The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-05-11
LETTER FROM CLEVELAND.
NUMBER. q.

a Jew DAYS ago friend of ours
thought he would try his fOrtuW in
one of those public. sales, where the
! unclaimed freight and eXpressage OF
the rsilread is put up at auction. The
articles to be sold are-inclosed in bar
rels or boxes. so that no one knows
on what he is bidding, can only Judge
by the size and heft of the boxes, &c.
But our friend made an examination
of the various boxes and barrels the
day before the sale, and discovering
two heavy barrels. came to the conclu-
sion that they would be safe objects
upon which to invest money. On the
following. day he attended the sale
and invested $1,000 in the barrels
with their contents. and had.them re-
moved 70 his boarding place On ex-
animation of their contents he found
that he had. purchased about three
hundred cast iron stove hampers. AS
he is a book-keeper in one of our
prominent book stores, he is fully sat-
isied that he has all the stove damn
ers necessary for his domestic -happi-
ness. Oftentines considerable mon
ey is made at these sales, One gentle
man not long ago invested $3.50 in a
smallish sized box, the contents of
which proved to be a beautiful silver
tea set, for which the lucky purchaser
was offered $4,000, but refused to
sell for that.
The Clcvelanders are agitating the
expediency of building a "High
Bridge which shall span the valley
between the East and West Side: pub
lie meetings are being held, and there
is strong probability that the bridge
will be constructed.
This is a great church going CITY,
AS the various church bells through
out the different parts of the CITY
sound the hour of half past ten
o'clock, the streets and side walks are
filled with carriages and footmen, 90
ing to their different churches. AS
there are fifty-nine different church
organizations there is ample room for
choice. The Roman Catholics claim
eleven of these.
We wonder if the readers of the
PRESS ever estimated the cost of sim
gle match. We do not mean those
matches that some excentric persons
claim are made in heaven, but the
kind that are made not only on earth.
but mostly Of pine wood. In CONVEX
sation with one of the members of
the American Match Company, he in
formed US that the cost of making
one match exclusive of box and stamp.
was one five hundreth part of a cent.
We are also informed that the cost of
Danford's Burning Fluid, which is ex-
tensively used under different names.
inclusive of barrel, is less than ten
cents per gallon.
The Council and friends of J. F.
Galentine are working industriously
and skillfully to secure his pardon.
his lady friends. including his mother
have been and are engaged in circu-
lating a. petition to the Governor, for
his pardon, over five thousand sigma
lures have been obtained. Persons
who would refuse to sign a paper for
the pardon of one who they believe,
is sentenced justly, when such a pa
per is presented by gentleman, find
it hard to refuse the appeals Of
mother.
We regret to write that one of
Cleveland's ablest lawyers, Judge
Ranney, has for some time been very
his sickness has been of such
a nature as to excite serious apprehen-
sions of his friends as to his recov-
cry. not being able to attend to the
slightest business. We understand
from his son that he is slowly recov-
ering: Over taxation of the mind is
one great cause of his illness.
JENKINS.