The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-05-06

kAvEN,0l THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1875.
CHAIsD,N is building an Opera
House.
CARL ScHURs and family sailed for
Europe on the 10Th ult.
STnLMAN WITT, prominent citizen
of Cleveland, died recently at sea.
THERE were 1159 divorces granted
by the Ohio Courts last year.
THERE were eighteen applicants be-
fore the Examiners on Saturday.
On Mo nday last four hundred street
laborers in Washington struck for
higher wages.
The De mocrats of Stark county hold
their primary meetings for the nomi-
nation of county ticket. on the 7th
of August.
THE Mahoning Valley Ne,Us is ont
for Governor Tilden, of New York,
as the next Democratic candidate for
President.
GOVERNOR ALLEN has commuted
the punishment of Johnson, the muir
derer, who was sentenced ts be hung
at Cleveland on the 2Sth ult., to i'm
prisonment for life.
THE Post-office at Macarthur, Walton
county, was robbed on Thursday
evening last. The thief obtained only
about S25 for his trouble and risk.
THE President is sick with a cold ne
received at Concord cold shoulder.
Boston Post
VICE President Wilson wants to i'm
prove the condition of colored men
again. Why not improve the whites?
Is it not time?
A GREENBACK club has recently been
organized at Youngstown. 1t is de-
signed to help build up the new Ma
tional Greenback party.
JNo. WHITE, who resides short
distance from Niles on the Mineral
Ridge road, fell from the Z. & Y. II, X.
bridge last Friday and broke his back.
-COnstitution.
A CoLoRED livery stable keeper in
NicholasviIle, KY, and a wealthy man,
was shot through the head in that
place on Saturday night. The perpe-
traitor of the murder was not known
at latest accounts.
A FIRE at Shelbyville, kentucky, on
the 29th ult., destroyed the library
which belonged to the naturalist Au-
dubon, during his life. 1t was of great
value and will be exceedingly difficult
to replace.
A BLOCK of buildings at Hills.
borough, o., was destroyed by fire on
Saturday night, consuming drug
store, shoe store, three law offices,
dentist office and other property, all
valued at $4,000.
AT the municipal election in North
Vernon, Ind, ON Monday the Demo
cratic majority was one hundred and
forty-thrce. No local issue was pend |
ing and tie vote is regarded as fair |
test of the political sentiment.
GENERAL LEGGETT for Governor" |
is the cry ofa number of Radical pa
pers. From the long list of names of
candidates announced for that Office, |
one would naturally suppose there |
was general leg it" for the position. |
The President has appointed Judge |
Edwards Pierrepoint, of New York,
Attorney General in place of Williams |
resigned. 1t is said he contributed |
twenty thousand dellars to to Grant
campaign fund in 1872.
The defense in the Tilton-Beecher
case closed their examination i'm chief
on Friday last. The plaintiffs counsel
offered TO allew the defense TO put
Mrs. Tilton on the stand to testify, but
the offer was declined although the
court decided that she might be wit
ness by consent of both parties. 1t is
now thought the case may be submit
to the jury about the first of June.
A CHARLESTON, S. G. telegram of
the 29th ult., says: Ex-Copgressman
Bowen was to-day arrested for insti-
eating the murder of Colonel White.
committed eleven years ago. For
publishing this charge the News and
Courier were recently prosecuted for
libel. Bowen has been admitted to
bail in the sum of $1,000.
The Illinois Sentinel says that "the
oldest woman in Jacksonville, Mrs.
Anna Ornellas, died on Monday, at
the advanced age of one hundred and
nine. She was born at Madeira, in
I766. She has six children now liv-
ing, the oldest of whom is sc years.
She has been deaf, and almost speech
less for years. Her funeral took place /,
on Tuesday, and was largely attend
ed"
IE the municipal election in Raleigh, ,,
n. C., last Monday, the Democrats
carried eleven out of seventeen AL ,
dermen, and elected their Mayor {
This is the first time since the war,
that the city has gone Democratic ,
The Democrats sweep Durham, Sails )
bury, Hillsborough, Charlotte, Hen
derson and Warrenton, which are all
the towns heard from.
SOMETHING of a changed In the last
Congress the Democrats had but two