The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-10-27
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NEWS ITEMS.

The London Daily News discusses
the third term, and holds that General
Grant may probably be as good can
didate as any other man of third-rate
ability
Phelps, the New York State Treasury
official convicted on indictments char
ging mbezzlement, larceny and forging,
has been sentenced to the Penitentiary
for fifteen years.
George Cooksey is mysteriously miss.
ing from Pittsburg, and John Cluff, who
was found wearing Cookey's clothes, is
under arrest, on suspicion of guilty
knowledge of the affair
The name of the Sheriff of White
County. Ill.,, is Hail Storms. His father
was all eccentric gentleman, and he bad
three sons, whom he named respective
lv Hail Storms, Rain Storms and Snow
Storms. .j-.
Be,gh won't permit New York dog
to help draw cart along the street, but
he has no objection to girl Of eight,
barefooted, cold and hungry, straining
her muscles to pull the vehicle along
Queen Victoria has now % grand.
children. The famous "green bay tree"
used to amount to something tor pur
poses of illustration, but it has shriveled
into comparative insigniticance since the
Guelph family began.
Tne Pope comes of long Lived fam.
lily. His father lived to be SO, and his
mother to the same age; Giuseppe, his
brother, rs; Gabrielle, another brother,
IS, and Gaetano, as the Holy Father
often says, 'knocked at The door of 90
years"
The Independent ticket in Morgan
County was defeated, the Republicans
securing all the offices except Prosecu-
ting Attorney. The vote was tie be-
tween the two candidates, and E NJ.
Kennedy, independents drawing the long.
est straw, got the office.
A hateful paragraphist says: "When-
ever person sitting alongside Of a wo-
man in the street.car gets up to leave, in
nine cases out of ten the woman will i'm,
mediately try TO spread herself so as to
cover the vacaet seat as we'll as her own
In the present scant skirt fashion the
effort to do this from mere force of hab-
it is more funny than effective"
| Many years ago Gardiner Brewer, the
recently deceased Boston millionaire, Of
fered his daughter an annual income of
$40 900 upon condition that she would
remain single. Miss Brewer had suffi
cient Boston brains about her person to
accept the offer, though she's been head
over ears in love so often that the bare
recollection of it makes her dizzy.
How far pure cheek will carry a man
was instanced the other day in Boston,
where an enterprising, bustling- looking
fellow drove up to the Public Library,
borrowed hammer and chisel from
some workmen, worked for several hours
removing the copper lightning rods from
The building, and then, putting them in
l his wagon, quietly rode off. No one
suspected but that he was acting by au-
thority until it was discovered, too late,
that he had simply perpetrated bold
and audacious robbery.
A wonderful story comes from Japan,
to the effect tina. many tracts of land al
F lseneuria have been laid waste by vol
cano in that district vomiting fire, Gin.
ders and smoke high in the air. An ex
traordinary phenomenon had also oc.
Cured. From plain in the volcanic
region there arose. in brief time, three
mountains, one of which covered an
area Of D square miles, and was 1900
feet high, the others being considerably
smaller. A tract of land also rose from
the ocean at an adjacent point on the
coast.
In none Of the speeches made in the
) Women's Congress last week was there
; any thing favoring separation Of wo.
) men from men The prevailing senti.
ment seemed to be that not only should
women marry, but that they should
; know how to transact all kinds of bu
siness. But where is the man of luxu-
rious tastes who would submit to the
drudgery of every day work if be knew
that his wife was not only capable o
doing it but anxious to wade in?
! Lunatics are most easily::controlled
when permitted to indulge in such limo
cent pleasures as they fancy. A dement,
ed gentleman, under restraint in Hart
ford Asylum, conceived q little amuse
ment which to sane people is positively
shocking. He complained Of an aching
tooth, and was taken to adentist to have
it drawn. The operation gave him such
pleasure that he asked the dentist to con
!, tinue the sport until all his teeth were ex
! tracted.
, Louis Lanier, of Texas, has put in {
claim for the city Of Nashville. He il
grandson of one Litton Lanier, WHIT
killed man over seventy years ago
= and fed from what is now Tennessee
, leaving three hundred and twenty acre
n of land, on which the city of Nashville
stands About forty years ago an at
tempt was made by Governor Wise, o
Virginia, to push this claim, but 81
much excitement was created that i
e was abandoned.
Called upon to quell negro riot, a
Alabama Sheriff overlook darky lat
> amounted on a mule and carrying tn
Il mail between Livingston and Demopo
5 lis. He detained the boy long enong
= to prevent his carrying ahead the new
\ of the officials approach. Immediatel
: the United States Marshal telegraphe
:, to the credulous Attorney General tha
~ a mail train had been stopped an
searched by one hundred armed men :
1t is difficult 20 keep pace with the OF
erations of the outrage factory. I
goes the NANCY cur of a rumor and OF
comes sleek, sausage-like fact.
e Judge Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in a
e address to the law students at Mad
"a son, said that he who in the name {
l. the profession would stir up strife, er
r. courage litigation for any purpose, an
ID especially to put money in his pocke
le is unworthy of it. In the Judges opiI
'r ion but one name describes such a ma
n and such character. and though newl
le coined from the mint of slang, it is to
oi intense in meaning not to be used.
a is "shyster."
"a There is an impression that Englis
" railway travelling is safer than our owl
Tho Pr;tieb comma nanios arp rpnuired II,