The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-07-11

The Croker Fertaiizer Works al
Buffalo were burned on the 7th inst
The Governor of Iowa has issued
his proclamation for the protection oi
the people against tramps.
WENDELL PHILLIPS is of opinion
that the Republican party has lost lis
cement and is falling to pieces.
IT IL asserted that every witness
thus far called before the Potter Com
mittee is q Republican.
The cost of constructing the PaIis
Exposition Building was S9,O6O, 10,
exceeding the estimate by $2,C9O,OC0.
The venerable Journalist, James
Watson Webb, of. New York is dam
gerously Ill and his physicians des-
PAIR Of his recovery.
The Posteffice Block and Morse
Block adjoining, at Thomaston, CT,
TUDg yJU..roU-1 h..-s fro Erid.v ":ohs
The Agricultural Works of Rude
Brothers, at Liberty, Ind. were burn
ed ct two O'Clock Sunday morning.
Loss $40, COO.
PETER BLACK, President of the First
National Bank of Evansville, was
found dead in bis bed on the morning
of the 7th inst. Heart disease was
the cause.
bald Mountain, in the western part
of North Carolina, is on bender and
is emitting smoke from three differ
ent openings and filling the atmos.
phere with su,phurous fumes.
TOMORROW is the day for the an
nual demonstrations Of the Orange |
Associations in Montreal. Much ex-
element prevails and fears are enter
tanned that blood riots WI. occur.
THx New Haven temperance folks
wanted to secure the sci vices of Fran
cis Murphy and he wrote them that
he would want $50 week and board
q: the best hotel. 1t pays.
SHERMAN wasn't certs:n that he
didn't v rite the Weber,Anderson let.
ter, but Mrs. Jer Ks says positively
that she dictated it, but she won't tell
to whom.
SHERMAN tf-uks if he ce1 only get
Eliza Pinkston to Washington to go
before the Potter Committee, he could
haye her cooked SO that she would I
not 60 back ON her test 'mony before
the Returning Board. /,
SINCE the beeinr ing of the yesr the
value of domestic exports from New {
York alone have been S152, lS5, ,266. ,
This il $34J 9l,( } more than the same q
period last year, and Sl03,f l,0t more j
han the same period in 1876.
Allow f. L telegram of the 4th says: .
DR.. James e Aver, the celebrated pat r
.nt medicine proprietor, died at b
private asylum last night of softening II
# the brain, age about sixty years.
His estate is probably worth from tif-
cen to twenty millions.
The safe of Michael Richard, of o
sathorocksvi,'e, Penn, which was ii
tolen with It's content, $4,000 in d
Mortgages, bonds and promissory !"
otes and 500 money, was tound in a II
it covered with brush in the grove d.
I Henry We.zgar's farm. TIE papers "
nd money were intact, .e .s
A HEAVY bsrk robbery occurred at 81
'oroDto, Ont, on the 4.h. Three ~
len entered the Office of the Receiver =;
eneral ON Toronto street aud engag- al
I the teller il conversation willie a w
,nfederate clipped into the vau.t aud i ke
ole $lO,CLJ in two dollar bis, So. In
% in ones end $500 in silver. 90
ON Wednesday of last week exc q" a.,
uditor George b. Kennedy, charged w
ith defrauding the Treasury of vis
umbull county, plead guilty to two M.
the indictments preferred against 81 -,
m and was sentenced by Judge CO. de,
mt to five years in the penitentiary. w,
an(
II isn't likely that Eliza PinkstOn is tes
0 of the numerous witnesses Sher- o sno
N wants to subpoena to prove intim. mi,
tion in Louisiana in 1876. She now he
o under oath that the Christian is q
tesman' knew she was lying aud far
ing lie when she gave her testi- i"s
~ before the Returning Board. T.
probably Johu had forgotten all cent
nt Il. s0lQ'