The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-08-05

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TRACK laying on the B. & S. W. road
has been progressing rapidly for a few
days, and the trains now run to ESQ.
Csldwelrs, about mile and half above
Armstrong;. Beallsville will soon be
connected by rail with the outside world.
-Bellaire Independent, 3ist uh.
IT is proposed to have q great meet.
ing of colored citizens at Quaker City
at an early day, to consider their polit-
ical welfare. That will be good point
for those residing in the counties OF
Guernsey, Noble, Monroe, Belmont and
Harrison to come .ogether.-- Guernsey
Times. Qst Ars s7s3aI9 .sasSsT5
The lightning rod iend who contracts
to put up rods at stipulated sum per
foot, and then weights your buildings
down with rods and charges enormous
prices for points and other "fixins," is
around. Look out for him and patron.
izelresponsibles home companies only
Chronicle. sc.
The Pittsburgh Post says the coal that
has gone out of Pittsburgh in the last
two or three days, aggrega,ing nearly
eight and quarter millions of bushels
would require over twenty-six thousand
cars for its transportation. There are
some advantages in water communica.
,ion after oil.
A RECENT law enacted by the Legisla
ture of this State makes it a duty of su
pervisors of highways to grade or level
off all roads on which they have caused
earth or gravel to be hauled, scraped or
shoveled, and on neglect to do so they
are liable to fine OF one dollar to FIVE
dollars for such negligence. Jeferso-
nian. 'f
q We used to have a lot of fellows
whooping around this county once q
year, that they intended to "vo,e the
way they shot," We wonder If this
class of fellows are going to- vote for a
man who remained at home and sold
calico at 62i cents per yard while Ewing
and Rice were at the front fighting the
battles of their countryp h.
STRUCK BY LIaHTkrNa.-2A barn be-
longing to Josiah Stonebreaker, in Smith
township. this county, was struck BY
lightning last Friday night, and burned
to the ground. They had just put in
one hundred and forty dozen OF wheat,
none of which was saved. The loss
amounts to about Eve hundred dollars,
and there was DO insurance. There were
mo lightning rods on the barn.-Barnes-
vine Enterprise, 3lst at. 81
OK last Thursday might burglars en-
tered the dwelling Of Harrison Wendell,
at Batesyille, taking therefrom a jwatcb
ard ten dollars in money from Samuel
Frazier q peddler who was lodging there
On the same night The houses. of Frank
Atkinson and James Adams were also
burglarized, the former TO the extent Of
S2Ss 60 aud the latter to the amount OF
So No arrests have been made
Guernsey Jefsrsoaian, 3lstah. /
The GAINESVILLE papers have an account
Of farmer, living FIVE miles west of the
city, who forced bis wife to the harvest
field to aid insgathering hay. The wo,
man, from necessity, took with her an
infant about six weeks old and laid j,
under shade tree while she worked al
some distance from the babe. Some
animal attacked the child and ate away
portion Of its face, completely destroy.
ing one eye. If the child lives it will be
terribly deformed. {i
II IT was not Gen. Stewart L. Wood.
ford, but an Ex-Governor of Georgia
4 who once remarked 81 never deny
4 newspaper stories now. An editor oil
one occasion printed most dreadful. &C
/ cusation against me in paper published
in my .owntown, where it reached th,
eyes of all my family and friends.
] denied It. of COURSE promptly and cir
cumstantially, over my own signature
and what do you suppose the fellow die
them 2 BY George, sir, he proved ar
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DRowNED.-Tuesday evening abou
six clock two boys named James Simp
, son and Frank Rinker were amusin,
themselves on a small raft in the moutI
r of McMahans creek. The current drift
ed the raft out into the river the boy
becoming alarmed jumped off the raj
: and attempted to get ashore. Rinke
succeeded in getting out but Simpson
: before aid could get to him drowned
. He had on when drownedsa light color
E ed. shirt and brown jeans pants.-Bellai,
Tribune, 3lstah,