The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-08-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Coal has advanced fifty cents per
ton in New York in consequence of
the miners strike.
The depot and telegraph Office at
Jackson, Ohio, were destroyed by fire
Saturday.
Wendall Phillips is talked of as the
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts.
The Mexican annexation scheme is
again coming prominently before the
public. The leaders are manifcstIng
great activity in the matter.
A barn and contents, 1000 bushels
of wheat, belonging to John Micails,
near Tiffin, was destroyed by fire Sat.
urday morning. Loss $1,000.
Charley Fisher, in the employ of
Merriam & Morgan's oil house, at
Cleveland, fell into an ice-cutting ma
chine Saturday, and had his head cut
open, killing him instantly.
There were four thousand colored
people of Charleston, S. c., at a meet
ing held in that city on Thursday last
to promote emigration to Liberia.
The shipload of arms from Hartford
have arrived at Constantinople, and
now the Turks may slaughter their
enemies in the true American breech-
loading fashion.
The investigation in the case of Sem
ator Grover, at Portland, Oregon, has
been concluded. There is little doubt
that the report of the Committee will
fully exonerate him.
The negro element of Washington
is said to be showing signs of uneasi-
ness and is making threats and dem
onstrations. Ii is not work they are
wanting, but "a share of the public Of
| fees.
THE death of two of the great ones
of the earth isannounced RuthBenton,
of Wisconsin-age, fifty-four; height
feet inches; weight, 5S5 pounds
and Modesto Malhiot, of Quebec-age,
siXty-eight height, feet S inches !;
weight, 61S pounds.
The chairman of the Grand Trunk
Railway states that in the last two and
a quarter years the total losses to that
company, "from competition" have
been 81 10000 in hard cash and that
the losses of railways in America from
the same cause have been S47, SOC, 600
A tramp III Peoria, ILL.,. convicted of
vagrancy, was set to work on the road
He refused to do stroke; they oriIa-
mented him with a ball and chain,
whereupon he sat down in the road
and stared at the crowd all day, and
the crowd stared at him. They were
still staring at last accounts.
On Thursday morning, Frank Phil
lips, Janitor of Sprague's building
five stories high, in Cincinnati, fell
from the upper story to the paye-
ment while intoxicated, and was in
stantly killed.
THE startling statement is made by
the Cuban League of New York, that
within the past nine years over 10000
free colored persons, who were taken
prisoners fighting in the revolutionary
army, have been sold into slavery for
the profit of the Spanish treasury.
A Chicago telegram of the Goth ult.,
says: The Tribune's Sioux City
special alludes to the subject of Crooks
mission to Omaha, and says: can
unauthenticated report is current at
Yanton that the Indians haye massa-
cred ali the inhabitants at Fort Pierce.
The telegraph line being down, no
particulars are Obtainable.
The Insurance Department of Ohio
has revoked the permission to transact
business in this State, of the following
companies: Charter Oak, Universal
Life, Citizens Life, Citizens Fire, of
Newark, N. j., and Patterson Fire, of
Patterson, N. j. Superintendent Hill
evidently "has his eye on 'em." There
are a number of other rotten compa-
nies, who need an examination into
their affairs.
well lecture at SanFranclsco on the
9th, for the benefit of three local char
tiles. lie paid his own way in and
that of his family, and there were
= Nf hr,f Of
director of the charitable societies ap-
peared to thank him or to receive-or
refusc-the money, so that it is now
lying at San Francisco without all
owner.
The Liberian Department in the
Philadelphia Exposition contains a
splendid specimen of the African palm
tree. 1t Is more than fifty feet high,
is supposed to be about thirty years
old, and is probably the largest tree
of the kind ever brought from Africa.
1t comes from St. Pauls river, r,eightcen
miles above Monrovia, and arrived
few days ago. The tree belongs to
the species from which the palm oil
of commerce is obtained. Cones of
the mature fruit, such as is used for
making soap and for cooking purposes
are still hanging upon its top.
ABLE financiers estimate the indebt-
ednes of this country to be: National
debt two thousand three hundred mil.