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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-30
GENERAL SHIELDS.

The senator From Three States.
The election of Gen. James Shields
to the United States Senate by the
Legislature of Missouri, adds another
of the very remarkable chapters in the
history of the most notable Senator in
the country. Born in Tyron, Ireland,
in 1910, he cmigrated to America in
1926 settled in Illinois in 1882 enter
tered its Legislature in 1886; became
Auditor of the State in 1889 chosen
Supreme Judge in lS43; appointed
Commissioner of the Land Office by
President Polk, in 1915; went to the
Mexican war as Brigadier General in
1915; became Governor of Oregon
Territory in 1S4S; elected to the
United States Senate by the Legisla
ture of Illinois in lS49, over Sidney
Breeze, the then Democratic Senator !;
rejected by the Senate as ineligible
because of some defect in his natural
ization reelected by the same Legis-
lature aud admitted to the Senate,
where he served six years; became a
resident of Minnesota Territory On his
retirement from the Senate; elected
one of the first United States Senators
by the Legislature of Minnesota in
1857 and served the short term of two
years; became q Brigadier General in
the Union army at the outbreak of the
rebellion and was the only officer who
defeated Stonewall jackson; retired
from military service because of dis
abling wounds; since then he has been
q resident of Missouri; has been in
such straitened circumstances as to re-
Quire him to pledge his sword, pre-
sented to him for distinguished SER
vice in the war, for necessities, and
now he has been again chosen to the
United States Senate by the Legisla-
ture of Missouri to serve the unexpir.
ed term ending the 4th of March next.
He is the only man who has represen-
ted two States in the United States
Senate since the formation of the Gov.
ernment, and he will soon enter the
Senate to represent the third State
that has chosen him as its highest leg.
| islator.
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HOW HOT TT /. IN THE Sun.

We can measure the quantity Of heat
that the sun constantly emite, because
we can measure the amount received
by our earth, which intercepts about
1900, ,OOO. .OOOth part of all the light and
heat emitted by the sun. We thus
find that in every second of time tho
sun emits as much heat as would re-
suit from the combustion of 11,6OO,-
100000 tons of coal. In passing, it
must be convenient 10 notice that each
portion of the suns surface as large 1t
the earth emits as much heat per Sec
ond as would result from the combus-
ton of 1.0OO,OOO,0OO tons of coal-a
simple and easily remembered rela-
ton. Now it 10 easily calculated from
this that if the suns whole mass con-
sisted of coal, and could burn right
out to the last, ton, maintaining till
then the present rcte of emission, tho
supply would not last more than 5000
years. As the sun has most certain.
ly been emitting light and heat for .
far longer period than this, the idea
that the solar fire is thus maintained
is, of course, altogether untenable.
There are however, many other rea-
sons for rejecting the idea that the sun
is composed of burning matter, using
the werd burning in its proper sense,
according to which q piece Of coal in
a fire is burning where . piece of red
hot iron Is not burning, though burn-
ing hot. In like manner we find our
selves compelled to reject the belief
that the sun may be . body raised at
some remote epoch to an intense heat
throughout its entire mass and gradu-
ally cooling. For we find that in the
course of few thousand of years such
a mass would cool far more than tho
sun has cooled Of he has cooled ap-
preciably at alD even within the his
toric period; and we have evidence
that he has poured his heat on tho
earth during periods compared with
which the duration of the human race
is but second amid centuries, while
the duration of historic races is utter
ly lost to comparison.-Cornhill Mag
zine. :4f e1 M
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AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL
DISCOVERY.

A short time ago, says the Leaven-
worth (Kansas) Times, discovery of
several mounds, evidently artificially
constructed, and not the handiwork OF
nature, was made at what is known as
Sheridan's Drive, on range of hills
Immediately to the west of Fort Leav-
enworth. Within these mounds were
traces of stonework as artistic and
nearly perfect as that of the present
day. Some days ago party went to
the mounds, and found a book of rec
ords, written or translated rather, up.
on pieces of bark, aud placed together
like the leaves of a book, and tied with
smaller pieces of bark. Among the
exploring party was q gentleman from
Boston, who had made the language
of Mexico study, and who, upon ex-
animation of the records found in the
mounds, found similarity between
the writings in the records and the an
cient language of Mexico during the
time of the Montezumas. The record
is history, q chronicle of events. Nc
dates are given, but from historical
analogy it is to be inferred that il
must have been about 1920, during the
reign of the Montezumas in Mexico
when the Emperors of that name had
it all their own way, in not only theil
own section of the country, but uI
this way as well. The records give
tho details of great battle, probably
on the very spot where the great me
tropolis of Kansas now stands. Ac
cording to the records, the battle rage(
for three days, and the ground wa
strewn with slain, and after the con
flict was over the victors, with tn
prisoners they had taken, reversed
their steps and went back to Mexico
where the captives were to be offered
up upon the altars as a sacrifice t
their god of war. The records wer
evidently written by the victors, an
placed by them in the mounds wher
they were found. The records consis
of ten large pieces of bark, aattene
out about ten or twelve inches in sizt
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GOLD AT 2S5.
The Slender Thread ON Which th&
Fate of the Nation Hung.

Fate of the Nation Hung.
New York Herald.
The premium on gold reached its
highest point in July, 1864, when gold
was rated one day at the stupendous
price of 2S5, making the value of the
greenback dollar only 80 cents. This
was the darkest perion of national
gloom, the tremendous crisis when cit
izens and the Government itself came
nearest despairing of the Republic. In
those dark days steam was kept up on
q Government vessel in the Washing
ton Navy Yard on which the Presi-
dent aud Cabinet would have embark
ed with the public archives had the
Rebels under Early forced their way
into the capital. Lee, sorely pressed
by Grant at Petersburg, had sent EARLY
around into Maryland. and 1t was
owing TO mere luck and accident that
Washington was not captured and the
Government put to flight. Grant had
dispatched the Sixth corps of the Ar
nv of the Potomac to Washington and
by fortunate coincidence General
Emory, with the Nineteenth corps,
which had been ordered from New
Orleans after the failure of the Red
River expedition. had just arrived at
Hampton Roads, and without debark-
ing, it was sent up the Potomac to fol-
low the Sixth. But even that timely
assistance would have proved unavail-
ing if EARLY had not quailed in the
very pinch of the crisis. On the morn
ing of the llth of July, his van was
close up to the Notifications covering
the northern approach to Washington
and in the afternoon the Confederate
infantry had come up and were array
ed in front of Fort Stevens. They
were slightly defended and Early
might easily haye made dash into
Washington and driven out the Gov
ernment if his vigor had been equal to
his opportunity. The capture OF
Washington and the fight of the Gov
ernment would have led to the imme-
diate recognition of the Confederacy
by France and England, and the war
for the Union would have been fail
ure. On so slender thread hung the
destiny of a great nation! 1t was in
that trying time that gold reached its
highest price Of 2S5, and the greenback
dollar was worth only thirty five cents
From the calm waters to which we
now find ourselves, with gold at par
it is interesting, and, even at this dis.
tance, almost exciting, to look bach
upon the dangers we have passed.
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WHAT TO EAT.

In lecture before the Working
mans Lyceum DR.. Seguin spoke as
follows of food: An ordinary meal is
generally composed of FIVE eingredients
animal or heterogeneous food, ,starchy
or sweet food, watery vegetables, bev-
erages and condiments. This food
when digested, is taken into the sys-
tenn by blood yessels. For persons,
and especially for workingmen, in this
climate, meats are the most easily di-
gested, and, at the same time, are the
most nourishing food. Tripe 10 the
easiest and pork the hardest to digest.
Among vegetables and boiled
cabbage are the extremes. Any thing
that is fried in fat is extremely indi-
gestible. Milk contains the five in
gradients referred to above, and 90 is
really call sufficient" Mothers make
great mistake in trying to induce in
fants under two years of age to eat
starchy food, for there is no alkaline
fluid in the stomach of an infant by
which the starch can be changed to
sugar. and so infused into the system.
1t has been estimated that q man
working in the open air daily needs
15 ounces of meat, Is of bread, 81 of
butter or fat, and 81 of water. 1 agree
with many eminent chemists who
have proved that alcoholic drinks arc
an aid to the system in retarding the
waste of tissues. So, too, for the same
reason, l regard tea and coffee as
nourisbing. An excess of starchy
food is to be carefully avoided. Men
who handle lead ought to abstain from
alcohol, fer If too much is taken, the
kidneys, which throw off the poison
of the lead, are likely to become di-
seased.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-30

Heiress to a Valuable Estate il
| About forty years ago a man named
John g. Clark, poor farmer in Indi
ana, whose circumstances became
worse each year, picked up his traps
and abandoned his family, consisting
of a wife and two little girls, an6
striking towards the Wabash river
hired himself out "a fiatboatman an6
shipped for New Orleans. From New
Orleans he drifted to Texas, and thai
was the last ever heard of him by hii
family until they heard of his death
which occurred about fifteen years ago
His wife was then dead and both hit
children had married, one remaining
in Indiana, where she. now lives, the
other removing to Kentucky and To-
eating in Hardin county, about three
miles below Stephensburg.
When Clark died he owned an estate
in land and money valued at some
thing near $3,OOO,OOO, in Wharton and
Richmond counties, which. in the alb
sence of any known heirs, escheated 10
the State. AS Clark had never COM
municated with any of his family, and
they were ignorant Of his whereabouts
except through emigrants, who had
often seen him in Texas, they were
never appraised ofthe fact that during
the long years of his absence in Texas
he hadrprospered in way and had
amassed such fortune. When it be-
came noised abroad in Texas that the
man Clark had died, leaving an estate
of such magnitude, and no heirs to
claim it, bogus heirs at once began to
spring up, and numerous suits were
entered to recover from the State, all
of W which were unsuccessful.
1t was only few days since that
one Of the rightful heirs, Mrs. Marinda
Buckles, wife of Asa Buckles, Esq,
who was daughter of Clark and came
to Hardin county after her marriage
some thirty years ago, received by
reading an account of the suits to re-
cover the money, the first intelligence
that she had ever received of her faith.
er's death and the fortune awaiting
her claims. She put herself at once in
communication with her sister in In
diana, and confided her plans to law.
yers, who will at once set about prov.
ing Mrs. Buckles and her sister as the
lawful heirs of John G. Clark, the
Texas millionaire. The estate is intact
none of the claimants thus far having
been able to prove their title to it, and
Mrs. Buckles and her sister, who can
set up rightful claim, will come in
for a good round Sl,5OO,00O each.
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MEMS NAMES.

The study of mems names 10 as cur
ious as it is interesting. Arbitrary Al
they seem to-day, they all had theil
source evidently in some fitting fact
Many English surnames express the
county, estate, or residence of theil
original bearers, as, Burgoyne, from
Burgundy; Cornell or CORVALLIS
from Cornwall; Fleming, from Elan.
ders; Gaskin. and Gascoyne, from
Gascony; Hanway, from Hainault
Polack, from Poland !; Welsh, Walsh.
and Wallace, from Wales; Coombs,
Compton, Clayton, Sutton, Preston.
Washington, from towns in the Coun-
ty of Sussex, England, Camden, the
antiquary, says every village in Nor
mandy has surnamed some English
family. Dale, Forest, Hill, Wood,
and the like, are derived from the
character or situation of those who
first bore the names. The prefex atte
or at, softened to or an, has helped
to form q number of names. Thus, if
a man lived on a moor he would call
himself Afternoon or Atmoor; if near
a gate, Attegate or Agate. John Atte
the Oaks was in due time shortened
into John Noaks; Peter at the Seven
Oaks into Peter Snooks. By field, by
ford, Underhill and Underwood in
dicted residence originally. In old
English applegarth meant orchard ;
whence Applegate and Appleton !;
chase, forest olive, cliff; clough, q
ravine cobb, harbor; whence these
names. The root of the ubiquitous
Smith is the Anglo-Saxon smitan, to
smite. 1t was applied primarily to
blacksmiths, wheelwrights, carpenters,
masons, and smiters, or to strikers in
general. Baker, Taylor, Coleman,
(coalman,) Draper, Cowper, (cooper,)
Cutler, Miller, and the rest plainly do
note occupations. Latimer is from
latiner, q writer of Latin. Lorimer is
a maker of spurs and bridle- bits Ark
wright, maker of chest; Lander,
contracted from lauandies, washer.
woman; .Banister, the keeper of q
bath Kidder, huckster; Wait, a
minstrel; Croker, q potter. Such
names as Baxter and Bagster are the
feminine of baker, Webster of web
Der or weaver, which shows that these
trades were first followed by women,
and that when men began to take
them up they for some time kept the
feminine names-Steward, Stewart,
Abbot, Knight, Lord, Bishop, Prier,
Chamberlain, Falconer, Leggett Qe7
gate), either signified what the per-
sons SO styled were, or they were Civ
en- them in jest or derision, like the
names King, Prince, and Pope. The
termination aoard indicates keeper
as Durward, doorkeeper; Hayward
keeper of the town cattle; Woodward
forest keeper.. Read, Reed or Reid is
an old form of spelling red, and were
bestowed, as, White, Brown, and
Black were to denote the color worn
or the complexion had. Hogarth, from
the Dutch, means generous, highna-
tured; Rush subtle; Bovine, ready !;
Bonner, kind, gracious; Eldrige, wild,
CHASTITY. Many Welsh names, natur-
allied in English, are from personal
traits, as More, great; Duff, black !;
Vaughn, little; Lane, slender; Mole,
bald: Cough, red. Surnames, now
apparently meaningless, had meaning
in old English and provincial dialects.
Brock, for instance, signifies badgerr
Talbot, mastiff; Todd, fox; Culver,
pigeon; Henshaw, young heron /;
Coke, cook.-N. Y. Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-30

A MANUFACToRY of paper bricks has
been opened in Wisconsin. The bricks
are said to be exceedingly durable and
moisture proof. They are also larger
than the clay article. Paper is now
used for making barrels. Straw pulp
is run into a mould made into the
shape Of half barrel, cut vertically.
The ends are of paper, protected by
wood. The barrels are lighter and
two-thlrds cheaper than those of wood,
and -four will not sift out of them
while in transit. The stave are three.
eights of an inch thick.
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to reuder Satisfaction
in the different
varieties.
Among the diseases treated have
been many miraculous cures of the
two true species of Cancer-the Hard
and the soft (; or the Scirrus Or Chron.
ic Cancer, characterized by predom-
nance of fibrous tissue, and but few
Cancer cells; the Medullary, Brain, or
Acute Soft Cancer, characterized by
an excess of Cancerous cells.
Also, the different varieties OF
GRAVEL, and disease of the Kidneys
and Urinary Organs. TumOrs, Rheu-
Observation-Disclosures and Chronic
Fistula in Ano, Prolapsus of the
Phincture. AMI and Rectum. Piles,
Tape Worms, Seat or Pin Worms, In
testinal Worms, Hip Disease, Goiter,
Enlarged Glands, ScrOfula, and all
Impurities Of the Blood.
CATARRH-that most insidiOns OF
all diseases, which is destroying its
tens of thousands annually-Invaria-
bly, cured. Also, SCALD HEAD, and
the different diseases of the Skin.
ALSO, THE VARIOUS DISEASES OF FE-
MALES,
Arising from Uterine Derangements,
Enlargement, Inflammation, Ulcera-
tion, TumOr, Poiypus, and all their
sympathetic accompaniments, on the
latest scientific principles, without the
use of the knife or caustics, but by
constitutional treatment and local abb
sorbents, which we believe to be the
true method of cure, If timely and
properly applied.
CALCUoUs CONCEPTIONS OF THE KID
NEYs AND BLADDER.
We have in our possession several
varieties of Gravel from different in
dividu.ls in this locality, which we
have removed through the natural
urinary passage.
The Doctor is a graduate in the Eye
and Ear Infirmary of New York City,
and has had a large and successful
practice in that department.. He alb
serbs the diferant varieties of Cata-
ract while they remain soft, and re-
moves films and specks from the eye
without the use of the knife.
The Doctor is graduate of several
of the leading schools of his profess
sion, the Diplomas of which are hang
ing up in his Office for everybody to
read and investigate.
The Doctor can be consulted at his
Office, No. 1l96, Euclid Avenue, Cup
stairs,) Cleveland, o.
REsIDENCE-7O3 Wilson Avenue.
OFFICE HOURS-From 10 A. NJ.
to II M and from to 8 p. M.
The Doctor will leave his Cleveland
Office for Ravenna, at 1.45 p. NJ. every
Saturday, returning to Cleveland at
10 A. NJ. the following Monday,
JOHN GOUCHER, NJ. ID.
~Patients will be visited at their
homes, when desired.
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THERE is remarkable Jewish Syn
agogue in the ancient City of Prague
with walls so thick with dirt as to he
absolutely black. A local tradition
says that somewhere on its walls the
name Jehovah ie inscribed and it is be-
lleved that if the walls are cleaned the
name will be ef1aced.
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COvINGTON, INDIANA, Jan. 15.-On
Tuesday night last, Leonidas Grover,
who resides in the vicinity of New
town, Fountain county. met his death
in way that is without parallel in
this or any other country. Mr.. Gro
yer was widower, living on his farm
with a married daughter and her hus-
band. On the evening referred to,
the married couple had been absent
on a visit to some neighbors, and up
on returning at late hour, entered
the house, finding everything, to all
appearances, in usual order, and sup
posing that Mr.. Grover had already
retired, went to bed themselves. Next
morning the daughter arose, and hav-
ing prepared breakfast, went to the
adjoining room to call her father, and
was Mortified to find him lying upon
his shattered bed, mutilated corpse.
Her screams brought the husband
quickly to the bedroom, and an in-
spection disclosed a ragged opening
III IuC lOOi, oAk CCtAJ ONCA tnO OACoot "a
the unfortunate man, which was torn
through as if by cannon 81 shot.and ex-
tending downward through the bed
ding floor; other holes show ed the di-
rection taken by the deadly missile.
Subsequent search revealed the fact
that the awful calamity was caused by
the fall of a met6Oric stone and th0
stone itself, pyramida. in shape and
weighing twenty pounds and few
ounces, avoirdupois, and stained with
blood, was unearthed from a depth Of
nearly five feet, thus showing the
fearful impetus with which it struck
the dwelling. The position of tho
corpse, with other surroundings when
found, showed that victim was asleep
when stricken, and that death, to him
was painless.-Indianapolis Journal.
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and bound together by throngs of bark
cut into long strips and pressed. They
have been sent to Boston, and are to
be placed in the State Historical Muse
um there.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-30

A MAN in Illinois has found a way
to make good lumber Out of compress
ed straw.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-30

The annual value of silk ribbons ex-
ported by Switzerland to the United
States has fallen in the last five years
from over 100000 to sl.0OO.OOO.
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I. Ii. s. NJ. W. PHELPS,
Attorneys andCounsellors at Law, ,Ravenna
Ohio Office over First Rational Bank. 3SS
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THERE are healthy. grown-up men
SO anxious to appear in print that they
will sign patent medicine certificate
swearing they have had worms baffled
by vermituge, or anything e!se.-New
Orleans Picayune.
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E. w. MAXSON,

superior facilities for making collections In
ali parts of the United States Onice over
First National Bank, Garrettsville, Ohio.
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TlR EE MILLION DOLLARS.
Luck of a Kentucky Lady-She Sud.
denly Discovers that She Is the
Heiress to a Valuable Estate in
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COAL! COAL!

NRDERS EOR COAL LEFT AT MY RES
I IDENCE ON Day street will receive prompt
ttention. s. b. STURDEVANT.-
Oct "a, 1878.
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Business Cards.
P. B. CONANT

A TTOSNEY AT LAW Ravenna, Ohio
IA Office in Phenix Block, over Richardson
Hardware store. S.s2-
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G.. II. GRIFFIN,

DENTIST. Office over First National Bank
ID Office hours from q. m to p m.
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To The Afflicted.
DR.. JOHN GoUcHER

Having had avery large and success
full practice in Chronic Diseases
for forty years, both Private
and Hospital, is prepared
to render satisfaction
in the different
varieties.
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/. T. SIDDALL,
Attorney ut Law. ONCE IN Phenix BLOCK
Raveuna, Ohio 4s9