The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Col. Delaney Kane has sold ms
twenty-three tally-ho horses for So,-
a5a. The purchasers were members
of the New York Sporting CLUB
Rome sticks to its project OF
Worlds fair for 1SS5-6. An Engllsh
comnany has offered for S12 ,OOO,ooo TO
guarantee its success.
The Union Pacific tax adjuster has
Maid ont $3.50 900 i'll taxes in the State
of Nebraska this season, and his WORK
has not yet ended.
DIR. Rogers, of Oakland, Cal, sur
misses that he has q villainous enemy,
because the side of his house was
blown out, one night, by dynamite.
Two gentle Africans, in jackson,
Tenn. got into a fight, and Wells in
stantly killed Straghorn by striking
him over the head with a wagon
seat.
Dean Stanley denies that he will
preside at public meeting "to con-
slider the project for the purchase OF
Palestine from the Turkish govern
ment. ~
The American Baptist Missionary
Union will begin mission work in 81
IBERIA this year, with the object OF es-
tablishing ultimately mission in the
interior.
Ofthe S1O0, 900 needed for the new
couyalescent home of the Massachu-
setts general hospital but Sol ISL has
been subscribed, and the trustees ask
more gifts.
A call comes from one of the Meth
odist missions in India for "hve
hundred Methodist preachers filled
with the Holy Ghost aud fearing no.
thing but SIM"
In the Methodist Episcopal Church
In this country there are forty-two
Swedish pastors, four thousand hve
hundred and ninety communicants,a and
fifty-thrce churches.
The Karens, of Burmah, raised last
year for mission work upward OF S3l,
600, and expect to raise more than
$4,000 the current year. This Is the
field of the American Baptist Mission
airy Union.
There are over 10000 houses and
barns in New Haven, which with per-
sonal property, are estimated to be
worth over $4,000, 900. OF this $27,-
600 ,DO0s worth is covered by $lS,OOO,-
600 insurance.
The Grand Council of Geneva is en-
gagged in discussing the question of
suppressing the budget of public wor-
ship, (which implies separation of
Church and State. The debate prom
ises TO be extended and exciting.
The car is the only crowned wid-
over and Victoria is the only widow
among the European potentates. AL
Of Spafft n the
Youngest welded couple William
and Augusta, OF Germany, the eldest.
The corporation ofthe Sons of Cler-
gy, established by charter from
Charles III. two hundred and twenty
six years ago, relieved last year si1
Widows and daughters Of clergymen
and helped 5S2 children.
Tho Baptists of Virginia boasts Of
fivslnen who have held pastoratcs for
upward or twenty-five years. Two
have held pastorates over forty years,
one over thirty-seyen years, one thirty
three, and one thirty-One.
No less than thirty divers in the
Persian Gulf fell victims to the sharks
during the last year. The fact that
some f30O, 900 worth OF pearls were
found in 1879 explains how it is that
men can be found to engage in this per-
jlOus occupation.
The long projected removal of the
of the Russian Black Sea
feet from NicOlalef to SebastopOl is
likely to take place this summer. The
floating dock At the former place is to
be removed next month, aud by de-
xrecs the machinery in the various
work shops OF the Nicoialeff dockyard
will he shifted to Sebastopol in the
workshops that arc being constructed
there,