregard Of their
oaths, they have violated the plainest pro
visions of the Constitution.
They have deprived the States of their
sacred right of self government in mat
ters purely local, and disarmed them of
the power to enforce their own laws for
the preservation of order within their
own boundaries.
They have passed bills of pains and
penalties, operating on millions at once,
without regard to the guilt or innocence
of the parties.
They have trampled on all the securi
ties fife, liberty and property.
They have treated the habeas corpus
law with contempt, and denied the right
of trial by jury.
They have sent out swarms Of their
hireling agents with instructions to kid
nap. imprison and kill free citizens for
political of'enses without judicial accusa-
ton, warrant or trial
"They have not only trodden upon the
great principles, embodied in the original
constitution as it came from the hands OF
its trainers, but even the amendments,
which they themselves interpolated, have
been broken without remorse, whenever
it suited their interests"
Any man who is acquainted with the
party in power, knows that the above ter
rible indictment is true.
Upon that indictment the People vii
try the Radical party at the Polls, this
Fall, and convict, and sentence it, as un
worthy of confidence or support.
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T FLAKES Bulletin, of Galveston
Texas, accuses Governor DAVIS of dcsi-
ring to postpone the election of new
Legislature as long as possible, for fear
that he will be impcacied. 1t asserts,
however, that The demand is so great fol
an early election that the authorities will
he afraid to postpone il beyond next fall
Governor DAVIS fears that he will have
to walk the same plank taken by Cover
nors HOLDEN anA EUrLER, and hence his
fear of a new Legislature lie can, how
ever, only postpone lac day of justice
II will come.
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&y Colonel w. H. Jenifer, who dis
tinguishcd himself in the rebel army at
Balls Bluff, and who is widely known
as superb horseman, and the inventor
of the improved saddle-tree which bears
his name, now holds commission as
Colonel and inspector of Cavalry in the
army o. the khedive of Egypt He
has been abroad little over year
The first thing that the Col. did on ar
irving in Egypt was to select saddle
horse, and he has. sent photograph Of
his iavoIlte Arabian stallion to an off,
Ger of the United States Army, at pres
ent stationed at Baltimore.
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to manufacture fictitious reputation
for this drug, resting as it does upon
such questionable data, seems rather to
have been inspired by the dazzling pros
pect of pecuniary speculation than by
laudahle desire to advance the triumphs
of science, or to alleviate the sufferings
of unfortunate humanity.
ALEX. Y. p. GARNETT, NJ. d.
Washington, d. c, July 2, 1871.
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@It is sign of the times, and an
encouraging one, too, that whereas be-
fore the war but two per cent. of the
patents for agricultural implements were
from the South, and ninety-eight from
the North, now the South makes thirty
per cent. of all the applications to the
North's seventy. The reason Of this
change is thus stated in the Baltimore
Sun:
"Since the emancipation of the slaves
the planters in the South have been
obliged to make use of machinery to
cultivate the soil, but it was found upon
trial that very few of the agricultural
implements used in the North were per-
fectly adapted to culture in the South !;
thus, corn-planter could not be used
for dropping cotton seed, and cultiva-
tors could not be employed in destroy
ing the weeds between the rows of the
cotton bushes. The ingenious mechan-
les and planters in the South,iL is stated,
then, making virtue of necessity, set
about inventing agricultural machines
suited to the cultivation of the crops in
that region"