The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-01-06
F# DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
GENERAL NEWS.


LOUISVILLE has lost by fire during
the past year, property of the value of
$4,000, ON which there was $4,000,
of insurance. Q
The Touring mill of Smith 6 Co.,
at McKeesport, Penn, and two frame
houses were burned Thursday night,
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000,
WILLIAM Cook, United States Vice
Consul at Glasgow, Scotland. has been
sentenced to seven years hard labor
for forgery.
PRESIDENT GRANT has given $1,000
to the fund being raised for the family
of Ex-Secretary Stanton. It is pro-
posed to moke the amount of the fund
100000.
Two hundred and fifty Chinese ar
rived at St. Louis Tuesday of last
week, en- route for Texas, where they
will go to work on the Central Texas
Railroad. Their contract with Gen.
eral Walker is expenses paid from
San Francisco to Texas and return,
and twenty dollars month and board
for three years.
AN immense button of silver was
finished at Colorado, recently, by the
Brown Silver Mining Company,
weighing 600 lbs, troy currency, val
ued at $12,703. 1t is the largest ship
ment ever made from those mines.
THE Grand Jury of Ashland County
John j. Jacobs, Prosecuting Attor-
ney-have found bills of indictment
against the Democratic Treasurer,
Auditor and Commissioners, and the
Republican Clerk of the Common
Pleas Court, for drawing illegal fees,
and for misconduct in Office. There
is considerable feeling throughout the
county.
A special from Belvidere, Illinois,
to the Chicago Tribune, says that
three persons belonging to family,
Germans, living twenty miles south
east of that city, had died from eating
trichin@ pork. Eight others were
prostrated from the same cause, and
will probably all die. The trichin@
can be seen in immense numbers in
the meat and in the flesh ofthose who
have died.
CoUPoN bonds, valued at $12l, 900,
were lost or stolen on Christmas-day,
in Jersey City, and reward of $S,0 900
is offered for their recovery.
GEN. BUTLER has procured the re-
moval of the case instituted against
him by Miss Rowena Florence, to the
United States Circuit Court.
A NEWSPAPER is to be started in
Washington under the auspices of the
National Executive Committee OF
Colored men, to represent the politi-
cal and Industrial interests of that
race. What's the use? Amt the
Radical papers from one end of the
Union to the other devoted to that in
terest almost exclusively?
On the 9Th ult., young Clifford, con.
fined in the Ozark (Arkansas) Jail, on
the charge of completely in killing
yonng West at a party some weeks
since, was shot through the window
by party of ruffians and killed.
AN ILL-FATED STEAMER.-A tele.
gram dated Memphis Dec. 29th says
Henry G. Baker, an old citizen of Ar.
kansas, was found dead in his state
room on the steamer Ozark this morn
ing. Two colored roustabouts on tn,
same steamer, while wrestling yester
day, fell overheard and drowned.
deck-hand on the same steamer, whil'
handling sixty torpedoes to-day ex
ploded them, tearing him into frag
ments.
The annual report of the Board O
Health, of New York City, show
there are 10000 tenement houses il
that city, occupied by 10000 persons
ALBERT AusTIN's large cigar man
ufactory, at Hartford, Connecticut
was burned yesterday, together witt
its contents. Loss, 10000; insurance
$4,000.
A NUMBER of the Sheriffs appointe,
by General Candy in Virginia, unde
the reconstruction acts, are defaulter
to the State in sums ranging fron
5000 to $4,000, which they collecte
but did not pay into the Treasury.
The receipts of wheat and flour re
duced to wheat at Milwaukee, for 1856
foot up nearly 100000 bushels
shipments, 100000 bushels.
GEN. JOHN G. FREMONT has sued tn
Kansas Pacific Railway Company t
recover for alleged breach of contrac
General Fremont claims that when b
settled with the Company in 186!
they agreed to give him 100000 c
United States bonds first issued t
the Company under the act of Cor
gress. The bonds that they really OIL
give him were of later date, SO ths
he lost several years interest.
ANNIE GILLEM, little girl for
years old, died of hydrophobia, o
Friday, at Louisville, having been hi
ten by mad dog two months ago.
The total number of fires in S
Louis from January to Novemb'
q, was one hundred and fifty-nin
Total loss, $641, ITO. Insurance, $46
$40. Loss over insurance, $174, 400,
VIRGINIA has not yet been admitt'
to her place in the Union, althous
she has complied with all the requir
ments of the reconstruction measur
of tho Tooohina The naonla of th