The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-02-11
THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY,
Tuesday. February Il,Is73.
GENERAL ITEMS.

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in The city few weeks ago interrupted
the sermon OF his father by asking, "Pa,
amt you done putty soony'
81 now pronounce ynu man and
hand over the ten dollars before / go |
any further" is way Connecticut cler-
Rymen have of securing their fee.
The members of new gymnasium in
Harrisburg arepracticing with creditai,le |
zeal Ore Of the most persepering has
hnbered to an extent that permits him
20 go down two flights Of stairs on his
back teeth.
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Con-
yention has finally decided that the State
election is to be held on the Tuesday fol- !
lowing the Erst Monday of November,
and the city and township elections on
thethird Tuesday of February,
The President Is very desirous that
Gen. B, r. Cowen, of Ohio, at present
acting Secretary OF the Interior, should
accept the Office of Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, which the President in per-
sontenlercd him some time since
When the condemned Foster returned
to his cell after his sentence he fell down
and wept. The other prisoners in the
Tombs were fearfully dismayed by Fos.
ter's sentence Stokes aud Foster now
occupy adjacent cells.
A young man living in Troy sent his
betrotbed piano for holiday present,
paying for it with check which went to
protest on its presentation, and the piano
was reclaimed by the maker before the
young lady had q chance to try it.
Pittsburgh gets more smoky every
year. and now the city BARRIERS sandpa-
per the heads Of bald headed customers.
50 that their hairless craniums will not.
look like an oyerdone rank biscuit when
associety gatherings.
@A-isuy IN Danieisonviile, Conn, has
domestieated q butterfly. A butterfly is
Ornamental, bat it hasn't that depth of
affection and those social qualities which
CAD be relied on in cockroach, when
once his confidence has been gained
Boston Post
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A correspondent says Miss Nellie
Grant Miss Lizzie Porter and Miss Edith
Fish are s.the Three Graees Of Washing
ton. Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, Pat
terson, of South Carolina, and the Credit
Mobilier are the Three Disgrsces.--Indi-
anapozis Journal.
a widow 10 Dorchester, Mass, has
been three times married Her first hus-
band Was Robh, the second Robbins,
end the third Robinson. The same door
plate has served the whole three, aud the
question now is, what extended name
can be procured to Gil out the remaining
epaceon it. asaa
Some fathers are too hard hearted for
anything Asman scolded his twelve
year old son fullySfye minutes the other
day because the child used his (the fa-
TIERS best Sunday razor to open oys-
ters with We don't see how the razor
could hurt the oysters, anyhow.
Or. Terry, Columbus, Georgia, gave
the following wise testimony: .Saw de-
ceased after he was shot; don't know
how long be lived afterward; I did not
make any minute examination, for the
reason ] did not want you lawyers to
prove killed him with probe"
"A Washington correspondent writes /.
'.Jolm B. Henderson, who voted Not
Guilty, on Andrew Johnson's trial, is III
the city He is prosperous and hand
some. and congratulates himself on his
vote at the impeachment saying thai, had
the Wade party then succeeded, the Gov,
ernment would have run to Tophet ION a
down grade without brakes" ~ .
Nine. Thalberg, the widow Of the great
piano forte player, is still devoted and In
consDlahle. She resides at Naples, and
has obtained permission to keep her late
tnsband's body (embalmed in glass
case ct her villa near Naples. Possibly
there are some other women (pot wild
ows1 who would like to have their hus-
ailds-embalned in a glass case! ;
A disrepatable scoffer at science, allu.
ding to an article entitled allow to See
Down Weif,' which occupied column
In . scientific jouraa'. says: ave could
have furnished the desired information
ia nach shorter space. For instance,
II q well is oat of doors and covered
and you want to see down it, take the
said cover off and look IN. The thing
10 very simple when you know how it ID
done"
A Hartford subscriber writes that he