The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-05-13
NEWS ITEMS.

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Two bands of Mexican robbers, num-
bering thirty each, are operating in
Nueees County, Texas, sacking stores
and robbing travellers.
To this date twenty seven. members
and Senators have returned their back
pay. The total amour; thus far turned
into the Treasliiy is Shape. i
Bailey Wheeler, an old negro living
at Charlestown, Indiana last Saturday
drank quart of whisky in three drinks.
1t cost seven dollars TO bury him the
4th inst.
The printing and newspaper estab-
lishment Of the New York Evening
Post, was sold lately for the snug sum
of one million two hundred and fifty
thoussnd dollars. No kind of property
in the United States, has advanced so
rapidly during the last few years as
newspaper establishments.
The Wheeling Intelligencer tells us
of an old gentleman, now residing at
Moundsville, West Virginia, who is in
his one hundred and sixth year, and has
complete possession of bis physical and
mental facilities He has voted at ev-
cry Presidential election from the time
of Washington. He chews tobacco and
smokes like a jolly fellow.
1t has been decided by the Treasury
Department that the Centennial Expo
sition building at Philadelphia is to- be
classified as bonded warehouse. For;l
eign goods intended for exhibition will
be admitted duty free. and returned to
the country whence they came by mere
| ly paying the warehouse fee.
Since the Organization of the Patent
Office in 1890, 100000 patents have
been issued. The work of indexing
them has been going on over a year
two separate indexes are being prepar-
ed, one containing the names of inven-
tors, the other the subject matter of the
invention. The former has just been
completed. 70 @.
The payments made from the Treas
ury by warrants during April were rs
follows: On account of civil and mis-
cellaneous, s7,059, 500 81; war, $780,
1858 So, navy, Sl,965,26 %; interior,
Indians, and pensions, SS0l, ,479 10; to-
tai, Sl4,976,616 So. This amount does
not include payments made on account
of the interest or principal of the pub
lie debt.
A proposition to ask Congress to in
terpose in behalf of the Washington
City tax payers is timely. 1t was urged
that the new Government was to be an
economical one; but it has not fulfilled
It's promise. The old Government paid
10000 annually for salaries; the new
one pays S463, AS. That is not re-
trenchmont, whatever else itymay be.
The labor troubles are growing seri-
Gus in Rhode Island. There are now,
it is claimed, nearly 10000 operatives
engaged in the strike which the mill-men
have inaugurated. From the scattered
reports which have been already receiv-
ed, it seems that the strike has been
it has been met with retaliatory clock
ont" on the part of the employers The
demonstration promises to be wasteful
violent, and fruitless of any possible
good.
. We have never much favored corpo
, raj punishment-in schools, but whether
, the substitute adopted by Wisconsin
teacher is desirable is little doubtful
, When pupil is disobedient, idle, or re
fractory, he administers to the delin
quent dose of castor oil The only
result Of this treatment Of which VIZ
have report is pun, strangely ant
fearfuily execrable, made by the editor
of the local newspaper He says suct
, treatment ought to render the scholars
'dose ile.' He evidently needs quar-
or SO himself
4 The power of superstition still so re
: markable among the black people of tn,
South Is shown in the case of Williams
: a murderer, just tried at Mobile. Afte
, he had committed the crime, he cut of
the hand OF the murdered man and pre-
served it in quicksilver and lime, car
, rying it in his pocket and firmly believ
: ing that the talisman would protect hin
: from any danger of detection. He wa
: caught, however, for all that, and i
r likely to be hanged i'll spite of the pre-
e served hand
A proposition has been made to hun
the Modocs from their stronghold in tn
lava beds with bloodhourds, as we don
in Florida during The Seminole war;
a This, however, finds no favor at tn
e War Department, and it is not likely t,
: be adopted until all other means of dis
/ lodging them have failed Genera
q Sherman regards this as he does tn
i scalp bounty business, rather a dishon
!; orable method of warfare against evel
: so heartless and treacherous, an enem,
: as the Modocs. There are officers o
e the army, however, who think it will b
D impossible to Get the Indians out OF tn
!, lava beds in any other way W
There are jokes. of course, abou
:, DtlShah ioungs moving A lDrar
has usually been supposed to be th
!, most difficult and bothersome thing t.
y move in the world, but when you hav
! family of children like that of tn
Great Mormon, then you come indee
. to the real difficulties of transportation
o The wrestle of Brigham with the inven
= tory of his children is seen to be terri
o bic. He can never be sure that he ha
. got them all together-never sure ths
there is not struggling pledge some
y where who has not been put into til
n cart, or rather carts. Young is said t
y have been making out an inventory Q
. his offspring, thus far with unsatisfacto
ry results, as the total is rather large
than he expected. se5~3l
5 Recapfured, -t
u Rricnlan1 tho pOpviotpd nurdora,