The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-12-31
NEWS ITEMS.

TcA1ddnlnS< uAOHlue VI HIS cAl61enCc "
the interests of the Africans and the
bond-holding aEistocracy.
The Ohio Legislature will reassem-
BILE, pursuant TO adjournment, ON
Tuesday next.
The Senate fayors the proposition
toscoA1mit the direction of our Indian
affairs to new department, to be
specially created. -s
Thaeis another of the retrenchment
measures of the Radicals. More teats
are needed for the radical pigs.
a WHITE OAK TREE 225 years old
was cut down the other day at Nancy's
Bridge on the line of the Brandywine
and Reading Railroad. q
A CENSUS of st. Louis City and
county just completed, gives popu-
-futior OF z4t, ,07ti,, and increase since
1864, of 53,251.
"A FIRE. occurred at Decorah, Iowa,
on the, morning of Thursday last, de-
stxeying property valued at $4,000.
y
-FHE Reform Dutch Church at Ghent,
Ny, one of the oldest churches in
the country, was destroyed, by fire on
the morning of the oath inst.
7STsJoHN's Episcopal Church af Wa
tefbHry, Conn.,, was destroyed by fire
ofithe morning of e24th inst. Loss
100000; insured for $4,000.
GEO. AMoFFATT, of Boston, scene
shifter at tho Theatre Comique, "a
years Of age, was instantly killed on
the. hight Of the 23rd inst, by falling
twenty five feet, from the flies to the
stage. 'nl - 'i.14. .as' i''
AT, Amherstburg, December 23d,
there was fire in the south
ward of the lunatic asylum. One wo-
man, was suffocated, and two others
were badly burned. The building
was saved with great difficulty.
The fine residence of Col. John
Knapp, one of, the proprietors of the
Missouri Republicans, of st. Louis,
was damaged by fire on the oath inst.
to the extent of $4,000 to S20,O00.-
Loss covered by insurance in home
companies.
Ar Baltimore on the oath inst, twen-
ty-seYen thousand cigars were seized
on, the steamer Cuba from Havana, for
violation of the revenue laws.
HORACE GREELEY says if his wife
should go the polls to vote and elec-
tioneer,; he would stay at home and at
tend to the cooking and other house
hold affairs. A decided improvement
at the polls, but alas for the cooking
and other household affairs! "a s....s
-5.CoN.W. H. fMcARDLE, the Vicks-
burgh editor who had notoriety thrust
on nhim, has taken a wife. So the ia.
NOUS McArdle case is finally decided
THE residence of Gen. Geo. W
'Dertzler, at Lawrence, Kansas, togeth
er,with the furniture; was totally de
stroved by fire on Saturday morning
Loss, $25,0O0; insured for $4,000 il
the North Americu, of Philadelphia
The fire was undoubtedly the work o
an incendiary, as Gen. Dertzler ant
family are East, and no fire has beer
iii the house for several days.
A WOMAN by the name of Agne
Owens, few days since attempted t.
commit suicide in the Union Depot a
Pittsburgh. Poverty is the assigne,
cause. -
The National Banks of St. Loui
petitioned the Supreme Court to gran
stay in the collection of the tax o.
National Bank stock, until the legalit
of the law can be decided by the I
rS;FSupreme Court. The petition wa
denied. The amount of tax due .fror
the banks of that city is between thre
and four hundred thousand dollars, n
tax having been collected for thre
years, "a 20 rms 9rs r ~.
4sf JAMES NJ, SELLS, Sheriff of Coshot
.aton, has disappeared, and is said to b
a defaulterr to the amount of fror
$4,000 ito $4,000, moneys by hir
s,colleeted for parties litigant. i5r .a
ali The Auditors Office of Allen Cou1
bty, has recently been robbed of abol
$lO,0Oo.f s''il.t .ia'fle g ~
The Waterhouse Cashmere factor
in Warwick, r. T., was burned on II
25th inst. Loss 100000, Insured mos
" in Boston Companies.
ysn.M MONEY is very firm in New Yorl
1.-The Commercial says applications al
exceedingly pressing, at Z per cent.
10 coin, with a commission. There hi
aobeen an extensive locking up of col
in some quarter, and it is, wanted
Foreign brokers are prominent in tt
movement. There are rumors of MOI
tailqres, with which is coupled N
otional bank, but no foundation can
8, found for such rumors. y,.s.fs H..
"a THE office of the American Expire
COMPANY at Peeks1ill, N. ", was e.
tered by burglars Dec. 18th, mofniI
-Tiahd the safe blown open and robbie
of $1,000. The place was then set {
fire. Fine office was under the Ci
,YlHotel, which was destroyed, togeth
with the grocery of E. Ingersoll. Lo
10 $4,000; insured. saI h
10 JONES, the murderer of his neie
O was hung at Toronto, G. E., on t
tnofning Of the 18th inst, at half-pa
% ten O'clock. Many thousands peoI
were collected about the scafTold. I
;. was attended all night by various Gle
gynen, but denied his guilt tothe Ia
n9TIi bng .bio5 9UIG53d sat ~ .H
h9igTHEI election fox Representative
nnCongress, ten State Senators and fl
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