The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-08-08

DEMOCRATIc STATE TICKET.
Secretary of state.
sA DAVID r, PAIGE, of Summit.
Supreme Court Judge.
Fsr ALEXANDRA y. HUME, OF Butler.
Nember.of Board Of Public Works,
RUSH FIEDDs. of Richland.
q xvnsh Dassrics Ticket.
4 For Congress. M
GEN. AQUILA WILEY, of Wayne County
II II estimated that Cleveland hal
only 1850 residents bearing the name
of Smith.
THE public debt statement for july
shows . decrease Of the debt for tn,
month Of only 500, ,3N.
TIE total number of cases of yellow
fever st New Orleans up to Saturday
was 233, Of which 60 had terminated
fatally. s4s
A Few cases Of yellow foyer have
occurred In Cincinnati, but NO fears
arc entertained that the disease will
become epidemic.
AT the special trial race at Buffalo
on Saturday, Rarus made mile heat
in-2 :131z, the best trotting time on
record.
WALrKR III. SHUPE, editor of the
Advocate, the greenback paper pub
lfshed in New York ut 25 cents . year,
has gone into bankruptcy.
TIE National Greenbackers Of the
XIXth District are to hold their Com
gressional Convention at Warren on
the 5th Of September.
The Kentucky election, which took
place on Monday, resulted, as usual.
in an overwhelming Democratic ma
jority.
SEvEN prisoners escaped from the
Cumberland, Md. jail ON Sunday night,
By ovsrpowering tho keeper when he
was on his round.
Ex-MAYoR BULL, of Columbus, has
mysteriously disappeared. Is is be-
lfeved that financial embarras1 lhente
is the cause Of his absence. r.
TEE MassiIlon "Americau," Gre
publican) says: The Republicans Of
the District expect big things of little
Portage county"
TIE Potter Investigating Commit
tee will resume its sessions IN New
York on the 18th inst. Members of
the MacVeagh Commission have been |
summoned. .s
R. B. CoNANT, cashier of the Elliot |
Bank, ct Boston, confesses to the Di-
rectors that he lost $70,C0O of the |
Banks money in making good mar
gins on California mining stocks. /
IT 10 announced that JEFF Davis has
decided to. be . candidate for u. s.
Senator in place Of Bruce, the colored
man from Nississippi. Now there
will be music in the air.
TIE miners Of the Tuscsrawas Coal
Company at Utrichsville, Ohio, have
struck against q reduction of wages
from seventy cents to sixty cents per
ton.
The election in North Carolina,
which took place . week ago last
Monday resulted in . sweeping DEM
ocsatic victory. Both branches of the
Legislature are largely Democratic.
THE Masten Bank, of Kansas City,
Ho.,suspended on Saturday. It wasn't
saussd by its having too much money,
nor by its being ready to resume spe-
Gle payments.
Gro. BBYANT's barn, at North AM
herst, Ohio, containing twenty tons of
hay, took fire and burned. Spontane-
ouS eombustion is the supposed cause.
Loss, $500 NO insurance.
GovERNoR NICHOLS, of Louisiana.
Saturday signed the death warrants Of
four colored men, who murdered .
woman in 1876, to be hanged at Dom
aldsville, August l4th.
. DANIEL WIsE's barn, filled with hay,
grain, reapers, mowers and farming
utensils, and two stacks of wheat,
were totally destroyed by fire, at
Wauseon, Ohio, Friday.
The subscriptions TO the four per
cent. loan Saturday were $3,1O7, 800.
Owing to the demand for these bonds
the Secretary of the Treasury has di.
rected the mill that makes the paper
for them to resume.
The Republican Congressionsl Con-
vention was held at Massillon yester-
day. At the time we go to press we
have no report OF its action. though 1t
IL safe to predict that Major Mckinley,
of Canton, is the nominee.
A FIvE-DoLLAR counterfeit legal
tnnder note of the new issue series
was received at the Treasury in Wash
ington City Saturday morning. The
note was printed from the original
plate on inferior paper,
Two boye, sons of Nicholas Mon
tague, of Canal Dover, were drowned
In the Tuscarawas River. three miles
north of New Philadelphia, Ohio.
forenoon. They had been
fishing and we're playing on . log in
The water, which turned over and bot
went under.
Boz INGERsoLL sailed for Europe on ,
He says the ingratitude Of