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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
Death Of Charle. pickens.

A cable dispatch of Friday forenoon
announced that on the previous eve
ming Charles Dickens died of paraly.
sis. The announcement will cause 8
feeling of regret wherever the English
language is spoken. No writer Of
this age has such hold on the public
attention and the popular heart as the
creator of Mr.. Pickwick and Little
Nell, and of that host of characters,
familiar in hundreds of thousands OF
homes, who have amused, or saddened
or stirred US with indignrtion for
more than a third of century. Dick
ems created school of literature of
whice he has always remained the
master, and now that he has fallen
there is none to take his place.
There are many novel writers, but
there is but one Dickens. His tricks
of style, his exaggeration of character
and many Dickensish" peculiarities
have been successfully initiated, but
the real merits that underlie them,
and which have given him such hold
on the public heart, have remained
beyond the reach of his imitators.
There is no one on whose shoulders
his mantle can be fittingly worn.
1t is unnecessary to go into any de-
tailed account of the life and writings
OF Charles Dickens. The leading
facts of his life have been published
and republished with such frequency
and given such wide publicity that all
readers are familiar with them. Born
in 1872, he struggled in yonth as
thousands of others have done who
have from choice or necessity chosen
letters as profession, reporting for
newspapers and living from hand to
mouth as such literary aspirants must
who have their bread to earn, and no
settled position or literary fame to
give them assurance of it. The story
Of his sudden emergence from hard
working obscurity is a tale that every
'ne knows. The publication of
Sketches by Boz" followed by the
Pickwick Papers," at once estab-
isked him in a position in popular |
avor which he has never lost. The |
instances are few indeed where wri-
er achieves popularity suddenly and
'etains it undiminished for over a
hird of a century, and this is what
Dickens has done.-Clereland Herol7. |
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

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SENATORS TO BE ELEcTED.-The fol.
lowing are the United Senators whose
terms expire on the 4th of March
next: Morrill, of Maine; Craigin OF
New Hampshire; Wilson of Massa-
chusetts; Anthony of Rhode Island ;
Cattell of New Jersey Wiley of w est
Virginia; Abbott of North Carolina
Fowler of Tennessee Grimes ofIowa
Howard of Michigan, Thayer of Ne
braska; Ross of Kansas; Revels of
Mississippi; Williams of Oregon :
Yates of Illinois; Mcdonald of Ar
kansas; Harris of Louisiana; Warner
of Alabama; Salisbury of Delaware /;
McCreery of Kentucky; and Norton
of Minnesota.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has
decided that the following section of
an ordinance passed by the town coun-
Gil Of the Incorporated Village of Will
mington, Clinton county, this State,
was authorised by the constitution and
laws of Ohio:
SEC. l. Be it ordained, &C., that all
ale, beer or porter shops and houses
within the limits of said village are
hereby made and declared to be uu-
lawful, and the same are hereby pro-
hlDlted. And if any person or persons,
Dy agent or otherwise, shall, within
the limits aforesaid, keep such ale,
beer or porter shops, or houses, he,
she or they shall, on conviction there
OF, before the Mayor of said village.
or other proper officer, be fined in any
sum not less than $25 90 nor more
The village of Wilmington is in
tensely radical-so is the Supreme
Court of Ohio.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
JUDGE BR1NkrRHorr has written

JUDGE BRINKERHoFF has written q
letter to Stanley Matthews, of Cincin-
natl, declining to be candidate for
denomination for Supreme Judge IN
Republican state convention. In his
note he gives the following reason
for declining: 81 feel and find By a
saddening experience that the salary
which our laws allow isa compensa-
ton wholly inadequate for no incon-
siderable pers onal expenses, the heavy
responsibility, the exhausting, never
ending and still beginning labor, and
the deprivation of the comforts and
associations of home which the posi-
tion necessarily involves"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

The last session Of the General AS.
sembiy Of Ohio, which was elected on
the "retrenchment and economy"
dodge, increased the levy for State
purposes from 35 cents to 40 cents on
the S1OO. This is mode Of econo-
mizing that taxpayers will not very
keenly relish. The Radical press,
which was SO abusive Of the last DEM
ocratie Legislature, charging it with
awful extravaganza, have no COM
plants to make on account of this in.
crease Of taxation by majority of its
own party. State taxes are increased
one seventh.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

WEST VIRGINIA. Democrat
State Convention of West Virgins
assembled at Charlestown, the Capi
tai of the State, on the 9Th inst, an,
nominated John A. Jacobs, of Hamp
shire county, for Governor. TIL,
platform adopted demands the taxa
ton of capital, the removal from tn,
statute books of every form of test
oath, the restoration of the ballot tc
the disfranchised, and declares the
white race the superior and ruling
race of the country.
Nor the least interesting of the fall
elections says the World, will be that
in West Virginia. 1t is stated that
there are as many as 25,0OO white men
disfranchised in this State, and the re.
moval of their disabilities is a prime
issue in the canvass. Even should il
not be caraied, the figures can hardly
fail to point to hopeful future from
the very rapid manner in which the
Democratic vote gains upon the Radi-
cal. In 1864 the Radical vote was 23.-
0OO to the Democratic 10000, and in
1868 but $4,000 Radical to 10000 Dem
ocratic-showing a Democratic in
crease of 100 per cent. to a Radical
gain of but 80. The young vote of
the State, it would thus appear, is al
most entirely Democratic, and this
fall those who have come of age for
two years past will, no doubt, materi-
ally decrease the Radical majority.
THERE are now in the nationa
House of Representatives sixty-four
Democrats. The New York Ezpress
notes this fact and presents the fol-
lowing explanation of the limited ar
ray: With bayonet power there
has been thrust into the body from
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
and West Virginia forty-nine of the
true carpet-bag and scalawag stripe
With a fair expression of the popular
will, it is safe to affirm that full thir-
ty-five of that number would have
been true conservative members.
which would swell the Democratic
strength to ninety-nine. Messrs
Greene, of New York, and Reading
and Foster, of Pennsylvania, were
made to vacate their seats to minori.
" contestants, making difference of
Blk in the political enumeration of the
body. Three minority contestants
nave been admitted to seats, which /
lad been refused to Democrats legal
y elected, which makes another diff
erence of six" By such means the
have driven the Democrats
rom Congress, and they will perpet-
late their power in like despotic
manner, if the people remain quiet
lnder such system.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

The people have paid within the
last four years, says an exchange, fif-
teen hundred millions of dollars in
taxes, and now the Radicals claim that
with all this vast sum at their disposal
they have reduced the national debt
within that time TIVE hundred and
eighty four millions dollars (Which is
not true) and thus according to their
own showing it has cost over three
hunered millions year for the ex-
penses of the government. And that
is what the Radicals call economy!
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

A LABOR REFORM ITEM.-At the
Boston Labor Reform Convention,
last week, this resolution was adopt
ed:
Resolred, That the refusal of Ulys-
ses 5. Grant to receive Miss Emmie A.
Lane, who visited him in respectful
manner, as the representative of the
working women of Massachusetts and
the Daughters of ST. Crispin, was a
gratuitous insult to us all, and we be-
lieve' it SO intended by Grant, and is
another evidence of his want of de-
cencyin hisipersonal and other official
intercourse with the people.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

"That the liberal principles embod.
led by Jefferson in the Declaration OF
Independence, and sanctioned in the
constitution, which makes ours the
land of liberty and the asylum of the
oppressed of every nation, have ever
Deen cardinal principles of the Demo
cratic faith, and every attempt to
aDrldge the privileges of becoming
citizens and the owners of soil ameng
US ought to be resisted with the SAM e
spirit which swept the alien and sedi-
ton laws from our statute books and
in order that we may more distinctly
declare our views of the measures and
policy of the present administration. +"
The Cleveland Leader copies the
above from the platform of the late
Democratic State Convention, and
comments thereon as follows:
"That this resolution is false in its
assertion of the past history of the
democracy is notorious. That party
has always battled with the most con-
slant prejudice and malignity, against
any extension and enlargement of the
right of citizenship to black men. 1t
has in practice refused to accept the
immortal language of the Declaration
OF independence that all men are
created equal and endowed with cer-
tain inalienable rights, among which
are life. liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness." The party never recognized
that doctrine unqualiiedly, but sought
to limit its significance to the white
race"
By the same kind of logic the Lead
er and its Radical contemporaries viii
lind it no difficult task to prove that
the authors of the Declaration of In
dependence were false to the priciples
they put forth. No one ever heard of
their favoring the extension and
enlargement of the right of citizen
ship to the black men," but they not
only sought to but did limit citizen
ship and suffrage to the white race
They left all that kind of business to
such loyal patriots as Wendell Phil
lips, Lloyd Garrison, and their disci-
pies, who for over thirty years have
been denouncing the Government and
those who created it. The Democra.
cy are quite willing to accept the Dec
laration of Independence with the in
terpretat1on it received from its au-
thors and which has been given to it
oy all statesmen Of all parties from the
origin of the Government down to the
lays when the present Jacobins OBJ
aimed the control of its affairs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

WAGONS cannot run without whoels,
boats canuot run without steam, bull
frogs cannot jump without legs, and
newspaper cannot be carried ON ev-
erlastingly without money, no more
than dog can wag his tail when he
has none. Our subscribers arc all
good, but what good does a mans
goodness do when it don't do any
good? We have no doubt that every
one thinks that all have paid except
himself, and as his account is a little
matter, it makes no matter. Strange
hallueination.-Er,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
The way 1t Work.

Twenty thousand negro votes for
the radical ticket in New York brought
about Democratic majority of ninety
thousand, at the late election in that
State. Like causes produce like effects.
The four thousand new negro votes
in Ohio this fall for the radical ticket
will be equivalent to Democratic
majority in the State in October of
fifteen thousand. Mark the prediction.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

A SHORT time ago o. II. Rayor, a
livery stable keeper in Helena, Ark,
while drunk, shot his wife in the back
of her head. Thinking he had killed
killed her, he placed his pistol to
his forehead and blew out his brains.
His wife was only stunned, the ball
having been imbedded in her water
fall. Thus it is demonstrated that
the chignon is not only an article OF
but also of utility. . tissd
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

a PROPOSITION to amend the consti-
tuition OF Vermont SO as to allow wo-
men to vote, was voted down in the
Constitutional Convention of that
State on Saturday by vote of 23I to
l. They didn't even stop to discuss
the matter. That is "trooly loil'
body of Radical patriots who don't
consider white women quite equal to
darkies, sA
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
reaehers. Examinat,on..

The Board Of School Examiners for Portage
county viii hold meetings for the examination
Of applicants, in the Court House until further
notice, commencing at 10 O'Clock a. m, and close
at p. m, as follows;
Saturday. April 18th,
Saturday, Apsll 23d
Saturday, April 30th,
Saturday, May 7th.
And on the first Saturday of each month there
after, until further notice.
W.P. HUssEY, Clerk of Board.
Ravenna April 8, 1s7O-tf
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

REPUBLICAN STATE CoNvENT1oN.-
The Republican Central Committee
have issued call for State Conven-
ton OF that party to be held at Co.
lumbus, on Wednesday, the 10th day
of August next. The counties are to
have one delegate for every five hun
dred votes cast for Governor Hayes
last fall. -y- 80
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
Great Fire at Constantinon1e.

Cable kilograms bring the details of
. most terrible confagration which
recently occurred in the Rcra district
in Constantinople. 1t was one of the
most terrible the world has ever
known. tits said that according to care
full count, over 1900, buildings many
of them the best in the city, were des-
troyed, and two hundred and fifty
lives were lost, and property valued
at $l25,OO0,000. A dispatch says=
AT some points whole families were
hemmed in by the flames, and perished
in full view of the spectators, who
were unable to rescue them. The
panic among the people was terrible,
and many who might have escaped
lost all presence of mind and were
unable to save themselves. Others in
despair made no effort to fly, and were
lost. Some of the Turks, in the spir-
it of fatalism peculiar to their race and
religion, shut themselves up in their
burning houses, refused assistance,
and met their fate without a murmur.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
Democratic State Ticket.


PREsfDExT GRANT sent messag,
to Congress on Monday on the subiec
of our relations to the struggle ii
Cuba He denounces fiilibusterins
and oppses the recognition of CubaI
independence.
DR. ii. McHENRY, of Henry coun.
ty, Ohio, is out in the North Vest, Of
Napoleon, in an article announcing
his remuneration of Republicanism
so-called, and giving his reasons there
for. He was formerly an agent OF
the Freedmen's Bureau and surgeon
to the Freedmen. The Doctor de-
tends his friend, q. w. Lowry, from
the attacks of the Napoleon Signal,
whose remuneration we gave a week
or two ago.
DEsERTING THE SINKING SHIP.-The
Democratic papers of Indiana are
daily publishing the names of Radi-
Gals who have left that party on ac-
count of its adoption of the negro
platform. Some of them are promi-
nent and influential men, and the
number of those hitherto Radicals,
who openly declare their purpose to
vote against that party is amply suffi-
clent to reyolutionize the State at the
coming election. The white mans
movement viii destroy the Radical
party in this nation.
They GIVE IT UP.-The Radical pa
pers tried to break the defeat of their
party in Oregon gently to their read
ers, by claiming that the Legislature
was in doubt; but they are compelled
to own up that they have been COM
pletely routed, the Democrats having
elected their entire State ticket, the
member of Congress. and from five
to ten majority in the Legislature, se-
curing the election of Democratic
United States Senator. in place of
Hon. Geo. II. Williams, Radical.
DEMOCRATIC VIcToRY.-The charter
election at Norwich, Conn.,, took place
on the 9th inst, and the Radicals suf.
fered an overwhelming defeat. The
telegraph says: The entire Democrat
ic ticket, including the Mayor, was
elected by large majority. This
change in the stronghold of Republi-
canism has been due in great meas
ure to the folly or baseness of Presi-
dent Grant in his distribution of the
Federal patronage. Even a patriotic
young soldier, marked and SCARED in
the service, was removed from the
postoffice to make place for small
beer politician, against the protest of
he entire community.
OREGON has elected the first mem
'er of the Forty-second Congress. Mr..
James +. Slater, the new Congress-
men, is Democrat, and his election
good omen for the political char
cter of the next Congress. The
Democratic victory in Oregon, follow
ng as sclosely as it has after the sweep
ng victory of this State, and achieved
g 1t was in spite of the efforts of one
+ the strongest politicians ON the
'acifc coast-Senator Williams-is
mother proof of the turning of the
olitical tide. Whatever may be the
esult of the next Presidential election
is already evident that the next
louise of Representatives is to be !.
)emocratic.- World.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
RaVenna Summit Mill
AND
FLOUR and FEED STORE,

HAVING opened a Flour and Feed Store In
- the first Shanty" south of the Exchange
both the Mill and the Feed Store a full stock Of
everything pertaining to the Milling business
Customers can buy at either establishment
any thing in my line at the same price ON ac-
count of my advantage in rent, 1 can sell as low
or lower than any other concern in Rayenna.
w. L. BRADLEY
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

DIED,

phoid Fever, Mrs. Louisa E., wife of Leonard
8. Corbett, in the 4eth year of her age.
In the death Of Mrs. C. we are more deeply i'm
pressed with the truth that lin the midst of
life we are in death' for, but three short weeks
previous, she was attending to her household
anairs, being considered one of the most robust
women In the community. She leaves a hus.
band, hve children, -four sons and one daugh-
departure. II M
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

A NUMBER of prisoners confined in
the Jail at Cleveland attempted to
break out on Thursday last by saving
OF the iron bars of their cells with
steel saws. Fortunately they were
caught in the very act, and frus trated
in their designs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

GARRET WRIGHT, a Fifteenth a.
mendment," was committed to Jail
at Cleveland on Saturday by the Uni
ted States Commissioners charged with
having passed counterfeit $40 note
on man named RosenbIatt.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

HoME to tn Press oillce on Chestnut Street
CArdsprinted,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16

We have hny different styles of genuine
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-06-16
AMERICAN TIME KEEPERS,

which VIC have cased up in styles, which our
long experience in the business has proved to
be well suited to the wants of the Ladies and
Gentlemen Of Portage County.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-26
"NErTA'S" GREAT WORK.

sLnu Eonesr Industry be Protected md Re-
spected s-Recruiring the Ranks Of. the
SaIcswomen's Protective Unon-,NeIson w.
Young on Early Closing for the 5alcsvv0.'
men.
The seventh regular meeting OF the Saleswcmen'e
Early Closing Association was held last evening In
PIimpton Buildings, Charles wittenpacher In the
chair.
Miss "Nettan was elected vice president. Reports
were now heard. Miss 'Settan anu Mrs. Dunn, who
were appointed to canvass Eighth avenue for men,
bers reported that eleven candidates had expressed
their desire TO be elected Miss NJ. Cam reported
from Sixth avenue that many were willing to join,
but they were unwnling 10 have their names mada
public From Twentieth To Thirty eighth street Miss
McGowau reported as having canvassed, and that
nine were found willing to join but that none were
Miss Clark and Rush reported that Grand street
was inaccessible That the propreiors would nos
permit them 10 speak to the girls but that the sales
women themselves were anxious " have the stores
| close at seven L. M.
| Miss - said that in Catherine street thev
| found no success. six members were secured In
The President addressed some sensible remarks
to the saieswomen, advising them TO COHESION.
patience and well directed efforts. He Called for
larger committees. better organization and more
vigor In the operations OF tie society.
Mr.. NELSON w. Young, President OF the Working
mems Union was here introduced by the chairman.
He had gone through considerable experience in
forming labor protective organizations. He would
say to the young ladies that they needed both MEM
men, and all they needed patienco
and energy. MIR. Young then recounted bis
connection with the organization or tho
pioneer female organization or the Union. They
supported their own sick, protected them and gave
SCRIPTURE to the dead. AppIause.) The sum Of
$1,000 had been contributed by the bosses to breax
down this Umbrella Protective Union. lie was
conservative. lie believed that the employer had
rights well the employed. He thought
ployers should be petitioned. The young LADIES'
should not be deferred by detcacy. put all should
combine and urge both the employers and the EN-
thy and active support and charged them To obtain
members and to secure funds. loud applause.)
Mrs. LEONARD, President OF the Parasol anI,U
brella Protective Association, made address, stat
Ing she would patr0nlze no girl Who was not q
society girl. tApplause.)
Mr.. YOUNG proposed q white and n black list in
canvassing for members IL would be convenient
for reference. Other addresses followed
The meeting as whole promised wei for the fu-
ture ana the prospects that organization Will
yet rise from the foundation laid by the heroic Netla
that may ameliorate the conditions Of the working
women and make them strong, united and power
lu element Of the body polite In this city,