The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
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THE Ohio Legislature will meet on
Tuesday, January 4th.

THE Ohio Legislature will meet ol
Tuesday, January 4th.
OUR Congressional solons have con
cluded to take rest from today til
January 5th.
GRN. GARFIELD has declined the in
vitation of the Lincoln Club OF Gin
cinnati to visit that city.
THB nomination of Gen. VIM. B
Hazsn ~ Chief Signal Service ONCE
has been confirmed by the Senate.
MRS. Kate Chase Sprague has flee
her. petition in . Washington Cour
praying to be released from her swse
William and for alimony and the Gus
tody of the four children.
ON the 18th inst, bills were intro
duced in both branches of Congress
for the retirement Of legal tender
notes of smaller denominations thar
& and the substitution therefor of lar
yer notes and the standard silver dollar
THOMPSON, the ancient mariner0
the Wabash" has resigned the Secre-
tarvyhip of the Navy for the purpose
of accepting the Presidency of De-
Leeseps' Panama Canal.
THE steam boiler in the zinc works
Of Wells & Clements, in New York,
exploded on Saturday last 1t flew
over q number of five-story buildings
and was found right side up some two
hundred feet from the place of starting.
THE thread for the glass cloth, now
made at Pittsburgh, is drawn out of
= molten bar by means of rapidly re-
volving wheel at the rate Of 2, 600 yards
n minute. The weaving is done on
looms, about the same as with silk.
The coloring is done with minerals
when the glass is originally melted.
THE Chicago Academy of Music
which was destroyed by fire October
lith, will be reopened on Monday
night. 1t is said To be the finest thea
ter of the kind in the country. Fast
city, that Chicago.
GEN. SHERMAN isn't favorably in
elined toward creating the Office OF
Captain General of the Army for the
purpose Of furnishing a position for the
great national tramp. He says: "The
service il embarrassed already with too
much rank for our small army"
The friends of Secretary Sherman
profess to be confidont of his election
to the Ssnatorship. 1t is claimed that
the members of the Legislature have
been thoroughly canvassed, and that
it is positively known that he has
twelve Senators and forty eight Rep
rssentatives, which giyes him four
more votes than are necessary to Sc
cure his election.
THE people of Pittsburgh are get
ting tired of the Radical misrule that
has piled up a municipal debt upon
them of $15, ,OOO. 900, and are clamoring
for q change. A party is being organ
ized ON the basis of reform which num-
bers some five hundred of the princi-
pal business men of the city, and
which will make its influence felt in
the coming municipal elections.
ADEsTRUcrIvEf fire occurred at Duke
Center, near Bradford, Pa, at $3.50
Sunday morning, destroying the Ap-
plebee House and nine other buildings.
The guests of the hotel had a narrow
escape from being cremated alive.
Among the number was Ann Eliza,
Brigham Young's nineteenth wife,
" ho was taken from the second story
window, but lost her clothing, gold
watch and chain aud other jewelry,
besides considerable money, the pro-
ceeds of several lectures. The loss by
the fire is estimated at $2o, 800.
PHILIP is in the lecture field. He
can't see why he is 80 persistently
prosecuted and prosecuted for charging
Garfield with lying and sticking to it,
while the Poland Committee, the New
York Times and Tribune, the Cincin-
n.ti Commercial and nearly all the
leading Republican papers of the
country which charged the sage of
Mentor not only with bribery but
downright perjury, should go scot free.
Can you?
Now that the election is over, Henry
Ward Beecher, the Garfield labor par
ty's champion, says: 1t is now be-
lieved that with an economical wife,
who by her industry contributes to the
family store, and helpful children,
who also add to the income, a prudent
man could not only support his family
but gradually amass property on 81
. day." It's healthy reading for those
who, at the crack of their masters
whip, fell into line and voted with the
iniperialists.
PERHAPS if the Republicans ia Con-
gress persist In fiIlibustering to pre-
vent the passage of MOrgan's joint
rule for counting the electoral vote,
the Democrats may adopt SpriDger's
OF giving them q dose Of
Ilieir ewn medicine, by preventing q
quorum i'm the joint convention OF the
1--WE Houses, which would efTectualiy
shot out the exercise of the one-man
power by Mr.. Vice President Wheel
er, the constitution providing that
The Vice President shall open the
' ties in the presence of both Houses
bt Congress, when the same shall be
counted. Perhaps it would be we'll |
fnr the Republicans TO 60 slow on
heir calculations.