The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-09
NEWS ITEMS. .

Two deaths have occurred at Harris
burg, Penn, from triehina.
The Dunkards, in National Conven
ton assembled, have eschewed the piano
as device of Satan.
A two thirds interest in the Mono
mine, Utah, was sold last week for
S400, 900, and the money de livered.
There is q woman in Iowa who has
buried seven husbands, and rattlesnakes
won't bite her.
Smallpox, introduced into Elko, Ne.
yada, by italian emigrants, is spreading
rapidly, and has got among the Indians.
The next meeting of the Presbyterian
General Assembly will be held in the
Second Presby terian Church Of Cincin-
natl.
Blocks Of granite weighing eleven
tons each are to be used in construct
ing the 9Th story of the new Tribune
building in New York.
The friends of Vice President Will
son very much fear that he will never
again be able to preside over the Sem
ate. He is nearly blind in his left eye.
The water power of Grand river,
Mich, from Jackson to Grand Rapids,
is estimated at S2,53S net horse power
for "a hours iu the day.
Six years ago the Presbyterians had
only forty-three churches and thirty.
four ministers in Kansas, and now they
have one hundred and sixty active min
listers.
.Twenty-four new counties have been
organized in Kansas since 1870, contain
ing last year $4,000 people. The total
population of the State now is 1908,
against 1854, ,S99 in 1870.
The officers Of the steamer Swatara
laugh at the scientific gentlemen of the
transit Of Venus party, who, among
their outfit for the expedition. have sup.
piled sectional houses for Hobart Town
place of so, 900 Inhabitants.
Part of Lieutenant Wheeler's explo.
ring expedition will soon take the field,
proceeding to Arizona by way Of Den
yer and Santa Fe, in continuation oi
geographical and geological explora
tions and surveys west uf the one hun.
dredth meridian.
A slight fire occurred in the Pennsyl
vania Lunatic Asylum on Saturday
night The smoke filling the main bull
ding, the inmates became greatly excl
ted and broke the windows. The doors
were thrown open, and four hundred
patients rushed out, twelve of whom
escaped from the grounds, and six O
these are still at large.
A farmer recklessly publishes the fol
lowing challenge: II will bet S42 2!
that my hired man can take longer tt
go to the harves;feld, get back to din
ner quicker, eat more, do less, and bea
down harder on panel of the fenc'
than any other hired man within flfteer
miles of the flag staff of our town."
There are forty thousand persons il
Louisiana rendered homeless and desti
tute by the late foods, ten thousand il
Arkansas, and ten thousand in Missis
sippi, and supplies will be necessary I'm
til August or September, when the corr
can be harvested. The present relic
fund will be exhausted in less than tw'
weeks.
The Little Rock Gazette says: 9Th
barricadcs in the State House yard
have all been leveled, the bitches fille'
and the lumber is being rapidly remov
ed, but it will take another season 70
the grass to recover from the tread Q
armed hosts. The traces of the Goth
and Vandals will also be visible on tn
building for many long day"
Reports OF crops from the States @
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Mis-
souri,, Minnesota and Kansas show tha
on an average the acreage Of whea
sown largely exceeds last years, an
the yield promises to be quite up to tn
average In corn, oats and barley full
an average amount has been seeded an
the crop will be large. Fruits Of a
descriptions never looked better. 1
several counties in Iowa, Kansas an
Minnesota grasshoppcrs and chine
lugs have made their appearance.