The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

season.
THE efforts of the produce gamblers
to "bear" the grain market is thing
the grangers cannot bear.
CoNGREss is having recess till after
tho holidays, and will reconvene on
the 7th of January.
B. f. DYER, of Brown county, has
been appointed Warden of the Ohio
Penitentiary, vice McWhartOn resign
ed.
FOR the first time since the suspen-
sion Of specie payments in 1862. gold
sold at par in New York on the 18th.
inst.
SAM RANDALL claims to have an
even hundred members of the next
House committed to vote for him for
speaker.
South CAROLINA will be represent
ed by two one-legged Senators. Butler
and Hampton having but one leg
apiece.
1T was the Republican members OF
the Blaine Investigating Committee
who voted to make it a Star Chamber
affair, by having all its sessions held
with closed doors.
BEVERLY 3. DOUGLAS, of Virginia,
member of Congress from that State,
died at the National Hotel in Wash
ington, on Sunday evening.
The appointment of Governor Hart.
ranft, of Pennsylvania, is being urged
for the Berlin Mission made vacant by
the death of Bayard Taylor.
The Republicans of Warren are to
hold an election Saturday evening for
Postmaster of that city. The candi-
dates are abundant.
The money power is doing its ''lev-
el best" to defeat the reelection of
voorhees, to the U. S. Senate from In
diana, but it is thought they will fail
in the attempt.
ALPHEUs S. WILLIAMS, Representa-
tive in Congress from the Detroit,
Mich, District, died in Washington
shortly after four O'Clock Saturday
morning.
The Scriptures declare that the
"foxes have holes" Some of cur Ra-
VIENNA sportsmen have made the dis
covery that some of the shrewd little
animals are found lodging around
nigh unto ye residence of ye grangers.
A CABLE telegram of the 10Th inst.
announces the loss of the steamer By
Zantine, bound from Marcelles for
Constantinople, which sunk in q col
lission, and that one hundred and fifty
lives were lost by the disaster.
THERE are six negroes in the South
Carolina Legislature and five in that
of Texas, all elected by the Democrats.
that the Democrats are the colored
mems worst enemies.
HAYES has appointed Henry S.
Foote, member of the Confederate
Senate from Tennessee and q most
prominent ex-rebel, Superintendent of
the New Orleans Mint. Now look
out for q howl from the stalwarts.' -
The tissue kiss tickets" which the
Republicans make such a fuss about
were introduced by them in South
Carolina and Florida in 1876, and by
their instrumentality these State were
fraudulently counted for Hayes. How
they squeal when any of their own
games recoil upon them!
The GIobe-Democrat, the leading
and most able Republican journal in
Missouri, ,deprecates the sectional strife
undertaken by Blaine, and thinks the
country desires g rest from all such
contentious. Well, let the investiga-
tions which have been forced upon
the country be thorough and it will
put a auietur on all such nonsense for
all time to come.
The Radical papers are jubilant over
the fact that greenbacks haYe for sew
eral days been quoted at par with gold,
and shont that resumption has come
even before the time fixed by law.
Well, what of it3. Does any one see
any marked improvement in the times9
Are there any less failures, any less
sheriff and assignee's sale than before
the Radicals began their ruiDous and
oppressive financial schemes?
GENERAL GARFIELD is reported as
saying that he is in perfect accord with
the blatant Blaine in regard to South
ern matters, yet Garfield did say that
"any man who attempts to arouse Sec
tional feeling between different parts
OF the country will be condemned and
cast aside," and he never gave utter