The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-06-17
NEWS ITEMS.

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=, AT about 5 o'clock ON the 9th inst,
there was fierce tornado at Miamis-
burgh, Montgomery county. One
bridge over the Great Miami was de-
molished, and another partially un-
rooted fences and ehimneys were
blown down, and houses unroofed.
The. depot rocked SO as to stop the
clock. The path of the tornado, was
narrow, and the shock did not touch
elsewhere in the vicinity. ;,s i
M The President proposes. to keep
Texas and Mississippi without Cow
ernment and in q state of revolution
until the coming of the cotton picking
season, which is the busiest of all the
year. eseuf 1:2df 2Gi5eiu III ta
;.i1 THE jury in the case of the State VS..
Robinson, for the murder of Gen.
Mcconnell, recently tried at Jacks ON
Vile, ILL.,, returned a verdict of Enot.
guilty. which was received by DEM.
onstrations of joys and enthusiasm by
the people. ii' Hsf'e7o 8'2s ~ b
A LAD aged 13 years, son Of John
Cupp, was instantly killed at Dayton,
on the 9th inst, by a. stone thrown
from sling in the hands of another
boy.
HoN. R, A. HARRISON, of Madison
! county, whose name has been mens'
toned as candidate, for Supreme
Judge before the Democratic Conyen-l
tion, declines to be candidate for
that or any other Office. ftT -sf
sfil IT is rnmored that Gov. Geafy,, of
Pennsylvania, in case he fails to- be
D renominated. for Governor of that
State, is soon to take the place of
Borie as Secretary of the Navy !
The Augusta (Ga.) Sentinel of the
9Th, speaks of negro in that city,
who went to doctor of his own col
: or for the cure of fever and ague, and
got q " Fetish" tea of roots, which
killed him the first dose. Asi'il'] = +
A SUPPOSED corpse of an old wo--
man, q straiked for burial in New
York, sat upright in her bed and
asked for drink of water, and the
watcher, instead of, complying with,
the request, tumbled on the floor in
dead faint. =
The next animal meeting of the
Ohio State Medical Convention, will
be held at Cleveland on the second
Tuesday of June, 1870.
A MAN named John G. Andrews,
was killed near Worthington, Frank
lin county, during the storm on the
evening of the 9th inst, by the falling
ofa tree while he was walking in the
road. 3itsi!{, I-5. laG8.saiuG tsiii
"A DESPERATE attempt at revolt
was made in the Northern Penitentia-
ry of Indiana, on Tuesday of last
week. The leader was shot in the
groin, when his confederates at once
surrendered. 81 da.3 = sol iGaf9A
AN appalling disaster occurred in
the Coal Mines at Merthyr Lydoil,
Wales, on the 10th inst: An explo-
sion, the cause Of which is unknown,
took place while the men were at
work. Few of the miners escaped
from the pit, and it is reported that
120 were killed. ''..' '9 :.
The Iowa Jacobins held State
Convention at Des Moines on. the 10th
inst, and nominated Governor rMer-
rill for reelection; M. NJ. Waldron
for Lieutenant Governor, and A. s.
Kisscll for superintendent Of schools.
The convention was not very numer-
ously attended, and nothing like en-
thusiasm could be developed. 81, 80
A NEGRO has sued the St. Louis and
Keokuk Packet Company for refusing
to allow him to eat at the table with
white passengers on one of the Com
pany's boats. Sambo is not to be sat
isfied with the privilege of voting and
holding q few of the petty Offices in
the Southern States, but insists upon
the recognition of his "rights" to
social equality everywhere. lsaa
A CONVENTION of Christians oppos-
ed to Secret Societies, held three
days session at Chicago last week. A
Chicago paper characterizes the assem-
bly, as fanatical vinegar cruets," /" and
their labors as Concentrated bigotry;'
SEsTER, present Governor of Ten
nessee, charges, in his speeches, that
Stokes, his opponent for election, and
the favorite candidate of the ultra
radicals, and negroes of Tennessee,
sold the last negro that was ever sold
In Tennessee, at Hayes negro sale
house. in Nashville, in 1862 lool, 3a5
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