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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

The head Of Ferdinand Vogeler, the
Repoblican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor in the late canvass, is level
upon the causes that produced the
averwhelming disaster to his party in
this State. In an interview he thus
unbosomed himself to . reporterr
The people of this State are oppos-
ed to the resumption Of specie pay
ments on the day fixed by law. This
may sound strange to you, but it is
undoubtedly true. Ny observations
satisfy me that all the Democrats, and
fifty per cent. of the Republicans of
Ohio are opposed to forced resump-
ton - they call it. This opposition
% resumption premeates the whole
State
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

WHILE the Radical papers are max
ing desperate effort to prove that
Daniel w. Worries. the new Indiana
Senator, sympathized with the late re-
bellion.they seem to forget that Keyes,
Hayes Postmaster General, and others
OF his appointees, were active partici
pants in the war on the Confederate
side, and thLt Hayes himself, in his
junketing through the South last sum.
mer, with hat in hand, obsequiously
address crowds OF men who fonght
in the Rebel army, as "my dear Con-
federate friends." II this is the era OF
good feeling, is it not about time for
these Radical ranters TO abandon the
"bloody rag" and stop their foolish
ness.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

In the meeting Of the Am Temper
ance League recently held in the cny
OF, New York. Luther 8. Kaufman
stated that the money annually ex
pended in the production and con-
sumption OF alcoholic liquor in this
country exceeds 5000, 100000. In ten
years the Americans spend for liquor
- much money as the nation expend
ed during the whole Of the late war.
There are $4,000 men employed in
some connection with the trsfIic.
There are GOO, 900 hsbitual drunkards
in the land, and !. 100000 who get
drunk occasionally.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

We should think the Republicans OF
Garfield's district would sometime be.
gin to see that he should be sat down
upon severely and kept there. Since
the bloody shirt issue was given up,
he hasn't supported solitary princi-
pie that is not directly opposed to
their interests. He is in favor of the
sudden resumption ofspecie payments,
opposed to the silver bill, ana is an
oa'.and-out free trader in sentiment.
Indeed we do not know of any set.up
representative of the people who is
more perverse toward his constituent
cy than Garfield. Aud he is as dis
honest as the devil wants him to be,
tOO.-[ Youngstown Vindicator
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

The Grand Jury of Allegheny Co.,
Penn. made its prcsentmcnt on Tues
day. in the Pittsburgh riot case, and
with it special argument to show
that the County is in no way RESPONSE
BILE for the damages done by the mob
of railroad rioters that destroyed some
four or five millions of dollars of
property in the month of July last.
Their argument is, that of the en-
pioycs of q corporation. rendered des .
perate by the crushing despotism of
capital, taking up arms to resist its
demands. 1t is protest against the
interposition of State authorities to
settle local trouble between employer
and employe, an appeal against the in
terpositiOn of foreign forces in the
settlement of domestic difficulties.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

THERE were 61 failures in New
York city in the month of October
the largest number of any month this
year liabilities s3,GOO0OO. The num-
her Of failures has increased about 30
per cent. over the record for the month
Of September. And yet we are assured
that business is reviving and times are
Improving.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

RoBERr SMALLs. . negro congress.
man from Suuth Carolina, and who
was . member Of the Senate of that
State under carpetbag rule. has been
convicted of accepting q bribe of
5000 for his vote in favor of an ap-
preparation for printing company
when he was . senator. Smalls, it
will be remembered acquired consid-
ersble notoriety in having run con-
federate steamer out from Charleston
and delivered her to the federal feet
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

The Constitutional Amendment is
very badly beaten in this State. The
people of Ohio do not seem to take
kindly to changes in the present Or
ganic Act, and no Amendment can be
ratified except by a previous agree
ment between both political parties.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

The bullionists are fierce in their
denunciations of the measures before
Congress to repeal the Resumption
and for the remonetizing of silver, and
charge that those who favor them are
"repudiationists," and by their con-
slant howl about "repudiation" they
hope to be able to awe the servants OF
the people into compliance with their
demands. The entire financial legis-
lation of Congress for the last twelve
years has been in the interest of the
money power and oppressive to the
people. The fact is, the "repudiation'
has all been in the interest of the
bondholders and privileged classes
When the $50 bonds were issued, by
the terms of the law and the bonds
themselves they were payable in legal
tender currency, but under the pre-
tense of STRENGTHENING the public
credit" the old contract with the peo.
pie was "repudiated" in 1869, and they
were made payable in coin. But the
favored few were not satisfied with
the advantage thus secured. and they
sent their agents to Washington and
obtained the decentralization Of silver
which had been the currency of the
country from the earliest days of the
Republic, and thus "repudiated" the
agreement under which the people
had the right TO pay their obligations.
These measures were most paipable
fraud and outrage upon the people.
They were adopted Tor the sole pur-
pose of compelling the debtor to pay
and enabling the creditor to obtain
dollars of greater value than those in
which their debts W ere created and in
which their debtors had contracted
to pay them. Exact Justice would de-
mand that the former status should
be restored and the creditor be COM
PEELED to receive his debtbin a curren-
cy of the same kind and value as that
in which it was originally contracted
and agreed to be paid. In justice to q
and plundered people the
least that Congress can do is to re-
monetize the "dollars of the fathers"
and put stop to the grinding contrac-
ton of the currency which is crushing
out the energies of the people.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22
on Friday last Garfield made ,

On Friday last Garfield made a
most violent speech against the bill TO
repeal the Resumption Act, closing
with the remark that he would oppose
the repeal if it deprived him of all
political future. He thinks, If his am
bitioD cannot be gratified by election
to the Senate, he has firm hold on
the 18th District of which he cannot b.
deprived even by the cardinal IS doc.
trine" of his party of rotation in Of
fee"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

The committae of eastern bulliOnists
and bondholders who have been down
TO Washington trying to induce the
Senate and Hayes to interpose their
powers to prevent the reconciliation
of silver are doing 1t in the interest of
the toilins, producing people, they
would have us believe! How very
kind.
THE Radical carpet -baggers ofSouth
Carolina are having q rather rough
time. CORDOBA has been found guilty
OF embezzlement, and the prosecutions
against the rest of the rascal are to be
vigorously prosecuted. 1t won't do
for the Radicals to claim that these
are the result ofDemocrat-
ic prosecutions, for the juries are most
ly composed of colored Republicans.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

THERE are twenty-five Democratic
Senators and sixty-seven Democratic
members of the House elect to the
next Ohio Legislature. There will be
ninety-twO votes in the Democratic
caucus that will name the next United
States Senator.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22
extreme Radicals would like to have
rHEINDrAr AFFAIRS

THE INDIAN AFFAIRS
Committee of the Senate reported a
bill to that august body, which con-
stitutes, makes and appoints Mr.. Red
skin, full and complete citizen of the
United States, and al amendment
went still further, and continued to
this "child Of the forest" his annuities
tribal funds, SC, the same as though
he had not been constituted pale
faced American, but still remained a
"little injun boy" Whether the war
path painted, scalping-knife. tommy
hawking injun is to be an addition to
the colored radical voter, the Bi'l-el
didn't say. Verify ye Mclean man
heap much votee, voteel
DEMoCRITEs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, says the re-
suit of the election in Ohio is very
good endorsement of the Democratic
policy and continues: so far as am
concerned, assign all my right, title,
and interest as Republican in Mr..
Hayes to the Democracy
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

CHIcAeo had another big fire on
Wednesday morning of last week, in
which the immense retail store of
Nessrs. Field g Letter was destroyed
involving loss of . million and q
half OF dollars and throwing $50 per-
Sons out Of employment. The stock
was insured for S95O.O0O.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

The Radicals want large standing
army of $4,000. because when the peo-
pie look upon the glittering b,yonets
aud hear tho music of the tear pearc-
ing fife and the spirit stirring drum"
they will be SO much more enlighten-
ed and capable of self-sOvernment.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

EwING, it is said, feels confident OF
the passage of Resumption Repeal
Bill through the House if he can ever
get it to a vote. Those who are using
every effort to prevent a vote being
had upon the passage of the bill, know
the will of the people and are trying
10 defeat it by parliamentary trickery.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

CENTRAL Sherman thinks there are
not enough soldiers to take care OF
the postmssters. He says there are
but 10000 Of the former while there
are 10000 Of the latter, and he wants
the army increased. On tho other
hand, the people would mach prefer
an increase in the number of postmasi-
ers. Id.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

Col. George S. Bangs, formerly
superintendent of the railroad postal
service, died suddenly of Bright's dis.
ease of tha kidneys, in Washington at
three O'Clock on Sunday morning.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22
Kars Captured.

A London telegram Of the 18th says
Gan official Russian dispatch, dated
Veran-Kaleh, Sunday, November 18th,
says: ''The Russians carried Kars to.
day by storm. The battle preceding
the capture commenced at eight o'clock
last night and terminated at eight this
morning. Our trophies and losses are
ct present unknown"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

ALLIANCE and Salem have each had
few cases of smallpox lately, but
according to the papers from those
places they are about rid of the dis
ease now.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22

IT is reported that Bob. Ingersoll
declines the Berlin Mission So now
the anxious souls can calm their fears.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22
THE MARKETS.

RAvENNA, November 21, 1877
FLOUR.-King's Best, S. 20; .. h. 81 0O
Demand steady.
WHEAT-No. Red. 81 30; Mol W White 81 33
CORN-shellcd brings 6Oc; ears. a5c.
OATS-32c. Sales dull.
RYE-No. brings 20 q sos;
BARLEY-None In market.
HAY-Sclling at IS q $40; according to
quality. Dull sale.
BEEF-pcr cwt., s. so.
HOGS-Drcsscd, So per cwt.
LARD-City rendered 1910.
SMOKED MEATS-City sugar Cured Hams
selling at l4c; Country 121<c.
Shoulders, City cured selling at 1Oc. Dried
Beef selling at 49,.
POULTRY-Small supply in the market
Chickens dressed, buyers pay cents; un-
dressed &c; Turkies. undrcsscd. s G.
BUTTER-2O O. &c.
CHEESE-FactOry. retails. 16c.
EGGS-buyers pay 22c per doz.
POrArOES-Buyers payi3Oc.
BEANS-Choice hand picked in smalldemand
at q 20 per bu. Medium 81 25.
VINEGAR-Pure cider retails 259SOc per gai
TALLOW-Buyers pay &c.
HlDES-Green, trimm I'd 6 Q 6Hc.
EEATHERS-Best retail at Toe.
WHITE LIME-$1 rs per bbl.
WATER LIME-$2 25
SALT-Coarse sells at 81 75: fine 81 80.
wOOD-Stove 81 OO9s 80. 3 feet wood 8 00
d 8 so per cord.
SUGARS
Couee A sells Tor 12c
HAua --.--..--...... TIC
Glanulatcd .12t1c
FulVeriLeu ..-.-.......... 13c
CruSned lSc
broWh @$lOc
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22
n. Converse & Cos
ADVERTIS ENT

Our large store is now full of a well selected
New Fall Goods! 5!
to which VIC checrfully invite the public te
carefully inspect. Look through our
DRESS GOODS
A Big Pile Of FIanneIs.
Look at our CSC shirting Flannels. better thar
we ever sold before. Canton Flannels from se
per yard up.
Our Cloth Dep artme ent
s7xe. and heavy ali wool Cassimeres at 7Oc pc,
New styles Cloak and Sh avI 6
Ladies' and Cents Und erwe ar
at all prices. Look ut our Ladies' Wrapper
/ at Soc; an extra qualify.
Good Prints at SC,
Splendid Batting at i2Hc per 10
$1.OO SHIRT
We have the exclusive sale OF the best Whit
| Shirt NJ $i.U we ever SAW. Come and see. ant
be convinced.
TABLE-CLOTHs.
A splendid stock, all grades. from Csc per yd NJ
BATTING.
| A splendid article at 19,sc.
large line Crashes from &c per yard up.
BLEACHED and BROWN COTTONS
A full line of these Goods from &C. per yd mp.
GLOVES AND MITTENS
| Look through our stock before buying. W,
have grant new stock.
| Floor Oil-Cloths from 35c per yard, up
BOOTS. SHOES AND RUBBERs.
| new stock.
| OIL AND PAPER SHADES.
Look at our New Curtain Fixtures.
Oh. yes. that so Cent Tea!
We hear so much about. We would say we are
not the men to shut up, but are ready io-put VI
another half tOn-jusG received-of rs good Tet
as was ever landed in kavenna. Come and Sc,
| ii it can't talk for itself.
Bring In your Butter. Eggs, and Green.
backs, and get your moneys worth
at all times.
New Goods Arriving as the Season ad
vances.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22
MARRIED

WOODEN-InRavenna. atPortage
House. Nov. Is 1871 by Rev. e. V. Wilson Mr..
Charles NJ. Graham and Miss Dora 8 Woodel.'
both of Garrettsviile.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-06-13

KILLING WEEDs.-Cultivators are
finding out, all over the country, that
the most rapid way to kill weeds is not
to let them grow. Break the white and
brittle sprouts from the seeds before
they are fairly above ground. The
oftener you do it, the better for the
crop. 1t is ever so much easier and
better than pulling up big weeds by
hand, or cutting them off with hoe
In the garden, the most expeditions
way is to run over the mellow ground
with steel rake, which going down an
inch snaps the sprouts OF every weed.
If the ground is hard, skim the surface
with light, thin hoe. ground sharp,a
then use the rake. In the field, the
farmer must use the harrow or Guilt
vator often enough to keep perfectly
clean surface all the time. Such good
treatment will often double the growth
ofthe crop by the constant stirring of
the soil, Independently Of keeping the
weeds from sucking their nourishment.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-06-13
FARM AND FlREsIDE.


We recently referred to the fact that
the Russian Government had brought a
great number of American plows for
shipment to the wheat growing regions
of Southern Russia. We understand
that large purchases of other imple-
ments and machinery, including porta-
BILE engines and thrashing machines,
are contemplated, and thata Russian
agent is investigating the merits of
various machines for the purpose of
selecting the best of them. All this
shows that the Russians do not intend
to give up the foreign markets for wheat
which they have held SO long, without
a struggle, and that if we, who have
been able to undersell and displace
them from these markets, do not meet
them with equal enterprise, we may be
compelled to relinqmsh the advantages
we have gained. Now it is well that
we should know something Of the agri-
culture of the people with whom we
are brought into so direct competition,
and this we may learn from the returns
collected by the British Board of Trade,
and recently published, relative to
Russian agriculture. These returns,
although published in the volume for
1876, refer to statistics of the crops of
1872. They are, however, of great
value in their present relation, because
little or no change has occurred since
that year, which was an average sea-
son. The area of farms in Russia
amounted to l,244, 467, 1851 acres, of
which 527, 1926, $40 acres, Or nearly one
half, are covered with timber. As to
the crops, the following tabulated
figures are given, viz:
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-06-13
Farming as a Business.

A man who is not smart enough to
run a store, is not smart enough to run
farm and do it successfully. 1t used
to be thought that any fool could be
farmer, but now, thanks to an enlight-
ened nation Of farmers, that day is
passed, never to return. Farmers are
not made oul of what IS left after law
yers, doctors. ministers and merchants
are sorted and picked out, and if a man
fails on the farm he is not likely to sue
coed in a store; for it requires more
talent to be a thriving farmer than to
be an average merchant. One great
fault with the farmer is, that he is not
satisfied to make farming a business,
and to throw his whole soul and ability
to make his business pay. Too many
want to keep store, peddle and specu-
late one way or another and neglect the
farm; and whenever man does this,
ruin will be the inevitable result.
Another great cause of failure is too
many farmers keep too much land.
Large farms are all right if you have
large capital; but large farms and small
capital will not do. A farmers capital
is his skill and money. If he has little
cash he must have no more land than
he can thoroughly manage by his per-
sonal labor; every acre beyond that is
an incumbrance. One acre well-work-
ed is more profitable than twenty acres
skinned over, for halfplowed, half
narrowed field will not produce good
crop Of anything unless it is weeds. 1t
is this greed for land that keeps so
many poor. Small farms worked well
are the kind that pay best, because they
are suited to the capital Of the general
farmer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-06-13

You cannot have too many tomato
plants. Every body and every beast
and fowl are fond of the LoYe-Apple.
1t is wholesome and enjoyable at all
times andin any way they may be
served. Plant some among the flowers
that are liable to be injured by insects,
and plant several close to such fruit
trees are subject to having their fruit
destroyed by curculo and other bugs or
worms. 1t has been lately asserted by
good authority that South American
gardner accidently discovered that there
was great viltue IN tomato leares. He
then commenced series OF experiments
and satisfied himself that planting
tomato vines near to peach. plum and
other trees liable to lose their fruit from
cureulio, was an effectual remedy. That
a simple solution of tomato leaves in
water, and the solution sprnkled over
flowers and plants infested with insects
of any sort, drove away or killed the
noxious insects. 1t is, true, 1 myself,
never saw the tomato plant itself affec-
ted or injured by but two living things
the tomato worm, very like the
tobacco worm, and last year, by the
Colorado Potato Bug. Some gardens
have in this country by accident and
some by internal experiment arrived at
the same conclusion, and one gentle
man says the curcullo rayaged his apple
trees several years, and last year he had
a fine crop; knows no cause except
that, for the first time, his crop of
tomatoes were grown among his trees.
1 myself do not know. aught from my
own experience about this, but as the
experiment is so easily and cheaply
made 1 desire every body who takes the
trouble to read this to make the trial,
and ladies to test the virtue the infusion
of the leaves of insects affecting their
flowers. Ifitprove that there is this
virtue in the tomato plant we shall be
able to grow plums, apricots, nectorines,
&c., as our fathers did, in perfection,
before the id potato bugs"-as
another man said in my hearing after
the decided against the on the Re-
turning Board decision-and before the
no less vile curculio made their appear
ance in ''the land Of the free and the
home of the brave" Should the tomato
prove such blessing in addition to all
the other delightful qualities 1t posses
ses, we Of the second centenary Of the
Amerisan independence will have just
cause to bless and glorify the once
ridiculed French Love Apple.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-06-13

SALT FOR CABBAGE.-The Practical
Fruit Recorder gives the experience of
a New Jersey gardener in the cultiva-
ton Of cabbage, who considers salt nee
essary to their development, especially
in places far from the coast. He finds
them more crisp, ofbetter flavor, and
to keep better when salt is used than
without. He uses it as follows: "a
few days after setting out the plants,
and when they are damp, either after Or
before a,rain, or when the dew is on, /
take small dish of fine salt, and walk
ing among the rows, sprinkle a little
pinch of salt on the center of each plant.
When the leaves begin to grow I re-
peat the sailing, and when the centre
Of the leaves begin to form the head /
apply the salt again, scattering it over
the leaves. After this l look them
over occasionally, and i'll find plants
that do not head well OR appear dlseas-
ed, l sprinkle the salt over freely. This
will save all such plants. A quart of
salt is sufficient for five hundred plants
in season, although more can be used
with safety"