The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-10-24

ed to be dictated to, and now hires |
Gratis" at 40 cents. Some of our
Sunday papers pay as low as 90 cents
per Thousand during the week and 40
cents on Saturday. There is every in
dication that this rebellion will be sue
cessful for the jebbers can secure all
needed skilled help from Baltimore.
The Sunday Capital is jubilant. The
Supreme Court of the District has de-
cided that, inasmuch as a newspaper
publisher is manufacturer the appli-
cation of a creditor to have the Capt.
tai adjudged a manufacturer and thus
be brought within the scope of the
bankrupt law must be refused. Don
Piatt thus gets years supply of white
paper for nothing. Like Micawber,
his I. O. U. cancels the debt, and the
paper maker who sought by judicial
proceedings to enforce payment of cer-
tain promissory notes given by Piatt
in consideration of the white paper on
which the Capital was published for
year must be rated as the veriest Ounce
for he we'll knew the autographs upon
the notes was sufficient quid pro quo
| for his wares.
The expensive funerals inaulged in
by our laboring classes have induced
the ministers of all denominations in
the District to unite in protesting
against them. They urge in series
of resolutions, the wealthy to set an
economical example in the selection of
caskets, use Of flowers and number of
hacks. This protest against funeral
extravaganza is an admirable dOcu-
ment, and should be needed, yet, those
who mix with the working people
realize that the universal desire among
them for display at the grave is SO
strong that no amount of protestation
can prevent recurrence of past dis
plays.
Admiral Porter is now the subject
of suit at law in our District Courts
in an action commenced by Lieutenant
Wetmore of the navy, who sues for
recovery of monies which the Admir-
al had deducted from the Lieutensnts
pay for Mrs. Wetmore's benefit. He
charges the Admiral, also with crimi-
nal intimacy with Mrs. w. both be-
fore and after Wetmore secured di.
vorce from her in 1872. She not re-
sisting the decree. The gay sailor
boy, the Admiral, will now,l like many
another gallant tar have to pay round
ly for his marked attentions to this
one of the fair sex, should Wetmore
establish the fact as he claims he can
by indisputable evidence. 1t is apro-
pos of this scandal in high circles to
refer to the appearance in our police
court within the last day or two OF
four young white girls, aged from 15
to Is years who were taken from the
brothels of the "Division" upon re-
quest of friends. They had voluntar.
lily gone down to ruin and defantly
refused to listen to the entreaties fol
reformation. 1t is only few weeks
since that three young girls aged about
Ii were taken by the police from s
room which they had fitted up as s
brothel. 1t is to be hoped that this
last arrest will be the last chapter in
this scene of youthful depravity. ON
police courts are showing now the re-
suits of Cohen's recent labor agitatio Il
i'm this, that nearly all negroes arrest
ed for petty larcenies were followers
and cohorts of this pestiferous com
munist. There is but one recourse fol
the men who wont work, and that il
) to steal, hence it occasions no surprise
that the recent strikers have drifteG
into wholesale thievery, and appear
daily more or less of them as candi
dates for prison where their bread an6
board are had without labor. A laugh
able incident occurred yesterday in
one our f street care. The horse
which is used TO assist each car oveI
the incline at the City Hall, changed
his programme of going to the front
by walking bodily into the car, to the
intense horror and fright of the lady
passengers and the merriment of the
outsiders. DEMoCRATEs.