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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

~ There is treason right in the heart
OF the hard-money camp. The New
York World says, resumption is not
only 10 be q juggle but a izzle."
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

ETIf the East persists in Its war upon
the greenbacks II will find itself con
fronting solid West as we'll as q solid
South.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

"a union Of hearts. union Of hands,
A union of States none may sever;
A union Of lakes, union of lands.
And the FLAG OF OUR UNION FOREVER"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

TKRNs.-0ne third cash in hand, one-thfrd
in one year, and one-third in two years, with
interest from day Of sale; deferred paymsnts
to be secured BY mortgage on the PREMISES
sold
BDWARD oKAY,
admir- de bonis non Of Issso Nurrey, decd.
janlA'7sw6.
oxsr & OxzY and HusiER & .XAIIoss. sA,s'ys.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04
NOTICE OF APPoINrMENF.

Estdte OF Joan A, Boac6, Oe6sdseGt
NHB undersigned has been appointed and
i qualified as Administrator with the will
annexed, Of the estate Of John \ Boios, late
Of Monroe county, deo'u.
Dated this soth day Of Japuary,A "A. D. ls7sA
isu2s, 'fswS a. q. ". BoTTe,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

vIs confidence restored and busi-
ness revived. OF Is resumption failure ?
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

y The subject matter Of the quarrel
between CoNKLINa and HAYES is not one
iu which the country feels profound
interest. and is not very creditable 10
themselves. The principal officers Of the
New York Custom House we've CoNkLINe
men. Under HAYES peculiar reform of
the Civil Service this was good grounds
for removal, and they were removed.
Under CoYKLINa's lead the Senate re.
fused to confirm the successors appoint
ed by HAYES. HAYES appointed the
same men over again, and again CoNk-
LING brandishes his scalping knife.
1t has been understood for years tha,
the chief business OF these custom house
officials is to run the Republican party oi
the State Of New York
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

1; total, rs.
ALABAMA.
Term exp.
1885 Geo S Hous
tens,
1883 john T Nor
gan*.
ARKANSAS,
1885 A Demo.
CRATE.
1883 Aug II Gar.
land.a
CALIFORNIA.
1885 J T Farley.*
1881 Newton
Booth.
COLORADO.
1885 N p Hill.
1883 Henry N
Teller.
CoNNETICUT.
1885 Orville Fl
Plat.
1881 Wm W Ea-
ton&
DELAWARE
1881 Taos E Bay
ard.&
1883 Eli Sauls-
bury.e
FLORIDA.
1885 Wilkinson
Call.&
1881 Chas w
Jones.s
GEORGIA.
1885 John B Cor.
dom
1883 B,nj H Hill.*
\ ILLINOIS.
1885 John A Lo.
gan.
1883 DAVID DA
Wis.
INDIANA.
1885 Daniel W
voorhees,. =
1881 Jos 4 Nc
Dlnald.~
IOWA.
1885 WIN B ALI.
son
1883 Sam'l Kirk
wood;
KANSAS.
1885 A Republi.
can.
1883 Preston B
Plumb,
KENTUCKY.
1885 John ; W il.
liams.s
1888 James B
Beck
LOUISIANA.
1885 A Dem D
crat.<
1883 VIM P Kel.
logg.
MAINE.
1881 Hannibal
Hamlin.
1888 James G
Blaine,
MARYLAND.
1885 James B
Croome.*
1881 W Pinck
Wbyte.*
MASSACHUSETTS.
1881 Henry L
Dawes.
1883 George F
| Hoa-.
MICHIGAN.
1881 Isaac P
a.. Christiancv
| 1888 Thomas w
Ferry.
MINNESOTA.
1881 Sal j r Nc
| MILAN.
1883 VIM VIM
| dom.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04
The New u. s. Senate.

Repuhlicans (in Roman), 80; Demo.
crats*, ~; Independent (in SMALL CAPS J,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

~Address all letters:
"THE SPIRIT OF DEMocRAoY,n
Woodsdeld,
a Monroe County,
Ohio.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

MISSISSIPPI
Term exp.
1881 Blanche X
Bruce.
1883 L @ C Lam
ar.$
MISSOURI. :
1885 Geo u Vest&
1881 Francis NJ
Cockrell.s
NEBRAeKAs
1881 Algernon S
Paddock.
1883 Alvin Saun.
ders.
NEVADA. y
1886 John Phones
1881 William Sba.
ron.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1885 A Repubii.
can.
1883 Edward H
Rollins.
NEW JERSEY!
1881 Theo F Ran.
dolph.&
1888 j r Nc
Pherson.*
NEW YORK.
q 1885 Roscoe Con-
king.
1881 Francis Ker.
nan.<
NORTH CAROLINA.
1885 Zahalon B
Vance.S
1883 NJ att w Ran.
som.$
OHIO.
1885 Geo H Pen
dlton.%
1881 Allen GThur.
sn&
OREGON,
1885 James H
Slster.&
1883 Lafayette
Grover.
PENNSYLVANIA.
1885 j Donald
Cameron,
1881 VIM A Wal.
lsce,~
RHODE ISLAND.
1881 A Il Burn
side.
1883 Henry B An.
theny.
SOUTH oARofrNk..
1885 w ade Hamp-
ton.e
1883 Manning G
Butler.S
TENNESSEE. 2
1881 James E Bal
ley q
1883 Ishsm G Har-
ris = -
TEXAS.
1881 Samuel B
Maxey.&
1883 Richard
Coke.&
VERMONT.
1885 JastinS Nor
rill.
1881 Geo + Ell.
munds.
VIRGINIA.
1881 R,b,t Z
Withers.A
| 1883 John W
| JohstOn-A
WEST VIRGINIA.
| 1881 Frank H ere
ford.*
| 1881 Henry g Da.
| WIS.,
| WISCONSIN.
1885 A Repuhli.
can.
1881 Angus Came
| ron.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04
A Cipher Despatch.

The investigation of the scipher dis
patches" is already furnishing some en-
tertaining reading. One interesting fact
developed is, that dispatches supposed
to be damaging to the Republicans were
chucked into the FIRE, aud stirred with
poker, while the dispatches supposed to
he damaging to the Dan ,crats were
carefully preserved. and placed where
they would do the most. good.
But notwithstanding the disappearance
Of many of the dispatches. an amusing
episode was drawn out of a son and pri-
vate secretary of the President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company by
the sharp crosS-q lestioripg of Mr.. Nc
MAHoN
Briefly stated, the discovery is, that Mr..
TYNER, Of the Postoffi:e Department.
but at the time in Indianapolis bossing
the election campaign OF 1876, tele
graphed to ZAcu CHANDLER, then at the
head of the Interior D Department., to ap.
point two men named to Indian Agen.
cies, and put five thousand dollars,
(which the witness understood to be the
sum paid for the offices, to the credit OF
the Republican campaign fund OF Indi-
ana. Mr. CHANDLER promptly telegraph.
ed that the thing was done, and the mon.
ey in the bank subject to or,ler. A let
ter was then sent directing that the dis
patches and letter be burned.
As the gentlemen implicated could moi
successfully deny the story, possibly
some reader, innocent Of the wiles o
politicians, may think that TYNER and
old ZAck were cornered Dear unso-
phisticated reader, they were nothing o
the sort. The political weasel is not to
be caught asleep.
They acknowledge that the dispatches
were sent as stated, but explain that The
words "Indian agency" were "ciphers,
and when interpreted meant simply fvt
thousand dollars; that there we're no ap
pointments really meant, and none made
If it were not for the we'll known i'm
maculate integrity Ct Republican politi
clans it might be suspected that this in
genious explanation was little thin ir
tplaces.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04

belmont County papers please copy
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

On March 8, up to the last hour from
Washington, all the Appropriation Bills
had been agreed to hut two. There is no
compromise as yet on the election
laws, and no prospect of an agreement.
1t is Thought that an especial session
to make appropriations is inevitable. The
conference committee have agreed on the
River and Harbor Bill, and the report has
been adopted by both houses. The bill, as
it came from the subcommittee, ap-
propfiated about $5,O00,000. The full
committee added another $1,000 900,
the Senate committee another ST 1,000,-
600, and the Senate more than another ST.
ference committee reduced it $500, 900.
Davis Island dam on the Ohio is allowed
$100, 900, and the Marietta ice harbor $780,
900. The conference committee on the
Legislative and Army Bills have failed to
agree, and will SO report, and
further, that there is NO prospect that
they can agree. This greatly increases the
prospect of an extra session. Mr.. Hewitt.
from the Conference Committee on
the Army Bill, reports that there
is no possibility of an agreement.
At midnight the House came
to a vote on the articles of i'm
peachment preferred by the Springer
Committee against Mr.. Seward, Minister to
China. There are seventeen articles of
Impeachment, and the Republicans will ask
a separate vote on each, besides other
dilatory motions.
On the 4th of March, all annual Appro-
priation Bills, except the Legislative, E1ecu.
tive, and Judicial Bills, and the Army Bill,
were signed by the President, and
have become laws, together with
the bill making requisite an appropria-
ton to pay arrears of pensions. 1t is un-
derstood a message vetoing the River
and Harbor Appropriation Bill was pre-
pared, but under great pressure the Execu-
tive signature Twas affixed. In the Senate,
a number of bills on the calendar and the
Pension Bill passed, including pension of
fifty dollars month to the widow of Gen.
R. c. Buchanan; and Mr.. Harris called up
the House bill to prevent the introduc-
tion of infectious or contagious diseases in
the United States, and to establish a Ma.
tional Board of Health, which was passed.
An exciting debate occurred in the Senate
on the Election Laws amendment to the
Legislative Bill, and in the House on the
Army Bill, and both Houses finally ad.
journed sine die without action upon them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13

ONE pleasant feature of Paris is, that
here and there, even in the densest
quarters, you may see, peeping over
lofty walls, or at the bottom of some
tunnel like archway, fragments OF
groves, which, on nearer acquaintance,
win be found to be cooled by fountains
and adorned by statuary. Those who
cannot enjoy the luxury of plat of
ground, make gardens in green boxes on
their window-sills, or buy pots of sweet
basil, the heliotrope, nightshade,
Jasmine, and mignonette. On certain
days of the year-the Ste. Marie, for ex-
ample, every third person being called
by that name-the streets of Paris re-
semble fragrant Birnam Wood. Every
body is moving about, bearing gigantic
bouquets or portentous pots of flowers !;
for it is the custom to make presents OF
this kind on such occasions. The i'm
perial flower is the vislet-a singular
desecration of that modest child of the
w0ods
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
Extraordinary Memory.

A story of wonderful memory
comes from Sydney, Australia. A
prisoner set up in his defense an alibi,
claiming that, at the time of the robbery,
he was at home listening to the recital
of novel, "The Old Baron" by man
named Lane, who had committed it,
With other works, to memory. Lanes
recitation, he said, took two hours and
half. The Attorney General holding
this to be incredible, Lane began: "In
the time of King Henry, when the good
Duke Humphrey returned from the
wars in the Holy Land, where he had
been sojourning for number of years,
there lived" After the witness had
recited several pages, the Attorney Cen
eral told him to stop, as he was satisfied.
But the defense insisted that, as the
veracity of the witness had been ques-
toned, he should be allowed to go on.
Finally compromise was effected,
Lane gave chapter from the middle OF
the story and its conclusion, and the &C.
cused was found not guilty.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
How He Eluded the Highwaymen.

At a small Edinburgh theater where
the tastes of the patrons were kept
gratifed by the production of speci-
mems of the rip-roaring, blood-and-
thunder drama, play was one night
brought out with some considerable
scenic effect. A certain scene repre-
sented the flight of nobleman from a
band of robbers. According to the
story, his Lordship concealed himself in
hollow log. At the appointed time
the nobleman rushed from the wings
into the forest and crawled into the log.
The stage was very small, and the fugi-
tive very tall. He could not accommo-
date his proportions to the log, and the
result was his feet protruded nearly to
the footlghts. Amid great deal Of
banging and shouting the highwaymen
came running on, the leader stumbling
oyer the exposed feet and falling to the
ground. Rising instantly, not at all
disconnected, and duly oblivious as to
the actual cause of his fall, at which the
audience was in a roar, he exclaimed, in
his most tragic style, with his eyes roll.
ing and pistol in air: "By 'evings, e
as heluded hus!" A storm of applause
greeted the ine.--LoaLiSUille Courier
Journal. a..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
Bills that Failed to Pass.

Among the measures which made more
or less progress, but failed of en- actment,
this session, are the following: The Legis-
lative, Executive. and Judicial Appro-
priation Bill; the Army Appropriation
Bill; the bill to regulate interstate COM
merce; the " Steamboat Bill the Geneva
Award Bill the bill to establish postal saw.
ings banks the bill to repeal the specie re-
sumption act; the bill granting pensions to
survivors of the Mexican war the Sugar"
Bill; the Bill to Restrict Chinese Immigra-
ton the joint resolution proposing con-
stitutional amendment to prohibit the pay.
ment of disloyal claims the bill to provide
for the enforcement of the eight hour law;
the proposition to transfer the Indian
Bureau to the War Department; the Missis-
sippi Levee Bill, and the bill providing for
a commission on the Improvement of the
Mississippi; the bill extending the time for
the completion of the Northern Pacific
Railroad; the Brazilian Mail Service Bill !;
the bill to regulate the transportation of
animals by railroads; the bill to devote the
proceeds of sales of the public lands to edu-
cational purposes; the bill authorizing
railroad companies to construct and main.
tain lines of telegraph for commercial pur-
poses; the Burnside committees Army
Reorganization Bill; the bill to revise the
patent laws the Japanese and Chinese in
demnity fund bills; the various measures
reported from the House Committee on
Banking and Currency, and many other
financial bills, both in the House and Sen
ate; all bills, besides those specified above,
proposing aid in lands or bonds for the con.
| struction of railroads, canals, etc.. large
number of bills on the calendars affecting
local interests, of more or less Importance
and several hundred reported from commit
tees for the relief of private claimants, be
| sides thousands of others which were left
untouched on the files of the committee
rooms. The total number of bills and join
resolutions introduced in the House O.
Representatives during the Congress which
has Just expired is 6,S26, and for the Senate
| is 1856
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
FOREIGN SUMMAR Y.

THE steamer Istrian, which sunk in col
lision with the Spanish steamer Guillermo,
off the Skerries, Ireland, has been towed to
crew of the Guillermo are missing, and
believed to be drowned.
A LONDON dispatch says that the Hilltop
mill at Burnley, running six hundred looms
and thirty thousand spindles, has suspended
operations. The depression is severe.
Other mills continue closed, and one more
is expected to close this week.
A FAMINE is raging in the most fertile
portion of Bolivia, the District of Cocha-
bamba. In different localities of the de-
partment from eight to ten persons die
daily of starvation. In one small OWN two
hundred and six persons died from want Of
food in twenty days.
MASTERS in the Forest of Dean Iron trade
have given notice of five per cent. reduc-
tion in wages. The cotton trade at Tod
morden and Walsden is generally enforcing,
without resistance, reductions, varying
from five to eight per cent. The Bolton
operatives yielded to ten per cent. reduc-
tion, after the masters had refused their
offer to accept reduction of five per cent.
YAKooB KHAN has apprised the Viceroy
of India that his father, Shere Ali, died on
the 21st of February. This will make easier
settlement between Afghanistan and Great
Britain. 1t was Shere Ali who welcomed a
Russian envoy to Cabul, while he refused
to receive British representative. From
this the Afghanistan war largely sprang.
Shere Ali was one of the twelve sons OF
Dost Mahommed, who named him as his
successor, previous to his death in 1868
He had some trouble with his brothers, but
finally succeeded in consolidating his
power. He left three sons, a fifth having
died not long ago, and fourth having been
killed in 1865, in hand to hand combat
with his uncle, the leader of a rebel army.
Yakoob will doubtless reign in his fathers
| stead.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
Scene in Church.

The day was intensely cold. The con-
gregation had assembled and the serv-
ices were begun. A man muffled in
heavy coat and scarf entered, and, walk
ing hurriedly down the aisle, seated
himself in conspicuous place. Directly
before him sat man with ffery-red hair.
The newcomer deliberately took off his
gloves, and, with an air of perfect salts
faction and comfort, alternately held his
hands near the red head before him, and
rubbed them in the manner which Hood
has described as washing his hands
with invisible soap in imperceptible
water"
The preacher witnessed the whole
performance, and, having keen sense
of the ludicrous, he lost control of his
visibility, and, to the CONSERVATION Of
his congregation, roared with laughter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
A FIRE broke out, recently, between one

A FIRE broke out, recently, between one
and two o'clock in the morning, in the
wagon shop of Mrs. Henrietta Bausch, on
Broadway, East st. Louis, and owing
to there being no fire apparatus in the city
and no call made on the Fire Depart
ment of st. Louis, one brick and five frame
buildings were destroyed, entailing loss
of about $4,000. In the second story of
the wagon shop, where the fire. started,
which was occupied as a residence by Mrs.
Bausch, there were sleeping her three
children by her former marriage, named
Chas. Guchenbach, about sixteen years
old, and John and Emma Zipp, several
years younger; Henry Schoepperkoetter,
blacksmith, and Mrs. Catharina
Borst, who was spending the night with
Mrs. Bausch, all of whom were burned to
death, they being unable to escape, by
reason of the door leading to their apart
ments being fastened on the outside. Mrs.
Bausch was also asleep in the same house at
the time, but she jumped from the window,
and is so severely injured that she will
probably die. At the inquest testimony
was elected pointing SO strongly to in
cendiarism that John Borst, husband of
Catharina Borst, Andrew Marshall and
Thomas Hammond were arrested and locked
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
Forests in EurOne.

The proportion of land covered with
forests throughout Europe is % per
cent, of which Russia and Sweden fur
nish the greatest part. In Russia, 40
per cent of territory is covered with
woods, and of this some 200,000,000
acres are covered with pines and other
cone-bearing trees. Sweden and Nor
way have "a per cent, chiefly birch
maple, pine, fir and willow. Austria
has 20 per cent, Germany has 26 per
cent. and France II. Far below these
comes Spain, with its cork woods and
evergreen oak forests, covering per
cent. of the land, and Holland and Bel
gium with the same. Portugal comes
next with per cent, and Great Britain
follows with per cent. The percent
age annually decreases in all countries
rapidly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
BULLETS MEETING IN MID-AIR.
The Story Of Large Bullet and Small One
rs Told by an Old Soldier.

rs Told by an Old Soldier.
[From an English paper.l
It appears, however, from Forest and
Stream, that the New York shot manu-
facturers, Messrs. latham Bros, occa-
sionally found bullets welded together
in the scrap-lead brought from the bat
tie fields of the American civil war, and
Lieut.. Col. John A. Mclaughlin recent
ly forwarded two bullets to the .Scie7,-
titic american SO impacted in each
other, which were also picked up on the
same fields. He says that at the time of
the retreat of the Federal Gen. N. P.
Banks, after his defeat in attempting to
capture Shreveport, La, in the summer
of 1864, he Oieut. Col. Mclaughlin
was in command of one of the retreat
ing regiments. A portion of his regi-
ment was thrown forward on the flank
tuf the main body, in skirmishing
order. These two bullets, he
says, were impacted in the air
between his skirmishers and the skir-
mishers of the enemy and fell like a
spent ball near the head of the column
of the main body. A Drum Major, see
ing the missile fall near him, picked it
up, hl1uhluS ~ W NC speuI DuueI, DuG
found the two bullets welded together
He afterward presented it to Lieut..
Col. Mclaughlin. One of the bullets
belonged to larger-bore rifle than the
other, and the larger one is stated to
have belonged to the Confederates, as it
was of caliber then known to be much
used by them, and somewhat larger in
bore than the rifles used by the North
erners. 1t is supposed that the larger
bullet had travelled shorter distance
than the smaller at the instant of i'm
pact, and possibly had been propelled
by superior quality or quantity OF
powder. This, together with its weight,
is thought to have had the effect Of
driving the smaller bullet back beyond
the line from which it was fired.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
The Worlds Gold.

The Ural mountains, Australia and
the United States are the most pro
ductiye sources of gold supply, the frs
yielding $2O,O00,000 annually, the sec
ond $37 100000, and the third $35, ,000,-
900. Prior to the discovery of the rich
mines of the United States the tota
production was only $68, 100000 per an
mum. The fever for gold-hunting,
which was excited by the finding of the
great mines of the Pacific coast, rapidly
in 1850 it reached over $4,000, 600
and five or six years later gold bullion
was mined to the extent of the enor-
NOUS sum of nearly $1S5, 100000. This
was the largest yield of any one year,
and since production has gradually
fallen away, and seems to have finally
reached an equilibrium of 100000
900 per annum, nearly all of which is
found in the three regions named.-
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
The YOungers.

In the State Prison the report is that
Bob Younger is in good health, but that
Cole and Jim Younger are in the hos
pital. Cole is suffering from the ball
that lodged under one of his eyes and has
never been removed. In Jim's case
some obstruction has formed in the roof
of his mouth, caused by the passage of
the ball which shattered his jaw. This
interferes with his respiration, and at
times he seems on the point of suffoca-
tion.-St. Paul Globe.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13
Suffering in England.

Great distress prevails among the Ia
boring poor throughout England and
Scotland-indeed, throughout the whole
of Great Britain. The large manufact-
uring towns are the chief centers of
suffering, thousands of unemployed men
and starving women and children being
dependent upon charity. Measures of
relief have been taken, but as yet the
distress is great. Many of the middle
class poor, who will not appeal to
charity, suffer keenly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-13

Lo, the festive bumble-bee whetteth
his poignard and lurketh for the pic
nicker; the humble but inquisitive ant
is athirst for the cool recesses of the early
white pant; the corseted hornet twisteth
his legs together, yea and winketh mer-
rily and crieth ha, ha! the buzz of the
baritone blue bottleis heard in the land
the bass bullfrog chanteth his lay; the
wicked wiggletail wriggleth athwart the
heart of the housekeeper is filled with
gladness and her custard with flies; the
amorous cat bewaileth on the back fence,
and the grim but industrious para
grapher pointeth his pencil and tumbleth
about, and derisively grins, for 10 is the
season of plenty at hand and the spring
joke oometh apace.-Neao Orleans Times