The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-08-15
FROM ALL POINTS.
About Things Generally


ent administration.
The Amalgamated Iron :.Workers at
Chicago are busy with their CO lstitu.
tion and bylaws. They have succeeded
80 fat in keeping their doings 81 cret.
A number of female clerks employed
in the office of the Secretary Of the Navy
have been dismissed because OF the fail.
ure OF C,ngress 10 provide for them.
Now the Guitpau jurors presenta pc
tition for per diem allowance of five
dollars The pos'-mortem doctor and
Rev Mr.. Hicks have not presented bills
yet.
Secretary Teller denies the story thai
he advised the passage Of the River and
Harbnr hill over the Presidents veto,
and says he was strongly oppose 10 the
measure.
A number of Cincinnati -four mer
chants have peti,ioned The Chamber OF
Commerce to establish regular stand
ard Of fours, in accord with that Of
other cities.
There we're 2177 hills and 100 lint
resolutions introduced In the Senate
during the session. In the House there
were introduced 6 500 bills and 29l joinl
resolutions
An United States vessel has been or
dered to Tripoli and Tunis, owing to
the troubles there These Consulates
having been abolished hy Congress, the
records will he removed
The nominations of General Grant
and W. H Trescott as commissioners to
negotiate a commercial treaty with
Mexico were unanimously confirmed by
The Senate-a rare compliment.
A meteoric shower has heen prevail
ing near Fairmont, West Virginia, since
last Thursday. S'ones red hot and
verving in size from an inch to a foot
are falling at intervals of half an hour or
less.
An erroneous impression prevails that
the Interior Department offers q reward
OF $100.000 for the discovery of mica
and tin mines, AID the Department is
constantly in receipt OF letters asking
for information on this subject.
The number OF printed columns occu-
pied in the Congressional Record hv the
proceedings OF tha House is 1928; by
the Senate, cos; number Of hours in
the session OF the House. 1,006; in the
Senate, 1888; In ex cutive sessions Of the
Senate, .5S hours.
1t is intended soon to hold at New
York public Indignation meeting. rep
resenting the best elements of beth par
ties. the object icing to denouuce the
Congressman who passed the River and
Harbor bill over the Presidents veto,
and to prevent their reelection.
There are now in active operation in
the United States thirty-eight manufac-
tories of firearms, and five devoted sole.
ly to fixed ammunition. These employ
about 1000 hands, and capital of about
81 100000. and are capable Of turning
out about Sl5, 1000, 900 worth OF finished
prouucts per year.
After all, The Congressional robbers
may have been the gamers BY the Presl
dents veto of the River and Ha; Dor
Bill 1t is announced that since the
summary passage OF the bill over his
veto the President will not feel i. Al
liberty to restrict the expenditure OF
money appropriated.
A Cincinnati physician says that diar-
RI O., and summer complaint can be cured
by xposing water in blue bottle to the
sun for half an hour or upward. and then
giving one or two teaspoonstuls each
hour until symptoms change. Water
thus affected BY the sun he declares to
he q great nervine and refrigerant as
an astrirgent.
The New York Tribune says: ut is
absurd to say that Gen. Beaver has any
chance of being elected. He could moi
be il the Independent ticket were out oi
the field That endorses the opinion
of the best informed politicians in Penn
sylvania, that the success OF the D'mo.
cratic ticket there is assured beyond the
question Of doubt.
Under the proposition to substitute 2
per cent. bonds for the 81 per cent. nov
held nv Treasury Department to secure
The na,ional bank circulation, offers have
already been received for one hundred
and eighty Of the two hundred millions
held bv the banks. The object of the
banks is to get hond as basis Of their
circulation thst will not be likely TO be
called fer several yeara.
The Sullivan farm in Illinois, once ten
miles by seven. but afterward reduced to
0,000 acres. has at last heen sold in
smsli tracts. Ex-Governor Sullivan orig
inally bought i. at 40 cents an acre. hav,
ing brought about lis classification by
the Government as swamp land. He
was at one time rated at three millions
but died insolvent, having failed to make
snch tremendous farming profitable.
Rear Admiral McDougal, who died al
San Francisco, was native OF Ohio and
was appointed tn the navy in 1928. He
served in the West India squadron anj
the cnast survey, and at the capture o.
Vera Cruz, he was attache to the United
States steamer Mississippi. In 1861 ht
was in command OF the steam sloor
Wyoming, OF the Aaiatic fqaadron, and
on the 18th OF July, 1868, engaged siz
batteries and three vessels of war a.
Siuousaki, Japan, for an outrage on the
American fig. He sunk one Of the
Japanese chips and exploded the boiler,
OF steamer. and also did much damage
TO the batteries,
FOREIGN.
Great Britain is sending men, stores
otc IN E.yvnt oc raDi1lv no MOO aihla