The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
MATTERS OF INTEREST.

The Carlist tinsurrectionists are said to
be decreasing in numbers.
In Russia the authorities are empow.
cred to burn postal cards if they contain
indecent or insulting matter
The snow in the San Juan mines, Utah,
on the lst ult was from 2 to Is feet
deep, and the miners were pulling I'D
stakes and emigrating.
After long existence as territory, Col.
orado now asks admission into the Union
as State. In 1870 Colorado had 10000
population, and now claims three times
that number.
tits asserted that William NJ. Tweed
is the person to whom the people of
Massachusetts owe the completion OF
the Hoosac Tunnel; ha, ing advanced
$500, 900 to the contractors for that pur
pose.
The diamonds in rock drills are usu-
ally from three-sixteenths to five six
teenths of an inch in diameter, ard are
very scarce and costly They come from
Brazil, and are used without being
ground.
The ex-Empress Eugenie was deeply
affected at the verdict and sentence in the
case Of Marshal Bazane. Her agitation
is so great that she has been compelled tc
postpone the visit she was about to make
to Queen Victoria.
The Gazette de France, of Paris, is the
Oldest newspaper extant having flourish
ed uninterruptedly since its foundation II
1888. 1t was the official organ of tat
French Government until the Revolu
ton, dis still the ''inspired" paper o
Count de Chambord.
The Prussian Government has jus
purchased Tor the Museum Of Berlin, the
treasure of the town of Lunebourg, con
sisting of several pieces of silver plate
most of them of the work of the chaser
Albert Soest 1866 and the goldsmith
Jean de Lassert l4A J Among them il
a silver lion yard in length The wholI
has been bought for 100000 thalers
about 900, 600 francs.
The old military prisons at Richmond
including Libby and Castle Thunder
stand just as they did during the war
their internal arrangements having beer
altered little if any. They are both now
used as tobacco factories. From the
south wall of Libby still swings the wealth
er beaten old sign, '.Liohy Prison. pu
up by the confederates during the war,
and it is proposed to let the old sigr
swing untilit falls by its own weight.
Two long lost boys have recently re
turned to their homes in Troy Both o
them were "shanghaed," one on shiI
voyaging between New York and Sal
Francisco, and the other on canal boa
part of the time, and with blacksmith il
Pennsylvania the rest. Their stories
abound with incidents of brutality ant
hard treatment. and their manner of es
cape and perseverance in plodding thei
way home again, reads very like ro
nance.
i The Spanish war vessel. the Arapiles
now bottled up in the Riookly Nav,
Yard, is the oldest of the Spanish iron
clads. She was built ct Blackwell, an.
launched October II, 1864 The Arapile
is constructed after French models, and i
a wooden vessel covered with plates fou
and half inches thick, and carries 3
guns in broadside battery, with engine
of 800 horse power.
Subsequent explanations are some
times very troublesome. In Reading
Pa. few days ago,a mans life was save
, by the ball from pissol, accidentally dis
charged, entering Bible which he carrie
in his pocket. The religious communit
congratulated itself on the fact that r,
,, ligious man was properly rewarded, bl
it was afterwards discovered that this de
votee had stolen the sacred volume en-
was on his way to pawn it for liquor whe
: the accident occurred.