The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-10-27
MATTERS OF INTEREST.

MATTERS OF INTEREST.
The Democrats carried Arkansas by
q majority of $4,000.
A million dollar law suit has been
commenced at Louisville.
Mining. operstions in Utah have been
unusually successful the past season.
The bullion in the Bank of England
has decreased f573,0O0 during the past,
week.
Yedtlo, japan, has fifteen newspapers
the leading one having a circulation of
1,50O.
Brigham Y,ung's health is reported
as very poor, and his life is believed to
he of short duration.
General Dot,the rival Of Tom Thumb,
has arrived in Paris. His weight is
eighteen pounds.
A new street lamp, constructed on
the Caloptric principle, has been sue
cessfully tested in London.
No decision has yet been given in the
suit of Ann Eliza Young, Brigham S
nineteenth, for divorce.
The German Government has posi-
lively di. claimed the intention of pur
chasing a naval station in Costa Rica
The French government has issued
fresh orders prohibiting the residence
of Spaniards in eight communes hor
dering on Spain.
Within the last few weeks over sixty
mules have been stolen from plantations
between Austin and fernando, Missis
sippi.
Steps are being taken to build mar
row gauge railroad from Red Bud, Ran
do.ph county, Illinois, to Chester, on
the Mississippi.
The womcn's State Temperance Con
vention of New York have appointed
delegates to attend the National Con.
vention at Cleveland.
| A gang of book thieves who have
been making extensive depredations in
the committee rooms of the National
Capitol, have been arrested.
The New York grain dealing firms o
Lathrop & Engs and Winslow, StiIwel
& Co., reported suspended claim to be
paying everything as usual.
1t is reported that when the Pacific
Mail company's new steamers have al
arrived in Pacific waters, they will es
tablish line to Australia and FIJI vi;
Honolulu.
The 3 & O Railroad company an
nounces dividend of five per cent. or
the stock of the main stem also, div
idend of five per cent on the Washing
ton branch.
A vein of iron has been discovered
in Morgan county, Utah, five miles
from the Union Pacific railroad, which
is claimed to be equal to any discove
ries of this kind in Wyoming.
The proposed tunnel under the chan
mel. between France and England is tc
be thirty miles slong--about twenty
miles under the water and five miles OF
each side, of gradual approach.
Over three thousand deer have beer
killed near the head waters of Mad riv
er, California, within year, the skin!
only being used. Legislative action il
called for to put stop to such whole
sale slaughter.
i Paris had marriage the other day o
the Tom Thumb and Minnie Warrel
class, but with more drollery in it. Th'
husband is dwarf, forty inches II
height, and the wife giantess Of 81,
feet.
! A Detroit dispatch says S42 243 bar
rels of salt have been inspected in Sa
ginaw this season. 7S1,314 being fin
grades. The product for the who'll
season exceeds million barrels. Las
year it was only 100000.
Saturday evening while Jerry Picard
well known citizen of Terre Haute
Ind was walking on the street with hi
wife, two men rushed on them. On
held Mrs. Picard while the other sho
her husband in the head, the ball enter
ing the right ear. The shot will prov
fatal. The motive for the act is no
known.