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FULL STOCK OF
STAPLE GROCERIES /!
Everybody advertises the "BEsr so Ct Tea
in Town" Ours Speaks for its elf.
Give it . trial.
SMITH BROS.
Ravenna, October q, 1877.
LEGAL NOTICE !.

ITO Emily Sheldon and Eliza c. Loomis, of
4 Windsor, Hartford Co.. Comm. and Edgar
Sheldon. OF Ring0ld county, Iowa. and Sheldon
sheldon. q minor, aged is years, anu to Edgar
Sheldon: his guardian. Of Ringoid county: Iowa,
and and e %. ChrissSgnss % sheldon sheridon shelion
and to Newton =. w aterman and Dwight " ater-
man. Of Gay. w Washington Co. Iowa, and Jane 5
60. illinois, and Ls~is sc G sheidon. ~ Of Il Hartford ]
county. Connecticut. and Anson Sheldon of
Della 81 sounsy
Aaichigan and to Eli Dayton and Friend ayton
psss sSnn
20 Anson Dayton; and Mrs = r. Merriaeld, of
daughter Of Richard Dayton, deceased, Of Bur
ton. Se.nga county. Ohio. You will take
sce that I. petition was died sg4nss on the
Of Common Pleas within aud for the County of
Portage and State of Ohio. by George sheldon
demands partition of the following real estate,
tD-wit: Situate in the township Of Mantua
County Of Portage: and State Of Ohio. and which
and is bounded as follows: beginning at the
southeast corner Of said lot number 6. thence
of said lot. q chains. 81 links TO a post; thence
north IS min. east. IS chains. s61< links on the
degrees IS min east q chains and a links 10 a
post; thence south AZ minutes west, 13 chains,
56H links. on the east line of said lot. to the
place Of beginning. containing one hundred
Also, one other piece situate on said lot No 6.
in sad township. county aud State. which is
bounded as follows. to wit: Beginning at a
post and stones from which the southeast con-
ner bears south n minutes west. distant I3
chains. b6x links, and an Oak witness tree
hears south 751x degrees west. distant 1S links.
marked (No- g.; thence north 50 degrees. s5
minutes west. - chains link to a post; thence
N. 13 minutes east. l chain 2a1s links to post
thence south So degrees. b minutes east. 49
chains links to q post; thence south ~ min
ntes west chain sax links the east line OF
said lot to the place of beginning. containing
six acres of land. And that the next term OF
said Court, SOON thereafter as the same
can be heard. said George Sheldon will apply
for an order that partition may be made OF said
premises. and general relief
Dated this 3lse day of December. A u. 1871.
GEORGE SHELDON,
4S66W. by 8. ID. NORTON, his Attorney.
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Arre,,.a fer Perjury.


A New York telegram of the 3Oth
says: Police Judge Morgan issued ar
order OF arrest against Receiver Jew.
'eets ~ The Erie Railway on. the charge
Of perjury. The complaint is made by
F. Plat, an English holder of Erie
stock, now in this country. The af6-
davit on which the charge is based was
made by one Robertson, and alleges
that Mr.. Jewett's sworn statements OF
the condition of Erie were untrust-
worthy and false in several particulars.
Receiver Jewett appeared with his
counsel at Essex Market Police Court
this morning and gave bail in $4,000.
Mr.. Jewett says the correctness OF
his report to the State Engineers De-
partments depends upon the construc.
ton to be put upon the law. He adopt
ed the construction which he under
stood to be the correct one and which
has been acted upon by other COM
panies. Those who charge him with
perjury declare that he intended 10
palm of the faIsehood that no interest
was in arrear on the part of a corpor-
atiOn of which he was acting as re
ceiver for the sole reason that interest
was in arrear and had been for more
than Two and half years.
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Thc Great Robbory.

The Enquirer says: John Sherman
rules that, as he has sold seventy mil
lion dollars worth of bonds for gold,
they must be paid in gold, no matter
what the bonds themselves say they
arc payable in. The contract tor pay.
ment is a specific contract, aud is plain.
ly expressed ON every bond. What q
man buys his bonds with has nothing,
in law, to do with what he agrees to
receive in payment. John Sherman
did MT apply his present ru le to the
fivc-twenty bonds. They were made
payable in lawful money aud were
bought with greenbacks, lawful mon-
ey.' John Sherman's present rule
would make them payable in green
backs, even though the bonds said
they should be payable in coin, for the
Government sold them for greenbacks.
They must be paid in money of the
same kind OF money for which they
were sold, says the Secretary. The
following tabular statement of the is
sue OF bonds sold for grcenbacks, and
the gold value received for them, is in
point:
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troubles and disasters, when now it is

troubles and disasters, when now it is
about to recover from its commercial
and labor distress there can be no
doubt. The movement, however, is
mainly instigated by certain Republi-
can leaders who arc too weak-kneed
to shoulder the responsibility, but are
exerting every effort to get our Dem
ocratic friends to pull their chestnuts
out of the fire. The agitation finds
no encouragement whatever among
the rejecting sagaciOus men of both
political parties, who compose vastly
the majority to put an end to any such
attempt. Mr.. Tilden, whom we strong.
ly advocated at the time, lost his only
chance when he failed to put in an ap-
pearance here and take possession of
his property. To use legal phrase
which Mr.. Ti:den must be familiar
with by this time "a mans own latches
debar him very often of his own legal
rights. and it is too late now for the
old man afraid of -his-bonds," to be
poking around at this late day stirring
up trouble.
CAPITAL VS.. LABOR.
Judging from the late votes In both
Houses on the Silver resolouion of
Stanley Matthews. and taking into due
consideration the full weight of the
important other public measures for
the interest of the whole country, we
are inclined to believe that both Sena-
tors and Members are beginning to
exert themselves somewhat in behalf
of the true interest Of their constitu-
ents and are bowling down to the pop
ular Indignation against legislating in
the interest of the Capitalist, bond
holders and other monopoliss, and are
about to allow the people to have some
control in the management of their
own government, for the past week
really hasn't been q good week" for
moneyed aristocrats, who have for q
long time been crowding the masses
to starvation, whilst they have been
getting still richer. Extremes will
meet extremes, and they are now get
ting their just deserts canon Anon
sir!" DEMoCR1rEs.
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ment There were three tidal waves
aud not a vestige of the shanties was
LETT. The bodies of the unfortunate
ones were carried to sea, with the ex-
ceptiOn of that of Mrs. Wynne, which
was picked up at Sheepshead Bay this
morning. The tide rose i've feet high
er than any previous recorded food.
At other parts of the island the dam
age done has been excessive. The
fine drive along the beach known as
the COncOurse is completely under.
mined and unsafe for horses.
There has been wreck and ruin all
along the beach. The beautiful Japa-
nese structure has been sWept away,
and the east end of the hotel damaged,
The engine-room and bathing.houses
were swept out 10 sea stables aud
out-houses disappeared, and over 1000
feet of new railroad track in the rear
of the hotel destroyed. The hotel is
almost isolated, the approaches being
washed away. The damage to this
property is between $4,000 and $15,-
900. All other structures along the
whole line of the beach not firmly Sc
cured are wrecked. Eugema's new
dock, west of Coble's II otel, and Cam
era Obscura structure are gone. Only
q few sticks remain to indicate where
No Name Pavilion stood. Tho total
loss to property is estimated between
$4,000 and $4,000. Later reports
from Sheepshead Bay state the odies
of Mrs. Brennan aud children have
been found there.
LONG BRANCH, N. J., February l.
Almost every building on: tho shore
between Sandy; Hook and Long
Branch has been more or less damag.
ed, and all the hotels aad dwellings
on the beach have their grounds badly
washed. The bath.houses are all gone,
and many beautiful summor houses
were either washed away by the sea
or blown to pieces by the gale. The
bulk heads are all destroyed. The
from these wrecks.
Tho New Jersey Southern Railroad
track has been covered with sand In
ma ny places, and damaged 90 it will
take several days to repair 80 that
trains can run between Seabright and
Sandy Hook. The telegraph wires
East End and Brighton Hotels, Man
i sAOu 1xOuc0 0uO 03OIIl0 NOtk8k0 l10O
portions of their roofs casried away by
the wind. and in the case Of the Brigh-
ton Hotel, rain has damrged the fur
niture badly. Sixty bath-houses were
washed away from the front Of the
Ocean HOuse. =
Itshaa hseA the, most tefri6c storm
ever witnessed here. The water was
never known to be 90 high. It waahed
over the bluff into Ocean avenue in
many places.
NEw York. February I.2During
the storm yesterday the schooner El-
h: Hayees, supposed to be from Prov
idence with q cargo of salt, went ashore
on Plum leland, in the: Sound, ana
sank with ali On board. Captain
Stephenson, Of the schooner Chester,
reports isighting the Haynes signaling
for assistance, but finding It ilnpossi-
BILE to reach her,.owing TO the heavy
sea and dangerous locality, bore away
Suddenly q high sea swept over the
poop deck of the Haynes, which threw
her on her beam ends, and in q few
moments she went to pieces and sank
out of sight.
BALTIMORE, February 1.-The brig
Chattanooga went ashore yesterday at
Little Cove Point, and the Captain,
Second Mate, and q seaman were
drowned.
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The FIRST National Bank of Kansas
City suspended the other day, with
liabilities supposed to amount to $780,
600. The Commercial National Bank,
of the same place, also announced q
suspension until further notice. And
yet we are told that these are good
times, prosperous times, and that
business ls reyiFiffx "a
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Here we have the amount of the rob-
berry committed by the Coin Act OF
March. 1869, in which Sherman aided
and abetted. 1t is $626 37O.322. The
interest on the bonds was paid in gold.
That is, the purchaser of the bond Tor
$40, $50 or $50 could draw about ten
per cent. interest in lawful money on
500, and his bonds were exempt from
taxation besides. 1t is high time for
people to say to the bondhOlder that
he shall now have no more than ia
in the bond. Not q drop
of blood There shall be no repeti-
ton Of such robbery.
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HIRAM.
Correspondence


Our township has heretofore been
remarkably free from burglarious en-
terprises, whether for the reason thai
burglars will not covet our possessions
or that we are supposed to not possess
anything worth the risk, is question
not open for discussion among honest
people. But, a week ago last Friday
night, Mr.. E. NJ. Mills was relieved OF
$50 in cash by some unknown person
The house burglarized is in the north
part of the township, known as the
COlvin House, and at present occupied
by Mrs. Black and her mother, Mrs.
Colvin and Mrs. Mills. The thief en-
tered by the kitchen window or reach
ed through the window by means of a
stick or something else, into the bed
room occupied by Mr.. Mills and took
his pants containing the money, con-
sisting of three fifties, two twenties
and one ten dollar bills. The pants
were found in the morning hanging in
the window. The circumstances rath-
er indicate that it was nOta profession
al burglar that did the job, and that
some one acquainted with all the sur
roundings is the guilty party. The
loss is a severe one for Mr.. Mills, as it
comprised nearly his all.
| Prest Hindale delivered very care
fully prepared and highly interesting
and instructive address upon the
Eastern War" He expressed no
opinion as to which party is in the
right, but of the beligerants and the
causes which have eliminated in the
present struggle. All who take an in
terest in the. strife would gain very
valuable information by listening to
the address.
Mrs. Betsey Harris, widow of Alb
ner Harris received severe injuries sew
eral days ago by falling upon the door,
step. We are happy to say, however,
that she is recOving rapidly.
Mrs. Buckingham fell down the
chamber stairs last week and dislocat-
ed an elbow, and received internal in
juries, rendering her condition extrem-
ly critical. Hopes, however, are en-
tertained of her ultimate recovery.
It is amusing as well as alarming to
notice the efforts Of the monopolists to
degrade silver currency, and make it
unpopular with the people. The r. r.
companies, or some of them have is
sued orders to not receive silver for
fare. 1t is well known that the stock
holders in nine-tenths of the railroads
would be glad to take silver for their
stock or dividends where there is any,
and not an employe but is anxious to
get silver for his dues, even at great
discount. Would not some creditors
in the vicinity of Portage county he
willing to take silver for their dues.
The struggle between the creditor and
debtor has at last assumed a phase that
all can understand, and verdict must
be reached soon. The people have
been driven from "the currency of the |
county" to COIN. Now shall they be |
driven from ':coin" to GOLD. That is |
the question. HI.
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The Louisiana Returning Board are
in great tribulation. They are on trial
before the courts of that State for
their rascalities, with strong proba-
bility Of being convicted. Though
Hayes owes his election to those vil-
iians he refuses to interfere in their
behalf. Judge Bradley has been ap-
piled to to take the cases out of the
State Court, to be tried in the United
states Circuit Court. but he declines
TO listen to the petition, aud the ras-
Gals are in fair way to get their just
deserts. -....,. q.
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SOME of the goldocrats think Sena-
tor Jones ought not to be permitted
to vote on the question o. remonetiz-
ing silver, because he has q pecuniary
interest in the result. But now comes
the Senator and says he hasn't mined
any silver in three years, and has no
personal interest in the passage of the
Silver Bill.
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II RAvxrNA. THURSDAY. FEB. =. 1873

8. s. Cox. a member of Congress
from New York City, declares himself
in favor of the dollar of the daddies.
} Hon. B. F. WADE has been quite i'll
for some days OF typhoid fever, at his
residence in Jefferson, Ashtabuia
county.
as IT Is thought at Washington that the
Senate will dispose of the Silver Bill
this week.
TIE wholesale grocers Of Cincinnati
at . meeting a few days ago adopted
q resolution in favor of a repeal OF the
Bankrupt law.
st A SHANGHAI telegram says: An
asvlum for women and children at
a.Tfen Tsin, (China) has been burned.
= and over two thousand persons per-
ished In the fire.
THERE we're one hundred and twen'
ty-nine failures in New York last
month, the liabilities amounting to
$1,000, 600, and still it is claimed that
: money is too abundant.
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stockholders Meeting.

A N adjourned Stockholders Annual Meeting
IA of the Star Agricultural Works for the
electiOn OF Directors and the sransacting OF
other business. will he held ut the room over
the store of f. r. Brainerd 4 Son, In Ravenna,
On SATURDAY EVENING, FEB'Y 9th, 1873,
at O'Clock r. NJ
Ravenna, January eth. ls7s.
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Il will not permit myself to believe
that New York bankers, even under
the stimulus of the New York press,
are 90 infatuated as to carly their
threats concerning Western loans into
effect. We have been compelled for a
long time to pay for silks, champagne,
cigars, ETC., in gold Th:s is bad
enough, but the grinding process had
better stop here. There are causes
enough already at work to deprive
New York of the business of the West
without q combination Of bankers,
egged on by the press, 10 refuse West
ern loans unless payment in gold is
nominated in the bond New Or
leans, Charleston, Baltimore and Phil
adelphia, with the laws of climate and
distance in their favor, are actively
competing for the business SO long
monopolized by New York. And to-
day the Tribune announces the estab-
lishment of line of steamers between
P0rilaudand Glasgow, connected with
the Canadian Grand Trunk railway.
Confronted with such eventualities, is
this time to threaten the West with
extractions that may disrupt our busi-
ness relations with those to whom we
must look, and upon whom we must
rely, for our future growth and pros
perity? II our capital is refused, the
West will find it elsewhere
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AN exchange wants to know, If there
is no hell, how those persons who
constantly read newspaper for three
or four years without paying for it and
then order it discontinued. are to
get their just punishment. -
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:
THE MARKETS.
RAHrnNA. February 8.

RAEENNA. February 6. 1878
FLOUR.-King's Best. 81 e.; o. K, 81 on
Demand steady.
WHEAT-NO. Red. 81 1b; Mol White q 25
CORN-Shelled brings 60c, ears, 25c.
OATS-S9 q Sic. accOeding to quality
RYE-NO. brings 60:
BARLEY-N0ne IN market.
HAY-Selling at &s q $40; according to
quality. Dall sale.
BEEF-Per cwt., $500 cts 50
sHOGS-Dressed. q 81 per cwt.
: AhARD-City rende, ed exc.
SMOKED MEATS-City sugar Cured Hams
selling at lie: Country 10c.
Shoulders. City cured selling ut 10c. Dried
Beef selling at 49,. So ss
! POULTRY-salall supply in the MARKET
Chickens dressed. buyers pay cents; un-
dressed &c TurIies. undressed.T 9.
BUTTER-s0c.
CHEESE-Factory. retails, l6c.
EGGS-buyers pay 15c per dog.
POTATOES-Buyefss pay 3093sc.
BEANS-ChOice hand picked in smalldemand
at 81 90 per bu. Medium 81 Is.
Vince GARr-Pureo Older .fetails 26oS0c per gal
TALLOW-Bnyers pay 6Kc.
HIDES-Green, trlmm I'd No. I, &c
EEATHERS-Bestr retail Ut &c.
WHITE LINES a5 per bbl. -
WATER LINES IS
SALT-Coarse sells At 81 76: ans q 50.
WOOD-stove = 0O02 20; feet wood g 90
q s so per cord.
Sra ARa-
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DIED.

ruary Sd. 1873. of paralysis, Ethan A. Bab-
cock. in the 6sth yer of his age.
CHASE.-In this Village, January 23d, 1873,
Capt. Charles w. Cease. aged u years and 8
months
O'NEII.-In this Village, January 9th. 1879, of
typhoid pneumonia, Frank O'Seil aged IS
years.
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MARRIED

MARRIED
LEWlS-FOOT-At Rillsville. Pa, Jan. 25tf,
1878. hy Rev. Mr.. Merrick, MIR Robson Lewis
and Miss Adtlie Foot, both Of Strectsboro.
HABB-BHADLEY.-ln Ravcnna. Jan'y 3Oth,
by Rev. Andrew Wilson, at his residence.
Mr.. Arthur N Babb and Miss Martha E.
Bradley. both oil Ravcnna.
PAYEN-FARR-A AT the residence Of the brides
parents, in Mantua. February 4th. 1878. by A.
$. Eecchcr. Esq. Nj. A. K. Payne. OF Euclid,
Cuyahoga Co.. o and Miss Bette Farr. Of
Mantua
MckNlGIT-CREQUE.-A Ravenna. Janua-
ry goth. 1878. by Alex. Topping, Esq Mr.
George Mcknight. of Mogatiorc. and N iss
Josephine Creque. of Brimfcld
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The Silver and Currency Reform
meeting held at Cooper Institute, New
York, on Wednesday evening of last
week was q grand affair. The i'm
mense hall was literally packed, every
foot of standing room being occupied.
Hon. James B. Colgate presided, and
upon taking the chair made a brief
speech in which he arraigned the
Representatives and press of New
York for having tried to place that
State in false light before the nation
and declaring that the people of that
State are as true to the cause of cur
rency and labor reform as solid as
Ohio or Indiana. He said the petition
to Congress from that State for the
reconciliation of silver contained over
sixty-four thousand hames.A series of
excellent resolutions was adopted. Mr..
Ewing spoke for over two hours, and
was listened to throughout with mark
ed attention and interest, and he was
frequently cheered during his speech !;
showing that there are thousands of
people in the East who are in accord
with their brethren in the West in their
determination to thwart the machina-
tions of the greedy capitalists to plum
der the wealth producing people of
the nation.
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SMITH BROS.
Have just returned from the East and are in
receipt OF one of.the
Largest, Choicest & Cheapest
Stocks of Dry Goods, in all departments. that
has ever been brought to Ravenna. Being
purchased at present low rates. we propose to
give our customers the benefit Of some
| Rare Bargains
In Dress Goods,
White Goods,
Hosiery, Notions, &C.,
Through the whole stock. An inventory wholly
unnecessary.
Call & Examine Prices
Will be the best guarantees that we mean just
what we say.
Carpet Department.!
| Our immense Carpet Room is unusually full
OF all the choicest and most fashionable pat
| terms in
English and American Body Brussels,
: IS '' Tapestry "
Lowell and Hartford Three-ply,
Extra Super,
:" Super.
oflower grades we are prepared to show, at
lowest prices. all the leading makes OF
All-WOol Ingrrins,
Cotton and Wool,
All OOteOus 11emp,
Oil Cloths, Rugs, Mattings, &c.
In our
Tailoring Department
We have a very large assortment of both For
eign and Donestic ssas,s.4.-f
WoOlens and Trimmings,
Including Doeskins,
Fancy suitings and Cassimeres,
Full line Of Fancy and dStapleOvercoatings
Also, Repellants. sackings Surges, &c.
All Of which we offer very low. and will make
up In first class manner at prices that can't be
beat.
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n. Converse ( Cos
ADvERTIsEN1ENT
Our large store is now full of we'll selected
stock of
New Fall Goods !!
fSo through ssss ss public to
DRESS GOODS
stock. We have some new styles from los per
yard up.
A Big Pile Of FIanneIs.
Look at our 25c shirting Flannels. better than
we ever sold before. Canton Flannels from fc
per yard up.
Our Cloth Dep artment
s, 9syer ,T WAS as large Cool heavy satinsts at
yard. 20
New Styles cIoaks and hawis
Ladies' d Cents Underwe ar.
at at AL all prices Look at our Ladies' Wrappers
at 5uc; an extra qualify.
Good Prints at &c,
AND
Splendid Batting at I2Hc perib.
S1.oo SHIRT.
81 Shirt at q ~ we ever saw Come and see. asd
A splendid stock. all grades. from asc per I'd up
BATTISG.
splendid article ut 1axc,
CRASHES.
large line Crashes from &c per yard M.
BLEACHED and BROWN COTTONs.
full line Of these Goods from &c per I'd up.
M GLOVES AND MITTENs.
Look through our stock before buying. We
have a grand new stock.
Floor On-Cloths from s5c Per yard. mp.
BOOTS. SHOES AND RUBBEns.
new stock.
OIL AND PAPER SHADES.
Look at onr New Curtain Fixtures.
Oh. yes. that so Cent Teal
we hear SO much about. We would say We are
not the men % shut xe but are ready 10 put up
another half ton-jusI received-of as good Tea
WAS ever landed in kayenno. Come ano sea
If 1t can't talk for itself.
Bring in your Butter, Eggs. and 0rsen-
backs. and get your moneys worth
at all times.
New Goods Arriving as tho Season adj
vances.
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Tho bankers and money tyrants of
New York are trying to awe the peo-
Pile of the West into submission to
their unhallowed demands by threats
of refusing Western loans. Thurlow
Weed, the vetern publicist, gives to
these deluded fellows some words of
warning which it may be wise for
them to heed. He says: