The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-05-07
THE DEMOCRATIC PREssl
n>vrxrA, THURSDAY. MAY !. 1874.

SAMUEL D. HARRIS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
R>vENrA, THURSDAY. MAY 7. 1874.
THE pen with which Grant wrote
the veto message should be put up
for sale at auction.
THE public debt statement put forth
i. on the LIST inst, shows decrease DUR
ing the month of April of s., 10000
SEVEN persons were killed and sew
eral wounded Saturday evening by
the explosion of the rotary boiler in
Condit's paper-mill, at Shawangunk,
Pa.
A CASE under the McConnelsyill or
dinonce at Van Vert, has been taken
up to the Common Please Court of
Van Vert county.
a THOUSAND children have been
taken to the gas works in Hartford,
Connecticut, this spring. to be cured
Of Whooping cough by inhaling crude
gas from the retort.
LEAVING out specie, the imports at
New York have fallen off $44, SOC, 600,
O00,000 during the nine months ending
April 4, Of the present year. That is
not q discouraging showing.
SINCE the beginning of ocean navi-
CATION bv steam, thirty-three years
ago, fifty-one steamers have found the
bottom OF the ocean. The first one
lost was the President, and the last
one L'Amerique.
A GIRL, supposed to be Kate Bender,
and a man, supposed to be John Ben
der, have been arrested near salt Lake
City, and will be held for identifica-
tion.
Ar Shawnee, near Lancaster, O., on
the 29th ult., dentist practicing with
out license, administered to q Miss
Sullivan, eighty grains of hydrate Of
shIoral, causing her death within a
few minutes. The villain fed the
country, aud as yet has not been ar
rested.
The London Times advises the
United States to substitute Treasury
currency for National Bank notes
That is sensible advice, as the Govern
ment would save $200O0,OO0 or more
gold interest and haYe quite as good,
ii net better, currency.
TIE First National Bank of Mediua
suspended on Saturday. It is said
the assets win pay the liabilities.
Fo0R men were run over and in
stantly killed by train of cars near
Altoona, Pa, on Wednesday of last
week.
THREE persons we're burned to
death on the 10Th ult., by fire at the
residence of Henry Pennington at
Hartzville, Clearfeld county, Pa.
On Thursday last three men en-
ployed on the Steamship Ocean Quean,
at East Ninth Street, N. Y, fell into
the East RiYer and were drowned.
OK wednesday of last week Ste
phen Hood (colored) was executed in
the jail yard at Cleveland, for the
murder of his step-son, Greenberry
Hood, on the 18th day of July last.
He protested his innocence to the last.
JOE WALTZ, was hung at CatskiIl,
N Y. on Friday last. On the day be-
fore his execution he Drained his
keeper, who was stationed in his cell
to prevent any attempt at suicide. At
last accounts the keeper was still alive.
IT is announced that it cost last
year SIG, 600 more for the government
of New 7 ork City than it did in 1868,
under the Tammany Ring. Yet
Tweed is in prison and ''reformers"
are the rulers.
GoTERNoR ALLEN returned to him
home last week, and is now rusticat-
ing at his mansion on Fruit Hill. He
is looking finer than ever. Columbus
life seems to have agreed with him,
and he has gained twelve pounds in
weight since last faIl.-C C.hillSoothe
Adverttse7.
THE Legislature of North Carolina
has JUST passed law W hich imprisons
for i've years "any person who manu-
factnrs, sells or deals in spirituOus
liquors as a drink, of any name or
kind, containing foreign properties or
ingredients poisonous to the system"
JOSEPH S. BRooKs, whom the State
Courts of Arkansas have decided to
be the legal Governor, is native of
Butler county, Ohio, was at one time
editor of the Central Christian AdUO-
cate, at st. Louis, No., and was dis
tinguished opponent of slavery before
the war.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided that the Fifteenth Amend
ment confers on colored children the
right to attend the public schools,
where no separate schools are provid-
ed for them.
THE Democratic Legislature of this