The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
NEWS ITEMS.


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A SILVER mountain has been discovered in
Colorado and all hands are in for lode; > '7,'
AT Long Branch hotel they fire cannon as
signal for dinner, = y
BTHK President on the 4th issued his procla-
nation announcing the ratification Of the treaty
Of Washington. s------- - - :
TIE decrease in internal revenue collection
for the fiscal year ending on Friday, as compared
with last year. is $40 ,26s 534. eS,| shS
ROME, Ga, ON the sth inst voted unanimously
to subscribe 800 600 to the Northern & Southern
r. Railroad from Rome to Columbia, in that State.
HOUSE with four persons inside was sruck
by lightning, at Lone Tree, Nebraska on the
9th inst, and all the inmates killed
THE merchants OF Youngstown have formed
an association to protect themselves against
those who buy goods on credit and then never
pay. i. ~ 'fif1i 3
- A MAJORITY of the Hamilton county delega-
tion in the Radical State convention opposed the
nomination of Noyes, because he was recent
carpet-bag importation from New Hampshire.
THE Carriage factory of T.. j. Flowers with
nine houses, sheds, &C., at Tarrytown. n. Y.
was destroyed by fire on the night of the 4th.
The fire was caused by the falling of rocket on
the roof. ari~k -fiB Gac
2THE detectives are making sad havoc among
the counterfeiting gang in Wisconsin. About a
dozen belonging to that fraternity have been ar
rested recently, and the work goes bravely on.
THE orangemen are to have parade in
New York to-day Wednesday, and lis report
ed that the Irish societies to the number of IL :
600 win openly resort TO force to prevent the pa
~ -FOUR business places with the greater part of
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their contents were destroyed by fire at Blooms
burg, Pa, on the morning of the 5th.-Loss esti-
mated at $22.OoO. mostly insured. The fire is
supposed 70 nave been caused by fireworks.
TaE government returned to Washington
from Long Rranch on the evening Of the 9th
inst, for short time His visit was supposed
10 have some reference to the little unpleasant
ness between Commissioner Pleasanton and Sec
retary Boutwell,, .a. 5ss eaf Btts
A TERRIBLE storm of wind and rain. acconlpa-
MED by fearful lightning passed over Mound
ville five miles below wheeling W. Va. about
nve O'CLOCK Thursday afternoon, Houses We're
unroofed, fences blown down and great iquanti-
ties of grain destroyed. The stockade around
the w. Va, penitentiary was blown down and a
prisoner named Frank Jennings made his es7
cape.
TIE Scieatifc ARerican has the cheerful news
for bankers and business men, that it is now sim.
pOssiutc " CohstruCt DurSiar-proOl saIe--1Or
the thief with his cyIenders of compressed Nv
anu can, IN lew momenes purn
u any s,Ze IN the naroese metai-nis nre
urn ehapiihg hinl' In lew mlnutes, 10 WORK
ms way INTO the strongest saie that was ever
constructed
THE special agent of the Treasury Department.
reports defalcation to the amount of eleven
thousand dollars, in the custom house at Savan-
nah. Georgia Eight Thousand dollars of the
eleven thousand, was covered by false vouchers
and the balance put down as extra charges not
authorized by law. Another evidence of the
honest ana taitntui collection oil the revenue. "
DURING the storm of Tuesday afternoon of
last week, the house known as the old residence
of John Rhook, in Coitsville township, was total.
ly demolished by lightning. The lightning
struck a locust tree standing near the house. ran
from it to an cave trough and thence apparent-
ly, to every nook and corner of the buildings
completely splintering and razing the entire
structure -
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