The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-11-13
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
SAMUEL d. HARRIS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
THURSDAY. NOV. IS. 1879,
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The Ohio River has never been SO
low before in the memory of the old
eat inhabitant. ri -ir'
An attempt was made by incendia.
ries early Sunday morning to burn the
business portion Of Delaware, Ohio.
SrARvE the laboring people in Eu.
rope to make good times in the United
States, is John Sherman's American
policy on the European plan.
PHILADELPHIA with q population
100000 less than New York register
ed $4,000 more voters. And still the
Radical howlers continue to shriek
for "hopest elections!"
NOBODY wants gold for business.
The bankers and money monopolists
only want to know where it is and to
be able to control it. Verify resump-
ton is Q humbug. Iaa
AfIRE at McKeesport, Penna., Sat-
urday morning, destroyed the Wash.
ington House, large grist mill, and
several other buildings, involving q
loss of $4,000. a7.
On Thursday morning man named
Hiram Henry, while working on F.
Schumacher's elevator, at Akron, fell
distance Of thirty feet, but miraculous
ly escaped without serious injury.
The First National bank OF Chicago
reports capital stock paid in, 81 ,OO0,-
600; surplus and undivided profits,
$S34, ,2l7.4S. How Is this, and who
wouldn't like to be national banker 2
A YOUNG man named Ross E. Pow
ers, walked from the Cleveland Via
duct while the draw was open into
the river beneath, falling distance Of
about seventy-dve feet, and was
drowned.
A large part of the business portion
of Napoleon, Henry county, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday.
The loss is estimated at 100000. 1t
is supposed to be the work OF incen.
diaries.
VASpKRBILT of New York, and
Nsckey Of Nevada, have each S5.000,.
600 in United States bonds upon which
they pay not one cent OF tax, and upon
which each of them draws $50, 900 in
terest every three months. t.... ....
WHEN General Grant declares that
he has nothing Of any importance to
communicate TO the Army Of the
Tennessee, or to anybody else," peo-
pie generally will feel disposed TO
give him credit for truthfulness. i,
This years cotton crop is estimated
at 5,000,O0 bales, and more than half
of It was produced by white labor.
Texas furnishes 1,0O0.O0O bales. The
largest product In the State in auy
year before the war was 100000 bales.
Two men have been victimizing the
farmers of Richlsnd county by asking
to put q hay fork In their barn for ex-
hibition, and then ask the farmer for
his address and hand him q piece Of
paper for his signature, which turns
QUITO be Q promissory note.-[ Akron
Tribune.
On Friday last Governor Bishop
pardoned Matthew Powers who was
convicted at the September term 1878
of the Court of Common Pleas Of this
county of manslaughter for killing NJ.
II. Ladu at Mantua Station and sen.
fenced to three years imprisonment in
the penitentiary. ..ri.;s-t
PosrMAsTEK-GENERAL KEY has de-
cided that letter with only New
York City, Philadelphia or Chicago
on IL, without the States name, must
60 to the Dead Letter Office. Next he
will pass law declaring if you write
aietter to John Smith and address it
I. Smith you must petition Congress
to pass special law for its delivery.
TEE Republicans would reduce all
the States of the Union to the condi-
tion the Southern States were reduc.
ed under Grant, and rule them by the
power OF the bsyonet. That is the Re-
publican idea of republican govern
ment. That is what they mean by the
shout of "this is Nation" with q big
N.
Mrs.. MARGARET EATON, widow of
General John II. Eaton, Secretary Of
War under President Jackson, died in
Washington, Saturday last. She was
81 years of age, and had been in feeble
health for several months past, and her
death was not unexpected. Mrs. Ea-
ton had been married three times, and
In the course of her life occupied q
very conspicuousshare of attention in
fashionable and political circles
The Democracy believe that the
Union was created by the States for
the benefit of the States, while the Re.
publicans claim that the States were
created by and derive all their powers
from the Federal Government. Now,
in the light of history, which is the
true position? If the Nation created
the States and clothed them with their
powers what was the sense of Teserv-
sng to the States and the people the
powers not delegated (by whom p to
the United States by the Constitution :