The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-07-28
MATTERS OF INTEREST.

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Diego.
Dogs for sale--In New York by the
pound
Nevada had snow storm as late as
May 27.
Rain in India is settling the famine
question.
Boss Tweed's palace has gone under
the hammer.
Ice-bergs are me- in rl;docea by In
coming vessels.
a birti's-eye walnut 'iog, af Hinton,
Va, sold for $500 recently.
Tickets for Mt. Mansfield! The snow
lis six feet deep there.
Street preaching is becoming q nuis,
ance in Washington.
Colorado teamsters grease their wag-
ons with printers ink.
The gallows platforms in Texas are
cut up and carried off for canes.
He that boasts of great qualities is
very deficient in the same.
A Richmond merchant advertises for
$1,000 worth Of Confederate money.
They make paper -four barrels in Iowa
now. They are air tight and very light.
Gray horses instead of black ones are
| fashionable for use at funerals in Lon.
don <E
A woman ninety-two years old was a
witness in the Hardin will case in New
York.
The Bread Loaf Inn is the name of a
hotel at Ripton w., l,50o feet up the
mountains.
Straw is in demand, but in lengths Of
about Il inches with glass at the end.
boston Globe
One of the latest Chicago business
schemes perfected is that. of belt rail
road around the entire city.
The Mississippi judges have decided
that murderers in that State may be re-
leased on bail before conviction.
The Lantern, the new paper just start
cd in London, claims to be the first
"newspaper printed in six colors."
The ownership of tin bucket was
tried il Union, S. C. Value OF the buck
ct, so cents costs Of Court, SIS.
Two ST. Louis women were refused
places as drivers on street cars ostensi-
bly, because they couldn't manage mules.
A toad in Barton, Vt. stands under a
leaky beer barrel and catches the drops
as they fall, getting gloriously drunk
Not to be outdone by the explosive
mince pie of Ohio, an Indiana sweet
potato exploded and scalded an infant.
A man at Douglas City, Cal, is train
ing his pet bear to cat the Cinnamon who
steal meat from his slaughter-house.
| An Atlanta man stole a strawberry
from grocer's store. The grocer sent
him bill for so 05, and the result was
a fight.
| A new panet-the fourth Of the pres.
ent year--was discovered by NJ. Perrin
at Thoulouse on the night Of May 10.
| A boy of II years of age is under SEN
tence of death in New Haven County,
N. c., for having yiciously drowned q
smaller boy.
A Louisiana sportsman bagged five
chippy birds, gopher, justice of the
peace and policemsn-all in one days.
shooting.
A jury in San Diego, California, the
other day brought in verdict of not
guilty, With request to the defendant
to restore the sheep.
/ The mania for collecting postage
stamps has broken out in Missouri
where they collect them by breaking into
postof1icss.
The story about woman being chain
ed in cellar in Kansas by her husband
was sell. The mans name was A. W
Fullie-awful lie.
A Tennesseean convicted of murder
recently was ene of the jurymen sum
moned by coroner to view the body o
the man he had killed
A Kentucky minister mysteriously
disappeared thirteen months ago Some
of his congregation drowned him to ge
rid Of paying his back salary.
f The "Inkerman" volume of Kinglake':
, "Invasion of the Crimea,'' work com
menced about fifteen years ago, is an
nounced Tor immediate publication.
Disguised with the sorry performan
: ces of number OF young men who wer,
l running foot.races, an Evansville dam
sci pulled off her shoes and beat tn,
r whole kit of them.
The St. Louis Globe talks fippantli
and disrespectfully of Kit Columbus.
So deep is he that they call Gideon
"Old Artesian Welles. ."-Phaadelphit
Herald.
Dr. Mary Walker denies that youn.
, Treasury clerk recognizes her as his Ion!
lost father.-N. Y. World.
Halstead has gone to Europe, leavin.
the country in charge of Watterson aat
/ Bowles.-St Louis Globe.
, The comet is supposed to be "dog
star" run mad-a sort of rabid ''Slye'
g ENTHUSIASTICALLY Argus.
The Cincinnati Gazette is anxious t,
. know what the brewers of that city d.
t with the tobacco stems they purchase.
So long as the policemen shoot at tn
dogs the accidental mortality Of the Gil
; zens will inc-ease.-N. Y. Telegram.
r The New York Herald has been CON
1 PEELED to remind the scene painter at n
bios that steamships do not sail ster
foremost as rule.
: Emily Faithful is no longer Emil
u Faithful but Mrs Forbes; yet she'll b
u Emily faithful still-Turner Falls( Mass
Reporter.
d Danger turks in everything apparen
l. ly, for now we are informed of an e1
y ploson of ice cream in Reading, Pa
If our young men do not wish TO fill
gamblers grave they should taper off @
, :, robbing stages.-San Antonio ESpres
IS The various Government Bureaus a.
adopting machine which prints all lie
g ters instead of writing them, and whic
is can print, it is claimed, faster than pc
q son can write. A clerk in the Postofii
E. Department has written Sc words p
minute with this machine