The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-02-23
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postomce, employing 4,4UU carriers.
i yGoyern your ttough,s ;~het, alone and
your, tongue when 10 company.
Men sre like waeons-thev rattle
prodigiously when there Is noibing in
them.
Brigadier General Rowlev. General
Grants Secrt tary, died at Chicago last
week.
1t is said the finest collection Of pearls
in the world belongs to one OF tae Roth.
childs. sa
The arrest Of George q Cannon, Nor
mon chief, has caused much excitement
at Salt Lake. ie
Generals Howard and Terry are ex.
pect.d to succeed Hancock and Pope 10
army promotions.
During the last calendar year 46. .956
land patents we're issued by the U. S
Government.
The Kentucky Senate has passed o
bill prohibiting the sale OF pistols and
bowie knives.
Telephonic mmunica'ion is. now es.
tablished between Paris and Rheims, .
distance of $50 miles.
It;s a pretty tough beefsteak at hotels
and restaurants that pounding DOES not
make tenderloin.
A church in Weet1eld, Mass, is Civ
ing chromoea as an inducements for out.
siders TO attend its services.
| Five thousand German physicians have
lpetitioned the Imperial Government in
favor Of cremst on.
About two thousand cases Of murder
we're reported to the press during 1885
10 the United States.
There gre two "Tip Top" postoffices
in the United States. one 10 Kentucky
and the other 10 Arizona.
Il is very. very funny, but there has
never politician been found who kept
any account of bis transactions.
II IS annouucerf that unless the guar
antee fund is 6lled BY March 1, there
will be no exposition TO Cincinnati in
1886.
One hundred and iftv houses In Cal.
csgo are said to be untenarted because
of the belief that ghosts make nocturnal
visits to them.
King Milan has summoned the entire
Servian army TO- e. ter the field, fully
equipped for war, to undergo q six
weeks drill. a"t
Hannsh Il. Sands, q female miser.
who recently died in New York, left
half million dollars. S10O, 900 Of which
was sewed up in the hem of her dress.
About a thousand persons have re-
Gently siRned the temperance pledge st
Medina, O., where q Murphy revival is
in progress.
The Oldest and largest tree in the
world is . chestnut near the foot Il
Mount E na. The circumference Of the
main trunk 10 2l2 feet
All recent book ssle In London two
volumes in magnificent binding, which
was their chief value, brought sl 1926
and 81 700 respectively.
The question of putting telegraph aud
telephone wires under ground is before a
subcommittee of the Cincinnati CON-
mon council.
The best informed men OF the coun.
try predict that 1885 will be the most
prosperous business year since The panic
o: 1873.
Farmers in Champaign county. Ohio.
have heen taken 10 by fellow pretend
| ing {, sell contrivance for sharpening
resping sickles witaout taking them from
the machinery.
Scarcely month passes without the
nation having to mourn the loss of
hero OF the war, or q slstssman whose
reputation was made during the exciting
days OF the rebellion
Tue total value Of the exports Of
bread stufis during the seven morths
ending January 81. 1886. we're S62 406
047. sgainst $97,57a,92O for the same
time last yesr.
New York lrishmen are said to be
highly pleased wit, Gladstone's cabinet.
The Irish people IN general have san.
gnine expect ,tions OF q better condition
of affairs fjr Ireland.
Bridgeport, Ohio, 10 to have new 10.
dustry, in the shape of an artificial gas
producing plant. The projectors are
A j. Baggs, OF Bridgeport. and Super
intendent Dillon, Il the Wheeling gas
| works.
The United States Treasury has pre-
pared q statement showing thet the
amountof silver dollars in circulation
July 3l.t. was 839. .1S4 433. December
81 S52 Sal, ,57l, February IL, 1886, $751;.
f5l ,326. sw
The Commissioner OF Pensions says
that II the bill ., increase widows pen.
sions becomes law the claims will be
adiddicated directly from that Office.
without the Intervention of third par es,
and that no certificates for pensioners
will be necessary.
A West Va. paper gives an account
of q colored woman 122 years old. Of
cnurse she recollects seeing George
Washington. and remembers we'll when
peace was declared at the close OF the
revolution. She is patiently waiting the
summons - go hence
A union veteran st WstertowD, N j..
it is stated, has, through the postmaster
of Petersburg, Va, learned the name OF
q worthy hut needy confedersts soldier
who lost q leg in the war, and has tTn.
ed over IN him the pension the union
veteran has been drawing, but which
"he can i've Without"
A clergyman ct Dodge City says that
during tbe recent severe cold weather
There had been great destruction OF life
in that vicinity. The writer states that
within radius OF 100 miles Of D"dge
9th 1OO, 900 head of cattle have irczeu
1, death, and that 100 human beings are
known to have perisbed.
8 A violent torn Of hog cholera is rag
: ing around HiIlsboro, IN. A farmer re-
\ e;dino View miles north of there hal