The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-03-19
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Il lTnE big white dollar viii be issued at
the rate OF sl5O,0OO per day. Esay

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Rev. ]. BURNS, of Cambridge, Guern-
sey county, has been appointed Chap
lain OF the Ohio Penitentiary. N g
ALL soldiers of the war of 1872 are
now entitled to pensions without regard
to the length Of their service.
,BRo, FISHER, of the Coshocton Demo
crat, was presented with residence val
hed at 81 500, last week. That's pres
ent "as is present"
BoNDs are coming back from Europe.
Correct. That proves that our exports
exceed in value our imports. Send over
your Bonds in payment of the excess,
gentlemen. $3.50 a.
The officials Of the Republican faith,
in the several institution of the State,
who have been removed, have the heart
felt sympaties OF their friends on the
Republican press.
GENTLEMEN OF the Legislature, 1t is
important that you wipe out that school
book monopoly. The prices demanded,
under the present systems is simply
downright swindling.
SENATOR THURMAN is determined that
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the Pacific Railroads shall pay the. mil
lions they owe the governments He is
stirring them up right lively in the Sem
ate. Push them, Senator.
Cart. BEAUFORT saw in Smyrna, in
the East, cloud of locusts forty miles
long and 300 yards deep, containing at
least l60oOo,ooo,o0O. That goes ahead
Of all the grssshopper stories from the
West. @
ANDREWS Basar says: "A New Yor-
ker ate Welsh rarebit and drank six
glasses of lager before going to bed
He dresmt that he saw Bon INGERsoL in
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his night shirt, with pitchfork, chasing
the devil over an Illinois prairie /"
Two convicts attacked and seriously
injured one OF the guards in the Peni.
tentiary last week, and now Republican
editors want their readers to believe that
| this act amply proves that the brutali-
ties praeticed by the late Republican Of
fcials were correct and proper.
SERaANTs at Arms of the PennsYlva.
MA Legislature are q bad lot. One, q
Democrat, is serving term in the Peni
tentiary and the one now serving the
Legislature, Republican, has been de.
tected in crooked transactions and will
likely be lodged along with his illusiri.
GUS predecessor.
TIE Republican papers are Yailing
over the decapitsted officials Of the Pen.
iteutiary. Tie new officials are wholly
devoid Of experience" Glad Of it,
Perhaps they are not devoid Of that hu-
Enanity that viii cause them to govern
humanely instead Of brutally, as ,heil
predecessors did. @ r
TIE Democrats are held responsible
for the management of the several in.
stisutions ia the State. and it would be
decidedly 3, novel arrangement to ap
point Republicans to manage them. No
shrewd business man ever entrusts the
management of his affairs to an enemy
This rule holds good inpolitical as vel
as in business matters.
| 5, The big white dollar made, its appear
ance in Wall street on the l4th inst
and buyers paid q fraction above par i,
gold for them. The gold.bugs of Wal
street have been laundering into th'
ears ofsthe people that the dollar o
4124 grains was worth only 80 cents
and now these same bugs are buyin.
them above par and paying in gold!
Boz INGERsoLL is not likely to trouble
Maine with his infdel lectures as the.
have law to punish by fine and impris
tenment whoever "blasphemss the hol,
name Of God by denying, cursing, o
,jcontinually reproaching God, his crea
ton, government, final Judgment; ;of th
world. Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, o
{ the Holy Scriptures, or by exposini
II them to contempt and ridicule." Il ca
4 "A coRRrsroNDExr Of the -Enqairsr
exposing the bsrbsrities practiced in th
Penitentiary: "'I know of one man
said an ex.ofiicial of the prison, "wh
r was worked and punished to death i
just eight days. Somehow the contract
or didn't like the man. He was tal
+ green-looking fellow, and couldn't do a
!, mach as others had done, and the cor
# tractor just said that he was going
It kill that fellow, aud he did kill him j
1just eight days" One ingenious mett
cd Of torture is to make a man sit upo
u a chunk of ice for fifteen minutes G
u more, until be writhes and bowls wit
agony. 1t is evidently good thing tbs
2 sunlightis now streaming into the pri
on cells al over the country. - -
g TIE press in the East is pouring .ht
!, shot in the ranks of the Republican pa
!. RtyT The Philadelphia Times says: "Tf
- truth is that retribntion has come upo
Il the Republican party with swiftne'
and force that it is almost impossib
,e to withstand, and the sarcasm Of de
3 tiny is seenlin The tact that the hand tn
n \ deals thesblow is'.the hand of him fl
x whose promotion to place and power,
10 the representative of the party, gre
crime was committed. The consciou
. ness of this crime ranking in the brea
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