The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-12-05
FROM ALL POINTS.
About Things Generally.

Mrs. Scoville has heen granted a Lew
trial to prove her sanity.
The matrimonial insurance swindlers
are not to have the free use OF the mails
hereafter.
The Pittahurg coal strike has proved
a failure, and the men have generally
gone to work.
Most of the Creeks who fought for
the Union during the rebellion are asking
the Government for pensions.
The Democratic caucus Of the Ala
hama Legislature unanimously ren"m-
mated United States Senator Morgan
Ahont $500 new buildings have heen
erected so far this year In Chicago.
Even New York will not beat this very
much.
Colonel" Thomas Murphy. who was
Grants Collector of New York City, is
spoken of as succ,sso. OF Matshai
Henry.
The Kstahdin Iron Company, Of Ban
gor, Maine, has suspended. Its paper
has gone TO protest in a Portland bank.
Unsecured debis, $50 900. .....
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
reversed the decision legalizng the VIM
cennes lottery, and that establishment
Immediately shut up shop.
! Marshal Henry was asked Mcnday
relative To his removal by the President
SATURDAY. !"What ,re you going to do.
Marshall p" He answered, II am going
to figh'." -
The CONTRACTS for furnishing glass to
the Government buildings at st. Louis,
Saturday,, was awarded to F. A. Drew, !,
of that city, at his bid Of s7,l75 for do,
meslic glass.
Lieutenant Colonel CYRUS B Com
stock has been designa' ed President OF
the Mississippi River Commission, vice
Lieutenant Colonel @ A. Gilmore, re.
lieved on account Of illness.
The bill for the restoration OF Fit2
John Porter to the army, is set for con-
| sideration for the first week in Decem.
her, and the contest over the case is ex'
pected to be renewed at that time.
The law prohibiting the sale Of lot
terv tickets has become dead letter ir
Chicsgo, as the business il being openly
conducted and freely advertised by cir
culars and signs. Some OF them frank
ly confess that they psy large sums fol
Illegal protection.
An old gentleman named Oxhire, al
Madison, Indiana, undertook to clean
out a gun which he hal reason to sus'
pect was loaded! He put on a cap to
clean out the tuba, and little grand.
child received the discharge in the head
Counsel for R,v. Mr. Harvey, who
was convicted at Omaha, of using ,h'
United States mails for de'faudng, will
raise the question Of the constitutional
ity OF the Jaw, and take the case 10 the
Supreme Court of the U iited States
W. d Hovt. con of Rev Dr.. Hoyt
of the Western Christian Advocate, sho
and mortally wounded railroad thaI
named Bailey, at Lswrence. Kansas, ol
Sunday. The shouting was tie resul
of quarrel by telegraph, which Hoy
went to Lawrence to settle.
4 Maui Melville, the fourteen-vear oil
daughter of Engineer Melville, of tn
United States Navy, who has heen i
the care Of female friend of the fam
lily, in Brooklyn, since the commltmen
of her mother to the Insane ASYLUM a
Norristown, Pennsylvania, was fercibl.
removed from the woman's care AM
from the city 10y her mother on Satur
day.
, A Chinese roustahout, who wen
, ashore at Cairo, Illinois, was FOLLOWED
hy party Of boys, one Of whom cut ot
his Queue with knife This mortifie,
The Chinaman and he hegan to crv. Al
'erwarGs he seized q hammer and irie
. to kill himself, but was disarmed bv tn
crowd. He then ran to the river. inmpP
in and was drowned. The mortificatio
of being deprived of his pig-tail wa
more than he could BEAR.
Thirty-two years ago woman stol
two caps from Buffalo merchants store
, L ct SATURDAY. the successor of that m Il
4 chant received $40 in payment for Til
r goods. The thief hal on her dying he
repented of and confe ,sed her tran.
q gressioa, and caused The money to b
sent, with The hope that the same me
chant might still be alive. His succe'
sors hunted him up. gave him the S1(
AMI thus set at ease wemar's spir
/ that had long grieved and worried owe
an affair OF such trivial financial impor
snce.
FOREIGN.