The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
EAvsssA. rHysspAr.MAHcH ss, 1874
There are thirty-nine murderers in
the penitentiary at Pittsburgh.

lar fire at Ripley, Ohio, on the morn
: ing of the 2lst.
The Republican members of th,
Ohio Legislature, in caucus have re
solved to adjourn on 10Th of April.
There was ruInor current il
Washington on Friday that Secretar,
Boutwell, has resigned; but it was, o
courses q canard.
Mr.. Dana, editor of the Sun, hal
given $4,000 bail in the libel suits
against him by the Pennsylvania
"ring."
A fire at Paris, KY, on the 9th de-
stroyed three stores and damaged sew
eral other buildings. Total loss about
$4,000. %
The Washington leather factory al
Hagersfown, Nd; was destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 25th. Loss,
$4,000; insurance $4,000.
Woman's rights have taken naugh-
tygal development in the case of Sarah
Pickney, whofs captain of a Missis-
sippi steamboat.
A driving snow-storm, the first in
fourteen months, prevailed in Lon
don on Friday last, and at midday it
was as dark as midnight.
A trial of Agricultural implements
is to take place at Springfield, under
the direction of the State Board of
Agriculture, on the 2Sth of June next.
The following elections will be held
at the times indicated: Connecticut,
April lst Rhode Island. April Sd !;
Virginia, April 18th, and Oregon,
June Sd.
cAnti-femperance organizations are
forming in the Western States, with
the object, if they can control a major
ity vote, of forcing the teetotal min0r-
ssity to drink by law.
Grant says lie was happier when he
was atanner than he now is as Presi-
dent. There are something like 20,
100000. people in this country in the
same condition.
The weekly expenditure for the
poor of Chicago is $4,000. Eighty
nine thousand rations were issued
last week. There is 100000 in the
treasury.
& In his speech recently Senator
Sherman declared that |" we can re-
duce our debt fifty millions, and have
fifty millions left to take from our
taxes" Why don't you do it then !?
An Illinois duck hunter the other
day tried the experiment of blowing
into the muzzle of his gun, when the
piece blowed back on him taking off
the top of his head. He won't blow
any more
The State of New York will be
pretty fully represented in the Cincin-
natl Liberal Republican Convention.
A brother of Senator Conkling is re-
ported as one of the delegates from
the city. g
A man just returned from the Black
Hills characterizes the recent gold dis
covery sensation as the worst sell he
ever met. 1t is bogus excitement,
designed to attract immigration OF
such persons as must remain there.
The Loyal Cincinnati Commercial
propounds the following connndrum
Leet 81 Stocking are still robbing
the merchants of New York. Is there
n power that protects these robbers
that is superior to public opinion?
CoMPLIfENTARY.-S Sumner
privately denounces Grant as s'igno-
rant and dishonest" Greeley in pri-
vate conversation never speaks of
Grant except as the drunken tanner
from Gaiena.
A lady made application to be ap-
pointed a Notary Public. The ques-
ton was referred to Attorney General
Pond, who decided that she was incl
igibIe under the constitution on ac- |
count of her sex.
Bonner, editor of the New York |
Ledger, says that the military ring al |
Washington is as corrupt as the"Tam-
many ring of New York. What does I
this mean Bonner has always been
the friend of Grant.
The Radicals of Chillicothe are rum
ming colored man tor the Council in
a strong Radical Ward in that city
and he is sure to be elected. Can't our
brother" sight on their ticket?
Ina speech in Congress few days
ago Job Stevenson, a Radical member
from one of the Hamilton county dis
tricts declared in favor of free trade.
He said :"Let commerce be free, and
free flag wave over it."
The response of ebluff Old Ben" to
an interviewer recently when ques
toned in respect to the political situ-
alton, though slightly profane, was
truthful as well as emphatic and char
acteristic. He merely observed that
CHI is to pay all round.
Mr.. Taffe projects Congressional
enactment comforting citizenship on
the Indians. Such measure will in
all probability meet with most vehe-
ment opposition from the strongest
advocates of negro equality and fe-
male suffrage.
The California judge who granted a
man divorce on the ground that he
was insane when he committed mat
rimony, is said to be on the high road
to fame. 1t is thought the Pacific
Railroad will have large increase in
its passenger business.
Some of the anti-Grant Radical pa
pers aver that there were seyenty-five
thousand reasons why New Hampshire
should have gone the way she did.
They refer to the seventy-five thou
from Washington to carry on the cam
yass.
The House of Represen tatives at |
Columbus has passed bill making it !,
unlawful for judges of election to adj
journ at any time or any place. or to
remove the ballot-box from the place
of voting, or from the custody of all
the judges, until all the ballots are
counted out.
The q. s.. Supreme Court has deci
ded in the Ku-Klux case, as appealed
from the District Court of South Car
olina, that it had no Jurisdiction, and
could not, therefore. hear arguments
on the merits of the Enforcement act.
Chief Justice Chase dissented from
the decision.
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