The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-07-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Specie payments to Europe on the
9th, 100000 in gold coin.

Up TO the present Boston has con-
tributcd S23,5O2 for the relief of the
St. John sufferers.
A movement is on foot in st. Johns
for the erection OF temporary dwell
ings for the poor.
The Indiana State Dental Associa-
ton was held at Fort Wayne, last
week, commencing on the 9th.
One million bushels of peanuts, val
ued at $2.OOO,OOO, were exported from
New York last year.
f. 7. Ferry, brother of Senator Fer
ry, of Mich, has become insane, and
has been taken to Batavia, ILL.,, for
treatment.
The house of Mr.. Latreille, in Roch-
esterville, Canada, burned on the night
OF the 26th ult., his son, wife and wife's
mother perishing in the flames,
1t is stated that there haye been 1S6
deaths from yellow fever in the mill
tary hospital, one hundred miles from
Havana, Cuba.
ROBERT DALE OWEN, died at his
home on Lake George, New York, on
the 24th ult., in the 10th year of his
age.
During the last four years the Rich
mond, Ind, National Bank has dis
counted notes amounting to $1G,O00,-
600, with only four LOSSES.
alyzed condition, was recently found
in the woods near Cadillow, Mich.
He has since died.
A dispatch from Terre Haute, Ind.,
says: The Wabash is fourteen feet
and rising, threatening corn in the
bottoms, which is promising.
John Sjyer. of the Empire sawmill.
near Bourbon, Ind, recently had his
right arm aud leg horribly mutilated
by saw. Death will probably be the
result.
1t is reported that on the night of
the Goth, at Plymouth, Penn, a party
of drunken Mollie Maguires attacked
party of miners. one of whom has
since died.
A. j. Alexander's annual sale of
thoroughbred horses took place at
Woodburn Farm, Versailles, Ky. on
the 9th uIt. The highest price paid
was $500.
Tho New Hampshire State prison
convicts number 16O, whose earnings
during the past year exceed the ex-
penditures by over $4,000.
Bret Harte is an applicant for the
position of consul-general atShanghai
He would like to study the heathen
Chinee in his native rancho.
The steeple of the Presbyterian
church, in Iowa City, with a 2,4OO
pound bell, and a part of the building
were blown down during gale on
the night of the 2StIi ul..
AT the special election held in
Charleston S. c., on the 2Gth ult., the
Democratic ticket, containing the
names OF fourteen white and three
colored citizens, was elected without
opposition.
Generals Sheridan and Crook, ac-
companicd by aids, left Omaha .on the
Goth ult., for the West, on n tour
through the Yellowstone and Big
Horn countries.
A heavy storm visited Mahomet, Ill.
and vicinity on the 2Gth, destroying
farm houses and fruit trees, and blow.
ing cars Off the track of the Chicago,
e Paducah Railroad at Calf.
The Montreal ship laborers' strife
bas come to an ignominious terlnina-
ton, the men haying themselves beg
ged to be taken at reduced rates. The
request was acceeded to, and they re-
turned to their work.
The Grand Jury of Kansas City, has
returned over 300 indictments against
merchants for the violation OF theSun-
day law, the list including a deacon of
the church, clothing dealers and drug
gists.
On the Goth ult., seven miners, EN-.
gagged in drawing bucket filled with
ore from n mine in Sussex County, N.
j., caught the rope on stone and cut
it in two. Five men were precipitat-
ell into washed-out mine, and four
Baxter Jones, VIM. Garvey, Henry
Peters and Richard Agar, were killed.
THE Grand Army held it's annual
reunion on the 26th, at Providence, Il
I. The city was profusely decorated
for the occasion. Speeches were made
bv Gov. Hartranft and General Burn.
side. and cable dispatch was sent to
Gen. Grant, congratulating him upon
his enthusiastic reception and thank
ing England for the same.
A cave was recently discovered in
Slecper's Gorge, near Raymondsville.
N. Y, one of ibe widest ravines in
that State, in which was found large
quantities of lead entirely free from
foreign substances, human skeleton,
and curious copper implements, which
last point to the existence of race
more remote than that of the Indians
who have visited the cave,
A few days since Hans Friech, once
headsman of thePrussian capital, when
the AK, not the guilotine was employ
ed in the decapilatIon of criminals.