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HIRAM.

Your correspondent has made dill
gent search for local items, but owing,
to the immense sea of mud that has
slushed around, above and beneath, to
right and left, in front and rear, dur
ing the last month, in such profusion
that the best defined item of fact or
fiction, would be undistinguishable, if
not wholly annihilated.
General good health prevails, and
good will is extended Theoretically
to all men, with several and certain
exceptions. Prosperity reigns in the
households of those who labor beyond
their strength, and deny themselves
the common comforts of life, as we'll
as in tn households of the bOndholders
and the bankers.
Religion is firm at quotations, while
christianity is weak, with downward
tendency. It will not do to invest
largely until the stock on hand is we'll
weeded out. We will report the ear
lest indications of more favorable op-
erations.
The Standard Oil Company's pipe
line passes through the south part of
this township and some of the land
owners have made good thing out of
it, having leased the right of way for
one dollar per rod, even where the pipe
is laid in the highway. The leases run
twenty years. The new telegraph line
also runs through this place. Mr..
Clark Norton furnished the poles from
Windham to Cleveland.
The Winter term of College COM
menced last week Tuesday. with an
attendance of over one hundred stu
dents. The term was delayed two
weeks for the completion of the new
boarding hall, which, owing to the un-
firing energy and perseverance of Mr..
J. ]. Ryder and Prest. Hinsdale, was
ready for occupancy in time. The
building will be dedicated with appro-
pirate ceremonies, about Christmas,
the exact time has not been an
nouncd. a.1 H.
Dec. Is, 1879.
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PALMYRA.
Correspondence


The M. E. Church has been holding
q series of revival meetings the past
week, Rev. Mr.. Marvin, of Warren,
and Rev. Mr.. Kurtz, of Deerfield, Of
ficiating.
There is some talk of having a
Christmas tree here the coming
Christmas. We think 1t would be in
teresting and amusing for both the
old and young folks. We hope action
will be taken ON the subject by our
citizens to have one which will be
grand and magnificent affair.
The subject Of constructing side
walks is being agitated. We think it
q good plan, and that our citizens will
find them a great convenience.
At the last meeting of the Literary
Society the question for debate was,
Should the National Banking Act be
repealed?" Messrs. L. w. Gilbert and
8. A. Church affirmed the question
with the greatest eloquence, and Messrs.
E. l.. Wilson and J. P. Church repre-
sented the negative, making some very
fine remarks. After the subject had
been thoroughly discussed by both
sides it was left to the house for de-
cision, which was given in favor Of the
negative. which settles the dispute.
The Black Diamond Coal Company,
which is under the supervisian OF Mr..
John Morris, of Youngstown, is In full
operation, running day and night, and
shipping large quantities north and
south on the L. E. A. & w. r. r.
The Union School, under the super
vision of Mr.. J. N. Mccall, OF Nelson,
and Miss Mary Davis, of Palmyra, is
progressing finely, about IS pupils be-
ing enrolled.
PERsONAL.-Mr.G G. w. Tuttle and
Mr.. B. B. Davis are attending college
at Cleveland this winter. Miss Flora
Jones is visiting her sister, Mrs. King,
at Cleveland. Mr.. L. w. Gilbert is
teaching school in District No. 6, in
Paris. Mr.. d. L. Thomas, of Youngs-
town, is in town, and we understand
is prospecting for iron ore in the
western part of the township. Mr..
Fred Porter has purchased farm in
Shalersville. Success to you Fred.
One Of our young Republicans who
attended the Grant reception at Chi
cago was very anxious to go to Pitts
burgh on Saturday last to attend the
reception there. We would advise our
young friend to negotiate with the
General and accompany him on his
tour. TRAPO.
Dec. Is, 1879.
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II the recommendation of Hayes
and Sherman were adopted and the
$346, ,OO00 600 of greenbacks retired and
silver again demonetized does any
body believe it would add to the gen.
eral prosperity of the people2 Of
course that policy would greatly graf
ify the money power and enable them
to control the finances Of the country.
The people will do well to remember
that this is the policy of the Republi-
can party to which Its leaders are fully
committed. The storm raised by the
recommendations of the President and
Secretary of the Treasury in the racks
of their own party, and the fear of q
split in the party may lead them to
forego action upon the questions for
the present, but it will be only to
await more favorable opportunity
for enforcing their destructive meas.
ures upon the country.
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Dispatches from Maine assert that
the canvas of the certificates of the late
election in that State made by the Gov
ernor and Council in accordance with
the Constitution and laws of Maine,
has resulted in giving the "fusionists,'
or Democrats and Greenbackers, q
majority in both branches of the Leg
iaIature, which will ensure the election
of either Garcelon, Democrat, ,or Smith,
Greenbacker, for Governor, and the
thorough investigation Of the charges
of fraud, bribery and intimidation by
which the Republicans sought to car.
ry the State and Legislature. The Re-
publicans are bowling mad over this
result, and show they don't relish their
own medicine. GAS goes Maine so
goes the Union"
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The Democratic Legislature last
winter provided by law that the COM
pension of members of the General
Assembly of this State shall hereafter
be fixed at 5000 year instead of SIS a
day "a heretofore, and in case q men,
Der is absent without excuse s. day
to be deducted for such absence. And
now some Of the Republicans are talk
ing about the members of the coming
Legislature earning their $6OOin thirty
days. The law will undoubtedly have
the tendency to DO away with pro.
longed sessions and thus effect large
saving to the taxpayers.
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During the late political contest the
stumpsrs declared EN-.
that the currency question
was finally and fully settled and that
the triumph of the Republicans gave
that the "rag-baby" was
dead and buried, that the Ohio Idea !"
was played out and that the money
question would no longer be q dis
turbing element in American politics.
But no sooner were they assured OF
success than the money sharks COM
mence fierce assault upon the pres
ent order of things and demand the
demonstration Of silver and the re-
tirement of the greenbsck currency or
the stripping it ofits legal.tender quail
ity. These assaults are open and un-
disguised on the part of the Eastern
organs of the Money Power and are
boldly advanced and urged by Hayes
in his Message and Secretary Sher-
man in his Report, and, although many
Western Republican members of Con-
gress have manifested q bold and de.
termined opposition to the policy rec.
commended by Hayes and Sherman,
and apparently it is abandoned, the
money sharks will lose no opportur-
nifty to accomplish their purpose and
all their energies will be directed to
that end. Their object is to make
money scarce and dear, and thus give
into the hands of the money and cred
itor class the control of the finances OF
the nation and people thereby enabling
them to enhance the value Of their
bonds, mortgages and other securities
ct the expense of deluded and op-
pressed people. Every man who does
net wear the collar Of the money.
sharks should prepare to use his Mt
most power to prevent the accomplish
ment of the oppressive scheme. There
is no doubt that the great mass of the
American people are opposed to it
and would have unmistakably mani
tested their opposition at the ballot
box had not John Sherman, Hayes
other Republican orators in the land,
with purpose to deceive the people,
declared that the currency question
was finally and fully settled and should
be left where Democratic legislation
had placed it, with the dollar of the
fathers remonetized, and the present
volume ofgreenbacks maintained. Let
no one be deceived by the apparent
abandonment of the financial issue.
The men who, fresh from the hustings
where they had declared the money
question finally settled, had the audac-
ity to boldly proclaim the financial
doctrines Of Hayes Message and Sher-
mans Report are only awaiting a
more favorable time and opportunity
to force their views and measures up.
on the country.
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A. G. Bradley is still in Kent, with
little or no improvement in health.
The Club dance at the Bradley
House on Wednesday night was we'll
attended, notwithstanding the rain
and bad condition of the roads. Music
was furnished by Farr and Goddard of
this place and Hinckley and son, of
Chagrin Falls. 10
A recent call on Bro. Webb, of the
Garrettsville Journal, found him en-
sconced in a new and much pleasanter
sanctum than formerly. We actually
found paper and pictures on the walls,
and whitewash on the ceiling, (the ed
itor claimed this to be the only white
wash about the establishment,) and q
general air of thrift and snugness real
ly gratifying.
Santora's place has lately so grown
in completeness, beauty and finish un-
der the artistic touches of our friend
Geo. McElwain, of Garrettsville-by
the way, ne'of the finest imitators of
natural wood in this section-that the
proprietor contemplates formal open
ing soon of the Mantua House," as
the new hotel is styled.
Miss Georgia Farr's school, at the
Station, will close on Saturday, with
out any public display more than a
few voluntary exercises on the part of
her pupils. It is but simple justice to
the teacher to say that she has been
eminently successful the past session,
and to be SO, any one who has visited
the school will readily understand, has
required a much more than ordinary
exercise Of judgment, intelligence and
tact. So far as we can learn, Miss Farr
has given entire satisfaction to the To-
cal board and the patrons of the school.
Our stirring young friend R. Fred
Frost, is teaching school in the Henry
Coe district, Shalersville, with good
success.
Some huge blocks of stone have ar
rived at this station by rail, said to be
the property of the Cleveland Oil Pipe
Line Co., and intended to furnish the
foundation for one of their pumping
engines to be located in this vicinity.
We are indebted to A. F. Hannah,
of the Cascade House, Nelson Ledges,
for an invitation to attend New Year
Dance, to be held there Dec. 81, 1879.
We know of no place we had rather go
on such an occasion, but am obliged to
decline.
Imagine our surprise upon recently
a communication in answer
to one Of our own. returning postage
stamp we had inclosed, with the graf
flying Information that the writer
could not use stamps. And this from
q member Of the legal fraternity! Are
wonders never to cease?
The Pittsburgh Grant boom on Sat-
urday only coaxed out four persons
from this Station.
A new feature is the recent opening
of Furniture Rooms in Folger block,
Dy Mr.. G. III. Ober, formerly of Ober
Bros, Garrettsville. The enterprise is
much needed here, and we
wish for the proprietor only success.
The Centennial Mills" of Frost &
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MANTUA.
Correspondence.

Correspondents.
ED. Press: By telegram from Nor
walk, Ohio, this morning, have just
heard of the decease of Mrs. Frances
D. Knapp, which occurred there after
short illness. Mrs. Knapp was Ia
dy well known in this town, was the
daughter of the late Col. p. Bump.
She resided for numbers of years in
Norwalk, where her husband died over
twenty years ago. Since that time,
she has the most of the time been a
resident of Mantua. "VERITAS.
MANTUA, Dec. Is, 1879. .E
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-12-18

Heal Estate Valuation ~
The County Auditors met in Con-
vention at Cincinnati recently and
adopted the following report regard.
ing the proper per cent. for assessed
valuation of real property: - u
First-That the statute prescribes
the true valuation, viz: The true val
uation in money. si'-- s''i 49, sstt
Secopd-Tbat the Auditors of coun.
ties forcibly impress the land spprais.
ers with the nature of their oath, and
caution them, by proper dircharge OF
their duties, on returning true valua-
tion, to avoid the violation of their
oath of Office. =
Third-That in the valuation OF
property assessors should be governed
by the following rules, namely:
1. The location and productiveness.
2. The rental or net income.
8. The actual selling price for cash
Of similar property in the immediate
vicinity. -
4. The valuation of buildings is to
be determined not by their actual cost
but by the real value in cash which the
structures add to the land or ground
on which they stand.
5. All machinery laid in masonry
or otherwise attached to the buildings
so that it cannot be removed without
detriment to the buildings should be
assessed as realty. All others machin-
cry should be assessed as personally.
All lands or town lots or buildings or
structures belonging to fee simple or
lease to railroads and other corpora
tions, aside from that which is prop
erly personally, should be assessed
and returned as realty and taxed where
located. $50. -
6. There is no warrant in law for
any reduction by a percentage of the
actual cash value of realty and asses
sors have no right whatever to violate
the letter or the spirit of the law in
this or any other respect. 4
Fourth-Your committee feel it
proper to say that it is not in the in.
terest of tax payers to have q depre-
ciated valuation of property, for the
reason that tne rate of taxation is
thereby necessarily increased.
In closing this report your commit
tee suggests that the association,
their Executive Committee,
the Legislature to pass
such laws as will produce q uniform
rate for the valuation of real property
throughout the whole State. @
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-12-18

A CONVENTION of the Real Estate
Assessors of the State or their repre-.
sentatives is to be held at the Board Of
Trade Rooms in the city Of Columbus
ON Tuesday, December 30th, for the
purpose of preparing q uniform plan
for the equitable assessment of the
real estate of Ohio next spring. This
meeting is one great importance, ~
the valuations of real property Of the
State are those will from the basis for
taxation for the next decade. The as.
SCISSORS of every county in the State
should be fully Represented.
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numbers, next below the colored peo-
pie but when any public demonstra-
ton involving their nationality, is
called for from them, they exhibit on
our streets an astonishing mass of drill
ed, able-bodied men, out of all proper
tion to the display of the other race.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-12-18

The nomination of Secretary of War
McCrary as United States Circuit
Judge for Iowa was confirmed by the
Senate on the 9th inst. without oppo-
sition, and Alexander Ramsey, of
Minnesota, has been nominated and
as Secretary Of War.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-12-18

SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, has pre-
pared an elaborate speech, which he
will deliver in January next in which
he will dissect the National Banks
from scientific standpoint, The
Senator says that anybody inclined 10
doubt the existence of Money Power
in this country will need no better
evidence of its existence than the COM
ments which appeared in all the New
York papers indorsing the Hayes f.
nancial recommendations.
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short cou4 Sc OF this Medicine will restore the
lost functions and procure Health sd Happi-
ness where before was despondency and gloom
derfui success. ff 's-- fs
Pamphlets sent free to all . Write for them
Prize Specific. sfoo per package or six pack
ages for 800. w i'll be sent by maikon receipt
OF money Address all orders. .aHie 80
sss j, b. SIMPON'S MEDICINE CO.,
Nos. 1O4 and 166 Main ST.. Buffalo, NY.
Sold In Ravenna by LIZ. SEYMOUR & Co.
Wholesale by STRONG, COBB & CO., Cleveland.
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NOTICE.

E'LIZA HEWITT and Calvin Hewitt whose
GI last known place of resifspce was Maple
notice that on the 18th day OF November. 1879, a
petition was filed against them in the Court of
Portag eand State OF Ohio, praying Judgment
against the said Eliza Hewitt upon note
cent. from November Sth 1873; for . finding of
the amount to become due on a second note
thefeip described: for the foreclosure of mortg-
ages and an order to subject lands to the pay
ment of such jud gment and for other equitable
relief. p -z- MARCUS HEATH.
By PHELPS & PHELPS, Attorneys.
RAyENNA. o., Nov. 13, 1879. 5S5-6w.
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diseases that
lead ~ Con.
sumption. In
sanity, and an
early grave, or
both mat
ter how SHAT
tered the sys-|
tenn m a y be
from exceSsesI
80 n~o Br~l
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THE MARK ETS.
hAFENNAs DeC. II, 1865
ATLANTIC MILLS FLOUR AND FEED.

hASErNAs Dec. IL, 1865
ATLANTIC MILLS FLOUR AND FEED.
FLOUR-New Process, g 90; Pastry 81 rs
per sack; o. K.$1 10.
FEED-Bran. Toe per 10O lbs. Middlings, !, 10;
Chop, 81 10; Corn Meal. 81 IS Oil Meal. 81 90.
WHEAT-S1 25@1 80.
CORN-Shelled brings SOC; ears, C,
OATS 40 cts.
RYE-No. brings 6Oc
BARLEY-None In market.
HAY-Selling at $6 q $40; according to
quality. Dall sale.
BEEF-Per cwt., IS 90.
HOGS-Dressed. IS 0o' per cwt,
LARD-City rendered 10C.
SMOKED MEATS-City sugar Cured Hams
selling at &c; Country Sc.
Shoulders. City cured selling at Sc. Dried
Beef selling at 15e.
POULTRY-small supply in the market
Chickens, dressed, buyers pay cents; live &c.
Turkies. dressed, &c. live &c.
BUTTER-a0 q s2c.
CHEESE-Retails, 121Sc. Nov. 1Oc boxed
EGGS-buyers pay 20c per doz.
POTATOES-Buyers pay 3Oc@4Oc..
DRIED APPLES-5c.
BEANS-Choice handpicked In small dem and
at 81 so per bu. Medium 81 IS.
VINEGAR-Pure cider retails zoe per gal
TALLOW-Buyers pay 5Xc.
HIDES-Green, trimm cd. No. I, s5sc
FEATHERs-Bestr retail at 75c.
WHITE LIME-$1 90 per Dbl.
WATER LIMES1 so
SALT-Coarse sells at 81 90; nne q 35
WOOD-stove 81 bO09 90; . feet wood $500
q s. 80 per cord.
SUGARS
Coffee A sells for Observation-Disclosures. .....,1ahc
Extra lie
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Road Notice.

NOTICE js hereby given. that petition will
~ be presented to the Commissioners of Por
4 D. 1879. praying for the establishment of q
County road on the folio wing line, to-wit:
Commenting in the center of the State Road
south of Mantua Station on lot No Al in IIantua
township; thence along the north line of Sarah
Pettibone's land. and the south line of land
owned by the heirs of Darwin Atwater, and
the s. tne of Alice Turner's land. and the south
line of B. +. Keys land. to point near the east
easterly across the l-nd of Chauncey Blair to q
point near the SOU Invest corner of Martin
Goodells land thence east along or near the
south line of Martin Goodell's land to the north
and south County Road running through lot
No. AZ. SILAS CROCKER.
Fl. j. MONROE.
pct, a5sh,, \ P, 1879, bS-sw
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Dyeing and Cleaning.

In connection with the Alpaca Mills dye
works we have opened a department for Clean :
ing and RenovatIng Gentlemen's Clothing. Dye
ing and Pressing Ladies' shawls. Cloaks.
Mantles. SC. Dyeing, Cleaning and COlOring
Ostrich Feathers. Our dyer, Mr. O'Dea foIm-
erly with the Staten Island Dyeing Co., is
thoroughly acquainted with this branch of busi-
ness in whose hands the work will be well cared
for.
r Orders from abroad sent by Express will
receive prompt att ;ntion.
j. TURNER & SONS,
SS9-w2. t. Kent o.
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TOB PRINTING OF. ALL KINDS
et Promptly and Neatly Executed st this ofRoa
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REMOVAL.

~ S. CURTIS new Stove and Tin Shop ha
" been removed to No. Empire Il lock
North Chestnut ST., Raveuna, o.
June "a, 1873.
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NOTICE
Pursuant to an order of Probate Court we
will pay dividend of so per cent to the credit
Ors of Thomas Nj. Jones, from and after We'd
nesday, Dec. 1uth, s79. at the office of Phelps
Phelps, Rayenna, o.
H. L. OSBORN,
M, w. PHELPS,
Dec. y. 1879. $50 Assignees,
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FOR SALE.

SECONDHAND BUGGY.IN GOOD CON-
n dition. Inquire at this Office. $50 IT,,
DOWN THEY 60. New Stoves; new pat
IL terms, cheaper than ever. Come and see.
will sell for less than cost, Solid and Rolled
Plated Gold JEWELRY, Ladies' Sets. Gents.
Chains, Masonic Emblems. Gold Pens. Rings.
&c. q :. CU KITS,
New Stove and Tin Shop. No. Empire Block.
North Chestnut St, Ravenna. D.