The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-05-05

have already been somewhat extend
ed, / must needs refrain.
Your fellow Republican,
JOHN G. HALL.
Ravenna, May 2, 1870. ~
Plot TO AssAssINATE THE EMPEROR.
The Paris police have discovered
and thwarted plot to assassinate the
On Friday morning one
Beaun, recently from England, was
on whom was found large
sum of money, a pistol and letter
from London, emanating from a man
who was implicated in similar plot
in February last. This letter and the
confession made by Beaun himself,
leave no doubt of his intention to i'm
make an attempt to assassi-
nate the Emperor. Last night other
persons were arrested in the Belle
vile quarter. AT the house of one
of these the police seized a large guam
tity of powder and number of ex-
plosive bombs, together with direc-
tions how to use them. This plot has
for its principal organizers, many
members of the International Asso-
citation of Workingmen of Paris, some
of whom have already been arrested.
Another dispatch dated the after
noon of Saturday, says: Two Secre-
taries of the International Associa-
ton of Workingmen were arrested
this afternoon. The police found up
on their persons complete list of ad-
herents to the plot. The authorities
are now securing the city for these
persons. The person first arrested
(Beaum) was not a deserter from the
French army as at first reported. He
was merely disguised as soldier that
suspicion might not be excited. Great
military and police precautions are be-
ing taken, tonight. j.
MARVELLOUS FEATS OF GREAT GOUR-
MANDS IN THE PAST CENTURY.
In the time of Charles the First,
Taylor, the water poet, gave an 40
count of one Nicholas Wood, a Kent
ish man, who had a power of slowing
away a marvellous quantity of food at
a meal. He was credited with having
on one occasion deyoured a whole
raw sheep; on another, three dozen
pigeons; on a third, several rabbits !;
on fourth, Is yards of black pudding !;
while on two other occasions the
quantities set down were 80 pounds of
cherries and three pecks of damsons.
But it will be better to disbelieve
these statements, and attend to the
more moderate though still startling
account given by Taylor, that "Two
loynes of mutton and one loyne of
veal were as three sprats to him.
Once at Sir Warham st. Leger's house
he showed himself so violent of teeth
and stomach that he ate as much as
would have served 80 men, so that his
belly was like to turn bankrupt and
break, but that the serving man turned
him to the fire, and apnointed his
paunch with grease and butter to
make it stretch and hold; and after
wards, being laid in bed, he slept
eight hours, and tasted all the while,
which when the kight understood, he
commanded him to be laid in the
stocks, and there to endure as long as
he had lain bedrid with eating" In
the time of George the First there
was man, who, in u fit of religious
enthusiasm, tried to maintain a Lenten
fast of 40 days and 40 nights. Break
ing down in this resolution after 6
few days, he took revenge on himseli
by becoming an enormous eater, de
vouring large quantities of raw fesf
with much avidity. Somewhat over
q century ago, Polish soldier, pre-.
sented to the court of Saxony as {
marvel of voracity, one day ate q
pounds of beef and half q roasted
calf. About the same time, you'll
II, apprentice to Thames waterman
ate five pounds of shoulder of lamb
and two quarts of green peas in 81
minutes. %. Haa
An aehievment of about equal glut
tony was that of brewers man, wht
at an inn in Aldersgate street, demol
ishsd roast goose of six pounds
weight, quartern loaf and thre,
quarts of porter in an hour and Il
minutes. Early in the reign of Georg'
the third, watehmaker's apprentice
10 years of age, in three-quarters o
an hour deyoured leg of porl
weighing six pounds, and q proper
, tionate quantity of peas pudding
washing down these comestibles witt
q pint of brandy taken off in tw,
draughts, A few years afterwar,
there was a beggar at Coffin gen who
on more than one occasion, ate
pounds of meat at one meal, Afte
/ his death his stomach, which was YER
large, was found to contain numerou
, bits of flint and other odds and end:
: which nature very probably refuse,
! to recognize as food. In fact, settin
aside altogether the real Or allege
f eating up of u whole sheep or hog
the instances are very numerous i
? which joint sufficient for famil
> has disappeared at meal within tn
unworthy corpus of one man. sia