The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-06-03

.GoLDat New York was quoted at
1s0, at2.85 Tuesday p. m adf s94i9es;
THE first consignment Of new wheat
was exhibited at St. Louis on Monday
It came from Panoia, Miss.
The new iron-clad steamer Bell
quesale has returned to Brest, after
having circumnavigated the globe.
She met with no accident.
JAMES Riley, a cenyict in the Pen
itentiary from Summit county, com
mitted suicide by hanging in his cell
on Sunday night. os es7.sr tva8s
aACTIoE has been brought in the
SApreme Court of New York to fore
close the second divisional mortgage
of the old Atlantic and Great Western
railroad by one OF the abondholders,
for non-payment Of interest. ge
THE counting-room Of Charles and
Elias oMillikin, lumber merchants at
Augusta, Maine, was robbed ON last
Wednesday night, of bank stocks,
Tfconic Water-power shares and notes
Of hand to the value Of $4,000. ae7
A NUMBER of ladies of Selma, Ala,
have taken steps for organizing fe-
male immigration society: the object
0fwhich is to encourage the im1nigra-
ton to Selma of females who would
hire out as seamstresses, nurses, laun-
dresses, cooks, etc.
A dispatch from Wateryille, Kansas
dated May %. says: Reports from
Lake Sibley state that a party of
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians attacked
the Scandinavian colony, south-West
of.thst place, on the 26th, killing five
efthe colony. They were driven off
after hard fighting. ON: iay Il
= nAccoRDlNa to the New York city
papers, there is much suffering among
its crowded population, and suicides
are of daily occurrences. Dead bod
les are found every day floating in
the river, some with and others witha
out marks of violence. Notless than
ten women committed suicide inias
many days. The average of both
sexes Is about three day. ea
sfJoHN NV. READ killed his mother o
fewsnighfs age in Lynohbarg, Va. II
seems she was deranged, and in the
middle of the night armed herself
with shovel and attempted to Kill
Read'SYife and aunt, and he, to save
their lives, struck her with stick, in
ficting injuries that caused her deatf
shortly .afterward. O. bigB3a foBE
aAT MANCHESTER, Tenn, on Satur
dag night, two negroes were takeI
f1enl the Jail by gang of unknown
regalstors and hanged. The. negroes
had been once tried for rape, but tn,
Jury did not agree. Their names wer1
Searey and Moore, and the crime waI
committed near Normandy, on th'
Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad
Itis supposed the lynchers were from
that neighborhood. ,.' -
In A suit against the city Of Rich
mond, to make her redeem her smal
notes to the amount of $780, 600 issuet
during the war;, Chief Justice Chas
has decided that, having been ISSUED
to aid the rebellion, they cannot b
redeemed. The Legislature, ,whicl
authorized their issue was de facto
Legislature, and had power to gran
such authority, and had the notes bee
issued for any legal purpose, and nc
for the snbyersion of the Govern
neat, they would be liable to redemr
A TEEEsRAst from Leavenwortl
Kansas, Of Tuesday, says: About 2
white persons have been killed by In
dians in Western Kansas during tn
week. Fears. are entertained for tw
surveying parties that arctin the me-
exposed part of the State without mi
itary protection. What has becom
ofthe Quaker Commissioners appoin
ed by Grant, with their two million
OF dollars to "let us have peace" wit
the noble red men of the forestS 1I,
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The Accident to Geo. II. Pendleton.
The late accident to George II. Pei
dleton, who was thrown out of b
carriage on Monday, near his res