The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-09-14
CALAIS.

Keep the SPIRIT moving and boom
ing. My opinion is that you are do
ing all you can to furnish the read
ers valuable newspaper, and it has
reached that place now; but there
are quite number in our county
who rely too much on hearsay for
county news, or who will ,akc the
liberty of, III snatch a friends pa
per for my reading" and this very
good way, too. l have tried this
method, and it is all right until you
take one of your own and reach for
it, and it is not there-gone-then
observe how your muscles will bulge.
Now, boys, we have said this much
in vindication of the good work you
are doing, ant therefore We would
place the condition Of improvement
of the SPIRIT made by you, at $50
7e basis of percentage to correspond
with our "corn and wheat basis of
calculation.
Now, Mr.. SPIRIT, we beg to report
surroundings here as follows:
Mercantile business for this week
only 93 IL; cash for this week 13 ct /;
credit 80 1e, with the market look
ing up.
Society for this week 100 T.
Politics increasing with the De-
mocracy at So II for this week only,
and with the Republicans at so IL.
Charley Fowler and wife, of
Barnesville, are visiting relatives in
Calais this week.
The Sabbath School Picnic last
Saturday was gay and happy day.
Many divines filled the air with
words of wisdom on the hill above
town.
Many of the Calais people were at
the Snmmerfeld reunion.
Hon. j. D.; Taylor, Republican
candidate for Congress in the Guern-
Soy District, did net seem to observe
the rules that govern Soldiers Reun-
ions. His speech was nothing more nor
less than finely fixed up political
one; but Joseph was after self-inter-
ests, or rather after votes. He spoke
a, length on the subject of pensions,
and his logic was surely interesting,
but he had one word in mind which
was kept back until the close of his
remarks on the pension portion Of
his speech, and that word came loud
and long-it was, .Veto." Private
Dalzell most emphatically declared
that no man ought to even hint al
the semblance of politics, and in ont
of his greatest spells of oratory HI
said: I'VE are not Republicans MOI
Prohibitionists nor Democrats in tht
Grand Army of the Rcdublic. w,
are American citizens" and when h
made this grand remark the applaus
should have been loud and long ant
great, but alas! a spell-bound seen
of tranquility and sobriety shone il
the faces Of a multiplicity of audi
tors.
The rumbling noise of the earth
quake, as felt in Calais, was though
to be most anything else but Al
earthquake Mr.. Joseph Hodg
|. thought it to be dog gaundcr his bee
and thcreupon ordered his son Fran
Ito help cxpungc the brute. Aftc
the investigation, and nothing fount
tnen he attributed the thing t
ghos.ology or nccromancy. Other
here realized similar ideas. But til
T quake was certainly terrible to tn
people who live in the regions of th
Carolinas, and south of the grcs
, Appalachian mountain system.
John Stevens, one of the oldes
and most noted citizens Of thi
township, died September 2. NJ
Stephens was very active mcmbe
of the NJ. +. Church and was POI
sesscd of a sound and active inte
!, lect and an uncompromising detc
mination to do right.
G. w. Coultas returned from nea
Beallsvillc, where he had erected
bridge, XXX.