The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-11-05
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$1,000.
WILLIAMS distillery at Baltimore.
Md, was burned on the 2Sth uH. Loss
Sl0,0O0. -
y a FIRE at Boston, Mass, on the
morning of the 3Oth ult., destroyed
one of the car houses of the Boston
and Albany Railroad Company, loca-
ted between AIbafy street bridge and
Harrison asEeaRae,. .Witlszits-eeateHts.-
The. cars destroyed consisted of two
drawing-roOm cars, ANAL car, one or
two baggage cars, and six or eight
passenger cars. The loss is 100000
A SANTA FE, New Mexico, dispatch
says: An important Indian expedi-
ton is now organized in this Terrific
~, which will soon start from Fort
Bascom, ON the Canadian. river, to ope-
rate against the Indians committing.
depredations in Kansas and Colorado
the past few, months. :, The command
viii consist of six companies of the
3rd Cavalry, one OF tive companies of
the 37th; Infantry, together, with be-
tween two and three. hundred Utah
and Apache Indians; all under, the
comTmand, ma q, Of Col Evans, of the ,srd
CaYaaaAGr7E "a any sfd 70 os8Gq9d ylqHi. iaonti
THEi Grand Lodgesof the Ancient
and Honorable Fraternity of Free and
Accepted Masons of the State, of Ohio,
met at the city. of Dayton on Tuesday,
20th ult. The opening wasisignaiized
BY grand procession of over 1900
Masons, representing the different de-
grees, of the order, on foot, and about
$50 Knight Templar Masons, mounted
on on horsesaodi aadH ":a1L HiH 81
GEN. CassIUs FAIReHILD, brother of
Gov. Fairchild, III and United States
Marshall, died at 7.;30 On the morning
of Oct. "a, -at0iMilwaukee, from a
wound received at the battle of iShi-
loh, which had re4Opened All His suffer-
.ings have been intense forthe past tive
months.f Aweek since he was united
in, marriage to- Miss Maryd Haney,
daughter of Robert Haney, engineer
of this city. The widowed bride has
the sympathy of al fargeq circle of
friends, both, of her own and the Gen
ERALS, who were legion. They were
both beloved and greatly esteemed by
all who knew them; and the event of
their marriage had been looked for
ward to with interestEua 74dai .e9ah g
% THRprize fight for the championship
and $2,000iibetween Ned O'Baldwin
and Joseph War1ialdi commented at
Lynnfield, IL miles from Boston, at
eight O'Clock, on the morning Of the
29th ultsI5 One round was fought in
ten minutes,i and at7the close a squad
of fourteen Lynn police broke into
the ring and secured the principals be-
/ fore they could leave, willie the crowd
/ scattered like a flock of sheep. f7'eii q
The arrested parties {! We're ere taken
to Lynn for arfaignment before JUS
tice Newha1l..' riilAifi'' ;<'rf'''' ''''''7
The Washington Skating Rink,
Hunt & Forsyth and Cases wagon
shops. and four dwellings, at Fon du
Lac, were burned ON, the ..29th ult.-
Loss s. $4,000 0oQoCf,,,i m eni4iI ; gni4sse 10
One hundred, and. fifty barrels OF
whisky; we're seized on. the 2sth ult,
4 at the warehouse Of the Terre Haate
Railroad, by the government authori-
ties, ;, # came from Chicago iu,s, !
II is stated that al new contract be-
tween the Post OF OfficelDepartment and
4 Wells Fargo &: Cos for the1 transpor.
tatiOn of the overland mails to Califor.
mia was closed on the 2Sth ult. By its
terms contractors receive 81, ,750,OOG
per annum for, carrying the mails SOC
miles, and as the progress of the Pa:
cific Railroad decreases the distances
Of transportation the rprice paid rwil
be cQrfespeAdingly decreased.f 1T il
| estimated that the contract will mo
/ cost the government merB than $50,
4 900 if the Railroad is completed mex
July. .s3rofa 4nol ugo-so O. 2
.}o5Jt W. S1MoNToN has commenced
4 proceedings against the n. Y I9i
Ebssase Printing Company, for, ,thelpubli
/, cation of an article Of aihbenous ma
ture, over the signature of g. WI But
ler ft+i ,,t, :, - ,-..rff .,t.is4,tE7 :rf=
Two scientific expeditions to tn
north pole are now fitting cut, one a
[ Bremen under. PeteFmarenp and tf,
other at Hayre, under iLsmhertz e,r
ll1 fJosIAHoL.f PIKE has beenconvictet
j Of the murder of Mr.. and Mrs. iThom
as BROWNE of, Hampton Falls New
Hampshire, and senteheadi to be hun.
J on the, second Tuesday in November
d 'GFIvE) convicts' made their escap,
from Blaclwells Island Friday eve
ming. .ba,F1ni=il ed iGHtiaG 9dt II ,-9!I
Z pc The Treasury Department has is
:, sued aacircular, dated Oct. 29th, di
recting that a duty of s., so per poun,
land twenty-five per cent ad valoren
, he assessed on sall cigars, cigarette
: and cherootsi under the eighty-s secon,
8 and eighty-seventh sections of the m
q ternal revenue act approved July 2SEi
{ 1856. OF Jcourse, dthe consumer ha
4 none iof this tax to pay. ''ii@Id s'ii ~
1.-THE dry goods store Of Of Brow Brown
Thompson & Co., Hartford, Connee'
i cut, was burrglariousiy entered al
t robbed of silks to the amount of Gig
thousand dollars fE on Wednesday nj gh
: DURING the twenty-five year,, IL
: Illustrated Leipsicl Gazette has bee
d published, eighteen millions copies
$ it has. been sold,o st-,fs.gi ;6,.;ls
I The railroad bridge over the IIudso
n river. is to be eonstructedin order t
:. connect the New England states wit
f1,ai