The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-03-31
GENERAL NDws.


ference voted, 80 to 50, in favor Of lay
delegates.
THE Senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment of Bradley as associate
Justice of the o. s. Supreme Court.
The graining mill Of the Dupont
Powder Works at Wilmington, Della
ware, exploded on Friday afternoon
killing Darby McAlcer.
"A MAN named John Ulrich, clerk in
dry goods store at indianapolis,
committed suicide ON Thursday last,
by cutting his throat with a pen knife.
tGES. PLEAsANToN has been con-
firmed as collector of the Thirty-sec-
ond district of New York, in place of
Bailey, the absconding defaulter.
The steamer Dolphine, from Phila-
delphia, for Richmond, was burned to
the weter's edge on Tuesday, at
Patuxent, Maryland. The crew bare
ly escaped with their lives.
The Senate Joint resolution of the
Ohio Legislature to adjourn to-day,
was reconsidered in the House on
Friday, and the resolution laid on the
table.
THE Republican State Central Com
mittee has fixed the time for holding
the next Republican Convention of
this State on the 10th of August, at
Columbus. t ~
No tidings yet of the City of Bos-
ton. II has been ascertained that she
had fifty-five cabin and fifty-two
steerage passengers and crew COM
sisting of eighty-four men.
The war department rejects the col
ored youth proposed by Mr.. Butler
for appointment to the military acad-
emy, on the ground that he is not of
the required age.
The Germans of Memphis held a
meeting last Thursday and appointed
a committee to procure signatures to
a memorial protesting against Con-
gressional interference in the state of
Tennessee. s. .fssss 8 5aa.a.s
The steamboat Jefferson, from Red
River, with eight hundred and thirty
four bales of cotton, was burned on
Sunday at the mouth of Black river.
The boat and cargo are total loss,
No lives were lost.
ON Thursday last Edward James,
workman on the air line railroad at
East Hampton was killed by the pre-
mature explosion of a blast which
sent him fifty feet in the air. Two
other persons were injured, probably
fatally. svaog
The mills of the Hampden paper
company at Holyoks, Mass, were
burned last Sunday night. Loss $3.50
600; insured 100000. One hundred
and fifty hands are thrown out Of em-
ployment. The company win rebuild
at once.
ACCOUNTS have been received at
Des Moines, Iowa, of the freezing of
twelve men in the northwestern part
of that state during the severe storm
of the 18th inst. Six others are miss
ing in Sac county, and it is feared that
they have met a similar fate. -
ON Friday last, Catherine Brown, q
colored woman, obtained verdict of
$1,000 in the Circuit Court at WASH
ington, against the Washington
Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad
Company, for damages on account of
having been elected from the cars sew
eral years ago. fga
Miss L. BANKALow, of Brooklyn,
N. Y. has been admitted by the Cir
cult Court of st. Louis to practice law
in the State of Missouri. She passed
a very severe examination, and re-
seived high enconiums from the Judge.
She will commence practice in st.
Louis. The world moves. q
The National Banks and private
brokers of Chicago in connection with
the representatives OF several banking
institutions in other parts of the West
held meeting at Chicago on Friday
and adopted a memorial to Congress
protesting against the passage of the
funding bill now pending in the
House of Representatives.
The Baltimore s. Ohio Railroad
Company has rendered the Ohio Leg
islature a special train of magnificent
coaches for q free excursion to the
National Capital and return. The
day after the Adjournment is fixed for
starting on the trip.
An old man named John Gardner,
who had been for five years an in
mate of the InfrmarY at Cleveland,
and most of that time under the care
of a nurse and medical attendants,
jumped from the window of the third
story, during the temporary absence
of the nurse, about one O'Clock on
Friday morning and was instantly
killed. ,-.3 5assfi
New YORK, March 2S.-A list OF
some twenty buildings, damaged by
yesterdays storm, is published. -Four
soldiers were carried down the bay II
small building, swept off Governors
Island, but were rescued by tug boat
A young woman named Ella Greed
was thrown violently against stooT
by the wind aud died from the effects
A DWELLING house in Dunleith, Ill
occupied by French family named
Ogia, was totally destroyed by fire
short time before midnight, Wednes
day night oflast week. Ogia and ont
of his children, boy about eigh
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