The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-03-13
FROM ALL POINTS.
About Things Generally.

The Cleveland Leader refers to Kei.
Ter as the Congressional hog
The wool men, whose spirits arc
troubled, must not forget that Balm o.
6 lead l., on the free list.
The next Congress will have some
to do With the internal Revenue. II
will reduce the cost OF collecting it,
II should not he forgotten that sever.
al cities in t"wa elected Democratic
Mayors last Monday, an event hitherto
unknown.
The next s nate of the U. S. will be
composed of thirty-eight Republicans,
thiit six Democ' ais. and two Readjus.
ters, Malone and Rddlehergr, of Vir
ginia.
In the fourteenth week of the Star
Rou'e trial the defense hegins. 1t is
very doubtful whether Brady and Dor
seY will take their meals in Jail before
Christmas.
The passage Of The tariff hill in its
present crude. unjust and unsatisfactory
shape, will give Onio to the Dem ocrats
mex, fall The wonl and pottery inter.
ests OF the State are greatly injured,
while no relief whateyer is accorded the
lahoring man.
Dealers in tobacco do not know
whether TO rtjoice over the reduction in
The tsx on tobacco. which takes effect
Ma lat. The hill, which became law
en- S rday, reau"es the lax TO 8 cents
rer p und on toba Co, and SO per thou
sand on cgars, hut people who chew
and smoke know how it will effect them.
T e new tariff on wo u is ten cents q
poun IN all wo woltl thirty Gems a
pound a the port from whence exported
to the United s atcs, and twelve cents
on all over thirty Gems. o, all WOO
worth twelve cents and under it is two
and half ctn,s pound and above
twelve and less tlan thirty, five cents a
pou' d.
Paddy Ryan in l,t'er TO Jack Stiles
OF this CITY, saws that lie would like
another chance to face Sull van in The
ring He says that he has never in his
life been in better condition, ard that
his Chicago friends will raise 81 600,
provided th.t 50 0C0 can he raised in
Nrw York. 80 as TO make the stakes
$4,000. Rvan says lie is positive thai
Sullivan c'nnot again whip him.
Ohio's vo'e on The Tariff bill was as
follows: In the SAnate. Sherman for the
bill and Penn eton against it In The
House, Buuerworth, Mnrev, Nal, Rich
ey, Schulz, Townsend and Young vet d
for the bill, ami Atherton, Converse
Dawes, Geddes, L,edom, Lefevre, Nc
Kinley, Robinson, Rice. Evra B, and
Joseph D Taylor voted against it Nc
Clure Is not recorded.
Gov Stephens, hy will. left S10 900
TO the childr OF his late brother, Judge
Stephens; the rest o. his estate, bar
ring few minor teqnests, to his nephew,
Colonel John A. Stephens. What the
estate will foot up depends largely on
the sale OF his new History of the
United Safes" He made about S30.-
coo on "The War,B Between the States
His new book is selling well. Above
the hequests the estate will probably pay
$40 000.
1t is ridiculous nonsense for the Re-
puhlicans to charge the Democratic mi
nority in the Legislature with placing
obs'rucicns in the way OF Temperance
Legislation hy the Republican majority
That kind OF talk won't do. The Re
pu5licans hava majority Of about two
thirds in the Legislature, and they have
the power il they only had the will, to
pass any law they please in regard to
the nanufac'ure and sale OF Intoxicating
| drinks.
Ju1ge Black is said to have a quaint
and peculiar status with the Uuited
States Supreme Court "Once recently, "
saws a correspondent, "those passing the
Supreme Court room door heard the old
lion roaring. and presently this sen
tence doomed out into the corridor /:
"Gird up your loins, Mr.. Attorney Cen
eral, and answer me like q ma ! The
Attorney General not having the where
with to answer him, qnsk d in his shoes,
and the judges sat holt upright, electri-
fad by the leonine voice, while the au-
iiencc looked revarenlially at Saul
m rg the prophets"