The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-02
HIRAM.
Correspondence

For sixteen days last past the ther-
mometsr has stood below freezing last
week Monday morning the lowest
point was reauhed-2 degrees below
zero-that il, on the hills: in the val.
leys, IA degrees below zero was reach
cd. Such extreme cold In November
10 experienced only At long intervals.
Several hundred barrels Of apples were
caught in tho orchards and barns, and
are now awaiting . thaw, when, II not
too sudden, and Of sufficient duration,
they will be cared for. Cider mills arc
full Of frozen apples, and tho owners
thereof ere anticipating sweet cider
next Spring.
Hay IL booming. Republicans who
have 1t to sell, think it IL the result of
Gardeld's election. while those Repub-
licans who have 1t to buy, accuse the
Democrats of somehow interfering
with the production of it, and those
who claim that the cold weather il tho
cause of the advance, arc denounced
- rebels and infidels.
Deacon E. N. Young has recently
sold bis farm, one mile south, Of 40
acres. to Mr.. Laman, Of Stark Co.,
for So 900. r.. p. Hutchinson has sold
40 acres to ]. G. Ellis for $1,000. Mrs.
Roxa Allen has sold her house and lot
to z. n. Young for $1,lOO. Mr.. Zeb
Rudolph and his son Joseph will re-
move to Lawnfield and remain during
GarAeld's administration.
It IL rumored that Elder r. J. New
comb and Tommy Crooks will in a
short time start out on Moody and
expedition. The southern part
of the State will be their field of Ope-
rations. The people where they ope-
rate will be richly entertained. A large
In this vicinity would be pleas
cd to listen to them few evenings be-
fore they depart.
The Winter Term Of College opened
last Tuesday, with an attendance of
LEES than . hundred. 1t was claimed
that Garfield's election would give the
bouncing boom, but the
promise does not seem to pan out well,
and tho sanguine friends will have to
realize the fact that their institution
will have to be measured by lie merits,
and unless its faculty IL elevated no
advance can be made. The election
Affected this Institution just ~ 1t af-
Rscted everything slse-and yet the
II full Of fools who think that
the result Of tho election insures good
times and plenty Of money. "F0ur
moro years Of prosperity insured"
'ays an Intelligent Republican. I'VE
'hall have plenty Of money now"
Iays another; and tho Democrats stand
back, shivering, their hands in their
pockets, and timidly talking about the
Intelligence Of the people. The Repub-
leans boast loudly that they brought
sb0ut good times after their panic, and
the Democrats, instead of claiming
what Is their own in the matter,-:'re-
silver" protection Of the
yreenback currency, and kindred
the chief factors in making
oetter umes-get behind . stump or
and msekly pirate about
Providence making better times. Why |
ak about . myth? Who believes in
Men SAY they do, but
heir ACTS say they don't, and besides
hey have no more idea of Providence |
han they have Of the principles of
ife. The Democrats must cease their |
warfare upon their best men, and cease
giving certificates Of good moral char
scter to every Republican scoundrel in
he land-evsry one Of whom can
'hOw q certificate from leading Demo
rats. Even that ignorant, drunken
who has brought disgrace
lpon the country. is eulogized every |
lay by Democratic papers, and feebly
denounced by only few. The Gin
,innati Enquirer and New York World
,ught to be classed among leading Re-
publican Journals, and yet they pass
or Democratic journals with several /
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