The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-04-13
LETTER FROM CLEVELAND.

Among the different trades and prof essions in
which the thousands are engaged, there is r
peculiar class, whose vocation makes them al
most a distinct race; you meet them at every
street corner fol- the earliest hour in the morn
ing until evening. This class is our News Boys.
They wake you up in the morning by yelling
under your window the names of all the news
papers published in the place. You venture out
upon the street after breakfast and as you turn
a corner, there you are surrounded by just sew
enteen urehins. whose heads have been nicely
ce mbed by comb with which nature has pro-
yided all of them of five teeth only. Some are
of all compilations, and others are of no com
plexion. These seventeen fellows have each four
different papers which they thrust upon you
with a demand " take paper. SIR You find
yourself in an embarrassing position, you canno
afford to buy of all of them, and if you purchase
of only one the rest will in all probability in
sist ON having our personal effects which you
have with you. and wearing at that time
with small degree of pride, assume the same
IA ashionable appearance their own, viz: your
coat to consist of one sleeve attached to mag
nifcent hole, surrounded by some fringed cloth,
while your pants are to have the same number
of fringed apertures and in the exact tlocality
the most ragged pair around you. If you re-
fuse to purchase paper of any OF them, your
friendly relation with this class of the human
family is not likely to be increased in the least
by that resolution. Thus reasoning to yourself
You realize that your situation is becoming more
and more complicated, and you finally. in your
desperation, make a frantic dive through the
motley crew which surround you and are greatly
astonished but exceedingly gratified to find
yourself once more safe from harm, with no in
clination to remain and assist the gent behind
you who suddenly finds himself surrounded by
your former tormentOrs. ffsk-f = -
There are few more Industrious classes in our
community than our News. Boys. Scantily
clothed, they earn their daily bread by working
early and,late, in all weathers. and under many
circumstances the most discouraging. They
work Systematically and work together; each
one has his particular street corner wherein to
labor and he is Dot molested by others of his
clan infringing on his rights, and woe be to an
outsider who wantonly injuries one of them, for
he has not the one but the whole set to contend
with. A few of Them save small portion of
their earnings, while the great majority spend
as they go, at the various places of evening
amusements,
That other class who are stesirous of giving
your boots - nice shine for five cents - are so
closely allied to the class we have already des-
cribed that description of them is unnecessary.
Suffice it to say, they are not numerous nor as
enterprising. but the amount of real estate which
they hold in possession is astonishing.
The April election called forth the usual
amount of electioneering literature, and of the
same REFINING character, from our va Pious papers
The col test fer city offices was more lively than
usual and vast amount of splitting was done
by the dissatisfied, so much SO that the canvass
ers did not finish the count until after nine
O'Clock on the evening after election day. The
whole number of votes cast in the city was 49, |
034. F. W. Pelton, the Republican candidate
f,,.H hox-i ,a-s4, ING
Buhrer. The Prohibitionists had a full ticket |
in the field, but it utterly failed to obtain re-
spectacle vote. About two weeks before election |
there was published by this party a small paper
entitled '' Tie Anti- Dram Shop B"0le, the news
boys not approaching the force of the word |
Anti, would as general thing, omit that and |
cry "a Dram Shop Bugle, two cents, :, in their !
rounds through the city
The Germans are building a Trlumphal Arch |
on the Square short distance cast of Perry's !
Monument. 1t is to he eighty-six feet in height |
and eighty in width. 1t consists of one main |
arch in the CENTER with two osmaller ones, one on |
each side of the main arch. This arch when |
completed viii be a beautiful structure The |
opening performance Of the German Peace
Jubilee will be a concert in Case Hail. Saturday |
evening April sth. given by all the German
Singing Societies ard the Germania Orchestra.
On the following Monday, Professions, Ora.
tions, &c.
The 1st of April passed quietly with the usual
amount of Joking. One paper published very
story of about columns length
which lea the reader along in Il very facinat1ng
manner, causing hlm 10 entiiely forget thai
April LIST was printed ut the head of the parer
unril ,he story, By its abrupt termination, aId
hot lall TO remind HIM OF that fact year
or two ago morning paper published a state
neut that tho sword on ferry's Monument had
ueen broken oil during the night the conse-f
quence was, that all the forenoon the monu-
mcnt was surrounded by crowd of anxious
persons eager TO behold tho disaster that had
betallen the venerable Perry. The report of
their Investigations WIS never published.
Navigation on the lsko is fully Qpenpd, pnd at
Ii much earlier period than has been known fer
years JESeJSs.
CIEgELAE AEp April 6, Is7t. |