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> a. INDkPtHDtnCt BALL
A dancing party will be held at the Hall of ii.
ShalersVille Exchange,
! ON TUESDAY EVENING, JULY THIRI'
to which general invitation is extended.
MCILRATHrS ORCHESTRA from Cleveland
will furnish the music for the occasion,
No pains will be spared to render the part,
the most pleasant Of the season.
Bill. $3.50, jill COOLEY. Prop'r.
0. '. SEARL
New Goods
For the Summer Trade!
We would say to our friends
that our stock is complete, and
that we are offering Bargains
in all kinds of Goods.
BLACK SILKS.
We have just received a full line of fhe cele-
brated 'Guinet' - Black silks, which we offer
at much below last seasons prices.
STRIPED SILKS.
We shall offer this week. Summer Silks in the
LII.
MATELASSE CLOTHS
Elegant goods for Sacks. Dolmans and Talmas |
DRESS PLAIDS
We have a very large stock of these goods, |
ranging in price from lOc to csc.
DRESS GOODS
in choice plain colors.
BLACK cASHMERES
Ladies don't fail to see these goods, as they
are seldom equaled at the price.
BLACK GRENADINES.
SHAwLS, STA AwISIl
We offer a good Shawl at the modest price of
e, e2,oo. Onr stock is very attractive in these
BLACK ALPAcAS AND PURE
MoHAIRS
We Offer real bargains in these sools-s5c
DC, 4oc, and 5Oc per yard. ,-s-
PARARoLS AND FANS
iood assortment at popular prices
ne FANCY GOODS.
Full stock Notions .sss1e1
CLOTHS AND CASsIMERES,
Mems and Boys Suits made to order,
ladies' and Children's Shoes
We have a full stock OF new goods i'm this Ii,
mi at u great reduction from last seasons
'rices.
DOMESTIC
Our stock of Domestic Goods is al Sd yery full |
nd at bottom prices.
GROCERIESI
We keep most kinds of Groceries. We have
'hOice Tea az soc per lb. Tryit ~
We take Butter and Eggs
n exchange for Goods at the highest market
rice Come and see us.
Ravenna. May %, 1877
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+. e. .Swain-Professional Card,
Ellen j. Hudson-Public Sale
j. H. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ball.
Alma L. -Steriing-Portable Engine and Sepa-
rafOr for Sale.
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Thf, train will stop. on signal, for milk at the
intermediate milk platforms Shipments must
be prepaid in tickets Passengers
will be permitted to ride on this train from Ra
VIENNA and points north CT there
JOHN THOMAS, Superintendent.
TUSCAN AWAS BRANCH.
Leaves
Bayard. II 25 m. ard 500 p. m.
New FnIIadeiphia. TOO =. m and 20 \. N.
Arrives.
p"vs-@ q 50 a m. and s. n m
New Phtla ,elphia. 9.lO and 7.30 D. m.
F.R MYERS
General PASSENGER and Ticket Aeene.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
List OF Advertisements,

RAvENNA. THURSDAY. JUNE FL. 1871.
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Any person desiring information as to the
standing and responsibility of the members of
he firm will, on request, be furnished with a
>atlS factory reference in his vicinity Or Con.
sreSsiOnal district.
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GOING EAsr-RIvEK DIVISION
Sunday Train.

In order to accommodate parties who desire
% ship MIX from the line Of this road to Cleve-
ana. On SUNDAY MORNINGS. one section OF
Freight train No Z will during the continuance
pf schedule No IL. or until further notice start
from Weilsville on Saturday night, instead Of
ings on the schedule shoxxu heloxr x.ix
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-05-03

found me over the fence, tangled up
with hoops and stages and spokes, and
there wasn't piece left of that wagon
bigger than kingbolt. The horse
ran away, and hasn't been found yet"
"Well?"
"Well, the fellers around there
laughed and grinned and took on az ii
it was the biggest joke they eyer
heard of, aud when l demanded dam
ages they laughed louder than ever.
There 1 was complete wreck. and
there they were yelling like Injuns.
Doesn't this case come under some law
or other?"
The ohief looked over several pages
of the city directory, and advised:the
farmer to 60 to the railroad officials
and state his case. - eas4 -
-"I'd ruther git out search warrant
or something and put the law right on
'em" replied the man, "for can prove
by three different men that hollered
and motioned and hollered enough tC
stop sixteen trains"
His mud covered back was last seer
lodging down Jefferson Avenue. &
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HE ..MorIoNED AND noLLEnED,,

A farmer came tearing into the
City Hall in Chicago, and demanded
TO see the Chief of Police. When
rushed into that individuals presence,
the man, who seemed to bave rolled
IN the mud, exclaimed:
81 want you to come out here on
Michigan Avenue and arrest rail-
road"
"Gently, now," replied the chief
'shas any railroad been abusing you p
II should .think so. Look at my
condition, and then come out to the
crossing and gaze on the remains OF
my new one-horse wagon"
.'Were you run into?" asked the
chief
"Of course wasI You don't think
I'd be fool enough TO run into loco
motive, do your"
GLOW was it ?" ......
Well, sir, was coming into town
about an hour ago, driving one of the
best onc-horse wagons in the State.n
"Was there horse attached ?"
'Ye es, sir, there was. and there were
two barrels of cider in the wagon.
just as / was coming to the crossing
saw a locomotive sliding down for
me, head up and mouth opened. My
burned old horse stood there and
danced and paved aud scraped, and
couldn't get him to bulge an inch"
'Did the train stop?" asked the
chief.
"Stopl No, sir, she didn't. i saw
there would be a terrible catastrophe
unless something was done. and l
stood up i'm the wagon and motioned
and hollered and motioned for the en-
ginesto back water. But she didn't.
She ploughed right along as If was
nobody, and when she struck the
wagon things turned dark. They |
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OATMEAL FOR OUR TABLES.

Oatmeal is doubtless associated with
the sickroom in the minds of many Of
our readers, yet as an article for daily
food it far eXccls the loaf of wheat
bread, aud is more nutritious and
healthgiviDg. In Scotland it is used
for food in many families with little
addition, milk from the COWS,
aud the bright eyes, ruddy complex
ion, aud stout muscles of the working
men and women fully attest its super
iority to the fried pork and saleratus
biscuit, ETC., which constitute the chief
diet of our laboring classes. But
Scotch oatmeal is digerent prepara-
ton from that procured from our oat
fields, and is prepared in a peculiar
manner, and then ground to three de-
grees of fineness. 1t also improves in
quality by being kept, if not allowed to
become moist. The first degree of
meal is called groats, and it is made by
setting the millstones closer, and still
finer meal is procured by sitting it,and
it is this second meal which is used for
bannocks, or oatmeal cakes, while the
cOarser particles are boiled into por-
ridge, which is the most popular form
of cooking it in this country; and
when it is properly prepared and sery-
ed with rich milk or cream, few more
wholesome dishes can be eaten for
| oif thar oh IIpon o.Inlfo
InGreat Britain children Of all ranks
are raised on this diet alone, because
it causes them to grow strong and
healthful, and no better food can pos
sibly be found for them. 1t is also
quite as desirable for the student as
the laborer, and for the delicate lady
and for her hard-working sister; in
deed, all classes would be greatly ben
Gifted by its use, and dyspepsia, with
all its manifold annoyances, can be
kept at distance. Oatmeal is more
substantial food, it is said, than veal
pork or lamb, and quite equal to beef
and mutton, giving as much or more
mental vigor, while its great desider.
atum consists in ones not becoming
weary of it, for it is as welcome fol
breakfast or tea as is wheat or Graham
bread. 1t can be eaten with syrup
and butter as hasty-pudding, or with
cream and sugar, like rice. 1t is es'
pecially COED for young mothers, up
on whose nervous forces too great 8
demand has been made, and they lose
the equilibrium of the system and be.
come depressed and dispirited. Ost.
meal requires to be cooked slowly
AMPS AND TRIMMINGS
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near Pottstown, Pa, recently, and
proceeded to sell stencil plates in the
place. Saturday evening she died of
congestion of the lungs. Her cloth
ing was scanty and thy,and her per-
son swarmed with vernin but in her
ragged skirts were sewed up nine
bank books, showing deposits in vari-
GUS Connecticut banks, certificates of
stock, and other documents, showing
that she was worth at least $4,000,
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A funny old mana pedler of nc
tions-popped out as Bijah opened the
corridor door.
You acknowledge that you got
drunk, do you?' asked the Court.
Yes. 1 own right up.' FEFTBfTrl
You fell in the mud, lost your stock
in trade, and hit the policeman who
arrested you?'
That's just what did, Your Honor,
and 1 belieye 1 ought to be sent up for
three months. L believe I've got down
to a mean point, and it needs some.
thing to bring me up standing. Send
me up and it will prove a great moral
lesson TO me-
why don't you 60 to Florida and
plant an orange grove:' asked his
honor, as he looked down bcnignly on
the old pioneer.
FIorida-orange grove! Why, I
couldn't plant string beans. Your
Honor. can't tear up the soil and
root around like young man with
muscle and backb Pm over sew
enly years old, all shrunk up, ugly
tempered, and want check put upon
my mad career
don't want to send an old man
ike you TO the bars observed the
Court. Why can't you emulate the
example of Socrates, and behave your.
self2,
don't care for Socrates, and Pm
liable TO go out of here and kill man,
exclaimed the pedler.
We'll, you'll have to kill somebody
tlen,' sighed His Honor. If send
you up you'd eat twice as much az
you could earn, and also believe tha,
you are real nice man when you arr
sober
No, L ain't-I'm a regular old CO.
coanut, with all the peeling left on
Won't you send me up and give ne
to understand that I've got to behave
myself or suffer the consequences
.No-can't do it; one old man make,
more fuss up there than forty young
men. You will have to go on snuffine
the pure air of liberty and dodgine
April showers
Now do thirst for bloodr whis
peaed the old man as he went out. Ht
saw sailor across the street, and ht
rushed over to wallop him and thus
prove mis- desperate character in the
very eyes of the Court.
Who's this sailing across my bows
growled the Jack Tar, as the peddlel
bumped against him, and he dropped
the old man in melting snow banl
as easily as boy gets away with {
jaw breaker.-[ Free Press.
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a hard GRIND.

A hand-organ man was making his
way up Adams avenue yesterday
when boy met him and asked;
"How many tunes do you play ?"
&c Zixteen shunes - nice, sweet
shunes," replied the man.
MY father is fond of music, but he
is little deaf" continued the boy.
''Oh, dat make no deference-I make
him hear" .-.-...
The boy led the way up street to
where a plaster bust of sir Isaac New
ton had been arranged in a bay win
dow to look like living man, and the
Italian spit on his hand and began on
the crank lie ground out all the
tunes in rotation, and then began al
bottom and ground back up the scale
till he got all the tunes in the garret oi
the box again. The man in the bay
window didn't move a hair, and the
Italian drew a long breath and sighed
."Play moar muzeek-make a him
hear soon."
lie ran out eight tunes and threw
some gravel at the window, The bust
didn't even work it's ears, and the
Italian leaned the organ on the fence
and loudly sang:
oh, who shall dinks OF me som moar,
" hen am far AWAY
The seven other tunes were ratified
of at a lively pace, while the man
coughed, whistled, kicked on q fence
and encouraged dog fight, in order
To attract the deaf mans attention.
''Sing louder-play harder!" called
the boy from the next street corner.
the grinder secured brace for his
feet, unbuttoned his vest, and the way
he raared brought out the citizens by
The score. lie kept his eye on the bust
and gave no heed to the crowd, and
the organ-box was smoking hot when
he let up OH the grind. Resting the
organ on the ground, he leaped over
the fence and got a square look at his
victim. His quiet grim faded into q
look of woe and misery and murder,
and getting his eye on the boy with
the red necktie he ran him four blocks
and under q, carpenter shop before q
still, small voise whispered that he
had better hold on Detroit Free
Press.
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SAY, Pat, suppose satan was to
come along now, and SEQ both of us
here, which do you suppose he would
take, you Or me" oh, faith. yer
honor, he'd take me.' sHow so p
well, SIR said Paddy, he'd take me
now, because he wouldn't be sure of
me when he came again but he'd be
sure of you at any time and could af-
ford to wait
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-05-03

WHEN the Cincinnati ENQUIRER
wants to say that one of its heroes
blushed, it remarks: AS the arterial
messengers OF modesty leaped along
their channels, swift flying DER his
face, color as soft and subdued as the
shades of damask rose suffused his
extended area of checks and brow and
his face looked as If paint factory
had blown up and struck him full np-
on the front with keg of red paint" !"
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CREDIToR-'Didn't you promise TO
pay me that bill when you got back
from Boston?' Debtor-'Well, you
promised to wait till got back from
there, didn't your Creditor 'Ycs,
did, DebtOr-'Well, that's where we
got you, for l haven't been 10 Boston
yetv
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He was sitting silently by her side
one chilly evening last fall, thinking
OF something to say. Finally he re-
marked, How sad it is the frost has
and it will kill everything green
Thereupon the young lady extended
her hand, aud said, in a sympathetic
tone, 'good-by.'
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GEN. Stoneman, the cavalry officer,
is managing large farm in Los An
geles county, Cal. He says that his
children have tour different kinds OF
fruit every day in the year, and that
there are only four days in the three
hundred and sixty-five in which they
cannot go out aud pluck it.
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RASE-RALL PLAYING.

We are not going to say word
against it. Oh, no. The boys would
not like it. 1t is all the go just now.
1t is more in repute than horse-racing
or any other diversion.
Every young man who aspires to
be anything has got set of striped
stockings, tri-colored cap. and a pair
OF tights, which he calls his uniform.
In tins uniform he develops his
muscle.
To get muscle is the thing nova
days, but it is not gained in the old
fashioned way. In the days of our
grandparents nobody dreamed of get
ting strong by swingihg from trapezes
jumping over poles, or playing base
ball. Muscle was mostly obtained, in
those days, by following the plow,
swinging the scythe, and performing
with wood-saw on the winters fuel
Baseball playing is one of the most
approved methods of getting muscle
We freely confess that we know
nothing about the game. We are in
profound ignorance as to "pilches,
Catches" and ssinnings" and ct cetera
We have seen the game played hun.
dreds of times, and we know just al
much about it as we did when We
were q baby sH
But the players enjoy it. People
go to see them play who know just s-
much about the game as we do, an
they call it splendid" And of cours
it is. How the local paper sets fort,
in glowing colors the Triumph of i;
own town club, and how all the friend
and relatives of the various member
of that club purchase the paper an
send it to friends. and relatives at
distance that they may know that th
Stool Oaks have beaten the Droopin
Willows bv SO manv runs.
Through hot and cold, wet and dr.,
storm and sunshine, your genuir |
base-ballist will play his favori'
game. s tt
The frost may purple his nose, co
the sun of July may broil him aliar
in his uniform, but he will not givev.
up. The balls will very likely mit..
their aim and hit somebody on tie,
skull, and crash in somebody's mas
organ, or stop up an eye here aice
there, but none of the club take war
ing thereby. Accidents, they sain
will happen everywhere. A man ci
just as likely to get his eyes bungai,
hoeing corn, or laying bricks, as he
at baseball playing. Who is goingC!
give up a noble game because he gPA
little hit now and thenp
All other business has TO yield
baseball playing.
Does mother want Tom TO help IL
about any household job? Tom loo
at her in amazement. Does not
know that he has got to play ball ~
Does father need him about makis
things snng for winter, why, the wO
must wait. Toms club meets til
very day to see about playing gsnN
with the Dropping Willow Club.
The uniforms claim a great deal ol
attention, and the sisters of these
base-bailists have to lay aside theil
crochet and their tattings, and attend
to demoralized tights and twisted
stockings, and champion belts.
And though cheeks be bruised from
blows of bats and random balls, and
hands be swellcd to twice the size
designated by nature, the boys do no,
mind it.
sour Club beat 'em," and that is
glory enough.-[ Kate Thorn in New
York Weekly.
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A CLERGYMAN divided his discourse
into three parts, thus: Under the first
head, my hearers, shall deal with
matters familiar to both you and N.Y.
self; under the second, things with
which 1 alone am conversant; and fin
ally, under the third, l shall discuss
subject about which none OF us know
anything
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-05-03

In recent lecture on Boston, Mr.
Emerson said: The words which one
boy speaks to another in the stret, I'm
as good as you are!' embody the prin.
ciple of the Massachusetts bill of rig hts,
which lies at the bottom of Plymouth
Rock and Boston stone. Moral val
ues, under this system, became money
yalues.'
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= A LITTLE boy was asked the other
day if he knew where the wicked
finally went to. He answered: sThey
practice law spell here and then 90
to the legislature 1t was 3 painful
thing for that boy to sit down for a
few days.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-05-03
CENRAUR
LINIMENTS.

The lame can be heald and the wounded mad
whole. We now know just what the Centau
Linments will do. They will not mend broken
bones or cure Cancer, but they will extract
soreness, allay pain, cure rheumatism and u
larger angc of flesh. bone and muscle ailments
than any article ever before discovered,
Scientific skill cannot go beyond the effects OF
these remarkable preparations. Chronic
Rheumatism OF many years. atanding, Neu-
ralSia, Wcak-Back. Fever sores, Weeping
Sinews, SciatIca. Caked Breasts, Distorted
Joints and Sprained Limbs of the worst Kind
n cured by the White Centaur Liniment,
1t will destroy the pain and heal without q
scar all ordinary Burns and Scalds. twill cx-
tract the poison of Bites and Stings, and the
frost from Frozen Limbs. 1t is very efcacions
for Ear ache, Tooth-aehe, Itch and CutRneOus
Eruptions.
Mr.. Josiah Westaka, of Marysville. o., writes
"For years my rheumatism has been bad
that haye been unable to stir from the house.
The first three bottles of Centaur Liniment ena-
blcd me to walk without my crutcheS. l am
mending rapidly think y0nr Liniment SIM
ply II marvel fa s.-.
G. II. kennett. Druggist. Rock Prairie. Mo.
writes: .=-ft fn
"Centaur Liniment sells better and gives the
best satisfaction of anything in the market"
What the Centaur Liniment has done for 9th
ers it will do for YOU 1t is handy, it is reliable,
and il is cheap.
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George w. Adams. whose place OF residence
is Unknown. is hereby notified that Louisa g..
Adams did, on the 1st day OF March, A. Il. IS1I
file her petition in the oiice of the Clerk uf the
Court Of Common Pleas within and for the com
" OF Portage and state OF Ohio. charging the
said George w. Adams with wilful absence for
three years last past and asking that she may
be divorced from the said George w. Adams
and have the custody OF their child. George N .
Adams; which petition will he for hearing al
the next term of said Court.
Dated this 2d day OF March, A. d 1877.
LOUISA T.. ADAMS,
4i9-Cw BY THAYER Il MANSON, her Att'ys
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A passionate and reveDgeful temper
renders man unfit for advice, ,depriyes
him of his reason, and robs him of all
that is great and noble in his nature.
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The Yellow Centaur Linimen,

is worth its weight in gold to owners of horses
and mules.
This I.iniment has erred more Sprained,
Sweenied Ring -boned. and Called Horses in
than have all the Farriers in the country in an
age. Its effects are simply wonderful.
We have thousands upon thousands of certili-
Gates as strong as the following: 's.t at
MY horse was lame for a year with a fetlock
wrench. All remedies failed TO cure and con-
silered him worthless until commenced to use
Centaur Liniment, which rapidly cured him. 1
heartily recommend it. d aH
REV GEO. w. FERRIS.
"Manorvil!e, Schoharie Co., N. Y.'
'DEAR SIRS-I have used your Centaur Lini-
ments in my family and lind it TO be of great
value Ii,..t>c send me two dollars worth. one
for the H,,i..- and horses. RILEY SICKLES,
FALLS STATION, WroMISG.Co.. PA.''
It makes very little difference what the ease
is. whether il be Wrench, Sprain. Poll Evil
tingbone, Scratches or lameness of any kind.
the effects are the same. Liverymen. Stage pro-
prietors. Farmers nc. should never be without
the Yellow Ccntaur Liniment. 1t is sold every :
where, and warranted in its effects.
Labratory of J. B. Rose & Co.,
46 DEY ST.. NEW YORK.
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Draft-Horse
SIR WALLACE.

After a large amount of time and expense /
have succeeded in getting in my possession Il
..lorse OF rare combination, having very fair ;ic-
ton style equal to any small horse; color,
bright bay with black points; tad heavy and
sweeping the ground beautifulhead ear fine,
forehead broad, eye large and expressive; lofty
crest from which falls a OF silky black
name; shoulders nj :ely rounded; body clean
fiat, powerfully muscled legs: mIidness of tenn
per By examining ii of his get satisfied my
self of the unerring certainty with which lac
transmits these qualities to his posterity has
and will earn for him place in the popular ia
vor which none can dispossess him Of
SIR WALLACE WAS foaled June 26;h. 1871
stands 16., hands high will weigh fiU0 lbs or
over; was sired by an Imported English Draft
Horse. Further Pedigree with horse.
Those desiring to raise a Ii 'rse to keep, or
which will command high price in the mar
kes are cordially invited TO visit my place. two
miss,s East OF Ravenna Village. where Sir Wal
lace and the Lexington Colt. ANDiE, will be
kepa through tho season OF 1876.
J.L L. CHRISTY.
RlVenua, April IS, 1870. Ss3-u