The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-02-20
rdE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY,
Taesday, February 90, 1877.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A man in Wisconsin saved young
lady from walking off bridge, and 60
far from heing grateful for it, abe mar.
ried him.
A girl attempted TO walk the ridge
pole OF house in Warren, Texas, hsv-
Ing made bet that she could do so
She fell of an ! broke both her legs.
Mrs. Maris Isabel Tsomes, of Oak.
land, Csl who died the other dav, left
her fortune, amounting to Sl4l 900, to
her faithful nurse, Mrs Isabella Butler
We earnestly caution all our readers
against taking in change any $1,000
bills in which the final stroke ins ihe
name "Chittenden' 10 thick instead Of
thin. - aE
A Philadelphia shoe merchant wrote
to his wife that he had become a con.
vert to cremation, and she said, Go
ahead; !; have your ashes returned CO.
d. to me- As
1t is surprising news from Washing.
ton that the ancient Simon Cameron,
now nearly four score years of age,s has
been sued for breach OF promise BY a
lively widow, who lays her damage at
$50. 900.
A young gentleman Of Kilkenny,
meeting q handsome milk-maid near the
parade, said, What viii you take for
yourself and your milk, my Sdear?' The
girl instantly replied, Yourself and a
gold ring, Siris'
TIE SADDEsr MOMENT The happiest
moments in woman's life are when she
is, making her wedding sarmentsd The
saddest, when her husband comes home
late at night and yells to her from the
front steps to throw fim out some key
holes, assorted sizes. u 7,7A
Losr FOREVER "A party of young
men dined sumptuously at a restaurant
10 Dublin, and each one insisted on pay.
ing the bill. To decide the matter, it
was proposed to blindfoId the waiter,
and the first one be caught should pay
the bill. He hasn't caught any OF them
yet. s,,.5-tz, ,e.s'se,
The sentence of the Court is,' said
Judge Porter, popular Irish Magis
strate, to notorious drunkard, that You
be confined In Jail for the longest pe
riod the law will allow; and ! hope you
will spend the time in cursing whisky
BE jabers / will, and Porter, too, was
the answer.
y The cattle disease hes .hown itself in
several sections in Selesia in Germany,
and also among the cattle driven to Ber.
lin for slaughter. The disease is ascribed
to the influence of foreign cattle import.
ed in disregard Of Government reguIa.
tions. These are to be more strictly en-
forced in the future.
ADosrs-.Miss Jones, do you think
Brown so awfully uelyi' Miss j.
Ugly! No, indeed Why, we all think
him extremely nice-looking.' Adonis-
well, was talking to him on the, stair
just now, and lady passed, and I.heard
her say, That's the ugliest man. ever
saw And there was nobody there but
him and me- a.,is
Baltimore is the great Methodist city
Of this continent, there being within the
limits of the city forty-seven Methodist
Episcopal Churches, eight Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church Sonth, eight. OF
the Methodist Protestant Church, Eve
Independent Methodist Churches, and
ak African Methodist Episcopal Chur-
ches, being seveDty-four in all. lid
Never buy lottery ticket. II there
are thousand tickets yoa stand nine
hundred and ninety nine chancesof loos
ing your money. This is true whether
the chance is in a Kentucky or church
scheme, Kentucky seems to be utterly
reckless in regard to lotteries s Even
her ex Governors appear to deem II
more honorable to enter into the man
agement Of a lottery, than to commit
suicide-which is a mistake.
The Methodist are about to erect o
model church on Columbus avenue, Bos-
ton. The building will accommodate
$500 persons, and can be 30 arranged
rs to include the lecture room. thus Civ
ing accommodation to 1.500 mere The
church can be emptied in three or four
minutes by. means OF many separate
outlets The stairways from the gale.
ries, protected by brick work, will Sc
cure the safety of those in, that part Of
the building in case Of FIRE. saa
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A Texas paper. says: sIrs d Latti
mer, murderer of Mr. w. T. Flint, in
Texarksna, escaped the clutches of the
law, hut fell into the embrace Of more
merciless and unrclenting enemy. He
escaped into the terrible cold OF the
past month, and entered the village. OF
Farmersville with hands and feet liter
sllyfrozen stiff Amputaticn was nee
essary to save his life, and now the mu-
tilated trunk awaits the vengeance of
the violated law 4a e,,issesas
NIT T. Cook VAS Union soldier,
and while engaged in fight with Nor
gan's raiders, at Cyntbiana KY +, on the
1lth Of June, 1864, received wound in
the LETT eye by which that organ was de-
stroyed. The wound was never care
fully examined, the surgeons thinking it
was made by splinter or spent shot =
The wound never healed, and has proved
= great annoyance to MIR Cook. But
last month, while in West Shenango, fa /.
a minnie ball dropped out OF his eye,fol
lowed by purulent discharge The
ball weighed "A ounces, and had laid
embedded in the skall near the eye for
IL years and 5 months.s ~ .tgo ~
Mr.. Murphy. the leader of the tenn
pcrancc reyivsl in Pittsburg, appealed,
Ut conference with the plstofs Of the
city, for their aid. He wac Of opinion
that the,reform would fail unless Chris.
,iian people came to the rescue Men
who were addicted to drink were very
likely to 60: back to their old ways, al
though they had signed the pledge with
the earnest Intention OF keeping it, il
they relied upon their own strength -
What was needed was 10 gather them
into the churches, and have them placed
under the care Of and in association
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