The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-02-19
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
SAMUEL D. HARRIS EDITOR AND pusLrsHrn
KAvkNNA. THURSDAY. FEB 10. 1880,
The Press tor $3.50 q Year
In adUGnce.

The friends of Blaine are to start his
boom at Columbus this evening.
Mr.. Covert has introduced reso-
luton providing for the sine die ad-
journment of the Ohio Legislature on
the 3Ist of March. at--s
A BILL has been introduced in the
Ohio Legislature to abolish the use of
g seals in the executive of deeds and
other documents. Why not?
ir' THE Ohio Senate has passed bill to
punish by fine and Imprisonment any
one for selling or putting into the hands
of minor under II years of age eth
er fire arms or ammunition.
ASHLEY. Cashier of the Internal
Revenue Office at Dayton, O., is dis
covered 10 be defaulter to the amount
of over $4,000 and has skipped out.
He is another of those honest fellows
the Republican papers tell about.
ON Monday petition in favor of the
passage of local option law was pre- :
sented in the Ohio House, from Card
. ington, measuring twenty-five feet in
length, and containing nearly forty
two feet, or about hoo, OO,signatures.
The friends of John Sherman got
up a boom for him at Columbus on
Thursday night last, which was very
tame affair and failed to show any con-
siderable enthusiasm for him as a
Presidential candidate even in his
own State.
The National Democratic Commit
tee has been called to meet in Wash
ington on Monday, February 23rd, for
the purpose of fixing the time and
place of holding the next Democratic
National Convention.
A Washington special of the 11th
inst, says: "A bet was made to-day
by prominent St. Louis politician of
$500 to 250 that General Grant would
be nominated at Chicago on the first
ballot ..,-L ...--
The Iowa House of Representa-
lives, by q vote of 81 to 81, has adopt
ed q resolution proposing an amend
ment to the constitution of that State
admitting ladies to the legislature.
The world does move after all.
EPHRAIM B. RICHARDS has COM
menced a suit in the Stark County
Court of Common Pleas against his
mother, Margaret Richards, to recover
damages in the sum of SIC, 900 for SLAM
derous words alleged to have been
spoken by the said defendant of and
concerning him.
SECRETARY SHERMAN is not satisfied
that the people shall drink their tea
and coffee free from a Government
tax, and SO he intends TO again press
his recommendation to impose duty
on tea and coffee. Must everything
that the people use be taxed !?
The Ohio House of Representatives
has passed the bill against grave rob-
five years in the penitentiary and the
fine from 500 to $1,000. All others
who in any way handle the body know
ing it to have been stolen, are liable to |
heavy penalties.
HoN.PETER THATCHER,a a well known !
aud esteemed citizen of Cleveland, died |
- d:phth ar;o a he ra,;dapco 81, tt,at
city on Thursday night last. Mr..
Thatcher was for three years a mem.
ber of the Board of Public Works of
Ohio. aud had occupied several re-
sponsible official positions in the For
est City.
The Congressional investigation has
brought out the fact that tho most
powerful argument used to induce coll
cred emigration from North Carolina
10 Indiana is that the laws Furnishing
petty stealing are not so rigidly on
Carolina. Hen-reosts and corn cribs
are held more sacred by the Tar heels
than by the Hoosiers.
ON Wednesday of last week the U.
q. Senate by vote of 19 to So, refused
to confirm nominations sent in by
Hayes for Supervisors of the Census of
Ohio, and rejected the whole batch.
This was done for the reason that the
President had sent in the names of Re
publicans only, which it ia claimed,
was in violation of the spirit, if not
the letter of the law. The census is to
be taken under the direction of Con- II
gress, and the Senate manifest a COM
determination that his fraud
nlency shall not run it as a part of his
partisan machinery, but that they will
buve some voice in the matter. 1' q