The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-03-03
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himself as a candidate for Congress
There is Mrs. Peale in California who
owns and manages a farm of 173, 900
acres.
The total revenue of France for 1873
amounted to s2,47S,45l 900 francs, or
$500, 100000 in gold.
A destructive horse and cattle epidem-
1 ic has broke out in Baker County, Ore
gon, and is spreading rapidly.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has decided that women are eligible for
election to the school board
The statistics of Iowa show the singu,
lar fact that the greatest number of
thieves AMI murderers have blue eyes.
The Springfield Mass Republican
nominates Charles Francis Adams for
President, and Newton Booth for Vice
President
The Southern Ohio Fair has been or
ganized az Dayton, with capital stock
Of 100000 Ten per cent of the stock
WAS subscribed on the spot
| A Mrs Outlan, at Little Rock, Arkan
sas. s.attempied to kindle fire in her stove
Sunday night. She used coal oil. Her
children have been adopted by an uncle
The number Of hogs u!hterei in
Cincinnati last week was 1889: cores
pondinl week last year, 1881; total 10
date, 5SS,O55; same time last year, 600,-
SS4
Jem Mace writes from England that he
will accept challenge of Tom Allen to
fight for from $1,000 to $4,000 if Allen
will post forfeit to prove that he means
business
An Indiana woman says no one would
believe how smart and Industrious her
husband has become since she got to
keeping three.t tined pilchfork behind
the door.
There are 266, 900 volumes of old Con-
gressiOnal documents and few tons of
seeds, living lille in Washington. for
which nobody cares enough to pay post
age thereon
AT the opening of new liquor saloon
in New York, Monday evening, three
young men became engaged in astabhing
match, resulting in the death of one and
the serious injury of another.
Among the indications of industrial
prosperity in West Virginia is the success
of the Belmont Nail Works Company,
which produces lS0, 900 kegs of cut nails
ANNUALLY, and is building great blast
furnace.
! Over 100000 votes were cast in the
late Parliamentary elections in Great
Britain The total amount of voters in
the United Kingdom is about 100000
Fifty years ago there were only 100000
voters
The New York City tax payers paid
81 ,045, $50 for cleaning the streets during
the year ending December 81, 1873, aud
yet, the Tribune says, at this moment the
appearance OF the streets is "unspeakabiy
hopeless.
A special from Calcutta says 10000
personsare famishiug from want of food
in the districts of Tirpout, the Boglipoor
Presidency of Bengal. aud but Tor aid
furnished by the Government 10000
persons would perish.
The shooting of Steve Lowry, the last
of the Scutfl.town, N. C, outlaws, causes
great rejoicing in that neighborhood, ,aud
large numbers Of people have Deen d,ck-
ing to Lunberton, where the body Of
: Lowry lay. When shot. Lowry carried
: rifle, three pistols and knife Rewards
for his body had been offered to the
amount Of $4,000
f Rev. Drs Sterns and Buadington. and
: Rev. Mr. Beecher, of New York, failing
= to agree on the polity and discipline OF
the Congregational Church, conference
has been called to include such churches
with such eminent ministers as may rep
r resent the ripe and wise Judgment of ths
! Congregational Churches
The triumph OF the Ring in Ph:ladel
a phia fixes the power in that city in tins
= hands of bummers and thieves until after
G the Centennial Now let PhilaGelphi;
r get up and pay for her own celebrations
: We do not propose to pay ten cents {
V glass for drinking water in order to see
the old State House on the 4th Of July
. 1876
+ Strong efforts are making to have the
s Secretary of the Treasury reconsider his
recent decision that pilots and engineers
of steamboats, employed upon the grea,
lakes, must be citizens of the United
j States, the plea being that there is not q
n sufIlciency of these officers in the United
q States to answer the requirements of bu
!. siness interests in that section. A change
in the decision is not probable.
n A dispatch Of the 2lst ult announces
/ o terrible fire at Denver. Colorado The
# wind was hlowing perfect hurricane il
e the most uniavorable direction, and the
total destruction of an immense amount
S of valuable eproperty seemed inevitable
i. The entire fire department was out il
X force, as well as the citizens, and desper
e ate efforts we're being made to check thu
|. ravages of the flames.
s The Mount Sterling (Ky.) Sentine
gives this notice of marriageable young
e female in Montgomery County: "a
:, Young woman in Slate, at a party til,
other night. for twenty dollars, ate Who'll
J, roast pig, an entire stuffed turkey, ali o
e. an oppossum, ten large corn dodgers ant
drank gallon Of hard cider at one 81!
y ting. Her name is Miss Mary Jane Sew
s. erance,and she is plump and pretty bru
a nette, lively as cricket, land hasn't a tape
g worm
es France possesses 1882 large bridges
,e of which S6l were built before the CON
IN mencement of the present century,6i du
C ring the First Empire, $50 under the RI
IT, storation, $50 in the reign of Louis Phi
III lippe. and 297 since l84S Ofthese brio
C ges, S54 are constructed completely G
i'll masonry, 8 are fixed iron bridges, 100 al
n built ofmasonry aud wood, IA completed
IN of wood, and 20 are of mixed chara,
til ter. These 1882 bridges have togeths
ed alength of nearly 50 miles.