Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-31
Florida farmers are now planting Ir-
ish potatoes.

Florida farmers are now planting Ir-
ish potatoes.
Ex-Governor John Letcher, of Vir-
ginia, Is dead.
1t costs $3,0OO,OO0 a year to support
the churches in New York city.
Farmers in Central Ohio are import
ing corn from Kansas to feed their
stock.
The Egyptian government has bor-
| rowed e9b0,0o0 at six per cent. for six
! months.
There are only 9G2, POI living soldiers
and sailors who have never applied for
pensions.
Llewellyn Powers, the Maine mag
nate, owns lao, 600 acres of timber land
in that State.
The wealthiest person in Florida is
ex-senator Yulee, who is worth three.
million dollars.
Minister Hunt, at the court of st, Pc
tersburg, has asked to be recalled ofelse
transferred to some other court.
Rain has improved the prospects Of
the California grain crop. The fruit
crop in the southern part of the State
will be excellent.
"Dr. Benson's Celery and Chamomile
Pills for the cure ofNeuralgia are sue
cess."-Dr. G. P. Holman, Christian
burg, Va. so cts, at druggists. 1mO
1t is claimed that there is at the pres
ent time between 100 and $50 foreign
vessels engaged in the oyster traffic on
the Virginia coast without right or au-
thority.
A lemon tree which was planted by
Commodore Perry on Chichijuna, the
best cultivated of the ten islands which
compose the Ogasawara Archipelago, is
still alive, and loaded yearly with fruit.
Colonel Johh H. Ferry was found
dead in his room at the Occidental Ho-
tel, indianapolis, Sunday, from heart
disease. He was on the staff of Gener-
al Dumont during the war. He was at
tOne time owner of the White Sulphur
Springs in Ohio.
When the sheriff went to seize the
stock yof P. H. Corbett, a Detroit mer-
chant tailor, he found the shelves full
of dummies painted and covered to rep
resent rolls Of cloth. His stock looked
so large that agents had sold him heavy
bills, Tor which they could not get pay.
For alI disorders of the stomach, liver
and bowels, such as Constipation, Indi-
gestion, Files, Costiyeness, Loss of ap-
petite, Biliousness, Dizziness, Nervous
Disorders, Emptiness of the Skin, Collie,
Gripes, etc, use Pacific Liver Pills.
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A Washington dispatch says: The
clerk Of Mr. Springer's committee,
which Id now investigating the Depart
ment of Justice with closed doors, has
been trying to turn q penny by retail
ing the proceedings Of the session to
such correspondents as would pay him
therefor. He wanted only dollar for
his breach Of confidence.
A dispatch from Bellaire, Ohio, dated
January Doth, says: Last spring James
Griffin, q young farmer in the south
crn part of this county, tore down the old
log cabin that had once been his home,
and piled the logs up for use. Yester-
day was butchering day, after the
neighbors had gathered, the fire was
started with the old logs in the barn
yard. From one of them, a hollow log,
something dropped into the fire that
looked like gold. 1t was fished out, and
found to be o $40 gold piece. The logs
were at once pulled off the fire and an
investigation was started. The result
was that over 81 ,O00in gold is now I'd
the possession Of the young farmer.
Nothing is known of who hidit there.
The very best remedy that can be
compounded from our present knowl-
edge Of drugs, for colds, coughs, asthma,
bronchitis and other lung diseases, Is
DIR. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry.
1t has oured many cases of, consump-
ton when all other remedies Rad failed.
A single spoonful will cure an ordinary
cough or cold and give instant relief to
asthma. 1T Is soothing, healing and
Strengthening I'd throat and lungs and
is very pleasant rastake. \,