The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-28
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
sAxuELD. HARRIS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
xAvxNNA. THURSDAY. NOV. ss. 1873
The Press for $3.50 a. Year,
In ddU0nce.

CONGRESS will assemble next week.
The Ohio Legislature will assemble
on the 7th of January.
THE Democrats of Wooster are maxi
ing preparations for their 23rd annual
Festival on the coming 8th of January
THE new Catholic Church of Can
ton, which is rapidly approaching COM
pletion, will be one of the finest
church buildings In Ohio. Its length
is $50 and its width so feet,
They have recently had Treasury
defalcation or embezzlement down in
Gurnsey county, and strange to say
it isn't Democratic county either.
The little republic of Switzerland
has lust celebrated the five hundred
and SEVENTEEN anniversary of her dec
laration of independence.
The Democratic caucus of the Ala
bama Legislature nominated Cover
nor George S. Houston for United
THE Commissioners to conduct the
re-survey of the Ohio and Pennsylya-
mia State boundary line have COM
menced operations.
A LONDON telegram of Tuesday re.
ports a strike of 10000 cotton spin
ners at Oldham, and ten per cent.
reduction in the wages of the men en-
ployed in the slate quarries.
The people of YOUNGSTOWN are dis.
cussing the propriety of changing the
name of their city. Some of them
think it too old to be called Youngs-
town any longer.
A POOR laborer named John Craw-
ford, of Vanlue, Hancock county, has
fallen heir to the property of de-
ceased uncle, amounting to 81 SOC, 600.
On Wednesday night of last week a
q mob of forty white men took the ne
gro ravisher, George Williams, from
the Jail at La Grange, Kentucky, and
Ku-kluxed him.
On Thursday of last week the jury
in the case of the State against John
Blake, charged with shooting at with
intent to kill Mary Durham, on trial
in the Common Pleas Court of Lake
county, returned a verdict of guilty,
and recommended the prisoner to the
mercy of the Court. . ..f
THOMAS II. POWER, senior member
of the firm of Powers & Whiteman,
manufacturing chemists, who died at
Philadelphia on the Goth inst, aged
sixty years, was the wealthiest man in
that city, his estate being estimated at
from $S,OOO,OOO to $IO,OOO,OOO, and
his income at $3.50, 600 annually. The
firm has been in existence sixty years
and the firm name has been the same
for thirty-one years.
The Wooster Republican, an earnest
administration organ, says: "There
has been oyer 100000 bankruptcies in
the country during the last ten years.
The gold advocates want to make over
100000 more during the next ten years
by repeating the law remonetizing
silver" Against that policy which
has brought these disasters upon the
land there onght to be not only
"Solid South" but an undivided N North.
A TERRIBLE mine explosion occur
red at Sullivan, Ind on Thursday
last, which was caused by ignitiDg the
gas by the lamps, and terrific veloc-
ity was added by the fact of there be-
ing eight kegs of powder below.
There were thirty men in the mines
at the time, thirteen of whom were
killed outright, eight or ten severely
wounded and many others suffered
from suffocation. The excitement in
that vicinity was great, and the scene
represented as beggering description.
AN old and well-to. do German far
mer named Henry Poster, committed
suicide by hanging himself with rope
house, about two miles east of Gallon,
Ohio, about eleven O'Clock last Thurs
day morning. He had been suffering
great depression of mind for some
time previous to the commission of
the act, caused partly by excessive
drinking and partly by fear of losing
money which he had loaned out. He
was q hard working, honest and in
dustrious citizen and much respected
by his neighbors. He leaves a wife
several children.
The majority against the old scoun-
drel, Madison Wells who ran as Re-
publican candidate for Congress in
Louisiana, was over ten thousand.
And the old rascal now sets up the
cry Of intimidation !