The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-04-07
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Fort Wayne, Ind is building S20,-
600 synagogue.
OmaliG on the streng' h Of new direc
tory, claims 81 400 people
The deficiency in the Virginia Treasu.
~ is SlB, B,000in bonds an,l $4,000 in
money.
Henri Rochefort and Pascal Grousset
have escaped from New Caledonia to
Australia
Hon VIM. II. Evarts has accepted an
invitation to deliver a euIogy Of Chief
Justice Chase at the next Dartmouth Col
legn commencement.
IIaycrhill prayer meetings are an
nounced in the streets by man who rings
big dinner bell, after the manner Of tie
! old town crier.
A company is organizing in New York
| to recover q vast amount of treasure
known to have been sunk in the feet of
Spanish galloons in the harbor of Vigo in
Spain in 1902.
Later rintormation from the famine dis
trcts in India shows great improve
ment in the situation The cases of &C.
tual starvation outside the district of Ii
shoot are iew.
Later dispatches from Hong Kong
in relation to the loss Of the steamship
Nil, while on a voyage from that port to
Yokohama, say that eighty persons were
drowned.
Miss Mary Louisa Shaw, who died in
Boston. January 81, has bequeathed $751;.
1000 to charitable institutions in Boston,
Remembering Catholic and Protestant
alike
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, is winning golden
+opinions from all parties by the excel
ence Of his administration of affairs of
the State. He is "waking things" up
generally. Boston Post.
! A Brooklyn girl of six summers says
the reason the man on the new fractional
currency looks so mad, is because he is
only put on a ten cent stamp instead of a
fifty center.
A copy of the New Testament in Ger
man, dated 1887, is Paterson curiosity.
1t is not generally known that a few citi
zens of the town have later English edi
tions in their possession.
The Missouri House has passed a bill
appropriating $4,000 to enable Cover
nor Woodson to bring the James and
| Younger brothers and other outlaws in
Testing different parts of the State to JUS
tice.
Kate Field says of Isabella II. of
Spain, that scion OF the old Bourbon race,
that 'she is a great, stout, ungainly female,
who needs but dozen children and a
wash tub to be counterfeit presentment
OF the typical Biddy."
Millerstown,Pa Sixty-nine buildings
burned. Twelve persons are supposed
to have perished in the flames One, a
lady, leaped from third story window
and was badly hurt The fire originated
from gas used in the Central Hotel.
More attention has been paid Of late
years than formerly in England to the re
ligious instruction of children In Liv-
erpool, 35 new children's services were
started during 1878 At these there is an
average weekly attendance of 10000.
NJ. Sandras has communicated to the
French Academy of Science method of
making infants suck directly from the
teats Of cow He has tried it success
fully. and thinks its employment would
diminish the mortality among children
! deprived Of mothers milk.
/ A large heavy box brought from Lon
don to New York, and placed in bonded
warehouse there last February, has been
found, upon removing the outside cover,
to contain mahogany casket enclosing q
human body. The box was consigned to
W. L. Rogers, Dixon, I'll.
A small boy arose at Sunday School
concert and began quite glibly: "a Ger
tain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho, and fell-and fell" there his
memory began to fail him, "and-anG
fell by the roadside, and the thorn:
sprang up and choked him."
This is the way police reports usually
begin in the Boston newspapers "Thert
were only 26 regular customers in the
dock this morning. l3 for being drunk
e and of these being women " The liquo
| law, however, is in full force, but there il
| difference in being in force and being
enforced.
The Washington Star says: "It ha
t been stated that no clergyman was pres
t ent at the death of Senator Sumner.
r appears, however, that DR.. Sunderland
e the Chaplain of the Senate, was there
i "Well, he WAS not much of clergyma.
d mot enough to hurt"-comments tn
Louisville Courier Journal.
The Christian Intelligencer says: 6 AL
that the Had is to scholars, that and
thousand times more the Bible is to
b vastly wider company. 1t is not merel
e an object of interest, absorbing as it ma
n be to select few Homeric students it
n the center of hope and influence to Chris
$ tendon, and the source of the world
r true civilization"
= The Baptist Ecclesiastical Counc
a which has been hearing charges OF ur
4 christian conduct against Rev. Florenc
. Mccarthy, of Chicago, has decided
e withdraw from him the hand of minist'
o rial fellowship, but declines to recon
r. mend his expulsion. A minority dis;
" grees from this verdict.
r The first decision rendered by Chi
o Justice Waite was in the Underwood an
:. McVeigh case. 1t restores Mr. McVelg
p the possession of the property in Ale
r audria of which he was fraudulently d.
ir prived by the late Judge Underwood,a Ian
= is in all respects a most righteous an
satisfactory decision.
A kerosene lamp exploded in scho'
l. house at Middletown, Wis, while NEE
4 ing was going on,causing panic anon
'e the 800 persons present and setting iii
1t TO the building. About 40 persons wei
o injured, seriously, in the general rus
N for the door. The fire was eXtinguishe
r by two plucky women, who snothere
r, it with overcoats and carpets.
>" uOld Probabilities is at a discount