The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-02-25

SALT LAKE City is now butpthree
days and a half from Chicago.
RED WING Minnesota has new
journal printed in the Swedish lam
guage.
One thousand barrels of whiskey
were seized in New York on the 18th
by Revenue Inspectors on its arrival
from Chicago.
TIE Secretary of State of Florida
was born in Africa.
AN earthquake sslfeek of several sec +
onds duration was felt at Port Town
send, Washington Territory, Februa-
ry flth. - -514 .g...s..e.z j
NEWSPAPER STATISTICS There are
in the State of Ohio 33 daily; 800 t
weekly IS semi-weekly, and "a month
and magazines making.
a total of 375. Besides these there are
130 book and job printing establish
.ments. In the United States there are
542 dailies, 4,425 weeklies and 272i
monthlies, making a total of 5,244.
There are ,4S3 book and job printers
in the United States. In addition to
the above there are, published in the
United States Sc tri-weekly papers,
So semi-waekly, 46 semi monthly, 2S7
monthly, 4 bi-monthly andf24 quarter
ly, Making the total number of all
periodicals 5,T34. This we learn from
the Proof Sheet. ra ia-i' 95 7ii. =
~ A CLERGYMAN, recently related the
following: Two young friends of his
were boarding in Germany. with a
very deyout Catholic lady, who al
ways asked blessing before each
meal. One day she asked the young
men how the Americans asked
blessing. One of them, eInbefing
the haste with which SO many of his
countrymen attack their food, said,
'eThe American blessing is, pitch in. Y
A few days after, the good lady,
thinking to please her boarders, rev.
erently folded her hands before break
fast and uttered the words, 'fPitch in
which they of course did.
A WIT being requested " to say a
good thing" laconically responded,
"Oystersi" sn qeoa,a a:oo leef
WHERE is money first mentioned in
T the Bible? Where the dove brought
the green back to Noah. 70 a. : q "a
NUIsANdEs!ACross-eyed old maids,
Misunderstanding women, fi1Hbnstering
girls, grumbling old bachelors, dilapi-
dated sidewalks, squalling children,
| frowsy wives, dirty postal currency,
and subscriber who does not pay for
his paper. 2s- 80 i]ie .bhaA 3Ao u
IEEINoIs has tried the abolition OF
capital punishment and has found it a
failure. A bill to restore the death
penalty has passed the lower branch
of the state Legislature BY. q, q very deciii
ded majority. ..,....,e9,, -..,.s X
THE. Union Park Congregations
church, Chicago, was destroyed by
I fire on the evening of the 2lst inst
!, Loss on building, $4,000, and Oh ths
7 organ $4,000; both were fully in
: sured. -o i. 5sz fI1
. MAYOR Bowen of Washington
chairman of the Inauguration bal
Committee, announces that, so far a
he sconcerned, every respectable per
son, without distinction of color, ma,
buy tickets. o e3 aaij -i't55's-
IT sounds oddly to hear men nov
! advocating universal suffrage and th
,, right to hold Office by all without re
gard to creed, country or color, who
few years ago sustained the Know
Nothing party, and insisted upol
changing the Constitution so as t
exclude from Office those born abroa,
and those holding to the Catholic faftf
But their object was the same in eacl
case-to-wit: to destroy the govern
ment of a majority of the people
Failing to restrict the suffrage to
select and privileged class, they nov
!. propose to entend it to the negroes
: so as to make itas absurd as possible.
: Signal - ''' -i9 -! {. I'D <''i IL :
The stockholders on the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, d
Thursday, by vote of five to one
ratified its lease to the Atlantic an
Great Western Railroad. 3 This leas
: conveys all the roads controlled b
/ the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayto
Railroad, and assures the Erie's con
nection with Cincinnati. 'li'I i'ha q q
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: The free railroad bill, which give
any foreign railway corporation tn
right to lease and operate railways il
: Ohio, nnder the laws of the State, ina
passed the lower House of the Obi
Legislature by the unexpectedly larg
majority ofS7 to 6. The bill will prob
= ably pass the Senate and become 4
: law. 1t seems to meet the approxa
: of nearly all classes in every section
of the State. fs4, - .,-t- -asfboIfsl
SoRTER MIxED.-Under this head tn
Weston CIV. Va.) Democrat says:
A child was born. opposite Wheel
} ing, on the, Ohio side of the river,
:, few days ago, of white parents, whicl
was half white. and half black-th
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