The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-07-25
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|Seitse. ana Wpu sfHse'1
Dom Pedro planted small tree near
Washington's tomb
The crop prospects in Western Iowa
were never more promising than at pres
ent.
/ The House has granted q pensionsof
| $50 per month to the widow of the latel
5eneral Custer. a-s
Mrs Ann Eliza Young has nettedi
$50. 900 fspm her lectures on Brigh4ml
and Mofmonism.
+ A law suit begun in 1882. concerningl
(9Q QQQ, has teet ,RseR deeds y EEslI
ffU00. set q e
Forty-two persons were killed and
forty seven severely injured by the ex
plosion of fire damp near Saint Ayald,
England.
The indications are that Alexander H
Stephens will be returned to Congress
without having any opposition, either
in the convention or at the polls.
Prussia has eleven thousand miles OF
railways, which cost S1,050, 900, 900 /;
and now the Government talks of buy
ing them all.
A noticeable decrease in the number
of visitors to the Centennial Exhibition
is apparent, on account of the extreme
| ly hot weather.
The body Of Jos. Woodman was
found in q skif in the Missouri river,
near Clay county, the 14th inst, with
bullet hole through the head.
Gen. Custer had life insurance poll
cy for $4,000; Capt. Yates, $1,000
Keogh, $4,000; Lieut.. Calhoun, $5,-
600; Crittenden, $4,000; Porter, S5,.
900:
The Twenty-second regiment of U
S. Infantry, stationed at Detroit, Michi
gan, have received orders to join Gen
Terry's command at Fort Abraham
Lincoln. nYs5
/ DR.. Halliday, q prominent citizen Of
Corsicanna, Mo, was deliberately shot
few days ago by one Dub Crawford,
who is supposed to have been hired to
lido the deed.
Buffalo is about to send two cheeses
of her own make to Philadelphia, one
weighing twelve tons and the other four
teen. These cheeses are ten or twelve
feet high, and bound with iron hoops
of an inch in thickness.
Two men named Lux and Miller, who
began business in San Francisco as
butchers, without any capital, now own
GOO, 900 acres OF land in the San Joa
|quin and Santa Clara Valleys, Califor.
MIA, upon which they pay about 640,-,
900 yearly in taxes.
In the Pyrenees the following notice
3isspostsd- in hotel ssAll travellers on
their arrival will be entitled, gratis, to a
bath with friction and special lotions
These lotions will guarantee the travel
er perfect immunity from the numerous
insects which infest the hotel"
Chicago's debt in 1860 was 3,422,-
1900; now it is $36,1l5.O0O. Taxes in
1860 amounted to $373,3l5; in 1875
they were $5.770,49l, a much larger in
Grease Of percentage than in the valua,
ton, and Eve times the increase in per-
centage Of population. tsasa5.,.
Not long ago paragraph from, Paris
/ told Of q man whose nose had begun to
grow alarmingly. We now find, in a
French medical journal, an account of
an operation performed upon that nose
tThe excrescence, weighing ESQ gram,
mes, was cut Oh, leaving badly Scared
but more symmetrical organ.
i A German woman named Cimmiver,
l|living near Flint, Michigan, is suffering
terribly with trichina. Her limbs are
| rigid ana her face is swollen 40 that her
eyeids are nearly closed. Some raw
[salt pork from which she had eaten
about ten days previous to being taken
sick, was found to be affected with
Il worms. oo ttesc....s
Il "is this the way to Aberdeen?' ask
ed gentleman Of a man who was
breaking stone 'Noo, whar did you
|, come frae r. was the thoroughly Scotch
!, [answer. sWhat business is it of yours
where come from r. returned the gen
ltleman angrily. Ou, jist as muckle as
lit is whaur ye're gaun," replied the lap.
lidary, quietly resuming his occupation
In speaking OF the Massachusetts
law making it necessary that SO dozen
eggs weigh one and one-half pounds :
Max Adder says: 1--WE approve OF this
The hens have too long had their own
) way in this business of laying eggs, and
. they have constantly defrauded the pub
lie. It is high time that this outrage
Was crushed, land we are glad to hear
that the Legislature OF Massachusetts, is
going to do it."
4 A dispatch to the Boston Globe saws
,,l"There are, at Fort Abe Lincoln, twen-
4 ty.nine widows made by this massacre
!, seven of them officers wives. Mrs
Custer is left without blood relation
: Mrs. Calhoun is very low from nervous
!. exhaustion. Mrs, Custer bore up brave.
Iy at first, but now is almost in despair
{ Mrs Porter refuses to see any one. She
: believes her husband fell alive into the
/ hands of the Indians, and was torturee
8 to DEATH" .
e Twenty years ago Liverpool steam
I. packet company wished to buy land O
= woman She sold it cheap, but got I
iclause in the agreement that during be-
l. whole life she and a companion nigh
} at any time travel free in the company
vessels. The day after the bargain sh'
sold her furniture, let her house, ant
went on board the first outward-bount
n vessel. Since then she has always livet
}. on some ship of the company, accom-
o panied by q woman companion, TO
el whom she advertises, and whose pas
!. sage-money she pockets. She has mad
d lover $4,000 in this way.
J. A lady who has been under the car
of physician in Omaha for some tim
past had very singular reptile extract
ed from her stomach the other day. I
!. was about eighteen or twenty inches il
e length, and as large around as a per
s sons middle finger. From each sid
, protruded numberless legs, each one o
n which apneared similar to the claws o