The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-07
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
EAvEssA. THURSDAY. MARCH =. 1879,

RAvEsNA. THURSDAY. MARCH :, 1879.
The February debt statement of the
Secretary of the Treasury gives the
reduction dnring the month at sl2.-
S9l, ,45I.
The Queen City Wagon Shop"
of James McGafferty, No. 81 Race
street, Cincinnati. was destroyed by
fire on Thursday morning last. Loss
$4,000.
THE Japanese Minister at WASH
ington wants to charter fifteen school
ma'ams for japan, They are to have
a three years engagement, 81, 500 gold
a year, and free passage to and from
Japan.
STATE FAIRS OF IS72-3.-The State
Board of Agriculture have decided TO
hold the State Fair for the next two
years at Mansfield. The Fair this year
will be held from the second the sixth
of September next.
LONDON, February 24.-A telegram
from Brest reports q shocking Disaster
in the harbor of that city yesterday.
A vessel named Marie FRANCHISE,
which had large number of passen-
gers on board, capsized, and twenty
two of them were drowned.
Ex-CoSGREssMAS Stokes who was
recently convicted of prosecuting pen
sion claims against the government
while a member of Congress got off
pretty easily after all. On Friday last
he was sentenced to pay fine of
$500 and the costs of prosecution.
A COLUMBUS despatch of the 29th
ult., says: "Some excitement is cre-
ated by the action of the Trustees of
the Methodist Chnrch of West Jeffer-
SON, in passing resolution not to
allow any negro ministers to officIate.
Tho Trustees are Grant Republicans.
The resolution of Sumner for the
investigation of the sale ofarms to the
French after three weeks of debate,
finally passed the Senate, by a vote oil
iifty-two to five. The preamble which
contained the charges was voted down
by forty to one.
THE Apaches are again on the war;
path. A despatch from luxembourg,
Arizona, says the ApaclIes attacked
two trains between that place and
Phoenix, and murdered Samuel Gull
lember and Tom Harris. at Martinez
Ranch they ran off the stock and
pludered the station of all movables.
The Committee on Public Lands
have agreed to bill allowing the
Land Office forty additional clerks,
and appropriating s4S,00O for their
pay during the next fiscal year. The
reason for this action is the Backward
ness of the work, and the inability of
the present force to bring it up to
completion.
On the 18th ult., while the attaches
of Mr.. John Robinson's show at
Cincinnati, were engaged in transfer
ring an immense sea-liom just received
from Alaska, from box to tank, Mr.
VIM. Whitaker, who approached too
near him, was attacked by the animal,
and his hand so badly lacerate@ as TO
render its amputation necessary.
On the 2Sth ult., Mr.. Schurz pre-
sented in the q. s, Senate numerous
memorials from various parts of the
United States, with 10,4O7 signatures
transmitted from the city of Boston,
protesting against any amendment TO
the Constitution, incorporating there
in any recognition of God or Jesus
Christ, asattenipts to overthrow the
great principle of religious liberty on
which this Government was originally
founded.
The very Rev. Henry Benedict Cos
key, Vicar General. and Administra-
tor of the Archdioces of Baltimo re,
died at the Archiepiscopai residence.
in that city, on the evening of the 27th
ult., of pneumonia. after an illness OF
several weeks, in the sixty-fourth year
of his age. The deceased was q ma
tive of Frederick County, Maryland,
and has been Vicar-G General of this
Archdiocese since 1S49. In 1854 he
declined the appointment by the Pope
of Bishop of Portland, Maine. His
funeral took place on Friday morning
Mt nine O'Clock.
A LONDON special to the World
dated the 18th, says: GAS the Qaeen
was re-entering the Court yard al
Buckingham Palace, after a drive
through the Park to-day, Alfred D,
Connor, Fenian, eighteen years o.
age, sprang over the wall, rushed NJ
to the carriage and struck the Queer
on the breast with an unloaded pistol
at the same time presenting petition
of amnesty for the Fenians, exclaim
ing: Sign or die y Prince Arthur
who was seated in the carriage will
the Queen, knocked the man down
OiConnor was seized and conveyed
to prison. When O'Connor was ques
toned, ,hesaid bis design was to frightel
the Queen into doing Justice to1reland
HONESTY REwARDED.-The follow
ing extract from Washington lette
shows the manner in which the Radi
eals in authority reward honesty:
"The two clerks, Hunt and Green
of the Third Auditors Office, VIII,
were SO iadiscrect as 10 disclose th
fact that the records in their division
showed the President to be in arrear
10 the United States in the sum o
5000. and the Third Auditor $500
have maid the nanalfY IoI. telling fam