The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-05-21
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The Musical Festival at Cincinnati is
represented as being ? grand affair. :
An earthquake at Cua, Venezuela,
killed six hundred persons. (.so,a no,as
W. H. FIELD, OF Noble county, has
been appointed a Guard in The PeuitspI
tiary.
The Cuban revolution is ended. four
chiefs, the last in the field, surrendered
last week. ~ - y = - - - V y
TIE Democratic majority in this Con.
gressional District last year, on Govern
or, was l,SO2,yIlgaaw
/ A $4,000 courthouse for Athens
county is to be voted on by the electors
of that county ON June 1st.--
DEMOCRATIC State Convention at Co.
lbmbas on the a6sh daysefJdne. Mon
roe county is entitled to Z delegates.
The " r yEibaneis frightened at the
prospectof Senator THURMAN becoming
the Democratic nominee for the Presi.
dency in $780, ssgKvRt1.rwu
The Legislature passed a bill to au-
therize women to, praetice ,lsvyUand am,
other stands over to allow them to be.
come Notaries Public ssssgl,a ssv . s,',r.s
TIE Cambridge JeBsrsoaidH entered
on its 47th year last week. 1t is an ex-
cellent paper and the Democrats Of
Guernsey are supporting itas itdeserves.
! The Japanese sits down when be
works, turns screw to the left, puts a
horses head out in stall, pulls a plane
toward him iafid Kills himself to epite
his foe.
AFTER having her heavy Democratic
majority smothered in Republican
District for IS years. Monroe, County
now comes TO the front in Democratic
District .AD E9 ~ 3
/. IT was Pompton man who said he
had been toIs concert and dheardAtwo
chaps play duel on the piano. "But,''
said be, st looked darn sight more
like prize fight"
/ CANADA is excited because OF loud
talk by the Fenian leaders in this coun-
try. Talk is cheap, but the capture d
Canada blythe, Fenisns, is not among the
things thatwill happen In the near ffu.
iture.
ETAK-payers &c Wetzel county, Wes,
Va, are entering their protests against
the workings ef-the County Court sys.
TEN They think it little steep to pu,
the county to 500 expense 10 try a $40
case. &sES.H F3tTe 5
CONGRESS proposes now to do wha'
the Electoral Commission should have
done, investigate the'frsuds perpetrate6
In the election Of 1873, in. Florida and
Louisiana. Probe them to the bottom
gentlemen. sgw r
SEvEBAL Republican aspirsnts Afol
Congressional honors in what was the
10th District, north Of US, have had theil
hopes dashed by the new re districtine
bill which wss passed by the Legislature
on the 14tt ffsto9 ss IEa9 .sdga7aotoa9 Z
An attempt was made to assassinatt
Emperor WILLIAM of Prussia on the
llth inst. Anative Of Leipsic, named
HoDEL, fred two shots while the Emper.
or was passing him in a carriage, but
fortunately both missed.
The decision of the Treasury Depart
ment that the gold paid to civil officer!
out of the Confederate Treasury at the
close of the war cannot be recovered BY
the United States will be agreeable news
to many Southern patriots.
As:redistricted the 1st, I'd, Sd, 9th
9th, Sth, 9th, 10th, 11th, 18th, 18th, 10Th
and 18th Districts, are Democratic, -ani
the 4th, 7th, 18th, 17th, 18th, 10th ant
2Otb are Republtcan. Two Of the Dis
tricts set down as d emoeratic, 1st snt
18th, ARE <deubsfnl ones. lzS>-3
The histoEyof our mercantile marin,
is dreary story of our decadence in tina
branch Of business. G Oar total tonpag
to-day is only three-fourths< of what i
was seventeen years ago, while thato
other. nations has been in some case
trebled in the same period.
In the opinion of the Supreme Cour
ofthe United States the Eight Hour law
90 far as giving the workingman any spe
cial rights or privileges, is mere waste pa
per. 1t merely says eight hours shall b.
considered . day'swork, butth question
Eef payis entirely q. matter ofscontrsct
THE citizens of GAINESVILLE, on th
10th inst, by majority of 43 decides
TO erect 4 new school house at . cost 0
$4,000. Great care should be taken {
have the right plan, before building, else
when finished, it will be like our $12
Reo house, s,i NOT ths beer tose the people wan
TIE Russian officers and sailors O
fboafd Of the steamship gimbria, of th
coast 1T Maine, are to be atransfsrre
over the Union Pacific Railroad to th
Pacific Coast, lIf5war As declared, Er
glish commerce on the Gulf Of Mexic
1 with furnish some,rich prizes for Russia
war vessels. .. ~. 81 .
JAPAN has had one hundred and forty
nine destructive earthquakes during th
last fifteen hundred years. The Jesse
ones are iunumerable. This interestin
information is sent yby Minister Bins
ham, who, while in Gongress, was h,