The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-10
NEWS BREVTTIES.


Chinese, S19 Indians and half-breeds, 8
half-C Chinese, West Indian, and East
Indian
One million seven hundred and thir-
ty-nine thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two tons of coal were shipped
from the Clearfeld, Pa, region last
year
There were fifty-five savings banks in
Maine last year, the deposits in which
increased 81 ,96S, 1SS against decrease
of SlS6, 363 in 1879 and S3,725, ,320; in
1878.
A curious accident happened to lo-
connective near Rutland, VT, one of its
driving wheels becoming loose and roll
ing down an embankment. No damage
was done, and by disconnecting that
side the engine was able to 60 on.
The famous collector of fossils, Prof.
Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, has
started for Australia by way of the
the Southern Pacific railroad, for the
purpose of obtaining material for the
Agassiz Musuem of Natural History,
at Cambridge, Mass.
The life of Isaac Butt, Parnelrs pre-
decessor as the leader of the Irish peo-
pie, is to be written by member of
Parliament, and Mr.. Butts papers have
been placed in his hands for that pur-
pose -llE-r. ,.-t, -
During the year 1880 there were
twenty-four homicides in Philadelphia.
OF these two were poisoned, four died
from gun-shot wounds, eight from
blows, five from knife-wounds, four
from criminal practice, and one mans
death was caused by his being thrown
down while fighting.
III. H Warner, founder of the Roch-
ester On. Y. observatory, offers a prize
of $500 in gold for the discovery of ev-
cry comet to be unexpected and tele-
scopic, excepting only the comet of 1872.
which is expected to reappear during
the coming year. The offer expires
Jan. 1. 1882.
On Christmas eve the five principal
night restaurants at Paris entertained
452 parties, for which they received 15,-
926 francs. On the boulevardS and in
the streets the same night there were
sixty carriage accidents, 91S drunken
people were '.run in," twenty-nine chill
dren were lost and found by the police.
Dining 1880 about So, 900 gallons of
brandy in wood and 46, 600 cases in bot
ties were imported into the United
States against about 100000 gallons
and 22,0O0 cases in 1879. Of cham
pagne about 215, 600 cases were imported
in 1880, as against about 160, 900 during
the preceding year There was, how
ever, a slight falling off in the importa-
ton of clarets last year. $50
Ivan oPetraru, now under arrest for
the attempted assassination of M. Bra
tiano, President of Roumania, is a man
of 80 or 35 years of age. He is strong
ly built, has full black beard, and is
not bad looking. In 1S47 he was head
masterof a college in Bucharest. One
day he absconded with the salaries of
the other masters, deserting at the same
time his wife and children
The Colossus and Majestic, the latest
type of English turfet ships, the build
ing of which the Admiralty have ordered
to be advanced as fast as possible, are,
roughly speaking, reproductions of the
Infiexible on a smaller scale, but will
each be as effective for offensive and de-
fensive purposes as she is, although
their guns will be only about half the
weight of hers, forty-ton breech-loaderS
having been proved to be almost as
murderous in their powers as eighty-ton
muzzle-loaders.
A writer in the Gentlemen's Maga-
zine tells the people of London that if a
single shock of earthquake, such as was
felt at Agram, should occur ut the me-
tropolis, it would entail n frightful ca
1amity upon hundreds of thousands of
families now residing in desirable
residences" of the very flimsiest charac-
ter, only one brick thick. He estimates
that single shock would kill half a
million people, and shows that. accord
ing to high geological authority, Eng
land must in time past have been fear
fully shaken.
President Haygood of Emory college.
Georgia. says that in 1876, the imprOv-
ed lands in Georgia amounted to 2S,-
737, ,539 acres. In 1880 the aggregate
had grown to 29,S15,5 581 acres, the in
crease in four years being sufficient to
provide farms of 100 acres each for
nearly 1000 families. He says the
colored people are buying farms of
from twenty to fifty acres and getting
excellent returns from them.
Edward C. Dennison, of Odessa, Del,
has been awarded a premium of 500
for raising beets producing 12.35 per
cent of sugar, which were the best fur
nished to the Delaware beet-sugar fac
tory. Other premiums of $50, $40, 800,
$40, S25 and S15 were awarded to 9TH
er beet-growers in Delaware, according
to the percentage of sugar. Seven 9TH
ey producers, also, were awarded for
lots of less than sixteen tons.
The size attained by icebergs is some
times prodigious. From measurement
made upon one, DIR. Hayes estimated it
to contain twenty-seven million feet,
.,rl,% hax-n honn
less than one billion tons. 1t was
grounded in water nearly half mile in
depth. What, then, must have been
the thickness and size of the glacier
from which the mass had become de-
tached?
The committee of the French Jockey
club has just decided that a priest may
be member of that institution. A no
bleman who has served several years in
cavalry regiment has left the service
and is about to take orders; but he does
not propose to withdraw from his club,
as he desires to be able to give dinners
there to his friends if SO disposed. A
member in priests dress will be
novelty in a club.
A reckless but ingenious Bohemian
has fled riotously from Philadelphia af-
ter posting an inOffensive young man in
Mount Vernon street as the heir to an
estate of 81, GOO, 600 left by a cattle king,
in Australia, substituting a corn report
for the Bible, on which witnesses are
sworn at the Central Station in order to
screen man from perjury, loading
fruit steamer with munitions of war for
the Cuban insurgents, and palming off
upon the local press many other un-
wholesome fctions of disordered fancy.
They had a charivari festival near
San Diego, in Southern California, at
which the Mexicans and half-breed
Spaniards of that region had a high
time. After imbibing largely of mescal,
a favorite and rather enlivening bever-
age, they brought out a long unused
Spanish cannon, dubbed El Jupiter,
loaded it with giant powder, stones and
other ammunition of a miscellaneous
character, and fired it off. 1t burst, and
nearly everyone in the crowd was more
or less injured. One is reported to have
been killed outright.