The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-02
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Pretty goodsazsas caashe bought in
Sonth Carolina for q fi$asasu.s per acre, but
there's S24 back tax on every acre of it.
There were over 10000 prisoners
brought before the police courts of New
York duiing the first quarter of the pres
cnt year.
Dispatches state that the distress from
famine in india is increasing Nearly 8,
0o0, 900 people arc dependent upon the
gov einmcntfor food
The grange store started last fall at
Winona, Wis, has failed, liabilities 3d.
oC0, with no assets aud similar one at
.Owatonna closed up after loss of nearly
100000.
A fire,ess engine, to he used on the
New ork street lines of railroad, has
just been bnilt The engine takes enough
steam from stationary boiler to run IL
mics before the charge is exhausted.
The Mayor of New Orleans has tele.
graphed the Mayors of New York ard
Brooklyn, asking additional aid for the
Louisiana sufferers. He says the contri-
buttons havo amounted to less than
sls0,000, whereas 81 .0o0,oOO is needed.
Alderman Walsh, who was convicted
last year Of inhumanity in the burial of
paupers, fined athousand dollars and sen
fenced to six months Imprisonment. ap
pealed the case to the Supreme Court,
which has affirmed the decision of the
Court below.
The Springfield Register, tue leading
Democratic paper in Illinois, says there
is not word OF truth in the declaration
that the Democracy of that State will
join new party, or third party, or any
thing Of that kind, 1t proposes to es
chew all "tricks, games aud maneuvers. y
Lake Dnnham, at the headwaters of the
Ocklawha River, Florida, presents Gu
rious feature The waters from the north
era end run through several other lakes
into the Oeklawha and S. Johns, thence
into the Atlantic; while those in the
soulhern end run through various lakes
and finally into tue Gulf.
The New York correspondent Of the
Troy Times says: .Mrs O'Conor died
with startling suddenuess, having been ill
not more than one hour. She was the
wife of the great lawyer, but not any great
degree his companion. She was asvidow,
with two sons, when she married him and
the union was one worn easily on both
sides. Mrs O'Conor occupied fine
mansion down town with her son, and the
great lawyer lived atWashington Heights
This liberty of married life is not uncom.
nor, and need notimpair mutual respect
The parties always met as friends, and
O'Conor will mourn her death as real il
not severe bereavement"
A. correspondent says: "If Patti
spends many more as profitable winters
as she has the past in St. Petersburg, she
too, can found museum. Her presents
are said to represent fabulous sum, and
her jewelry case contains gifts from all
the potentates in Europe The sum she
received in money from her past engage.
ment in st. Petersburg was 2So,0O(
francs, and she is to receive for her nexl
tour in the United States, 100000
francs for the 100 evenings. PATHS lead
ing taste seems to be for fine dresses
which she orders from Worth, in Paris
by the dozens Before they are sent tc
her she permits the autocrat of fashion
to have what he.callsa Patti exposition
There the entire wardrobe is laid out tt
be admired by. the fashionable world O
| Paris.