The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-04-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The CaliforniaDs are talking OF
building $2,000,000 ship canal by the
aid of lottery.
GRANT is "swinging around the
circle" with Morton as trumpeter.
The law requiring the meeting of
each new Congress on the 4th of
March has been repealed.
THE President has issued procla-
nation convening the Senate in extra
session on Wednesday, May 10th.
The Union Hotel at Galesburgh, Ill.
was destroyed by fire on the 18th, the
loss amounting to about 100000.
SOME of the newspapers estimate
the private fortunes of the ex-Emper-
or Napoleon and Eugenia at 100000
O00. s.-f...l ss..,
An explosion of nitro glycerine
occurred at the Hoosac Tunnel on
Friday last, killing four men, and
wounding another.
A CHURCH in the outskirts of Co.
the morning of the 18th inst, and
burned down:
Col. FREDERICK BECK, late of the
93d Ohio regiment, committed suicide
at Columbus, on the morning of the
10Th inst, by cutting his throat. E
A. G.. RIDDLE, counsel for the wo-
men whose ballots were refused at the
recent election in Washington, is pre-
pairing case to test the constitution
ality of their refusal, before the
Courts.
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gings. in Australia, have lately struck
nugget of gold weighing l,7l7 ounc-
Is, and worth $34,SS0. That's a whep-
-rer, either tho story or the nugget !;
we don't know which.
A FEW days ago five children in
Coyington went to a vacant lot to get
artichokes, but got poke root instead,
which they ate, and were poisoned /;
but they are all likely to recover.
TRACK laying on the Northern Pa
cific Railroad, westward through Min
nesota, is now progressing at the rate
of mile day, and three thousand
men are at work. A f9
The contract for building the new
Jail of Trumbull county, at Warren,
has heen let to Messrs. Epperson g.
Favorite, of Lafayette, Ind, for $36,
9l0 81. 1t is to be magnificent struc-
ture.
On the 18th inst, D. W. Church,
city marshal of Newton, Jasper county
Iowa, attempted to arrest negro in
that city, who resisted and cut the
Marshal with razor so badly that he
died the same evening.
A TERRIBLE conhagration occurred
in one of the mills connected with the
iron works at Rome, New York, by
which property yolued at $l50,0O0 was
destroyed, and over hundred and
fifty men were thrown out of employ
ment. ~ aes i8r u
THIS is the era oof great inventions
and discoveries. An exchange relates
that fancy soap mine has been dis
covered near Iowa city. 1t is in the
form of mineral, performs all the
duties of soap and has an aromatic
odor at that. What next? sat 81 j
By the suspension of the Buffalo
Iron Works, which occurred on Tues
day of last week, eight hundred work
men are thrown out of employment,
The coal strike and lack of capital are
given as the causes of the stopp age
Still the gentlemen who sit and scis-
sor their COUPONS will tell us that ev.
erything is lovely. aaf #t :.
The Republicans, at the election on
Wednesday of last week carried the
city of Washington. In the evening
they celebrated their victory, and j
w. Forney made speech and nomi-
mated Grant as the Republican eandi
date for the next Presidency. Those
Radicals who have been pitching into
Ulyss have got to swallow tlleil
words, r.