The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-12-28
Tuesday, Dec. %, 1856.
IRE HAMILTON Editor.

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MORE vault room is needed for
be Nations silver.
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WANTED.-An honest book keeper
the Ohio Penitentiary.
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CONTRIBUTIONS to the GRANT fund
lve reached $123,729 81.
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The four counties composing the
bn Handle of West Virginia want
be annexed to Pennsylvania.
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Mr.. PARNELL says the condition
Irish tenants is worse than when
introduced his anti-eviction bill.
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Mr.. MoRRIsoN's horizontal bill
opped off quietly and peacefully
to the arms of Death. Requiescat
pace.
The people of Ohio now know
at their Supreme Court cannot
pc above party politics. The Dow
NV clinches it.
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Congress is now enjoying its usual
cation. The sportive law makers
Il enjoy themselves until Tuesday,
& 4th of January.
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The bankrupt condition of the
bio State Treasury doesn't seem
touch the bottomless hearts of the
publican press as it did one year
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Mrs. SUSAN WARNER, colored, aged
8 years, recently died at Seminole
ation, Indian Territory. Most
Eely she was the oldest person in
E world.
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EVERY business housein Vilonia
kansas, was last week burned to
3 ground by incendiaries. The
xt thing to do is to get stake
d burn the incendiaries.
THE actual facts in the DABNEY
.se have been unearthed and pre-
nted to the people. Will the Re
blican press have the honor and
hnliness to correct their error?
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IALTRED TENNYsoN has written an
her poem with the title of "Locks-
Hall Sixty Years After 1t lacks
lch Of the freshness of his earliest
brts, but is a very ereditable poem.
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KRUPp, the celebrated gun manu-
fturer, has built a gun that will
ow a BAH Weighing two tons
ough thirty eight inches of solid
n. What reyolutionizer science
CHESTNUT MALONE thinks that if
votes are honestly counted Vir-
ia will go Republican in 1888 by
goo majority. This will not be
first time MALONE has prevari-
led.
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McQUADE, ex-Alderman of New
rk, was last week convicted of
bery in accepting $4,000 for his
e on the Broadway Railroad
nchise. Public opinion shaped
decision.
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TWENTY-FIVE cases of cholera are
'orted from Buenos Ayres, South
lerica Nineteen deaths have al
dy taken place. In Mendonsan
ne are thirty cases daily and the
nber of deaths increasing.
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PRospEcTs are good for the admis
p of Washington, Montana and
baby Dakota Territories into the
on. Washington will probably
pr as Republican State and
ntana as Democratic,
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'HE negro leaders of South Caro-
are threatening an exodus of
r followers unless the whites ac-
to their demand for wages.
" liken themselves to the chill
i of ISRAEL, of old. We would
gest the magnetic BLAINE as the
Epective MosEs.
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is said the recent furry in
4 street has seriously crippled
pber Of Congressman. A stock
| tulator is hardly the proper per
to be Congressman, who may
bny time be called upon to vote
Questions affecting stocks. A
of the names might furnish in
sting reading to their constitu-
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lHE tax on oleomargarine has
a good thing for the big
cerns engaged in its manufac-
The largest firms have been
lg more business since than be-
the tax was imposed. Chicago
5, alone, have turned out 2,613,-
pounds since November l. What
we eating?
NDER Democratic management