The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-08-01
FROM. ALL POINTS.
About Things Generally.

The wheat crop in Minnesota prom
ises to reach 100000 bushels.
The bill Incorporating the Ncaraguan
canal has poor show Of adoption by
the House this Sc ,sion
Ann Dugan, a somnamhulist, at ?oaila-
deIphia, fell from third.story window,
and died within an hour.
The Senate agreed to the House bill
giving Mrs. Garfield the bslance of her
husbands salary for last year.
Walker Blaine, son Of james q. Blaine,
ia appointed associate crunsel for the
United States before the Commission on
the Alabama claims.
Four hundred car load. Of new wheat
we're received in Chicago on Friday OF
last week. The price for No. 2 red win
ter wheat fell to 81 OIL
In the House a resolution declaring
forfeiture of the N ,rlhern Pacific land
grants was introduced ard several CON-
terence committees reported.
The work of closing the gaps in the
Mississippi river levees is to tegin as
soon as Congress appropr!ates the mon
ey, which will not be long delayed.
Sixty Russian refugees were sent hack
to London from Philadelphia, owing to
the inability of the local committee to
provide for them.
The grains of wheat in Northern Ken
tsckv are so large that the threshers
have to h, supplied with r!dile of o
larger mesh than usual to clean it prop
erly.
A brutal father named R,bert For
dvce, who lives mile or two east OF
Wheeling stabbed one of his own sons
in the neck with a penknife, f;ctl9g
what may prove fatal wound.
A Portland dispatch says: While a
physician, called by an Opakane Indian,
was treating his sick son, on klamath
reservation, the bov died. The father
shot the physician dead and fed.
Alric Wilson. aged twenty-five wears,
living near Muncie, Indian, undertook
to sli1e from straw stack, and aliehted
On pi.chfork, which entered his hody.
causing death after terrible sgonies.
The prisoners in the Brownsville,
Texas Jail, kn ,cked down deputy jsier
and attempted to escape. While living
on his back the jiiler fl ed four pistol
shots, killing one Of the prisoners, and
preventing the escape of any.
The Judges of the various courts at
Chicago have written q letter to George
Scoville. the attorney for the late assas.
sin, stating their belief that the Govern.
ment should compensate him for his de-
tense OF the prisoner during the trial.
Congress has referred the matter OF
auditing claims arising out of the last
illness and death of President Garfield
TO Treasury Commission. The total
amount is limited to S57 900, and the
doctors allowance to S35 900. There
will then be quiet AMI decent settle.
ment.
MIR. Robertson, Representative from
Louisiana, has made complaint agains,
tue United States mail serving the Louisi
ana lottery fraud as he calls il The
Postmaster General informed him thai
the lottery is incorporated nv the Stale,
and the mails cannot he stoppei unless
a case of fraud be proved. Mr.. Robert.
son will try to set a positive case deci
ded.
During storm IN Salina, Kan, ar
ice.cart was dragged through the. tosr
by its frightened team, scattering ice
blocks every way. A reputable citizer
happening along saw the ice and wrote
to his paper that ha,lstones weighing
from forty to eighty pounds had ialler
during the storm.
Alexander H. Stephens has Spent tt,
week at Atlanta, Ga where he has Jus
been nominated for Governor OF tn,
State. His visit was prolonged re
caption of old and new friends He re
ceised his callers sitting in the familia
rolling chair, talking with much ANNA
ton, and assured all inqnirers that BIZ
health was quite as good as it had beer
at any time IN several years.
Congressman Reed, of Maine. ant
Morrison, OF Illinois, were partners at
game of whist with Senator Aldrich, o
R ,ode Island, and Congressman Hatch
of Missouri, as adversaries. After
long series of defeats Reed suddenly sair
TO his partner: "MOrrison, is there n,
wav by which we can heat these fellows 2
"Yes," replied Mr. Morrison, 1--WE nigh
by an arbitrary change Of rules"