The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-07-12
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Susan .E. Anthony is going 10 talk
woman suffrage in Colorado soon.
Walker, late of the Washington Ma
ton, is going to establish an admins
tration one-cent daily in New York.
The Boston Traveller says: More
than one Young man lost his degree
at Harvard this year on account OF i'm
morality.
The loss in the valuation of real es-
tate and personal property i'm Boston,
compared with last year, it is said,
will reach SGO,OO0,GOO.
Two men, Charles A. Pierce and
Wallace Pierce were drowned at
Niagra Falls on Sunday last by the
capsizing of sail-boat, and their
bodies carried over the falls.
Rev. Geo. Macauley, of Scotland, is
about to publish series of sermons
on Shakespeare, the object of which
is TO prove that the great poet was an
orthodox Trinitarian, and probably a
Presby terrain.
Neither General Sherman nor his
son.in.law, Mr.. Fitch, feel able to pay
the taxes on the Khedive necklace of
diamonds presented to Minnie Sher-
man on her marriage, and they still
| lie in the Custom House.
The rumor current on Saturday that
Pope Plus was dead turns out to be
false. The New York Herald COR
respondent telegraphs that His Holi-
ness is still robust, his head clear and
his chest sound. He gave thirty au-
diences on saturday.
The grave of Samuel Meredith, at
Pleasant Mount, Penn, first Treasur.
er of the United States, was visited on
the afternoon of the Fourth by party
of gentlemen who organized a monu.
mental association. 1t is proposed to
erect a plain substantial shaft.
On the afternoon of Friday, Rose
Smith, aged six years, and Margaret
Scow, aged eight years. were anus
ing themselves dancing on the roof OF
a five-story tenement-house, No. 34t
Madison street, New York, when
they slid of into the yard. Rose was
dead when picked up, and Margaret
escaped with slight injuries.
The boiler of the steam thresher o.
George Patterson, in operation abou'
mile from Nashville, ILL.,, cxplo dcd
Saturday with great force, injurfng N
w. Moore and Harvey Lee SO badly
that they died during the day, and
dangerously wounding George Wells
William Athens, and a young son o.
N. McCracken.
On the night of the Fourth. at De.
/ troit. Michigan, a discharged negro
servant crept into a cellar and poison.
ed some ice-cream which had beer
provided for some invited guests. His
love for colored woman in the EN-.
ploy of the family induced him tC
warn her and she betrayed the plot
and saved All awful horror.
The Keesville, N. Y, National Bank
was robbed Friday night by seven OF
eight masked burglars. The watch
men were bound and gagged, tho
vault and safe blown open and the
contents carried away. The bank
losses $1,000 IN currency, Sc. 200 in tn,
town OF Chesterfield bonds, $500 il
Government bonds and $1,000 in Es.
sex County bonds. Total, $2l 800
Persons who left packages in the bank
for safe keeping, have lost from $50.
0G0 TO SG0,O0O.- Bills receivable and
collection notes were also taken.
A TERRIBLE tornado visited Pen
saukee and Coullardville, Wisconsin
last Saturday night. 1t struck Pen.
saukee near the wagon road, and con-
tinucd south eastward, sweeping away
three mills, the hotel owned by Gard.
ner, of the Gardner House, Chicago
the school-house, and twenty-eight
dwelling. 1t struck Conllardville
near the Lucas farm, and passed al.
most due south east, taking in streak
about eighty rods wide, and destroy
ing every thing in its course. Seven
teen houses and barns were damaged
in Coullardyille, and the crops badly