The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-11-16

A London despatch says that new
company has been formed to supply
rolling stock to the Atlantic and CT.
Western Railway.
1t is reported that Senator Fenton
and Collector Murphy have buried the
hatchet. Greeley has not yet succum-
bed, but it is understood that there
are signs of truce.
The Supreme Court of the district
of Columbia has decided that women
have no right to vote under the Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments.
Four men were very badly burned
by the premature discharge of keg
of powder in tunnel near Edwards
vile few days ago.
The Presidents Quaker policy of
governing Lo has not proved much of
q success, and he has at length deter
mined to apply the bayonet treatment
on the murderous Apaches.
The telegraph reports terrible fire
at Chattanooga on Sunday night
which destroyed seventeen business
houses.
The latest euphe mism for red hair
is Schenectady color, Schenectady be-
ing, as every New York railroad trav-
eler knows, little beyond Auburn.
The Legislature of Georgia has
passed bill providing for holding al
election for Governor to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation
and disqualification of Bullock, on the
second Tuesday of December.
EooxoMy THE economy of the
present administration is illustrated
in the fact that in 1871 there was re-
ceived from the sale of public lands
$3,850,O00 and 81, ITS, $50 was paid for
collecting it. Ee as &
The Grant family is in luck. Fred.
Grant is now receiving two salaries,
one as Lieutenant of Cavalry from the
Government, and one as Civil Engin-
eer from the Pacific Railroad company.
He can afford to travel in Europe.
Now you seei it, and now you don't.
A few days ago the telegraph announ-
ced the resignation of Secretary Fish.
Then a little later the rumor was de-
MED. Now it is said he may resign,
and again he may not. Reliable tele-
graph. h
A RUSSIAN man -of-war, understood
to be the advance of the fleet which
shores, arrived off Sandy Hook at sew
into quarantine. Now let the snobs
pitch in and make asses of themselves.
A DESPATCH from Geneva, Switzer-
land, reports a terrible confiagration
as being in progress in that city. The
Rue Rhone, on which the flames orig
mated, is scene of ruin, a large num-
Der OF buildings having fallen victims
to the devouring element.
The Pittsburgh Post saws there is
not single newspaper in the United
States, not in the direct pay of the
administration, that approves of
Grants South Carolina war. We defy
contradiction of this statement. i
The Philadelphia Press says that it
knows from its own knowledge that
there are not six negroes irh Chester
county (South Carolina) able TO read
and write. And yet this same paper
insists that these negroes who can
neither read nor write shalt govern
the intelligent white men of the South.
THE Rochester Union says: sTen
years ago Presiden. Grant was a bank
rupt. Now he is millionaire. How
the Louisville Courier Journal, he
made it through the exercise of great
philanthropy-tha is to say, by be-
slowing kind Offices on such charitable
grinders as Borie, Robson and MUIR
ply. tsa. aa
THEY have a negro in Jail at Hous-
ton, Texas, who has committed sew
enteen murders in five years. He is
thirty-eight years of age.
As we clip the above from truly
loyal Radical paper, it can hardly be
regarded as Ku Klux fabrication.-
Yet who has ever seen any of these
negro outfages illustrated by wood
cuts in the columns of that trooly
loyal journal, Harper's Weekly.
When it comes to that kind of work
the genius of Mast is played owet.
If Grant has true desire to pro-
tect citizens in their rights, without
distinction of race or color, why does
he allow thousands of naturalized
Irish, Germans and Canadians in
Rhode Island to be prevented from
excising the right to suffrage 2 Men
who were brought to that State in in.
fancy cannot vote unless they own
land. The wages of skilled labor are
comparatively low, and many propri-
etors will not sell their land to for
eign-born citizen. Their reason is
that the class of buildings erected by
Irish laborers do not enhance the val
ue of neighboring real estate. But
for Grants office-holders, these un-
Just discriminate against natnraliz-
ed citizens W ould long ago have been
abrogated.
The way the Radicals of New York
go in for reform is thus stated by the
World: eo.
TME Legislature is largely Republi-
can, but unfortunately the returns
show that the same scaly lot of Repub-
been elected. The men who constant
" sell their votes are again returned
by that party, giving but little hope
for any real reform. 1t appears from
the resnlts that it does not in the least
affect the standing of candidate in
the Republican party if he has q cor
rupt record. He can sell his vote,
barter away the rights of his coDstitu-
enfs as much as he pleases, as long as
ne is labelled Republican, the party
will rally to his support. The reform
which the majority of the class which
have been sent to the Legislature by
the Republicans will work for will be
schemes for the benefit of the hangers
ON of the party instead OF those for
the benefit of the people. -ta.