The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-14
THURSDAY. DEu. Is. ss71
Os "Wednesday last CASTOR, Dem
ocrat, has been elected Mayor of Bos-
ton by 3, 100 majority.

Os "Wednesday last GAsros, DEM
ocrat, has been elected Mayor of Bos-
ton by 3, 100 majority.
AT the municipal election in Wor-
cestef, Mass, on Monday last. Geo. II.
Very. the Citizens candidate. was
elected Mayor by majority OF 1000
over George Crompton, the regular
Republican nominee.
80 OK Sunday of last week seventeen
men of a party of emigrants were fro
zen to death in Kansas.
r The Governor of Wyoming vetoed
the bill repeating the woman suffrage
act of that territory. al 1
2 A WASHINGTON DISPATCH says that
3 a bill is to be introduced in Congress
to extend the operations of the Ku
klux act and the suspension of the
habeos corpus beyond the present ses-
sion. e9 slf1e aae rt9
The Senate of Louisiana, on the 9Th
inst, elected Pinchback, ,eolored, speak
er of that body by vote of l8 to Is.
The constitution makes him Lieuten-
ant Governor tits regarded as vic
z tory over the Yarmouth faction. 81
- The revolution in Mexico is said TO
be gaining ground. u5
On the night of the 9th inst. de-
strnctive fire visited Lincoln, Ill.,
s Twenty-Five frame stores and four sta
bies were burned. Loss estimated at
$4,000. .,s
A FIRE at Hagerstown. Md, ON the
evening of the 9th inst, DESTROYED the
Episcopal church, the court house, and
alSumber of other buildings. Several
lives were lost and number of per-
soRs were injured by the falling of the
couft tshouse dome. The loss OF prop
erty is estimated at $4,000. s ai
ssfnTHE Democrats of Georgia have
nominated Hon. j. M. Smith as their
candidate for Governor. zz
a WAsHIHGToN TELEGRAM positive
ly denies the report of the New I ork
: Herald, that an effort is about TO be
made TO impeach his Royal Highness,
President Grant sf
SENATOR SUMNER is about to intro
duce bill into Congress to abolish
the Internal Revenue Bureau. This
viii be generally acceptable to the peo-
pie, as they would thereby get rid of
an army of office holders in that de-
partment who eat out about eight
millions of the substance of the peo-
pie, annually .s4
s STATISTICS in the Office of the Secre-
/, tary Of State of Ohio give tho death
of negro woman, named Sailie Toul,
during the year, aged one hundred and
Sthirty-two years. She was born in
:, Mobile in l739, and lived for years
among the Indians, residing twenty
one years in Mercer County, where
she died in February last. i9
Ole BULL has been forced to pay
$500 for failing to fulfill an engage
ment in New York some time ago.
The Labor Reformers of New
Hampshire have nominated Samuel
L. Cooper as their candidate for Gov
ernor- 81 .fr lf
ACCORDING to the New York. Tri-
bune, the Quakers are holding revival
meetings in the East for the purpose
,of increasing their membership. ll
On Tuesday last, number of me-
groes living in the vicinity of stark
vile, Miss, entered that town, armed
with pistols, shot-guns, muskets, ETC.,
threatening the release of several OF
their color confined in jail. The Sher-
iff organized a possee of citizens to
protect the jail, and with his party was
attacked by the negroes, one of the
Sheriff's posse and himself being
wounded. The fire was returned, and
three negroes wounded, but not NOR
tally. j. f. Steward subsequently,
surrendered himself to the police, &C.
knowledging that he shot Cole, but
that it was done in self-defense, and
> was bailed in the sum of $4,000. a'