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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
The HnN5 5TrIas--yEai;ins for tho
Verdict.
from the N. Y. Herald, a5th ult.

At a quarter past 10 O'Clock came the
announcement, The jury are coming.
Judge Daniels had taken LIS seat on tbe
bench. Recorder Hackett9sat by his
side. Mr Hall sat in his accustomed
place, and his faithful counsel and friends
we're still by his side, Ali fell as deeply
anG painfully Interested as9he. As the
| jury took their seats every eye turned
upon them to penetrate, if possible, the
secret hidden in their hearts Mr. Hall
gave each sharply scrutinizing glance
"Gant.emen of the jury, have you
agreed upon a verdict asked Mr.
Sparks, the Clerk.
"We have,n' answered the foreman, and
at the announcement a dealh-lIke still
ness pervaded the court room, and every
Lead bent forward and every eye looked
upon the foreman with increasing inten-
sity.
"How say your" proceeded MFR.
Sparks. do you find A. Oakley Hall.
the prisoner at the bar, guilty or not
guilty?
'.Not guiltyi" said the foreman.
The scene OF excitement that followed
cannot be described. United cheers
sprang from every throat,alId united hats
and handkerchiefs were waved wildly
above every head Judge Daniels rap
ped order with his gavel, officers shouted
to still tue tumult Ii wa, no use. The
crowd was pleased, wild, uproarious. -
They could not and. would not be re,
strained till they lad given expression
to the exuberance of their joy. But they
soon sahsided, All eyes were now di
rected to Mr. Hall The great tension
had reached lis limit. For a moment
his physical energies gave way. He
bowed his head upon the table before
him. The reaction was too great
There was something tonchingly tender
in this scene, and while every heart was
full of 10Y. no one fer moment intrn
ded upon him. Soon he foused him
self, aud then cane Of congratn-
latons and handshakings such as has
never been witnessed before in court
room in this city He was fairly be
sieged "Happy CHRISTMAS = greeted
him on every hand, greeted him while he
still fingered in thec room, greeted
him as he passed out into the vestibule,
and rung ont on the still night air,as with
his couEsei he stepped into his carriage
and was whirled from sight.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
Marrying the same Woman
Twice.
from the New York Ledger.

: From the New York Ledger.
Many years ago young schoolmas,
ter living in one Of the States east of the
Mississippi, contracted the gold fever, at
that time very prevalent, and started for
California.
He had married young wife but a
short time before, bnt hoping to make
his fortune speedily and to return soon,
ne left her behind him, in her native
home, where it was thought she would
be more comfortable than she could be
male in the rough gold regions.
But disappointment, which is the lot
of mortality, ,betel the young adyehturef.
Tie golden stream into his lap was nei-
,her quick nor violent His visions oi
wealth turned cut but idle dreams.
He did not succeed in accommodating
anything, aud he was too proud to re-
turn penGiless. His letters, after while,
became iuirequent, and finally the cores
rondence between husband and wife was
wholly discontinued. Neglected love
grows din, and in process of tine, the
wife, apparently forgotten by her long
absent husband. sought the separation in
law from the bonds of matrimonv which
had for years existed in fact. She was
divorced. aol
A rich neiehbor, looking upon her al
fractions as too great to wither away in
Loneliness, offered himself and was ac.
cepted With this second husband the
young woman lived a number of years,
when he died, She was now wealthy
widow id retaining many OF her youth
fal charms H.4
We now'come to the straDgest part of
the story. A few months ago tue fist
husband returned from his long resi-
.denee in California, and happening to
meet his twicAmarried, once divorced,
and d-nnce widowed wife, their early love
was rekindled in the hearts Of both, and
they were speedily remarked, and are
now living together.
1t is not in fiction, but in reality, that
the strangest romances are to he found.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06

A Young man in Indiana suaa his ia
ther for loaned money, which the tathe
CLAIMS was his owa property. The ia
thers Council. in summing up the cas-
OF his Client, remarked, Twice has this
prodigal retuned TO his fathers house
twice has he been received with opel
arms twice for him has the iatted cal
been killed. and now he comes bacl
and wants the Old eow''
The man Christian, who was arrested
| in Washington. and tried and sentenced
to a yea + Imprisonment and to pay 4 fine
of thousand dollars, short time since
for resurrecting dead bodies from The
city cemeteries and selling them to medi
cal colleges. was hospital ewart in tn,
army, and was discharged ON the 1StI
ult
The Postmaster General announce:
that he could arrange system by which
European mails shall be dispatched from
New York four times Il week on steam
ships sailing on any Tuesday, Wednes
day, Thursday OF Saturday, which, ac
cording to the past record, best fultills th,
three conditions Of speed, security ant
certainty.
There are 120men residing in 6 coun
ties in California, who own 3,140,00I
acres of land A part of this large are:
consists of Mexican ranches, but mucl
the greater part has been acquired by
scrip, land warrants and cash purchases
| at almost nominal prices.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
Bazaine's Degradation.

New YoHK, December 27-The Times
Paris CORES pondence, giving an account
of the trial of Bazaine, SAYS: The sea-
tence was death and military degfada-
tion in the Legion of Honor AID casts
OF the whole process and trial. This
latter w,u.d take 10000 francs, every
sou Bazaine has in the world, and would
leave his wife and three children desti-
tu,e W4en the sentence was passed
Bazaiae was not present His counsel,
Lacbaud, brought him the news private
ly, d the prosecutor, with q file Of Sol
diers, came soon after and read the or
der to Bazaiqe Bazaine desired to be
shot immediately il they wanted his life.
He was very calm, while Others were
agtatad, and asked that his son be per
mitted to be with him ON the following
day after his sentence. Tue reques,
was granted When it was told to his
wife that he was to suffer degradation,
she Exclaimed, s.Never! He would nev-
.ar consent TO that Ii you even pro-
pose it | SHALL soon be a widow "
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
llghsfena',u.
METZ AND STRASBURG.
A Glance at Their crescent Cen fii-
asOn. raf

A contributor to the London Timns,
who has been visiting Alsace and Lor.
rainc, writes:
About $4,000 Of the most wealthy
French Inhabitants and well-to do trades
people, chiefly, lave left Mesz,and about
the same number. chiefly, perhaps, of the
poorer sort of German trades-p people,
have taken their places French people
are, however, still leaving as they are
able to arrange theirlaifsirs, aud not a
few shops are now closed from their oc
cupants having left and no sew ospers
having as get arrived 40 take taeis
place.
much about the same sort Of change
has occurred at Ssras5Grg, and to sim
liar extent, but as far as | could ascer-
tain the new corners from other parts of
Germany have outnumbered those who
have left. The demand for houses there
increases, and many new ones are now
being built, besides those which are be-
ing rebuilt, with increased dimensi ons,on
the sites OF those battered down in the
sorely bombai dad city.
"The old fuItifications Of Srasburg,
CONSTRUCTED by Vauban in 1852, the year
after the town was taken by the French,
and which served it so little when Ger
many was retaking ii nearly geo wears
asterward, will speedily be demolished
aId the town extended. had the op-
poGtanity of seeing something of the new
earthworks and stone Notifications which
are commanding approaches to the town
about two miles of,pn elevated sites, and
which will make such another bombard-
ment of the town impossible by any i'u-
ture enemy. The exterior forts around
Metz, placed on most commanding situ
atoms, are receiving similar attention by
being placed in the best possible condi
ton by the Germans, and the interior
forts will most probably be demolished,
as the Strasburg ones certainly will.
"Oue travelling, las I have done, through
Alsace Lorraine, can not but be impress
e / most deeply with the exceeding iiches
aad value of the two great provinces Of
nesrly 100000 people which poor un.
flttdnate France has lost. Ore of them
contains the chief seats of cotton aud
other manufactures, and the other
abounds in riches of coal AMI iron. 1t
is said, but cannot rouch for the state
ment, that Alsace and Lorraine brought
a net annual revenue to France of "a,
100000 sterling, and all this is lost,
besides having to pay The German de
mand of f200,000.0G0 as Germany's
money cost Of this grievously sad war. !"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
The Return OF the VirginiIS De-
NiHsKsieI,

MADRID, December IS 1T is stated
tonight upon high official authority,
that President Castelar, has decided to
press the claim of Spain, f'r the rtsti-
tuition nv the United States of the
steamer Virginius, and also to claim tile
payment of an indemnity by the United
States to Spaih, for permitting the Vir-
ginius to be fitted out in an American
port for the purpose OF carving fill
clustering expedition against Spanish
colony This course of action it is un-
derstood, has been decided upon after
an exhaustive consideration OF the
whole case by the Cabinet. 1t is be-
lieYed here that this new phase of the
matter viii reopen the whole question
for fresh aud probably lengthy nego-
tia,ions between the two governments
before it is finally settled
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

To nakea very strong glue that does
not get thick or pasiy ,diss olve Ordinary
glue in niti5c ether, and add little BIZ
Of caouichhtsc Atue 81
In bending glass tubes sharp angles
may be aveided and an easy curve form
led by filing the tube with fiae sand be-
1 fore heatiag The sand must not be
allowed to escape until tie tube is cold
DE Caadolle's great work on Dico-
containing diagnosis Of ev-
Iery knowa species, has been completed
| The puhIieation of the work was begun
lin 1918. Fhas given occupation 10
three gecffaiibns of botanis's. The
Hortjcnlitlfa Societr of Belgium has
awarded y de Candolla q special medal.
shuv Eyaaea,s in ancient tim 8,
-sssss e n = .!,ressgss greas 9ai
and dire calalniiies The shower OF
lux which fell recently Marisford, IN
England, must mean another Geneva
arbitration, or it may be that 1t was la
tended to supply the dearth caused by
the waste of that material during the
last one
In soma recent experiments on the
behavior of metals under stress, at che
Stevens Institute, it was found that
metal strained so far as to take per-
manent set, and left under, the strain
producing it, gains ia power of resis-
tance up to certain limit This in-
crease in the best iron amounts to abont
twenty per cent of the ultimate break
ing force.
The Scientific American states that
the first patent issued in the United
States, Of which there IS any record,
was granted to Samuel Hopkins, on
July 81, 1890, for making poi and pearl
ashes The second was to James Sta
cey Sampson, on August 6, 1890, for
making candles; and the tt,ird and last
for the year 1890 was to Oliver Evans,
for making -four and meal The latter
bears date December Is, 1890. 70 .a
Concerning the Lake Superior iron
trade in 1874, the Marquette Mining
Journal says: "rhe ore trade ofJthis
district will undoubtedly be cut down
next season considerably below the bu-
siness Of this season. But railroads re-
quire repairs, and the general iron IN
dustries Of the country require stock,
and we nave faith that the demand for
ore will be far greater than is now sup
Iposed-that the product of the distric.
will not be decreased to near that ex-
tent which some Of ourpeopie now sup
pose. sE e asan essg
The growth of London, notwithstan-
ding the decrease iu the number of in
habi ants in the city proper, is shown
by the fact that Kelly's London Direc-
tory for 1874 contains nine pages OF
streets, fourteen pages of the CONNER
cial and professional classes, twelve pa
ges in the classified trades, and four pa
ges in the { Court division, which had
no place in'4afe publication of 1873, al
though the compilers of the work went
over The same territory each time.
Ns ...r "A .
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06

4
The California wheat yield for 1894
will be enormous Forty million bushels,
from the most reliable data at hand, is the
estimate, This is more than double that
of last wear, and 80 per cent in excess OF
that of 1871. The Golden State. at this
rate, bids fair to he at some future day
what Egypt was in ancient times-the
granary of the world,
It'll not generally known that there is
in California State University where the
tuition is absolutely free and open to stu
dents, young men or women, from any
part of the State or country 1t is devo-
ted to the higher education, literary and
scientific, of the youth Of our country in
general, and the Pacific coast in partcu.
lar.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
To Keep Cellars from Freezing,

A friend of ours, who has tried it,
says he prevents frost in his cellar by
pasting the walls and the cealing over
with tour or five thieknesses Of old
newspapers, curtain of the same ma
terial being slso pasted over the small
low windows at the top OF the cellar
The papers were pasted TO the bare
ioists overhead, leaving an air space be-
tween them and the floor He reports
that the papers carried hisroots through
last winter, though the cellar was left
unbanked, and he is confident they have
made the cellar frost proof,
Whatever paper is employed, it will
be necessary to sweep down the wells
thoroughly. and to use very strong
size to hold the paper to The stones =
1t is not necessary to press the paper
down into all the deplessAns of. the
wall every air space between it is an
additional defense against .he cold.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
TFRMs on ADVERTISING:

One square, three weeks. so
One square, three months. ........... 90
Qne square, six months. ..,.......l0 90
One square, nine months. ,........>l Is 90
One square, twelve months. ......... rs 0e
Two squares three weeks. .-.......... 90
Two squarss, three months ,........... 90
Two squares, six months. hs.............l2 .l2 90
TWo saual es, nine months lis 90
10 Sd d1r5&s twelve MONKS -. !. !. s 60
3ne-fourth column, three months .....15 90
- six months. Is 90
;.a nine months .....30 90
twelve months. /. /. .35 %
ens-half column. three months. ....20 90
sa six months ,...... 80 90
nine months. .... .S5 90
twelve months -. 40 90
ane column, three months. .........3O 90
six months. .......:. .45 90
f,s4f.f ta nine months 30 w
e., twelve months. s.......... .7b 90
Erwslve hnes, or less, will be charged as
enc square.
GEAll legal advertiseme nts viii be charged
IL the line, and must be paid in advance of
pablleasion. p
91 Notices of,the appointments OF Ad-- -
in;nistrstor's and Executors; also -
S Attachment Notices and Road nsti- 80
= ces, two dollars and 6fty cents, in -
Eadysnce. -. uoA-
GS Advertising done at published rates
and payment required in advance, in all
eases.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-01-06
THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY.
Publlshed Every Tuesday.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS:
One Dollar and Fifty Cents per year.

oB PRINT NC
Executed with neatness and dispatch at this
efase, and at reasonable prices.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-26

J.B. Baker, of this place, has two
boys, aged about eighteen and twenty
We ,rs, living OH the old Chenoweth
ranch, OH the Ross Mountain, five
miles above the mouth of Russian
river, and about twenty miles on an
air line westerly from Healdsburg.
Some weeks ago the boys killed a
large female panther, or California
lion, that measured nine feet from tip
to tip. The week before last their
dogs freed a young male lion, supposed
to be one of the cubs. The boys had
heard that Woodward would pay q
good phi ,e for young California lion,
and they determined to capture the
animal alive. One climbed the tree
and threw a moose over the lions head.
After tying therope securely, they got
another rope around his hind legs,
and then dashed him to a pole, lower
Ell him to the ground, and carried him
home alive and unhult The feat was
not performed without some risk, for
the lion is about year old, and
nearly SIX feet from tip to tip; but the
boys managed the capture so well that
neither got hurt except that one had
finger split by the sharp claw of the
beast. They have written to Wood
ward, and expect to sell their prize to
him to add to the menagerie in his
gardens.-[ Russian River Flag, June
18th.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-26

THE San Francisco Bulletin claims
that the friends of the railroad at
tempted to load FREEMAN's Freights
and Fares bill with impractical
amendments in order to defeat its pas
sage or render it unpopular should it
become law; but that the supporters
of the bill saw the intention and voted
down the amendments as fast as they
came up. This is weak. The bill was
as impractical as it was possible for an
impractical man to make it when it
left Mr.. FREEMAN's hands, and any
amendment made could not but i'm
prove it. Besides, if the friends of the
bill were sufficiently powerful to kill
all amendments offered, how was it
that they did not pass the bill itself Z?
The power to do one was all that was
required to do the other.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-26

RHODE ISLAND cannot elect a
United States Senator. The trouble
does not originate from the fact that
she has 10 candidates, but that she has
80 many that her Legislature cannot
agree which is the best man. There
is no occasion for haste now, as Con-
gress will adjourn in few days and
the new Senator will not be needed
until the meeting of the next Con-
gress, which will transpire several
months hence.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-26
Indian Management.

"Lo, the poor Indiann or rather the
privilege of looking after his interests
and the right to swindle him out of
his supplies, is giving the Government
no small amount of trouble, besides
causing a good deal of ill feeling
among those good people who
are struggling for big Indian offices
and Indian supply contracts. The
truth is the Indians of the United
States are much wronged people.
OF all the robberies practiced by Fed
eral officials, those worked OH the In
dians are beyond doubt the most bare
faced and the most cruel. The Gov
eminent has under its protection hun
dreds of tribes whose lands and homes
have been taken from them, and they
moved upon Reservations. They are,
under the contract, to receive certain
amounts of clothing and provisions
annually; but while the Government
actually pays for these things, the In
dams never receive them. The peo-
pie pay for the best quality of Indian
supplies and the Indians receive the
poorest quality that can be found in
the market. The people are robbed
and the Indians are robbed. These
robberies are the work of the agents
the middlemen-between the Govern
ment and the Indians. Contractors
and Indian agents as general thing
soon get rich. The process is simple
and easy. The agent makes out re-
QUESTION for the full amount of the
best supplies and the Government
pays the bill. The Indians receive
the smallest possible amount and of
the poorest quality. The difference
between ten sacks Of mouldy flour
which the Indians get and the thous-
and sacks of good flour which the Gov
eminent pays for, assists the agent in
making his fortune. The Indian COM
plains, but he can only do so to the
agent, and the agent tells the Indian
that the Government is responsible for
the short supplies. Any whining,
hypocritical rascal is smart enough to
defraud the Government and starve q
tribe of Indians into killing few
white women and children.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-26
Compulsory Voting.

The HERALD'S suggestion made q
few days ago on the advantage of COM
pulsory voting has met the approba-
ton of thinking men. A number of
letters have been received by the ed
itor indorsing the idea and urging a
further agitation of the proposition.
A careful study of the plan only
strengthens the conviction that it Of
fers the only practical means by which
the honest portion of the community
may defend themselves against the
wrongs growing out of the influence
of bad men over irresponsible voters.
If all oled who have the right, we
should have fewer bad officers, and
public positions would be filled with
honest, conscientious men, who would
discharge their duty with credit to
themselves and honor to those placing
them in positions of power and trust.
This reward ought to be sufficient in
centive to secure the vote of every le-
ultimate voter, but experience has
demonstrated that it is not, and we all
know how large proportion of those
possessing the right ofsuffrage fails to
exercise that right at all ordinary
elections. By enforcing the payment
of poll-tax the law compels men to
purchase the right to vote, but the law
does not exact the legal exercise of
that right after it is secured. 1t would
probably shut out many bad votes, or
at least benefit the State by compell-
ing those bad men who use them to
pay the tax, to require every man
who presents himself at the ballot box
to show his poll-tax receipt before de-
posting his vote, and we are quite
confident that a law compelling each
legal voter to vote would reduce the
value of corrupt votes and ultimately
so purify the ballot-box that honest
men would no longer regard it as use
less to attend elections.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-26
THE press of Sacramento city is OPP

THE press of Sacramento city is OPP
posed to Local Option and the people
themselves will only consent to vote
for no-license with a proviso. They
are willing to do away with the retail
liquor business during the dull season;
but during State Conventions and
sessions Of the Legislature they wish
to be exempt from the provisions of
the temperance law. 1t is on these
occasions Sacramento reaps her har-
vest. Then the poorest class of whisky
is sold at two bits drink, hash houses
adopt the prices of first-class hotels,
rooms that are empty all the remain
der OF the year rent at fabulous rates.
Sacramento has an eye to State Con-
ventions and Legislative sessions.
They are the nets in which she catches
her annual supply of fish, and she
does not want them interfered with
by Local Option wing-dams.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-26
Liability of Stockholders.

AS there appears to be a wrong i'm
preston in the public mind regarding
the liability of stockholders in incor-
porated companies, we give the fol-
lowing extract from Section 1913 of the
Civil Code, as amended at the last
session of the Legislature:
SECTION 322. Each stock holder of corpor-
alton is individually and personally liable for
such proportion of de BITS and liabilities as
the amount of stock or shares owned by him
bears TO the whole of the subscribed capital
stock or shares of the corporation and for a
like proportion only of each debt or claim
against the corporation. Any creditor of the
corporation may institute joint or several ac-
lions against any of its stockholders for the
proportion of his claim payable by each, and
in such action the Court must ascerta II the
proportion Of the claim or debt for which each
defendant is liable, and a several judgment
must be rendered against each, in conformity
herewith.