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Richland beacon., 1875-11-01
''Thc Boys in Grey"
RU7yNIAN IL CO..
Viclsburg, Miss.
Oct. o3d, lST5-2t.

We were wont to admire the boys, who
wore the grey, though it was not for the grey
alone, but for the noble, chivalrous hearts
that beat under it. They commanded the
admiration of the true and the brave in every
land. But how few admire fine head en-
veloped in grey hair and whiskers-very few.
We all love admiration and nothing III our
appearance is more calculated TO secure it
than pretty hair. II old age, sickness or sor-
row has robbed you of it, you can regain it by
the use of DR.. TUTrs HAIR DYE. Its popu-
larity is SO great that it can lie found ON the
shelves Of every druggist in the land.
Oct. 23d-2t
Richland beacon., 1875-11-01
IMPORTANT % Taxpayers.

| will pay the Parish Taxes Of any party
who may desire me to do so at liberal dis
count. C. II. MOORE.
Ray Vile, La Oci.23 ls75-tf
Richland beacon., 1875-11-01
SUERIFFrS SALE.

I. II. AIOphf,
hayVllle, NOV. lst, 1870. j>6t Sheriff
Richland beacon., 1875-11-01
CheriH''s Sale.

Rayviile, La, Nov. |, lS75.-6t. Sheriff
Richland beacon., 1875-11-01

Gst
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
Making rranps.

A dispatch from Pottsvflle, Penn,
dated the 81 inst, says: "In conse-
guence OF the overstocked. condition
of the Eastern markets and of the
close of navigation, the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Will, to-morrsw, direct the. stoppage
Of thirty of their forty icollieries in
this vicinity. About five thousand
men and boys are thus thro wn out OF
work.
Twenty five individual collieries
will also suspend during the week,
and it is thought that by December
18th the suspension will be- general.
and over 10000 people win be out Of
emplo, mient in the Schuy;kill region.
The suspension may not last oyer two
months, though fears are entertained
that work will not be resumed until
spring.
The iron trade continuing dull, Or
ders have been ISSUED by the 1sehding
Coal and Iron Company to stop work
at their various ore mines, where six
hundred men are now employed. 1t
is claimed that enough ore has been
mined and stocked ready for shipping
to supply all demands until spring.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

THE New York He, aid printed on
Thursday the report of an interview
with Peter Cooper concerning the
finances. Among many other excel
lent things Mr.. Cooper says that the
"repeal OF the law permitting holders
of legal tenders to convert them at
their option into interest bearing
bonds was the most cruel act of in
justice that was ever inflicted on the
American people. From thence have
come NEST of the financial troubles
and disasters of which so much COM
pliint is made at the present time.
Our bonds were rushed abroad, to be
exchanged for luxuries and for gold
at sixty cents on the dollar, instead of
being taken by our own people at par.
Millions of gold goes abroad to pay
interest to foreign bondholders, in,
stead OF being paid to our own people.
A policy OF rapid contraction was
then inspired into the Government,
when, the necessities of the war being
over, further issues of bonds were
made and currency was Withdrawn
and all credits began to contract, as
natural and inevitable consequence.
This brought on one of those irration-
al conditions in human affairs which
we call 'panlc,' that brought down
credit at once to the zero point and
shrunk the value of all property"
This is very nearly as true as Gospel.
The act which repudiated the solemn
contract printed on the back of every
one of the war greenbacks, making
them convertible into interest bearing
bonds is the cause of the depreciation
of the greenback. 1t was an enormous
outrage. Plior to its passage the
greenback was at par with the bonds,
than gold. Who is it that deprecated
the greenbacks?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
Tho Right Kind of talk.

I" Congress opens this winter with
Confederate representative In both
branches, representing Confederate
constituencies in each of the late slave
States Of the American Union."-NG-
tionat Republican. ..a :
The Southern Confederacy was de-
stroyed more than ten years ago, and
since that time the Republican party
has had absolute sway over the States
lately in rebellion. and it certainly
cannot find fault with the results of
its own policy of reconstruction. Z If
it's work has been we'll done there are
no Confederates in the country aud ne
Confederate representatives in Con-
gross. Unless the Administration has
proved an utter failure, the, nation is
composed of free and equal American
citizens, and Congress is body, made
up Of the representatives of free andt
equal States. There are no longer any
prescribed classes among US, and no
disfranchised communities. The Con.
gressmen from the South come to the
Capitol as the choice of their fellow
citizens, and they appear in behalf OF
States claiming and exercising the
right of self-governincnt. This, mat
ter ought TO be plainly put and fully
understood. It is time that the villain
Gus habit OF considering the Southern
people as class apart, as men exer--
cising the rights of freemen merely on
sufferance, should be discarded. If
they are not American citizens in the
fullest sense of the term, in Gods
name what are they? And what bus
mess have they Interfering in our af-
fairs or we in theirs p World. IL.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
GRANTS sACI,IFICEs.

Iliti-a GRANTS SSACRIFICEs.a3h -
Plans for Indemnifying linn for Yielding
r.fI fT the Third Term. .~..l.
The Washington Correspondent of
the Chicago Times writes: .i'
There is however, a schsme OH fos t
with the object of cOnferringt contin-
ued honor upon President Grant,
which l must regard as fairly entitIed
to the candid considerations of the pub
lie. 'rhe scheme, iorrather suggestion,
here referred 10 grew out OF the fact,
which will not be. denied, that Gen.
Grant, in accepting the Presidency
made Il great pecuniary sacrifice. i
Two plans in connection herewith
have been canvasscd. One is Il pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution.
This is, in short. the suggestion ot "a
new article to the Constitution provi-
ding that every ex President of the
United Siales shall be, upon his re-
tirement from office, except bv i'm
pcachmcnt, Senator OF the United
States at Large for lite.
Another plan is TO specially provide
Presidnt Grant, without waiting for a
general provision on the subject. This
plan is simply TO declare by law that
cX President Grant shall be General
issiino OF the armv. 1t is a PROPOSE
ton. in Il word, TO place, him again at
the head Of our army, by the creation
of Il new Office, made expressly tor
him during his lifetime, and without
at all interfering with the pay and
emOlumcnts Of the present q General and
Lieutenant General. This proposed
plan would be in almost exact anoiOgy
of what was done in the case of Wash
ington, who after his retirement, and
war was threatened with France was
declared GemeralissimO, and actually
held that Office for some time, though
never exercising its functions in the
field. 't' 4-.H " Il
Such are proposed projects as to
President Grant as L get them here.
They are not, of course, talked about
on the streets or in the saloons and
public club rooms; but those who are
able to go behind the scenes and get
at the inside of the things-the, open
secrets of this political metropolis
known that these things are being
constantly v ialke eel about bv the initated,5
and are likely soon TO take shape and
come before the public. ,l.t7t, -,f.,,
Fortunately the National House of
Representatives is Democratic which
will affectually prevent, for the pres
EN-. at ieast," the consumination of any
such plans.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

The Democrats of Wooster arc max
ing preparations for celebrating the
coming Sth of January with grand
festival. This is a day which the
staunch Democracy have commemOr-
ated with appropriate ceremonies for
the past twenty years, and there has
never been time when it was more
proper for people to call to mind the
heroic deeds of the old Hero Of the
Hermitage, than the present. This
festival will, like those of the past be
a grand affair. -.-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09


On Saturday afternoon Warden
Dunham took VIM. NJ. Tweed from
Ludlow street Jail and accompanied
him to the residence of Mrs. Tweed,
at Madison Avenue and Fifty-ninth
street, and while there Tweed request
ed permission to see his wife privately.
The Warden unhesitatingly granted
the request, and Tweed went up stairs
to his wife's apartments, leaving one
of his sons to entertain Durham and
the Deputy. About ten minutes
later the son was told to notify his
father that it was time TO leave, and
the young man went up stairs for the
purpose aud returned soon after say
ing that his father had gone. He had
mysteriously disappeared. and all ef-
fort to find him were fruitless. A re-
ward of $4,000 has been offered for
his capture. The beliefis general that
some Of the officers connived at his
escape. His trial in the $6,OOO,O 600
suit was to have begun on Monday
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
Another rhird.Termer.

Mcdonald, member of the st.
Lsuis whisky ring who has been con-
victed of robbing the Government
has been interviewed by a
of the Chicago Tribune,
and most cMphatically declared him
self in faver of Grant for Third
term. He says:
"Grant will be elected for third
term as sure as am now in Jail. He
is the man for the times, and the peo.
pie know it and intend to keep him
where he is"
A fellow feeling makes them
wondrous kind. But Secretary Bris-
tow is getting the Presidents third.
term friends in pretty tight place.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
A Sea Serpent in Conflict with Whale.

The Zanzibar correspondent of the
Western Morning News, writing un-
der date October Goth, says: "The
bark Pauline has arrived at Zanzibar
with Goals for Her Majesty's ships.
When off Cape St. Rogue, South
America, a sight was presented that
made the crew aghast-nothing less
than the great sea serpent engaged in
a conflict with whale. 1t had wound
itself twice around the whale, and was
twirling it with tremendous velocity,
lashing the water into foam. The
noise could be distinctly heard on
board, and after battling for some
time both disappeared. The serpent s
length can be imagined. 1t had two
coils around a fuIl-sizcd sperm whale,
with thirty feet clear at each end. Its
diameter was from three to four feet.
They saw it twice afterward. Once it
came very close to the vessel, and rails
ed itself about sixty feet out of the
water, as if:about to attack them. l
have cushioned men and officers, try
ing 10 find out any discrepancy be-
tween their statements, but am a con-
vert to the belief that ii was secn."
Another naval officer writes to the
Western Morning News to precisely
the same effect; and the officers OF
Her Majesty's ships on the station are
said to be convinced of the truth OF
the story.-Lice,pOol Courier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

Hon. JAMES G.. BLAINE has written
letter suggesting an amendment to
the Federal Constitution prohibiting
the control of funds raised by taxation
for the support of schools by any reIi-
gious sect. This is proposed as a set
tlement of the sectarian school ques-
ton. Ohio has already in her consti-
tutien, a provision exactly like that
proposed, which was put there by the
Democrats, still it did not quiet the
senseless alarm and agitation got up
by the Radical demagogues in the late
canvass. Yet We imagine such a
proposition would meet with but lit
tie opposition from the people in any
section of the country. II. H1Ft1 fr
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
THE MARKETS.

RASENNAs DeC. Q, 1861
FLOUR Range. from rs 49, for Red
to 81 81 for xxx white. Demand steady.
WHEAT-$1 20c @ 81 s5.
CORN-shelled brings 60c; ears. 259sec.
OATS-N.w, 80 a 33c. Sales dull.
RYE-No brings so q Csc:
BUCKWHEAT-From Soc. q 60c.
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR-$s per cwt.
BARLEY-None TN market.
HAY-Selling at SO . $13; according to
quality.
BEEF-Per cwt., IS q &s.
HOGS-Dressed. per cwt.. s. 50. a s. 90. ac-
cording to quality.
LARD-City render ed II q 1Sc.
SMOKED MEATS-City Sugar Cured Hams
selling at 17c; Country 1ahc
Shoulders, City cured selling ut 1axc. Dried
Beef selling at a0e.
POULTRY-Good supply in the market
Chickens dressed, buy ers pay 90 10 cents un-
dressed q &c Turkies. live e cents; dress
ed, 10 q lac.
BUTTER--25 q &c.. supply fair.
CHEESE-Factory. retails, 15r.
EGGS buyers pay 25c per doz.
POTATOES-Purchasers pay 20c. q a5c.
BEANS-Choice hand picked in good demand
at 81 Is per bu. Medium 81 80.
ONIONS-per bushel 40 q &c.
HOPS-5Oc.
SAGE-Retails at Soc 07Oc.
VINEGAR-Pure cider, retails SOC per gal
TALLOW-Buyers pay &c. csc.
HIDES-Green, trimmed q &C.; untrim-
med &c. @5.
EEATHERS-Best retail at 75c.
WHITE LIME-$1 40 per bbl
WATER LIME-$2 IS
SALT-COarse sells at g. rs: fine 81 Is.
WoOD-Stove - OO99 80; 8 feet wood s. 90
q g so per cord.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
Congress.

The Forty.fourth Congress COM
menced its first session at noon on
Monday.
The Senate was called to order by
Senator Ferry, the speaker pro.te Of
that body. Ey
The credentials ofDavid NJ. Key,
appointed U. S. Senator in place of
Andrew Johnson, deceased, were pre-
sented and he was sworn in.
A resolution to notify the President
Of the organization was adopted, and
also one to notify the House that the
Senate had assembled and was ready
for business. rl rvu-r =.
The death of Vice President Wilson
was announced by Senator Boutwell,
who said at an early day resolutions
relating to his life. character and pub
lic services would be offered.
The Senate adjourned. 4se. es:
o., The House of Representatives or
ganized by the election of the officers
selected by the Democratic caucus held
OH Saturday last, as, follows: 4
Speaker, NJ. G.. Kerr, of Indiana;
Clerk. Geo. N. Adams, of Kentuc Ky ;
q. Sergeant-at-Arms, John q. Thomp-
son., of Ohio; r, !Jsa iua .9..- y.
Deorkeeper, Lafayette Ii. Fitzhugh, ,
of Texas; ss ~ Tr-
Postmaster, Jas. NJ. Stewart, Of Vir-
ginia; Ir.la. -fs.fa...
Chaplain, Rev. J. L. Townsend.
A message was sent to the Senate,
notifying that body of the organiza-
tion of the House; and a committee
was appointed to join q like commit
tee Of the Senate. and wait on the
President and inform, him that Con-
gress is now in session, and ready TO
receive any communication from him.
The Presidents message was not
delivered to, Congress till 8 Tuesday,
and did not reach us till few hours
before our paper went to press, which
preclnded US from laying it before eur
readers this week. ru ifsru-t
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
A DISPATCH from Boston, dated 4

A DISPATCH from Boston, dated the
9th inst, says: ......s %.
AT large meeting to-day of the
Union and Of The Tract Society, and
also of the weekly mesting of preach
ers, comprising nearly two hundred
ministers, Bishop Haven urged as a
measure of safety for the public the
denomination of General Grant for
president. His views were adopted
by unanimous vote.
And they are terribly alarmed
about the Catholics interfering in pol
itics. tu.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

AMONG the enormous swindleswhich
the House should investigate, and
which as far as possible Congress
should remedy, are the Union Pacific
Railroad frauds. The recent decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States practically to the effect that the
Government must pay all it prom
ised to the railroad but can collect
little or nothing from it, calls atten-
.tion 70 this necessity. Meanwhile
the railroad is an extorfloner, aud its
charges should be watched. ,.,., 'eh
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
,,A,Fev Oue.t,ons and Answers.

Who gave the U nited States its Cab
bageleaves, irredeemable currency,
about which Republican politicians
talk p .fHi 7soi o. v'oJ ais = a'.1
The politicians of the Republican
party - at s9ia il.ss .Ht'i arii +.it
T Under what administration did the
class known as Tramps originafe?
I, Under the administration of the Re-
publican party. asaii;r5 uaPo it
a., Under what administration did
whisky rings and s"crooked whisky
originate? tUUi .zogi ~ 'eH -.5
T. Under the administration of the
Republican Wayne Co. Dem.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

IT is estimated that the Govern
ment has lost over $40, 600, 900 of reve-
nue. by the whisky frauds, and that
not more than $2,O0O,oO0 will be re-
prosecuting the rascals. This shows
how much the honest tax payers of
the country pay to keep up the 'hon.
est administration" whose, officials
are in collision with the thieves.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

SUCH is the, danger to our Common
Schools from the success of theDemo-
cracy as to throw in the shade the
whisky frauds, the Credit Mobilier,
DeGolier pavement, and the many
other swindles of the party in power,
and render a "Third-term" Of Grant q
necessity. The people will be asked
to shut their eyes and go it blind.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

81 The common schools are threatened
with danger from another insidious
Catholic. Reuben Springer, pious
Catholic of Cincinnati, subscribed
SI45, 600 toward Musical Hall in thai
CITY, the citizens Of the place to give
SIO5. 200 more, which they raised with
difficulty. The Hall is for the benefit
of the public, of course, but then it is
feared by some of the Jealous Know
hing brethren that Springers do.
"Iinjure the common schools
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

ONE of the most fiendish acts on
record was that committed in New
York on the night Of the 1st inst, by
Patrick Toney, who saturated the
clothing of his wife with kerosene
oil and set it on fire. The screams Of
the woman brought inmates Of the
bouse to her rescue and the flames
were. e.extinguished. She was terribly
burned, however, and it was thought
her injuries would prove fatal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

g "W. j. "" writes from Washing
ton 10 the Cincinnati Commercial -
speaking of the Third Term reminds
me that have heard more of it and
more expressions in favor of it during
this week than ever before. am be-
ginning to believe that all the senti-
ment in favor of a Third Term is not,
after all, going about under General
Grants hat" h tstaE s.nU t.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

ILLINOIS is the Champion revenue
paying State. In that interesting de-
partment of the public service Illinois
pays to the extent of S17,627 ,668, New
York, SIS, ,2OO.S9S. Ohio, Sl4,656, ,295.
No other States appreAimates these
in contributions to the general extrav-
agance and splendor carried on at
Washington.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09
MARRIED.

CHARACTERISTICS Rev. George Darsie at
the residence of the brides father, ON w ed.
nesday Evening. Dec. 1st. 1876. Mr.. A. H. Bean
and Miss Addie E. Christy, both of Ravenna.
The warmest congratulations and best wishes
Of the many~friends of the happy pair are ex-
tended to them. for their health and pros perity,
in which we most heartily join.
JENKiNS-W the Empire House,
in Akron. on Sunday, Dec. 9th. 1878. by Rev.
Henry Baker. Mr.. Thomas jenkins and Miss
Annie E. Wilson, both OF Ravenns.
P0OLER-PRICE.-Nov 24th. at the residence
of the brides father in ,shalersville, by Rev.
G. w, Clarke. Mr.. J. n. Pooler, OF HeIkimer
! Co. N, Y, and Miss A. A. Price.
KERSEYTFINCH.-By, the. same, Dec. 1, Mr..
H, F. Kersey, OF Lebanon. Ohio, and Miss Sa-
rah A. Finch Of Ravenna,- f'si
sTEIBLEY-PRICE.-By the same, Dec 2. Mr.,
George II. Stelbley,; of Cuyahoga Falls. and
Miss Nellie F.iPrice, OF Ravenna.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

"SEE that School Keeps" was the
last injunction of Gen. Oglesby of Illi-
nois to the Republicans of Ohio. He
might now add "See that Court Keeps
to the Republicans of Missouri, till all
Republican Government thieves are
tried, convicted and sentenced-but
the last saying might endanger the
schools, you know Vindicator.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

SHARr.-About one O'Clock last Fri
day afternoon man steppen into the
Office of the City Auditor at Toledo,
and informed the clerk in charge that
a lady in carriage at the door desired
to see him relative to the purchase of
some bonds. While the Clerk was
thus engaged the stranger distracted
box containing S2,lOO in currency,
aud made good his escape. IL
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

The city of Philadelphia, which has
for years been under the control OF a
corrupt Republican ring, is now hang
ing on the verge of bankruptcy and
clammoring for reform. The present
debt is S69, ,390, ,463. In 1854 the debt
was $46,O00,0OO, The tax duplicate
shows about 5000. 600, 900 real and per-
sonal property. Taxes are increasing
all the while, but the debt gets no
smaller. .lo z;an gag sos sGoh -lra
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

The fifth annual report of Commis-
sioner Eaton, of the Bureau Of Educs-
ton, will show that there are enrolled
in the public schools of the United
States 100000 pupils, whose daily
attendance averages 100000. There
are in the United States and Terrific
ries 1O,5O0OOO children between 6 and
16 years of age.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

IT has been very appropriately said
that sit has occupied the time of one
half the Republican officials to inves-
tigate and expose the corruptions and
rascalities of the other half" and yet
every Convention OF that party ex-
presses abiding faith in the ability and
honesty Of the administration.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

It is intimated that the activity. Of
late manifested in naval affairs has
reference to the protection of Ameri-
can citizens on the Texan borders
against the Mexican bandits and mur-
derers, and if necessary to guarantee
permanent peace the conquest of the
State of Sonora. ...... t.,.-,.,.,, ..-...
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

FEARS are still entertained of trouble
with the Apache and Ute Indians in
the'vicinity OF Cimaron Agency, New
Mexico. growing out of the recent af;
fray in which the agent was wounded
by an Indian quite large force of
troops are being gathered there to
await Developments. -"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-09

THERE'S some danger that the Radi-
calls, in their struggle with the Pope
will forget their promises in regard to
POlygamy, that "twin relic Of barbar-
ISM" They have not fully redeemed
their promises on that subject.