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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-10-02

and make a solid North. They en-
neavor to infiame the Northern men
for the same selfish purpose. There
is nothing more unpatriotic. The
man who breaches the doctrine Of
making one section alien to another,
whether he live East or West, North
or South, is an enemy to his country
an d to mankind.
One word more. We have a grand
contest in Ohio this year, which will
leave its mark on the century. One
question is. will money gain Repub-
lican triumph this Fall. Will they
carry this State this Fall and thereby,
perhaps, establish themselves for all
time? Are You prepared to support
the Government of our forefathers
and defend your liberties? Will you
bring about a reform? If so, you will
work for the Democratic ticket from
this until after election.
No party can be trusted too long in
power. There must be a change from
time to time. i'll had time would
tell you of Republican Credit Mobitier
subsidies and other jobs, and you
would agree with me that q change is
necessary. Look also at the fact that
since the Democrats have obtained
possession of the House of Represent
atives they have made an aggregate
saving of $8O,OOO,OOO.
Let them turn out the Ring that has
run the Government so long and we
will have reform. 1 don't mean such
reform as the CIVIL Service Reform
which Secretaries Sherman andSchurz
are breaking every day and talking
about and under which they tax the
poor clerks at Washington. The DEM
ocratlc party is the apostle of true re-
form, and if they succeed, there will
be such shaking of dry bones as will
stir the duet of seventeen years. (Tre-
mendous applause.)
thank you. gentlemen, for the at
attention you have given me.
The meeting was a genuine ovation
and one that has been unequaled here
for many years.
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Radical Love fer Unien soldiers.
The Washington special of the 18th
to the Enquirer furnishes the follow
ing specimen of the love the Repub-
licans show to Union soldiers:
Miss Ringold, an aunt of the Con-
federate guerrilla Mosby, is q clerk in
the Appointment Bureau of the Treas
ury Department. Her duty is to pass
upon the merits of the claimants for
office, and loyalty to the Union is not
preQuisite in making recommenda-
tions to the Secretary. Miss Plum
mer, of Maine, is messenger in the
Treasury Department. She was for
merly an efficient clerk, drawing q
salary of S75 per month, but was re-
duced to messengers position, at
salary of $55. She served through the
war a.. q volunteer, nurse. TO the
clerkship which che was forced to va
cate Miss OLaughlin was appointed.
The latter lady is q relative of tbsslate
Mrs. Surratt, and was an inmate of her
house when President Lincoln was
assassinated. MISS Allst0n, of North
Carolina, who claims to have been one
of loyal family in North Carolina
during the war, has been removed to
make place for Miss McCauley, of
Georgia, the male members Of whose
family served in the ConfederateaFmy.
Complaint has been made that even the
loyal Secretary of the Navy has ap-
pointed as Inspector of Clothing at the
Pensacola Fla.) Navy-yard,s ono Geo.
81. Beers, who was . Captain in the
United States Navy when the war
broke out, and who deserted his post
to enter the Confederate service.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-10-02
THE UNION.

The following tribute to our glOri.
Gus Union Is the conclusion of the elo-
qnent and mastery speech of General
Durbin Ward, delivered at Dayton,
Ohio, recently:
let no one say this advocacy Of the
perpetuity of the States is dlsloyal to
the Union. The Unionl Palsied be
the tongue that utters reproach upon
thy fair name, and withered be the
arm that strikes blow; at thy sacred
form! In the history of this world,
in the holy chronicles of liberty, in
common affections of mankind, no DO
litical institution is more revered than
the American Union. Achieved by
the prowess of our ancestors who
sprang from the noblest races of Eu-
rope, dedicated by the sacrificial blood
of heroes. cemented by. the consent of
the constituent States,protected by the
valor and loyalty of its people against
enemies from without and within.
guaranteeing. to States aud to people
justice, domestic tranquility, common
defense, general welfare and the bless
ings of liberty, sanctified by itss high
priests on the battle field, in the legis-
lative hall, in the executive chair, in the
diplomacy Of Nations, it is the conse-
Grated temple of our grandeur as q
Nation and our liberties as people.
Its citizens tread the soil of every Ma
tion, conscious sovereign, and it's
flag is welcomed in every cline. At
home and abroad, on land and sea, tho
Great Republic is the theme of praise
on every tongue, and her majestic
power the shield of her humblest son.
Her history, her freedom, her great
people, her Intellectual and moral cul-
ture, her vast industrial resources, her
wide territory, her unfaltering faith in
her future, make her the peer of any
Nation IN the worlds history. Men
of America, worship this mighty tenn
pie ofliberty! Lay your. offerings on
its shrine of peace and freedom; walk
securely in its lofty aisles, watch and
strengthen the foundations of the edi-
flee, guard its portals against every
foe !; let no impurity defile it's holy re-
cesses, and swear by the memory of
the fathers to perish, if need be, for its
protection! And the prayer Of him
who speaks is, that this divine altar of
the patriot msy be eternal as the earth;
and that If these stately columns and
the grand superstructure above them
must fall, before his eyes are closed
forever, let him who bled for their
preservation die in their defense as
they fall. and be buried under their
crumbling ruins. ..ss....
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e. W.. MAXSON,

%.ruev and Counselor st Law possesses
superior facilities for making collections In
aIi parts OF the United States. Once over
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p. B. CONANT.
a TTOSNEY AT LAW Ravenna, Ohio
IN ONice in Phenix Block, over Rich ardson'
6ar,tvnrc store S,s9-
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Rates of Advertising


FRANCIS L. CLARK,
M~onanlcal and Architectural DrauEhts-
man. Patent Once Drawing . Specially
No. - fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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CoAIl.

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"I study two pleas" remarked the
Judge when the casa was left to, hiA
decision. sztf .nosss
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
Tropical Broiling.

remember seeing fantastic limning
by Gustave Dore, representing tophet.
The fire burst forth from the mouths
of huge caverns, and everything had a
molten and red-hot appearance. India
at present is very much in this condi-
tion. The hot winds blow uninterrupt-
edly from four to eight hours daily, as
from fiery furnace. The fiercely
blazing sun scorohes and burns every
thing in the most uncompromising man.
ner. The earth has an oveny appear
ance, and is cracked open in large fis-
sures with the intense heat, and scorches
the feet even through thick-soled boots.
The miserable trees look unhappy and
hang their poor wilted leaflets. There
is not a spear of grass visible. Folks
outdoors drag their weary lengths along
as though each were carrying a ball
and chain. They seem to have no am
bition on earth but to drop down and
die quietly in some shady nook. The
roads are some inches deep in dust, and
the air is filed with it, so that breath
ing is difficult and painful. There are
no vegetables nor any fruits. Wells
and tanks and cisterns are low, and the
water muddy and unhealthy. Indoors
the furniture burns the body through
the clothing. The sun glares into every
crack and crevice so persIstently that
blinds and shades and thick curtains
can hardly darken a room sufficiently.
Every outside door is closed tightly,
from early morning until after sun
down, to keep out the heat. The air
becomes stagnant and suffocating. A
little relief is obtainable from the pun
kah, large fan suspended from the
ceiling and worked by servant from
the outside. The punkah swings day
and night. The man whose business it
is to keep it swinging sometimes falls
asleep, and then the airsseems to press
upon one at the rate of 1000 pounds to
the square inch. Breathing is next to
impossible.
At night there is still less comfort to
be had. The bed is hotter than the
body. We sprinkle the bed first and
then jump in, but it is dry and hot
again in almost no time. We sprinkle
the floor and furniture and do every
thing imaginable to cool the sleeping
room, but all uselessly. 1t is like try
ing to sleep in a well-heated oven. AL
though we may long to renounce the
flesh and sit in our bones, still we know
that both flesh and clothes are absolute
ly necessary to protect the body from
the hot air. How superlatively happy
must those be who live in a cold eli
mattel What would not give for a
breath of cool air from the Adirondacks,
or for plunge into the surf at New
port, or for walk on the strand, or
even for a distant glimpse of the seaP-
Letter from MiSsioHGry'S 10ife in Nes0
York Observer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
A Horses Singular Actions.

Yesterday morning a most singular
coincidence occurred in connection with
the death of Mrs. D. j. Hodge. At
about the same hour that she was pass
ing away the horse which had been re-
sponsible for her accident, and which
was stabbed nearly a mile away from
the house, began acting in the most
unaccountable manner, and one alto
gether foreign to his previous conduct.
The animal seemed in great agony, and
finally broke out of the stable and into
the yard, where he rolled about on the
ground apparently in intense pain. At
the exact time of her dissolution, as
near as can be learned, the spell seemed
TO pass away, and the horse recovered
and returned to the stable.
Strange as it may seem incidents OF
this kind are by no means rare. A gen.
tleman in this city relates that six years
ago he purchased canary which
proved to be an unusually fine singer.
Three years ago he lost his little
daughter, and suddenly the bird ceased
TO sing. 1t remained silent until the
birth of two other children, twins, when
it again sang beautifully. Recently
both these children died, and upon the
first death occurring the songsteI
ceased to make music and has moi
uttered note since. Cleveland Voice.
Sept. IN.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
A Oalamitous Fire at Boston.

| Boston, Sept. 1S.
The occupants of the tenement 12s
| Gold street, burned last night, were
On the first floor, an aged couple whom
no one in the vicinity seems to have
known, and one Gillespie and wife; on
the second floor q German family con.
sisting of father, mother and three chill
dren, named Pfeiffer; on the third floor,
Ferdinand Merath, wife and two chill
dren, and George Holdreid, wife and
two children, making fifteen per-
sons asleep in the house when
the incendiary kindled the fire.
When the fire was discovered by a po-
liceman at 11:45, the flames were break
ing out the front door, having burned
through the stairs, making them inn
passable. The smoke was rolling up
the narrow stair-cases and awakened
the inmates. Before the fremen could
arrive with their ladders they had either
leaped from the windows, gone to the
roof in hope of safety, or dropped and
suffOcated in the halls.
The list of dead comprises five, which
number may be increased to seven or
eight. The old couple on the first floor
made their escape, and have not been
heard of during the night. The Giles
pie family escaped with the exception
OF the wife and mother. The latter,
fifty years old, might have escaped by
walking only about six feet, but she
became bewildered and swooned in her
room. She was found by the fremen
in an apparently dying condi-
ton and was taken to the sta
ton with the other victims of the
fire. Her injuries are terrible burns,
both external and internal. Rose Pfeif-
fer, aged twenty-three was found in
the hall on the second floor. Mrs.
Pfeiffer and two children jumped from
the window and were but slightly hurt
but Pfeiffer's father was lost McCrath,
on the third floor, lifted his son Charles,
aged fourteen, out of the window, and
allowed him to drop to the ground, a
distance of forty feet, and then in
structed his wife and daughter Rosie
to jump from the window, which
they did, and last of all, ne himself
jumped to the ground, and in falling
met instant death. Mrs. McCrath is at
the hospital, with fractures of both
legs and one arm, and her face bruised
beyond all recognition. Her daughter
Rosie sustained no serious injury, but
Charles is badly hurt. Holdreid took
his wife to the roof, then went down
stairs, where he was caught by flames
and burned, probably fatally. Mrs.
Holdreid's body, charred beyond recog-
milton, was found on the roof Charles
HOldreid's son is at the hospital inter-
nally injured from jumping to the
ground, and with an arm broken. An
other body was found early this morn
ing at the scene of the Gold street hor-
ror-that of Rose Mayroth, aged six
teen years, found in one of the upper
rooms. She died from suffocation. 1t
is reported that three other bodies have
since been found, making nine persons
known to have been killed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
Essay on Woman.

The following is from the Eureka
(Nev.) Sentinel:
After man came woman.
And she has been after him ever
since.
She is person of free extraction,
being made of mans rib.
don't know why Adam wanted to
fool away his ribs in that way, but l
suppose he was not accountable for all
he did.
1t costs more to keep a woman than
three dogs and big shotgun.
But she pays you back with interest
by giving you houseful of children
to keep you awake all night and smear
molasses candy over your Sunday coat.
Besides wife is very convenient
article to have around the house.
She is handy to swear at whenever
you cut yourself with razor, and don't
feel like blaming yourself.
Woman is the superior being in
Massachusetts.
There are about $4,000 more of her
sex than males in that State.
This accounts for the terrified, hunt
ed-down expression of the single man
who has emigrated from the East.
Woman is not created perfect.
She has her faults such as false
hair, false complexion, and so on.
But she is a great deal better than
her neighbor, and she knows it.
Eve was a woman.
She must have been a model wife,
too, for it costs Adam nothing to keep
her in clothes.
Still, / don't think she was happy.
She couldn't 60 to sewing circles and
air her information about everybody
she knew, nor excite the envy of other
ladies by wearing her new winter bon
net to church.
Neither could she hang over the back
fence and talk with her near neighbor.
All these blessed privileges were de-
MED her.
Poor Evel she's dead.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
YELLOW FEVER ITEMS,

Twenty-three new cases and nine deaths
were reported at Memphis on the 10th.
All points, except Vicksburg, had raised
the quarantine against New Orleans IN the
10th.
The Memphis Relief Committee received
the following telegram from George w. Nc
Crary, Secretary of War, on the 17tll: at has
been decided by the President ard Cabinet,
after full consideration, that since the recent
action OF Congress relief for the people in the
yellow fever camps must come either from the
National Board OF Health or the State author
titles, Congress having passed a law on the
subject. Federal action must be guided there
| by."
There were ten deaths and nine new cases
at Memphis on the 18th.
Three new cases of fever we're reported at
Concordia, Miss, on the 18th.
Vicksburg removed the quarantine against
New Orleans on the 18th.
Six deaths and ten new cases were reported
At Memphis on the 18th.
There were eleven deaths and eleven new
cases at Memphis on the 10th.
The Memphis Relief Committee, on the 10th,
appealed to the Government TO issue 100, 200
rations to the people in camps near that city.
| AhS AtbOlhc0 -NCilcIdl hldJeu LudL unuer MS
late opinion the Secretary OF War had no
authority to furnish supplies, and referred the
matter to the National Board of Health That
body held that the act of Congress Great.
ing the Board did not give It author.
ity to disburse funds except to pre-.
vent the spread of yellow fever from State
to State. 1t was suggested that a failure tc
relieve those in camps, and the inability OF
Memphis authorities to furnish them aid
might resultin their disbanding and spreading
the disease to adjoining States. The Board
officials then agreed that II the persons in the
city were isolated in camps they would sup
ply rations and tents for reasonable period
Only one death from the yellow fever wal
reported at Memphis on the 2lst. There wer,
eight new cases.
Up to aud including the Goth, 346 deaths anG
1915 cases had been reported at Memphis
since the commencement of the fever thi.
year.
Five deaths aAd sixteen new cases at Mem
phis on the 22d.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
The Most Wretchsd of Men.

In his disposition the present Sultan
is naturally the most amiable of men,
and he has given fewer of his wives the
sack than possibly any predecessor that
was allowed to live long enough to be-
come acquainted. He is fond of the
pleasures of the table; in fact, heredi-
tarily addicted to good eating, and can
stand as much rest as any Padisha that
Turkey has had. AS Constanti-
nople correspondent writes to the
Cologne Gazette, she is one of the
best and noblest sovereigns who have
ever sat upon Turkish throne" In
quieter times he would have become
the idol of his people, but he has proved
incapable of dealing with the difficult
ties of his situation. So beset and har-
rassed is he by the late attentions of
foreign powers, so constant in his fear
of conspiracies and instructions and of
involuntary suicide with the scissors,
that his brain has given way, and he
lives in maniacal fear of assassina-
tion.n
He never sleeps for two nights in
succession in the same bed; all his food
and drink has to be tasted in his pres
ence before he will touch it; he thinks
his ministers and all others attached to
his person are conspiring against him,
and instead of being a jolly and happy
mortal, he is the most wretched of men
in the midst of his miserable splendor.
The only persons in whom he seems to
repose the slightest confidence are a
few officers of the household, and they
enjoy more power than the ministry
itself. The correspondent quoted de,
scribes how " only the other day con,
tractor who applied for a concession
which the Grand Vizier and his minis
ters rightly refused to grant, as be
ing incompatible with the interests OF
the country, obtained it from the Sultar
by the simple process of making pres
ent of f45,000 10 the chief eunuch.' >
NJ Y, Sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

Frank Moffet was shot and killed by George
Greenwood at Hannibal, NO., on the night of
the l4th. Both were intoxicated.
Charles Glass was hanged at Cairo, on the
10th, for the murder OF Carter Newman on
the 23d Of last March.
fire at Hastings, Neb, on the 10th, de-
stroyed an entire block and half Of another in
cluding two hotels, bank, a newspaper Of
tiee and an elevator. The loss is estimated at
100000; partially insured.
The Deaf and Dumb Institute at Delevan,
Wis, was destroyed by fire on the 10th. All
the pupils escaped with their baggage. The
building was valued at 100000, and was not
insured. I.
DIR. sturman, an old citizen of Charlton
County, Mo-, was assassinated on the night OF
the 18th. He was a very desperate and quar-
relsome man, and universally feared by his
neighbors.
passenger train was wrecked eleven miles
from Chicago, on the night OF the 18th,
while under ordinary speed, by tie which
some malicious person had bound across the
track. A. N. Pease, the fireman, was instant
ly killed, James Mcmillan, the engineer, aud
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
FOREIGN INTkLLIGENCE.


The Chairman of the Congress of Trades
Unions, in session at London on the 10th,
stated, as proof OF the depression of trade
in England, that four of the principal Unions
spent e26O,OO In relieving members during
the past year.
A correspondent at London says there is no
prospect OF the BtMetallic Congress which
America proposed should he held in London,
and to which the British Government provis.
ionally assented, meeting this year. The
American agents have failed SO far to obtain
the assent of some Of the leading nations.
A Cape Town dispatch states that Cetewayo
was captured on the 2Sth Of August.
A considerable portion OF the Irish harvest
is irreparably lost. Potatoes have been par,
TALLY blighted, and on many farms the whole
crop is gone.
The reported capture of CeteWayo has been
eonnrmed. When captured he was utterly
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
WARRINGTON.

board Of officers has been convened by
the Secretary of War to meet in Detroit and
inquire whether, for railroad purposes, the
Detroit river can be advantageously bridged
or tunneled at or near the city.
From 1873 TO 1879, inclusive, the United
States mints coined 37664i,3 $40 pieces Of
money, aggregating in value S419,07l 1913.
Secretary McCrary received telegram from
Governor Wallace, OF New Mexico, on the 18th,
stating that Indians were committing atroci-
ties I'm Grant County, that Territory, and ask
ing Federal authority to put three or four
companies of volunteers in the field. The
Secretary replied that he was without infor-
nation as TO the nature OF the outbreak or
number of hostilcs, but that ne had taken
steps to have the necessary force of regular
military concentrated at once, and In the alb
scnce of legal authority he declined giving or
ders TO raise volunteers.
On the 10Th it was stated that on account
of the large accumulation OF gold coin in the
Treasury arrangements were being made
whereby gold and silver coin might be ex-
changed for United States notes at the sew
eral sub-Treasuries. Since that announce
ment it has been discovered that the existing
law prohibits the exchange OF coin for legal
tender notes at any sub-Treasury other than
at New York. The order has therefore been
prepared so as to conform to the provisions
contained in the Resumption act.
The Ordnance Department, on the 10Th, tel
egraphed the commandant Of the arsenal at
Fort Union, New Mexico, TO issue arms and
ammunition to Governor Wallace, not to ex-
ceed 300 rifles and 200, 900 cartridges. A dis
patch was received at the War Department
from Colonel Hatch, at Santa Fe, stating that
a fight between United States troops and about
one hundred Indians had taken place near
Hillsboro. Ten soldiers we're killed and sew
eral wounded. The Indians captured all of the
stock belonging to the Fort
The receipts from customs for the year end
ing June so, 1879, we're sl37, 7,2s0,O47. OF this
amount .Sl3O, ,O9S, ,9lO we're collected in the FIVE
States of California, Maryland, Massachusetts,,
New York and Pennsylvania. The Internal
Revenue receipts for the same time were
$ll3,56l, $40, Of which New York, Illinois and
Ohio paid nearly one-half
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26

A NEW YORK chemist has sponge
eight feet in circumference. II It only
had a cane and stand-uP collar, It
would beat its way out West in no time.
Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26

GIRLS are said TO be the most expert
telegraphers along the line of the Penn
sylvania Railroad.