The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-09
NEWS ITEMS.


WASHINGTON, December 6, 1869.
f NEWS ITEMS.
PRINCE ARTHUR disgusts Canada by
taking pennies in change.
BLAoUE BEY, the Turkish Minister,
has been very ill for several days.
A CHINESE carried offthe prize for
ploughing at the Oregon State Fair.
THE belle of San Francisco ball
proved to be a lovely boy of sixteen.
The Western demand for oysters
has made Maltby, of BALTIMORE, a mil
lionaire.
OTIs TUFTS, recently deceased, made
S4,000,000 by his patent hotel eleva-
tor.
THE King of Burrnah is building,
at his own expense, the Episcopal
church at Mandalay. q 5sahae.E
CINCINNATI has lO5, 1924 school chill
dren, which shows population of
1913, 400.
The municipal election for city Of
ficers took place in New York ON
Tuesday last. 'i@t
A NEW street in London, leading to
a new bridge across the Thames, has
been named Peabody. FRO F.
HAMILTON, Nevada, has the largest
wagon ever built on the Pacific slope
it will bear 10000 pounds on ordinary
mountain roads. To-.
POLLARD wants JEFF. Davis to leave
the country. Prentice suggests that
the South vote on who shall go-Da-
Wis or Pollard. --...
EIGHTEEN members elect of the
Massachusetts Legislature are Catho-
lies, representing, chiefly, Boston and
vicinity. - y-A
BEEF and pork are expected to be
scarce in Belmont County, on account
of extensive shipments of cattle an6
hogs.
A coLoRED child died from cup o
scalding hot coffee, given it to drink
by a sister, few days ago, at Middle
port, Meigs County.
AT Winton, Iowa, recently, child
died of fit, to which it was subject
and an examination brought to ligh
a living snake in its stomach.
PROF. LOOMS, of Yale College
thinks the central liquid parts of ou
earth (Which are intensely hot) rem
der it a very unsafe place to stay on
The New York Custom-hous,
frauds are growing. They nov
amount to $SO0,OO0 in the drawbacl
department, and $500, 600 in the weigh
ers' department.
THOMAS BRUND, at Efingham, Ill,
put some powder in his stove to blow
the SCOT out of his pipe..and succeed
ed in putting out both of his eyes.
A LITTLE boy named Chambrey, o
Newark, New Jersey, was poisoned
by eating the seeds of q plant. know
as stinkseed, last Monday, and dieC
on Tuesday night.
CHARLES STUBENHoFFER, q black
smith on Kelley's Island, was fount
lying dead in his shop on Thursda,
week, with eleven cuts on his arms
and razor beside him.
AN effort is being made to RELEASE
Mrs. Victor, now in the Ohio Peniten
tiary, under sentence for poisoning he
brother, on..a writ of ha6eas corpus.
AT Niles, Michigan, Robert Camp.
bell, a Scotchman, aged about seven
ty, and an old resident, hung himself
with bed cord to his stairs on the
18th ult. 5.-e..r. kerr, ..s
A DRUNKEN man in Sonoma, re.
quested his drunken chum to "cut my
throat" and it was done with pen
knife, death resulting instantly. Ply
thias is in Jail. -
ASA KING, of Athens County, Ohio
last year moved to Jasper County
Missouri, with wife and eleven chill
dren. He has returned with one child
left alive.
THERE were two hundred and TWEEN
ty-two convicts in the Iowa State
Prison on October 81, all of whom
were males, twenty-nine being ma
tives of Ohio. IS .u-ssff.n .,.sr
AT Jacksonville, Michigan, on the
18th ult., a five-year-old daughter o.
Joseph Mason, fell from a ladder, and
was impailed on o churn dasher, dy
ing next day in consequence.
IN saloon at Weston, Wood Coun-
ty, on Thursday night, man named
Rabbit was stabbed with butcher
knife, by another named Kinney, an6
was not expected to live.
A GIRL of tho frail and unfortunat,
class, committed suicide at Columbus
on Friday last by taking morphine
1t is suspected that attempts had beer
previously made to procure abortion