The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-27
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
- AAUEL D. HARRIS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
THURSDAY. FEB. 27. 1879.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee meets in Columbus to-day.

The Republican State Central Com
mittee meets in Columbus to-day.
CoNGREss has passed law per.
mitting women to practice before the
Supreme Court. ss'-
IT is considered doubtful whether
Governor Hampton will ever be able
to take his seat in the U. s. Senate.
IT is reported that Jay Gould made
100000 by recent advance in
Union Pacific Stock, having bought al
30 cents and sold tor 20.
REPORT says that that Tilden has re.
plenished his bar1s of money by the
amount of million dollars out of the
New York elevated railway.
THE last of the Fenian prisoners,
held by Great Britain, has been releas-
ed. His name is Edward O'Kelley,
and to America is bound. ...
BY the explosion of a small engine,
At Stockton, CAL, Sunday, sixteen per-
sons were killed and twenty-six
wounded, three or four of whom are
not likely to recover.
The State debt of Ohio, November
Is, 1878, amounted to S6,476, ,SO5.3O of
this amount S4,O72, 2,6403O falls due
June Both, 1881, with six per cent.
interest.
The plague has broken out in Brazil
and Province nearly as large as Ohio
has been abandoned by the inhabitants,
although it contained population of
about 100000. 100000 have died.
The bill to restrict Chinese emmi-
grafton, as amended by the Senate,
passed the House on the 22d inst.
without division, and now only
awaits the signature of Hayes to be-
come law. ,..ff..
"A LETTER from the Russian Milli-
tary Surgeon in attendance on Shere
Ali says that the Ameer's life is des-
paired Of, gangrene having attacked
his whole left side. 1t is, therefore,
considered probable that he is already
dead. -....5f
SHERMAN tells Congress he will be
short S27, 10000 this year and wants
that branch to devise some means of
making up the deficiency without i'm
posing any burdens upon the boarded,
privileged capital of the country.
JAMES McaENRY has given notice
that he will call meeting early in
March to separate the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad completely
from connection with the Erie, and
consequently to oppose the amalga-
nation project.
ON Saturday morning last the boil
or at. the Applegate coal bank near
Hubbard, Trumbull county. exploded,
killing John Beatty, the engineer, and
probably fatally wounding Daniel
Ferry, q boiler repairer. The boiler
house was demolished, and pieces of
the boiler thirty feet long were blown
three hundred feet.
IT is claimed that the net profits to
the Government from the issuing of
fractional currency amount to over
twelve millions of dollars. That isn't
50 very bad, but then all the Radical
leaders are mad because the privilege
of issuing that currency was not con-
ferred on the money lords so that they
might pocket the amount.
ACoUNTERFEIrfi five-dollar gold piece
is in circulation. 1t is gold on the out
side, is full weight and rings well. 1t
is little defective in the milling, and
the s. initial for San Francisco Mint,
is imperfect, yet the limitation is
good, and only an expert is able to de-
tect the counterfeit from the genuine.