The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

We milk Is, 100000 cows in this coun.
try, and have cheese and butter produc,
Of S450,000,000.
Timber is reported to be quite plentiful
in the Black Hills, and the miners will not
have to 60 far to hang a man.
A German prophet of the Prof. Tice
order predicts warm winter, and advi-
ses the laying up of ice at the earliest or.
portunity.
A disease similar to the epizootic is
killing off cattle in several counties Dor.
dering on the Pennsylvania side of the
Delaware River. :.-
Jack Rossiter, the first trottiag horse
in this country, it is said, that made re.
cord of 2 40, died OF old age near ST.
Louis last Monday. He was in his 37th
year. as
A Buffalo Judge has decided that the
clothing of occupants of sleeping cars is
at the owners risk, and if stolen its value
cannot be recovered from the sleeping
car company.
Two hundred trains pass daily over the
Pennsylvania Railroad between New
York and Philadelphia. A train leaves
Jersey City every seven minutes nigh,
and day.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of New York has rented the Hippo
drome for the month of January for 81,
800 a week. 1t is to be occupied by
Moody and Sankey. -l
The Treasury Department is now oc
cupied in preparing tables showing the
expense of the Government from it;
foundation. The table of the Navy De
partment has been completed. 1t IS re
ported to foot up a thousand million, OF
dollars. ... .,,,i -.
A Chinarnan recently del in Califor.
mia in dark cellar, where his bo iy was
found nearly eaten up by rats. The yer.
min were trying to avenge themselves on
him when dead for having eaten so many
of them willie he was yet alive. He hat
$40, 900 in bank. -
Col, Fred Grant is a, chip Of the old
block. He has entered upon his duties
as a member Of Washington banking
house, but still draws his pay regularly as
an army officer. The way he manages il
is that his father has granted him leave oI
absence fora year. s5 So,
Won Moltke says Generals Sherman
cClelllan, Lee and Johnston were tn,
only real geniuses of. the late war in the
United States. Buff Won Moltke him
self had ever had occasion to tackle
Stonewall jackson, he would probably
have found out, to his cost, that there was
still another genius who was mighty hard
to handle. IA. m tll .a.j -
A California farmer sent to the Stat,
Fair, which. wasrecently held in Him ois
the heaviest fleece of wool on record, gits
total weight being q littleover so pounds
The Wool Growers Association had il
secured and weighed, when it was found
that there was 3S pounds Of grease and
dirt in it and 2pounds Of .burrs. -
Mr.. Schroeder's airship, under con
struction at Baltimore, will be ready in
two or three days to stretch its wings and
fly away. Schroeder has already arrang.
ed his time table as follows: To Wash
ingtop. 35 miles, in Is minutes to New
York, 200 miles, in hour and so min.
utes ; to Liverpool, $500 miles, in 4(
Bells Life tells OF an extraordinary
hand at whist: ct M. and three friends
were playing whist on Tuesday evening
During the third game T. Ms partner
dealt and turned up the ace of spades
Onlooking a. his hand he found thu
whole of tue same suit. T. n. says ht
has played whist for more than SO years,
but never remembers such circum.
stance happening before He probably
took every trick. 'a oe s
Carruth, the Vineland editor, having
died within year from the effects of q
bullet in his brain, lodged there by Ian
dis, the latter is liable, under the laws O.
New jersey to be held for murder 1t Ii
thought that 10 addition, civil suit will
be brought against him by Carruth's
heirs for damages. The much talked o.
ante.mortem settlement between the mur
derer and his victim was never consum.
mated. s--ey Ee liae 'Eia5
You may talk about fCarruth and hit
bulletin the brain but he ,is nowhere.-
The Grant County (Ky.) Sentinel thus
tells its story: "William Turner got into
difficulty with negro at Gouge's, Sun
day evening last, and shot the aforesaid
negro through the head, for which recre
alton the said William was brought to
Williamstown on Monday morning, and
held over to the Criminal Court in the sun
of $500, which he gave. The negro ,cds
not seriously injured"