The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-09-15
Se,se and cnupse,rse.


protests. ag ,inst higli-hcoled
b )ots. -
Don't gosto law unless You have
nothing to lose; lawyers houses are
huilt on fools heads. ...-.--.---.--
A bad little boy In Aberdeen rubbed
cayenne pepper dust all ofcr tiles hack
Of his jacket. The school-masIer
thrashed him briskly, but dismissed the
school Immediately to run to The near
est chemist for, eye wafcr
y Toledo elifos ;haa 4 sore ear. He
- .jla ss = sgeI,;y,
pounds Of mutton taIlow, wraps t "a an
army blanket, props it up with oak
timber. and keeps right along with his
ink singing. ~
A new game called "granger sevens
up is announced. Three persons play
for a can Of oysters. The first man ont
gets the oysters, the last man out gets
the oyster can, and the "middle man.
don't get anything.
1t the time ever comes for the ,exp|a-
nation of the mysteries of thig world,
we shall be glad to know Why the young
man who remarks on leaving church,
Il can preach a better sermon than that
myself" is content to wear bit his ifs
over counter at 500 month.
Judge w. j, Gilmore, Democratic
candidate for Supreme Bench. has
been on the Common Pleas Bench for
II years,an,i has decided 6,O0o cases in
Butler and PreBle coahties.h The Su-
preme Court, in all that time, has never
reversed but one of his decisions -
That's pretty. good record for
Judge ,i}tf - = ,.
An Irishman found a government
blanket recently, and rolling it Up put
it under his arm, and walkedtof. say
| ing; "Yis, that's moine-U for Path
rick, aud S for McCarty; be me sowl,
but this leaEnin'; is a,fqipe thing. as me
fayther would say; for if I hadn't a
edica'ion l wouldn't have been afther
findin' me blanket" n, ~
New York Commercial: HAre tho
Joneses back p inquired Mrs. Spilkins,
who hasn't been out of, town al,.ssp
mer. "Yesm," replied the cook; "and
Mrs. Brown and the children got home
from Saratoga this morning." "Then.
Mary,you may open the front shutters"
continued Mrs. s., "and say that we've
returned, too'eOn QIEfEii1HA
A well-to-do farmers wife at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, has remarkably socia.
BILE manner of crusading. She stands
in the streets, throws brick through
the window of q saloon, aud whispers
so as to be heard three blocks, s.rm
goin' to die in glory And her fus
bond stands across the road and fer
vently calculates, s'Amenryn '&1
A Long Branch gossip SAYS that a
young lady from Washington, daugh.
ter of a distinguished General, entered
into conspiracy with one of the Jock
eys for the purpose Of buying French
pool. She paid five dollars and won
eleven hundred. She rewarded the
jockey for his astuteness in seleetiue.ihe
right horse by giving him grand din
| ner
Arthur Purcell, the man who offered
a reward of $4,000 for the recovery recovery
of little Charley Ross, has announced
the withdrawal Of his offer. He SAYS
he now believes that no crime has been
committed, and that the whole affair
will be officially compounded. atHe adds
that be will not be dueed by anv official
combination. Only detectives and Coz
fidence men replied to his ADVERTISE
ment. ,f r,,,,, -.
There is no other issue, out .nf the
present condition of things. If the
Republican party remains in power
there is just one fate for the, SoptA-wthe
State governments will continue under
the control of'ignorance, poverty, greed,
and dishonesty until ssociety,eis com.
pletelyi disorganizsd, and ibhenonill FOL.
low that ,csntralizad despotism which
will suppress the last vestige, of local
selfgovernment in order again to recon- con.
struct, not the civil polity 81 States, but
civilized society itself-Ne,os York
World --~r
The Democratic victory in wyoming
Territory, where the majority is double
what it was at the last election, aud the
defeat ofsJudge Poland in Vermont, are
significant signs of the times. The
Democratic ball which has rolled over
New Hampshire Connecticut, Oregon,
North Carolina and Tennessee, is still
in motion. 1t is about to enter the
greater fields of Ohio. Indiana, Penn
! sylvania and New York There is nm
unvarying sameness in the electionA re-.
turns this year that always, rresages. .
general political revolution. -.
The Cuurch Journal is responsible
for tue following story anent Father
Ienatius, the leader, of the extremc
Ritualists in England "Some time since
Father Ignatias was about to preach at
q weli-known church. A popular hymn
of Watts was sung before the sermon,
and when it ended the preacher repeat
ed slowly the last line, Demands, nv
soul, my life, my ALL adding, 'Well, l
am surprised to hear you sing that. Do
you know that altogether you oalyltut
fifteen shilllngs intoithe bag this morn
ingT' - mas. y,fY, -.,,sr -,
Captain Jordan, colored man, stole
a gun from another colored man named
Noah Scott, near Atlanta, Ga, recently.
| The Captain was arrested. and HIS prop
osilion was that instead of being lock
led up he should allow Noah 10 give
him whipping. After, much discuss
ion it was agreed that the whipping
should consist Of thirty-nine lashess on
the bare hack with a strap. A grca,
number Of people went out to the bush
es to see the punishment, which was re
lcntlesslv Inflicted and pRilosopiiicaily
borne 31,cssl... ,fi bad
PITY-A Saratoga lady says she saw
there seven thousand dollars of horse.
flesh almost dying of pneumonia. Nov
a woman could buy set of white poin,
: lace and a set of black thread lace 'fo1
that amount of money, and the hundred
thousand dollars that is tied up insTon
Il