The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06

d NORTON, Chairman.
Ravenna. August4 4. 1874.
A FIRE at Muskegen, Michigan. on
Saturday last burned over twenty
acres, destroying property valued at
$5OO.OOO.
THE public debt statement for July
shows q decrease during the month of
SI,282, ,866.
ELECTIONS take place to-day in
North Carolina and Tennessee; in the
former for members of Congress and
the latter for county officers only, the
congressional election in which takes
place in November.
On Wednesday of last week three
men were killed and 3 boy was fatally
injured blythe explosion of a maga-
zine at Pottsviile, Pa.
THE Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia have not yet found an in
dictment against Dana for exposing
the operations Of Boss Shepherd and
the Washington ring.
INDIANA will have five tickets in the
field this fail-Democrat, Republican,
Independent, Farmers and Temper
ance. 1t is easy to point out the four
that will be doomed to defeat.
OUR Crusading friends will be de-
lighted to learn that the roam trotter,
belonging to Van Pelt, took the second
premium, at the Hillsboro, (O.) Horse
Fair, this season.-C ChosbOctoB Dem.
THERE was rumor in Washington
last week that ex-Secretary McCuIIoch
is to be made Secretary of the Treas
ury, that Attorney General Williams
viii be appointed Minister to France,
and that General Bristow will be made
Attorney General.
THE First National Bank of Batavia,
NY. was robbed on Thursday last
of $4,000, While one of the perpe-
traitors of the robbery engaged the at
tention of the only person present be-
longing to the bank, the other ran
away with the box containing money
and bonds to the above amount.
AN alarming condition of affairs is
said to exist at Vicksburgh, Miss, and
Governor Ames has applied to the
President for troops, but Grant can't
see it, and refuses to moYe any troops
except under call made strictly in ac-
cordance with the terms of the Consti-
tuition, It is wonderful what a rever-
ence the President has, of late, for
that Instrument
Mrs. AsAHEL TYRRKLL, of Tyrrell
Hill, this county, came to our city on
last Saturday. When near the A. Y.
& p. depot, train of cars suddenly
came in sight, which frightened Mrs.
TyrreIl so, that she shrieked to the la
dy that was with her, and said, see,
the train is on u.s." The sudden fright
produced a spasm of the heart, and
she was dead. She was 81 years of
age, and in apparent good health
Warren Constitution.
WHEN Tweed was detected in his
pilfering operations he was promptly
tried and is now undergoing his pun
ishment, but when Boss Shepherd and
his Radical associates are caught at
their dishonest games they are not
only left to go unpunished but are
promoted to higher ef1cial positions.
Still Radical Congressman declares
that his party hate Republican thieves.
They have strange way of manifest
ing their hatred, truly.
COMPLEMENTARY TO REPUBLICAN
POsr MAsTERs.-A Republican ex-
change advises its readers not to send
money in letters unless the same are
registered, because an expert in hand
ling letters can tell in a moment
whether money is contained in them,
and if money is contained in them the
post Office expert is very likely to
steal them. That's the idea.
AN ugly point for the opponents of
License, is the fact that the Legisla-
ture OF Massachusetts, after a trial of
a prohibitory law for twenty years,
has repealed it and substituted the IL
cense system in its stead. Can this be
explained otherwise than upoR the
theory that prohibition has been a
failure.-EE,
SENATOR MORTON opened the Cam
paign in Indiana on the Republican
side, at Terre Haute, on Friday. AS
specimen of his honesty and fairness
he assertad that the Democrats were
in favor of increasing the legal-tender
currency to pay the 500 Bonds. No
Democrat ever advocated any such
thing, but we claim that the bondhold-
er stood upon the same footing with
any other creditor. But Morton ad-
mitted that bonds were originally pay
able in greenbacks, until a Radical
Congress passed the robber bill.
A WAsH1NaroN cnrrasnondent of