The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-07


session At Columbus on Monday last.
Ex-Goy EESoR JoHs BrGLEB. OF California,
died at sacramento on the LIST inst
wAE has broken out in Africa. on the route
pursued by explorers,
THE population OF Russia is about So 900 .oo0
or double that Of any other christian power.
The Apechcs are successfully raidfng South
ern orizona. More Quakers nre wanted in that
region
THE Legislature of California met on Mon
day The Democrats have four majority in the
Senate.
Bowen. the bigamist, has been elected to the
State Legislature of South Carolina. as a Repre-
sentative from Charleston county.
THE revolution in Mexico is making head a
state OF anarchy is reported to prevail through
out. The people express fears Of American in
teryention
THE monthly statement of the public debt pub
Hshed on the 1st inst by the Secretary OF the
Treasury, shows decrease during the moth of
November of $3.45l $50 IS.
THE Democrat. OF Wooster, have determined
upon having one Of their old-times Festivals on
tho ensuing sth of january. They have already
commenced making arrangents for the occasion.
THE Woman Suffrage Act Of Wyoming Terri
the 1st inst, by vote of to 4. The act was
signed by Governor Campbell.
1T is again reported that Secretary Fisk and
Attorney General Akerman will re tire from the
Cabinet Pierrepont. of New York is named as
risks successor.
A LOVING wife in Danbury, Conn., on the de-
cease of her husband, sent the following thrill
ing telegraph to d distant friend: = Dear John
is dead. Loss fully covered by insurance y
On Tuesday, of last week, eight young college
students were eHecuted at Havana, Cuba. for vi
olating the grave of Gonzalo Castanon. Several
others were sentenced to four years imprison-
ment
GREELEY tells Grants ofice-hoiders to stand
out of the way and let the taxpayers of the
country nominate a President. Nonsense, Hor-
acei In that case their occupation would be
gone.
UP to November 2sth, the Chicago Relief and
Aid Society had received 81 EOS 600 in cash for
the benefit of the sufferers by the great fire. The
contributions came from forty States and Terri
tories.
OK the morning OF the 1st inst. T. w. Len
drum, a night clerk in the postofIlce at Louis
vile, Ky, was arrested for robbing the mails in
the ONCE. Eleven letters were found on his per-
son.
A FEW days ago Mr.. Samuel +, Plaik, of
Wooster. while hunting near Seville Station. shot
n white quail 1t is said to be the second one in
the United States. the other being in Barnum's
Museum New York.
AT GAINESVILLE on Friday last, George w El-
rick, workman in planning mill, was found
dead suspended by a strap from the rail OF n
transom in his room at the American House
Domestic trouble and intemperanec.
CossoLLY. late Controller of New York city
has been arrested on charge of fraud. preferred
By Charles O'Connor, and his bail has been fixed
at one million of dollars. Failing TO obtain bail
he has been committed to prison.
j. n. MCCULLOUGH. General Manager of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, assumed the
management of the Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railroad on the 1st of December, under the re-
cent lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany.
A YOUNG man named Vets, near West Meridi-
an. Conn.,. on the 2Sd ult, killed his mother and
then took his own life. He cut his mothers
throat with butcher knife. He was i'll and had
became insane. The father and sister heard no
noise
THE sayans in Washington ridiculed the idea
that tin ore had been found in Utah, and de-
clared it was nothing but bad cadmium. The
point of the joke is fully understood. when it is
said that cadmium is more than twice as yalua-
BILE.
RUSSIA is organizing an immense and formid-
able army. Can it be that war with its lately
victorious neighbor. the new kmpirc of Germany
is intended. since Alexander reached the I'M
perial throne of Russia, the country has been
blessed with uninterrupted peace.
THIS is the last sensation: The carpet-bag
thieves who control South Carolina have bank
rupted the State by fraudulent issue of $40 0U0 :
600. The Tweedites of New York can impair the
finances of city. but it takes ring of Radicals
to steal whole state poor.
AN idea of the great heat of the Wisconsin
Gres may be gathered from the TACT that in tho
potato fileds at Williamsyillc, where fifty mine
dead bodies were found, the potatoes were all
roasted near The surface of the ground and some
six inches under the ground were partially roast
ed.
JAMES TARR, owner of the fLmous Tarr farm,
died in Meadville recently. This farm consisted
one hundred and ninety -one acres and wasn't
worth much for agricultural purposes, but has
yielded on about four acres. A646, 600 barrels of
oil. He was offered and refused $1,000, ,0O0 for
it.
THE people of Cincinnati are working hard to
secure the holding of the next National Conven-
tions of the two polical parties in that city The
Common Council has appointed committees to
and Republican Committees to lay before them
their propositions.
THE conduct of General Schehck in appearing
as Director, in advertisements in the London
papers, of speculative mining company, was
considered in the Cabinet and it was de
cided that unless Minister Schenck himself took
notice of it in letter TO the Government moth
ing in the meantime shonld be done about it,
THE annual Report of the Ohio State Treasur-
er, Warner. shows that total receips of the State
for the year ending November 10Th, amounted
90 6,040, ,223, and disbursements to S5 292 O46 From
the general revenue fund there were g. ia O37,
from the sinking fund 81 GIL 3T7 and 81 .4as I9S
frim the common school fund.
AT Birmingham, near Pittsburg, they were
burning the bedding upon which man had died
ofsmall- -pox, when the old mother of the dece4s-
ed rushed into the flames and snatches roll of
bills worth $500 from the mattress She had for
gotten that the money was concealed in the bed
ding when she Gent it away.
WHY all this fuss about schenck being in a
mining scheme? Has not Grant got an interest
in q stone quarry. and dozen other such enter
prises, and has he speculated with the pub
lie patronage for the last two years and half ?
Schenck was only following the example of his
master, (the great receiver) and who can blame
him Tor that
A NUMBER of gentlemen who are anxious to
have the name of God appear in the Constitution
propose to hold Convention in Cincinnati on
the 31st of January, for the purpose of agitating
that question. If that instrument should be so
amended it would not have the effect of COM
manding the respect of the Radical rascals who
openly set the instrument at defiance whenever
party necessity seems to demand.
TIE New York Tribune charges that Murphy,
Grants late Collector at the port of New York
is a defaulter to the Government to the amount
of &5l0,0O0 And yet, while these Radical ras-
Gals go unwhipped of Justice, the papers of that
party of purity and patriotism keep up their
bowling about Tammany thieves 1t is becom-
ing more and more evident every day that there
are a tanu-many thieves in the Radical ranch.
THE trimmers who wish to shape the policy OF
the Democratic party SO to make it accord
with the views of few sore-h headed Republicans,
have neither political sagacity, no matter what