The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-08-31
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Farewell, summer.

Cumberland camp meeting was
not a success.
DIR. J. w. Grimes now occupies
room over Bert Jones store.
Tho Clifton House at GAINESVILLE
has passed into the hands of a re-
ceiver.
The school house is receiving a
new covering in the shape of a good
slate roof
"A pig with front feet like a dog
was one of the attractions at the
Barncsvillc Fair.
Monday. September 9Th is the
day set for the meeting of the Com
missioners.
"A Clydcsdale colt two years
old, owned by Noble County man
weighs l,l65 lbs.
The report of the cannon used
at the Antioch reunion could he dis
tinctly heard at this place.
Within the past ten months all
the Democratic candidates for Pres
idcnt'cxccpt Cleveland, have died.
The Guernsey County Demo-
cratic convention will be held to-day
and a good ticket will be put in the
field. ~
North Main street is being
greatly improved under the super
vision of Street Commissioner DOH
erty.
-Thc Mayor of Quaker City has
ordered the citizens of that place to
.'elcan up cut the weeds and grass
from the side walks
Sam Jones and Sam Small will
discourse to q GAINESVILLE audience
some time in October. Exact time
has not been arranged.
At the Summerfield reunion this
week. good number of members of
the 25th, 30th, 36th. AID, G2d, 63d,
18th. 92d, 11Gth and 10th Ohio
regiments, will be present.
"A number of people from differ
ent sections Of the county passed
through town last week, on their
way to the Antioch reunion.
D1ED.-On Monday, August 16,
1856, Sarah Landis, of Malaga town
ship, Monroe County, Ohio. She was
resident of the county for 60years.
If You are a public-spiritcd cit
izcn and want to help your ncighbor
as well as yourself, you will patron,
izc home institutions, first, last and
all the time. ~
-Andover, o., voted for Prohibit
tion. The largest saloon keeper in
the place voted that his business
was thereby damaged, and has sued
for $4,000 damages. RS. !.
III you are teacher you. want
to take. in addition to your own
home county paper. a good educa,
tional journal. You now have OPP
portunity. Sec orr excellent offers.
Time flies very rapidly. You
will be surprised if you but stop q
moment and think that we are al
ready far advanced in the latter half
of a yearthat seemed to open to us
but Yesterday.
Michael Keller, Of near Miltons-
burg, Ohio, Whose barnswas recently
destroyed By fire, received 5000, the
full amount of insurance, from Jacob
Burkhart, the Agent. for the Ohio
Mutual Insurance Company, Of Sa-
lem, Ohio. - .s 's'
We have a number of homes in
Woodsfeld, bcautifulin the interior.
They, are made so by the fair hands
of woman. Many of them have an
exterior anything else than beautiful.
They arc allowed to become such by
the negligence of the men. Shame!
Two parties indulged in a dis
neutrality-suspicious. at the de-
pot last week, in which each tried to
pnmmcl the other, but was prevented
from doing so by the cargo Of fire
water that took possession of both
crafts. Go in, gentlemen, nobody
cares.
There seems to bc an over pro-
duction of tomatoes this season. A
GAINESVILLE man shipped a consign-
mcnt to Newark last week and re-
ceived fifteen cents per bushel-just
what the express company charged
him for CARRYING them.-Zaaesrilt
Signal
1T appears that many fruits &C.
quire most of their growth by night
The fruit of the cherry laurel, fol
instance, has been found to increas,
at the rate of ninety per cent. a
night. and only ten per cent. by day
while apples increase eighty pc
cent. at night and twenty per cent
by day.-Er.
-St. Clairsville has a Human,
Society that evidently means bust
ncs3. A.stranger who left his horse