The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-02-24

Democratic National Convention.
The Democratic National Commit
tee met on Tuesday last, the 22ud
inst, at Wizards Hall in Washington,
and fixed upon the 27th day of June
az the time, and st. Louis as the place,
g for holding the Democratic National
Convention.
ELEVEN carloads of articles from
Sweden and Norway, for the Centen-
NAL Exhibition, have arrived.
81 A HOG weighing $50 pounds was
driven to a Cincinnati slaughter-house
the other day.
BONNER has purchased q new horse,
the Trimble Mare, Music, for which
he paid $4,000, and her best record is
2:2l1s. ist
By the explosion of the boiler in a
portable saw mill at Farming ham,
Mass, on Friday morning three of the
four men employed were killed.
sfr Our legislative solons made another
trip to their homes last week, adjourn
ing over from Friday TO Tuesday. All
at the expense Of the State.
AT the election in Texas on Tuesday
of last week the Democrats carried
the State, electing their entire State
ticket by about fifty thousand majori-
ty.
THERE are III female students in
tha Michigan University, of whom a
have chosen the legal profession. AZ
the medical and the rest literature and
science.
The people of Alliance are making
an early start in arranging for q
Fourth Of July celebration. They
held a meeting Monday night to con-
slider the subject.
j The greenback party Of Sharon, Pa,
i, elected their entire ticket at an election
:, held on the 10Th inst. 1t would seem
] that the s'rag baby" has q spark OF
life left yet. M
,itaA RADICAL Surveyor of Customs at
Pittsb, .h has been detected in the
business of plundering importers by
; charging an illegal fee of two dollars
ON each consignment. of which no re-
turns were made to the Department
at Washington. Hs
THE Supreme Court of Wisconsin,
Judge Ryan presiding, refused the ap-
plication of Miss Livlnia GoodclI to
practice at the bar, on the ground that
no statute, express or implied, author
lied it, and it was contrary 10 common
law and woman's best interests. ~.
+, SINCE the passage of Sherman's Re-
sumption act the contraction of legal
tender and National Bank currency
amounts to $50, ,76S, ,952, to say nothing
about The money that is withheld from
circulation as the result of that op-
pressiye measure.
LATE reports from Washington in
dicase that Schenck is about to quit
the minister business and is going to
devote his attention exclusively to
that noble American game, poker. lie
has been in a DILEMMA. But he can
undoubtedly get a certificate of char
acter from Grant.
ANOTHER terrible Marine disaster is
reported from England. On Thurs
day afternoon last the Steamer Fran
coma ran into the Strath Clyde OF
Dover and ON her way from London
to Bombay. The boilers of the Straih
Clyde exploded almost instantly and
she sank Immediately, aud fifty-two
of her passengers were drowned.
A PETITION fifty feet long and sign
ed by two thousand names, was pre-
sented in the Ohio Legislature few
days ago by Mr.. Howland. of Ashta-
bula county, asking for the re-enact-
ment of the Adair Liquor Law. What
are the ungrateful Radicals abont that
they have not already paid the Tenn
perance men for their votes last fall,
without which they could not have
succeeded?
SOME of the Radical papers, i'm utter
disgust at the doings of the Radical
Legislature, are loudly nuging them
to adjourn and come home. Do they
forget that these wise law makers
have repealed the Geghan act. And
don't they know that they must adopt
some measures to prevent the people
of the cities of the State from con-
trolling their own local affairs.
A WAsHINGroN telegram of the 18th
inst, says: "The House Appropria.