The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-06-13
FROM ALL POINTS.
About Things Generally.

are reported IN france.
A general payment of rents and tie
pro prcts of excellent harvesis are re-
ported from iceland.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Caro-.
lima, was sentenced tn six months i'm
for swindling
The conference on Egyptian aft irs is
held in abeyance until 1t ia seen whether
the Turkish Commissioners vii he able
to c"l trol The situation.
The Sultan has refused to nrrnit H :
brew ,xllts from Russis 10 make SETTLE
ments i Pil sim. Two hundred Jew
lsh lamile are on the verge OF sta. Va
ton in Constaniin"ple.
DR.. George H Moore read paper at
the Nav Y ,rk Historical : ,cielv meet
ing in which he declared John Dickin-
son, aud not Thomas j fferson. To- have
been the real author Of the Declaration
on taking rp arms in ITS.
A dispatch from Fo,t Worth, T xas,
saws that nearly 100 000 head of tile
and ~ 600 head uf horses have been
driven through that place so far this
spring for poins North and East. and
that g eat number are VT to come.
The storm in Northampton county.
Norlh Crrolins. Sunday. ruined tie C l.
ton, wheat and corn crop. FelleIss
Acaiemv and MANY other large b.il:l-
ings we're demolished bv the wind. and
two more persons are reported killed.
Cchors. N Y. has hal TO pay a wo-
man 81 600 for leaving dirt heap in the
street 10 upset her carria.e and break
her nose. The city held that she hat
no right to ride out on Sundsv and he
upset, but the court decided that she
had.
Secretary Teller has just made an in-
poriant ruling holding that timber Can
be cut and removed from the puhlic
domain in Cplorsdo. N vsda and the
Territories for home use. mills mines.
AMI pioneer towns, such coming under
the construction OF the words OF the act,
''for domestic purposes.
The London World saws: "Three men
we'll known in Wall street have recent,
annoyed the B iish public Mr.. Jay
Gould has recently sold them q vast
amount of more or less " ,rthles- stock
Mr.. Vanderbilt has run up the price ol
pictures, snd Mr. KAene sent them the
best three year Old Uf it's season."
The late J ,hn e Edridge, OF Hart
ford, Conn has bequeathed about one
half Of his estate. wpich was va'ued a.
1925 900. t. various religious and char.
liable institutions, among the heqnest,
being $4,000 tn The American Mission.
ary Sncety OF New Y rk, for the edu
cation OF the colored people of the
South.
Should the compulsory clause OF the
Armv Retirement bill pass hnth branch.
es of Congress, Gen Sherman viii moi
retire from the Generalship of the army
until December Mex, as the law was not
contemplated To take effect till then
Sheridan will, Of course. succeed Sher.
man. and Hanc OK will take Sheridan s
place as l. eu;enaut General
The Cincinnati Commerciai tells the
(peihaps 3 hig stor. OF q big walnut
tree. In 1854 an Indiana man. as the
story runs, bought the tree tor 81, and
be subs queDtly sold it for S65 The
buyer sold it to a Cincinnati lum BEL.
d, sler for 500 The Cincinnati dealer
sold it to q N W York for $4,000 aad
he cut it M into venecring !ich ht
sold for $4,000
OA Friday. near Copenhagen. A'A'
bams, as small colored hoy was a,
work in corn field large eagle was
seen to swoop 'icwn suddenly, and Ian
ded On the huy's back, thrust its SHARP
Ia ons into his reck ani back, and made
strenuous effort to carry him off Tue
little fellows screams attracted the
ntighhors. and when they approached
the bird few away.
The propeller St. Magnus. the frs
large craft through the Wrlsnd cana
arrived at Chicago, Thursday, and i,
chartered for Europe, with large car
90 Of corp, ON through rate. She il
l80 feet long and 800 tons burthen
This trip Is an experiment upon whlcl
depends the construction Of line u
ten similar steamers to plv between tn
St Lawrence and Chicago
Fully one hundred thousand me:
West Of the ALE lhenv have out worl
and are on strike The ir,n mills ar
close and NJ snake comes from tn
furnaces. While The mill owners fs:tel
and grow rich b, the aims given then
by an uuequsl tariff. the workingmen re
ceiye no benefit. Those manufacturer
VINO SO lately claimed that the election
OF Hancock would close the mills, vii
have difficulty in accounting for th
course Of events.
A small beetle has been discovered il
Tue clover fields, which Is working ter
rible destruction tn the plant. II per
forms its destructive work at the root
of the clover bv eating downward in lh
cen'e although il i, supposed that th
principal injury Is done by the larva
which works m"re particularly on lars
roots Ia some fields one.tenth of tn
clover has already been destro, ed sine
spring The only method OF extermi
nation that has heen suggested is to plo
under the clover.
The strikes inaugnra:ed June 1st re
calls great strikes of the past The frs
great strike was in lS49 resulting 10 tn
manufacturers reducing tue price Of pud
ding below S6 per ton The strik
lasted from December 20, 1919 to Ma
II. 1850 Tue x strike resulted in
victory for the puddlers after q protrac
ted lockout, nearly all the mills bein,
idle from December, 1866. to the mid
die of Nav 1867 December 5, 1874, I've
gan the memorable "long strike," las
until April Is 1875, when the pu ldler
resumed al IS so per ton
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