The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-03-26
ITEMS.
The tone in English official circles is
decidedly war-like. k2kk

Cambridge richly deserve hanging,
JOHN SHERMAN is a convert to the sill
yer movement, and very Jealous, one
too, if recent reports are true.
SHOULD England and Russia engage
in tussle, Turkey has promised to stand
off and act the part of a disinterested
spectator. q, i
THE Board of State Charities recon.
mend that the office of Infrmary Direc.
tor he abolished. A very sensible le-
commendation.
The Republican majority, official, in
New Hampshire is all of 945 votes -
Majority in the House 40. Not such
powerful shower after all.
HAYES has been bounced again. The
Senate Post Office Committee, by a vote
of 6 to 8. decided to report adversely on
REEb to be Postmaster at Toledo.
The Wayne County Democrat has
been enlarged and dressed in new type
EsHLEMAN is meking the Democrat sone
of the. best country papers in Ohio.s
TIE New York Herald of Sunday,
the 17th inst, contained so columns Of
reading matter, and 70 columns. Of ,ad
vertisements-a quiutuple sheet-all for
five cents The Herald is the most COM
plete ne,os-paper in the world.
IF the present Legislature remains in
session six weeks longer it will not then
have been in session the time occupied
BY the Republican Legislature last year,
but our information is that an adjourL-
ment will be had some time in April
A DESPATCH from ST. Petersburg says
it is rumored that Russia has demanded
that the British fleet quit the Sea of Mar.
mora at once. Official hints are also
made public from the Russian Capitol
that if England does not wish to attend
tie Conference it will meet without her
JOHN WALLACE, under arrest in Wet.
eel county, West Va, charged with the
murder of MARY BAKER and baby and
8 girl named MARY CHURCH, confessed
on the 22d inst, that he was guilty Of
the fearful deeds. An account of the
terrible affair will be found elsewhere in
this paper.
TIE Bill for the relief OF Southern
mail contractors, which has caused so
much uneasiness to the Republican poll.
ticians and filled them with so much
anxiety for the safety Of the country
and the security Of the Treasury, has
been killed by the House. Rebel war
claims was good political sbugshdo,
but it has been shorn Of its terrors IN
Y. Herald.
| The Cincinnati Trade List rskes the
schoolbook monopoly fore and aft in
this style: sit is scarcely necessary to
remind the reader that publishers of
school books, who are few in rumber
and, as rule, bound together by the
cohesive. power OF public pillage, are
constantly waxing fat and insolent upon
their present, rate of profit. We have
reliable authority for the statement that
their books can be made and sold at pri-
ces fortype cent below those now cur
rent, which would result in an annual
sdving to purchasers of school books in
this state OF the enormous sum of $780,
600. Means to save this money, rather
| than to add further unnecessary tax, is
what the people want, and what wise
legislation will supply
Now we have it. The Republican pa
pers all over the State have been yelling
Justify that the present Legislature is 6
failure The Appropriation bill was re-
ported on the 9Th inst, and it shows
what honest, efficient legislators can do
The figures, when contrasting this ses
sion with the last, show deductions
amounting to over $685., 1000, divided be
tween the partial and general bills. Th'
partial appropriation for 1878 sslesl
than that of 1877 about 100000 Tb,
/ general appropriation for 1878 is lesI
than that Of 1877 about S405, 900, show
ling reductions amounting to about 1866
600 That is work that means. strie
economy these hard times, and shows
that Democratic promises of reform ar
to be carried out to the very letter. Th
party can meetthe people at the Poll
next Fall with record that will stant
any and all attacks. @
/ The Visiting Statesmen are in grea
glee because of the decision of the Su
preme Court of Louisiana setting asid
the proceedings Of the Court in the cas-
of ANDERSON, of. the Returning Board
Since ANDERSON was to have been set q
large in any event we are glad that
has been done by regular judicial actioI
and not by an extorted exercise of th
lpardoning power in ful6llmentsof An ur
: seemly political bargain. The Legislt
. ture OF Louisiana, which had been as
, sembled in extra session merely to Civ
t effect to possible pardon, immediatel
I adjourned on the announcement of th
4 decision Of the Supreme Court. II ma
d be safely assumed that this ends all th
i Returning Board prosecutions j. MAJ
v Isor W ELLIS win rejoice even more heart
ly than Gov. NICHOLS and Secretal
SHERMAN. The country is to be col