The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-04-08
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THOUSANDS of negroes from the South
have located in Kansas this Spring.
TIE Tobacco Warehouse at Bellaire
will We! prove source of income to the
State.
GARFrELD's game Of revolution" to
scare timid voters in the North, has q
very thin covering
THE Steamboat Thanhauser was sold
at Marshal's sale in Wheeling, on the
9th ult, for 3740.
The new court house at Newark, Ohio,
was damaged by fire on the Goth ult to
the amount of $4,000.
WHEN Democrats are guilty of mis-
conduct in cffice Democratic authority
removes them on short notice.
THE bill to sell the Tobacco Ware
house at Bellaire has been indefinitely
postponed by the Ohio Legislature.
THE Democracy defeated the Republi.
cans badly in the election ct Chicsgo on
the lst inst. 1t was regular Waterloo
+ A CALCUTTA dispatch says the King
OF Burmah has summoned all Of his men
to arms, and that the excitement is in
Icreasing.
l1NA DISPATCH from Berlin says It Is be,
lieved that the German Government
shortly proposes to coin large amount
lof silver money.
REPORTS from all parts of Ohio and
the West show that the wheat crop prom
Uses well, also all kinds of fruit, excep,
peaches, which will be a failure
THE New York Herald indicates the
way the wind is blowing by reading
HAYES lecture on the impropriety Of
vetoing the appropriation hills.
BELMONT county is excited all over
about the county seat question The
Legislature has not yet taken final action
on the proposition to let the people SCI,
tie it by vote.
STATE School Commissioner BuRN:
has appointed G X Sbreve Of Martin.
Ferry, c. L Loos OF Dayton, and W
W Ross OF Fremont, TO be State Boart
OF School Examiners.
! TIE "small boys" over at Q ,aker City
I"marred the splendid appearance of the
parade" ofthe Band "to fearful extent
recently, so says the Independents
"Fearful extent" is hefty.
GoRHAM. The late Republican Secre,a
~ Of the United States Senate, last fal
isqneezed $4,000 out of Government
clerks for election purposes. N, won
der Republican politicians howl that biz
clerical occupation is gone.
], THE HARRY BALDWIN m .rder in Gin
cinnati three weeks since continues tc
excite the public mind 10 that quarter =
THE Police and witnesses examined pro
we'd conclusively that they were Know
]Nothings Of the FIRST water.
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Il JosrPu READ, q soldier of the war o.
11Sf2, and an early settler in the Captins
Valley. died on the 10th ult., in the S5ti
year Of his age. His father was in The
revolutionary army, and an uncle wa'
Killed by the Indians = Bcllairc Tribune
ALTHOUGH the Democrats have jus
come into power in both houses of Con
gress, aud are charged with grave re
sponsibili,y, the Republican press de
mand that the Government shall be ruI
in the old Republican rut-,he very thing
the people had become tired Of.
In the case of Ohio VS. CARSON, charg
ed with obtaining funds belonging to th,
Ecouutv, from the defaulting Treasurer
PATTERSON, tried in Guernsey county tn,
latter part of March, the jury, after re
naming out 65 hours, reported that they
could not agree and were discharged.
PETER BRAND Of near Mt. Ephraim
an old resident, was stricken with Paral
ysis last Sunday evening and at last ac
count was lying insensible and speech
less, without prospect of recovery.
LATER.-Mr Brand died on the nigh
Of March 31st.-Noble Co. Press, Sd inst
Gov. BIsHop pardoned Eugene Moore
last Friday and he returned home The
same day. His father, who had never
ceased his exertions to secure his par.
don was unable to recognize him when
he did return, having been stricken with
paralysis on Thurslay.-Noblc Co. Press
Sd inst.
sa CALDWELL, OHIo, April John M
Caldwell, prominent citizen of Dextel
City, this county, jumped from an en-
lgine while approaching the station a
this place, at noon to day, and wa'
thrown violently on the platform, smash
ing his jaws and nose, and bruising hin
generally. He will recover
Id THERE will, probably, be no more us,
hfor a financial plank in the Republican
fplatfofm in 1879 than there was in 1878
I The chord has been struck, and it givel
q sanguinary sound. Whatever mis- ake'
in the Republican financial policy there
may have been are TO be obscured b,
ahc yell of new rebellion. Enquirer
Csc w. PETTAY, who shot and wound
ed man named McCurdy, who was try
l'ing to eject him from his own coal hank
last winter, was tried at McConnelsyille
Hound guilty, aud sentenced to the peni