The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-06-15

70 CHARLES PATTERSON, fs5tl Z
dBi} Of Franklin County. ~ ae
aD II NEWS ITEMS. 5di .aHa9
The Wheat harvest has commenced
in the region of Leavenw worth, Kansas.
1t is said the crop never was better.
A VERSAILLES despatch of the 9th
inst, says one hundred and fifty
Communists were executed yesterday.
LATE adyices from the Cape of Good
Hope are to the effect that accounts
from the diamond fields are still en-
couraging. gsf5,;.5s4-. s...5. g.s..5
The Polaris left Washington on Sat-
urday for New York, and will leave
that port aboHt the 25th inst. for the
N orth Pole. gise .5lte oa ff
On Sunday, the 4th inst, DR.. VIM.
nj. Lyon, prominent physician and
esteemed citizen of Salem, fell dead of
an apoplectic fit in his Office.
DR. HALL, a Mississippi planter liv-
ing near Grenada, was murdered re-
Gently at his home. The deed is sup
posed to have been committed by
negroes. ~ ! 50 ~ 9s p
THERE is a woman named Hender-
son living in Chester, Meigs county,
who is Ill years old. She was born
Virginia, and is believed to be the
Oldest person living in Ohio. 4
A FIRE at Oakland, Livingston Co.,
n. Y!yon Thursday night last, Destroy
ed the Presbyterian church. hotel,
and two dwellings, Loss $I5,O00.-
InanTlnHos r Hsf ) &
The Planning Mill Of Hurlbut &
Dodge, on Merwin ST., Cleveland, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday evening.
Supposed to be the work of incendia-
ries. Loss 81, 900. ~ aat -
GEN. GEO. w. McCooK, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, is to
address the people of Belmont Coun-
ty on Tuesday next His speech will
be the opening of the campaign. d595
A COMPANY has been formed for the
construction at st. Louis of the largest
and grandest Railroad Depots in the
world. The capital stock is to be $3,-
100000. The real estate costs $780,
600; tunnel $6l5,000; depot building
$1,OO00OO. se -. - slg - : -
A COUPLE of enferprising young
men of Massillon recently paid $110
charges on box of saw dust and
shavings. ed They had sent TO New
York, ordering s., 600 of the /" queer"
Their education is rather expensive,
but they wont learn in any other
school, .hi3sia 1e iaot I3liia
ANNE WILT, for entering the gar
den of Mrs. Mary A. Harman, in Co.
l,1r ~ fa ~ e.
Joining therefrom number of cabbage
one hundred and fifty dollars bail,
committed to the couHty jail to answer
charge of petit larceny.-Salem J ON,
AN Omaha telegram of the 9th inst,
says :; There is car of specie here
from California for. the government,
on its way east, containing eleven
million dollars. It is detained by the
high water in the river, making it's
crossing dangerous. 1t is well guard
ed by soldiers. saev zo1safi ~
A DEFICIT has been found in the ac-
count of f. a. Mccartney, superin-
tendent. and disbursing officer of the
Post Office Department., amounting
to from $4,000 to $4,000. He has
been in bad health for the past year,
and has been sent to the insane asy-
lum. ssH1o '4 ti'iiii,.-
A DESPATCH from Constantinople
dated the 7th iHst.,rssays that fires
broke out that morning simultaneous
ly in four places, and at one time two
hundred houses were in flames. For
tunately the wind was light, and there
was q prospect of getting the confa-
grafton under control. The fires are
supposed to be the work of incendia-
RES. i40R ~ sbnGa 10 .oi gts7seod
TwoCounty Commissioners of AL
legheny county, Pa, named McGee
and Nelly, who plead guilty to re-
ceiving bfibes for granting liquor
licenses, were sentenced at Pittsburgh
on Saturday, to pay a fine of two
thousand dollars each, and undergo
imprisonment in the work house one
year. f9s1 1'.A'' 'lssss-A .sis'e 9.slI'
A FEW, days since, Quin Day, a col
ored barber, in Salem, drew a pistol on
Thomas Sharpnack, of that place, and
with loud cursings, threatened to shoot
him., The !" intelligent and reliable
"man and brother +" was arrested and
placed under, bonds of $500 to appear
in the Court of Common. Pleas to an
swer the charge of carrying concealed
weapons. aqs.tt .fas4igils Id 81 5
A MAN named John Kurth aged
fifty-five years, Swiss by birth, liv.
ing with his daughterand son-in-law
in Cleveland, committed suicide by
blowing his brains out with a pistol
on Sunday forenoon. He eAhad been
for long time insane upon the sub
Af ko
sent to the Newburgh Asylum. 9ss
Mrs. FAIR has been sentenced to .bs
hanged at San Francisco on the 28tl
of July next, for the murder of hel
paramount. The Constitution of Cal
ifornia does not permit the Governor
to commute the sentence of con
demned criminal, and Mrs Fair viii
therefore, suffer, the full penalty o
the law unless the Governor shoult
grant her parden.j ST. 80 bias siia
A FEW days ago a lot of boys a
San Francisco peltedsa Chinaman t
death In the public streets with stone
while crowd of persons stood b.
witnessing the sport without raisin
q hand to interfere with the eutra
geous transaction I'VE have seen n
notice of Grants sending an army t
California to compel the people torec
ognize the equality of races. .tiit:iola
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GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPsHIRE.-
On Saturday last. the two Houses G
the Legislature of New Hampshir
met in Joint Convention and ballote
for Governor, with the following re
suit s James A. Weston, Democrs