The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-15
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Amusical New Yorker has made viil
and set it toihusic. A 81 |
Letters from Newfoundland say ills |
now pretty certain that the catch Of cod
will he less than two thirds Of last year.
The widow of Lord Mayo, the murder.
ed Viceroy of India, has been voted an
additional annuity Of $4,000. !
The Louisville Exposition has lock
Of hair six feet long, cut from the head
of Swiss peasant girl.
The Adams boys oppose the Cincinnati
movement because the Adams daddy was
not there nominated The Adams stock
can never 60 above pa.-Boston Herald.
Mrs Merriman Loyson, in addition to
her S75, 900 and other accomplishments,
is a painter and scnIpist She will be able
to put head on Hyacinth, ifoccasion or
| fers IS ~ h e al
Montpehsier has bought aresidence at
Cannes, France for $4,000 francs The
Spanish Government has not yet succeed.
ed in proving Mont's completely in the
Prim murder.
Passengers over several Of the Illinois
railroads are annoyed by the almost in
tolerable stencil which fills the air, caused
by the numerous deceased carcasses of
cattle which have died of the Texas cattle
fever.
Julia Schenck Meyers, Of St, Louis,
was married to her first husband eight
years ago, and last Monday followed her
fourth 10 the grave. She has buried each
one, and, being still young and blooming,
is ready for another funeral f1, ysa,
The average cost Of Congregational
Churches in the United States is about
twenty two dollars a sitting; of Presby-
teriaha little less; Of Episcopalian about
thirty six of Methodist and Baptist
about ten dollars y'71 go ~ s.il '!r
Rev Mr. Landrhn,. Baptist minister
who died on last sunday week in the pull
pit, in Roen, Bedford County, Kentucky,
is said to be the second preacher who has
died suddenly withinthe last two years in
that church. ' '.' i -"
/. A vestryman, in fashionable New
York Episcopal Church, has resigned bis
position, sold his pew, and left the con.
gregation, because his fellow vestrymen
refused to sanction his engagement of
two negro minstrels" singers for the
choir. .... ..
The Jews of New York City are said 20
be seriously considering the expediency
of transferring their weekly religious SER
vices from Saturday to Sunday. Several
Of the synagogues throughout the coun.
try are now open on both days.
The late Peter Cartwright was born in
1885; entered the itinerant ministry Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church at the
age Of nineteen, and served as pastor and
presiding elder seventy one years. As a
preacher, he was bold, forcible and eccen-
trio 1 90
The ship Canada sailed from New
York recently for Cslloa with the follow
ing cargo y One iron church IN sections,
weighing 200 tons twenty six Corinthian
columns one Gothic church steeple one
Roman altar, weighing three tons, and
, sixteen fortress doors, with bolts, bars,
etc.
, Charles Baurner arose, awoke his wife
/ and child, and then went to bed again at
, Wheeling, West Virginia, on W ednesday
, morning, remarking that he would take
another nap Several hours afterward
he was found cold and dead. .r.t. .....s
The Paris Figaro says that Madame
Adelina Patti is worth 1000, ,0t0 francs,
and that Christine Nilsson is still richer,
while Pauline Lucca has lost her whole
fortune in consequence of the extrava-
gance of her husband, Baron Won Rhaden
. who is an officer in one Of the regiments
of the Prussian Life Guards. m -rii
A list Of recent converts to Rome has
s just been published in Englaed. It con-
tains over eighty names Of marquises,
7 earls, lords, generals and admirals, some
e belonging to the influential and noble
!. families Of the Nation, The number oi
y converts from the Established Church is
: set down at 200. .''a ..,' ''|
! Francis .Asbnry, the first Methodist
i Bishop, in the forty FIVE years of bis min
: istry in America, travelled. principally on
: horseback, 10000 miles, or 5000 each
e year. The roads were frequently almos,
impossible, the streams unbridged, and
long reaches of wilderness to be passed
: without shelter or food. ..gsy,,t,, "a
!, |, Rev. DR.. Sehaff has returned from Eu-
rope, and brings intelligence that the
u great Conference Of the Evangelical Ali
ance. to be held next, yearyin the city oi
!. New York, will be attended by representa-
= tives from all the foreign countries. The
. meeting will awaken wonderful feeling
= in all Christian lands. ns..l .-iait fj3B.
Preston, England, is Mortified to find
that an entire household in that CITY,
! man, wife, children and servants--has
= caught the foot and mouth disease by
: drinking the milk of sick cow This
r shows the unpleasant possibilities of the
4 Texas cattle disease that is now making
such havoc in the West m
= On the visit Of some Indian chiefs to
Mount Vernon, the other day, each one
on his arrival at the tomb of Washington,
walked up to the iron door, and passing
:, his right hand through the grating shook
= it. as if shaking the hands of a friend
n When asked by the interpreter what they
t were doing, their reply was: "We were
}, shaking hands with the spirit Of the
t Great Father"
b Theodore Black went back into an un,
Q finished well which he had 5een digging
> at Springwells, Michigan,a at 6 o'clock last
Monday evening, after his son, who had
been helping him, had gone home, to pro
Q cure shovel left in it. In tossing this
q out some props gave way and, being mis-
sed, Black was found, four hours after
! ward,up to his shoulders in earth and wa.
ter at the bottom He had been in seven
l hours before he was finally got out. .-
The Faith Of a Detroit Girl.