The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
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ITEMS OFTNTEREST.

The census enumerators have ascer'
tanned that for the last ten years the
mortality in New Orleans has Deen
twelve in one thousand per annum, an
exceedingly low death rate.
In Arizona recently Papago Indian
acted the part of Virginius anu killed
his daughter, who had been made the
victim of several brutal Mcxicans. The
Mexicans were followed and one OF
them was shot.
4 Toronto small boy stole ball OF
twinc from store, the other day, by
catching the loose end, and when he
got outside he dcftly proceeded to ''lay
in" the twiue hand over hand until he
had secured the whole.
The one hundred and fifticth ami
versarv of the founding of Baltimore
will be celebrated in that city, next
October, by three-days' observance,
and on one of the days the corner stone
of a new postotiice will be laid.
In England there are at present
about one hundred and eighty generals
holding honorary coloneicies OF re9i-
ments. costing the country nearly
f2OO,OOO pounds year and doing not
one hours work from year to year for
| their pay.
Mrs. Ursula Humphreville, of North
field, Conn, now more than lOO years
old. recently rode to an adjoining town,
distant four miles, sat four times for.
her photograph, and made some calls,
and returned home very little wearied.
A case to test the legality of the ap-
| pOiutment of Commissioners by the
| Goyernor of California to manage the
Yosemite valley and Mariposa big tree
GROVE, will be Immediately brought
before the Supreme Court OF that
! State.
The mallet used at Truro by the
Prince of Wales was the one with
which Charles III. laid the foundation
stone of St. Pauis cathedral. 1t was
| presented to the Old Lodge of st.
Paul by Sir Christopher Wren, a mem-
Der of the lodge.
Fanny Richardson, aged II, living at
Paris, Ky, being discovered by her
| father in the act of criminal intimacy
with Il married man, attempted suicide
by jumping into the river. She was
rescued and taken charge of by rela-
| tives.
The number of burglaries in London
has increased % per cent, since 1869,
while it has decreased 39 per cent in
the rest OF Eng land. 1t is asserted
that since the death of Sir Il. Mayne,
the London police force has been
steadily detcriorating.
Patrick Kearney, the Oregon pioneer
who i'll 1862 threw into the sea bag
OF gold, the hard earnings of many
wears, to rescue a little girl from
drowning, is now at the Skagit mines,
still hard at work. He says that he
doesn't regret the loss of the gold.
| A pamphlet entitled agriculture
| in the United States and Russia" just
issued in st. Petersburg, concludes
that unless all the modern appliances
of the grain trade and the improved
American methods of agriculture are
| introduced in Russia, Russian prosper
ity will be seriously endangered.
An ourang outang lately exhibited
at Munich amazed people by its skill
| ON the violin, until one evening u
| doubling visitor stuck penknife into
it. and, US this had no effect, pulled
! its tail. which came of, bringing along
a piece OF hide. The disguise had de-
| fed detection for week. The wear
er was the father of the exhibitor of
the prodigy.
A matter in legal controversy, in the
CITY OF New York brought by the as
signec of the Leland Bros, against the
estate OF A. T. Stewart for the distri-
button of $51 900 arising out of the
sale of the furniture of the Metropoli-
tan Hotel, and interest to the Judgment
| creditors, was decided and there re-
manned $63.63 to distribute. All the
funds, but this small remainder, had
been eaten up by lawyers fees and the
courts delay for ten years.
Titusville, Pa, Mrs. Joseph BUSH
nell died from the effects of kissing
the dead body of her father, while at
tending his funeral in Pittsburgh.
Her father died of erysipelas, and at
that time mentioned she had a sore on
her lips, through which her blood
was poisoned. Her little daughter,
Ella, is not expected to live from kiss
ing her mother. s. -r-..-.-f
Stonewall Jackson's last dispatch,
written by his own hand in pencil on
q single sheet of English note paper,is
preserved i'll case in the Virginia
State Library. 1t was written to Gen.
Lee Just before the battle of Chaneel-
lorsville, where Jackson received his
death wound, and ends thus devoutly {:
81 trus: that an ever kind providence
will bless us with success"
At the regular muster of the Piutes
at Yakima, in October last, there were
present, by actual count, 445, and the
whereabouts of S5 more, who were
employed at the steam mill and other
places, was definitely known. 1t thus
appears, according to the OregOntdd,
that the earlier statement about their
numbers having dwindled down to less
than 200 is n mistake.
There are now 1857 postoffices in
the United States, an increase of ,S3S
in the past year. The mum Der of Off
ces paying more than 81 900 each, and
therefore called presidential postotfices,
is 1,764. New York heads the list,with
1879, Illinois next, with 1863; then
Pennsylvania, with 1872, and Ohio, with
112.
In order to test the Scotch law on the
deceased wife's sister bill, an expert
ment is to be made in the metrOpOli-
tan county OF Midlothian. Every
elector in that county is to be asked to
fill up paper saying whether he is
against the bill or in its favor, and it
is believed that this will afford fair
test of the general opinion of the
country.
A workman employed by the tele-
phone company was engaged in erect
ing a wire on the roof of the St. Law
renee hall, Montreal, the other MORN
ing. While resting he fell asleep from
the heat, and when discovered his
body was partly over the edge of the
root. But for timely assistance he
would have probably rolled over into
the street, about one hundred feet be-
low. M -... u.
/ New York Mail: Perhaps the strang-
est incident Of the terrible disaster on
the sound was when two gentlemen,
frenzicd by the peril of their situa ton,
drew pistols from their pockets and
blew out their own brains. The re-
markable tragedy has everywhere been
narrated, but the folly of the self-dis-