The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-01-28
GENERAL ITEMS.
The Misses. Greeley are residing with

tnelr aunt, Mrs. Cleyeland.
General Robert Anderson's widow
lives in retirement near Florence.
A Vienna microscopic has demon
strated that flies disseminate smallpox.
| Buffalo hunters, as well as buffaloes,
have this winter frozen to death.
Miss Clara Remington, of ST. Louis,
has inherited S500,000 by the death of .
Cuban lover.
A MIR Chase, Of Kansas City, was re-
Gently relieved of q cancer by means OF
Turkish baths.
The daughter of the Khedive Of
Eg, pit is soon to be married inside one
hundred founces of point d'Aleneon at
$500 yard, and $4,000 of other laces.
The Shakers, in their new organ, put
their deaths under the head of ''Har-
vested" Wien they are buried, they
probably call it "Pianted."
Mrs. Bishop, the proposed Queen Of
the Sandwich Islands, is the widow of
an American lawyer, but native, and
relative of the late King.
Miss Sophie Barney took q premium
at a Montgomery Alabama) fair as
''ihe young woman who would make
the best wife for poor man."
A boy who WAS caught stealing fruit,
gave as an excuse that he had recently
been vaccinated from .'hooking" COW,
and it had got into his blood.
Women in Manila receive wages that
enable them to vie with the men in lux
urious living. Female cigar makers
there receive seven cents per day.
Garibaldi's second wife is 35 years
old, and is described as dark, hand,
some woman, with fierce eyes, and thick
hair parted at the side of the head
All Sin is making himself obnoxious
again by taking the centers of gold
coins out and tilIibg the vacancy With
+ baser metals.
/ Some naughty boys threw stones at
4 Gladstone the other dav He chased
them two squates and delivered them
to the police
/ Barnuni is trying to secure for his
new show a man who does not blame
his wife for everything that goes wrong
about the house.
Mr.. John Hoey, of New York, has
paid $ll, 900 in gold for the Painting of
Charlotte Corday Meditatng the Muir:
der OF Marat"
A French chemist has discovered a
brilliant method of making diamonds
by extracting the color from other pre-
cious stones.
Judge Durrell, of Louisiana, requires
a body guard Of several soldiers yet
One policeman on each side would be
sufficient and more appropriate.
Senator Thurman's house is one OF
the most popular in Washington among
9 young men. The Misses Thurman are
i, said to be the greatest attraction.
II A Milwaukee lady had several hum
dred dollars worth of point lace clip
e ped of her clothing by an adroit thief
while she was at church singing Strip
/ me of the robe of pride; clothe me in
/ humility"
e They figure the worth of husband
0 closely cut in Iowa. Mrs. Manloney
Il brought suit for damages against one
: Maloy, who wounded her husband, for
S $4,000 damages The jury cut the
d expense of Maloy down to S6175.
!, The Indiana Legislature is trying to
I, tinker up the shackly divorce laws of
o that State. 1t is said '.One restriction
n proposed is that parties who are divorc-
e ed shall not remarrv to any other per-.
: sons for the period of five years"
% A neighboring paper tells the story
Of nocturna: serenader who sang,.
;, when the mo-hoon is shi-hi-hi-ning
; ov v-er the lake, Oh, th then I'll ih-hi-hi-
n hink of thee-ee-ee!" The music aroused
a dog about the size of -four barrel,
;. and the musician is doing as well as
! could be expected
II A young man in the New York Gus
N tom-honse, who was to be exam;ned for
le promotion to the position Of Chief Cor
respondent. telegraphed from Brooklyn
during the recent snow blockade -
!. "W ont be over to-day, amt home yes
terday yet" The place was reserved
,s for him.
in Martha Washington's levees always
is closed at o'clock. On the first occa-
N tsion, held January l, 1890, the clock
as struck 8 during the happy animation of
+, social chit chat. Nevertheless, Mrs.
lie Washington rose with her dignified
er smile, looked round upon her friends,
e. ard observed: "The General always re-
t. tires at 8, aud usually precede him. .
1T AT this hint the ladies instantly rose,
Of adjusted their dresses, made their salu-
j. tations and retired
d DE- Jewett, o: Connecticut, in late
n temperance lecture. produced some
: leayes OF day-book Of the year 1928,
t, 10y which it was shown that at q coiumon
N country sore four-fifihs of The week s
% sales were for rum This WAS to show
he that the agitation Of the temperance
le question had lessened the sale of liq-
rs uor. The deteliorated quality of liq-
G. uor helps to keep up the average amount
+ of damage, however.
+ Felicita Balavicina was executed on
II the 10th of December, at San Marino,
L in Italy, for the murder of her illegiti-
: mate child The mode of her execu-
q tion was an ancient one, that OF being
III bound hand and foot and hurled down
precipice 1t was made to seem more
terri ble from the fact there had been no
d murders committed in San Marino for
a the last fifty years, and consequently no
d. executions.
es The Sun doesn't see any propriety in
IN the United States Government putting
+ its finger in the wolnan-voting Roches-
c ter pie at all 1t should no more jug a
e, woman in New York than enjoin Gov
8, ernor in Louisiana. 1t advises Miss
is Anthony not to go to Jail for voting for
" Grant, but to give bail, "adjust her
Sc spectacles, face her accusers, and argue
X her own case"
&c =. An inquiry into the cause of the Mo-
" doc war, made at the instance of Con-
=. - gress, has brought to light nothing new.
.e 1t was said, when the outbreak began,
". ~ that the war might have been averted if