The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-12-17
THE NEWS.

on New Year day.
-Borax, hitherto mainly procured from
foreign sources, has been found to exist
in inexhaustible quantities in Nevada.
The public debt was only decreased 9
little over million last month. The
elections are over!
The Mesdames Woodruff and Clafdin
have been released from Jail OIL bail of
$4,000 each on the three indictments
against them.
Says Col. Forney's paper: "No shock
since the death of Charles Dickens has
shaken so many hearts as the death of
Horace Greeley"
The Bosten Commercial Bulletin sees
no reasonfor supposing that the Boston
boot and shoe trade for the coming sea
son will be less than usual. .
The narrow gauge roads in operation
in British India are a complete failure in
fact, the officer detailed to investigate
their building says they are national
misfortune.
A Warren. Pa, jury brought in yer
dict Of "Nepotism in she. third degree, and
recommended the culprit to marry the
girl or go to jail" ..,, 49,
The Atlanta Sun, Hon A. H. Stephens
paper, contains a long and eulogistic edi-
torial upon the death Of Horace Greeley,
with no hit Of blame or censure. ~
Samuel N. Pike, formerly of Cincin-
natl. and builder of Pixies Opera House,
died suddenly at his residence in New
York on Saturday afternoon.
The lady members of churchin Mem
phis, Tenn, have agreed to. dispense with
all finery on Sunday, and attend church
without jewels and wearing calico dres
ses.
A Mrs. Day, of Springfield, lately gave
birth to quadruplets. The bereaved IA
says Shakespeare was quite right when he
said we do not know "what day may
bring forth"
1t lis reported that Josie Mansfield lost
$35, 900 by the failure of Bowles Broth
rs,and that she is now penniless in Paris.
1.-The mills of God grind slow but exceed
ing sure"
The census of 1870 reports 72,459
church organizations in the United
States, aud 63,0S2 edifces capable OF
seating 81 665,063 persons, and valued at
S364, ,4S3,S5
J At the Vulcan Iron Works, at Caron-
dolet, near st. Louis, there was lately
made in one day 10otons of sixty-pound
rails-.one of the most extraordinary
RUNS ever made anywhere. s
The reason. an urchin gave for being
late at school Monday MAS that the boy
in the next house was going to have q
dressing down With bed cord, and he
waited to hear him howl
Two hundred and sixty-one thousand
barrels of beer were made this year in
Cincinnati for home consumption, and
one hundred and seventy-four thousand
barrels for shipment.
Two convicts of the Western Pennsyl
vania penitentiary escaped on Monday
by tunneling forty feet and drilling hole
1 through stone nine inches thick at the
| bottom of their cell.
The San Francisco Bulletin snys: The
Pacific Railroads have never paid divi-
dends, yet the managers have made for
tunes in six or eight years, rivaling those
t accumulated on the Atlantic side only
through lifetime of steady application
to commercial and real estate business.
A New Hampshire man has just had q
tumor successfully removed from the un-
, der side OF his tongue as large as an or
! ange and weighing four and a half oun-
ces. 1t has been growing for twenty
years, and crowded bis tongue under the
roof of his mouth so as to make it diff
cult for him to breathe or talk
. The Boston Relief Committee estimate
thst not less than Sl50,000 further will be
required to afford relief that will be need
: ed to sufferers by fire, independently Of
! the special fund forfremen OF this sum
they have $4,000, which will be exhaus-
, ted in ten or twelve days, and the $780,
, 600 more they hope to raise in Boston,
= without appealing for aid to other cities.
There will probably be a strong effort
made during the present session of Con.
gress to increase the national bank cur
rency The amount now authorized is
S353,917,470 Out of this the six New
England States have Sl6S, ,64S, ,279, while
the thirteen Southern States have S39,.
976.10S New York and Pennsylvania
> have over S103 100000.
; One of the heaviest failures in Boston
by the great FIRE was that Of the. firm Of
$ Benfield, Wentworth & Co, dry goods
commission merchants on Franklin
q street. Their assets are placed at 81 573,-
3 ITO; liabilities S2,624,S60 The firm pro-
q lpose settlement at sixty cents on the
dollar, to be paid within a year without
interest.
Charles Brandt, Of Chicago. a youth Of
$ IA years, out hunting with three other
: boys, was shotdead on his way home by
: one of his companions. The boys say
+ it was accidental, but two young ladies OF
farm house near where the boy was kill
+ ed, state that they saw one of the boys
poin. gun at the deceased, heard the dis
! charge and saw the boy fall.
E The sheriff who used the cat on eight
: criminals in Delaware, few days ago, is
e a Republican, and says he is opposed to
the whipping-post, Theirs is something
very painfulin the contemplation of a
} humane official making brute Of him
self from sense of duty, but such things
do happen in climate like that of Della
ware.
The Postmaster General having asked
the opinion of Attorney General Will
. liams as to whether the postoflice author
tiles have alegal right to seize and pre-
vent from being transmitted through the
!, mails sealed letters and circulars suppos-
ed to contain obscene literature, decides
: that postmasters have no right to open
any letters addressed to persons other
than themselves.
, The question is asked in New York,
, SIS the bets on Grant or Greeley offT"-
= A rule of the turf is. where there is no