The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

damaged wheat in shock and stack ten
to fifteen per cent, The crop will all
grade No and below.
Kansas claims the finest crops of all
kinds ever grown in the State. Early
corn is coming into market, and late
corn will mature within two weeks.
They have had another Cabinet crisis
in Spain. The entire body has resigned
Gen. Jovellar has been placed at the
head Of the new ministry. He makes
az earnest appeal for peace.
The Emperor A,exanders salary is
$4,000 a day; Abdul Aziz's $4,000; !;
Francis Joseph's $4,000; Frederick
williams SS,210; Victor Emmanuers
s6,S30, and Victoria's S6,270.
The New York Herald reports a
shrinkage in the value of New York
real estate of one third since 1872
There has been an increase of more
than that amount in this city in the
same period.-Colambus Dispatch.
Bass, the "bitter beer'' man Of Eng
land, employs 10000 persons in his bu-
siness, and pays the Midland Railroad
company an average of $685. 900 per
annum for the single item of freigh,age.
The Red Cloud Commission expect to
finish their examination of witnesses in
Washington the present week. They
are not believed to be investigating to
find ont.
The Pacific Distillery, of San Fran
cisco, having been ordered to produce
the books for Investigation, one of the
proprietors makes oath that all the
hooks up to July last have been destroy
ed.
Judge Pershing, the Democratic can
didate for Governor in Pennsylvania,
has good reform record. Only week
ago he sentenced two of the Commits
sioners of Schuylkill County, convicted
of malfeasance and peculation, to two
years Imprisonment and fine of ST..
900 each.
Ralston's life was insured for $500,
000 Of course the insurance compa.
nies intend fighting the payment of his
policies, on the ground that he commit
ted suicide. But how can they gel
around that coroner's verdict which
says he didn't.
1t is announced that General Sherman
proposes to revise his book, and correct
certain misrepresentation therein OF
army officers. Remorse and sorrow
over the way he treated poor General
Frank Blair is probably at the bottom
Of this resolution.
A horse which strayed upon the rail
road at Stonington the other day and
was killed by the cars was so torn to
pieces that its owner was afterward un-
able to tell whether it was his horse OIL
not, peculiar circumstance being that
the animal was literally knocked off its
shoes, all four of which were found
ripped from its feet and left on the
track.
A malady known as the foot and
mouth disease is affecting cattle and
sheep in England, more especially the
stock imported for slaughtering. The
method of checking its ravages adopted
by the government officials is the entire
slaughter of every tainted herd or flock
upon their arrival in port In one in
stance only three sheep in a cargo OF
l,500 had the disease,yet all were killed.
A woman in New Orleans and her
daughter, girl of eighteen, having
been severely burnt by an explosion of
oil while filling lamp, have recovered
$3.50 damages in the Supreme Court
from the Septotian Oil Company. This
is timely warning to the innumerable
manufacturers of mon explosive" ex,
plosive oils.
A queer civil funeral, that of Cloris
Pontonnel, the little son of wine mer-
chant, took place in Paris the other day
Two persons carried the coffin, and
about twenty friends followed At the
grave the boys father delivered the fol
lowing address: "Adieu, my son, adieu,
ClllLCl, lOl fOu WClC q CitiECi VI GuO III
ture-not baptized! Now, thou hast
returned to nothingness, for there is no
soul. Become manure; there is need of
it for good wine"
Mr.. Blanton Duncan gives, in the
Louisville Commercial an interesting
account of the COME tvrate currency
He says the totsl issue never reached
$3.50, 100000, and its depreciation was
less than is popularity believed. He
says the paper dollar was worth IS cents
in gold in November, 1861 60 cents in
May, 1862; As or so cents in Novem-
ber, 1862; 16 cents in July, 1868; S
cents in November, 1868; cents in
May, 1864, from which period to the
termination of the war it fuctuated, GO
ing up once to 6 cents, and only failing
entirely as medium in the last tso
months prior to the capitulation, when
every one saw that defeat was inevita.
bic.
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