The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-09-19
WOODSFIELD, MONROE COUNTY, OHIO TUESDAY, Sc
Seuse and eNopse,1ge.

Serse and eNopse,1se.
Lieutenant H o. Flipper, dismissed
from The United States army, has been
appointed a Captain in the Mexican
army.
There are 100000 telephone ins,ru.
ments now IN use, and the number is in
creasing at the rate of about 5000 a
month,
The Governor of Texas has issued an
urgent appeal to the people of that State
for aid for the yellow fever patients of
Brownsville.
Eleven metallic CO Tins will be shipped
Thursday, via St. Petersburg, to the Lena
delta, for the remains of Lieutenant De
Long and party.
Superintendent Jackson, OF Castle
Garden, estimates the probable number
of European emigrants to this country
for 1882 at 475,OO0.
Representative Crowley. of New York,
is spoken OF for Secretary of the Treas
urv in case Folger is nominated for the
Governorship of New York.
l had Caronic Rheumatism for one
year; had been given up TO die BY two
physicians. PERUNA cured me. VIM
CURTz Pi,tsburg, Pa.
A Wisconsin boy won wager with a
playmate by holding his foot longest on
the rail ahead OF a locomotive; but he
will hobble on crutches the rest of his
/ life.
Grain receipts at Chicago are very
heavy. The weather is fine over the
Northwest, and the only dansge that
NAV yet occur is to the corn from an
early frost.
There is a strange case in st. Louis
of young woman slowly starving.
Nothing can be retained on her stomach
Doctors affirm that she has not taken
any nourishment for forty days.
The two Democratic candidates for
Congress in tue 81 W. Va, district have
both Withdrawn and a new convention
has been called, which will harmonize
the trouble by nominating new man.
The number of Chinese, according to
the records of the Custom House, who
have arrived in San Francisco for the
four years ending August 4, is 65,047.
1t is not stated how many of them have
gene away.
Majnr Ellis P. Phipps, who has skip
ped with the treasury Of the Pniladel.
phla Aims House, is a good Republican.
II he is overtaken in his flight Hubbell
will probably serve him with 2 per
cent assessment notice.
One man was asked by another With
whom be was not on the best of terms.
where he had taken up his abode: "Oh!
he replied, II am living by the canal at
present i should be delighted il you
would drop in some evening""
The Arkansas State election occurred
on Monday and the Democrats carried
the State by their usual large majority.
The Vermont election, on the same day,
was carried by the Republicans, same as
during the last hundred years.
A good way to cook liver ia 10 fry it
in butter. with an onion cut In smal
pieces scattered over It. Cox slowly
when done, adj lump Of butter and q
little fur: stir we'll. and turn over the
liver. Serve with Saratoga potatoes.
Instructions have gone out from the
Republican Executive Committee at Co.
lumbus 10 the County Committees, to
keep up the pretense that there is divi-
siun in the racks of the Democratic par
ty. This is now their only hope of sue.
cess.
About 120 persons were drowned by
the Concho food in Texas, and about
Is. 900 sheep, cat lie and horses we're lost.
The losses to property range from $75 :
coo to 100000. The river rose fifty
feet Bodies are coming to the surface
daily.
It is announced definitely that the
great Amalgamated Association iron
strike, In and around Plttsburg, is over
The mills have succeeded in working
with non Union men, and in week more
will all he running on the basis OF last
years wages.
Il don't understand" SAID the land
lady, "why nobody touches that cake.
It's been on the table every night for a
week, and not soul has eaten a piece
of it. 1t Is unnecessary to say that it is
particularly nice. Look at it. 1t speaks
for itself" "Possihlv, "iemarkek Fogg,
"ihats is the resson that nobody else
speaks for it,
The year 1883 is the perioiic cholera
year. The first appearance of the pesti
lenGe in this country was in 1882 and it
has since appeared at intervals of seven-
teen years-in 1859 and 1853. 1t is now
raging in the Philippine Islands, aud
has manifested itself at other points in
the far Orient Will it Come to us rext
year or will it interrupt its dread peri
odiclty2
woman was bitten by dog in Par
| is She went at once and had the wound
cauteriznd at the Hotel Dieu. She CON-
,inued perfectly we'll until one dav, when
she was passing the hospital, she was
.ecognizad by one of the students, who
called out TO her: "Helloo! you are
not dead yet, then! The dog which hit
You was downright mad, as they found
out aftefward The woman was seiz d
Immediately with violent spa.m, and
in a few hours died with symptoms of
hydrophohia
1t must have been In Memphis. Mo-
ses the younger sat in the store reading
the evening paper, and all Of sudden
he called out: ''Fadder, fadder!" "Yat
|ish it, nv son ?" "A case of yellow fe-
yer only six miles away!" "Moses"'
Yes, fadder." "Pegic to pack up dem
coats und vests! By tomorrow dot vel,
low fever vhill he in town und will he
telegraphed to New York, und by der
max day we mus fail und offer to pay
20 cents on der tollar ! wash looking for
1t all last week"
There is a good deal Of illusion about
the rise OF the Nile. 1t seems TO be
thought that for few weeks the delts
and the valley Of the Nile are lake
and then that thev are muddy swamp
The water of the Nile flows into canals
from thence it is pumped every morn
;nr oo lonn 10 tho rico laata into orr al