The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-02-09

the Southern District of Ohio, soor
to be made vacant by the retirement
= of Judge Leavitt.
- THE result of the Municipal election
sssfse in Wheeling few days ago, was, fol
Mayor-Jeffers, Democrat, ,4S6, and
for Han, Independent, 945. The Dem.
'ssf ocrats also carried a majority of the
City Council.
OYER 123, ,351 ,226 passengers have
been carried over the Massachusetts,
aiz railroads within the past five years,
out of which only 81 have been in
~ jured.
The London Economist made the
2fii calculation of the values ofethe prop
erty endangered by the bombardment
-is3eof Paris, aud set it down at 81 ,443,-
100000, sa 81 liz sfte .,s .azf =
iiiy ,giJErF. DAVIS cotton loan of 1868 is
still bought and sold on the London
e. Stock Exchange, where there is about
-as $l3,000,000 worth of it held. slt
IT is said that the iRothchilds have
s advanced the. French Republic the
70 war contribution which has been lev
s3s led by the Germans on Paris.
- =. TIM people of, Cleveland are making
"a, arrangements for grand fair to raise
~ funds forlthe relief of the French and
-a1 German sufferers in the late war.
.l.se, The Labor Reformers have issued a
bss call fora National Convention to be
saoiilIeld at Columbus, on the third
u hWednesday of October, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for
10 q PRESIDENT and Vice President of the
10 limited States. ri 5a eiisda3 9!i
j u. iIssl HENRY WARD BErcHER receives "a
-,,ts. salary of $4,000, an increase of S.
1998000s The pewsin his church rented a
few days ago for the aggregate sum of
h1s:so$68,0O0: 1: Within a speaking distance
-, from his church are children so des-
OF .rtitute that they piteously beg for
isIinbread. Yet they call this christianity.
CoNGREss is now attempting TO pass
ae,o aTlaw by which the President will be
10 eenabled to send troops to every elee-
-a21 tlonf precinct in the United States, if
he SO desires The former. law limi-
af ted his interference to cities having a
mo4population of 1000 and over. u lE6
y Fly AAlFFrER < lapse of ten years the State
.sr of Georgia is again represented in the
-tsgeSenate ofthe United States. Joshua
nniIIili, Conservative, was admitted on
NV "Wednesday DR.. Miller, who was
~ ~ elected by the same Legislature, be-
a4uing an outspoken Democrat, was not
admitted. Mr.. HILL was the last of
the Georgia members of Congress
TO WHO seeded in 1860. - -, ~, ..ft 4sI
adj The Senatorial term of Revels, the
,sIIi negro Senator efren Mississippi, ex-
5oa pires on the 4th of March next. He
.11 has. not created as much of q sensa-
bartion during. his. brief term as many of
i his Radical admirers anticipated. In
mi fact'the first negro Senator has been a
ss5asfsilure.. His seat will be occupied for
hgc the next six years, by .Alcorn, who
alivwas in the rebel army up to the close
.smof the owar He is now ssloyal .
issitRadical. tgs9 ....t5s11l -
ofls4 The Nebraska Legislature is greatly
.9roexcited over the discovery that Gov
" ernora Butler, the Executive of that
sla9,State, has miappropriated, without
M authority of law, 81 |, 900 of funds paid
-a5to him by the National Government
IS on the war account, which ought
sih properly to have been paid into, the
~ State Treasury. Steps have been
bsi taken, looking TO the impeachment of
fsd the Governor, but that will not get
on the money back. 80 .,sli = 5.,5..i,4I,ea
Jssttt Ftt+t ------------eN Ns-~--------.
ngsd FIRST IN THE F1EID.-The prohibi-
=. tionists are to hold State Convention
10 at Delaware on the 22d inst. to put in
determination candidates for Governor,
ad Judge of the Supreme Court, Auditor
of State, Treasurer of State, and mem-
Der of the Hoard of Public Works,
1ai to be supported by the Temperance
ss4party of Ohio at the ensuing October
edt election, zniino9a q si5eta1
ytTsg -L4zl--L Loo. -.--- .---- II ---tl =
cd WEST Va. SENATOR The Legisla-
,55i ture Of West Virginia have elected
~ - hon. Henry R. Davis, Democrat,
IN United States Senator from that State,
aGinplace of!Mr. Wiley, Radical, whose
ypterm expires on the 4th of March
next Mi. Davis is at present a men,
So bersof, the State Senate from Mineral
diicounty, and has been member of the
Legislature for five years. Hssis a
self-made man, and has attained his
II present position by his own native
liability and force of character. "a b
ygan5i 'e.f g! 81 8
.d,fif IT seems "a little strange says the
batIYorgo, that the allowed accounts OF
the subjoihed States for war EXP enses
should stand as follows: .g9 x9elJD
1faesachus settS % e. 81 So 751 72S Of
h New I ork ~ g.. 4, -. q. ,232, ,325 ~
Pennsylvania. .,..si- III. 3,l3o,4o0. AZ
ONO -. +ta.t 80 .-s.- -. Eo,Olo,sfo.ZS
.4lI Or Massachusetts, $500, 1000 more
patriotic in the war. than New York
s 100000 more than Pennsylvania, and
T., 100000 more than Ohio. Either this
aoor else that State is successfully re-
sorting second time to those suction
tactics which have secured, two OF
= = three payments in full for her well.
known services to the Union in the
war of 1872. Nfto q --.3sfe5 1'
Tas 3EcoNoMY.-The Radical Governor
hTof Missouri appointed . man to fill
the place in the U. S. Senate made va
!, caut by the resignation of Drake, who
oAoniyo occupied the place two or three
weeks, yet he received pay for a year
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