The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-06-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

RAvENNA, THURSDAY. JUNE :. 1877
GENER AZ NEWS ITEMS.
: SPECIE shipments to Europe on
Thursday last 100000.
A destructive fire. at Montreal on
the 3Oth ult. left eighty families home
less.
The gross value of the. produce of
the Canadian fisheries for 1876 was
$l1.147,5OO.
EIGHTY persons who had passed
their ninetieth birthday died last year
in New York and Harlem.
IT is asserted that if wheat bran is
sprinkled on growing cabbage the
worms will not destroy the cabbage.
OHIO has got another slice. Gener-
al Comley has formally accepted the
position of Minister Resident at the
Sandwich Islands.
Mrs. Thompson who received the
appointment as Postmistress Of Louis
VILE is said to have been a rebel dur
ing the war. Republicans complain
of lack of fitness in these things.
The Treasury Department has dis
covered that there 10 q scarcity of one
and two dollar greenbacks. The peo-
pie feel that there is . scarcity of 9TH
er denominations.
THE house of Alexander Snyder, at
Portland, Ontario, was destroyed by
FIRE on the night of the 3Oth ult. Two
children perished in the flames. and
the wife was seriously burned.
ONThursday morning last Monsieur
Va Alvergrst, an instructor of French
i'm the Hartford schools, who was Bit
ten by dog on the 30th of April, died
of hydrophobia at Hartford, Conn.
A CABLE dispatch of the 3lst, says
"A Catholic Church in Wischen, Grand
Duchy of Posen, Germany, was struck
by lightning during service and six
persons were killed and about seventy
seriously injured.
THE village of New Centerville, on
the Chester Valley Railroad, about six
miles west of Norristown, Pa. was al
most entirely destroyed by fire about
five o'clock last Friday morning.
A SPAN of horses ran away on FRI
day in the Cemetry at Albany, New
York, and Miss Lizzie Calhoun, one Of
the occupants Of the carriage, jumped
and struck upon her head, killing her
instantly.
The foot of The Tottering Lily
wife of the Chinese Ambassador in
London is Just the sizo of lady's
double fist and much the same shape
apparently, swathed in bands of blue
silk
Fletcher Harper, the youngest and
last surviving member of the original
firm Of Harper Bros. died on the 18th
ult. of gastric fever. The Harper pub
fishing house is now composed of the
sons Of the original firm.
A horrible murder was perpetrated
in the vicinity of Spring Hill, Tenn.
recently. A drunken negro named
Tom. Caldwell whipped and stamped
his son to death. He was threatened
with lynching by the colored people.
Three thousand people assembled on
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ness the departure OF Capt. and Mrs.
Crapo, who propose to cross the ocean
in diminutive schooner. The schoon-
er's measurement is as follows
F. Length, 1855 feet breadth, Ga feet;
depth, BIG feet tonnage, 1.62 tons.
During the recent magnificent auro-
raj display, witnessed at Albany, N.
". the atmosphere was SO impreg-
: mated with electricity that communi-
cation was kept up for some time be-
tween New FORK, Boston and Mon.
treal over the Western Union Tele-
graph wires without the use of bat
terry. .--..,-,
A correspondent Of the New York
Herald at Rome telegraphs that Chas.
EsliDg, Envoy, and Mrs. GeneralSher.
man, President of the American La
dies Committee, had q private audi
ence with the Pope, in the hall. of the
Vatican, at six O'Clock on Sunday
evening the 9th ult. al
The Pennsylyania Radicals don't
seem 70 take kindly to the stolen
southern policy of Hayes. The at
tempt to pass resolutions expressing
confidence in Hayes by several Coun-
ty Conventions-among them the
heaviest Republican counties-have
been lost. The Camerons will have
to be conciliatcd.
THERE 10 still slight chance for
Cowles, of the Cleveland Leader.
George Schneider, of Chicago, who
was appointed Minister to Switzer-
land has telegraphed to Washington
that he cannot accept the Office. He
says he cannot arrange his private
business in a manner satisfactory to
permit Of his leaving the country.
THE Republican Governor Of Illi-
nois has vetoed the bill passed by the
Legislature OF that state restoring sill.
yer a. . legal tender for the payment
Of all debts in the state. Still the
Radicals will insist that their party is
in favor of remonetizing silver. Let
the people bear constantly in mind