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PROPOSALS..

NJ OTICE-Bits will be received by the I'm.
~ designed until FEBRUARY lst. 1879,
lor the IA + DOWN OF TAG WALLS,
ING A HOUSE upon Spring Bank, Fairfsx
County, Va. Plans and specifications can be
seen g; The ofice of the undersigned on and after
January 18th. Bond, with approved security,
will be required from tho successful bidder for
the faithful performance Of the contract.
5. T.. NEALE
dec 3O-eo2Y At.'y for Gsorpe ason
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WEATHER PROBABILITIES. r. 81, 1879.
SO: the Middle Atlsntic States ststionarv y,
7:iag followed By falling barometer, ststionsrv
q higher temperatures. diminishing northwest
shifting to south and east winds, followed by
- .uCw. AS-hA
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40 MONK. -rnc pay warrants were lsS9ea
,sS no,Liag to the corporation othcerS' p sS,
; aSa nad Hreneo, but SIS there were % iuu"s
~ The City Treasury, they could not be met anu ~.
A.. h"ccrs we're compelled to either no'u ~
s snS them, which caused many iong 'a0'S
'ao much Dissatisfaction.
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E&- Thosemenlbars Of the Society cfOld Stu
denis OF 81. Johns Acsdcroy, and other old STU
dents whn propose 10 tako part in the annual
hsnquss. VIII csll "a the City Trtssu1ar's Ofice
and obt,in their ticket: q, or before Friday,
January 81. dee 30-St
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~ There will be u regular asasing OF thu
San Fire Company :c.luC,r0w (WedDe5iay)
Il ght, ct $50 O'clock.
Gee 3i-2s Il +. Norris Secretary
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LOCAL NEWS.

20 We sppeal urgently 10 those who ara
n1soted to this c:!ics to setsle their accounts
si:aout luSshcc delay, as after the irss of
Jaousr9 We |sl be compelled to discontinue
mo paper 60 those who are i1 arrears, but We
h's:es ourselves s!y thas but few names will be-
aieppea. Iho subscription rates ca the first
page OF eaon edition furnish guide to the
ia7Gcn' &c any particular Date. 50 that there
en- % no reason tor complaint ii come Who
NY desire Is. tall to recsiys the Gazette after
i, 1ss Ct January, 1879, as after that date I'll
papers furnished must be paid fer. Wv
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Il ,Happy New Year at the home 9fse:S ns ~
# ~ jGher or brother aecs SURPRISED T0'''s WV
Dedthana s fan:OvercoQts.
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AID Foe Arch Bishop Purcell.

CINCINNATI, Quo December 81, 1885,
Al meeting OF prominent Catholics lastnight
Committee vas appointed to prepare circular
Tor distribution among the members of that
Church S0lieitiog Subscriptions fer the ioanoal
relief OF Archbishop Purcell.
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FINE DRESS SUITS AT DEALuAM's.
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IJnEr.I<I- win continue TO con u NJ
il n ~. HHS-iness ard so:its u Continuance
q the patronage OF the public, guaranteeing fnlI
satisfaction TO all, dec 2G-im
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r SCOTCH, LLAMA Wool OvEacoATs AT
DEAEHAsIs.
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o. COMPREHENSIVE

The firm IF HOWELL & BRO. has been die.
solved this day i0eceG Ger zG, 1873 by mutual
consent, j. 81. hc@a?l is aloDo authorized to
collect all bills ana settle All indebted mesa of the
late trn2. HOWELL IL BRO.
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uMaLL EAMS-Choice Sugar Cured hams,
- small, received to.dsy, and for sale low o9
dec 81 ). y. MlLkO NV.
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: Gao POUNDS PRIME TURKEY
i oJO pkuNES q: cts per ID at
49,, %, K s MSAY'S
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40 GASES MORE OF RED CEGSS
Goo TOMATOES received by
aec q e. VIM. hAMSAT.
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NOTlDE-The sixth annual mae.ing of the
IN GERMAN 80 OPGR ALIVE BUILD
ING ASSOCIATION. No, }. will be held ut
81 II o'clock o. III. Rusiness-Annual report Of
the finance dividend aud election OF officers
dec SIS. J. SCHNEIDGH, Secretary.
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81 GENTS FOR CREAM CHEESE of
Z A2 hes: quality. F. J. DAVIDSON,
dec 81 l47 King street.
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PIEDMONT CANNED PEACH IS, gusrsn-
- tesd far superior TO all others, are tor sse by
dec*l FL DAVIDSON, l47 Kiag st.
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vvaGUKel WaGuNSl MASELtAk.
w Row: WHsELeAkkG W ~ u w' sEs
as.a;,,ed - n;co lot cf tina above which we are
III soI;n,, at lnw plices MCLEAN 81 UHLtk,
se!.ngso ~ l07 King sire Ct
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ssrIMsa FLORIDA ORANGES received
/ this Gay, december 3lst, by
does, G. YIN. RAMSAY.
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fNs,rLUMEIA RIVER CANNED SALMON
for sale ~ =. J. DAVIDSON,
Gee q 147 King street.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26
DestitutlOn and Distress in Eng.
land. '-'

t4. ID t.-
A London telegram of the Esd inst.
says: "The returns of the. Union
Work-house. in the east of London.
show widespread poverty and, dis
tress. The Shoreditch Work-house
Infirmary is full, also the Workhouse
itself, and extra room must be, proyi-
ded. AT, Bethnal Green Work. house
there are l,059 inmates, and 3S2 in the
Infirmary. In Hackney there are
1,4l6 indoor. poor chargable to Union
District. Visitors disclose q vast
amount of distress, and the funds. at
their dieposal are entirely insufficient.
This is especially the case at the Pop
lar and Millwal, where thousands of
dock and other laborers are thrown
out of employment. Spitalfields, Lime
house, South Hackney, Shodwetl, and
Haggerstown suffer severely. Trades
men of the entire Eastern districts are
crying out about the badness OF, trade.
and even Christmas wares are heavy
drug in the market. So severe is the
distress in Haggerstown that Commit
tees will be formed for the relief OF
cases of extreme necessities, but it
will be greatly crippled for want OF
funds. The weather is severe through.
out Great Britain" ..-.-...f 49,.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

The Rochester On. W Union and
Advertiser reproGuces the following
reminiscence of the campaign of 1876.
1t is a copy of a circular sent on the
eve of election from the headquarters
of the "Howe Sewing Machine Com.
pany," in Rochester, to the agencies
and Offices of the Company in New
England:
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Nov. 3, 1876.
"TO THE RUTLAND OFFICE: We
wish you to discharge any of youy
suboyinates aO1o cote the Democratic
ticket. We believe the success of the
Democratic party will be the ruin of
our country and business, and will not
support any one who will not stand
by US in this. This as a struggle be-
taceen the intelligent and respectable
portion Of the community and the a.
morGnt and T0ughs and roacoies of the
cities. ~ ss }4ft 20 1es
"MR. SToCKwELL fully concurs with
me in the above. GEO. r. PETTlBoNE.
:" Write to all you1 agents to the
a6Oce effect and schat aue soish. ~,
...t, .-f... GEO. r. PETTlBoNE.
1t was not black men, but white
men, that order was Intended for; and
yet, we believe, no Committee Of In.
vestigation was demanded, nor dennn-
ciatory speeches made by Southern
members of Congress. Nor was the
Howe Company deferred from ap-
pealing to Congress for an extensioh
OF its patent privileges. There is, after
all, q difference between the green
tree and the dry tree. s:i. .rnaa s,srs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26
Blaine's Speech condemned .

Mr.. Blaine's speech of "Wednesday
was clever. He is a clever man, and
can make a clever speech any dsy
but his present effort is susceptible OF
condensation. We will put the whole
of it in two short paragraphs; namely
I. The policy of the Republican
party since the war, and especially
the amendments to the Constitution
of the United States, forced through
by Republican votes and Republican
management, by which amendment
the emancipated negroes of the South
were endowed with the right OF suf-
frage without probation of education,
though warmly supported by me
(Blaine) at the time, and thoug for a
great period subserYient to the brig
and operations of Republican carpet
baggers in the South, are now prov
ing themselves exceedingly unfavora-
BILE to the continuance in power of the
Republican party, and exceedingly
inconvenient to Republican pOiitici-
ans.
II. This amendment to the COnsti-
tuition cannot be repealed or altered ;
and the consequences of this Republi-
can policy cannot be escaped. But
we can. make speeches against the
consequences, and can endeavor there
by to make at the North an amount OF
political capital of which we Republic
cans are now desperately in need.
This is by no means as Aowery and
as fiue as Mr.. Blaine's speech was in
the delivery; but the whole substance
of it is herein. Y. Sun.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

BAYARD TAYLOR, really the Great
American Tarveler, died Thursday last
at Berlin. The Enquirer says: He
had been printers apprentice a boy
ish writer of verses; was an & author"
at nineteen, having published a vol
ume of poems in 1874; began obe an
European traveller. mostly on foot, at
twenty was a Pennsylvania editor at
twenty-one; was a prominent contrib
utor to the Literary World" in New
York year later, and at twenty-four
he became part proprietor and asso-
ciate editor of the New York Tribune.
He was Pennsylvania boy, having
been born in Kennett Square, Chester
County, in that State, January IL, 1925.
1t was in 1849 that he began his timer
ant career, his voluminOus accounts of
which have made the bulk, if not the
best, of his literary reputation. He
wrote of California and Mexico. He
assembled the Nile, told men of Asia
Minor, and Syria, and all Europe. He
of the Saracen. He told of his visit to
India, China, Loo ChOo and Japan, as
early as 1858. -Four years later he pub
lished his Northern Travels; Summer
and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Dem
mark and Lapland," and his =" Travels
in Greece and Russia with an Excur-
sion to Crete" He made some pre-
tensions to being a poet at twenty
three, when he published his Rhymes
of Travel, Ballads and other POEMS"
The Book of ROmances, Lyrics and
Songs" was published in 1855. One
of his volumes, the Encyclopedia of
Modern Travel" was published in this
city in 1856. His published works, in
deed, are almost like the auctioneer's
wares, too numerous to mention. He
was more than an average story teller,
as the pages of the Atlantic Monthly
in recent years will show, though he
was in no sense q great novelist or rO-
mancer. Nor was he a great poet,
though he wrote many graceful verses.
His fame, for he had that, was made
in the busy recent time, when the
world was rapidly opening to the curl
simultateous with the ripening useful
ness of steam and lightning, and the
contagious love of adventure, He died
at the age of fifty-three as American
Minister to Germany, and his appoint
ment to that position was graceful
and deserved political recognition of
the merits of man who had won q
creditable renown i'll the paths of let
tiers. This country sheds luster on
herself wnen she honors the Haw-
thornes, and the Motleys, and the Ev-
eretts, and the Lowells, and even the
TaylOrs. The Government should
take complacency in the fact that the
great traveller who was labOriOus and
often brilliant, who, if he did not see
with the eyes of a genius, wrote enter
tainingly of what he saw, and spoke
gracefully of nearly all countries, start
ed on his final journey from a post of
honor and trust in the service of his
native land.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

The aggregate wheat crop Of tho
country according to computation
made at Washington, is about 425. .OO0,-
600 bushels. The increase of acreage
sown was ono sixth greater than last
year. Many of the larger wheat pro-
ducing States very geatly reduced
their average yield per acre. On the
other hand, other States show a mark
ed increase, among them New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indi-
ana, Kansas, California. The terrific
ries show an immense expansion of
wheat cultivation, with the high aver
age yield characteristic of virgin soils.
The yields of some of the territories
was considerably more than double
that of the previous crop.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

The st. Paul Globe says as to the
means employed by the Republicans
to secure the election of Washburn in
the Third District of Minnesota:
In addition to absolute bribery and
purchase, there were the most glaring
frauds perpetrated in colonizing men
from Wisconsin, Dakota,and also from
the Second District. There were the
infamous frauds in Kittson county
where 1873 votes were returned for
Washburn, and two Tor Donnley, not
one of which were legal. Railroad
men, half. breeds and Canadians were
voted, the election being held in box
car on the track, and the polls moved
about at will. If it had been necessa-
ry, 500 votes would have been return
ed instead of 1S3. In fact, there is no
limit to this unblushing rasca!ity and
never will be until some example is
made of the perpetrators"
1t would seem that little investi-
eating work Is needed in that direc.
ton. Still the Radical leaders will
keep up their doleful bowling about
Southern frauds, while they will seek
to justify and take advantage of those
in Minnesota.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26


AT the closing session of the State
Grange, Friday, resolutions were
adopted asking the Legislature to pass
a law forbidding hunting in the prem
ises of another without the consent of
the owner; asking for reduction of
the fees of county officers; disapprov-
ing tho action of the National Grange
in memoralizing Congress to repeal
the tax on tobacco; asking the Ma
tional Grange TO amend the constitu-
tion in reference to degree members ;
recommending that county and dis
trlct agricultural fairs be confined to
their legitimate objects, and horse
racing, side shows and the sale of in
toxicating liquors excluded.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26
Not Settled.

The New York Graphic pointedly
says: "The silver problem is not yet
settled. The standard silver dollar is
by no means out of politics or out of
discussion. 1t cannot 60 out of either
until every discrimination against sii-
yer by the coinage laws of the United
States or by the regulations of the
Treasury Department or of the bank
is wiped out. When every dollar OF
the United States, whether of gold or
of silver, is treated alike, and when
silver bullion is put on exactly the
Same level as gold bullion by the coin
age laws of the United States, the sill.
yer agitation, having no injustice to
denounce or struggle against, will
cease. Free coinage is sure to come
1t is the end of the whole matter-the
one practical panacea."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

THOSE pure and honest Republicans
who deprecate and abhor the debase-
ment of the right of suffrage, will look
with favor ndpleasure upon the fol-
lowing paragraph, of how Republicans
of the 14th Ward of New York City
are working for the publication of the
ballot and rights of the people:
"The Indian file of voters was
wound around the sidewalk like the
tail of snake. One by one the Geary
Republicans, who were furnished with
passports up stairs, marched in: and
put little pieces of paper in small
hole at the top of coffee-grinding
mill. The crank was turned by Tom
Riley every time regular deposited
a ticket. He reversed the handle
whenever an irregular ballot was
cast, and somehow or other a rolled
slip of white paper few out of the
deal box upon the foor."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

CINCINNATI, Dec. 13.-Great excite
ment was created in financial circles
this afternoon by the report that the
banking house of G. f. Adea e Co.
had suspended. The firm has sustain
ed heavy draw upon deposits for the
past year, and as there was apparent
ly no prospects OF change in affairs
assignment was made at a late hour
this afternoon. The liabilities are
stated at S7S0,OOO, of which amount
$6SO,O are in time certificates and the
remainder due on all call assets are
stated nominally at $4,000. All de-
mands were paid oyer the counter up
to q quarter past this afternoon, and
the firm had about $1,000 to their cred
it at the clearing house at the close of
their business to-day.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26
sherman,- startling statement. :.


Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, says that
the more he,studies the reply, of Sec
retary Sherman to Judge Kelley's re-
solution the more it startles, him. 1t
not only appears that the First Ma
tional Bank OF. New York held $45.-
100000 of United States funds. but
what is equally singular, the bank
has been allowed call Of ninety Gays
on the proceeds OF all sale of bonds,
even after Secretary Sherman saw fit
to ask that such proceeds should be
turned into the Treasury. In other
words, the bank was allowed. as a
member of the Syndicate, to have a
fat percentage on it's sales of four and
half per cent. bonds, and to hold the
proceeds of such sales on q call of
ninety days,and in addition it has been
allowed the use, on an average, of
$3O,OOO,O00 in gold per month. AOf
course, the bank has been wise enough
to make this money earn interest, and
the proof that the gold has been out
at interest, and not lying idle in the
bank vaults, is found in the banks
own monthly statement. Forinstance,
while Sherman's reply to Kelley
shows that the bank had to its credit
100000 of Government gold on
December 1st, the statement of the
bank for December 1st shows that it
had but S 100000 of gold in it's vaults
on that day. The remaining $l4, ,OOO,- :
600 had, of course, been put where
they would do the most good-that is,
invested in bonds or lent out at inter-
est in some other way. Mr.. Hewitt,
who is an able fnancier, in connec-
ton with the banking business, and
not at all given to loose statements,
aud withal an earnest advocate of gold
resumption,says the bank can not haye
made less than 5000, 600, and the mon
ey value of their privilege may have
exceeded that amount very cOnsidera-
bly,. Mr.. Sherman's faith in the bank
is somewhat remarkable, in view of
the fact that it's paid-up capital is only
$500 900, or only IL per cent. of the
average amount of Gcvernment gold
which it has had the absolute use Of :
A comparison of figures also develops
the fact that the proportion of gold
balances lying in the hands of this one
bank has averaged all the way from
40 to 80 per cent. of the aggregate of
gold balance to the credit of the Gov
ernment in all the National Banks of
the country. 1t may be that this pet
bank has been given these very valua-
BILE privileges out of the goodness of
Secretary Sherman's heart, but the
has very suspicious look,
and will most likely get the thorough
it ought to receive
Washington Special. 'u~ ,rpas i
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

SOME idea of the rapid growth and
extent of American agriculture may
be cleaned from the fact that in 1850
the United States produced less than
500 100000 bushels of corn, while in
1873, the total crop will be over 1,300,
100000 bushels. There are thousands
and thousands of acres yet untouched
by the plow, which must sooner or
later come under cultivation; and
when our almost boundless agricultur-
al resources are brought into bearing,
the crops will be almost beyond belief,
SO great will be their magnitude.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26
The Journal, organ of Senator An.

The Journal, organ of Senator An
thony, is disquieted about the alleged
denial of the right of suffrage to color
ed voters in several Southern States
but takes care not to allude to the fact
that several thousands of the citizens
of Rhode Island, Senator Anthopy's
own State, are denied the right to vote,
the real reason for the denial being that
the votes of the now disfranchised cit
izens would probably give the State to
the Democrats. A State which refuses
the suffrage to many men who have
proven their fidelity to the Union by
fighting in the Union ranks is itself in
need of reform.-N. Y. Sun. s-l .
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

the New York World says: A
touching story to the effect that not
one Republican vote WIS counted by
the South Carolina bulldozers in Fair
field county, where reside nearly three
thousand Republican voters, Is going
the rounds OF the Northern press. 1t
is fact that no Republican votes were
cast, but, lnasmuch as the Republicans
put no State ticket in the field and
nominated no candidate in that Con-
gressional District, the fact is not su--
prising.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

SENATOR BLAINE cited, as an evil
dence that no fair election was ever
held at the South, the fact that James
G. Birney received no votes in that
section in 1874. We would like to
ask Mr.. Blaine if it would be an evil
deuce of unfairness in an election in
Maine if man should receive no votes
there who was committed to the poll
icy of destroying all the pine woods.
the horses and cattle in that StateP
Yet this was substantially Birney's
platform as far as it related to. the
South. The people would have been
very foolish to vote for an avOwed
enemy.-St Paul Globe. "i sa'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

The New York banks, it would
seem, propose to pcrsevere in their in.
tended raid on the "dollar of our dad
dies" They have been requested by
the Clearing House to inform their
customers that on and after the date
specified by law for the resumption of
specie payment it would be advisable
for them to have printed on all their
commercial paper, payable in funds
current at the New York Clearing
House," The "gOld bugs" seem de-
termined to persist in their flight
against Providence and the wishes OF
of the people. The speedy passage of
Forts, Or some other bill, will, how
ever, bring them to their senses.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

BUT this is not a question which in
terests alone the whites and blacks of
the South. The negro is citizen; a
citizen with the right of franchise. He
became such logically in consequence
of the rebellion. AS citizen he gives
weight and power to the South
Providence Journal. ..,.s..s
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

sins of commission. There is scarcely
doubt but that he is responsible for
the miserably small crop of old line
Wings. which has SO grievously disap-
pointed the Administration.
PHONO.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26

DURING the year ending November
80, 1873, Sl,255 Immigrants landed at
New York, about twenty thousand
more than the year before. This in
crease is probably due to the great
business stringency in foreign coun-
tries, rendering it impossible for men
TO procure profitable employment In
their native place.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-26
The motto of the Democracy TO-DAY

The motto of the Democracy to- day
is the same that it has been from the
days of Jefferson, the great founder of
the party, Equal right for all, special
privileges for none," while the con-
trolling idea with the opposition is,
LET the Government take care of the
rich and the rich will take care of the
poor" UB3 o4assi5.as .s...su 4.