The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-09-17
NUMBER 50
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MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
: A. T. Stewart-Will spend $500 @ on
the Grand Union Hotel, at SarafngathIs
fall, mostly on plumbing and eHhsng-
! ing, :
"A. pair of twinawere horn recanti1 IN
Tennessee, joined together ssftef~ the
manner5ef the SiaIr sse twins.
San Francisco lawyers charge fee Of
$500 in perjury caess, 5000 for man
slaughter and S40Q for plain burglary.
A tender-hearted Chicago bus driver
says he hates to run over q man--he
thinks it hurts the springs.
b. Hog cholera at MaeiEaw, Illinois, IL
clearing out the swine fields Of come far
lmors at the rateeof seyeuty Eve s.day. !,
Texas hiss one enclosure Of a hundred
and seventy thousand acres which pas
lures 10000 cattle, demanding the atten.
ton Of $500 herdmen. Some beet.
A letter from Brownsville, Texas. says
The people here are suffering very much
for want of rain. Thousands of cattle
are dying on the plains for want of wa
ter.
General Grants net profits from the
Washington sandstone "ring" will be
lao this year. Butler says so. and
Butler is q stockholder and ought to
know. -A'' y ;7''1
Davis, the Grant Governor Of Texas,
threatens, that if any attempt is made to
limpeach him, he will show that other
Grant men have stolen an aggregate of
s6. 900, 900. BY all means let him be I'm
peached.
The Boston Globe, Grant paper, can't
see how it is, that in two Mississippi dis.
tricts it cost S1S, ,94l Ito collect S20Bl8
81. For our part we can't seej howsthe
collectors didn't steal the balance OF
Sl,677 81.
The King of Burmah's wife having
died, he secludes himself and occupies
his time in staring at a lot of skulls and
other ghastly objects. He also causes
the late Queens food to be placed for
| her daily, and requires that she .be spo-
ken of as sleepiug.uot Dead ,haK
The Constitutional has the Fellosing
paragraph regarding the crop pr6spects
in France: .The year 1872 viii Ere.
markable in France for an abundant
harvest. which is. calculated at present
at S5,OO0,0O0 hectolitres, '{2f bushels
leach. representing capital of 800,
00O. 600 fracs. !" si3tfi sid eibm
! . s.Df
The GRANTEES are jubilant, because II
happens that they were not beaten In
Vermont, State that the opposition to
the Democracy have. regularly carried
every year by about two to one for 80
Years. Nobody ever supposed Grant
would lose Vermont, 1t was one 81 The
six States conceded to him from the
first. Nys I o ssVa71
The Ashiana 20 J Times says that
i Mr.. Jacob Gibson, near Savannah, in that
county, has two cucumbers growing in
his garden, one Of which is sixaeet two
inches in length, and the other lsixCfeet
one inch. He proposes to pickle them
when they get done growing, axAa
A party by the name Of Eoomisa has
invented an aerial telegraph He flies
two kites, covered with fine copper wire,
and connected with the ground iby IAN;
other wire 1t is claimed that messages
have been sent 500 miles, withsthis APP
Eparatus. without either line1 OF iartiAeial
battery. 12Aaoi5 .aotS - daihJo
Josie Mansfield, the notorious III New
York strumpet, publishes q, card deny
ling that Gen. Grant has beene aiyisitor
at her Infamous den. 1t looks little
strange that Presidential candidate is
forced to obtain a certificate from such q
character that he has not kept her com
pany! Probably II Jim Fisk was living
he could throw some light on The sub
ject. w .. b,saa
Cassius III. Clay puts the case strongly
and pupgently when he says to the peo.
: pie To-day We live under p despetism
impelled by the lowest instincts, tastes
and selfindulgenee. which unlike Euro.
pean aristocracies, shares nothing with
the people, but absorbs all their su5-
stance for camp followers who are
equally corrupt. and vicious" Such is
1.-THE deliberate opinion of the Grant dem.
ination held by life long Republican.
) Tie carrying Of the city Of Whining.
ton. Delaware, at the late election, fol-
the first time since 1860, and the heavy
gains there for Greeley, and, Brown, as
evinced by the choice, Of John L. Sims
for Mayor, is significant of great
change in the same direction in Penn.
sylvania. Delaware borders on that
great State, and anything which induen-
ces it also Influences the Keystone State.
The attempt to colonize Algeriaffou
} lthe conquered provinces has proved q
failuSe. BY the last accounts, from she
colony only about l,400 persons In oil
from Alsace and Lorraine have arrived
t there, and of these probably not abey,
$ a hundred have been able TO take with
: them the means of subsistence. Ye
t quite stream of emigration has fowet
from the two provinces lately, ,towar'
t America. The number of inhabitant
s who have gone to Canada alone is.esti
o mated at 1000. liis, o.la gsal
S Remember, a
n That tho Rad;ooi Caorraccion al Gt ,1x-ef,