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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The piano factory of j, P. Hale, on
West Thirty-fifth street, New York
was destroyed by fire ON Monday
morning. 1t IL rumored that one hum
dEed persons perished. The flames
extended to tho south side ofthe street
destroying an entire block between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues also M.
Connolly's barrel factory, ]. Graham
q Co.'S. silk factory and several houses
adjoining. j. Walkers charcoal fac
tory, north Of 35th street, and q block
Of frame houses on Tenth avenue, be-
tWeen 35th and 36th street.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The Republicans of this Judicial
Subdivision, composed of Trumbull,
Mahoning and Portage counties held
their Convention at Warren on We'd
nesday of last week, and by acclama-
ton unanimously nominated Hon. E.
B. Taylor as their candidate for Com
mon Pleas Judge.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The Southern policy of the
administration has been endorsed by
even the Democrats. and though as
sailed by some Republicans Of high
standing and influence, yet secures
the Just need of commentator of the
great mass of the Republican party.
That policy is fact accomplished, and
is NO longer . question at at issue. 1T
is clearly seen that no other policy
could haze been adopted scithout
trampling upon the constitution, disre-
garding::the very genius Of our Repnb-
lican institutions, and putting tyranns-
cat usuypution in the place Of ldso and
tie censtitxtion.-[Rep. Dem.
And yet, for twelve long years q
policy directly the opposite of that
adopted by Mr.. Hayes has been en-
forced by the Republican managers
and unsnimously approved by the
journals Of that party. They have
just found out that tho policy they
have 90 long been pursuing has been
in disregard of the very genius of
Republican institutions, and putting
tyrannical usurpstion in the place of
law xnd consultation" Verify the
world moves.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

ton of all so called Independent
Greenbackers to the same:
2. The destruction of the industry
of the country and the paup erism OF
labor are the inevitable fruits Of the
vicious laws enacted by the Republic
can party,
3. That as q means of relieving the
distressed portions of community,
and removing the great stringency
complained of in business circles, we
demand an immediate repeal of the
Presumption Act"
4. We denounce as an outrage upon
the rights of the people the enact
ments of the Republican measure de-
monetizinR silver, and that we demand
the passage of . law which shall re.
store to silver its monetary power.
5. That we favor the retention of
the greeuback currency as the best pa.
per money we have ever had, and de.
clare against any further contraction.
8. We favor q tariff for revenue
only.
9. We favor the issue, by the Gener-
al Government alone, of all the circu-
lating medium, whether paper or me-
tallic. to be always Of equal tender
and intercOnvertible.
These resolutions, according to our
understanding, embrace the identical
principles and policy which the go
called Independent Greenbackers are
contending for with so much zeal and
enthutiasm. There is no new avowal
in them. The same sentiments and
purposes have in substance been de-
clared every year during the last de-
cade by the Democracy of Ohio, and
if they ever take the place of the ep-
pressive and ruinous policy which the
party in power has been pursuing
during that time, it will be because
the Democratic party will be triumph
ant, and no man can be q true friend
of these reforms who SO uses his in
huence or casts his vote as to defeat
the Democracy in the present contest.
1t is nonsense to talk about getting up
new parties and separate action to ac-
the proposed reform. They
could only serve to defeat the desired
object. If the Greenbackers desire to
put stop to the grinding contraction
that is scattering bankruptcy and ruin
all over the land; il they. want to
wrest the government from the hands
of the bondholders, monopolists and
orders if they would per-
petuate the greenback currency; II
they desire to secure the remonetiza-
lion of the silver dollar of the fathers
let them labor for the snccess of the
as the only means by
which the desired end can be attained.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The colored men of Cincinnati have
formed a Democratic Club, and have
issued an address in favor of the elec.
ton of Hon. r. NJ. Bishop and in
opposition to Judge West, the Know
Nothing Crusade Communis If the
colored men dare to follow that thing
up to any considerable extent theRad-
ical leaders will soon be declaring
openly what they now say with bated
breath, that they made q great mistake
when they clothed the negro with the
ballot.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The Chicago Savings Bank has gone
mp the spout, having made an assign
ment and suspended business on the
18th nit. The amount due depositors
II stated at $3,774,875 the number
of depositors 1900 and the average
amount Of deposits at $500 each. Irish
citizens are said to be more largely in
terested than any others, and, after
them, come Americans, Swedes and
Germans. The assets of the institu-
tion are given at $4, 49, 1927.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The Radicals claim to be the friends
of the working men and yet they are
the authors of that financial policy
which has crippled all the great indus
tries of the country and driven thou
sands of people to bankruptcy and
millions of the honest toilers to want
and beggery.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
Something Wrong.

The Raleigh IN. Co. Observer says
We boast that America is the gran
cry of the world, and that we can sup
ply its inhabitants with food, and yet
q hundred thousand of our own peo-
pie are begging their bread. Some
thing wrong somewhere evidently.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

RKroRrs como from Washington
that there is / possibility almost
amounting to certainty that Post
master General Key will resign from
the Cabinet after Congress meets. He
don't seem to be making much head.
way I'm turning the Southern peos
pie over the support Of the Adminis-
tration of His Fraudalency, and finds
his position rather uncomfortable.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

TIE Republicans claim to be in fav-
or of retrenchment, yet after theDem-
ocrats four years ago had reduced the
salaries Of public officers in this State
about forty per cent, when these boast
ed retrenchers obtained power a year
later they repealed the Democratic
law and restored the former exhorbit-
ant salaries.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

ABOUT the only thing the Radical
party haye had to boast Of. for years
past Is, that they destroyed Slavery
and set the negroes free. They don't
want the fact mentioned though that
they also have reduced to bondage the
greater part Of the laboring people in
the country. and that, through their
Freedmen's Bureau and Freedman's
Savings Bank they plundered the
"wards of the nation" to whom they
boast of having given their freedom.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

"a; Sherman sounded the "Key Note"
for the Radical party in his speech ct
Hanslkeld and declared that the Re-
sumption Act s'Csn be, ought to be
and will be executed" Let the labor
ing men and the business men of this
country ponder this question well, and
let all those who are opposed to the
ruinous policy SO cast their votes at
the election in October that they will
tell against the party that is the author
of the policy and the architects of the
threatened oppression and ruin.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

THE Radicals have squandered an
empire of the public lands and untold
millions of money in subsidizing rail-
roads, and now thew hypocritically
rea1srm their opposition to subsidiz-
ing railroads and monopolies.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
Den,t Forget II.

Persons who have not been in the
county three hundred and sixty days
and in the township three hundred
and fifty-fiye days are required by the
Radical Registration Act to register
in order to entitle them to vote. Let
this matter be borne in mind until the
time fixed for registration-the 2lst of
September-and let every citizen see
to it that he is not defrauded out of
his vote.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The Radical politicians claim to be-
long to the party of reform, and yet it
was that party that enacted the Salary
grab, organized the Credit Mobilier
and exempted the great whisky thieves
from just punishment. 80
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
Prosperous John She herman.-How
He Made His First Money.

Prosperous John She herman.-How
He Made His First Money.
Mr.. Secretary Shcrman's stump ex-
planation of Hayes civil service re-
form, leaves the whole subject in q
hopeless confusion. The only INFER
ence to be drawn from his statement
is that civil service reform applies to
every one except Mr.. Sherman him
self and his particular personal friends
and dependents. Mr.. Sherman has
always been in the habit Of ;consider-
ing himself the exception to prove the
rule, eyer since the time when he
changed his vote on the advance of the
whisky tax in the House of Repre-.
sentatives. Mr.. Sherman's change of
vote saved the stock on hand from be-
ing taxed, the exemption being secured
by majority of one. It is said that
there occu rred at about the same time
q very marked change for the better
In the financial condition of U. S.
Senator from Ohio. If 30, it is only
an exception which goes to prove
the rule that representatives of the
people should be honest and disinter-
ested.-[N. Y. Star.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

Radical Legislature last winter, which
we hope has been generally read and
fully weighed by our patrons. We
this week publish a complete synopsis
of the law prepared by Judge j. w.
Oakley to which we desire to direct
attention, as it is Of great importance
that all voters should be thoroughly
posted in reference to their rights and
duties under the law.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
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THE MARKETS

RAvENNA. September s, 1871
FLOUR.-king's Best, IS 20; o. K, 81 OK
Demand steady.
WHEAT-N". Red. 81 20; MOL White 81 q
| CORN-shelled brings so a Sic; ears,3Oc,
| OATS-3a c. Sales dull.
RYE-No. brings 20 a 75:
BARLEY-None tn market.
HAY-Selling at IS q $40; according to
quality. Dull sale.
BEEF-Per cwt., IS q 81.
HOGS-Dressed, IS per cwt.
LARD-City rendc, ed 1214c.
SMOKED MEATS-City sugar Cured Hams
selling at 14c; Country 12Ic.
shoulders, City cured selling at 1Oc. Dried
Beef selling at 1885,.
POULTRY-Small supply in the market
Chickens dressed, buyers pay 10 cents; un-
dressed 7c Turkies. undressed. s C.
BUTTER--16 a 1Sc.
CHEESE-FactOry. retails, 121sc.
EGGS-buyers pay lOe per doz.
POTATOES-Buycrs pay 3Uc.
BEANS-Choice hand picked in smalldema and
at 81 90 per bu. Medium 81 25.
INEGAR-Pure cider retails 25930c per gal
TALLOW-Buycrs pay &c.
HlDES-Grcen, trlmm I'd a 652c.
PARTNERSHIPS retail at 75c.
WHITE LIME-$1 a5 per bbl.
WATER LIME-S2 %
SALT-COarsc sells at g IS: fine 81 IS.
WOOD-Stove s. OO@2 so; 8 feet wood IS OO
q S. so per cord.
SUGARS
Coffee A sells for 11kc
Extra G. 3" l2c
Granulated Observation-Disclosures. 131sc
Pulvcrized =" 131.c
Crushed '' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l31<c
Brown - .,........IO 10 l1Sc
MOLASSEs-
New Orleans. ...sellS for ...... SOC
White Drip Syrup. {" ........ 100
Golden Drip - !" - Is
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

The Democrats of Summit county
held their convention on Saturday
last and nominated the following ex-
cellent ticket:
resentative-Alex.H FL. Cummins,
Auditor-Edward Berry.
Conmissionsr-Edward Cranz.
Surveyor-Thomas Peck.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
DIED.

LOONnS.-In Stow, Summit County on Monday
morning. September 3, 1877, of old age, Mr.
Horace A. Loomis, aged Sc years.
The deceased was formerly resident OF
Charlestown.
HILDERHOOF.-In this village. on Monday
morning. september Sd, 1877. of paralysis.
George Hilderhoof. aged 80 years.
TRUER.--In Shalersville on Monday. August
9th. 1877, of cOngestive chill. Rosa May, in
faht daughter of Datus E. and Clara Truer,
aged one year and 25 days.
Dear Rosa, in Jesus arms.
Asleep and take thy rest.
Goi calleth thee to thy spirit home.
He thought it for the best.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
THE GREAT FAMINE IN INDIA.
Twenty.four Millions People AT.
fected-Five Hvmdred Thousand
Die Of Starvation.

THE GREAT FAMINE IN INDIA,
Twenty.four millions People AT.
fected-Five Hvndred Thousand
Die Of Starvation.
A London telegram of the 29th ult.
says: "The editor of the Madras
Times, a member of the Relief Com
mittee, writes under date Of August
1st, as follows:
Tho population in Southern India,
more or less afflicted by famine, num-
bers twenty-four millions.. In the
most favorable circumstances at least
one-sixth will die. Twenty-three peo-
pie in all died of starvation in Bengal.
In Madras no camp of three thousand
rises morning after morning without
leaving thirty corpses. sc
In the interior the distress is most
fearful. One gentleman passing down
the valley in the Wynaad District
counted twenty.nine dead bodies on
the road. A coffee.planter seeking
shelter from the rain in . hut found
six decomposing corpses in it.
On any day and every day mothers
may be seen in the streets of Madras
Offering their children fol-, sale. while
the founding portion of the Poor
house is full Of infants found by tho
police or. the roads, deserted by their
parents. ,,
Since the famine began five hum
dred thousand people have died of
want aud distress.
The first big tragedy may be expect
cd in Mysore, in that Province. In
deed, information has been received
from Bangalore of two cases of canni.
balism already.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
MARRIED.

DEMlNG-CROCkETT.- the Congregation
al Parsonage in this Village, on Wednesday,
August 29th, 1871, by Rev, A. NJ. Hills, Mr..
Robert L. Deming of this village. and Miss
Clara f. Crockett of Randolph.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
shornan,s Quackcry.

1t is matter of profound regret
that the Secretary of the Treasury in
his Mansfield speech should, at time
like this, have gone. to Tompkins
square for material to enable him to
deal'with what is come to be called
the "labor question" The Secretary
has no panacea for the existing con.
troversy-if 1t may by called con.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT labor and capital
than the old worn-out quack prescrip.
ton which has come over to us from
the monarchies of Europe, and which
Justus Schwab and other professed
followers of the commanistic- school
are peddling here in New York.
France, under the second empire, gave
Louis Napoleon q pretext for that
prescription. 1t had fair trial there
but 1t did not last long. We all know
what came of it. 1t is not for the
benefit of the laboring man that any
such experiments should be entered
upon in this country. The industri-
GUS American is not begger for fa-
vors at the hands of the government.
He needs none of his parental foster
ing. He can take care of himself if
government will take It's tax-levying
hand off him. He wants no Govern.
ment Labor Bureau. no meddling Ma
tional Board of Arbitration to keep
up an eternal "irrepressible conflict
between different classes of the same
people; and he knows full well that if
government again goes into railroad
management repetition of the Credit
Mobilier robberies and extravagances
will be in order, and that the robber-
les will but add to the public burdens
which the industrial classes have in
due proportion to share.-[Ex.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
-..;~~a.l Bauk,
THURSDAY. SEPT Q. 1877
Observation-Disclosures TICKET

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
For Governor,
RICHARD II. BISHOP. of Hamilton.
For Lieutenant Governor.
JABEz W. FITCH, Of Cuyahoga.
For Supreme Judge.
J.W. OKEY, OF Franklin.
For Clerk OF the Supreme Court,
RI. FANNING. Of Cuyahoga.
For Attorney General.
ESAIAH PILLARS. Of Allen.
For State Treasurer.
A. J. HOWELLS. Of Stark.
For School Commissioner,
fff- J,J. BURNES. of Belmont.
Tor Member Board Of Public Works.
NARTIN SCHILLER. Of Ross.
DEGOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOB REPRESENTATIVE,
WILLIAM II. BETTES, Of Randolph.
FOR AUDITOR. a. =
DELOS ORR, Of Franklin.
.r.lt .e- F0k fREAsURER,
WILLIAM r. ALCORN, Of Ravenna.
YoR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. !
A.A, THAYER, OF Garrettsville.
. l.a FOE cOMMIsHIONE8,
CHESTER r. HOWARD. Of Aurora,
R0R NPIRNARY DIRKcfOR,
. ALlEON L. THOMPSON. Of shalersyille.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06
Brigham Young Dead.

Brigham Young. the great leader O.
the Mormons or Latter Day Saints
died in Salt lake City at A O'Clock p
m, on Wednesday August 10Th.
Brigham Young was born in Yer.
mont, in 1901, and is consequently 7e
years old, though his physical and
mental faculties seem to. have been
unimpaired up to very late day. 1t
is not impossible that the trial and ex-
ecution of Lee, and the alleged expos
ures which grew out it, have had
much to do with fastening his decline.
The State of Ohio was the scene of the
great Mormon's first debut in public,
life, he having Joined tho Church in
1882, when it was in full sway at Kirt-
land. In 1S44, on the death of Joe
Smith, he was chosen President and
Prophet, and led the emigration from
NauvoO to the far West in 1916. Hav-
Ing peopled his "Promised Land"with
wonderful rapidity, he organized the
State of Deseret,in 1S49. aud demand
ed admission to the Union-an honor
which Congress very properly declin-
cd. organizing the Territory of Utah
In lieu thereof. Late in 1850, Millard
Fillmore appointed Brigham Young
Governor of the new Territory, which
place he held until ousted, at the point
of the bayonet, in 1858, by Buchanan's IS
appointee, Alfred Cumming. Since
then he has been content with his
spiritual rule, though frequently en-
desvoring to secure the admission of
Utah as State; in which case the
Mormons would, of course. haye se-
cured the Government, and sheltered
their cherished polygamy under the
protection of State Rights. The num-
Der of "Saints" in Utah was estimated,
by Mr.. Dixon, in 1866, at 10000,
though this is believed to be a great
exaggeration. The census of 1870
gave the total population of the Ter
ritery at but little over $4,000, which,
it is thought, errs almost as much in
the other direction. at the best, how
ever, there are enough of the "Saints"
to make serious trouble In case of an
to enforce obedience to tho
law of the land against polygamy-
and it is not impossible that the death
Of Brigham Young may precipitate
the conflict.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-06

Take pleasure in informing
their friends and the public
generally, that they are now
prepared to show the
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-31
Hen Butler's Bricks.
Courier Journal.l

Gen. Benjamin Butler threw foul, or five Of
his bricks while e.. addressing the MlddesSe,s
pirate appeared to be, in genial mood, how
eyer and he did not throw his bricks with the
yigor which people have Anticipated. Here is
one of them, aimed at the White House:
tell you. gentlemen. there is no disunion
in the Republican party in Congress-. The Re-
publican majority in the Senate and four fiftns
Of the Republicans in the House consider the
present Southern policy of the President mis-
taken one. But the general feeling has been to
prevent any collision. The President was hon
est in his intention an we are willing to see it
tried. We have felt on this subject hat the least
said is the soonest mended. We hope that the
President will in time see his mistake and join
hands with the Republicans We have kept
silent on these questions. but they must be met
sooner or later. The President has had an op-
portunity to ascertain the truth. Of course it
must be considered that he has Cabinet. a
known as Republicans; I think that viii have
and that It soon ssso will Itb BE- The
Of the two great parties he will go; By next
February he will have to decide whether he will
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-31
L. the silver Dollar a Legal Tender?

respondent Of the st. Louis Republican. Are
silver dollars of 41246 grains legal tender to
any amount. or does 1t require legal enactment
lows: Silver dollars of 4l2ls grains are legal
tender to any amount, and it does not require
legal enactment to make them such. There is
YER dollars Of the legal tender quality. The act
Of 1873, called the demonetizing act. did not
strictly demonetize silver or take away the legal
tender quality from silver dollars then and now
in existence: 1t merely took away from the minis
the authority to coin such dollars AS there are
very few Of them to be had, the effect OF the act
minor coin-that is. those under one dollar
are legal tender only for debts of FIVE dollars
and under. The pending silver bill in Con
gress does specifically enact that silver dollars
of 4l21a grains weight shall be legal tender in
payment of all debts; but this feature is not
absolutely necessary. for II such dollars be
coined they will be legal tender without it.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-31
Mud Embargo on Business.
Cincinnati Commercially

CHICAGO. Dec 27.--Travel RS and dispatches
coming in from various localities all over this
section of country. including all Of the States of
Iowa, Illinois. Wisconsin and Minnesota, say
that the oldest Inhabitants have never seen any
thing like the present terrible embargo of mud
that prevails in every city. town and country
road. ally and lane, In the smaller cities
where there are no extensive means of cleaning
the mud from the streets the fluid dust descends
upon crossings, covers sidewalks, keeps lady
pedestrians indoors, or allows them out only
to cover them ankle deep with mud and puts
a stop to almost all commercial opera
tons of any magnitude. The farmer
rarely ventures to town even with light weight
wagon, and when necessity drives him out to
purchase sustsnance. he goes on horseback and
lakes the day for trip of few miles, There
is no abatement Of this nuisance. and cattle,
hogs, grain and produce of all kinds are kept
from market. to the detriment of all hands.
Never before in thirty years has the Upper Mis-
sissippi been open to navigation at the holiday
season. Steamers are now making excursions
between various points along the river. But for
the fact that all of the vessels have been stripped
and laid up for the winter. lake navigation
could also be resumed at this time as well as