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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

DEATH FROM VACCINATIoN.-The
last Mt. Gilead Register says: Death
from rather singular cause resulted
to one of the citizens of Perry Town
ship, this county, on Friday morning
last. AS near as we can learn them,
the facts are as follows: Mr.. Samuel
Miller and his wife, residing not far
from North Woodbury., were being
visited at their home by their son and
his family on Sunday, the 7th inst
The old gentleman-Mr. Miller-con-
cluded to be Yaccinated with virus
from the little girls arm which had
been operated on by the doctor not
long before. So Mr.. Miller had his
son pierce his arm with pocket-knife
and from his daughters arm virus was
taken and placed in Mr.. Miller's arm,
which resulted in his death in less than
a week, as the virus taken from the
girls arm was used before the Jaws of
nature permitted. Mr.. Miller's wife
was vaccinated the same way, and at
the present time is in very low con-
dition.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
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How it Runs in the Family.
From the new york Sum

From the New York Sun
Some four years ago President
Grants celebrated brother-in-law, Mr..
Abel Rathbone Corbin, purchased
from Mr. Van Wagenen, Of Jersey
City, piece of ground east of West
Side .aFenuea Jerseys GitK...- At. that
date Pavonia avenue, which is seven
ty feet wide, and one of the finest
streets in that city, was already laid
out on the official map made by the
Commissioners appointed by the city
of Bergen, was not yet opened.
Upon the delivery of the deed by
Mr.. Van Wagenen, it was expressly
stated by Corbin that his object in
purchasing this plot of land was to fill
up and make available the lots 'front.'
ing on West Side avenue, and not for
the purpose of using the power they
would give him of forcing the open
ing of streets, contrary to the wishes
of majority of the owners.
In the fall of last year, Mr.. Corbin
petftioned the Board of Public Works
to have Pavonia avenue opened from
the Hackensaek River to the old Jer-
sey City line. Upon looking over the
assessment map for the opening of
said street, it was found that Corbin
had been awarded $1,000 per lot for
seventy feet under said street.
AT meeting of the Board mem
Der denied the right of CorbiD to re-
ceive damages for property that had
already been dedicated to the city for
a street. Corbin got up and said it
was not for himself. He had sold
those lots to poor preacher who
could not afford to stand the loss.
When asked the name of the preacher
he hesitated, and finally said his name
was Cramer and when asked where
he resided, he said he was United
States Minister to Denmark.
Thus il is that the business of being
a brother-in-law is SO 1ourishing and
profitable.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

At the time Grant advocated in his
annual message "universal amnesty"
and civil service reform" he was gem
orally believed to be false and insin-
cere. The belief has been since Justi-
fed by facts. All of his particular
friends in the Senate have taken
ground against both measures. Grant,
who thought he could throw dirt in
the eyes of the liberal branch of his
party by his barren recommendations,
not intended to be carried out, is now
more despised than ever by them on
account of his hypocrisy and by his
and shameful efforts to de-
ceive.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

Gov. GRATz Brown, of Missouri,
sensibly and pertinently suggests that
all murderers acquitted because OF
insanity should at once be incarcerated
in lunatic asylums, and that the judges
trying such cases be required by law
derous mailman is at once consigned
to place where he will be harmless
to his fellows. Certainly it is per-
version of justice to let loose upon So
ciety being whose hands have been
imbued with the blood of his fellows.
The insane, e,perhapssuncontrollable, de-
sire to kill may return at any moment,
and cause the sacrifice of more inno-
cent people.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

A country pedagogue had two pu-
pills, to one of whom he was partial
and to the other severe. One morn
ing it happened that these two boys
were both late, and were called to
account for it. sr
"You must have heard the bell,
boys; why did you not come p"
'Please SIR" said the favorite, "I
was dreamin' / was goin' to Califor-
MIA, and l thought the school bell was
the steamboat bell as / was goin' in"
every WELL" said the master, glad
of any pretext to excuse his favorite.
"And now sir,"-turning to the other
-"what have you to say 2" I
"Please sir" said the puzzled boy,
waiting to see Tom off!@
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
! OLD TIME AND L.
BIZ MARK LEMON.

Old Time and I. the other night,
Had a carouse together;
The wine was golden, warm and bright,
Ayei just like Summer weather.
Quoth 1, .s Here's Christmas come again,
And no farthing richer.
Time answered, .sAh. the old, old straini
prithee pass the pitcher
" Why measure all your good in golds
No rope of sand is weaker;
lis hard to get, it's hard to hold
Come, Lad, hll up your becker.
IS Hast thou not found true friends more true,
And loving ones more 10ying7'
/ could but say, :. A few a few ~
" SO keep the liquor rmoving."
" Hast thou not seen the prosperous knave
Come down precious thumper.
His cheats disclOsed?'' 81 havei haye.'
"Wen. surely, that's a bumperr'
s. Nay. hold awhile. I've seen the just
Find all their hopes grow DINNER"
s. They will hope on, and strive and trust,
And conqnerl' ssThat's a brimmer.''
g 'Tis not because to-day IS dark,
No brighter day before 'em;
There's rest for every storm tossed bark.
5 g So be It'll Pass the jorumr"
=" Yet must own should not mind
To be 3 little richer-''
!" Labor and wait and You may fnd'-
g Hallol an empty pitcher.''
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

A Georgia colored lycenm discuss
cd the question. (which is the most
useful, paper or gunpowder ?" The
debate was closed by disputant who
spoke as follows: 'Mr. President
Spose dar was a bar at de door, and
You was to go dar and shake paper
at him, you'd see what de bar would
do. But jes shoot a cannon ct him
and mark de result. l calls for Do
question"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

A PENNSYLVANIA paper says, "Chi-
cago was once probably the most pop
ulous city in the world. Some four
teen millions of her destitute citizens
have passed through the city in the
past three weeks. You can't throw a
cat in any direction without hitting
sufferer"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

IT is said that in the village of Pesh-
tigo, Wis.,, on the Sabbath, only few
hours before the fire which swept
them from existence, some thirty or
forty young men got together, marched
up to the neat little Methodist church,
with two or three kegs of lager beer,
and held mock service, going through
tho Lords Supper and other rites of
the sanctuary.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

A Huntington (Ct.) man being un-
expectedly called upon to address q
Sunday School, rose to his feet, and
after several desperate but in vain ef-
forts to say something appropriate,
hoarsely murmured, "DeaF children,
never fool with powder"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

81 wish had your head, said d Ia
dy to her lawyer, who had just solved
knotty point for her. stAnd wish
had your heart responded the law
yer. 1t was not long before the law.
yer's head and the lady's heart went
into partnership for life. n.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
Was America Originally Colo
s3 nized from Asia.

From the New York journal of Commerce.1
The advocates of the hypothesis that
this continent was peopled by emil
grants from the shores of Asia, by
way of the Aleutian Islands andAlas-
ka, will find encouragement in the
telegraphic report of the arrival at
San Francisco of Japanese seamen /,
whose junk was disabled on their own
coast, but who were carried by the
ocean current 2500 miles to the Island
of Idaho, off the Alaskan shore. One
of the chief obstacles to the reception
of this theory has heretofore been the
admitted fact that at the early period
when the settlement must have been
made, the arts of ship building and
navigation were too little advanced to
furnish the means of making the ocean
passage. A Japanese junk, howev-
er, belongs to the embryonic stage OF
these arts, and such vessel, disabled
by shipwreck, can hardly be supposed
to have possessed sailing qualities
above the reach of the most unintelli-
gent builder. The length of the
voyage, under such circumstances, re-
quiring considerable tonnage in order
to carry the necessary provisions. has
also been made an element of objec-
tion. Both these shipwrecked Japan
ese were nine months in making the
transit, at the mercy of the winds and
waves, and though twenty-three out
of twenty-six starved to death, the
survivors exceeded the number orig
inally planted in the garden of Eden
and, provided that one of the three
was woman and another priest,
the continent being found unoccupied,
we do not see any extreme difficulty
in supposing that they might have in
creased and multiplied, overfowed
upon the main land, and, finally found
their way southwark into Mexico,
Central America, as the ancestors of
The Aztecs and the Incas are conjec-
tured to have done. The conjecture
has, at any rate, received indisputable
assistance from the incident.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
.,OHN McCLUN,

General Insurance Agent, represents the fol-
lowing reliable companies:
aMERIcAN, Chicago. IN; GREAT WESTERN,
Chicago. Ill; YONKERS AND NEW oRK, new
York: IYoOMING. Muncy, Pa; NoRTHwEsT-
,ERN MUTUAL LIFE, Milwaukee, Wis; COM
Once with r. W. Coffin in Phenix Block,
over Second National Bank, Ravenna. Ohio.
Feb 9. 1871, 12S-tf.-s---- -.s--.sss--
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
Repairing, Painting and Trimmin,
GARRETTSVIIlLE HOUSE
is aac parker g. Son, Prop'rs.

TIHE Proprietors having leased the above
Il house respectfully informs their friends and
the public generally, that he has rejdvenated
the Garrettsville House, and is prepared to sup
ply the table with the best the market affords
st low prices. Persons visiting Garrettsville
even for a day, will ind this House home
Omnibusses leave this house for all day and
night trains. 15T-tf
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

"My dear boy" said fond mother,
never defer until to morrow what yoa
can do to-day"
"Then MOTHER" replied the urchin,
s1et's eat the plum pudding tonight,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

SCHOOL MIsTREss-"Johnny, / am
ashamed of you'll When 1 WAS your
age / could read as l do nowp
JoHNNY-"Aw; but you'd a differ
ent teacher to what we'm gotw
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

WHEN you see what is termed q
faultless woman, dread her as you
would beautiful snake. The power
of concealiug the defects which she
must have, is, of itself, serious vice.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

If there are 666, 900 grains in bush-
ell of wheat-and somebody says there
are how many drains are there in
quart OF old rye?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

Two twin brothers in Boston are
said to be so much alike that they are
frequently borrowing money of each
other without knowing it.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

No people under heaven can excel
the Americans in the manly art of sit
ting on bench and seeing eighteen
men play ball.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

It is dangerous to inform man of
his faults without giving offense, as it
is to tell him OF his good qualities
without flattering him. ..5,.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

"How did you learn that graceful
attitude ?" said a gentleman to fellow
leaning in maudlin fashion against
post. s'I have been practicing at the
glass;" was the reply.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

The woman that maketh a good
pudding in silence is better than one
that maketh tart reply. cos
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

CLASS IN MENTAL PHILOSOPHY
What is mind? No matter. What is
matter? Never mind. What is the
nature of the soul? 1t is immaterial.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

Next to virtue, let children be train
ed up to industry; for both poverty
and fraud are the effect of sloth.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
Alliance Carriage Works.

4s~f@e
"AVING purchased the shops formerly oc-
Ii cupied by Walser & Lee, as a Carriage
Factory, corner of Market and Liberty streets,
Alliance, Ohio, am prepared to do any and all
work in the Carriage Line with neatness and
despatch have a fine stock of
FINISHED WORK ON HAND,
which I will sell at the lowest possible figures,
and will guarantee it equal to any work done
in Ohio, in
Style,
Finish
and Durability.
Thankful for the very liberal patronage re-
ceived during the past five years, hope by Just
and honestdealing, to merit a continuance of the
same.
Repairing, Painting and Trimming,
done to order. and good as the best. All
work warranted as represented
Call and see for yourselves.
j. d. CARRINGTON,
of the late firm of Carts & Darlington
Alliance. o., Aug. 16, 1871, 155-5m.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

THE happiest age for young women:
Marriage, except when they are obliged
to marry age. e
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

A Doctors motto is supposed to be
"Patients and long suffering"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
GONG sOUTH-MAIN LINE.

CLEVELAND q PITTsBURG RAILROAD
: On and after NOV. 1sth 1871, Trains VIII leave
Stations daily. Sundays excepted,) as follows:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08

GEORGE SADLER, NJ. D.,
Physician and Surgeon, Ravenna, ONO
Once with w B. Thomas, Esq, Empire BLOCK
Residence on Walnut, second door soutp OF
Main Etrfet asiss fif. IS to-LI
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-02-08
BROOK,
DIR. "a. M. POWERS,

DI6s "a III 7 Y W 11HsRo3
Ec1.ctsc Physician and Surgeon, Rootstown,
Portage County, Ohio. Chronic and Prlyate
diseases treated successfully. OFFIcE-Next
door south of Green 8 Barlow's Store.
Dec. 81 1858 II.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-23
fel3 t MIL
FOR WROUGHT AND
CAST-IRON WORK.

UNITED STATES CUsTOMHOUsg, }
Office of Superintendent, :
New Orleans February l, 1872.
GEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT
- the Office of the Superintendent until II NJ.
THURSDAY, February 90, 1872 for furnishing,
the wrought and cast iron work of the iron
staircases, all exhibited on the drawings, de-
scribed in the specifications and called for in the
schedule.
All scaffolding required by the contractors to
to put the work in place will be furnished by the
government free of charge
Proposals will be made by the piece, lineal foot,
by weight, for the various articles of wrought
and cast iron work. as provided for in the follow
ing schedule.
The work will not be subdivided among different
bidders, but will be considered in the aggregate.
Payments will be made monthly, deducting ten
per cent until the final completion of the con-
tract.
All bids must be accompanied by penal bond, in
the of $4,000, that the bidder will accept
and perform the contract if awarded him; the sufi
cheney OF the security to be certified by the
United States Judge, Clerk of the United States
Court, or District Attorney of the district where
he resides.
The department reserves the right to reject any
all bids, if ii be deemed for the interest of
the government TO do SO; and any bid that is not
made on the printed form to be obtained in this
Office and does not conform in every respect to
the req uremtnts of this advertisement, will not
be considered; neither will any proposal be re-
gagged in the manufacture of wrought cast iron
work, and who have not the necessary facilities
for getting out the work.
Proposals will be indorsed Bids for Iron Work ~
and addressed to J. +. MORSE,
fei 25t Superintendent.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-23
Aimee in Opera EsOH:te.

Next Monday evening Mile. Aimee. with
her French Opera Bouffe Company, will
enter on an engagement at the Academy of
Music. They open with one Of their NEST
celebrated pieces, LA Perichole" The
fame Of this piece reached New York from
Paris SO "a to crowd the Grand Opera
House the first night it was announced on
the posters, "Aimee as La Perichole" The
very exacting critic of the New York Woyid
says that the performance was more than
worthy of the patronage, and continues as
follows:
The mixture of pathos. sorrow and Lu-
NOR tiat introduces the PeJ'ictOle TO her au-
uicnces was given by Mile. Aimee with a
spontaneity aud an artistic force and finish
that recalled to the opera goer but one mem
ory-the AdiIa Of Piccolomini in the Elisir
dAmore. Nothing else that the operate
stage has produced can be compared to it.
When, after fall dinner, the poor street
singer came out again Oh the stage. and in
song gave vent to the satisfaction she felt
her picture of animal joy, slight tipsiness
and endeaYors at restraint this wonderful
scene brought forth a deatening applause
and four successive encores. The same
eian abandon, finished acting and maoni.i-
cent vocalization attended her every scene
and hen the final inspiring duet was ended
the curtain was kept up for three more en-
cores. and after it's fall they called her as if
simply to see before them the extraordinary
woman who elevated the libretto and music
of Otfcnbach over that of Donizetti.
American taste prefers the broad, hilar-
Gus comedy to the pompous, heartrendeF-
ing tragedy, and since amusement and re-
lief from work and worry is the main point
aimed at by amusement seekers, we can not
blame them for their taste and preference.
No doubt the vast majority of an American
audience will find more enjoyment from the
vivaeious performances of Aimee than from
The exquisite ones OF Nilsson. We say the
the most dignified and critical, if they could
afford to make their real and heartfelt
choice, would prefer the mirth to the mel
ancholy. We love laughter, and We have
always enjoyed the opera boufe intensely.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-23
IIydrOgrnphic SUrvPy.

We copy the following from the Shreve
port Southeastern:
We are pleased to learn that the hydro
graphic survey of the raft region is so near
IL completed that the engine i'll charge
hopes to be able to place his report before
Congress as early as March. The survey
ing party is entitled to great credit for their
labore. for our winter has been unusually
severe, so cold and rainy, indeed, that field
work, of the kind done, was always labor
ious, and often interrupted. When this re-
port is before Congress we hope the MEM
beTs from this State. Arkansas and Texas
will go actively and uDitedly to work to Sc
cure the passage of bill approprlating a
sufficient sum of money to remove the ac-
c,lnulated drift and as the actual amount
of raft timber is much less than is generally
supposed mot exceeding, perhaps, ten
mi!es), we have no doubt Congress viii
ufike the necessary appropriation
As we have said before, the difficulty
attending the raft matter lies not in its re-
moval, for that can readily be done, but in
the prevention Of future drift Blockading
again the navigable channels. How rapidly
this drift packs into solid raft, no one
unacquainted with the rapid rise and fail
Of Upper Red river can possibly imagine.
No stream in the South with which We are
acquainted, so far from its NO. tain
sources, has such rise and fall,
OF course, with alluyial bnnhs, con-
stantly caving with every rise, there is a
constant fall Of timber. Now, the practical
question is. how TO dispose of this timber!
Ii has been suggested to keep snag boat
at the head of the raft. and either eat it up
Or iioat it of into side channels, or both.
We are net experts in this matter. aud
have no opinion to express as to the practi-
cabiiitY OF any plan proposed. We thor
oughiy appreciate the Importance to the
commercial and agricultural interests Of a
rich ana splendid country. of prompt action
on the part of Congress, and We beg leave
to invite the consideration of our own
members of Congress to this subject.
We are very hopeful of good results. We
regard the removal of the raft as the most
vital of all questions involving the com
merce of our city, and the material devel-
opment of the resources of the Red river
valley, the richest, except the Mississippi,
in the whole South.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-23
HahcOCk,s IieiinhOih,

The New York Tribune OF Saturday says
w. K. Babcock has received a telegram
from Mobile, Alabama announcing the Civ
ing way Of the middle tendon in one of the
forelegs of his famous Tace-horse, Hembold.
an abrupt termination being thus put to a
brilliant racing career Helmbold was a
dark chestnut horse, six years old, by i'm
ported Australian, dam Lavender, by Wag-
ner. lie was purchased by Mr.. Babcock
when = three year old. for $1,000. after he
had Won three races, but it was in his four
year old form that ne swept everything be-
fore him on the Northern turf. In 1870 he
won the Westminster Cup. the two mile heat
purse of $l200. the Jockey Club handicap.
and the three mile purse of $1,000 at Jerome
Park; the three mile purse of $1,000 and cup
at Saratoga: the Monmouth stakes and two
mile heat purse at Long Branch, and the
four miles aud two and three-Guarter miles
races at the Saratoga August meeting. Last
wear he won the the three mile purse of
$1,000 at jerome Park: the four mile purse
at Saratoga tbeating Longtellowl; the Long
Branch stakes, the three mile purse OF $1,000.
the Tammany Cup, and the Narragansett
Steamship Companys purse of $4,000 at
Long Branch-his aggregate winnings dur
ing the season amounting to over $4,000.
He was very game horse, possessing a
rare turn OF speed, and was defeated only
when running out of condition.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-23

the old couple, whose only mission of peace
makers is amply fulfilled; exhibits the
glory of virtue; makes the character of the
divorced wife indicated, and down goes
the curtain on an enraptured house.
From the standpoint of an old play -goer
one can easily see many things in the play
which would make it drag were it not for
the consummate ability of the leading par
Elephants. who uncover its good points and
conceal its bad ones. The new play is in
variably harder to master. In the old,
actors find business put up for them by sew
eral generations of predecessors; in the new,
he must study them out himself. That the
stars have accomplished it, we believe the
majority of those who have been lockers
on at this crude exhibition of the American
divorce will establish beyond all dispute.